Wes Yoder Is At It again With “Damn This Crooked Road”

My buddy Wes is back in the studio and recorded a cover of Damn This Crooked Road by Chris Knight. Some of you may remeber Wes from our video of “6th Avenue Heartache” by The Wall Flowers

555 Contest Winners Announced!

Last night @ChrisGammell and @JeriEllsworth announced the 555 contest winners… Somehow I missed the live announcements but HERE is the link to the contests homepage where the recorded video announcement and the prize winners list may be found.

My congrats to all the winners but especially to everyone involved. There were lots of great entries. The judges were:

• Jeri Ellsworth
• Chris Gammel
• Adafruit Industries
• Phil Torrone
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Windell Oskay
• Forrest Mims III
  and finally as if that lineup is not exciting enough included the inventor of the 555 chip
• Hans Camenzind

The top prize “The Mims/Camenzind Prize” is a painting of a 555 chip donated by artist GnomeNCandle and it went to:

Tom Jenner for his – 555 Servo Controller

I personally did not have an entry due to month-long chinese parts shipment schedules combined with having to move 30 miles and a broken wrist. I was planning on entering a replica of the 1937 Hammond Novachord made completely and accurately out of 555 timer chips. I still am going to build this but at a much more leasurely pace than the month-long time limit of the contest. I will not profess that it will have near the depth and beauty of sounds and tones as the original but it should approximate it fairly closely with all of the same features. You may find details of this glorious instrument and its tale of reconstruction here!

6th Ave. Heartache by The Wallflowers. Take 2!

6th Ave. Heartache by The Wallflowers. Wes Yoder Doug Kovach Take 2! (Includes mistakes) Wes was cool and played right through like a pro. This is what live music is about!

Me and Hoolio jammin out in the woods!

Me and Hoolio jammin out in the woods just outside of Brewster Ohio at one of our old hangouts. We had to go on this venture simply for old times sake like when we were years younger. We both decided on this trip that we were both getting to old for such childish antics… Yeah right, lol! Video was recorded in july of 2010.

6th Avenue Heartache Live!

Live performance of 6th Avenue Heartache by Wes Yoder and myself. Recorded on August 2010, Beach City Ohio @ 3:30am.