Published on Sunday August 28, 2005 .
First, thanks to everyone who came out to the show Saturday night. We had a lot of fun opening for Eruption, I think it was among the Jay Rakes Band’s better shows. Eruption is both ridiculous and amazing all at once, and played some faithful renditions of early Van Halen tunes. These dudes are all about “the big show.” They made us backstage passes, gave us some beer, and even had a bowl of M&M’s with brown ones sorted out. Bad ass! They put on a really entertaining show, Jay and Kim and I all had a blast (Tripp left early, as always!)
In addition to the usual cast of characters that appears at the Jay Rakes Band shows (especially Matt Davis!), I ran into some old friends from back in the Ocean View days. It was awesome to see Bob, Larry, Dawn, Harry and Ryan again (where the hell was Tom, man??). I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately. Playing live is always a rush, and it was even more thrilling to play a show in front of old friends.
I think we have another gig with Eruption coming up, I’ll have it posted here (under the “Upcoming Shows” box in the sidebar) when I have the info.
Oh yeah! There’s a a new mp3 on the player. It’s kind of humung.. kind of hughmungo– it’s really big!! (like 14 minutes) It’s the Jay Rakes Band jamming at Jay’s house, with Tripp on Roland V-Drums. Totally unedited, unrehearsed, and full of mistakes.. but there are some good moments.
Published on Wednesday August 24, 2005 .
alright, so drew sent me this comic . As you can see, it is a cute offering of social commentary on the technological stranglehold on modern society.. or something.
Personally, I thought the picture was funnier than the little boy’s declaration to his father:
So, I suggested to Drew that we have a contest to see if someone can come up with a funnier caption for the comic. He agreed and then told me to put it on my site.. I guess he’s lazy.
The winner will receive a burned copy of Iron Maiden’s “Number of The Beast” album and a sensuous backrub from Drew.
Published on Monday August 22, 2005 .
I guess it depends on how you define “job.” John from Pedestal called me today and confirmed that he would need a bassist for some fill in gigs as their guy is moving to Texas. We had talked previously, and I told him up front that I wasn’t sure how commited I could be. I know how serious John and Jen are and didn’t want them thinking I could be 100% about a band if I’m not up to it. So I’m gonna do some gigs for them and we’ll see how it goes. Pedestal is among the handful of higher profile local bands that I really like. There’s some good bands around here, but being a good band actually hustling the way John does is another story. His band is doing well because he works the gigs. Original bands don’t typically do well around here for one major reason: they’re lazy. The clubs needs some sort of proof you can put asses in seats. You won’t have the draw that a cover band will, so you have to do something to get those seats filled. As long as the clubs sell beer thats all they care about around here. So, Pedetsal does well because John works the shows and promotes the hell out of himself. Even if I thought his band was total shit, I’d still play with him because he’s a straight shooter and a really cool guy. Fortunately, I don’t think his band is shit at all.
John says he’s paying me for my time as a hired gun, which is nice. Still not a real job. I’ve heard nothing from the Governor’s School, don’t expect much from them now. I have confidence things will work out, but I’m really starting to get scared. Man, you could copy and paste this post and put it on Drew’s page and no one would be able to tell the difference!!