Let me git this straight!

So... when ya say ya ain't drankin'..does that mean, like NOTHIN'!!!!!! Like..not a frickin' DROP!!! Is y'all CRAZY!! Hmmmmm.....I might have to rethink this one. It's been 11 days now and I'm startin' wonder what I've gotten myself into. To quote myself if I may...."right now I'm really needin' me a glass of that juice! I feel a drunk comin' on!"
I'll be fine, I'll make it, but damn! I have TWO, count'em.. 2, (too, to, II, tu, tew!) bottles of 2001 Corison from Napa, a $75 per bottle value!, just sittin' there in my closet waiting to be poured into my brand new never before used decanter and soon thereafter down my throat! Looks like the next chance for that happening will be my birthday, Christmas, but more likely the night before since I have to play my party that night and I have looooong quit drinking on gig day due to having waaaaay too many lyrics to remember. That being said, here are some days that I won't be able to drink anyway!...

December 16th Carboro, NC Cat's Cradle
Christmas Day @ The Pour House as mentioned above
January 22nd Raleigh, NC, Pour House...shhh!!
January 26th Charleston, SC, The Empty Glass w/ Watershed
January 27th Wapakoneta, OH, Rt. 33 Rhythm and Brews
January 28th Lexington, KY, High Life Lounge
January 29th Knoxville, TN or Nashville, TN TBA
February 10th Myrtle Beach, The Social
February 11th Macon, GA: The Hummingbird

Big Al sez hey!

Talked to Big Al Anderson last night who I haven't heard from in a while. He said to tell everybody "Hey!" so.."Hey!" from Big Al. He's been busy writing a lot with Vince Gill, Patty Lovelace and 'em out there in Nashville. He said he's hardly been home since August. I can't imagine writing songs like that, for that long. You gotta get jadded and at some point and just start letting a whole bunch of shitty lines (to a song that you're working on) through that you wouldn't normally just to get the song done to please the publisher. I don't know, that's a different kind of music than I make. God bless him, I hope he has another hit soon. He said it's been a while since his last radio single. I told him that's cuz he hasn't been writting with me. He agreed. We keep threatening to do a record together.."Little T & A". He has a new deal with a major label which will also buy back "Pay Before You Pump" for him and re-release it. Maybe I can get in on that one, at least a song or two. Hell, his co-writes always seem to help MY records!

new church hat!

highbias.com sez..

Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team
(Doublenaught)
Terry Anderson has knocked around the New South music scene for 20 years, as drummer for the Woods, the Backsliders and others, not to mention the writer of the Georgia Satellites' "Battleship Chains" and Dan Baird's "I Love You Period." This is his fourth solo album, and it's a killer. Southern-fried roots rock, butt-thumping country, lip-locking hooks and a good-natured sense of humor make the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team the best goodtime rock & roll band since Rockpile, whose Dave Edmunds seems to be a guiding spirit here. A reoccurring theme of the joys and perils of alcohol adds a bittersweet aftertaste, but overall, this is pure fun.
-Michael Toland

One week and counting..

Well, it's been a whole week since I took a damn drank. Ya gotta take a break every once in while, jeez! It was startin' to be like job!..and you know how I hate that! Except the difference with THIS job is that I had to pay to work at it, which really sucks! Especially when you add it up, two bottles of wine times 5 days a week plus a bottle or two of tequila, by that time you've spent $150. OK, then THAT times 52 weeks in the year(s). Shit! No wonder I ain't got a pot to piss in!
Too, it wasn't workin' for me spiritually or psychologically. I write a lot, by that I mean 100% more, when I'm not drinking. Not to mention, keeping in shape. It's so much easier to come home from work and pull a cork out of a bottle than it is to get on the bike (I have a Schwinn Airdyne that, when I feel like it, I'll do 5-7 miles a day on)...and ya can't keep that "girlish" rock star figure without some kind of exercise, especially with all that sugar in your body!
After gettin' past the first few days it has become a lot easier to stay sober. I'm really enjoying sleeping through the night and not waking up at 4:30 or 5 am when the alcohol wears off. Like anything though ya gotta take it one step at a time. And for me that it means one day at a time. (I'm one of the lucky ones that doesn't have to take it an hour at a time and for that I am VERY thankful!) So every morning I have been waking up and saying "just for today..." Just for today..I'm gonna be good. That has been getting me through the day even though it implies that one day, though it doesn't have to be soon, I'm gonna "feel a drunk comin' on!" I'll deal with that later. Ya gotta celebrate birthdays (everybody's) and holiday's (Arbor Day, Secretary's Day, April Fool's Day, Columbus Day, Boxer Day..oh wait!..that's Canada..), right?

Black Friday

Happy Black Friday! The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday here in America. It's the day when all the major retailers are hoping to get back in the black, financially speaking (on the plus side), and out of the red (in debt up to their asses!). So Mama, Grandma and whatever youngins they gotta drag along git in the car at 4:30 am an go to Wal-Mart to spend a week's pay all that shit they got on sale. Meanwhile, Daddy, Grandpa and the boys git their shotguns and go sit out in the woods and try to kill some deer. They all git home around lunchtime, 12pm or so. Mama and 'em start warming up leftovers while Daddy and 'em are out there guttin' the deer. Then it happens, a bunch of Daddy's buddies come over with a case of Budweiser and the whole day goes to shit. Cussin', yellin', takin' over the TV to watch football and America's Funniest Home Videos. God Bless America..we need all the help we can git! ...but it IS pretty entertaining!

T-hankful!

Right here on Turkey day I can't help but think of how much i have to be grateful for. It's really stupid how lucky I've been. Even with all the little unlucky things that happen to me every day. You know, the flat tires, dead batteries, falling down, scrapes, bumps and bruises I'm still standing here, all in one piece and pretty much functioning in a society where I sometimes feel I don't belong( especially after watching those 12 seconds of the American Music Awards the other night!). And not only am I healthy and happy but save for my mom being gone, everyone around me that help to make me what I am are happy and whole also. It's amazing. I have an incredibly loving and tolerant wife, two AWESOME kids who have a grasp what's going on in the world (and what their place is in it!) MUCH more than I did at their age. I have a Dad who is still after all these years, my best friend. My sister and her family are doing great. All the guys in my band are having a blast, can't wait to hang together and hit the stage again. I've got a new record that narry a review has uttered a bad word about. And last, but not least!..I'm thankful that YOU give a shit enuff about me to read this! I love you all! Happy Thanksgiving!

rock and roll stew

Here's what happened according to me. A long long time ago, back in the late 1940's some crazy evil blues sangin' black folks named Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins got some of their buddies together and they went over to hang out with Hank Williams and his bunch of backwoods hillbillies, Webb Pierce, The Louvin Brothers and 'em. They gots hongry and started up some stew. They throwed some pork fat in in there and let it simmer for a while. Meanwhile, they started jammin' together. The music was gettin' good to'm and every once in while one of'm would get up and throw somethin' else in the stew. Finally, it was time to eat. What they partook of at that time was the first Rock and Roll Thanksgiving. That stew was so tasty that they invited a bunch of other folks in from outta town to try it. Some boys rolled in from Memphis, Elvis, Jerry Lee and them. A dude come in from St. Louis, Chuck somebody, he tried it and flipped his lid over it! Then some crazy Don King lookin' dude rolled in what called himself Little Richard. Man! They ALL loved that stuff! They got the recipe and went out to tell the world about it. Soon, all the world gots them a taste of it. There was some boys over in England that tried and they told their friends about it down the skreet and the next thing ya know everybody in England is cookin' some up!
Slowly and sadly though, the supplies for it started runnin' out. Folks quit makin' those evil blues and all that good backwood country went city. The flavor just wasn't the same. It was missin' something, SOUL! People tried and tried to replace it with other things. The even tried dogshit, but that just came up as RAP. They used donkey piss once and few necks bought into it, this is now called COUNTRY.
We will never taste the sweet taste Rock and roll again until we find it. Anybody out there got any SOUL?

medals!

I gave out medals to the guys for the CD release party! This one is mine. Theirs are personalized with their very own personal names..

 
 

today in Nashville

Today in Nashville there were about 300 people from outta town thinking that they had THE next big hit as they walked from one publisher's office to another, trying to get an appointment. And who knows, they may HAVE had the next big hit but good luck getting anyone to hear it. Granted, most of'm are hacks..schoolteachers and firemen that think they have the "gift". Careful what you ask for.
I was "lucky". I didn't have to do that. I got my foot in the door with the mention of 2 songs. Of course, they were "Battleship Chains" and "I Love you Period". I got my chance and didn't take advantage of it. Mostly because I got in there and said "Oh shit! What have I done? This is a JOB!..a fuckin' J.O.B!" I wasn't having a damn bit of fun TRYING to write songs. Meeting with someone in an office, showing them an idea. A sample response would be: "Well in Country music the girl can't be the bad seed, not coming from the dude...you guys might get away with that in Rock and Roll but you can't do that here. It's always the dude that is the dumbass piece o' shit". OK cool, y'all keep y'all's little rules of the game cuz I'm gonna go back to doing what I do. And if I wanna say "Kiss my ass" in a song I fuckin' will! That was so liberating when I did that that a buttload of songs soon followed (ie. "I'll Drink to That!") and when the songs came I was ready for them and ready to give them the TA signature..dumb but FUN!
But Nashville don't want that. They want you to write some tearjerker stool sample with this other shitty "writer" (who happened to get lucky enough to be sitting in the room while another aweful hit was written and got his name on the credits) so that they can spend $2000 doing a demo so they can play it for a producer who'll listen (songs are NOT bought by the way...labels and producers can put a "HOLD" on a song so it won't continue to be shopped by the publishers) to their load of..."well we think this one we would be great for Trisha". And all the while, the producer is sitting there saying to himself "My God! I can't believe how much this song SUCKS!!..but it's better than that turd I had to sit through this morning over at BRAND X Publishing so I guess I better put a hold on it." The results Ladies and Gents is SHIT RADIO! Let writers write, don't MAKE them!

road house 2

My Mom used to love her some Patrick Swayze. I think she watched "Dirty Dancing" no less than 50 times and "Road House" about 30 times. I couldn't make it through either one of'm frankly but I bet she sure would be proud to know her son had a song on the new "Road House 2" DVD. Bloodshot is licensing my song, "Hunt you Down" from The Yayhoos record to the producers of this brand new blockbuster! I just hope it's blasting during a fight scene or something cool like that. Can't wait.
Spent most of the weekend auditioning to become president of the white tequila fan club. I'm bound to qualify after Saturday night. The fog is just now lifting from my brain. Jack and my friends, Larry and Ryan stopped by on Sunday for a wine tastin'. I threw a slab of salmon on the grill along with a grillbasket full of colored peppers, onions and garlic. We threw that stuff in some wheat tortillas with some Jasmine lime rice and Cuban black beans on the side. Good God Almighty! Grace made a key lime pie and we ate that as we watched the Redskins get screwed out of another victory.
Dave is working all the angles trying to get the OakTeam on the road in January. We'll get those dates up on the website as soon as they ALL are confirmed.

cat fight!

Well..the beer tasting show was a Huuuuge success! The place was packed and folks were gettin' pretty damn loopy on the Eastern Euro high octane brews. So much so that a cat fight broke out and a drunk skank was escorted from the building and to the curb. It was a wild one, folks! We played great and coming ever closer to our goal of NON-STOP ROCK! One song right into the next one! No commercial live rock and roll! What the hell is better than that!

Laying in bed this morning I finally figgered out how to make music with a flute and a banjo. Take the flute apart into 2 pieces, y'all hear me out now...lay the banjo on it's back on a table or countertop...then use the 2 pieces of flute as drumsticks on the head of the banjo. Bang harder and harder until the head of the banjo breaks..
tadaaa! Music!

beer tastin'

Done a whole bunch o' beer tastin' in my time [there was a number (a BIG number!) of years that I drank 8 to 12 beers EVERY night!] but tomorrow night there's an "official" beer tastin' of extra strong Czech and Polish beers in downtown Raleigh at the club formally known as The Lakeside Lounge. It's now called Slim's and some drunk sumbitchs are fittin' to hear The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team rock like hell as soon as the tastin's are done. We'll prolly throw down 'bout 8pm. The tastin's start at 6pm. The joint is on Wilmington Skreet! Get yo ass up da road and dance like crazy people!
The makings of a "tour" are in the works for the OakTeam. How many shows do you have to do outta town before you can really call it a tour? Right now we got 2. Wapakoneta, OH on the 27th of Jan. and on the 28th at the new High Life Lounge in Lexington, KY. Funny how we are starting to take off a little bit in Lexington. What can I say? They know good music when they hear it! (They love The Yayhoos!) If ya know of another gig nearby let us know. We are driven to brang the rock to the people!

I'm still here!

I've been so busy that I almost forgot! Spending a lot of time workin', trying to get these old folks outta my (graying )hair. Like my Dad says, "Flies and old folks are about to worry the shit outta me!" I'll leave it at that.
But the band has been spending a lot of time trying to get the rock to the people. We're trying to book gigs and to let promoters know that weez out here rockin' like ASS! Practice last night was incredible. Sometimes we sound better than the record and you think..what a waste of talent to be this good, to have so much fun and that it's so hard to get booked. Sucks that in the world of music younger and prettier always wins. What's that got to do with it? Anyhoo..Look out for Christmas specials on the website coming soon, deals and fun presents galore.

babysue/LMNOP

I love this these website(s?), there a BUNCH of really stupid stuff on there...and LOTS of cussin' which is always fun! This was on their November reviews page:


Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team - Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team (CD, Double Naught, Pop/rock)
Good solid pop/rock from Raleigh, North Carolina-based Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team. This is a really slick little album that, if marketed with some bucks, could catch on in a big way with a mighty big crowd. Unlike a lot of underground bands, these five fellows play accessible music. Each song sounds like it could be a hit...and they're all delivered with such positive energy and style that you can't help but be affected. The songs are catchy and simple, and seasoned with intelligent hooks and excellent lyrics. Instant classics include "Can't Get the One You Want," "You Know Me," "Raindrops," "Check Please," and "Rehab." The disc is packaged in a beautiful digipak sleeve and includes a mini-poster with lyrics on the back. Great music from a great band. (Rating: 5+)

www.babysue.com
www.LMNOP.com

bumpershot.com says..

Terry Anderson And The Olympic Ass-Kickin’ Team – (Doublenaught Records)
Terry Anderson has one of the noblest agendas in music. He just wants to rock and roll, folks. And that’s what he and his “team” do all over this CD. Taking their cues from the likes of Rockpile, Faces, NRBQ, and all those bands that deserve to be on every jukebox coast-to-coast, Anderson and his Olympian band have mastered the art of making good-time music. Anderson gets right down to business on the opening shot of “Can’t Get The One You Want”, a great fast-talkin’ boogie that gets your foot tappin’ and “You Know Me” with its classic chugging rhythm. Anderson reunites with Yayhoo pals Dan Baird and Eric “Roscoe” Ambel on “Purple GTO”, which easily could have been on a Georgia Satellites album, while songs like the sweet “Inez” and “Sunday Dress” show that Anderson and his Team can deliver a pop song (think Al Anderson-penned NRBQ songs like “Riding In My Car” – actually, pal Al co-wrote “You Know Me” with our Terry) that should be coming out of every rock and roll radio station coast-to-coast. Further diversions come in the way of the country-flavoured “$100 A Week” and the plea for a loved one to go to “Rehab”. Here, Jamie Hoover and Caitlin Cary help out on a song that sounds like an intervention where the accusers are going to step out for a drink or two afterwards thanks to its back porch stomp. Throughout the set, Anderson enjoys the support of some fine players - as in guitarist Roger Gupton, bassist Jack Cornell (who produced the CD as well) and a few guests that dropped by for a song or two. It comes off as if “there’s a party at Anderson’s place” and the lethargic need not attend.
This isn’t anything new for Anderson, who has put out some great music over the years (if there’s a bad Anderson CD, I haven’t heard it) under his own name, and as a member of The Yayhoos. But note that he’s no mere “retro” act – there’s enough personality on these tunes to make them stand out. Anderson is achingly sentimental about rock and roll and, ironically enough, ends up sounding like a stranger in a strange land in today’s musical climate.
It’s just that rock and roll’s original formula suits Anderson just fine, thank you.

myspace

I've had a MySpace account for about the last 3 months. I was just checkin' it out for a while to see what the benefits were for an irreleavant old redneck rocker from North Carolina. Frankly, I really never saw any. But everybody keeps telling me to "network" and to tell everybody you can about the record. They'll tell somebody then they'll tell somebody, etc. Mostly all I've run into is a bunch o' nuts! Naked girls doing naked girl things and boring weightlifting dudes saying brilliant stuff like.."I'm next!" or "Damn! you're hot!" What am I supposed to say? "Hey! While you're naked why don't you dance around to this? It's the new one from The Olympic Ass Kickin' Team!"
Hmmm..ya never know..it just might work!

Against my better judgement, here ya go if'n ya wanna hit it!...
http://www.myspace.com/whassupta

grocery store SHOCKER!

The former cashier, sometimes referred to as the "World's Ugliest Woman"(did I say that outloud?), at the Mom and Pop grocery store in downtown Bunn has defected and changed her employment to the new chain grocery, Food Lion, down the street. The town is a'buzz about the whys and hows of this occurrence. Spectulation is that her contract ran out and the two sides just couldn't come together on an agreement. No word yet on who will take her place at Winstead's. We are all hoping that she will not lose her same gruff and rude demeanor in her dealings with customers.