Journey To Light And Progress Mild Manor Tallahassee 100808

Hal McGee live at Mild Manor Tallahassee (10:15) mp3s below

snapshot from video by Christopher Miller

Hal McGee recorded live in performance, 10:55 PM, Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at the Mild Manor, Tallahassee, Florida (the first stop on Ironing and Hal McGee's Journey To Light And Progress tour). McGee used two Sony M-100MC microcassette recorders (loaded with circuit bent sounds and sounds recorded earlier that evening at the Mild Manor), a Moog MF-107 FreqBox (analog oscillator module hard-synced and frequency modulated by one of the microcassette recorders), and an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion/sustainer pedal.

Filmed by Christopher Miller with McGee's Sony CCD-TRV138 NTSC Hi8 analog video camera.

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Ironing live at Mild Manor Tallahassee

Ironing videos

Part One above - the first 10 minutes

This performance video includes a special guest appearance by The Being From Klystron 7! Filmed by Christopher Miller and Hal McGee, with McGee's Sony CCD-TRV138 NTSC Hi8 analog video camera.

Part Two below - the last five minutes

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Other performers at the house show at Mild Manor were Chantelle Dorsey and Irene Moon.

During her performance Irene Moon told a little story about a moose and a Frenchman. It went something like this:

"So there is this guy and he’s in the woods and there’s this moose you see. And the moose is in the woods, like moose often are, even with those horns. You wonder how they can get through trees with those horns, but they do. So this guy, he’s from France. Makes him French. And the moose it lives in the woods, yeah. Ok so one thing you might not know is that moose like hotdogs, and this French guy, he likes hotdogs too. Here is a little known fact that if your in the woods, where there might be moose, go ahead and take a hotdog or two with you. If that moose comes chargin at you with all those horns just hold out a hotdog. Moose like hotdogs and then you and moose will be good buddies. Same goes if a wild French trapper charged you, hold out a hotdog and you will be good buddies. I mean though think about it, there is a person, like at the bank, and they are trying to charge you. Go ahead and hold out a hotdog and see what happens. Ok so there is this French guy and a moose hanging out in the woods together eatin hotdogs but they don’t have any condiments. No yellow sauce and none of the red sauce either. It was upsetting, both parties were quite displeased cause no matter how much they both liked hotdogs it would have been better if they had some stuff to put on them, you know. So they did what anyone would do hangin out by the fire with hotdogs and no sauce, they complained. The French guy went ‘ugh’ and the moose went ‘moo’. You know. So yeah that’s the thing right. Right. Moose don’t really hang out by fires unless hotdogs are involved and they have to feel really comfortable with the person there with, like buddies. Well the night went on, hangin out, being buddies, eatin hotdogs sans sauce. French guy goin ‘ugh’ and the moose sayin ‘moo’. Well eventually the moose you see had to go around the corner and find himself a private spot, to do some private things. The kinds of things you have to do sometimes after eatin a lot. So he did and came back. Little while later after telling some jokes the French guy had to go find a private spot too. Funny thing about that though you know how humans, and well moose are like that too. People (moose included) all like to go to the bathroom in the same place that others go to the bathroom. We don’t think about it much, but if you do think about it…well its kinda weird. That aside French guy went around the log, same log that the moose did. I told ya it was a log I guess, well it was a big log. Well he went behind the log, walked back behind that log and cried out ‘Augh well I finally found some Moose Tard’! Alright yeah that was a joke."

Journey To Light And Progress

at Mild Manor, Tallahassee, Florida, Wednesday, October 8, 2008