Friday Afternoon Video: Bob Log III, Tonight at Rudz

Houstonist first learned of Bob Log III while watching late-night television sometime in the midst of our sloppy punk rock blues phase. We were fascinated and puzzled by the Evil Knievel jumpsuit and the motorcycle helmet-telephone receiver hybrid the one-man-band wears in lieu of a microphone.

Somehow Bob Log III managed to escape our conscience until the advent of YouTube, which boasts numerous videos of his live acts. Since then we've been anxiously awaiting an opportunity to see him play in Houston. Readers, that time is now. Log will perform at Rudyard's tonight with fellow one-man-banders Scott Biram of Austin and Posessed by Paul James of Kerrville, TX.

The Tuscan native's Wikipedia entry is a slightly NSFW thing of beauty in and of itself, claiming, among other things, that Log has a monkey paw surgically grafted onto his left arm. Log also has a huge following in Japan.

Here is a quote from Tom Waits, who is apparently a fan:

"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. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically.”

If all of this is too much to comprehend, perhaps a video will do him justice.