Hi! New here, 10 years at BM

[accordionMan]

Hi! Rob the accordion man here... I'm an artist and as you can tell by my name, an accordion player.

If you hear an accordion on the playa this year... stop by and say hello!

[Ugly Dougly]

An accordion player? You'll get along fine here.

[BitterDan]

Woohoo a newbie veteran!~

[mdmf007]

Can you open an accordion to get the dust out? or does it blow dust year round?

[accordionMan]

Thanks for the warm welcome folks!

Every year when I return to NY, I take my bellows apart and use compressed air to clean it out.

07 was particularly bad....
I was about to play at center camp and a dust storm of biblical proportions came roaring through.... I threw my accordion back into my back pack and waited about 10 minutes... it died down a little so I started playing but I was sucking in too much dust and had to stop.

The accordion takes a bit of a beating, but it's worth it... I meet a lot of nice folks.

[Ugly Dougly]

There was a trumpet player wandering around in here earlier.

Always thought it would make a good duet. Dressed as clowns wandering around the playa...

[gaminwench]

Hey, Rob, welcome to the boards....This guy is awesome, ya'll - accordian on the playa is one of the finer things in life...

[accordionMan]

Haven't jammed on the playa with a trumpet yet... but I've had the good fortune of playing with Jimmie Wiz and China Rose... flute players, a tuba player (we were fooling around with Dueling Banjos... but the tuba guy was laughing too much... you had to be there), lots of guitars, sax and I can't count how many drum circles.

2 women singers... one who sounded like Joplin and another who gave me the chills doing scat.

Once I was walking and playing an old song that my grandfather from Russia loved... and a guy walked up to me and started singing it! Only on the playa!!!

Last year I jammed with a gypsy guitar player who was probably the best guitarist I've ever heard.... a bit scary.

Live music on the playa... love it!

[gyre]

http://www.accordionapocalypse.com/

http://www.hobogoblins.com/

http://www.myspace.com/hobogobbelins

http://hobogobbelins.tribe.net/

[accordionMan]

Cool! Psychedelic/black Metal/Bluegrass... just when you think you've heard it all!

If you're into punk gypsy music... the accordion kicks ass with Gogol Bordel:

http://www.myspace.com/gogolbordello


If you're interested, I played "The Devil Goes Down to Georgia" at Horny Camp (thought they'd get a kick out of it) a few years ago... here's the video.. it rotates for a few seconds then straightens out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTZHaVbDiDw