We have just finished production of Stretching-Pocketbook Edition. Size: 5 x 7-1/4.”
The original book has sold 3-1/2 million copies worldwide and is in 24 languages (the latest Slovenian!), and this is the first pocket book edition in English. (Preceding this were very successful pocketbook editions in Spain and Germany.)
It has all the stretches from the original book, and slightly abbreviated programs. It will be great to take on trips, and on airplanes, to keep in a desk drawer, etc.
It is being printed right now and bound book completion is March 31. It should be in the bookstores late April-early May.
Just put this together and it feels good. My little street truck. I wanted a short, low-to-ground board, so cut down my old Tamalpais board and added risers and some really good trucks and wheels from Loaded Boards. Turns really well, still in testing stage. Gonna notch out 4 corners to avoid board rubbing against wheels on sharp turns. Possibly I’ll reconfigure with a board maybe 3″ longer.
My friend Louie and I started out the morning with Irish coffees and split a crab omelette out by the beach. Beautiful sunny day, fresh ocean breezes AND whales now migrating north. Lots of them cavorting off Ocean Beach, on their way back north after having calves in Baja.
Then, since I was looking for leather to make knife sheaths with (been making custom handles for Russell hand-in-USA carbon steel knives). We ended up going to the S. H. Frank Co on 17th street and it was an amazing place. Been there over 100 years, tons of leather, animal skins, tools. I got some leather working tools and some leather. Excited to finally have the punches, cutter, leather scissors, etc. so I can work leather.
I listened to this CD the other day for the first time in a few years. It’s an eclectic compilation of songs by all sorts of musicians using this beat, which was not original to Bo Diddley, but used extensively by him. It’s called kpanlogo and originates in Ghana. It’s a wonderful beat. I’m pretty sure you’ll know it when you hear it.
Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring
If that diamond ring don’t shine
He gonna take it to a private eye…
SO, for some cosmic reason on last night’s quite wonderful “Bakersfield and Beyond” Thursday radio show on our quite wonderful local station, KWMR, on came this song by the “cowpunk” LA band Lone Justice with the same beat.
East of Eden by Lone Justice on Grooveshark
Check it out if you can find it. Watching it as we speak. Wow! Red hot band!
Not sure, but I believe this was in 2014.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/27/joe-bonamassa-muddy-wolf-red-rocks/
