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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
The Slow Poisoner
Maker Lounge , Saturday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Slow Poisoner is a one-man-surrealistic-rock-and-roll-band, playing strange songs of the weeping willows and curing all manner of ailments with his patented miracle tonic.
Web site: http://www.theslowpoisoner.com
About the Maker(s)
Andrew Goldfarb The Slow Poisoner (alias Andrew Goldfarb) is a One-Man-Surrealistic-Rock-and-Roll-Band from San Francisco. He strums a curiously-shaped guitar and croons curiously-shaped lyrics, all the while kicking incessantly at a bass drum rigged with sleigh bells, generating a weird and rootsy din. While on stage, elaborately painted signs that bear the title of each tune are displayed, providing a visual compliment to the malignant melodies. Lyrical concerns include sleeping sickness, weeping willows, woebegotten ne’er-do-wells, creeping fungi, strange passions, furtive meetings, unseen forces, whispering branches, domestic dischord, phantom visitations, the imbibing of mysterious green beverages, the plight of the singing railroad brakeman and strange America. In keeping with the tradition of the one-man-band as snake oil salesman, he sells his own patent medicine at live performances. Bottles of "The Slow Poisoner's Miracle Tonic" contain a mysterious green fluid and claim effectiveness in the treatment of Elephantiasis, Cholera, Barnacles, Boils, The Fits, Excessive Abscesses, Necrosis, Lavender Fever, General Wasting, Consumption, Women's Troubles, Gout, Neuralgia, Wandering Limbs, Stoutness, Onanism and Disinterested Bladder. Andrew once led a band called The Slow Poisoners, who released three albums over ten years' time. Although originally a quintet, the other musicians gradually disappeared, and as the last man standing, The Slow Poisoner grew an additonal limb and now provides a full plate of entertainment on his lonesome...
