Hamid Shibata Bennett

Roadside Attraction | Tales from the Back Deck - YouTube

I recorded our band, Roadside Attraction, on a blustery Autumn day. We started playing together on the back deck during the pandemic, so decided to return with an acoustic live performance. Here is a video playlist with high quality audio for your enjoyment.

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Shoulder Seasons - Album by Roadside Attraction Listen to Shoulder Seasons by Roadside Attraction on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

Roadside Attraction’s first studio recordings are out now! Shoulder Season Ep dropped on Youtube Music. All streaming platforms soon. Help us gain traction in the algorithm by giving a listen, like a tune, and share with you friends!

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#newmusic #roadsideattraction

Close image of pride flag street mural along the Kronberg Park boardwalk, leaves and seeds scattered upon it, and two gouged area, where the material had been struck and removed. Overlaid with these words: Milwaukie Pride flag waving steady in summer breeze, be your fab self

On my ride home yesterday, I found public art vandalized. I remembered that our mayor was asking for haiku’s to read at city council meetings. In Milwaukie, Oregon are seen, you are valued, you are loved.

Milwaukie Pride flag
waving steady in summer
breeze, be your fab self

Sometimes a whittle doesn’t always go as planned… #whittling #edc

One of my favorite things is being the first one at the clinic and flipping on the lights. It’s staying nice and cool here in the myofascial bodywork studio. Here’s a few self-care reminders for this week’s heat wave.

Pedal board, from left to right: UA Del-Verb, TheGigRig Humdinger, Wampler Belle, Wampler Tumnus, Dunlop Crybaby Mini, Peterson Strobostomp Mini.

I re-arranged my main pedalboard today, taking TheGigRig’s Humdinger off my older live looping board. Now, I have mono, stereo, wet-dry, or wet-dry-wet options again in the pedalboard I use with the band. Thanks to Old Town Music for helping me get creative with the power supply.

New guitar amp day! I paired up my new Laney Lionheart Foundary Super 60-112 with my Supro Black Magick. I am looking forward to a long weekend making a lot of music!

A day off to make music. Here is an ambient improvisation, making a drone with the Studiologic NumaCompact X SE and playing the Reverend Double Agent OG guitar. On the pedalboard is the Wampler Tumnus and Universal-Audio Del-Verb going into the Supro Black Magick and Blackstar HT-5R valve amps.

Close up of a whittled triple spiral.

Two whittled sticks with an MKM Pocket Tango and Victorinox Pioneer X Alox Swiss Army Knife on a green picnic table.

My bodywork day wrapped up early, so I had time to sit in the shade and finish whittling my third triple spiral. I used the MKM Pocket Tango and Victorinox Pioneer X Alox Swiss Army Knife.

#whittling #woodcarving #edc #fixedblade #swissarmyknife

YouTube video by Hamid Shibata Bennett Sunday Restful | Studiologic Numa Compact X SE Japan Grand piano improv

Playing some piano in my newly rearranged musical corner. Here is an improvisation with the Japan Grand piano of the Studiologic Numa Compact X SE. This is Sunday Restful on #yourmorningnoodle

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Victorinox Pioneer X Alox and MKM Pocket Tango on a wood table amidst three whittled pieces of wood and wood shavings.

A tiny curled wood shaving.

Many wood shavings next to a whittled spiral and a knife blade.

A close up of a whittled spiral and fine wood savings.

Scenes of whittling.

#whittling #woodcarving #edc

Selfie with Hamid and Brian.

Morgan tuning up his guitar.

Selfie with my guitar.

Monday, Roadside Attraction was wrapping up our first four tunes. Morgan and I were back at Chapel Recording laying down electric guitar leads with recording engineer extraordinaire Brian Vierra.

Milwaukie Porchfest 2025 flier for Roadside Attraction.

Our band, Roadside Attraction, will be rocking the sweet tunes during week 2 of Milwaukie Porchfest! Come join us from 6:30-8:30pm on Friday, July 18th!

Milwaukie Porchfest is July 11th, 18th, and 25th. For a map of porches, go to www.MilwaukiePorchfest.com

My abridged history of whittling spirals in wood.

#whittling #woodcarving #edc #bushcraft

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Whittling progress, finishing up a triple spiral with the LionSteel B35 fixed blade and cleaned up the inner rungs with the Victorinox Rambler Swiss Army Knife. #whittling #woodcarving #bushcraft #edc #fixedblade #swissarmyknife #victorinoxrambler

YouTube video by Hamid Shibata Bennett Studiologic Numa Compact X SE | Japan Grand piano issue fixed!

In a previous video, I demonstrated an issue I found with the Japan Grand piano tone on the Studiologic Numa Compact X SE. I wrote to Studiologic and they provided a solution very quickly! Here’s my follow up video… Japan Grand piano issue fixed!

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'Pride' in the name of love is what Canby event is all about - Herald Pioneer It just felt bigger and brighter than in the past.

A couple of my photos in this article about last weekend’s Canby Pride event!

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MKM Pocket Tango next to the beginnings of a triple spiral whittle atop the book The Creative Act: A Way of Being

A moment before the thunderstorm. I bit of whittling on my lunch break. I got soaked on the stroll back the bodywork studio.

A bike rack on the sidewalk in front of a wellness clinic.

View of electric lift massage table with Body Cushions and a bolster set up for side laying client positioning.

We have a new bike rack installed in front of my myofascial bodywork studio in the clinic! #gobybike

Just a momma and her ducklings, napping nearby while I was whittling by the river on my lunch break .

A book, sunglasses, and Swiss Army Knife with Alox scales on a picnic table in the park.

Close up of the book title: The C Creative Act: A WayWay Of Being. Spoke & Word Bookstore bookmark sticking out of the book.

Quote from book: “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

After going to sauna and then lunch at the farmers market, I stopped by Spoke & Word Books. I picked up a copy of The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Ruben… I flipped it open, read a half page, and knew this was my next read.

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

My Qualisports Volador electric folding bike in front of the Pride Mural on the surface of the path through Robert Kronberg Park in Milwaukie, Oregon.

The mural, covered with a tarp.

The cleaned mural, dappled in sunlight.

I found graffiti on a local Pride flag mural. I called Police non-emergency; It had been reported as a hate crime.

I am proud to live in a city where the response to hateful acts are swift. We need all caring folk standing up in the face of intolerance. Happy Pride Month! You are welcome here.

Hamid’s hand typed business cards and a bushcraft card holder, in front of various whittles on his desk.

A detailed look at the bushcraft business card holder.

Hamid’s cards on another, more simple bushcraft card holder, next to a sign that reads, “Wait here for your therapist”

The new batch of typewritten business cards look pretty keen on my bushcrafted card holders.

Thanks! I’ll usually make 20-30 or so cards at a time.

Thank you Valarie!

Hand typed business cards on an Olympia typewriter.

I banged out a few business cards on the Olympia last night. I hadn’t made cards since I moved my practice to downtown Milwaukie, so it was a project long overdo! #typewriter

YouTube video by Hamid Shibata Bennett Sunrise Daisy Retreat | Survivor’s Path Grand Opening at Menucha Retreat Center

Sunday, I was at Sunrise Daisy Retreat’s survivor path grand opening at Menucha Retreat Center. I sat in a woven nest and had a plunk on Wendell, longneck dulcimer. A few joyful moments from the day, in the good company of fellow cancer survivors and supporters.

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My only full day off this week and making time to look for sticks by the riverside. My first project of the day was to make a little bushcraft stand, which works pretty well to hold up my sunglasses. I used the LionSteel B35 fixed blade, the Victorinox Pioneer X Alox, and the Silky F180 folding saw.