He's not quitting his day job
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| Tulsa musician Neil Dirickson’s band, Nude Furniture, has a new album out dubbed “The Signature Sound of Nude Furniture.” |
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By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
3/25/2007
This Tulsa musician plays for the enjoyment of playing
Neil Dirickson is one of those musicians who's not interested in selling a bunch of albums. He just makes music, and if he sells a couple of albums along the way, he'll take it.
Dirickson's band, Nude Furniture, has a new album out dubbed "The Signature Sound of Nude Furniture." But you won't see the man, who works with his father in a tooth crown-making business, hoofing it from radio station to record store hawking his wares.
His love affair with music officially began when his father gave him a 1965 Gibson EBO bass guitar, although he'd been playing drums since he was 3 years old. He later began making tapes for friends.
"I finally just decided, well, you know, there's nothing saying I can't make a CD and try to sell it to people," Dirickson said.
He's recorded about 19 albums, but only five have been released, he said. This one he describes as a Frank Zappa-meets-the-Byrds affair that seems as lighthearted as it is disorienting.
The 12-song album has a tribute to the late Buddy Holly, "He Was a Homely Man."
"A friend of mine was telling me about this time when he met Buddy Holly's widow, Maria Elena, and he was just kind of talking to her about Buddy Holly and stuff. And then this other guy happened by and got in on the conversation and said something like, 'Well, you know, Buddy Holly was really a very homely man.' "
The guy might as well have walked up and slapped Holly's widow. The account of that conversation inspired the song about a guy from Texas who wore glasses and was trying to make it in the music business.
Outside of that, Dirickson, who grew up in Collinsville, is sort of an average guy. He's a bespectacled man of 36 who spends his days working in his father's lab, turning out about a hundred cases a week of single crowns and four-unit bridges.
"When I graduated (from the University of Tulsa after studying communication) I was looking around for a job, and there was nothing that was really opening up at the time, so I took a job at Buttons at the time, a record store. Yeah. And that really sucked."
He started at his dad's lab in 1994, work his father has been doing since 1968, he said.
Outside of music and work, he spends time with his dog, cat, stepchildren and wife, local cowpunk singer Tex Montana.
If you're lucky, you can catch Nude Furniture live with drummer Karen Momme and Dave Johnson on bass, but the band's shows are rare.
"It's really just for my own enjoyment and amusement. It may end up that 25 people buy (the album) ultimately, and that's fine."
The CD is available at Borders, 2740 E. 21st St.; and Under the Mooch, 1423 S. Harvard Ave.
Matt Elliott 581-8366
matt.elliott@tulsaworld.com
By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
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