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shane stoneman

About Me

If I have to use labels for you to know me then I'd define myself as a surfboard shaper, painter, and songwriter. After traveling the world as a "minor league" pro surfer, I studied English Literature at Cal Poly in the 1990’s. Since that chapter, I've been chasing my artistic endeavors with both a serious work ethic and a sense of humor....and I'm still doing it after all this time.----------------- SURFBOARDS-- I have surfed since I was eight years old. Twenty seven years later I am still at it and have a small business shaping boards for friends and professional clientele in the San Luis Obispo area of California. The surfboards can be found in the water at most of the local beaches or in stock at premiere surf shops like Wavelengths in Morro Bay. My website also has a lot of info and video clips etc----WWW.SHANESTONEMAN.COM. ----PAINTING----I get out the oil paints when my surfboard business gets slow or if I just need to change up my routine. I end up spending many hours in a painting without ever really feeling like any time went by. I like to paint landscapes, seascapes, and fantastic surf related paintings based on the Central Coast lifestyle. Some are painted plein air while others are studio inventions. .....MUSIC--I am a self recorder. I like to read books about acoustics and mix engineering and song arrangement. Doesn' mean I am good at it but I sure love it that I can build songs out of guitars and words that come to me. And, of course, it helps to have friends who are great musicians and like drinking beers and laughing a lot. My record Seasongs and Nightbirds is for sale at WWW.CDBABY.COM/SHANESTONEMAN ....and i am working on two new ones right now!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/05/2006
Band Website: www.shanestoneman.com
Band Members: been playing lately as the stoney trio with dylan johnson on bass and zak cornejo on drums. sometimes i play as the stumbleweeds with the work brothers and adam bauman on bass. or i play with the flying mambos with tim gabriel on 2nd guitar, adam on bass, and aaron rittger on drums. the recordings have all sorts of other different friends on them too like mack, jonny ganja, amy cruz, meels, justin, etc.
Influences: all my friends, family, the musical sons of riviera, you know....hammy,justin, meels, deepwater, sacred haze,sullivan, mckendry...the idea of duke kahanamoku, hindu philosophy, thomas merton, neil young, the legendary shaper/boozer cole simler, joni mitchell, chet baker, daniel lanois, raymond carver, emerson's essay's, van gogh, gaugin, bob zimmerman lyrics, jim jarmusch films....i try and pay attention and assimilate what i like, what i think is valuable to an artistic life.
Sounds Like: a musical version of a guy who thinks the world is too small and wants to either go back in time or go forward, out into space.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

sacred craft surfboard show in ventura

Once again, I loved it! A few sacred craft reflections for anyone who cares to read em&   I spent a lot of time at my booth but when I did run around the hall I was pretty amazed and sometim...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 10:47:00 GMT

will oldham show

saw will oldham play last night at the south bay community center. the wife and i loved it. there was reverb drenched castle rockers called white magic that opened the show. they played a really dynam...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:07:00 GMT

gardening

so i have gone heavy into the dirt this spring. i barely know what i am doing but have dabbled for years in tomatoes and zuchinni. but this year, i am going a little bit bigger. radish, broccoli, lett...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:39:00 GMT

dont watch the news?

this mornings questions after watching too much television last night...why is the new pope starting to look exactly like the old pope if not slightly more darth vaderesque? why is catholicism still v...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:41:00 GMT

bread

the staff of life...on rainy days like yesterday i like to open up the old copy of "the joy of cooking" and bust out a bread recipe while listening to the crackle of the fire and the sound of the wind...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:45:00 GMT

derek hynd and stand up boogie boarding

first off, i loved the hynd sequence in litmus and enjoy his eccentric persona. but this high culture finless thing may be going to far.  also, i am completely supportive of people finding joy in the ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:36:00 GMT

kung foo

i wish i knew kung foo because if i did i wouldn't need to blog at all for this site since i'd be busy with my kung foo super powers like bruce ree i'd be fighting for goodness or for free beer at the...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:45:00 GMT

coffee cups

this morning i woke up to find that the coffee cups have reproduced in the night and  set up fortifications around the room like little refugee camps. most of them are unashamed and simply want t...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:37:00 GMT

william manis

 Not everyone realizes that the modern explosion of home-recording may be built upon a deep legacy of frustrated songwriters who had to save up for recording dates to be put out on 78's. It only occ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:22:00 GMT

buying surfboards from china is like buying snow from africa

BUYING SURFBOARDS FROM CHINA, IS LIKE BUYING SNOW FROM AFRICA (rant dedicated to the surfboard shaper) its a bad idea. I am not an economist, no marketing director, not a moral superior-- but I a...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:49:00 GMT