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Two weeks ago Mark Dickey took me to see Cheech and Chong live in Kansas City. Cheech and Chong haven’t worked together for years. Mark bought me a ticket for my birthday way back in October. Nice guy! So Mark, Pete, Ted Mcnight and myself went out to see the show! It was great. Mark took this super funny video and also took a plethora of great photos [ click here to see the other photos ]
The Baub Eis Band is currently looking for a new Lead Singer. Additional instruments are encouraged but not required. Repertoire will be mostly blues and rock and roll. Must be willing to travel, but mostly play gigs at the Lake of the Ozarks and in Kansas City, Missouri. Contact me through e-mail if you are interested.
Number 1 Surf Band on Myspace
Geoff Stein Project, a CD project of Baub Eis and Geoff Stein hit #1 Surf Band on Myspace in November 2008. Just ran across this image I had saved of it and wanted to share with everyone.
You can purchase the CD at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/geoffsteinproject or you can download it at Apple iTunes. Just search for Geoff Stein Project.
The new GSP CD is in the works and will have a late Spring or early Summer release, tentatively titled Palm Trees in Winter
You’ve heard of Survivor Man and Man vs. Wild on Discovery. Well this is the guitar equivalent. Here is the scenario: You end up at a gig, 3 hours from home and low and behold no guitar strap for your axe! Damn!!! Now what? Sit down all night? Nope! Improvise! All you need is some common house hold duct tape! Now in my example I am using some rather colorful duct tape that Mr. KP Hauge, has in his arsonal for my demonstration. KP’s partner Mike had just bought a new guitar but didn’t yet have a strap so I decided to pay McGuyver an alm and build one myself!
Reallly simple. Just lay down one length of duct tape. And then take another equal length piece and lay on top of the other. Well, duh, I bet anyone could figure that part out. The trick is to roll the ends over a couple of times and then cut an "X" pattern through all of the layers at the end for the guitar strap holders to go through. Now here is the best secret ever! Go buy yourself a 4 pack of Grolsch Beer. Use the red rubber top as your strap lock to keep the strap on your guitar. They actually work really well with a normal strap too. I look at it like this You can buy a red rubber top strap lock and get a free beer!
A beugel type bottle of Grolsch
Grolsch uses, next to the ‘new’ bottle, a distinctive shape of bottle for some of its products, known as the beugel or "the gurdle".
Bottles of this type use a swing-top cap, eliminating the need for an opener. The brown domestic bottle contains 45cl, which is more than the average bottle in the Netherlands, while the green export bottle was slightly larger, at 467 ml. A slimmer design was introduced in 2008 that is a consistent 45cl for both domestic and export. They can simply be opened by hand using a lever at the side of the bottleneck. The label is applied over the lever in order to make any tampering evident. The top used to be made from porcelain, but is now made of plastic; the porcelain ones are still in circulation in the Netherlands.
Over the recent Christmas holiday I went to Seneca with my friend Dana to visit her family. She knew of my interest in paranormal investigation. So she told me the story of the Hornet Spook light, which was very close to her family’s farm. So we headed out to see if we could find it for ourselves. The first night we went out it was uneventful. We spent about an hour sitting along what is now considered the “old” spooklight road. With a little research we also determined that the light can more regularly be seen from about 10pm to midnight. Don’t all spooky things happen at midnight?
At Christmas dinner it was determined that there was a “new” spooklight road that you could see for sure every time. So we headed out again for the second night closer to the witching hour. After many wrong turns and iffy directions we finally found our viewing spot. It was very cold. We sat with the car off and all of the lights out. I was beginning to get impatient. I said “Lets go!”. But Dana said 10 more minutes……
And then we saw it. She said, “Look back there”. I saw a light, but then almost immediately we saw car lights. I said that’s not the spooklight that was a car. So we waited and there was the light again. So this time I started counting “one Mississippi, two Mississippi…” and when I reached “24 Mississippi” a car showed up. Well that seemed like a long time to link the car and the light this time. And then for the coup De ta, we saw it a third time. No cars anywhere this time!
Did we get any evidence? No. We plan on going back sometime when its a bit warmer to do a bit more research. After “seeing is believing” I started to do a bit more research…..
The history of the spooklight goes back over 100 years. Documented history shows that there have been sightings dating back to post civil war 1881. The Spook Light, often referred to as the Joplin Spook Light or the Tri-State Spook Light, is actually in Oklahoma near the small town of Quapaw . However, it can only be seen from the east, which is why it has been linked to the tiny community of Hornet, Missouri and the larger better known town of Joplin. Many legends surround the topic of the light ranging from a ghost miner searching for his lost family with a lantern, to a decapitated Osage Indian Warrior searching for his head, to a story of two Indian lovers from different tribes who committed suicide by jumping into the Spring River. There have been hundreds of researchers over the years who have tried to prove or explain naturally what is causing the light to appear. Theories have ranged from reflecting lights from I-44 to swamp gas, to electromagnetivity caused by tectonic plates. All of these theories however have major flaws and therefore haven’t become the official explanation. Around World War II the Army Corps of Engineers studied the area for several weeks and finally left baffled. Since then there have been numerous University sponsored teams, ghost hunters, and avid phenomenon chasers who have done in depth studies of the light and its surroundings.
The light is usually seen at night, especially from 10pm into the early hours of the morning. People who have had close encounters with the light describe it as being anywhere between the size of a baseball and a basketball or larger. It can be almost any colour, and may change colours or have multiple elements, but is most frequently described as orange or yellow. Its light is strong enough to illuminate the surface of a road, and is often compared with a lantern or headlight. Indeed it usually looks like a lantern or distant headlight, and many people often take it for such until it exhibits unusual behaviour such as darting across a field and then suddenly extinguishing itself. Local residents have seen it in their back gardens, hovering outside their bedrooms, and bobbing along past their porches.
The area has been studied many times, including most famously by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1942, who concluded that the phenomenon was due to the refraction of distant headlamps on Route 66, which was completed in 1933. Yet many, many witnesses have recorded seeing it before 1933, and even back into the 19th century before cars were invented. Nevertheless the refraction theory is very popular, and the construction of Interstate 44 in the 1960s has only helped to bolster it. In 1986, Keith Partain came up with the theory that there are two kinds of sightings: the misidentifications of distant car lamps, and the encounters with the real spooklight. This would explain why the light has remained so popular over the decades, and seems very plausible indeed when all the evidence is taken into consideration.
For example, most sightings of the light are from Missouri looking west into Oklahoma. Visitors drive along either E40 or E50—both of which have been called Spooklight Road or, confusingly, the Devil’s Promenade—for perhaps a mile and then look towards the west and directly at there I44 and R66 are, just over a small hill. Trees line the sides of the roads. It’s not too surprising that most of the lights seen from this vantage point in this direction are distant and indistinct. On the other hand, there are the other type of report: for example, people having seen a light in the west, only to drive towards it and then have it reappear behind them. Or the sighting of Garland “Spooky” Middleton, proprietor of the “Spook Light Free Museum”, where the light tumbled along sparkling into a field amidst some cattle.
The shack known as the Spook Light Free Museum, or the Spooksville Museum, was built on the intersection of E50 and State Line Road by photographer Arthur Posie Meadows. It was later run by Leslie W. Robertson, who subsequently sold it to his brother-in-law Middleton. Open nightly from 6pm to 1am, it was expanded to include a pool table and bar, and in the early 70s once attracted 271 visitors in one night. It was destroyed by fire, possibly in the 80s after Middleton passed away, and no longer stands.
The eastern edge of the spooklight area is on Gum Road, just before the intersection with State Line Road. The light was seen to the south of the end of Gum Road back in the days of the horse and buggy, before cars became popular. Thereafter it is said to have moved further west, especially along E40 in the early part of the 20th century. In the 1950s it is said to have moved again, this time slightly south to E50. In fact, sightings of the light seem to have continued along E40 after this time, and even along Gum Road, so that the whole area can be considered rife spooklight viewing territory—if one is not interested in distant refraction from I44 and R66 of course.
Another common approach is to stay on H43 until the intersection with Iris Road, turning right (west) onto Iris and then right again (north) onto State Line Road. In this way, you approach the spooklight area from the south. This method is especially common given the belief that E50 is the only place where the spooklight can be seen.
photographs by Ed Gibson, Grove, Oklahoma
As I was perusing through the many websites I noticed a picture labeled ‘Rance’, well I know only one Rance and that is the famous Rance Burger from KRMS radio here at the Lake. Well how could that be? I called him up and found out that him and a buddy did a movie in college that you can still buy at their website. It was featured at the Moxie’s first annual short film and beer festival!
Sources:
http://www.thespooklight.com/
http://inamidst.com/lights/hornet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spooklight
http://www.thespooklight.com
This was on a website I stumbled across. Just posting some stuff to archive.
THE DEMAGOGUES
Years Playing 1990 – 1992
Members:
Rand Paul – Drums
Peter Lavin – Cello
Marty Stenhausen – Vocals, Bass
Baub Eis – Guitar
Also with:
Dave Greckel – Drums (briefly)
Releases:
Squishy Socks and Gum
Members came from:
Members went to: Cowtown
From Eric Hallstrom: The Demagogues definitely had a release, because it had this song called “Third Tower” about the highest diving board at the pool at Woods Park
From Kevin Gregorius: True ‘dat. That song kicked ass. First “punk” band, alt-rock band, what-have-you that I saw to incorporate a cello. I think the Demagogues gave at least some inspiration for Hour Slave’s use of a violin. I’ve definitely got a nutty picture of me and Peter at one of Jenn Graham’s Haloween parties.
Source: http://www.starcityscene.com/EncyclopediaA-F.html
