Put the Bell in ACL!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Go here: Austin City Limits
And vote for us! If we win, we’ll get to play there and that means everybody wins.
thanks
In case you missed it.
Friday, July 25th, 2008However, it didn’t start off so well. We forgot the keyboard amp, the acoustic guitar and earplugs. I broke my theremin setting up. It was raining. Shit wasn’t going well.
So, in order to fix the earplug problem, I ran to the hotdog vendor to get some napkins to fashion into earplugs.
Eric: Excuse me, can I get some napkins real quick
Hotdog guy: I”m busy, there are people waiting for me, you’ll wait!
E: But we’re playing in a minute here and I really just need a napkin
HG: No! There are people waiting, I’m working and am very busy!
E: are you serious? There’s a whole thing of paper towels right here, I could just grab one real quick and we’d be done.
(eric picks up paper towels and starts to rip one off)
HG: (aggressively grabbing paper towels from Eric) NO! I am busy, you will wait! You can’t take my towels!
E: OK, look, Just give me a towel, or else I”ll tell everyone from the stage to not buy anything from you all night long.
HG: I don’t care!
So, that’s what I did. I went back on stage, and said into the microphone: “Hey everybody, don’t buy anything from the hot dog guy all night long. He’s a jerk. He yelled at me and wouldn’t give me a napkin, I”m not even joking. Don’t buy ANYTHING from him.”
As I did this, I kinda realized this was a stupid thing to do, as the city of Gainesville liason was slowly approaching me with the “What the fuck are you doing” face. So, he was really not happy with me and basically said, the hot dog guy is a city licensed vendor and the Mayor would probably find out about this. He also said, whatever your problem with that guy is, it’s private and you don’t need to be yelling it through the PA system to all of downtown. I realized I shoudln’t have said anything, but it was too late. I incredulously asked how a hot dog vendor had such clout in this town that it would make it all the way back to the mayor about what I said.
So, we all were standing on stage, feeling awkward, when a homeless angry black man came charging up to the stage from the stand yelling “Don’t Fuck with the hotdog man, the hotdog man is cool” and so forth. It was at this point that I realized I might get stabbed, so I apologized and said it was just a joke over the PA, which appeased the homeless man, and I think sent a message to the city employees that even though I’m a dick, I at least can apologize for it.
So, long story short, fuck that hot dog man.
Chris rocking the camera off the shelf during a session
Friday, July 18th, 2008Herbie Alert
Friday, July 18th, 2008We decided the stakes weren’t high enough, so we made our own rules, which were as follows:
VW Bug with a spoiler = 3 points
VW Bug convertible = 2 points
Both reasonable addendums, I would say.
However, it was the 3rd rule which, in retrospect, was a bit over the top
VW Bug painted white (the true color of Herbie the love bug)= 100 points
100 points.
Not 10, not 20, not even 25, but 100 points.
I fail to understand our logic of awarding 100 points for this. We should have just made it White VW bug=you win. No one can catch up to 100 points.
I guess I’m not really going anywhere with this one.
meh.
on Aerosmith
Friday, July 18th, 2008I distincly remember seeing Joe Perry with his Les Paul and saying, Yes! That’s what I want to look like. Fortunately, I didn’t end up looking like Joe Perry, however the traditional 5 piece band (lead singer, guitar, guitar, bass, drums) still sticks in my mind as the type of band I want to be in, and I believe this is because of Aerosmith.
Over the next few years, Get a Grip would be milked (come on!) for as many music video singles as was humanly possible. We loved every one of them mostly because they typically showed scantily clad hot girls.
As we grew up, we grew out of Aerosmith. Every now and then, we’d enjoy the occasional song when it came on the radio, but the whole Armageddon soundtrack thing really severed the bond (don’t even mention the album 9 Lives). While on tour, though, all four of us had an epiphany after about 2 weeks on the road. We needed some Aerosmith. Era 2 Aerosmith. Keepin mind that they have almost two complete bodies of work: Era 1: the pre 80’s classic rock hits, and Era 2: the mid 80’s-mid 90’s comeback albums (Permanent Vacation, Pump, GAG). Since that day, I think we’ve all listened to the Era 2 Greatest Hits album “Big Ones” about 5 billion times. The songs are really well written, immaculately produced (for pop rock), and all out rock. We used to think that they were a real rock and roll band, not realizing they were a hugely commercial corporate entity.
Anyway, the point of this blog is as follows: Go watch these videos again! Almost every single one features the band performing the song “live,” interspersed with god only knows what. There’s footage of Steven Tyler with a peacock on his head in Livin’ on the Edge, there’s a guy in a wife beater shaking a piece of raw meat around in Love in an Elevator, and there are more girls in mini skirts than you can shake a handkerchiefed microphone stand at. Every video is extremely sexual, but almost always bizarrely sexual. I really don’t know what they were going for.
Also, watch most of the Get a Grip videos and realize that the record company was just filling them with as many “cool” things as possible from the early 90’s: roller hockey, virtual reality, bungee jumping, belly button piercing, etc etc.
So, do yourself a favor and watch
Livin on the Edge
Love in an Elevator
Sweet Emotion
The Other Side
Cryin
Amazing
and basically anything from Big Ones
The road
Monday, July 14th, 2008So, we kinda want to go back out in November. Whaddya say?
I”m thinking 6-7 days from Gainesville to Bloomington to Raleigh and back.
thoughts?
Don’t Taze me Morningbro!!!
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Don’t Taze me bro!!!
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