I found this EP on eBay right after Paul Delay died. I didn't even know they had made any records. The best song on it is You Better Watch Yourself.
Paul Delay (far right) sings and plays harmonica in the best Little Walter style.
posted by johncgreen@gmail.com @ 4:20 PM
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I just heard that Portland Oregon bluesman Paul Delay died on March
7. I remember him well from the early 70s as a member of the Brown
Sugar Blues band. One night when the band was playing in a bar on
Hawthorne Street I stood and listened with a cheap recorder while they played "Key to the Highway."
Lloyd Jones sings the first three verses, Paul Delay sings the fourth and fifth and the two of them harmonize on the sixth. The three-chorus guitar solo is played by Jim Mesi, and I think the sax is played by Rick Aldrich. Of course Paul Delay is on harmonica.
Paul was one of the world's great blues musicians.
posted by johncgreen@gmail.com @ 7:22 AM
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I've been making polymer clay jackets for bic ballpoint pens. The
group pictured above are samples. I've given most of them away.
The functionaliy of the original ballpoint is reduced by the
addition of the decorated sleeve, because the plastic cap that comes
with it won't fit anymore. That's ok. The personalized decoration
seems more important, and especially the act of making it.
It feels like I'm letting one of my inner children out to play when
I do this. This child is suffering from arrested development. He
didn't have much talent to begin with and never got a chance to go to
art school. Yet he still wants to play, and he makes trouble for me
if I don't buy him supplies and make time for him to sit and
dingle with his toys. We're both happier that way, but I'm not such a
proud parent. I know this stubborn, stupid little guy isn't really
doing anything excitng, but I'm still obliged to accumulate his shoddy
little creations. Like a good parent, I try to be supportive.
The "ok" pen pictured above is one of my favorites. The idea
behind it is not "everything is ok"; it is just supposed to be a
physical expression of the concept "ok." I got all the design
elements--the date stamp, the "ok" stamp, the rubon letters, the star
and the smiley face stamp--at an office supply store. The signature
logo is an inkjet decal printed with publishing software. I added
color with acrylic paint and finished the surface with a water-based
polycrylic wax.
posted by johncgreen@gmail.com @ 8:45 PM
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