Podcasting “StranieroVision “ & “Radio Guaglione!”

Cut White Stuff (Video) 4 mb

Tue, 7 Jun 1994 17:28:11 +0200

In June of 2005, Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs made a reunion gig at the Pennabilli Buskers Festival in Italy. After 12 years the original line-up all got together and as usual performed without

Holidays (Video) 4.2 mb

Tue, 7 Jun 1994 17:27:33 +0200

In June of 2005, Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs made a reunion gig at the Pennabilli Buskers Festival in Italy. After 12 years the original line-up all got together and as usual performed without

Fish (Video) 4 mb

Tue, 7 Jun 1994 17:26:34 +0200

In June of 2005, Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs made a reunion gig at the Pennabilli Buskers Festival in Italy. After 12 years the original line-up all got together and as usual performed without

Big Brother (Video) 4.7 mb

Tue, 7 Jun 1994 17:20:30 +0200

In June of 2005, Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs made a reunion gig at the Pennabilli Buskers Festival in Italy. After 12 years the original line-up all got together and as usual performed without

Cock-n-Bull Story (Music Video) 6.8 mb

Tue, 5 Apr 1994 17:10:45 +0200

This song does not feature me playing, but I made the video. The band is Ooh Sticky, which is the Denmark line-up of Ooooh Sticky and the Greasy Pigs featuring only Tam Lawrence of the original line-u

Solletico (RAI1) (video) 3.9 mb

Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:55:23 +0200

At the time, Solletico was Italy’s #1 children’s program. It was total chaos. I had no idea what was going on. They just dressed me as an angel and told me to get out there. An angel and his Straniero

Fish (audio) 2.2 mb

Sun, 20 Mar 1994 16:24:46 +0100

Here’s a fun ska number for all you beach bums out there! I wrote this with Jim Abrams in Chicago back in 1987. Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs recorded this track in Copenhagen live in the studi

Marlboro Man (audio) 2.3 mb

Sun, 25 Mar 1990 16:11:31 +0200

This is probably my favorite song that I ever wrote. I remember writing it on the boat to Calais as I was being deported from England (for being a busker!). It’s a great song for anybody who’s looking

The Straniero Blues (audio) 2.4 mb

Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:50:09 +0100

I figured every good busker aught to have his own theme song, no? Mine’s in Italiano and English. It’s not the best recording in the world, but it was recorded on a very old cassette 4-track in a camp

Fronni D’Alia (audio) 1.9 mb

Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:36:16 +0100

This is an incredibly beautiful folk piece from the Basilicata region of Italy. It has 3 distinct parts the first is not actually folk, but written by clarinetist Nello Zanzara. The singing part is th

Al Capone (audio) 1.5 mb

Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:02:29 +0200

Here’s my solo version of the Prince Buster classic. I play drums, bass, guitar, piano, 3-trumpets, clarinet and Stranierofono.

Smart Girl (audio) 1.8 mb

Sun, 26 Mar 1989 12:43:26 +0200

This is just my first experiment with GarageBand. It’s a song I wrote in 1987 with Jim Abrams in Chicago. I used to do it with Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs too.

Walkin’ Spanish (audio) 1.7 mb

Sun, 26 Mar 1989 12:41:52 +0200

Here’s a song from my “just bass-n-voice” show, Mr. Boom Boom Boom. It’s just bass-n-voice-n-minor harmonica-n-kazoo!

King of the Road (audio) 1.1 mb

Sat, 25 Mar 1989 12:35:09 +0100

Here’s a song from my “just bass-n-voice” show, Mr. Boom Boom Boom. It’s a travelin’ song if there ever was one!

Hey-Ya (video) 5.5 mb

Wed, 22 Mar 1989 19:27:10 +0100

How much energy does a two year old have? Here’s Gaia as soon as she started walking. She runs here, she runs there, she runs back and she runs forth and all in time streaking with the music!

Tummy Farts (video) 536 kb

Tue, 22 Aug 1989 19:26:10 +0200

The best way to make a baby laugh has always been, and will always be farting on her stomach, no?

Pizzu Food (video) 1.9 mb

Wed, 22 Mar 1989 19:17:35 +0100

When she was small Gaia always laughed her head off whenever she saw our dog Pizzu eat. This video is really cute! She can’t make up her mind to give it to the dog or eat it herself!

Bimba Dance (video) 672 kb

Wed, 22 Mar 1989 19:04:19 +0100

This was just a little gag that I did in After Effects when Gaia was 6 months old. She’s actually lying down on a blue sheet on the concrete in front of our house. It’s funny that now that she’s 3 yea

The Naked Cowboy (Video) 1.1 mb

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:59:59 +0100

When I made this video on our vacation to New Orleans, I had no idea how famous this guy is. Now I’ve seen him on TV and in Magazines all over the world. My wife’s convinced that he’d become a star if

Bimba Can-Can (video) 924 kb

Sun, 5 Feb 1961 17:35:45 +0100

Gaia dances her heart out here in her mother’s old can-can dress at age 3 with no formal training! She blows me away! Too bad that I recorded it at such low resolution!

Americano-Napoli (video) 2 mb

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:53:53 +0100

This video was recorded on the side of the famous Galleria Umberto in Naples, Italy as a trial for the Mehio Group Japanese TV ads. This instrument is Radio Guaglione, and is all acoustic except for t

Do Nothing-Chicago TV (video) 3.6 mb

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:50:58 +0100

With images from Chicago’s WGN morning news and WTTW’s “Wild Chicago” here’s some classic video of the Straniero in action. Recorded at the Maxwell St. Market, Fiesta del Sol, the 24th St. Italian Fes

Chicken Shack (video) 5.4 mb

Tue, 16 Jun 1992 16:46:31 +0200

Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs-This is one of Tam’s great country songs. The song’s called Chicken Shack and it’s recorded in a real chicken shack on a farm in Tuscany. There’s lot’s of video effe

After You’ve Gone-Porta Portese (video) 3.8 mb

Sun, 27 Oct 2002 16:44:13 +0100

One of my many nicknames is the “Porta Portese Philharmonic Orchestra”. Here I am blasting through Rome’s biggest and most famous open air market at full volume early on a Sunday morning,

Torero at Porta Portese (video) 1.8 mb

Sun, 27 Oct 2002 16:44:13 +0100

One of my many nicknames is the “Porta Portese Philharmonic Orchestra”. Here I am blasting through Rome’s biggest and most famous open air market at full volume early on a Sunday morning,

Bang-a-Gong-Pilsen (video) 2.2 mb

Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:37:57 +0200

When I saw the neon and flashing lights of the rides that they had put up for the Fiesta del Sol in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I knew it was the perfect place for me to make a video! As you can se

Tiptoe Through The Tulips (video) 2.7 mb

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:32:56 +0100

Uuanema Band (video) 6.5 mb

Wed, 1 Feb 1989 16:24:01 +0100

Nasce dall' incontro di due musicisti, o meglio due uomo orchestra, Uno parte-nopeo e l'altro parte americano. La loro esperienza individuale È decennale e molto conosciuta in Europa e all' estero.

Mercantia-Part 3 (video) 13.5mb

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:59:39 +0200

This video is an excellent representation of various street artists in Italy. My wife Emanuela Ambrosino and I did all of the shooting and editing. I’ve broken it into three parts because it’s long. T

Mercantia-Part 2 (video) 8.9 mb

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:59:39 +0200

Tony Clifton Circus (video) 7.6 mb

Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:09:04 +0100

When Tony Clifton Circus asked me to make their demo video for them I told them that they made me sick! But when they told me that they’d pay me I put aside my love affair with Barbie dolls and we mad

Piles (Video) 2.1 mb

Sat, 11 Sep 1993 16:02:21 +0200

Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs-This video was made by the festival. It’s not bad, but they edited out the part where we all stop playing and cry of the loss of our brother who succumbed to his hem

Mercantia-Part 1 (video) 10.4 mb

Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:59:39 +0200

Bob (Video) 4.6 mb

Sat, 19 Mar 1994 15:58:40 +0100

Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs-Recorded over several years in Ferrara, Tuscany and Christiania this video shows us at our acoustically violent best! Note: I spent 4 days on the computer to do the

Angry (Video) 8.6 mb

Mon, 16 Mar 1992 15:57:58 +0100

Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs-Recorded over several years in Ferrara, Tuscany, Ostia, Prague and Christiania this is my favorite Greasy Pigs video! It shows us at our best! Special Guest Pig: Or

Carnival Floats in Italy (video) 2.4 mb

Sat, 20 Feb 1960 15:38:10 +0100

This is just a little video to show some of the great paper maché floats that they made for the carnival in Putignano. Special thanks to Lionel for taking us!

Pachinko Rag (video) 1.6 mb

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:04:13 +0100

I made this TV spot for a Japanese chain of Pachinko parlors called Meiho group. They were filmed in Milan inside of the Teatro Litta. It was a really fun experience! The song I wrote myself for the

The Entertainer (video) 1.7 mb

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:04:13 +0100

I made this TV spot for a Japanese chain of Pachinko parlors called Meiho group. They were filmed in Milan inside of the Teatro Litta. It was a really fun experience! The instrument is the Stranierof

Cut White Stuff (audio) 2 mb

Sun, 17 Jul 1994 23:32:16 +0200

Ooooh Sticky & the Greasy Pigs recorded this track in Copenhagen live in the studio less than two months before the big breakup in Ferrara (Before getting back together again some years later!) T

Goldfishbowl Eyes (audio) 2.5 mb

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:18:59 +0100

Goldfishbowl Eyes is a Greasy Pigs song written in 1991 by Tam & me. It’s one of my favorites. This version I recorded for the Pennabilli Artisti in Piazza CD from 2004. The first line of the son

Rockin’ Out With Gaia (video) 2.7 mb

Tue, 3 Mar 1970 23:32:16 +0100

Gaia’s really starting to rock out! Here’s me and Gaia (age 3) singing Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. Note her amazing solo on the Mandobird (mini electric guitar with distortion).

Sukiyaki Song (video) 3.1 mb

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:32:16 +0100

In November of 2006 I went to the Daidogei Buskers World Cup in Shizuoka, Japan. I really enjoyed getting to play on the other side of the world. Just for the festival, I learned to sing a song in Jap