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MN Original (MNO) stars local artists, creative thinkers and others who are valuable to our local creative and cultural communities. Music featured throughout is created by Minnesota musicians. This nationally distributed Twin Cities PBS award-winning arts and cultural series is made possible by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Do you have a copy of the first B / W Batman (and Robin) "movie" ? It was told in short, maybe 10 - 15 minutes long segments that you would probably see just before the main movie at a theater. The whole "movie" was probably about 12 or so segments. Thank you
I remember when Hoffman Guitars was on University Ave. in St. Paul. Don't play guitar myself, but brought in an electric bass, a Mighty Mite if anyone remember them, in the early 1980's and had Hoffman rework the Fender Precision style neck to a thinner Jazz. Still one of the best necks I've ever played. :)
I really really love your work Marcie! I just started one book of yours. And ordered the other the same day! I can't wait to read them all. You paint your stories so beautifully ❤ thank you for shining bright for us. I love successful Indigenous women stories. ❤️ Sending you so much love and appreciation from AZ ❤️
Saw him on a package show, late in his career. Absolutely wonderful performer; full of showmanship and sunshine; and I'm basically a blues fan, really enjoyed his show, seems like a nice guy, too.
Used to be my favorite song, all the memories played back from the times I had this blasting. Thank you guys for creating such a song, the nostalgia rocked me once again
This dude seems cool and the stuff that you’re doing in your sketchbook reminds me of what he does so I thought I’d send it your way. I hope things are going well with you, man. Give me a call when you’re free sometime, if you want. Hope everything’s going well…
I saw this group live in a concert in a Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis. They were great. The audience had a large number of people dancing to this music who had come there just to dance, including some pairs of professionals. It was a magic experience that I had just stumbled on when at a business conference there. It was my first time in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
To all the armchair critics shouting "Too fast", haven't you ever heard a "boogie blues" or "ragtime shuffle" before? This performance is, to use Emily Remler's expression, as "damn near close to perfect" as it gets. Try closing your eyes & just listening to the feel, while snapping your fingers on the 2 & 4 beats, & youll see, it's a freakin' SHUFFLE; it's just that the naysayers are simply unprepared to digest Tim's intricate contrapuntal onslaught at this familiar boogie tempo. It's not too fast at all; rather, some folks are unequpped to compute what the master is doing quickly enough before he moves on, leaving them behind in a cloud of dust, which he's not necessarily trying to do intentionally, but not every listener is up to his game. He doesn't need to slow down his playing; listeners need to perk up their listening. Go listen to some driving bluegrass for a while, then come back to this & you'll think it's laid-back; it's all relative. This rhythm is a steady ragtime 2-step with plenty of wonderful embellishment, not a note of which is superfluous. Ever since he charmed my heart with his astounding requinto guitar arrangements of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite", Tim Sparks has consistently proven himself again & again as a guitarist of mastery, innovation, refinement, taste, & exceptional versatility. Trust him, he's a champion picker, he knows his stuff... Roll with it.
