In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever.You will, rightly, hear plenty about the Stonewall riots of 1969 this month. Bob Log eventually found his spiritual home on maverick Mississippi blues label Fat Possum in 1998 and released a trio of classic records: School Bus, Trike and Log Bomb. With necessity, ever the mother of invention, Bob donned a helmet he had picked up in a thrift store, took to the stage and kicked his guitar case for percussion and thus the legend of Bob Log was born. Bob Log III was born when Bob was in the middle of a US tour with Doo Rag and his drummer quit. Upon leaving Mondo Guano, Log went on to perform as one-half of seminal early Delta punk blues duo Doo Rag. Log began his music career recording with Mondo Guano, a four-piece metal-blues band based in Arizona. You take a guitar, turn it up and have a good time…everyone else can go listen to Pearl Jam if they want to.” Bob Log got his first guitar at the age of 11, and by the age of 16 he had become smitten with Delta Blues, modelling his slide guitar style on that of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Growing up, Log listened to artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and AC/DC, later commenting that 'That's what rock'n'roll is to me. In fact Bob Log III was born in Tucson, Arizona and is a virtuoso slide player who plays with extremely thick strings tuned very loose that gives him his unique “floppy” sound. It's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. Fat Possum was drunk.” Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: 'I've got all my limbs. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'' When asked to explain Fat Possum’s insistence that his right hand is a monkey’s paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, “My hand is just hairy. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. Here’s an excerpt.'When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. If Bob feels satisfied he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch!īob Log’s identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey’s paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. The audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinks. More often them not he’ll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob Scotch. Bob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participation. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously.

Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star.

Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. That’s what I aspire to basically” - Tom Waitsīob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. You don’t understand one word he’s saying.

It’s just the loudest, strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. 'And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid - nobody ever knows how old he is - wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar.

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