SHAKE YOUR PEACE! performs “Juss A Little Bit Mo” at the Precita Park stop of the 2008 Bicycle Music Festival.
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! returns to Utah, touring by bicycle under human power
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.
Ginger Ninjas and SHAKE YOUR PEACE! performing at Free pedal powered show this Saturday in SF
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…
Nice writeup of SF’s human powered music scene in World Changing
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“.
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! your underway in Utah, crowds “Awed” by the band and their human power
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.
Gabe: right on. I’m updating it right now pics from the Salt Lake shows etc It’s been way harder to keep it updated then I thought it’d be
me: Sweet, well I’m working away too. Just wanted to say hi. Also, I had a great music session with your man Aaron. He’s totally the guy i Need on my Soul CYcle project.
Gabe: right on slick. Lemme tell you about the pedal-generator though real quick. First, people LOVE the DLG
me: Right on!!!
Gabe: I’ve found that having a voltmeter right in front of the pedaler is a pretty crucial design element we’ve had the power go out about 6 times or so ~ all quickly remedied by an immediate burst of quick pedaling but having that there to show the pedaler where they are in relation to 12V would be pretty bad ass if I have time I might rig one up myself this week ~ After every show there’s an explosion of rubber shavings all over my frame, gears, and all around the bike the side wall of my tire is totally flat
me: whoah
Gabe: I’ve had to move the generator unit almost a centimeter more over when I screw it down, the tire’s so far eaten I’m going to have to start flipping my tires, front to back, and rotating it etc
me: Got a spare? How many shows so far?
Gabe: I’ve done 6 pedal shows 2 non pedal radio appearances 8 total about 12 hours of pedal-powered music
me: That’s got to be a record.
Gabe: I think the side wall engagement for the generator could definitely be improved. Having an assembly that resembles a biketrainer stand would take care of that… but I’m super proud of the speaker cabinet, generator, your wiring, and all the pieces and parts. It’s solid, and it’s doing a great job People are totally awed. Tons of people are super inspired.
me: Yeow! You’re like the piper for 2007
Gabe: And Utah’s the rats [smile]
Human Power Research in the Rock The Bike workshop.
Gabe from Shake Your Peace reveals plans for his Soul cycle
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!