Throwing Toasters

Big welcome to anyone coming by because of the mention on Seven Second Delay! Thanks for stopping by! Here’s some videos of me telling Andy’s jokes….

And join the fun at http://sevenseconddelay.blogspot.com

Grant is making his debut with the puppet up Uncensored troupe on June 21! If you’re in the LA Area, come check it out! Visit http://www.PuppetUp.com for more info!

Check out Grant as Matt in the new audiodrama podcast called The Takeover! This new story by podcasting goddess Mur Lafferty gives a hilarious look at the corporate world if it were invaded by zombies! The podcast is free so go check it out now at http://zombinc.net/!

I won’t be doing music, but it will be a ton of fun! Come see me improvise in Shakespeare! Yeah, that’ll be a BLAST!

IMPROV BONANZAGANZA!
AN EVENING OF EXTEMPORANEOUS THEATRE

Directed by Patrick Bristow

Featuring: Grant Baciocco, Kevin Berntson, Gareth Berrow, Brian Clark, Peggy Etra, Diva Leslee Harman, Jayne Entwistle, Matt Kelley, Tanya McClure, Allison Mork, Sandra Rapale, Carla Rudy, Carrie Seim, Chris Sheets, Michaela Watkins,Vanessa Whitney, Matthew Vlahakis

Wednesday, May 28th @ 8pm

Theatre Asylum
6320 Santa Monica Blvd. (near Vine)

Admission – an incomprehensible $7.50

Reservations at: theimprovshow@yahoo.com

The crowd was SO great tonight! They were into every comic and were fantastic laughers! It’s was also great to see my good friend Chris Valenti in the crowd who was there to see one of the other comics. Great night of the funny, funny!

Set 1

• Bad Influence
• Sometimes I Wonder

Set 2

• SkrewU
• What She Wants
• Things I’d Do 4 U
• Angela (Debbie)

Please note the following changes if you were planning on coming out to see some upcoming TT shows.

The May 7th and May 22nd dates at the Ice House have been cancelled due to other traveling.

A new date at the Ice House on April 30th has been added.

See the shows page for up to the date info!

Ah yes, the summer of 1995. The O.J. Trial. Fodder for many a comedy song. Here’s one you’ve never heard and probably for very good reason. It’s pretty bad. But it is a bit of Throwing Toasters history, so here it goes out into the universe!

Again, this was recorded in my parent’s basement/room, back then called ‘Behind The Bar’ studios because I made the area behind the bar in that room into a vocal booth (which as you can tell by the quality did wonders for fidelity). All the music was done with MIDI on my MacSE and the vocals were recorded live and the same time as the music into my stereo tape deck.

Joining me on this tune are my good buddy from High School, Jason Roberts and a 12 year old Brandon Baciocco, the true singer in the family.

Fun huh? No, not really. Especially that “bridge.”

This tune was released on homemade tapes under the Head Hunter Country name.

 

 I Wanna Be (Like Kato) By Throwing Toasters (Head Hunter Country) [2:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I recently bought a new toy. It’s a DigiTech Looper/Phrase Sampler. I bought it after seeing Boothby Graffoe use one on stage.

Anyway, with this new piece of equipment I’ve also been using a effects pedal and it has turned into more equipment I’ve got to lug around. Well, last night it became more equipment I have to make sure is plugged in! During my first set, even though it was plugged in, my guitar wouldn’t come through the sound system in the Annex. During soundcheck I did notice that check battery light was on, so I figured my battery had died. So my first set was played, truly, acoustically.

Immediately after my first set, I ran to the car and drove to the nearest store and bought a bunch of 9 volts and then high tailed it back to the show, replaced the battery and I was all good to go.

When I was introduced for my second set, I discovered that the reason there was no sound was because the cord between the effects pedal and the JamMan was unplugged, ironically enough, to conserve battery power on the effects pedal! Oy.

That aside, the show was great! Here’s the set list:

Set 1

• Bad Influence
• Mrs. Claus (sung while making mean glances to the man in the audience the M.C. pointed out bared a striking resemblance to Santa Claus)

Set 2

• SkrewU
• Things I’d Do 4 U
• Carla (Debbie)