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Wednesday, January 7, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
HOBBS THE BAND:
Concert will feature
light show
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with toys,” Goodwin said
with a smile.
Hobbs notes that, though
the musicians thrive on the
challenging, progressive
nature of their music, “we
don’t get far from a relat-
able root that people can get
behind … effectively, it’s
kind of a hard soul music.”
Hobbs the Band, a
blues-based power trio
with Pearsall, Kelleher, and
Hobbs, was known for play-
ing loud — and a lot.
The new configuration is
liberating for the guitarist,
who can now play off other
leads.
“I can say everything
tipsy
birds help
scientists
study alcohol,
speech
PORTLAND (AP) —
Scientists know little about
why humans slur their
speech when they drink
alcohol.
Researchers at Oregon
Health and Science
University (OHSU) hope
tipsy songbirds can help
them uncover clues.
OHSU
researcher
Christopher Olson is record-
ing the sounds made by male
zebra finches.
Olson tells KATU that
a trained ear can hear evi-
dence of slurring in the songs
of birds that were given
alcohol with their help-
ing of diluted white grape
juice.
Olson says finches learn
song patterns similar to
the way humans learn to
speak. He says he hopes to
learn why alcohol affects
birdsong, and ultimately
why it affects humans’
speech.
He says the research
could help scientists learn
more about people who have
speech disorders or problems
with alcohol.
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I need to say in a shorter
amount of time and let other
people say what they have to
say,” he reflected. “And the
music is better.”
The full configuration
came together serendipi-
tously, as these things often
do, with invitations to musi-
cian friends to sit in on a set.
Hobbs invited Goodwin
to bring his sax along and
sit in with the power trio at
the Bend Roots Festival.
Goodwin wasn’t sure his
work would fit in, but he
enjoyed it. Then he played
with Hobbs at Silver Moon
Brewing Co. in Bend and
ripped into a sax solo on
“Day Tripper.”
“That was the moment
that it was, ‘this is good,’”
Hobbs recalled. Aaron-Andre
Miller came in to fill out the
sound with keyboards and
Hobbs the Band was born.
Goodwin had a storied
career as a member of the
San Francisco-based band
The Call. Though he’s kept
his hand in the business with
recording, playing and oper-
ating a record label, Hobbs
the Band was a big deal to
him.
“For me, personally, it’s
the first time I’ve been offi-
cially a member of a band for
a long time,” he said. “I never
thought I’d be back being a
member of a band officially.”
He figures it’ll be the last
time, too.
“Hopefully this will go on
for a while — and then I’ll be
ancient,” he said.
Hobbs and Goodwin
spilled a secret plan for the
Capricornucopia show: Their
encore will be a performance
of the entire Pink Floyd
“Dark Side of the Moon”
album.
“It should be a pretty
interesting night,” Goodwin
said.
He noted that the band
wants audience members to
bring headlamps (and every-
body in Sisters Country has
one, right?).
“We’d like the audience
headlamps to be the light
effect for part of the show,”
he said.
The evening promises to
be an extraordinary experi-
ence for audience and band
alike. It was important to the
musicians to launch the band
in Sisters.
“We’re happy to be debut-
ing the band at The Belfry,”
Goodwin said. “We really
think of ourselves as a Sisters
band.”
Both Hobbs and Goodwin
spoke in glowing terms about
the nurturing climate of the
Sisters music community.
“It’s a healthy envi-
ronment to grow music,”
Goodwin said.
Hobbs is grateful for the
opportunity to connect with
other musicians on a pro-
found level.
We’re happy to be
debuting the band at
the Belfry. We really
think of ourselves as
a sisters band.
— Jim Goodwin
“I’m just glad to be play-
ing music with these guys, at
the end of the day, he said.
Showtime
for
Capricornucopia is 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10 at the door.