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Next Gigs:

Sunday 14 September.
Bon Bon's,
Center of Los Olivos
(next to the part)
4:00-7:00 PM.

Sunday 28
Bon Bon's
Center of Los Olivos
(next to the park)
4:00-7:00 PM


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The songs of "Capt. Bentley's
Wild Adventure":

1 The Waterpump Song
2 Family
3 Walking Man
4 Whoa Now
5 A Way if You're Willing
6 Still Alive
7 Moving Groovin
8 Shine the Light
9 Don't Go There
10 Hold Me
11 Rivers

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Why "Hot Blast Florence"?

"Home is where the hearth is". Hot Blast Florence was present at Frank, Rick and Bent's first meeting and subsequent rehearsals. She is the pot-bellied wood-burning stove in Frank's living-room, made around 1890.

Before modern heating, the stove was the center around which family and friends would gather on cold evenings.

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Hot Blast Florence proudly displays her name.

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CD Almost Finished

Last minute mixing now at a frenzy at VisionEars' Studio in Los Olivos - Listen below to the latest mixes.

Original Funkabilly Band

Take original songs in a variety of styles, add players and singers from country, bluegrass, rock, jazz, reggae, classical, rhythm and blues - and Funkabilly is born.

Listen to the latest mixes.
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Bent Myggen is a singer/songwriter who came to America from Denmark and through many twist and turns of fate ended up in the small California town of Los Olivos in 2007.

One evening he heard music in the neighborhood and discovered Frank Palmer "spanking" his bass in a nearby house. "Dang - he's good" were the precise words that came to Bent's mind, and so he walked in to introduce himself.

Frank and (equally amazing) drummer, Rick Norton both welcomed the stranger - each thinking the other knew the fellow - and a jamsession ensued. The two had played together since high-school in the "Grasshoppers" rock & blues-band and had over the years developed that intuitive synchronization that is the core of many a kick-butt band around. From the first bar of the first rehearsal it was clear to Bent that this was the solid blend he had been looking for - amping up his own style of Folk, R&B and Country.

Another important component in the quest to blend as many musical styles as possible was Eric Brittain, whom Bent linked up with during a music festival. Eric played mandolin, fiddle, dobro & guitar in mostly bluegrass and country bands and could play the whiskers off a polecat (but has never tried).

Following a year of gigs and rehearsals Bent, Frank, Rick and Eric went into the studio for several weeks of intense track-building. No click-tracks were used in an effort to capture the feeling of people actually playing together. In the first track, "Waterpump Song", bass, drums, guitar, voice and fiddle were recorded simultaneously in Bent's small studio among upturned furniture (functioning as sound-baffles). Other tracks on the CD were later graced with overdubs from players, such as Kevin Harris (percussion) and singers Anita & Brad Bailey, Napua, Magi Myggen and Melissa Ramsey. Bent also added organ-parts and keyboard horn-sections.