Gig’s Reality Blog

Blogging Again!

Ξ May 29th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Band, Music, Politics, Relationships, SwampShop, SwampShows, Whatever |

Hey Everybody,

Yea it’s hit and miss with my blogs here lately but I’m trying to get back in the swing. So here I am about midnight on Thursday. I just watched the final cut of our first video!! Yes the one I have been hyping for to long!! The video for Dance is finished and will be hitting the web in a week or so. So yes I am pretty stoked at this moment. I just put in John mayer Trio to listen to while I write, very good stuff! Yes indeed I have a tumbler of Crown on the Rocks and am happy to be alive!

We’ve been through some shit these past few weeks keeping me from my normal frame of mind, but hey, tonight I am feeling like myself again for the first time in a while! We go through so many highs and lows that it’s hard to handle at times. Yea Yea big rock band has problems too!! LOL!! The price of fuel is making it very very hard to plan touring and among other things just the business itself is changing so rapidly it’s a daily headache.

But then I have these moments, like I said I feel great tonight and I’m happy to be blogging some good news to our friends!! So no POLITICS tonight! LOL!!

The past 3 months have been simply incredible for the band. The new 3 song promo for our upcoming album is now available an hitting radio everywhere we are!! LOL! The band as a unit is sounding and performing at an all time high and getting along like brothers as we should. We did a couple of shows recently with The Marshall Tucker Band, those guys are some of the coolest people around. We actually ended up on stage with them jamming at the last show. Doud Grey himself aske dme onstage with them, a career high!! Scooby and Cody ended up singing with them the same night onstage! It was cool comorader!!

So we are off to Covington Kentucky Saturday morning at 5 am~~ We have to trek up there in a Large Van because it’s a one off show!! Not real pleasant but worth it to jam at the Deadwood with Jeff Willis!! Speaking of tour bus travel, I am happy to to tell that Swamp is in negotiations now with a National sponsor for the tour!! Cant say who yet!! LOL!

Lots of stuff coming I cant say yet but I am going to commit to keeping you all in the loop as much as possible. Thank You for being a friend and fan of the band!! Share the Blogs!

In A Final Note;

To think you can is to do…

In memory of Jesse Nowlin

Ξ January 24th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Relationships, Whatever |

Dialog Thirty Seven. 

It is with a broken heart and teary eyes that we say goodbye to very special person today. Jesse passed away this morning from kidney failure. A young mother and a beautiful wife, the daughter of perhaps our biggest Swamp Fan & friend Dan Nowlin and the niece of our Business manager Darell Belk, she will be missed terribly among family and friends. It was a bizarre event that was totally unexpected and it is ripping through the hearts of many who knew and loved her. If it’s in your heart please make a donation in Jesse’s name to the National Kidney Foundation. You may donate online by going here: http://www.kidney.org/support/donate.cfm to learn other means of support. SwampdaWamp will certainly be doing all that we can to help this cause.

Lot’s to tell this week folks, but out of respect for Jesse Nowlin it will have to wait until the next blog.

Till then I remain truly yours,

Gig

In a Final Note:

Light a candle for Jesse and remember to always let the ones you love know that you love them everyday.