Two Ton Shoe

This is amazing. Check out these two covers of Troopy's Blues by two different South Korean bands [CORRECTION/UPDATE: the second band is from the Philippines (thanks to veidt on the guestbook):

The TTS South Korea saga ends has made its way into The Economist http://www.economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9351850 JAKE Shapiro plays guitar in a band called “Two Ton Shoe” that gigged up and down the American East Coast for a couple of…

Hi folks I'm in Seoul South Korea this week as a speaker at the Seoul Digital Forum (http://www.seouldigitalforum.com) - a big conference on the digital entertainment business. This is mainly through my job as Executive Director of PRX…

Amazingly enough, TTS is returning to one of our earliest stomping grounds - the Common Ground in Allston. Pete MacLean will be on drums, so it's the South Korean lineup for the Shoe. More soon!

Happy new year everyone The Shoe alive and kicking in 2006. We're planning to finish a bunch of tunes and put out another CD later this year, probably only for retail sale in Korea but available digitaly everywhere. …

That's right. Two Ton Shoe is heading to South Korea Aug 21-31 to play 3 shows in Seoul, courtesy of our label over there Pastel Music We have a double CD for sale in Korea and evidently it's doing…