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 Rusty Spears's Profile |
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Isaiah 38:20 |
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| Location: | ALAMEDA, California |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Aug 6, 2008 (513 days back) |
About Me |
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| I'm a musician and singer, with a very eclectic background, and I'm usually known as Eric (or Erik) Golub, but also somewhere and somewhen as Q Norman (Kyu Nohman), or Gao Yuefeng....
I've lived, played jazz violin and/or viola, and studied and performed Asian musics in Hawaii, Japan and China, and I've played concerts in a few other countries. I've long been attracted to, and involved with, the music of still other countries as well.....My string improvisations have been featured on other people's albums since 1978, and I've released one solo CD so far called "Pluck!"......I'm in the process of recording 2 completely different new CDs (one folk/Hawaiian featuring vocals and ukulele, one ethnic/ambient featuring Asian strings)......I play viola in the band with a really fresh singer/songwriter, Vanessa Van Spall. Check out the new CD, "Cotton-Poly Blend"! In addition to vanessavanspall.com, it's now available on iTunes , CD Baby , and Amazon.com .
.......I've been playing my blend of Serbian gypsy and modern jazz violin and viola with Larry Vuckovich's Blue Balkan Ensemble since its inception in 1980........I'm also working solo or with a group as a Hawaiian performer on vocals, ukulele and 'slack-key fiddle.' And even though I spent years in Hawaii, and consider myself a "displaced kama'aina,'" I learned Hawaiian music and began singing it professionally here in San Francisco (visit my Hawaiian music site Alika, da Manoa boy! ) .............BLOG ME at EricLectic's GolubLog , and check out all the videos below and at Slim's documentary site: Open Mic Documentary ,+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Music:Member Since: 7/3/2005Band Website: ericgolub.com Band Members: Eric Golub, Q Norman, Rusty Spears, Deric Fiddleman, Hidetoshi Yonemoto, Enrique Cido, Alika 'da Manoa boy' Sheehy, Gao Yuefeng and Ezequiel Farquhartz Influences: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Sun Ra, Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Doors, Cream, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Gabby Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, Genoa Keawe, Sonny Chillingworth, Led Kaapana, Kerry Livgren, Bob Bennett, countless world music artists from L. Shankar to Le Gran Maitre Franco to Hamza El Din to Eddie Palmieri, etc. Sounds Like: SOMETIMES improvisational jazz viola or violin with world or ethnic overtones; SOMETIMES ambient/meditative improvisations with Asian and western strings together; SOMETIMES old-school Hawaiian songs with 'ukulele and paniolo fiddle; SOMETIMES...it's different! ............................................................ ............................................................ .......................................To the Hula-Dancing Maiden Add to My Profile | More Videos ..(Our Love Is Fresh As The) Morning Dew Record Label: Xeno Feel Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz / Folk / Ambient) |
My Blog |
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NEW SINGING & HAWAIIAN MUSIC BLOG! |
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| Aloha,
Just wanted to point out to my friends that hi5 no longer supports streaming audio, so I junked the Hawaiian music site I had there: ericgolub.hi5.com. It's still up, but I recommend inst... Posted by Rusty Spears on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:28:00 PST |
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New Videos with Vanessa and Billy W! |
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| Hi friends,
There's lots more videos of me online at Slim Critchlow's "Open Mic Documentary" website, http://theopenmic.net , and some of them are linked to his postings on youtube.
There are two of m... Posted by Rusty Spears on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:56:00 PST |
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Alika (Eric) has a Hawaiian music website! |
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| Aloha,
Come visit http://ericgolub.hi5.com to hear my Hawaiian tracks, and give me some feedback! I'll be adding tracks and/or replacing those with updated versions as soon as they're available.... Posted by Rusty Spears on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:38:00 PST |
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This one goes out to the Hula-Dancing Maiden |
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| undefined To the Hula-Dancing Maiden
Add to My Profile | More VideosDon't forget, you can sample my working demo of a full-band arrangement of this song, with ukulele, 8-string ukulele, fi... Posted by Rusty Spears on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:32:00 PST |
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He sings! And plays ukulele at the same time! |
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| In case the video of me playing 'ukulele and singing, and the slideshow with it (you can see them on my profile, under "Sounds Like"), here's links to a couple of working demos from the Hawaiian album... Posted by Rusty Spears on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:06:00 PST |
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A (not so) brief musical history |
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| I always was attracted to all different kinds of music, hearing my mom's Nat King Cole and my dad's Dmitri Shostakovich with equal fascination. I had my first violin lesson on my 8th birthday, starte... Posted by Rusty Spears on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:54:00 PST |
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Vanessa Van Spall |
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| Check out tracks from upcoming debut CD at myspace.com/vanessavanspall Posted by Rusty Spears on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:59:00 PST |
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Ukulele heaven? Singin' Waimanalo (No) Blues |
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Posted by Rusty Spears on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:46:00 PST |
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Eric plays jazz violin at Pearl's April 14-16 |
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| Come hear Eric Golub improvising on violin and viola in his blend of post-bebop modern jazz and authentic Balkan gypsy, with the Larry Vuckovich Blue Balkan Ensemble.
The Yugoslavian-born j... Posted by Rusty Spears on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:37:00 PST |
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Eric Golub live performances update |
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| http://vanessavanspall.com/calendar.html
http://larryvuckovich.com/event.htm Posted by Rusty Spears on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:36:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Vanessa Van Spall, Ian, SUN RA, Grace Woods Trio, Per Anders Buen Garnås, Twyla’s Swamp, Steven Espaniola, Atma Anur, Sweet Hollywaiians, Jean-Marc and Swamy, Keith Andrew Grim, Slim, Fun is with family!, Future Mrs. Wright, carla berlin, Themis Nikoloudis, Mari Aranoff - Flutes, etc., Pham Trac, David Belmont, *la guera musicera*, Ariane Bass Bass Bass, David Kent, Fabio Delvo’, DENNIS KAMAKAHI, ladebbie, Steven Strauss, All Ages, Susan Wallior, Patrick Dorobisz, NeffBros, Abs, Peter Kaukonen, Imperium Dominium
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