SHAKE YOUR PEACE!

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! performs "Juss A Little Bit Mo" at the Precita Park stop of the 2008 Bicycle Music Festival.

Sustainable Rock 'n Rollers are back in Utah, touring by bicycle and using their Human Powered P/A system sponsored by Rock the Bike.

Above, Sonya Cotton and SHAKE YOUR PEACE! front man Gabe Dominguez sing a duet on Park City TV.

A very solid offering in the current west coast bike culture is the Pleasant Revolution Tour including sustainable rockers SHAKE YOUR PEACE! and the Ginger Ninjas. Their San Francisco tour stop is this weekend.

This Saturday is the big show.

Read on, bike people. Read on.

THE PEDAL POWERED PICNIC!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10
FREE FREE FREE!
With music by:

SHAKE YOUR PEACE!
snoopy snoopy snoopy snoopy snoopy kaBLAM!

SONYA COTTON
music as haunting as a headstone, full and purposeful as a boat sail,
and as glistening as a bank robbers treasure

STITCHCRAFT
female folk duo "leading the new San Francisco folk sound"
- State of Mind Music Magazine (or something like that)

and THE GINGER NINJAS
fronted by XtraCycle co-founder Kipchoge Spencer and
Uruguayan singer Eco Lopez, it's political and humorous rock & roll

1pm: BIKE RIDE!
Meet with your picnic basket and warm clothes @ the NE corner of Dolores Park for a music-thumping social bike ride through the Mission, Castro, and Panhandle up to the top of Buena Vista Park, where a woodland stage and an 800 watt human-powered PA system await.

2pm: CONCERT!
2pm - SHAKE YOUR PEACE!
2:40pm - Sonya Cotton
3:20pm - Stitch Craft
4:00pm - Ginger Ninjas.

5:03pm - SUNSET~
We'll watch the sun set over the city and kiss and make a wish...

Environmentalists and change-makers "World Changing" have done a nice recap of some of the action in San Francisco's human powered music scene this past summer, featuring Bicycle Music Festival co-organizer Gabe Domingez. Read "Gabe Dominguez's Quest for Sustainable Rock & Roll".

Here's a Gmail chat transcript with Gabe today, reporting on how our sponsored Human Powered P/A is doing:

me: What's up Shake Your Peace?

Gabe: waddup Rock The Bike

me: I've been following the blog -- nice work so far! Peace to your pops.

"I feel like I've started this dance - dancing one foot in the redrock and rivers and biking and meeting rural folks and everyday folks everywhere, and one foot in the urban land, on the computer, paying the cell phone bill, updating the blog...

I want to get more and more on the first foot, less on the last"

Using a Human-Powered Amplifier sponsored and engineered by Rock The Bike, Shake Your Peace is rocking shows this month in Utah. The band's 700 mile bicycle-based tour began April 2nd in Salt Lake City, and includes stops at college towns, cities, and mountain towns, not to mention hot springs. Lead singer and guitarist Gabe Dominguez grew up in Utah and feels an ongoing connection to the youth in the state. He tours by bicycle to inspire a new generation about their environmental choices, and to increase the magic of his tour.

Gabe reveals plan for his Soul Cycle

Originally uploaded by Rock The Bike.

This is gabe's schematic drawing of the P/A he built for his touring rig. It includes a ported plywood box, a big 10" woofer, a tweeter, a 200 watt car amp, and a rechargeable battery.

Gabe chose an amp that is bridgeable, meaning he can put the full power of the amp into one speaker. Also, take a look at the steps from the amp to the speaker. First there's a crossover. That splits the bass from the treble so the tweeters don't get damaged by bass freqencies. Then on the way to the tweeter there's a LPAD. That's a knob that allows gabe to turn the tweeter up or down to dial in the balance of woofy bass to crisp tweeter notes.

Here's wishing Gabe luck on his tour to Utah this April!