Customer Reviews

School Bus

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Right from the starting gate, Bob Log assaults my ears with a kind of speed blues that makes my head explode every time. This CD is incredible. One of the other reviews for this CD faulted Bob Log for a lack of blues-appropriate genealogy, which in some ways is similar to the "cast-like oppression" to which he also refers, at least so far as a presumption of merit or fault. (Perhaps Log and Fat Possum were actually satirizing the tendency of people to require such pedigrees from blues men when they made up Log's life story) But none of that matters, really. The important thing to remember is that Bob Log will grab you by the spine and slide through the songs and you will wonder what hit you. I saw this guy live and he managed to stop in the middle of a song, tune his guitar, and start back up, and somehow it all seemed right. God bless the suspicious heritage of Bob Log III.

Bob log is the man! I saw him preform in Las Vegas, and I suggest, if you have the CD or not, see this man play. The man pulls off guitar, drums, and vocals alone, with the assistance of his helmet-microphone, a drum machine, and two bass drum pedels (one hitting a bass drum and one hitting a cymbal). SEE THIS MAN!

This has to be one of the weirdest Albums in my collection. But once you play it you're instantly hooked. When I first heard the song clock, I instanty got my guitar out and tried to figure out just what the Hell was going on in the song. Anyway The First track "String Around a Stick" is probably my favorite, It features increadibly fast slide playing, backed by a pounding bass drum beat and a drum machine. The song "Cold Motor" is probably the least Chaotic. It features interesting slide and rythem parts, and is played on what sounds like an acoustic Resonator guitar. All and all this is an essential album if you play slide guitar. Probably the only complaint I have is that "Fire in the Hole" cuts off so abruptly", But is a good enough song that the ending doesn't matter. Oh and If You are struggleing to figure out Bob Log's tunings They are (From low to high, A, A, D, G, B, E)

Like other Fat Possum backwoods ravers, Bob Log plays a kind of high-energy, pre-blues-sounding "music" that is too raw and primitive to be old, raw and primitive blues, or rock, or country. Though totally unique and individualistic, Bob inhabits the same kind of dark, moonless, Southern-highway wasteland where walk T-Model Ford and Elmo Williams and where lurk the ghosts of Big Joe Williams and Doctor Ross.

I saw Bob Log III play on the sidewalk in downtown Tucson last summer. He sings through a phone receiver attached to a full-face motorcycle helmet. He has a pedal drum which consists of a bowling ball case leaned up against a five gallon bucket of water. He sweats profusely. Log's songs simultaneously parody and whorship the blues. For me, this makes "School Bus" a low-fi, high-fun album.

Daddy Log 3 is tite. he is bling bling wit da doo rag crew! you aint down with Log? what wrong with you? shimmy shimmy coo!

i think that this album is great and i have had the good chance to see him in real life and i have actually talked to him after a concert in austin texas. He is one of the most orginal artist i know and i like the little story he made up, and it is made up becuase his album needed to print something on him and he just gave that to them. i must i love this album

Bog Log III is the former(?) frontman for Doo Rag. He is not from the "backwoods of Mississippi" or even the South for that matter. Bog Log is from Tuscon, Arizona, not exactly the backwoods blues capital of the world. While his album contains no blues covers, it is still blues based and at the same time highly original. The previous reviewer compared his "primite" rhythm to T-Model Ford. The music is certainly comparible on a rhythmic level, but not in a cultural context. Tuscon, Arizona is not the Mississippi backwoods. Bog Log III, or whatever his name is, does not inherit 200 years of slavery, the caste-like oppression of African-Americans of the pre-Civil Rights South or the current racism that exists. Fat Possum finds it necessary to create images for their artist as outlaws. Bob Log is the second white Fat Possum artist and the first from outside of the South. His image is reduced irony. He plays music that is based on the blues, but isn't the blues; he plays slide guitar with a monkey paw, because of a boating accident as a child that cost him a hand; he sings through a helmet that hides his face while his voice is muffled and distored through a vaccum cleaner. This shouldn't take away from Bob Log's music, but it shouldn't be seen as on the same plane as "traditional" music from Mississippi. It is difficult to understand the differences in the music, when Fat Possum distorts the images of their artists.