The Footwashin’ Rock Baker

About Me

Rockie Bee's been on the job since 1995, playing the sorts of places you'd expect for a guy with a gruff delivery, a surly disposition and a callous disregard for commonly accepted definitions of "taste" and "vulgarity." The audiences? We're talking hooks for hands, massive goiters, human torsos, the gender-elastic, and weaselly fellows in the shadows casting furtive glances to the doors and winders. It's been Tin Pan Alley -- The Roughest Place In Town -- for ol' Rockie Bee, with occasional sidelong detours into the world of the "hip, downtown Bohemian," usually as a guest of some well-respected benefactor, as a sideman to some Genuinely Talented Up-And-Comer, or a general lapse in judgment on the part of some ill-informed gatekeeper. Transformed from a Hapless Young Man to an Arrogant God-Damn Bad-Ass, the Footwashin' Rock Baker has collected a dog's breakfast worth of songs pulled out of his world's creepy and weird bolt-holes and filtered them thru a lightning accompaniment of solo guitar and gnarled baritone vocal stylings....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/28/2007
Band Members: The Footwashin' Rock Baker - guitar, vox
Influences: Rex Griffin, Motorhead
Sounds Like: Ernest Tubb, Ted Nugent
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Elusive Spoon

My second boss in construction was a guy who'd left the Pro Desk at a Home Depot in Bel Air. Occasionally, we'd get some day labor from assistant managers and Pro Desk guys from Home Depots on the Ea...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:48:00 PST

What’s It Worth?

Nightlifers show at the Barn tomorrow; or tonight, depending on when you read this blog. Got my own show to do Saturday at the Sidebar. I was looking forward to the gigs 'til I found out just how ma...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:47:00 PST

Rockie Bees High-Speed Weekend; Rockie Bees Book Report

This past weekend I went to San Diego for, and I say this without malice, an extremely convoluted In-Law Family Function.* Got home from work Thursday night and the pressure was ON! We had to pack f...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:28:00 PST

Saturday Night On Saturn

Went out last night to the benefit at Frazier's last night; it turned out much better than I expected. I've been boycotting Baltimore for the past year or so, 'cause it doesn't like me or my music to...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:10:00 PST

Rockie Bees Inane, Non-Musical Adventures

When my dad died, he left me his guitars, a haunted tool chest, and a 12" Porter Cable chop saw.There are many reputable tool makers, but no one makes a chop saw as heavy as Porter Cable. One of the ...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:28:00 PST

All My Yesterdays

Played the 'Rockabilly Run' in the middle of nowhere this weekend; more accurately, went to the middle of nowhere and drove another 15 miles further away to play the 'Rockabilly Run.'Left the house at...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:48:00 PST

Ole Rockie Bee Is Smug And Satisfied With Himself

My buddy Joe got some songs of mine (or, rather, one of mine, and one of Rex Griffin's -- no money's changed hands, I'm not looking to burn anyone) on Hillbilly Wreckhouse internet radio podcast everw...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:49:00 PST

Getting Burned In PA: A History Lesson (’Gimme Five Bees For A Quarter,’ We’d Say)

Rockabilly Run is on in nine days... I've gotta say, I'm mildly excited about it. The Nightlifers Mark III have one practice under their belt, one more on the way; it'll be fine.Gotta say, I'm genera...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:43:00 PST

Remembering Bo Diddley And A Baltimore Thats Gone Now

Bo Diddley is gone this week, along with Harvey Korman, Earl Hagen, and Alexander Courage.I got to see Bo Diddley twice. The first time, in late '95, was at a 'mega-bar,' Parrot Island, which later ...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:25:00 PST

Birthdays; Wabbit Stew; The Indoctrination Of A Nightlifer

What a weekend!Friday, my mom and my nephew came out to celebrate my birthday. My sister made a dinner and sent it along with my mom and my nephew, and both my nephew and my son ate it without compla...
Posted by The Footwashin’ Rock Baker on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:27:00 PST