User:Dirtykidschmely

 DIRTYKID SCHMELY 

DirtyKid Schmely is an American busker born in South East Houston Texas October 9th 1988. He is a Traveling hitch hiker and train hopper who plays music ranging from covers to originals on city streets and outside of grocery stores for tips. He is usually seen with his pitbull dalmation mix named, Cheeseburger

Dirty Kid schmely

Eric Armeli

BareFoot SlugStep is a project so far solo band featuring Eric (Schmely) with its 3 song demo "The Kill Schwill" released in 2018.

Schmely has also performed under the name of schmely, DirtyKid Schmely,  Eric Armeli and from 2007-2012 as the "Texas Rebel" releasing 2 albums, one in 2009 entitled; "Hitch-Hiking To A Town Near You" and in 2010 with; "Music's Free Tips Appreciated"

Schmely has performed in various groups and with many musicians under many names such as "Onion Patch Kids " in 2012 with his road dog Jacob (R.J) and in 2013-2014 in Takilma, Oregon and Cave Junction, Oregon gaining local fan base in both towns performing their unique folky bluesy punk influenced original songs as well as a hand full or 2 of Grateful Dead cover songs, with road dog Jesse calling themselves, Tampon Poppycock. Tampon Poppycock usually played for free drinks and just for the sake of entertaining thier audience. Wild river brewing & pizza co located in Cave Junction, Oregon and at the GreenBridge swimming hole/local hangout spot located in Takilma, Oregon where locals enjoyed in the festivities of swimming, being nude, hanging out, smoking, drinking, weekly drum circles, and rocking out to the music styles of Tampon Poppycock and fighting to request a Grateful Dead song that they didn't know how to play which was rare but did happen on a.couple occasions.

Alot of the Music Schmely would perform where usually outside of any establishment with heavey flow of people traffic walking in and out or by that would allow him to do so without asking him to leave and or call the.cops on him to run him out. varying from truck stops, rest areas, grocery stores, parks, bars, towns, cities usually on the outskirts or downtown, basically anywhere he was tolerated. Majority of schmelys performances have been from Busking, generally playing to what he felt the audience/crowd/scene would be into mainly playing covers and mixing in some originals or sometimes just all improv mainly for tips/food/kickdowns. And also performing at any bar/establishment that hosted Open mic night's, usually doing the same but more originals than covers in multiple genres and styles depending on what he thought the.crowd would enjoy more, playing usually for free drinks, but mainly just for fun.

He has been known to jam with and collaborate with anyone who us willing to and who have at least a basic knowledge and some experience on thier instrument.

Schmely has been known to play Guitar,Bass guitar, Djembe, Harmonica, Kazoo,Ukulele,Banjo, Mandolin, and other various stringed instruments. He has been known to attach a Maraca to each foot and keep a steady percussive beat while playing, sometimes using a Tambourine, and/or operate kick drum pedal to hit a suitcase while he sits upon the suitcase to mimic that kick drum sound.

Although he doesn't travel by hitch hiking or freight train riding anymore he still busks whenever the opportunity strikes. Schmely quotes "I may have hung up my traveling boots and retired from the road, but I haven't retired from music" and also "U can take the dirty kid off the road but u can't take the road out of the dirty kid, tramping around has been a big part of my life and always will be. Even though i dont do it anymore it was the greatest decade of my life so far."

Schmely dropped out of La Porte High School (Texas) in 2006 after comming to the conclusion that the only thing that's important in life is having fun, he decided to get a early start on having fun while still young before getting old.

At the age of 17, Schmely hit the road with a acoustic guitar only knowing how to play 3 or 4 open chords and power chords, busking and learning how to play from teachings of more experienced players. By 2012 Schmely knew a wide variety of chords and Barre chords and 7ths and all the open chords. His motto became "If u ain't having fun, you're doing it wrong!" After getting HAVE "N" FUN tattooed across his knuckles.

Schmely retired from the road 4months after he had a near death experience riding freight winter of 2014 and only resulting in a broken ankle. He traveled back to his childhood home of La Porte, Texas to rest and allow his ankle to heal. While taking a break to rest his.broken ankle in his childhood home spring of 2015 is when he met the love of his life and gave up traveling to pursue this relationship and find love. The couple broke up in summer of 2018 and instead of hitting the road again, Schmely decided not to and stayed employed so he could be a father to his only child, his son, Bodhi River Armeli who was born Oct.30th 2016. Schmely has since retired from the road in 2015 at the age of 27 and becoming actively involved in being a parent and a part of his son's life, he still continues to write and perform music. Rumor has it he will be releasing a 5song demo in late 2019 to mid 2020