Hi Terry
Just a note to say that the new cd (& free 'Monkey' cd) and the Live at Local 506 arrived today - only 7 days from ordering to arriving which for the cheapest postage from the US to the UK is damn good - I was surprised but happy to see them so soon.
Played them through once each so far and they are great - only complaint is that I was playing 'Gityoassupda Road' in the car and it seemed to attract slow crap drivers in the area - I found them all while that song was on - might have to skip it while driving in the future !
Over the next couple of weeks I'll be driving to see a few gigs by a bloke called Dan Baird (you might know him ! :-) ) and your cds will be providing the soundtrack to the travelling - excellent timing.
Thanks to you and the band for the songs and please pass on my thanks to Indoor Storm for their quick service.
I'll be over for the next cd release party - I promise (unless I have no money or no time off)
Cheers
Mick
Friday, September 30, 2005
it's a hit!
The new Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team CD is a bona fide hit with the kids! I ain't heard a damn thing bad about it, in fact it's all been very positive.."It's your best!", etc. And orders are coming in from everywhere, Spain, Germany, England, Sweden and this feedback from David in the Netherlands..
"Got the new cd (along with the bonus one) in the mail today (Indoor storm may have some trouble with shipping costs etc but they are a whole lot faster than the Jerkin Crocus guys!) Listened to them once and I have to say: congratulations, awesome cd’s! I guess it will be a big battle for my cd player these days but as you are the Olympic Ass Kicking Team I have a hunch who will win this battle the next few weeks. Thanks for making such nice music!"
"Got the new cd (along with the bonus one) in the mail today (Indoor storm may have some trouble with shipping costs etc but they are a whole lot faster than the Jerkin Crocus guys!) Listened to them once and I have to say: congratulations, awesome cd’s! I guess it will be a big battle for my cd player these days but as you are the Olympic Ass Kicking Team I have a hunch who will win this battle the next few weeks. Thanks for making such nice music!"
Thursday, September 29, 2005
more great music!
If you guys wanna sneak peak at the new Yayhoos' record then you need the new Bloodshot 11 year Anniversary
CD('s..it's a 2 disc set) Check it out...
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bloodshotrecordscompilations/183
CD('s..it's a 2 disc set) Check it out...
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bloodshotrecordscompilations/183
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
drip, drip, drip..
Ya ever had one of those (Drip) leaky faucets that never stops dripping. Ours has been (Drip)like that for about 6 months.(Drip)I told the guy that does my plumbing (Drip) about it. All he said was "has everybody in Bunn got something wrong with their plumbing?". Then he drove (Drip) off. It's kinda getting to me. (Drip). I just spent the last 10 ten minutes doing that thing where you try to catch the faucet handle at just (Drip) the right spot. Yes! It's (D....rip) stopped! Shit! Ok, one more try. (drip, drip......drip) Damnit! It wouldn't be so (Drip) bad except just like every other rip-off thing in the world (ie. gas prices, insurance, medical costs) the town of Bunn is real damn proud of their water. My water bill is nearly $100 a month (Drip). So it's like a penny drops each time I hear drip...drip..drip.. drip....as you're reading this it's still dripping.............still dripping...................still is........
word is gettin' out!
Word is gettin' around about how great the new record is and it's starting to just fly out of the doors of Indoor Storm (for those wondering, Indoor Storm is the music store that Big Daddy works at during the week when he's not on tour as an international rock superstar. We sell from there because he has access to ALL means of postage). Orders are coming in for ten at a time! Better hurry up and get yours if you want the free bonus disc!
Here's more breaking news...Oakteam with..FOGHAT! Oct. 7, uptown Raleigh 'cross the skreet from da PourHouse. We play from 7pm-8pm. I thought they were dead? Anyway, should be a hoot, don't miss it!
Here's more breaking news...Oakteam with..FOGHAT! Oct. 7, uptown Raleigh 'cross the skreet from da PourHouse. We play from 7pm-8pm. I thought they were dead? Anyway, should be a hoot, don't miss it!
Monday, September 26, 2005
release party
I've spent all day trying to find the right superlatives to descibe Saturday night's throwdown celebrating the release of "Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team". I can't do it. Let just say it was better than even I could have imagined. Lots of crazy people, we played great, plus my kid played on a song with us and that was awesome. We recorded the entire show digitally and I'm looking forward to hearing it cuz if it's good as I think it is we might be talking about Live #2. And to those who have told me, "Sorry I missed it" ..yup, you are. I know one thing, we kicked Chip Robinson's ass!..and really, isn't that what it's all about? I'll try to get some pics up soon.
Sunday night The Woods were part of the Band Together Katrina Relief Benifit. The benefit was a huge success. It was put together by our Daddy, Big Daddy Dave Bartholomew and Caitlin Cary. I think the total take (still being counted) is approaching $50,000! And though I wasn't proud of our performance (it had been a while)I WAS proud to be a part of such a great cause. Pics from that up soon also!
Sunday night The Woods were part of the Band Together Katrina Relief Benifit. The benefit was a huge success. It was put together by our Daddy, Big Daddy Dave Bartholomew and Caitlin Cary. I think the total take (still being counted) is approaching $50,000! And though I wasn't proud of our performance (it had been a while)I WAS proud to be a part of such a great cause. Pics from that up soon also!
Thursday, September 22, 2005
this is unbelievable!
This is gettin' cRazY! Now you can get your own Olympic Ass Kickin Team cellphone ringtone!!!
Is there no end to our shameless promotions? Hell, for 2 meeeeezzly bucks download your favorite song from the record and when your phone rings...your friends will go "Huh? what the...? Who the...?" And then you tell'm to check it out and buy the record and all that shit! Do it! Damn it!
We're havin' too much fun! Here ya go...
http://jivjiv.com/oakteam
Is there no end to our shameless promotions? Hell, for 2 meeeeezzly bucks download your favorite song from the record and when your phone rings...your friends will go "Huh? what the...? Who the...?" And then you tell'm to check it out and buy the record and all that shit! Do it! Damn it!
We're havin' too much fun! Here ya go...
http://jivjiv.com/oakteam
Indy article
Here's the article in Raleigh's Independent Weekly that comes out today, check it out...I'm not showing you the pictures!
Kickin' ass and takin' names
Terry Anderson and the Team are ready to play
B Y R I C K C O R N E L L
Rock 'n' roll isn't brain surgery. It's not even a wart removal procedure. Rock 'n' roll is a ruckus. It's joyful noise, a yowl at the moon. It's adrenaline bottled for the ears. It's sex in the afternoon. It's--how you say?--fun. Terry Anderson has wanted to be in the middle of that kind of fun ever since he was a teenager.
"I remember playing 'Brown Sugar' in high school," Anderson says during a recent Sunday afternoon phone call, recalling his first Enloe High gig as half of a duo that went by the name Rooster. "You know, they have these occupation days, so our occupation was that we were going to be rock stars. We set up shop in the band room. Black and white, everybody was screaming and hollering. It was a great time."
Anderson's Rooster partner was David Enloe, and when they both enrolled at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, their goal was (in addition to achieving academic excellence, of course) to find a bass player and start up a band. When they put up an ad on the college bulletin board, someone named Jade Cordero signed the sheet. "We said, 'We've got to call that guy!'" remembers Anderson with a chuckle. "So we did, and it turned out it was Jack Cornell. His handwriting was so bad that's what it looked like: Jade Cordero." Though his name was disappointing, Cornell turned out to be, in Anderson's words, "a great bass player and a great fit." With the addition of vocalist Debra DeMilo and second guitarist Terry McInturff, the Fabulous Knobs entered the world in the summer of 1978.
In biblical terms, the Knobs begot the Woodpeckers who begot the Woods. The Woodpeckers formed in '84 when Dan Baird, fresh from a Georgia Satellites' break-up, would take the train up from Atlanta to play with a post-Knobs Anderson, Cornell, and Enloe. When the Satellites decided to give it another go after landing a posthumous record deal, Baird's evenings were again booked. "We lost the pecker, so we were left as the Woods," says Anderson, laughing at a line that you know has been going strong for years.
In the late '80s and early '90s, the Woods was the outfit with which to celebrate Friday and Saturday night in the Triangle. At Chapel Hill's second-story La Terraza (now defunct), the crowd would get so wound up that you could picture that always-suspect floor giving way and a bunch of goodtimers crashing to the auto shop below. Not that it would have slowed anybody down. So strong was the Woods' bar-band pied piper pull that the fallen would have brushed themselves off, ordered another longneck, and commenced to yelling out for "Worse for the Wear" or a cover of the Replacements' "Can't Hardly Wait."
In addition to swapping vocals, all three members of the Woods wrote, but it was that guy Anderson behind the drums who wrote the tunes that people seemed to sing along with the loudest, stuff like "Battleship Chains" (a hit for Baird's Satellites and the centerpiece of the Woods' '87 TwinTone release It's Like This) and "I Love You Period." When the Woods hung it up in '94, Anderson kept on writing--on his own and, via frequent trips to Nashville, with various partners including former NRBQ guitarist Big Al Anderson. Among the 30 or so songs coauthored by the Andersons is "I Can Give You Everything," which was recorded by Etta James, a circumstance that Anderson calls his "proudest achievement in music."
There were other nice occurrences--a song that he penned with Music City ace Bob DiPiero became the third single from Jo Dee Messina's debut--but the co-writing eventually started to feel too much like a job. "These guys had offices that they wrote in. So you'd be in an office building trying to write a song," Anderson explains, emphasizing the word trying. "When I write, I do it when the inspiration comes. I'll grab a guitar, or I'll sing as much of it into a tape recorder as I can. I can't sit down and try to write a song."
Inspiration obviously comes a-knockin' frequently. Anderson has released three solo albums filled with his own compositions, save a cover of the Stones' "Street Fighting Man" and a couple Big Al collaborations. All three records are filled with a "Hell yeah, I get to make records!" exuberance, the work of a guy who wants to re-commandeer the high-school band room and make all the kids dance. The titles of songs such as "Beer Drankin' Woman" and "Nya, Nya, Nya" warn you not to take them too seriously. But Anderson has an introspective streak as well (you hate to go as far as to call it a serious side), which comes out on "Yesterday Clyde Virginia," a gem from fairly deep in his vast catalog that's crying out for rediscovery, and "Gettin' Back Together."
These days, Anderson leads the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team from the drum kit as the band gets ready to release its first album. (He also still puts in a little time alongside Baird, Eric Ambel, and Keith Christopher in side-project the Yayhoos.) Cornell, who supported Anderson on all three of those solo records, is the OAK Team's bass player and the album's producer. It's a four- or five-piece group depending on the travel schedule. Dave Bartholomew and Scotty Miller are guitarists 1a and 1b, with the Cartridge Family's Greg Rice a relatively recent addition on keys.
For the most part, the self-titled debut rocks right along in trademark Anderson fashion thanks to the likes of "Purple GTO," "Feel a Drunk Comin' On," and the mission statement "You Know Me," echoing both the straight-ahead pubjoy of Rockpile and the Southern-fried Face-isms of the Georgia Satellites. Think of them as a band that could play at the garagey Sleazefest, the pop-rocky Sparklefest, and St. Louis' rootsy Twangfest (and has, in fact, appeared at the first two) without fitting snugly into any of the three. But the album also pauses for a couple breaths, specifically on the wonderful mid-tempo pair of "Raindrops" and "Inez" (the latter featuring expressive keyboard work from Rice that nudges the song unapologetically in the NRBQ direction) and the almost literally sobering album-capper "Rehab."
That closer plays like the reflections of a family man, something Anderson definitely is. About his wife Grace he simply says, both matter-of-factly and affectionately, "I couldn't do what I'm doing without her." And he likes to talk about his two boys, Nathan, who Anderson describes as "a 9-year-old who'll be 30 soon," and 15-year-old Will. The older son has a band and makes skateboard videos, including one that's on the new HellCar 21 DVD. "I'm trying to keep him more interested in the (video work) than the band thing because he thinks he's going to be a rock star. He needs to have something to fall back on. I tell him, 'You want to do something like that instead of what I do, going out and getting on a 24-foot ladder,'" offers Anderson, alluding to his day job as a house painter.
That said, Will happens to be involved in one of my favorite moments on Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team, which takes place in "Gityoassupda Road," a rant at excessively slow drivers. Consider it road rage that you can sing along with. After Anderson twice asks "Can't you hear the horns?" Will blows in forming half of a two-man horn section with sax-playing guest Scott McCall, also known as the lead guitar player for the Two Dollar Pistols and Kenny Roby's Mercy Filter.
Yeah, it's not neurosurgery. But it's sure a lot of fun.
The CD release show for Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team is at the Pour House on Saturday, Sept. 24. Doors at 8 p.m. and music at 10; tickets are $6. The Nathan Davis Band opens.
The Woods are also on the bill for Hurricane Relief Benefit Sunday night at Lincoln Theatre.
Kickin' ass and takin' names
Terry Anderson and the Team are ready to play
B Y R I C K C O R N E L L
Rock 'n' roll isn't brain surgery. It's not even a wart removal procedure. Rock 'n' roll is a ruckus. It's joyful noise, a yowl at the moon. It's adrenaline bottled for the ears. It's sex in the afternoon. It's--how you say?--fun. Terry Anderson has wanted to be in the middle of that kind of fun ever since he was a teenager.
"I remember playing 'Brown Sugar' in high school," Anderson says during a recent Sunday afternoon phone call, recalling his first Enloe High gig as half of a duo that went by the name Rooster. "You know, they have these occupation days, so our occupation was that we were going to be rock stars. We set up shop in the band room. Black and white, everybody was screaming and hollering. It was a great time."
Anderson's Rooster partner was David Enloe, and when they both enrolled at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, their goal was (in addition to achieving academic excellence, of course) to find a bass player and start up a band. When they put up an ad on the college bulletin board, someone named Jade Cordero signed the sheet. "We said, 'We've got to call that guy!'" remembers Anderson with a chuckle. "So we did, and it turned out it was Jack Cornell. His handwriting was so bad that's what it looked like: Jade Cordero." Though his name was disappointing, Cornell turned out to be, in Anderson's words, "a great bass player and a great fit." With the addition of vocalist Debra DeMilo and second guitarist Terry McInturff, the Fabulous Knobs entered the world in the summer of 1978.
In biblical terms, the Knobs begot the Woodpeckers who begot the Woods. The Woodpeckers formed in '84 when Dan Baird, fresh from a Georgia Satellites' break-up, would take the train up from Atlanta to play with a post-Knobs Anderson, Cornell, and Enloe. When the Satellites decided to give it another go after landing a posthumous record deal, Baird's evenings were again booked. "We lost the pecker, so we were left as the Woods," says Anderson, laughing at a line that you know has been going strong for years.
In the late '80s and early '90s, the Woods was the outfit with which to celebrate Friday and Saturday night in the Triangle. At Chapel Hill's second-story La Terraza (now defunct), the crowd would get so wound up that you could picture that always-suspect floor giving way and a bunch of goodtimers crashing to the auto shop below. Not that it would have slowed anybody down. So strong was the Woods' bar-band pied piper pull that the fallen would have brushed themselves off, ordered another longneck, and commenced to yelling out for "Worse for the Wear" or a cover of the Replacements' "Can't Hardly Wait."
In addition to swapping vocals, all three members of the Woods wrote, but it was that guy Anderson behind the drums who wrote the tunes that people seemed to sing along with the loudest, stuff like "Battleship Chains" (a hit for Baird's Satellites and the centerpiece of the Woods' '87 TwinTone release It's Like This) and "I Love You Period." When the Woods hung it up in '94, Anderson kept on writing--on his own and, via frequent trips to Nashville, with various partners including former NRBQ guitarist Big Al Anderson. Among the 30 or so songs coauthored by the Andersons is "I Can Give You Everything," which was recorded by Etta James, a circumstance that Anderson calls his "proudest achievement in music."
There were other nice occurrences--a song that he penned with Music City ace Bob DiPiero became the third single from Jo Dee Messina's debut--but the co-writing eventually started to feel too much like a job. "These guys had offices that they wrote in. So you'd be in an office building trying to write a song," Anderson explains, emphasizing the word trying. "When I write, I do it when the inspiration comes. I'll grab a guitar, or I'll sing as much of it into a tape recorder as I can. I can't sit down and try to write a song."
Inspiration obviously comes a-knockin' frequently. Anderson has released three solo albums filled with his own compositions, save a cover of the Stones' "Street Fighting Man" and a couple Big Al collaborations. All three records are filled with a "Hell yeah, I get to make records!" exuberance, the work of a guy who wants to re-commandeer the high-school band room and make all the kids dance. The titles of songs such as "Beer Drankin' Woman" and "Nya, Nya, Nya" warn you not to take them too seriously. But Anderson has an introspective streak as well (you hate to go as far as to call it a serious side), which comes out on "Yesterday Clyde Virginia," a gem from fairly deep in his vast catalog that's crying out for rediscovery, and "Gettin' Back Together."
These days, Anderson leads the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team from the drum kit as the band gets ready to release its first album. (He also still puts in a little time alongside Baird, Eric Ambel, and Keith Christopher in side-project the Yayhoos.) Cornell, who supported Anderson on all three of those solo records, is the OAK Team's bass player and the album's producer. It's a four- or five-piece group depending on the travel schedule. Dave Bartholomew and Scotty Miller are guitarists 1a and 1b, with the Cartridge Family's Greg Rice a relatively recent addition on keys.
For the most part, the self-titled debut rocks right along in trademark Anderson fashion thanks to the likes of "Purple GTO," "Feel a Drunk Comin' On," and the mission statement "You Know Me," echoing both the straight-ahead pubjoy of Rockpile and the Southern-fried Face-isms of the Georgia Satellites. Think of them as a band that could play at the garagey Sleazefest, the pop-rocky Sparklefest, and St. Louis' rootsy Twangfest (and has, in fact, appeared at the first two) without fitting snugly into any of the three. But the album also pauses for a couple breaths, specifically on the wonderful mid-tempo pair of "Raindrops" and "Inez" (the latter featuring expressive keyboard work from Rice that nudges the song unapologetically in the NRBQ direction) and the almost literally sobering album-capper "Rehab."
That closer plays like the reflections of a family man, something Anderson definitely is. About his wife Grace he simply says, both matter-of-factly and affectionately, "I couldn't do what I'm doing without her." And he likes to talk about his two boys, Nathan, who Anderson describes as "a 9-year-old who'll be 30 soon," and 15-year-old Will. The older son has a band and makes skateboard videos, including one that's on the new HellCar 21 DVD. "I'm trying to keep him more interested in the (video work) than the band thing because he thinks he's going to be a rock star. He needs to have something to fall back on. I tell him, 'You want to do something like that instead of what I do, going out and getting on a 24-foot ladder,'" offers Anderson, alluding to his day job as a house painter.
That said, Will happens to be involved in one of my favorite moments on Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team, which takes place in "Gityoassupda Road," a rant at excessively slow drivers. Consider it road rage that you can sing along with. After Anderson twice asks "Can't you hear the horns?" Will blows in forming half of a two-man horn section with sax-playing guest Scott McCall, also known as the lead guitar player for the Two Dollar Pistols and Kenny Roby's Mercy Filter.
Yeah, it's not neurosurgery. But it's sure a lot of fun.
The CD release show for Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team is at the Pour House on Saturday, Sept. 24. Doors at 8 p.m. and music at 10; tickets are $6. The Nathan Davis Band opens.
The Woods are also on the bill for Hurricane Relief Benefit Sunday night at Lincoln Theatre.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
scared!
I'm really scared to look at the local rag tommorrow. There's a picture in there of 5 ignunt fools running with torches in their hands. The thought of it has got one of my eyes twitching. I'm told that the arcticle that goes with it is very flattering, written by Rick Cornell. I'll try to get the link up to it if I can.
Pretty tired after last night's late rehearsal. We went throught the set which goes pretty much like this...an hour of old songs THEN all 13 songs from the record, in order. The first song on the record is pretty wacky and I played everything on it so getting the live arrangement right was a bit of a challege. My son, Will is gonna get up and play drums. The lyrics are spitfire, so I didn't wanna deal with those and the drums...yet! He did great on it last night, I'm sure it's gonna rock!
Pretty tired after last night's late rehearsal. We went throught the set which goes pretty much like this...an hour of old songs THEN all 13 songs from the record, in order. The first song on the record is pretty wacky and I played everything on it so getting the live arrangement right was a bit of a challege. My son, Will is gonna get up and play drums. The lyrics are spitfire, so I didn't wanna deal with those and the drums...yet! He did great on it last night, I'm sure it's gonna rock!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
what cha' doin'?..
What cha' doin' lookin' over here, go to that damn website and git that damn record!
www.olympicasskickinteam.com
www.olympicasskickinteam.com
Sunday, September 18, 2005
70's channel
As I painted my living room on Friday, I took what seemed like a harmless trip down memory lane by turning on the TV and switching to one of them music channels what they got on the satelitte. I was busting out laughing right by myself at the crap they were playing. It was hiarious. There was John Travolta's big hit, "I'm gonna Let'r In", Abba's "What's the Name of the Game", there was some suped-up classical thing that I'd never heard before than was a sceam, Glen Cambell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and the one that hurt me the worst was (I think it's called..) "Rock and Roll Heaven". Here's the chorus: "If you believe in forever and life is just a one night stand, if there's a rock and roll heaven, then you know they gotta hell of a band, Band, BAAAAANNDD!!!" Then it cut to the sappy verses, "Jimi gave us rainbows and Janis, a piece of her heart.." It was so unbelievably awful that I was almost crying.
Now I gotta worse problem, IT'S THREE DAYS LATER AND I CAN'T GET THOSE DAMN SONGS OUTTA MY HEAD!
Now I gotta worse problem, IT'S THREE DAYS LATER AND I CAN'T GET THOSE DAMN SONGS OUTTA MY HEAD!
Saturday, September 17, 2005
benefit particulars
Here's how it's going down at the Lincoln Theater here in Raleigh on the 25th, bunches o' money to the Gulf States Yo!
OUTSIDE STAGE
Los Pelones 2:00 - 2:45
The Cartidge Family 3:05 - 3:50
Hobex 4:10 - 5:40
Watershed 6:00 - 7:00
6 String Drag 7:20 - 8:20
The Woods 8:40 - 9:40
Arrogance 10:00 - 11:00
INSIDE STAGE
Rob Watson 2:45 - 3:30
The Bleeding Hearts 3:50 - 4:35
Patty Hurst Shifter 5:00 - 5:45
Tres Chicas 6:15 - 7:00
The Greatest Hits 7:45 - 8:40
$2 Pistols 9:15 - 10:00
Vibekillers 11:00 - ?
PS- I really hate that new Stones record, I listened to it twice today!
I just hope they live long enough to make it to Durham on the 8th of October!
OUTSIDE STAGE
Los Pelones 2:00 - 2:45
The Cartidge Family 3:05 - 3:50
Hobex 4:10 - 5:40
Watershed 6:00 - 7:00
6 String Drag 7:20 - 8:20
The Woods 8:40 - 9:40
Arrogance 10:00 - 11:00
INSIDE STAGE
Rob Watson 2:45 - 3:30
The Bleeding Hearts 3:50 - 4:35
Patty Hurst Shifter 5:00 - 5:45
Tres Chicas 6:15 - 7:00
The Greatest Hits 7:45 - 8:40
$2 Pistols 9:15 - 10:00
Vibekillers 11:00 - ?
PS- I really hate that new Stones record, I listened to it twice today!
I just hope they live long enough to make it to Durham on the 8th of October!
Friday, September 16, 2005
yeaaahh!
The CD's are in! The CD's are in! ..and they look spectacular! We are in bidness! We can stop sweating whether or not they will make it here in time for the CD release party now. Pre-sales? Hell, it's time time to get the rock to the people NOW!
Woo Hoo! I'm sure within hours you can order yours. I can't imagine anyone in the world NOT wanting one! Within days, asses will shake and shimmey to the hits! You'll say to yourself, "My God! where have you been all my life! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you OAK Team for carrying the torch for rock and roll!" Well..MAYBE you might say that! (after a few shots of tequila) It IS quite rocking though, seriously. And I hope you buy enough for the whole family. What a great Christmas present for Grandma!
Woo Hoo! I'm sure within hours you can order yours. I can't imagine anyone in the world NOT wanting one! Within days, asses will shake and shimmey to the hits! You'll say to yourself, "My God! where have you been all my life! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you OAK Team for carrying the torch for rock and roll!" Well..MAYBE you might say that! (after a few shots of tequila) It IS quite rocking though, seriously. And I hope you buy enough for the whole family. What a great Christmas present for Grandma!
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Brown?
Y'all excuse my lack of blogging lately. I'm working at home today and have just gotten too busy to stop. I hate painting for these people, they don't pay worth a damn, the house is wreck and I gotta move everything by myself!
I just got tired of this white and figgered I better take a day or two off and get me some color back up in here! The ceilings are now a beautiful shade of aqua. So what goes great with aqua? I know! SHIT BROWN! Yup, I've been wanting me a brown room since I did one for this girl a couple of months back. Makes are the reds, purples, bright blues and greens really just jump off the wall. It's cool, but really more like the color of a coffee bean than anything.
I think we got some cool gigs coming up. Ya all know about the CD release party on the 24th and the Katrina relief benefit (that's as The Woods) on the 25th but it also looks like we might be playing on the 7th of Oct. with either Foghat (Yeah!) or Aaron Tippin (Boooooo!). We'll see about that one. Also in October, it's looking like it's back to Lexington, KY on the 15th. Then in December, we're trying to get some gigs with our pals, Watershed, up in Ohio for a long weekend. Of course, I will keep you posted. OK, let me get back to work.
Oh...I just looked at that color again, I think I need to go to the bathroom!
I just got tired of this white and figgered I better take a day or two off and get me some color back up in here! The ceilings are now a beautiful shade of aqua. So what goes great with aqua? I know! SHIT BROWN! Yup, I've been wanting me a brown room since I did one for this girl a couple of months back. Makes are the reds, purples, bright blues and greens really just jump off the wall. It's cool, but really more like the color of a coffee bean than anything.
I think we got some cool gigs coming up. Ya all know about the CD release party on the 24th and the Katrina relief benefit (that's as The Woods) on the 25th but it also looks like we might be playing on the 7th of Oct. with either Foghat (Yeah!) or Aaron Tippin (Boooooo!). We'll see about that one. Also in October, it's looking like it's back to Lexington, KY on the 15th. Then in December, we're trying to get some gigs with our pals, Watershed, up in Ohio for a long weekend. Of course, I will keep you posted. OK, let me get back to work.
Oh...I just looked at that color again, I think I need to go to the bathroom!
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Ooowww!
I can't imagine what this rock 'n roll thing is gonna do to me when I get to be 70 years old cuz it's kickin' my ass right now. Worked all day like fightin' fire then rushed home only to drive BACK to Raleigh (30 miles) to rehearse 25 songs (I sing 24)'till 12-ish, then drive back to Bunn and get to bed around 1am. It was a long ass day yesterday. But worth it. It was fun rockin' wif the boys. PLUS!.. and this is a big plus..I got to actually hold and bring home one of our new records! I feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk",
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!"
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!"
Monday, September 12, 2005
time is running out!
If these knuckleheads can do it from Denmark, then you can...but not for long. The "Furthest Poster" contest ends at 5pm EST this SATURDAY, the 17th! Git'r done if'n you want some free stuff!
Who are these guys anyway?
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Saturday, September 10, 2005
My dogs...
are so damn STUPID! I got a Mama dog named Dixie and one of her "boys", Ringo. They are chows, or at least she is. He's what we call around here a "sooner". Sooner be one kind of dog as another. They are both as dumb as a bucket of bloodworms! Dixie is the definition of the word "bitch". Look! ..they have a pen that takes up half (about a quarter of an acre) of my back yard and that still ain't enough so I have to let'm out every once in a while. But the problem is Dixie won't go back in once she's out. She'll take freedom over food. She has gone as long as a month without me feeding her. I try! Every day I go out and stand there with cans, dry food, venison, huge steaming steaks off the grill..it don't matter! She AIN'T going in! Once, by the stangest of luck, I said to myself "I'll get a rope and lasso that bitch in there!" Damn if didn't catch her right around the neck on the FIRST throw! And that was from about 15 feet away! That was fun as shit! Ringo usually gives up after a day or 2. He can't go that long without eating. Lately though he's lasting up to a week. I'm wondering if, as he's getting older, he's getting wiser or he's still as dumb as I think he is!
Friday, September 09, 2005
benefit
Hey Locals, keep your eyes and ears peeled for word on a benefit for the Hurricane victims scheduled for Sept.25 (the day after our big CD release party!) at the Lincoln Theater here in Raleigh. It's gone beyond the talking stage and along with Caitlin Cary bands such as Arrogance, Six String Drag and The Woods have have raised their hands and asked to be a part of it. Come, rock, donate!
I'm taking back some of what I said about the new Stones record, it's growing on me...like they always do! I especially hate it when you're laying in bed and one of the new ones won't leave you alone and let you sleep. Last night it was "Laugh, I Nearly Died"...and that was after getting home late after a long practice and kooky photo session.
I'm taking back some of what I said about the new Stones record, it's growing on me...like they always do! I especially hate it when you're laying in bed and one of the new ones won't leave you alone and let you sleep. Last night it was "Laugh, I Nearly Died"...and that was after getting home late after a long practice and kooky photo session.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
busman's holiday
I've taken off this week to redesign 3 rooms in my house, which means painting, top to bottom. I usually help my clients choose colors but when it comes to MY house I got no clue. I've narrowed it down and I'm gonna start by painting all the walls white anyway (so the true color I decide on comes through) so there's still time to figger it out.
Looking forward to rehearsal tonight. It's a full on run down of the set we'll play on the 24th, some 25 songs. We're gonna do an hour of old songs then play the record, in order. Also tonight, the photographer from the local rag that's doin' a story on us is comin' over to take picks. Still can't decide if I should get a haircut this year or not.
OK, back to work...maybe those CD's will come today, I sure am glad we changed the date on that CD release party or we'd be sweatin' it right now!
Looking forward to rehearsal tonight. It's a full on run down of the set we'll play on the 24th, some 25 songs. We're gonna do an hour of old songs then play the record, in order. Also tonight, the photographer from the local rag that's doin' a story on us is comin' over to take picks. Still can't decide if I should get a haircut this year or not.
OK, back to work...maybe those CD's will come today, I sure am glad we changed the date on that CD release party or we'd be sweatin' it right now!
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
international star registry
y'all ever hear about this "International Star Registry" thing where you pay $50 to name a rock in the sky after your girlfriend or wife or whoever? That is just about the dumbest thing (not done by George Bush) that I've ever heard of! Hey, gimme 50 cent and I'll name a rock in my gravel driveway after her! Just about the same damn thang! I think they outta hafta put an actual flag on the actual star with her picture and full damn name on it! Now THAT I'd pay $50 for! It's unbelieveable to me that this company has radio ads cause that means enough dumbasses have bought into that crock to give'm enough money for'm. Ain't America great?
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
wrong number
We got home from a party Saturday night and this crazy lady had the wrong number and left a message on our answering machine. I wrote it down exactly word for word. Make sure you read it as fast as you can ‘cause that’s the way she was saying it. I challenge you to make it all the way through to the end. I don’t know what’s stupider, what she is sayin’ or the fact that I wasted all that time transcribing it:
Ella….Kay got off the phone but time I hung it up I thought it was you Roberta called me and she had just hung up, JUST hung up! I told her I said Ella’s waiting on a call from me she’s gonna think I ain’t callin’ her back but she’s into this geneology stuff and she was askin’ a lot o’ questions about this and wanted me to find out somebody that I had sent some stuff to her years ago I didn’t even remember sending it to her something Kim got me from a girl at the sheriff’s department that was looking up the Pearce geneology or something so she’s was really gung ho and Kim, Kim was gone huntin’ it’s dove huntin where they set and just wait for the birds to fly over and that was Kim and Guy and Joe so they’re down here in Benson somewhere, they hadn’t come back yet, uh Kimell couldn’t even walk if it was any other kinda hunting, quail, he’s give up any other kinda huntin’ whur he has to walk but he sittin’ he carried a lawn chair so they just sit waitin’ for the birds to come and I told Roberta I’d call’er back and I, you remember Phillip Pearce? Phillip, the one that wrote a column called from the Franklin Times, but that was a different set of Pearce’s. Kimell said that was a different set of dogs he finally said he didn’t know nothin’ about none of his kinfolks except for the immediate family but anyway call me back when you get back in, if I’m here when Kimell comes home we got I got to go to the grocery store and I thought we’d just get something eat ‘cause I scrubbed this house, I been cleanin’ all ever since he left this morning and I scrubbed all my floors and I washed a load of clothes and done some thangs, cleaned out some drawers and under my countertops that badly needed it. But I’m through workin’ now. I might have to go in for a day or two in the next couple or three weeks but not every day so I’m ticked to death about that, they finally adjourned yesterday. But I’ll get back um..I been workin 18 years for the General Assembly can you believe that? I can’t hardly. But anyway I will get back to you, or you call me, I sit up late and I know you don’t so I’ll try to call you again and I hope it won’t wake you up but they haven’t come back yet I got to ask Kim about something for Roberta about that geneology stuff an um um get back to her if he know she’s talkin’ about but anyway hope your family’s OK nothin’s wrong. Kay’s um..husband Richard’s aunt died that they were real close to his mother’s sister that’s had cancer an uh..so she didn’t go with him to that funeral cause it was up in Gastonia way up near Charlotte and she’s..she’s gone back to teachin’ full time uh this year so her hands are full too and Sam had his 12th birthday um..to.. yesterday and a bunch o’ boys came over spent the night and everything OK so she’s ‘bout dead they stayed up to 1 o’clock but the children are used to makin’ noise, those boys 12 years old will do, but anyway she got off like I said but Roberta talked, you know till I just called her so she hung up but call me back if you get a chance if it’s too late I won’t call you tonight when we get back now he hadn’t come back yet but I’m just waitin’ for he come back so we can go to the grocery store then maybe just get us a somethin’ a hot dog a hamburger or somethin’ somewhere I didn’t thaw anything out to cook today anyway we’ll talk to you hope the family’s OK, and if you know anything about Filbert Pearce but I don’t think he’s got..he’s from a different set of Pearce’s cause I sent Roberta somethin’ written by him about the Pearce’s and she gave it to that man that was doin’ that geneology thang and she said that he said he’d try to trace it but it was a different set of Pearce’s none of your family’s names were in there so that didn’t help him out much, but this girl DID have and I remember I kept tellin’ her I didn’t give her anything I knew I didn’t surely I hadn’t been into geneology and I couldn’t remember none of y’all given me somethin’ I said and she said well maybe Kim and it jogged finally jogged my memory that it was..he..some girl down there he worked with at the sheriff’s department, he’s retirin’ too the 30th of this month, Kim is but…from the sheriff’s department, but it I said Lord I do remember it now vaguely I could not remember what in the world she was talkin’ about…I just couldn’t…
This is when the answering machine just couldn’t take it anymore and cut her off.
Ella….Kay got off the phone but time I hung it up I thought it was you Roberta called me and she had just hung up, JUST hung up! I told her I said Ella’s waiting on a call from me she’s gonna think I ain’t callin’ her back but she’s into this geneology stuff and she was askin’ a lot o’ questions about this and wanted me to find out somebody that I had sent some stuff to her years ago I didn’t even remember sending it to her something Kim got me from a girl at the sheriff’s department that was looking up the Pearce geneology or something so she’s was really gung ho and Kim, Kim was gone huntin’ it’s dove huntin where they set and just wait for the birds to fly over and that was Kim and Guy and Joe so they’re down here in Benson somewhere, they hadn’t come back yet, uh Kimell couldn’t even walk if it was any other kinda hunting, quail, he’s give up any other kinda huntin’ whur he has to walk but he sittin’ he carried a lawn chair so they just sit waitin’ for the birds to come and I told Roberta I’d call’er back and I, you remember Phillip Pearce? Phillip, the one that wrote a column called from the Franklin Times, but that was a different set of Pearce’s. Kimell said that was a different set of dogs he finally said he didn’t know nothin’ about none of his kinfolks except for the immediate family but anyway call me back when you get back in, if I’m here when Kimell comes home we got I got to go to the grocery store and I thought we’d just get something eat ‘cause I scrubbed this house, I been cleanin’ all ever since he left this morning and I scrubbed all my floors and I washed a load of clothes and done some thangs, cleaned out some drawers and under my countertops that badly needed it. But I’m through workin’ now. I might have to go in for a day or two in the next couple or three weeks but not every day so I’m ticked to death about that, they finally adjourned yesterday. But I’ll get back um..I been workin 18 years for the General Assembly can you believe that? I can’t hardly. But anyway I will get back to you, or you call me, I sit up late and I know you don’t so I’ll try to call you again and I hope it won’t wake you up but they haven’t come back yet I got to ask Kim about something for Roberta about that geneology stuff an um um get back to her if he know she’s talkin’ about but anyway hope your family’s OK nothin’s wrong. Kay’s um..husband Richard’s aunt died that they were real close to his mother’s sister that’s had cancer an uh..so she didn’t go with him to that funeral cause it was up in Gastonia way up near Charlotte and she’s..she’s gone back to teachin’ full time uh this year so her hands are full too and Sam had his 12th birthday um..to.. yesterday and a bunch o’ boys came over spent the night and everything OK so she’s ‘bout dead they stayed up to 1 o’clock but the children are used to makin’ noise, those boys 12 years old will do, but anyway she got off like I said but Roberta talked, you know till I just called her so she hung up but call me back if you get a chance if it’s too late I won’t call you tonight when we get back now he hadn’t come back yet but I’m just waitin’ for he come back so we can go to the grocery store then maybe just get us a somethin’ a hot dog a hamburger or somethin’ somewhere I didn’t thaw anything out to cook today anyway we’ll talk to you hope the family’s OK, and if you know anything about Filbert Pearce but I don’t think he’s got..he’s from a different set of Pearce’s cause I sent Roberta somethin’ written by him about the Pearce’s and she gave it to that man that was doin’ that geneology thang and she said that he said he’d try to trace it but it was a different set of Pearce’s none of your family’s names were in there so that didn’t help him out much, but this girl DID have and I remember I kept tellin’ her I didn’t give her anything I knew I didn’t surely I hadn’t been into geneology and I couldn’t remember none of y’all given me somethin’ I said and she said well maybe Kim and it jogged finally jogged my memory that it was..he..some girl down there he worked with at the sheriff’s department, he’s retirin’ too the 30th of this month, Kim is but…from the sheriff’s department, but it I said Lord I do remember it now vaguely I could not remember what in the world she was talkin’ about…I just couldn’t…
This is when the answering machine just couldn’t take it anymore and cut her off.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
gettin' ready
We're havin' fun gettin' this CD release party together. We're going all out with balloons, 2 new shirt styles, buttons, key chains and of course the new CD itself, which still hasn't arrived to the doorsteps of Doublenaught Records. Turns out that the manufacturing takes longer for digipaks. PLUS! they have to fold an insert the posters that comes with the CD, so now they are saying that they will arrive sometime THIS week.
I've been working on my kickdrum head this morning, gettin' it ready for the big show. It's looking pretty good so far. It's times like this when my 35 years of house painting really comes in handy. Not bad for freehand, huh?
Friday, September 02, 2005
sending out love...
I hate that new reality show that's on every channel these days, the one called "Hurricane Katrina".
It's depressing and downright heartbreaking to watch. This show makes all my worries seem trite which is part of the reason I haven't blogged much lately. Against the death and despair of the people of New Orleans my ramblings become more of a "Blaaaahhh-g". I'm wishing love and hope on everyone in that part of the country.
Also, I'm sending love up to my Uncle Richard who died yesterday. Despite all of his faults he was a pretty cool guy and the picture of health at 84. He had a heart attck and refused to go to the hospital a while back. He had another one last week and finally was convinced to go this time. He was pissed about it though. They put a pacemaker in but he had blockage on the opposite side. He took one last breath and slumped in his chair yesterday morning. One note about him, he was the Connecticut State Pool Champion for 14 years in row. He was badass with a stick in his hand. Last time I saw him I gave him a big hug. I meant it.
whassupTA
It's depressing and downright heartbreaking to watch. This show makes all my worries seem trite which is part of the reason I haven't blogged much lately. Against the death and despair of the people of New Orleans my ramblings become more of a "Blaaaahhh-g". I'm wishing love and hope on everyone in that part of the country.
Also, I'm sending love up to my Uncle Richard who died yesterday. Despite all of his faults he was a pretty cool guy and the picture of health at 84. He had a heart attck and refused to go to the hospital a while back. He had another one last week and finally was convinced to go this time. He was pissed about it though. They put a pacemaker in but he had blockage on the opposite side. He took one last breath and slumped in his chair yesterday morning. One note about him, he was the Connecticut State Pool Champion for 14 years in row. He was badass with a stick in his hand. Last time I saw him I gave him a big hug. I meant it.
whassupTA
A Bigger Bust!
A Bigger Bang- The Rolling Stones
Got to listen the entire new Stones record this morning and I gotta share my first impressions.
1-rough justice
The one we’ve been waiting for since “Some Girls”! We knew ya had it in
ya, boys!
2-let me down slow
Did I write the chorus to this one? Sounds like it. Descending and cool.
3-it won’t take long
..to get tired of this one!
4-rain fall down
Yaaaawn! Another attempt at being funky, but this time you get
the sucky lyrics too!
5-streets of love
In the beginning you’re going “oh no, not that guy again” but the chorus wins
you over and makes everything alright. Purrr-tee! Just to damn long!
6-back of my hand
Could’s been on “Exile”, in fact I think that one lick that Keef is
playing WAS!..on “Stop Breakin’ Down”
7-she saw me coming
Love it! This one makes ya wanna pole dance! ..or at least watch one!
8-biggest mistake
Stones go to the “Old Mexico” feel again. It’s not bad, just..whatever.
9-this place is empty
Keef, with Conway Twitty sentiment. It ain’t workin’! One listen will be enough
for most of us.
10-oh no, not you again
Trying too hard again, it ain’t grabbin’ me! Frustratingly bad cuz
the guitars rock like hell!
11-dangerous beauty
huh?
12-laugh, I nearly died
This one’s in the running for being my favorite. Very BB King but more evil.
The chorus is BAD-ASS!
13-sweet neo con
Mick gets all political and shit. I actually kinda like this one.
“ya call ya’self a Christian, I think that you’re a hipocrit, ya call
ya’self a patriot,I think that you’re a crock o’ shit”. Right on, Mick.
14-look what the cat dragged in
Trying to get funky again, best thing about it is the guitar solo
(sounds like Woody)
15-driving too fast
This one will be better live. I was singing
“Takin’ Care of Business” along with the chorus.
16-infamy
Uh, it’s “..in for me..”, that’s really clever that you called it “infamy”!
How about “it did nuthin for me!” Keef’s singin on top of the beat
which is always annoying, I don’t care if you ARE The Rolling Stones!
So if I gotta give an overview I gotta have three categories:
Wrap ya tongue around it:
Tracks 1, 2, 7 & 12
Sink ya teeth into it:
Tracks 5, 6, 8 &15
Put ya boot behind it:
Tracks 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 & 16
Much like “Exile”, you can take the best 10 songs from this record and make a pretty good time out of it. This is why records are generally around 10 to 12 songs long, after a while you realize that some of’m shouldn’t have been on there. That’s the reason The Olympic Ass-Kickin’ Team record has a bonus CD with the songs that were cut on it. We could have made a 16 song record for you to pick through, but to make a GREAT record as a danceable entity, one that you can put on and not wanna skip through, we had to cut it back. That what The Stones should’a done on “A Bigger Bang”!
Got to listen the entire new Stones record this morning and I gotta share my first impressions.
1-rough justice
The one we’ve been waiting for since “Some Girls”! We knew ya had it in
ya, boys!
2-let me down slow
Did I write the chorus to this one? Sounds like it. Descending and cool.
3-it won’t take long
..to get tired of this one!
4-rain fall down
Yaaaawn! Another attempt at being funky, but this time you get
the sucky lyrics too!
5-streets of love
In the beginning you’re going “oh no, not that guy again” but the chorus wins
you over and makes everything alright. Purrr-tee! Just to damn long!
6-back of my hand
Could’s been on “Exile”, in fact I think that one lick that Keef is
playing WAS!..on “Stop Breakin’ Down”
7-she saw me coming
Love it! This one makes ya wanna pole dance! ..or at least watch one!
8-biggest mistake
Stones go to the “Old Mexico” feel again. It’s not bad, just..whatever.
9-this place is empty
Keef, with Conway Twitty sentiment. It ain’t workin’! One listen will be enough
for most of us.
10-oh no, not you again
Trying too hard again, it ain’t grabbin’ me! Frustratingly bad cuz
the guitars rock like hell!
11-dangerous beauty
huh?
12-laugh, I nearly died
This one’s in the running for being my favorite. Very BB King but more evil.
The chorus is BAD-ASS!
13-sweet neo con
Mick gets all political and shit. I actually kinda like this one.
“ya call ya’self a Christian, I think that you’re a hipocrit, ya call
ya’self a patriot,I think that you’re a crock o’ shit”. Right on, Mick.
14-look what the cat dragged in
Trying to get funky again, best thing about it is the guitar solo
(sounds like Woody)
15-driving too fast
This one will be better live. I was singing
“Takin’ Care of Business” along with the chorus.
16-infamy
Uh, it’s “..in for me..”, that’s really clever that you called it “infamy”!
How about “it did nuthin for me!” Keef’s singin on top of the beat
which is always annoying, I don’t care if you ARE The Rolling Stones!
So if I gotta give an overview I gotta have three categories:
Wrap ya tongue around it:
Tracks 1, 2, 7 & 12
Sink ya teeth into it:
Tracks 5, 6, 8 &15
Put ya boot behind it:
Tracks 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 & 16
Much like “Exile”, you can take the best 10 songs from this record and make a pretty good time out of it. This is why records are generally around 10 to 12 songs long, after a while you realize that some of’m shouldn’t have been on there. That’s the reason The Olympic Ass-Kickin’ Team record has a bonus CD with the songs that were cut on it. We could have made a 16 song record for you to pick through, but to make a GREAT record as a danceable entity, one that you can put on and not wanna skip through, we had to cut it back. That what The Stones should’a done on “A Bigger Bang”!
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