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Mike Eckstein

About Me

Lives in California, sings while pickin' a guitar and records instrumental grooves. Tunes are a blend of country & western, folk, punk, waila, blues, and corrido styles. Performs at cafes around the Bay Area.
At Kalx 90.7 FM in Berkeley he is a staffperson and radio discjockey, known as dj Bison Run.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/09/2006
Band Members:
Influences: Johnny Cash, Meat Puppets, B.K.S. Iyengar, Miles Davis, "Uncle Bud" Dimock, R.L. Burnside, Los Madrugadores, Beck, the Specials, Woody Guthrie, the Evens
Sounds Like: A guy playing guitar along side a river.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

recording in Sacto...and in Oakland

AT THE HANGAR: 10/22-24/08In late October of 2008, Mike spent 3 days laying down tunes at the Hangar Studios in Sacramento, near the American River, with engineer Bryce Gonzales. Live instruments an...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:27:00 GMT

road rage, so you turn the page.

According to the 2008 California Driver Handbook issued by Department of Motor Vehicles, "never make a U-turn in business districts. Areas with churches, apartments, multiple dwelling houses, clubs, a...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:20:00 GMT

dj Bison Run playlists posted

copy and paste the web address (sorry, still can't get it to link by clicking):http://kalx.radioactivity.fm/show.html?showoid=394
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:06:00 GMT

towards nonviolence

nonviolence in thought, speech, and actionrequires great effort to rise above the mass media's influence on our behavior freewill only if we're willing to free ourselves from the clutches of illusions...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:22:00 GMT

blood on the track and field

Took a job for high school physical education, mainly because it started at 9am, an hour later than usual. Was kind of psyched to realize that my classes would be held on the outside basketball cour...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:48:00 GMT

name calling and lost picks

One of my part-time jobs is working as a substitute teacher. It happens that the kids, especially the younger ones, have trouble pronouncing my last name, so when introducing myself to the class, th...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:22:00 GMT

on to fall

Got a day off, doing some rough mixes. The bathroom sink is really messed up while the person on the otherside who I share pipes with is trying the "fix it yourself" method and a purple draino mix of ...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:35:00 GMT