Davy's Photos & General Nonsense

 inanities from Davy Hamburgers

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I'm so fucking old I had to quit FB on principal alone when it sucked too too hard. Holla up on here or twit to keep in touch

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I like seeing things.

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This is a photo I took in my neighborhood.

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Rock On, Space Monkey, by David Van Amburg

from the album Paper Boats Shooting Rapids

 here is another song I made.

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3 Monkeys Salvage Co., by Daddy Big Mac

here is another song I made.

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NEW JAM FOR YOU please do dig

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this is my new song Fibbin' first one in  awhile

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Davy’s Odd & Wonderful LP Finds - Ep. 4 - Gisele MacKenzie - (Self Titled, 1956)

Today’s album to share with you is vocal easy listening from Gisele, backed by three different conductors and orchestras: George Siravo, Neal Hefti, and the previously admired on this blog Sid Bass. According to the great wiki in the sky, Gisele has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, was an accomplished violinist, and also had a daughter who is a jazz guitarist named Gigi.  She is described as having a "crystalline, resonant singing voice" in the wiki and that she certainly does, and the mix features her voice right up front.  She was Canadian/American, and busts out a verse in French in the first song. I understood several words thanks to high school French class, including "Porquoi". This album and its musak, and its strange sad puppy dogs on the cover, evoke mental images of an era that can't really be understood by people like me, who came into existence well after its sunset. I know about as much about what 1956  was really like as I know about spaceships, but I think I can hear a little bit of how it felt inside these songs.

get the DL here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl9b7vkls5fvcr4/dZ0UIZ95dz

THIS LINK WILL SELF DESTRUCT AT SOME POINT IN THE  FUTURE so grab the DL now if you want it!

on the dropbox page you can right click and save individual songs, or right click and save the .rar file to get the entire album at once. 

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Davy’s Odd & Wonderful LP Finds - Ep. 3 - Robert Maxwell, His Harp and Orchestra - Bewitched (1963?) This album also seems to have been released under the title "Shangri-La" with the same cover.

Today's album to share with you is straight Easy Listenin'! If you like harps and or muzak then this one might be right for you, and if you don't it wont! As vanilla as this is at first audio glance, I've already heard at least two real hard bits I could use for samples in some Wu style hip hop beats. This is the kind of music that I would hear in department stores back when I was a little dude in the 70's and my mum would be shopping for brown leather boots and fondue mix. Utterly wholesome throughout, dangerfree entertainment even with the total stripper burlesque horn solo on track 6 and the hot shouldered, slightly Vulcan looking chick on the cover. Side 2 has a lot of swoony organ, it's making me want an Orange Julius for some reason! Hot Sam!!

get the DL here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9tqvqqwhcehlzzv/pkG5p9PbNk

I found some additional info about Mr. Maxwell here: http://www.spaceagepop.com/maxwell.htm 

THIS LINK WILL SELF DESTRUCT AT SOME POINT IN THE  FUTURE so grab the DL now if you want it!

on the dropbox page you can right click and save individual songs, or right click and save the .rar file to get the entire album at once. Stay tuned for episode 4 next week! If you share a linker to this blog you will probably get bonus points for the hereafter of your preference, probably, maybe**.

to help me get more out of print records, perhaps you would purchase a print of one of my photos from one of these galleries: http://davyhamburgersphotography.imagekind.com/ 

or perhaps you would help me by buying 205 of my songs, in one album, for pay what you like, as cheap as 1$, right here: http://hamburgersrecords.bandcamp.com/ 

or show me love by sharing any of these links on your own social media shenanigans. Cheers!

 *This download offered for educational purposes only, to the best of my knowledge this album is long out of print. 

**Speculative.

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Davy's Odd & Wonderful LP Finds - Ep. 2 - David Carroll and His Orchestra - Percussion In Hi-Fi (1957) 

My 2nd LP score to share with you is instrumental orchestral goodness from Mercury Records, and features percussionists: Dale Anderson, Hubert Anderson, Bobby Christian, Sam Denov, Harry Brabec & Frank Rullo, with the band listed as: with Caesar Giovannini and Robert Acri on piano, Harold Siegel on contrabass (I assume this is a double bass?), Peter Eagle on harp, and Earl Backus & John Gray on guitars. Good job guys! From 2013 looking back, I say, thanks for this one. I love to imagine these guys way back then playing the gig. Were the wearing suits? Did they like making goofy records like this? I would have. I like side 2 best with the tracks "Cricket" and "Jungle Drums" There are a couple of skips on this record, I cleaned it best I could, c'est la vie.

THIS LINK WILL SELF DESTRUCT AT SOME POINT IN THE  FUTURE so grab the DL now if you want it!

on the dropbox page you can right click and save individual songs, or right click and save the .rar file to get the entire album at once

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uuyrnblsuzllprp/8jZOTkPCO5

 *This download offered for educational purposes only, to the best of my knowledge this album is long out of print. 

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My first LP purchase since the 80's, and pretty damn awesome if you ask me. I became a fan of the late Mr. Bass (January 22, 1913 – June 19, 1993, from wikipedia) within the first measures of this album from 1958. I wouldn't call this one easy listening, some of the tracks are pretty exciting and vibrant. A strong swing feel, great dynamics. This release was on Vik label, a low budget subsidiary at the time of RCA, but nothing about this band feels second rate to me, a bunch of good playing on this one. File under Orchestral! 

From the liner notes, solos are credited to: Urbie Green(trombone), Charlie Shavers & Joe Wilder (trumpets) and a swinging' rhythm section of George Barnes on guitar, Osie Johnson on drums, Lou Stein on piano & Sandy Bloch on bass. Pretty smokin' stuff 54 years later! Hope somebody enjoys this as much as I did. THIS LINK WILL SELF DESTRUCT AT SOME POINT IN THE  FUTURE so grab the DL now if you want it!

on the dropbox page you can right click and save individual songs, or right click and save the .rar file to get the entire album at once, or just go to the individual songs to listen to them without downloading.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rd43bzoyuwj5fes/mqFuiCLa8z

*This download offered for educational purposes only, to the best of my knowledge this album is long out of print.  

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I wear my headcam while my band J. Creepers plays our song Rock On, Space Monkey live at 31st St. Pub Pittsburgh

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Oh Shit They're Going To Kill Us - @gooskis PGH for their record release show Nov. 2012

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Wrathcobra @31st St. Pub Pittsburgh

October 2012

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My bass player wears the helmet cam, while my band J. Creepers play our song: "Gone In A Minute" http://jcreepers.bandcamp.com

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Curious History:  Moneygami

Origami, obviously one of the coolest paper craft techniques, was recently taken to another level by Japanese graphic designer and origami expert Yosuke Hasegawa. Yosuke is representing a new art form called “moneygami” by taking different money bills from all around the world and folding them in the manner of origami, he has created an incredible collection of world leaders donning various hats.

Here you can see Abe Lincoln and Gandhi with baseball caps, Queen Elizabeth with turban and even Hussein with sombrero all made of a single dollar bill. According to the artist, he wanted “to make people happy with spending money” and has even created a free Moneygami app that teaches how to make Kid Lincoln out of a five dollar bill.

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from the always excellent http://odditiesoflife.tumblr.com/

Uncle Abe as a B-Boy made me grin