Interrupting your thoughts with the blues.
What the heck is a Handicapper General?
Davey Strus
Vocals, guitar, piano
Davey has been playing guitar longer than he cares to admit, and singing and playing piano even longer.
His previous band won the Indiana Blues Society's “Rising Star” competition in 1998 and then immediately broke up.
Miles Z. Sterrett
Guitar, bass
Miles plays guitar and bass, like, so hard. Miles also works and familys regularly.
His high school band totally made it to the State Finals while he was drum major.
Michael Seals
Drums
Michael turned an obsession with Rock Band drums into an obsession with actual drums.
The homemade pressure-sensitive electonic drum set that Michael used in the band's early days was a sight (and sound) to behold.
Doc Strus
Harmonica, piano, organ
Doc (Dave Sr.) taught himself to play piano by ear as a young man by listening to forbidden Ray Charles records. In recent years, the blues harp has become his primary instrument.
He and his son have been playing together in one combination or another for over 15 years.
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.” So begins Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron.”
In Vonnegut's dystopian vision of America's future, the Handicapper General of the United States enforces absolute equality among the populace—clown noses for the handsome, bags of birdshot permanently weighing down the athletic. Every person is perfectly average and entirely unexceptional.
You should read the whole thing.
Fear not: We have no desire to make everyone average. We just like the story and the name. (We realize that the proper plural is Handicappers General, but we find that name awkward.)
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Blues All Day Long - No Lig...
After twice being interrupted by powe...
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Mary Had a Little Lamb (Cover)
This is a great little number we reco...
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An H-G Christmas Medley - 2011
The guys bow to tradition by playing ...
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Blues for Big Nate - Christ...
Doc Fig takes to the Mic with this tr...
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Red House (cover) - Kokomo,...
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The Sky is Crying (Cover)
Our cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's ren...
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10 Long Years (Cover)
This is our version of the B.B. King ...
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Magic Rooster Blues (Cover)
Davey and Matt collaborate to cover M...
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Woofstock 2010 - "Killing F...
A fun little song, original by Howlin...
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Woofstock 2010 - "Outside W...
Our cover of Cream's "Outside Woman B...
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Woofstock 2010 - "No Trust"...
Our cover of a crowd favorite - origi...
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Woofstock 2010 - "Baby Plea...
"Baby Please Don't Go", originally by...
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Drum Lights - Wipeout!
Demo of the new drumkit lights. Greg ...
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"Hoochie Coochie Man" - Mud...
"Doc Fig" Strus on the blues harp.
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Cream's "Outside Woman Blue...
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Cream's "Sunshine of Your L...
No doubt about it, this song is just ...
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The Beatles' "Birthday" Cov...
What are the odds there'd be somebody...
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Muddy Waters "She's 19 Year...
Dave really plays to the crowd and ha...
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Muddy Waters "Hoochie Cooch...
Dr "Doc Fig" Strus breaks out the har...
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Jimi Hendrix "Red House" Co...
Lead Guitar Dave "Davey" Strus wows t...
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Black Keys "No Trust " Cove...
The 3rd song of our 2nd set. The cro...
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