the great Luke Ski
Sudden Death
Tom Smith
Worm Quartet
The Gothsicles
Carrie Dahlby
Rob Balder
Eric Coleman
Power Salad returns once again to live performing in 2008 following a groovy time at Con On The Cob in Akron OH...I'll be at Marscon 2008 in Minneapolis (Blooimington) MN at the end of February (a couple weeks away folks, get yer badges!!) www.marscon.org
Then at the end of March I'll be appearing for the first time at MidSouthCon in Memphis TN, as part of a FuMP-tastic show featuring Rob Balder and many others! Get 'em now at www.midsouthcon.com
Then it's back to Northeast Ohio in October for a return to Con On The Cob, being held this year at the Holiday Inn in Hudson (that's NE of Akron) - www.cononthecob.com
Goin' MoBILE
We are pleased as a planter's punch to be included in the latest podcast from Japanese podcaster "thin-p", called "A'sf -Pod- Radio", you can listen in to this FuMP double shot with Possible Oscar here. Thanks thin-p!!
Also looks like we've been included on an episode of "The Awful Show", dig it here. Thanks guys!
November 2007:
Power Salad returns to their alma mater town!
Power Salad will be in force this November in Akron, Ohio for Con on the Cob's legendary Comedy Music Extravagasm! Andy Hopp and crew have put together one HECK of a show schedule, you want to get to this one. A whole slobbering weekend of comedy music and filk from the likes of
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the great Luke Ski |
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Sudden Death |
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Tom Smith |
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Worm Quartet |
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The Gothsicles |
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Carrie Dahlby |
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Rob Balder |
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Eric Coleman |
and more great artists, plus a bunch of new acts including Soggy Potato Chips!
Info on the con can be had here, and on the CME here. Get your tix and travel plans ready! I've played the con hotel with my (ex-)wedding band and it's a nice place.
Pick up the con performers benefit CD "EARPICAC", a compilation of tracks from the artists appearing at the CME, the sales of which will help offset travel and lodging costs for them. We don't make any money at this, folks! My contribution to the disc is my remake of the wacky and veddy British 1968 track by Giles, Giles and Fripp (pre-King Crimson), "Elephant Song", which was played this summer by Dr Demento.
ORDER ONE UP NOW at the CME page. Thanks for the support!
Power Salad LIVE (no kiddin'!!)
At the behest and request of my demented pal The Great Luke Ski, Power Salad returned to performing live (after a 5-year hiatus) at MARSCON, the great SciFi and RPG convention, at the Holiday Inn Select in Bloomington, Minnesota on Sunday March 4th. There was a fabulous Dementia track throughout the weekend with performances from Luke, Sudden Death, Carla Ulbrich (who arrived at the con during my set, after 4 snowbound days!), Worm Quartet, Eric Coleman, and lots of other great dementia artists, including Musical Guests of Honor, OOKLA THE MOK!
It was great to see a lot of demented friends from previous cons and meet new folks as well, and spread the Salad word. There were a couple of glitches during my performance (such as losing my setlist!!) which only added to the hilarity, but all went very well. Highlights included the first ever performance of "Katie's Dream" (from FORCE DOESN'T WORK ON A CRUSTACEAN) including a writhing-on-the-stage freakout, the live debut of our 2006 Dr Demento pick "Tabloid Heroes" played with a guitar graciously loaned by Eric Coleman, and of course the first live performance of our biggest hit "My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner"!
Much food was consumed each evening as we invaded Buca di Beppo in St. Paul with something like a party of 34 or so, tons and tons of food served, then after the con a bunch of us hit Khan's Mongolian Grill in Minneapolis for more culinary grooviness.
Lots of great performances from the above-listed folks plus Rob Balder, Possible Oscar, Carrie Dahlby in her live debut, and the legendary Art Paul Schlosser. Nice to see everyone, and special shoutouts to Susan Whelchel of Cleveland, and the Winslows of Milwaukee WI, who have been fans & friends for a long time.
Barring anything happening, I will be appearing at MarsCon 2008, so stay tuned! And watch for the first ever Power Salad live album, taken from the MarsCon performance - it's available NOW!!!
Photos from the con can be found in the Photo Gallery.
I am booked to perform in Akron, OH in November 2007 as part of the Comedy Music Extravagasm at Con on the Cob!
Ve will "FuMP" (clap) You Up!!!!
We have been invited by a consortium of groovy Dementia artists including Devo Spice of Sudden Death and The Great Luke Ski, to become an auxiliary member of The Funny Music Project (aka "The FuMP"!!) This is a group of funny music people offering new funny music to you every month, which you can listen to for free, or better yet download from the website for a low price, or even better, you can subscribe to The FuMP for a monthly fee and receive all the songs posted per month on a member-only CD!
Head over NOW to www.theFuMP.com and partake of the fumpy goodness!
We are thrilled that you have made "My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner" the #3 song on the Dr. Demento Show Funny 25 for 2006. Thanks SO much for all your requests! Keep 'em coming at www.clamhead.com/drd.php , thanks again!! And beast wishes for a demented 2007!!!!
New Power Salad songs only on MySpace!
Cooked up here in Spitting Otter Studios, "Tabloid
Heroes" is a new Craig Marks lyric to the tune of The Kinks' "Celluloid
Heroes", celebrating this year's crop of celebrity OOPS's! Dr. Demento
called it "a masterpiece"!
Hear and download it
at www.myspace.com/powersalad !
Also there as of this summer is our Gary Numan pastiche "Our Menu Has Recently Changed", the first all-VST Power Salad tune! (Has something to do with sounds generated from inside da computer, don't aks me....)
The latest Salad tune is a remake of a wonderfully bizarre and veddy British slice of dementia, the pre-King Crimson cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp's "Elephant Song". This was recently played by Dr Demento on his national radio show.
Also you can purchase and download songs from our catalog on our MySpace page, courtesy of our SNOCAP music store!
The new album is here!!!
Yes, finally after all the teeth gnashing (are there any other parts of the body that get gnashed???), Power Salad 3: Sweat Equity is here! We are taking orders for the CD now at the Marianth Records website. For all of you with appliance-fearing felines, those with earth-friendly cars, even those haunted by ill-gotten cookies, heck anyone who'd like a larf, this album is going to be a definite potato.
Track listing (click titles to hear a small smackerel):
Kites Are Fun (a cover of the 1967 sunshine-pop single by The Free Design, with my daughter Marissa on vocals)
Or you can download it at iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, and just about any online e-tailer or music download service.
and please pass the word - Thanks!
We're ramping up our presence on MySpace -
check it out!
Bookmark
www.myspace.com/powersalad !
You can also catch our videos for "Ville de Veal" and "My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner" on www.youtube.com (search Power Salad!)
Download Power Salad albums!
Here are links to our recordings on the major digital download sites.
Power Salad 3: Sweat Equity
MusicGremlin
mp3.com
Force Doesn't Work on a Crustacean
mp3.com
The White-Out Album
mp3.com
Recent Dr. Demento airplay:
Well, as you probably know by now, we were #3 for the year - woohoo!!
Request us at www.clamhead.com/drd.php - Thanks!
Happy Birthday Mayberry Beret!
Available now, it's Zot Theater's 20th Anniversary release of MAYBERRY BERET, the 1985 Dr Demento Pick of the Week on his Los Angeles KMET-FM program! Order one up!
Watch the first-ever Power Salad video, "Ville de Veal"!
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