Blog entries - July 2009

Rocky Mountain Steel Guitar Show

Stuart Yoshida — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:10:20 +0100

With rubbah slippahs on and a fry-pan in his lap, Chris Kennison jams at the Rocky Mountain Steel Guitar show. He asked me and Kit Simon to back him up at the show. It was lots of fun, very laid back. The audience really appreciated the Hawaiian Steel stylings that Chris played. There was Read More...

Danno II CD: Blog Entry #1

Stuart Yoshida — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:42:26 +0100

We've started recording our next, still untitled CD. I'll be blogging as we make progress, and even post a few snippets of songs we're working on. The first one you see above is a Hawaiian language tune called "Papalina Lahilahi." We perform it pretty traditional Old School style, but we add in a nice swing backbeat iRead More...

Tune your Ukulele with an iPhone

Stuart Yoshida — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:27:37 +0100

Here's where I try to make the hard-core Peterson Strobe Tuner fans jealous. The picture on the right shows me tuning my ukulele with the iStroboSoft app on an iPhone 3G. I have the Peterson TP-2 clip on contact mic and the Peterson audio jack adapter for the iPhone. I ordered the adapter on the PeterRead More...