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fireball

About Me


Current favourite line:
you can never escape
you can only move north up the coast

free winter 08 fireball swag if you can name that artiste...
Current favourite smell:
fresh diomede crab

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more a parliament than a band. more a religious fast than an indulgent feast. more like a hundred-meter full-body licking from the tongue o' fire...
marginal students of physics, music, theatre, and love: UNITE!!!
the collected musical works of fireball form a hard-to-stomach 16-cd firebox set... mostly lo-fi recordings.
NEW FOR 2009:
the high road in hard times
PREVIOUSLY:
Live From Chena giggy lo-fi live recording full of banter and blemish
Bringing It... the eclectic studio album featuring "Carmen the Kebab Girl" and 19 other songs.
FAWM 08 ~~~ Aniak Trains
FAWM 07 ººº Headwaters
kebabgirl.com
The classic 2005 studio album Secret Grey City is a semi-professional collection of 17 diverse songs with various arrangements and over 20 fine folks from the local fairbanks music scene: leighton nunez, jessica knott, margaret bonnell, luke beckel, brady anderson, jay stange, s. scott spring, caressa, jody hassel, kendra calhoun, chip brookes, nate montgomery, beth chrisman, chuck brainerd, dave magoffin, john keech, matthew despain, schnabio, janet cline, sarie birch, bd rogers, and yukon ryder.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/02/2005
Band Website: www.willisfireball.com
Band Members: fireball on voice, harmonica, guitar, perc
Coup de Deux: fireball and john keech
the SECRETKEEPERS:: luke and leighton on guitars, jay or john on bass, brady on drums. (luke and brady on loan from sweating honey )
Influences:gravity, biology, sociology, love, bekka jean ...peter mulvey, dan bern, bob dylan, jeffrey foucault, beastie boys ...dill pickles, moravia, grammar, cheese sandwich, circus dogs ...loren eiseley, william shakespeare, sonny golden, robert m. pirsig, david roberts
Sounds Like: nos hubiéramos lavado
Record Label: turbulence & complex systems
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

down some dusty highway

Far From Sinaloa            anyone can travel             far from carolinabig ol jet airliner    slow boat to china ticket to the sky    take it anywhere                         anyone can rambledown...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 13:47:00 GMT

The High Road in Hard Times

In the end, it's all just a big blur with only the folklore to make any sense of it.  The stories may or may not reflect what really happened.  The ice came.  The ice went.  Earlier, later, climate ch...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:13:00 GMT

Blessings from Fire Island

Happy New Year!From the whole crew here at fireball headquarters. This was meant to be a holiday greeting, but time slips away, leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of holidays."Blessi...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:59:00 GMT

Impersonator Arrested at Local Lodge

Copper Center, AK  A man attempting to impersonate Willis Fireball was apprehended late Monday night at the Tonsina River Lodge, during a Peter Mulvey concert [image below]. The arrest follows a nu...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:09:00 GMT

diomede and cambodia

this is the non-musical blog of the month, and it's a bit overdue.of the small handfull who might read this, i think there are several who should really know about this thing i'm about to drop on you....
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:00 GMT

aniak trains

the blog has idled for 10 months...fireball music slowed during that time. fireball silliness churned onward in many directions.figuratively speaking.geographically, the train stopped in aniak last a...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:33:00 GMT

another pilgrim song

some sweet video from clucking blossomSo between china and the pilgrimage, there was Clucking Blossom.  3rd annual all-day fun festival of fairbanks freaks.  This year it was at Birch Hill.&...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:25:00 GMT

zhongguo

15 days in chinaa break from the performance part of my springtime travels. on april 24 i got on a plane and flew fairbanks-seattle-los angeles-hong kong. it was a long but comfortable trip... punct...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 18:33:00 GMT

from juarez to whitehorse

zpatky al norteapril 1 - april 18started april fools day in las cruces, new mexico. planned to make a quick border crossing into ciudad juarez...just a token appearance in mexico. wasn't sure if one...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:53:00 GMT

roadnotes - BOTS ... march 8 - april 2

the collected road notes from the bigthe Bring on the Spring tourmarch 8 - march 13six days in.we left fairbanks on thursday. i slept from 4am till 8am. i neither packed well nor cleaned my filthy cab...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:05:00 GMT