Monday, March 3, 2008

Tonight the Bus, Tomorrow the World

My band, Babaganoush, is going to play tonight on the U-dash bus. It leaves from campus at 7:00 and on board will be Drew the banjoist, Doug the guitarist, Erin the fiddle player and yours truly. Our good friend Courtney will be driving the bus, maybe she'll try to pump the brakes in time with the music.

We play all traditionals and originals except for a cover of Old Crow Medicine Show's Wagon Wheel. All the songs I've written for the band are supposed to make some sort of point about the world. Much like this blog, they revolve around environmentalism, but they are still fun. What better place to play than on one of the great solutions to climate change: public transportation!

Garrett Hardin said in Tragedy of the Commons, that the Tragedy is a problem to which there is no technological solution, but will rather be solved by cultural change. I hope for Babaganoush to be a part of that change. Is there a bicycling W. MT tour in our future? I hope so.

Also introducing my friend, Kindra's blog. Kindra is studying Anthropology and Spanish with a minor in Native American Studies at UM, but she's spending the semester in Valparaiso, Chile, a beautiful city by the sea, but if you want to hear more about it check Kindra out at

www.ungulatedreams.blogspot.com

2 comments:

Jack McCullough said...

Hey, a bus gig! That's great, Adam. Any chance of a video or audio recording for here and YouTube?

Darlene said...

Glad to hear you're playing - I 2nd Jack's motion that we get some recorded action for your East Coast fans :)