One-Man-Band (The Kazoo Cowboy!)

!±8± One-Man-Band (The Kazoo Cowboy!)

A cowboy with a drum on his back! Making a ruckus! This video was filmed at Canal City, a big shopping center in Kyushu, Japan. I performed there for a full month doing three sets a day in the summer of about 2007. It was so hot and muggy every day that after each 30 minute set, I was drenched in sweat. I build this one-man-band rig to be as light and easy to carry as possible. It was built for roving performances only and has no microphones or pick-ups for connecting to a sound system. It's all acoustic. The idea behind playing this particular one-man-band rig was mainly for appealing to kids. The name of the character is the "Kazoo Cowboy" and this character never talks, he only toots on the kazoo and makes a lot of noises with bells and whistles. This same rig can be seen in a "sit-down" format after I rebuilt it and began busking with it. An audience member posted a video of me performing Hotel California on this rig in Ueno Park in Tokyo: www.youtube.com In the above video (Hotel California) you can see the same set of flags and the same drum rig behind my back. But I mounted the whole thing on a stool and put microphones in the drums and mixed the sound through a PA system. I also added the larger crash cymbal on the right side that is played with my right arm. But as the Kazoo Cowboy, this was only a "walk around the mall" acoustic rig. The instruments used here are: 1) kick drum (played by right foot) 2) snare drum (played by left foot) 3) small splash cymbal ...

One-Man-Band (The Kazoo Cowboy!)

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