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Ruby

Ruby Friedman Orchestra

About Me



All redheads are tempestuous.
All musicians are hams.
Ruby is a redheaded musician.
Therefore, Ruby is a tempestuous ham.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/23/2008
Band Members:Ruby's various musical incarnations have harnessed the talents and support of: Billy Zoom, Tony Gilkyson, Chris Morris, John Taylor, DJ Bonebrake, Mike Chapman, Arlan Schierbaum, Dave Sutton, Edwin Livingston, Sheldon Gomberg, Michael Ward, Brooke Lizotte, Art Ford, Brian Head, Dan Petruch,Dave Gleason, Bob Thiele, Gregg Sutton, Hein Hoven, Doug Messenger, Jeff Silbar, Adrian Lee, Kyle Johnston, English Paul Gurvitz, Mike Ness, T.K. Smith, The Sirens, Big Sandy, and many more...Ruby sightings run the gamut from baby grand vaudeville duo to full rockin' 6-piece band, turn-tablist, saxophone and all. Either way, showtime is never old-hat, even though her performances recall the fervor of the Great Awakening's Johnathan Edwards in their hellacious urgency and spiritual intensity. The Palace lives down by the freeway, electrified, unbridled, and forever permutating in Ruby's musical world, warning listeners to never get too comfortable with any one sound. It is within the framework of authentic soul and self-effacing honesty that Ruby's unity exists in whatever permutation you may witness. ENJOY!
Influences: Lotta Lenya, Frank Black, The Killers, Bessie Smith, System of a Down, P.J. Harvey, Bob Dylan, Wanda Jackson, Etta James, Bad Religion, Lou Reed, Heavy Metal, Metallica, Edith Piaf, Laura Nyro, Sam Cooke, Ma Rainey, X, Joan Armatrading, The Knitters, John Coltrane, Television, Radiohead, Portishead, and every other head...
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Legal Daddy-O: Michael Perlstein 310-556-1956
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

SEX SELLS! also entitled, "Why I Changed My Myspace Default Photo)

Yes. Sex Sells. Feminists know this. Misogynists know this. Camille Paglia and Ariel Levy know this. UCLA Bruin students know this and I will not go further than that, dear reader. But it is lurid and...
Posted by Ruby on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:00 PST

I OVERDOSED AND DIED A THOUSAND DEATHS YESTERDAY...

...and I live to tell the tale...Somebody very dear to me tried to kill me yesterday by solving my cigarette addiction with "The Patch", so conveniently at his disposal because he has been "patching" ...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:25:00 PST

THE HISTORICAL RECORD DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM RUBY

...and she answers the ghosts from yesteryear that know more than we ever could. But we can study and try the best we can. Still, they command an audience, they do not mind revisionist theories elucid...
Posted by Ruby on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:11:00 PST

Ode To Sonic Revolutionaries

Get out of bed, O ye weary onesThe Earth is cloaked in darknessBut we are many sons....and daughters of noble birth and spanacross centuries of wrongs impearled in sand.Though our wings encrusted on w...
Posted by Ruby on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:50:00 PST

What The Hell Is That!?!

I just got a myspace message from a guy asking me if I ever wake up in the morning "with the birds singing, sun bathing me in light, and feeling like I am whole?" and then, "I don't really look this g...
Posted by Ruby on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:41:00 PST

SNEAKY "SEX" WITH MIKE CHAPMAN (CHAPMANROCKS! on myspace)IT NEVER HAPPENED!!!!

Maybe he "dreamed he scored", maybe I did, maybe none of it's real, it's all imagined, we felt something, it never happened...but lo and behold!There it doth appear in Bold and my Viper Room live pic ...
Posted by Ruby on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:42:00 PST

THESIS: Ruby Orchestral Manifesto: June 29th, 2008 AD

Like all things in life, brief are the experiences that collectively comprise one journey from birth til death, although sometimes interminable does it seem the dark times reign when their clouds do h...
Posted by Ruby on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:40:00 PST

WHERE THE FUC* ARE MY POLKA-DOTS, TOM? (ALAS, I AM AS PURE AS UNE DERRIERE DE BEBE SANS...)

This will never do. I paid in polka-dots the price of promoting our Hotel Cafe show. My lovely scratchy yummy black-dotted lay-out has disappeared upon posting the Hotel Cafe show poster!!!! (this is ...
Posted by Ruby on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:41:00 PST

RUBYORCHESTRA, HOTEL CAFE, Sunday, June 29....the live date strike is over!!!!!!

And so it is...The eagerly anticipated evening at The Hotel Cafe...Please come and share the end of the live date protest (lol) that I half-seriously began on June 1st. I wanted my next show to be at ...
Posted by Ruby on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:51:00 PST

Non-Musical Taste-Shapers With Money and Illegal Monopolies Of The Mind

Yes. It is an egregious pattern that has emerged in the recent history of Humanity. Commisioned portraiture of the last 2,000 years were the fine artists' primary means of support. This was an exchang...
Posted by Ruby on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:49:00 PST