He did so by bringing out a loaf of bread. He proposed to give the audience a toast. As the balloons collected on stage, he abandoned the bass drum and went around popping the balloons to the beat of the song. Nearly immediately, he flung out a bag of balloons and asked the crowd to blow them up and then float them back to him. Why? Well, it turns out that he compensates for these shortcomings by being a prop comic! He’s a talented musician, but for all I could tell, he could have just been playing the same song for an hour plus.īut still, I was entertained. Since his songs have a basis in blues, they all kind of a similar sound and structure. I’m not a huge Bob Log III fan so I don’t know his entire discography, but I didn’t recognize even one song. That was well and good when he was talking, but once the song started, the music pretty much completely overwhelmed the vocals. When he talks, it kind of sounds like a slightly better quality version of what airlines use for boarding announcements. When he’s performing, he looks like an alien or an automaton. In fact, he has two lights beaming onto the visor that looked like pinpoints. The visor is dark so that you can’t see his eyes. This is magnified by the fact that he’s wearing a helmet. When he was actually performing a song, there’s not a lot of other stage antics going on. The first one is that, since he is a one man band that uses his feet to play instruments, he’s pretty much nailed in place. So, what was the show like? Well, it suffers from two main problems. At the end of the show, he continued to play, clambered off of the stage, and slowly made his way back to the dressing room. There he was, jamming away and slowly making his way to the stage, high fiving as he went.
I heard a commotion behind me and turned around. I heard the music coming out of the speakers but no one was on stage. True to form, he started the show from what probably passes for his dressing room (it’s a very small venue). I don’t know, maybe he’s actually Thomas Pynchon? I did a quick internet search and the only reputable pictures of his face unmasked were from the mid 1990s, when he was part of a band named Doo Rag.
He is apparently quite serious about protecting his privacy. To top off the level of difficulty, he does it all the while wearing some kind of crash helmet that is miked for sound. Since I can’t do any one of those things with any skill, that seems pretty amazing. He plays the guitar, sings, plays bass drum with one foot, and a cymbal with his other foot. Bob Log III is a punk blues one man band. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this show.
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