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“Funky Bean,” “Buttmachine,”
Mustaches and Laser beams. It reads
like a page out of a Dr. Seuss book,
but for Mike Silverman, better known
as That 1 Guy, it is just the
reality he was searching for.
At 150-200 live shows each year
people gather to see his mad
scientist at work, curiously
watching as That 1 Guy plugs an
electric chord into the heel of a
cowboy boot and transforms it into
an instrument. He howls and the
audience joins him like a pack of
coyotes. They even chime in for the
song “Weasel Pot Pie,” offering
rhymes to finish a line about
“cinnamon scones”: Twilight Zones?
Al Capones? Frank Stallones? That 1
Guy laughs and offers the grin of a
Cheshire cat. Here is a man who
loves his job.
That 1 Guy set off on his own,
challenging the idea of what a
one-man band can and should be.
Rather than altering and adding on
to the bass, he started from
scratch, conceptualizing and
creating the Magic Pipe. Standing at
seven-feet-tall, the collection of
swiveling pipes, metal gears, bass
strings and electronic buttons forms
the shape of a harp, but is played
like a futuristic gutbucket.
With his curious instrument,
creative performances and abundant
talent, That 1 Guy soon caught the
attention of promoters around the
world and began touring heavily,
wowing crowds at Big Day Out,
Glastonbury, Monterrey Jazz
Festival, Lowlands, Wakarusa and
numerous other festivals. In 2007 he
joined Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist
Buckethead on an American tour
before headlining his own “Mustaches
and Laser Beams” tour through North
America.
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