Happy New Year my friends!!
Ξ January 6th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Whatever |
Dialog Thirty Five.
Happy New Year my friends!! Goodbye 2007! Sooooooooooo~ Any resolutions? I’m going to get to that subject in a minute! LOL!!
Man we had a kick ASS show in Lynchburg Virginia this past Saturday night! We were supporting act for David Allan Coe at one of the best venues we’ve been to since House of Blues, Cattle Annies. A sold out show of about 1,500 people, some of the finest, rockin folks we’ve had the pleasure to share our music with and talk with. You should definitely keep up with this clubs schedule. It’s a just, short drive from wherever!! January is a weird month for us and what a great first show of the year. I got to meet lots of our myspace friends, new people and then got to enjoy DAC. The Coe Man rocked the house baby! It was a treat to see him, he has an aura like no other!!
OK now the behind the scenes!! LOL!! So it’s Friday Jan 4 (day before show in Lynchburg) and we’re scheduled to have a band meeting at the Legion Of the Swamp Headquarters (insert laugh). Well Friday was also my birthday. I wasn’t expecting anything but maybe a drink or 2 after the meeting. Well it was a fruitful meeting and we all felt good about the decisions that we made concrete and David Lee kept saying, are we done yet? I was like well yeah oh but what about blah blah, you know I was still buzzing on the meeting and kept thinking of stuff to add. Turns out they had planned a little get together for my Birthday, which I affectionately refer to as Gig Awareness Day (insert laugh). So we wrap the meeting and the debauchery begins! It was very cool because the road crew showed up just as we cut the meeting bearing gifts of drinkable nature!! Thanks to my brothers for making it a special birthday, you are my family.
So now we’re about 3 gallons of Crown deep with a couple fifths of Vodka not to mention the tequila and the Jager in the freezer. Let’s just say we tied one on. Visit our site to see some of the pictures!
Alright Bus call is now at 11:00 am, Sat morn. I think we were all hung over~ had a great drive up through the beautiful country seeing the world through a moving glass, I love it! We arrived we thru down and we left. We made it to Greensboro, NC and stopped at Denny’s (who I don’t endorse) for some fuel for the weary. After a few pancakes and coffee we suddenly realized we were in some kind of bad Steven Segal movie and got the hell out to the bus. Well then the bus had an air line break still in the parking lot of Denny’s. This was about 3 am. Hats off to Wrong Way Dave our Bus Driver! He is the salt of the earth and dealt with all the bullshit while we slept. We woke up on the bus at 9 am to see that we were still at Denny’s (who I don’t endorse, remember). Anyway the mechanic came and away we went…into the sunset of a thousand dreams~~~~Blah Blah Blah~~
So we leave out for Nashville Tenn in the morning. We’re going to finish up some guitar and vocal tracks of the new release due out in Feb. We are all really excited about it! Wait till you see the new Logo! ba blam! A lot of things I cant mention now are coming and we are all stoked up in the Swamp camp!! We are having Jonny Hyland as a guest player on a couple of the tracks, Google his ass~Damn~ We’re going into Quad studios with Dave Kline at the engineers helm and Mighty Joe Boyland at the producers reign.
I’m laying the final vocal tracks this week and I really dig working with Joe on the process, I will be re-writing some lyrics this week! Hats off to Joe Boyland for making us a better band!! What’s coming is scary~~
Well that’s about it for now, I’m about 6 dbl crowns into this and I just can’t keep going!!LOL!!!
Out with the old and in with the new, the good stuff is coming~~~~~~
2008 Resolutions:
Tell ya next Blog!! LOL!!
Till then I remain Truly yours,
Gig
In a Final Note:
You really do get by with a little help from your friends~:~