Saturday, November 22, 2008
A note from Luke: Blog #5 "Eye of the Tiger"
We started the day around 6AM yesterday morning because we had to be in Killen, AL at 2PM for a pep rally at Brooks High School. I know, sounds weird, but it was actually amazing. We had a blast. We haven't really played the area but the radio station, WMSR STAR94, in Tuscumbia, AL has been playing us in heavy rotation. So the kids at the pep rally were extremely welcoming and quite excited that we were there. We met Fat Guy (yes that's his name. I'm not just being mean and calling him fat). He's a DJ at Star94 and a great guy. He introduced us to the crowd and we went out to the middle of a roaring gym full of students with just my acoustic guitar and a mic. They didn't have a mic stand so Zach had to hold my mic the whole time haha. We performed "Seventeen at Three in the Morning." I asked all the cheerleaders to come out to the middle of the gym with us and help with the stomps and claps. They followed Taylor's lead and the rest of the gym followed them. It was really cool. They knew the song and sang along and stomped their feet and clapped their hands... It was kind of like living out our music video. A pretty neat experience to say the least.
After the pep rally, we went over to the radio station and recorded a hilarious, inappropriate, and mostly unusable interview haha But Fat Guy pieced something together and aired it later that night.
We tried to rest for a while after that because we knew we had a long night ahead of us. Unfortunately, we couldn't really sleep so we headed over to this little diner called "Southland" I think. We try to eat at every little "mom and pop" type diner we can find on our journeys. They're so much more interesting than chain restaurants. The staff, the customers, the history of the restaurant. And the menus are usually rather interesting. We all loaded up on some good ol Alabama country cookin. As usual, we scared most of the other customers away shortly after we arrived and we drove our waitress crazy... but she was pretty amused by us.
By then, it was almost time to load in at the club. We played at Old Town Tavern. It was the cd release show for a band called "Firewood." They were really nice guys and we had a great time with them. Check them out on myspace. Hopefully we'll have some Van-Cam Footage for you guys soon.
That pretty much catches us up to now... The long and winding road home. We'll probably get home around 7AM, hit the sack for a few hours, and then get up and drive to Charlotte, NC. We're playing a show with our friends Hot Vegas at The Evening Muse. All in a day's work...
Wish us luck!
-Luke
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A note from Luke: Blog #4 "Big Willie Style?"
I awoke this morning with the theme song to Men in Black stuck in my head. What an odd way to greet the new day. I haven't seen that movie in years and I'm pretty sure I haven't heard any Will Smith songs in ages either. I always liked Will Smith as an actor, although he has starred in some films that I felt weren't the best portrayals of my favorite books. I Robot and I am Legend to be specific. But I'm not a film critic so I wouldn't pay too much attention to this haha. I'm a pretty big fan of Isaac Asimov, who was the author of I Robot as well as Bicentennial Man and tons of other great books. Yes, I am a total dork for reading robot literature, but I would recommend you check him out.
I am Legend, written by Richard Matheson, was a brilliant book way ahead of its time. Most people don't realize that virtually every zombie film has been based on his writing. Matheson was the first author to pen the idea that being a vampire or zombie could be viral. Clearly you can see the impact he's had from Night of the Living Dead to Resident Evil and 28 Weeks/Months Later and the list goes on and on. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the film version of I am Legend. Unfortunately, I was a huge fan of the book first so I kind of had some pre-conceived notions of what I thought the movie should be.
Anyway, if you have our new album Over the Top or Under the Weather then you've heard the first track
Sunrise
The book I am Legend also inspired the name of my side project, Saturday Evening Ghost. Some of you may be familiar with some of my SEG songs, but most of you probably aren't as I've pretty much neglected the project over the past few years. However, I am happy to announce that I have begun recording a SEG album and plan to have some of those songs up online soon! I don't know if I'll ever press any hard copies or not. It may just be a digital album or EP. I guess we'll just see where it goes. You can check out some of my older SEG songs right now at www.myspace.com/saturdayeveningghost
-Luke
Friday, October 24, 2008
A note from Luke: Blog #3 "Wookiee Urine"
I woke up at
Unfortunately, Chewy only has one eye. My other dog, Puddin, attacked him a few years ago when Chewy was trying to pleasure my cat Conor haha. Obviously Puddin wasn't cool with that. And yes I know Puddin is a ridiculous dog name. So Chewy has a hard time judging distances. He'll jump too early and hit his little face on the couch haha Occasionally he runs into the wall. And for some reason he likes to go to the bathroom really close to the house.
Anyway, I had my hands full while Zach and I were loading the merch and I accidentally dropped the merchbook on the ground. Keep in mind its still dark outside at this hour. So I was like "hey dude, can you grab the merchbook? I just dropped it" and he says "aww man, I think that's where Chewy just peed."
Sure enough, he was right. So we started off the day with a urine soaked merchbook… Chewy urine nonetheless.
It was freezing today too! And extremely windy. Not exactly favorable conditions for an outdoor show. But we arrived at Tech pretty much on time despite our usual late departure. The show was killer. Everyone struggled through the cold and wind with us and watched the whole show. So thank you to all the students that were at Tech this morning, we love you all.
Luke
Saturday, October 11, 2008
A note from Luke: Blog #2 "Basketball Diaries"
We arrived back home in
After load in, Hot Vegas challenged us to a basketball game. First off, I haven't even touched a basketball since I was like twelve. But
Needless to say, we aren't very good athletes. But I'm a musician, not a baller.
Don't worry, the show went much better than our b-ball game.
We've got some
Check our schedule.
:)
Luke
If you want to check out the other bands we played with last night here are their links:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
A Note From Luke: Blog #1
Hey there kiddies,
So I've decided to join the multitude of bloggers on the World Wide Web. I don't have anything of substance to say though. So I apologize in advance for my ramblings. I'm not terribly concerned with my grammar or punctuation either. Keep in consideration most people online speak in an "awkward, broken, OMG, ROFLMAO, LOL," type of language. So I think I will be forgiven.
We're home from the road right now. I'm in the mountains of north
Luckily, we got home in time Sunday night to catch all my favorite TV shows; Dexter, Entourage, and Californication. David Duchovny is my idol now. I think Hank Moody is the coolest fictional character ever. I'm addicted to Entourage too. We all love that show. And we quote it frequently.
Oh yeah! We finally have a twitter account. So if you wanna follow us on there here's our profile: http://twitter.com/LastNovember
I think that's enough for my first blog. It was relatively painless. Don't ya think?
I'll catch up with ya later.
:)
Luke