DOO RAG (BAND)

'Doo Rag' was an American lo-fi blues band duo from Tucson, Arizona, USA. The band consisted of Bob Log III and Thermos Malling. By the time of their breakup, they had supported a number of artists on tour, most notably Sonic Youth, Beck, and Franz Ferdinand.

Contents

History

Instruments

Discography

References

External links

History

The members of Doo Rag first began performing together at a party in Tucson in 1990. "I had a snare drum with a guitar bolted onto it, and I was playing Fred McDowell songs when a friend jumped up and started banging a cheese grater with a spoon," guitarist Bob Log recalls. "The next day we went out on the sidewalk and played, hoping to scrounge up cigarette money." [1] The band recorded a cassette together, which they self-released, and then began touring, despite the unsigned nature of the band and their lack of record label promotion.
While on tour in support of the band Ween, and after six years of working together, Malling abruptly quit the band, leaving Log to complete the remainder of the tour alone, taking on both guitar and percussive responsabilities. Log's solo work on tour as Doo Rag eventually transitioned into a proper solo career, with Log performing under his own name as a multi-instrumental one-man band.

Instruments

The group was known for its unusual instrumentation. Singer and guitarist Bob Log III employed a number of unique microphone setups to distort his vocals, and was as likely to be singing through a vacuum cleaner hose as he was to be singing into two hairdryers with built-in microphones. Drummer Thermos Malling contributed percussion using a custom-made drumkit compiled from a Budweiser box for a bass drum, a tin bucket as a snare drum, an old film reel as a cymbal, an iron shopping basket used as a hi-hat, and a number of other found objects including a cheese grater and the exhaust pipe of a Chevy. [2]

Discography

''Singles''

★ ''Hussy Bowler 7"'' (Westworld, 1993, WW-7)

★ ''Trudge 7"'' (In The Red, 1994, ITR 021)

★ ''Swampwater Mop Down 7"'' (Drunken Fish Records, 1995, DFR-11)

★ ''Two Tones To Tune 7"'' (Discos Alehop!, 1997, hop 014)
''Splits''

★ ''Sinful Tunes & Spirituals 2x7"'' (Au-Go-Go, 1998, ANDA 238)
''Albums''

★ ''Chunked & Muddled LP/CD/CS'' (Bloat Records, 1994, BLT 10048)

★ ''Barber Shop CS'' (Bloat Records, 1994, BLT #?)

★ ''Doo Rag, What We Do LP/CD'' (Dependability, 1996, L 45649)

★ ''Near the end of the band, and shortly after What We Do, the band acquired a 78 lathe and offered to release 100 personalized 78s, provided you sent your name and a message in time. None have become publicly available since this notification.
''Appearances''

★ ''Thermos Malling appears on Now I got worry by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

References

★ Manic Slide Guitarist and One-Man Blues Explosion "www.boblog111.com". Accessed June 9, 2007.

★ Finn, Timothy. "Log Jam", ''Kansas City Star'', accessed from Bob Log III Official Website "www.boblog111.com". Accessed June 8, 2007.

External links

★ Doo Rag's myspace.com page

★ Trouser Press Music Guide's entry for Doo Rag