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Sam Bartlett

About Me

Interests include: being a brilliant parent, cranky shows, eefin, hambone, paper mache, table tennis, making sculptures out of chopsticks and 2X4s,drawing on large pieces of cardboard, things that sound sort of like singing but are not singing, drawing on brown shopping bags with black magic markers, Pho, that book by Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Aline Kominsky, Robert Crumb, Eddie Peabody, Maus, Balkan meters, musical saw, jawharp, clay ovens, Bread&Puppet, yodeling, uncool artist type people.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/03/2008
Band Website: sambartlett.com
Band Members: many musicians kicking around on these tunes: me on low strung tenor banjo, mandolin, elec guit, Jeremiah McLane on piano and accordion, Dirk Powell on elec guit, David Greely on fiddle, Sonny Landreth on slide guit, Eric Merrill on fiddle, Sam Amidon on fiddle, Jeff Goehring on fiddle, Breda Smythe on fiddle, Ben Cooper on bass, Stuart Kenney on bass, Kevin Anderson on drums, Jimmy Higgins on drums.
Influences: Peter Schumann, Peter Bruegel, Danny Noveck, Liz Carroll, the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Donna the Buffalo, the Horseflies, Sam Amidon, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Chad Crum, Rick Good, Brad Leftwich, Dirk Powell, June Drucker, Leah Weiss, Ruthie Dornfeld, Peter Barnes, Matt Glaser, Tony Trishka, Andy Statman, Jethro Burns, Mark Alan Stamaty, James Leva, Dave Grant, Becky Ashenden, the Copper Family, Doc Boggs, Pete Seeger, Donald Davis, Steve Hickman, Kurt Vonnegut, Julie Belcher, Howard Finster, Eddie Peabody, Larry Unger, Jay Ungar, Slim Unger, Goocho Unger, Zeppo Unger, Gunko Unger, Don Reno, Ronnie Reno, Bonnie Reno, Hanno Reno, Juan Reno, John Reno, Ston Reno, Siobhan Reno.
Sounds Like: Many people strumming things and sometimes talking. People try to drink glasses of water off their foreheads and they find it to be harder than it looks. People laugh without smiling.
Record Label: My publishing company is Workman.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Stuntology Meets Barack Obama

http://yikesandaway.typepad.com/myweblog/
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:39:00 GMT

Stuntology Article in the Times Argus (Vermont)

Check it out!http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2008092 8/YOUTUBE/809260294&template=printart
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Stuntology at Mendocino Woodlands American Week

Really everything was overshadowed by Leah Stamper snorting a fettucini noodle into her nose and pulling it out her mouth. She did this twice. the first time, it took forever and the noodle curled up ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:27:00 GMT

Finger Fencing

I learned this from Ellie Grace a few weeks ago when we were at the Lady of the Lake Dance and Music Camp in Idaho.Shake hands with someone, but leave index fingers out of the shake, so you and your p...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:10:00 GMT

Tidal Wave and Stuntology in Wasilla, Alaska

I'm not sure what just happened. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was in Alaska. I blinked again, and I was back home. I was there for five days working with the band Raz-de-Maree (Tidal Wave...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Stuntology--Crazy Examples from the Book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rxpFZ_t0Y
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Typing Stunt from Rich Remsburg

Rich may have figured out the three longest words you can type, using only your left hand: stewardessessegregateddatabases.Genius!!!!!
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:43:00 GMT

Stuntology at Lisa Greenleafs dance shindig invitational, May 10

this took place somewhere in the gorgeous countryside outside of Concord NH. (Larry and Eden were driving. I was not paying attention to anything but the three Spongebob Squarepants books that I'd fo...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:39:00 GMT

Article about Stuntology in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Hey check this out:http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_ 559569.html
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:41:00 GMT