Uncle Dave's House of Useless Crap

New News

Really there are a lot of things going on that the reader of this blog should know about.
First off, I have a page at Myspace now where one can access some tracks:

http://www.myspace.com/

Go to "Music" and look up "Uncle Dave" or "Uncle Dave Lewis."

The "All Music Guide to Classical," which contains a zillion articles by yours truly, will be published in October.

Image Entertainment will releasing "Unseen Cinema" in October, a DVD collection of American avant-garde films dating from 1900 to 1942. I submitted about a half-dozen audio tracks to the project when it was a touring program, and these have been retained in the DVD set.

I will be appearing, probably for the last time with my old bandmates from the 80s, at the Southgate House in Newport,Ky. on October 8. Shake It! Records' re-issue of my early1980-82 recordings, "Auto Glamour Sound," will appear at that time, as well as their BPA re-issue which will feature a number of tracks which I produced for them.

In September de fenestra will be conducting a mini-tour - a date at the damage in Cincinnati (which will include a solo show of some kind also) on September 9, one in St. Louis on September 10 and two in Chicago on September 11. de fenestra has a page on myspace.com also that can provide the gory details on these performances, or you can write me at
uncledavelewis@hotmail.com

Mo' Better Butter

As much as I had few kind words for the mass-marketed artists a few days ago, there is a current-day band that I am just nuts about, Seattle's Buttersprites. They pull together Japanese pop with 80s styled Post-Punk or New Wave styles with an artistic confidence and
panache for performance that is simply irresistable. I have already spilled a lot of ink on their behalf, particularly at AMG where it will do the most good. But they represent a revolution in current-day entertainment, offering something that is fun, funny, bright and witty as opposed to a lot of the posturing I-am-bigger-than-you kind of fare found in major label entertainment. Were you to buy the record I guarantee it would spend a lot of time in your player, especially if you have kids.

So there is more to today's music than evil - there is Buttersprites, a band so terrific it's worth it to throw a party just to have your friends listen to their record. They too have a myspace page and a very nice site, www.buttersprites.com, where one can sample the wares.

Today I've GOT to clean up my work area, which is all disconnected - wires hanging loose, records and CDs in overstuffed boxes piled up in a catch as catch can fashion. The cats love it, but I hate it, and it scrambles my brain just to consider making sense of this mess. So if you'll excuse me...

But before I go, here's a couple of jokes -

From Remy: "Hey Dad, look, I'm a "Serial Killer" - Die Capn Crunch, Die!!"

and from me:

The Opening Scene of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat as Performed by a Non-Francophile who Drops His Text on the Floor After the First Line

Entre denges et denezy

Un Soldat –oops- hey, hey mais oui!

Freres Jacques and Ooh La La

Merdre, chienne et tu pou toi!!

Uncle Dave Lewis