i'm gonna whoop your ass!

...if you haven't seen the DVD "Tom Dowd & The Language of Music" by the next time we come face to face!

antique roadshow

Y’all ever watch “Antique Roadshow” on PBS? It’s the one where some old geezer about my age brings in what he thinks is a thousand year old dinosaur turd that is carved into a small replica of a West Indian village and expects to get about 380 grand for it. What I love about this show is that the people that are being told “yes, it’s worth approximately 67 million, 460 thousand and nine dollars” really act like the appraiser is fixin’ to pull that money right outta his pocket and hand it to them! “No!” “Oh my God!” “Really!?” “You are shittin’ me!!! (crying) “I told Mama… it would ..be worth ..something ..one day…. Goddamnit!”
Hell man! It’s just one dude’s opinion! That could very well be just a replica village turd that somebody in China made. Jeez! Get a grip! It might be a bigger turd than you think it is! Y’all always looking something for nuthin’..shooz!

hurricanes

This thing hitting New Orleans is pretty scary. The night that the eye of Hurricane Fran went over Raleigh, I was having the CD release party (typical of my luck) for my 2nd record. Of course, the crowd was scant as everyone was hunkered down at home, but the band played on. As we were finishing our set the lights started to flicker and we finally did lose power before the big finale. We loaded out during wind gusts of 90 miles an hour. When I got in the car to go back to Bunn I realized that it wasn't gonna happen and that I was stuck in Raleigh. The traffic lights were all horizonal at that point so I began the adventure of driving to the closest friends' house I could get to. At every turn for the next 45 minutes every street that I turned on was closed off by at least one if not a dozen fallen oak trees. (At the time, Raleigh was known as "The City of Oaks", not sure if it still is) I finally made it to my friend, Bob Passarelli's (Bob's the guy that I do the truffle thing with) house by driving over the top of one of those trees. I woke them up. He and his family had no idea it was as bad as it was. He instructed me to sleep on the couch in the add-on flat roof room in the back of the house. I was laying there for one minute when something or someone (I still believe it was my Grandma) told me to get up NOW! So I jumped up and went to lay beside the hearth of the fireplace. As soon as I had moved to the other room a giant oak tree branch went though the roof and through that COUCH! Since it was a flat roof, the water began pouring into the house like a fauset. We grabbed an axe an knocked a hole in the floor so the water could drain, thus not pouring into the rest of the house. We found out later that a tornado had gone through the back yard. It was 4am by the time we were able to actually lay back down. He put me in his daughter's room this time (get your mind outta the gutters, she was sleeping with them!). It wasn't long after I had layed down there that I heard another large oak fall right outside of the window. It fell down along the side of the house, missing the house by only about 4 feet.
I got up a few hours later and went outside. The destruction was unbelievable. I found a way during the daylight to get back home. My mouth was open in disbelief all the way. I pulled in the driveway and was happy to see that the large oak in my yard was still standing. I had talked to my wife earlier so I knew that they had made it though OK (by sleeping in the tub). Nathan was only 6 months old at the time. We were without power for the next 5 days (and nights) and I had to get up and warm his bottle on a propane camper stove. Good times, good times...

I have a dream

Friends, I come to you this morning with a dream, a dream of a day when drummers are treated equally. I dream of a day when drummers are treated as musicians and hi-hat stands are treated as musical instruments and not just noise makers. I dream of the drummer getting a mike and a monitor that is as good as the guys up front and maybe even BE up front or at least in the middle of the front line. I want a day to come when there are lights that are actually focused on the drummer! Imagine that! And I want it to be OK if the drummer sings and does interviews. I want a day when the drummer jokes aren’t funny (that one will never happen!). Drummers rights! Drummers unite! Sing with me now…”We shall over..come…We shall…” Sorry, got carried away there for a minute.

Went to see Watershed at The Pour House last night. They rock like hell! They are from Columbus, OH. We talked about maybe doing some shows with them in early December up that way. Check out their new record "The Fifth of July". Very Cheap Trick!

Keep an eye on the website this week, pre-sales for the new OakTeam record could start as early as tomorrow (Monday)! Be first in line, and make sure you get your free bonus disc!

green day cont'd.

Of the the hook! Sorry, but they were. These guys put on a show of mammoth proportions. Bombs, flame throwers, water cannons, and that was just in the first 30 minutes! An hour and a half later the fun was still going on. They got members of the audience to come up to play their parts while they took a "break". But ya can't really call anything Billy Joe did a "break" cuz he never stopped running. It was non-stop energy all night from everyone on stage.
Let's see, besides all of their hits there was the crazy hat song that went into a rockin' ass version of "Shout". Billy Ray went to the floor and someone brought out the cape a la James Brown on that one. We were close enough to the stage that when 'ol Billy Bob came over and mooned us we could see the zit on his ass. That's when ya really DON'T want good seats! Being that close to the pyro was worrisome also. I'm feeling a bit sunburned from the flame throwers this morning and the bombs that went off all night (almost always a suprise) made be a bit jumpy.
They finished the night with "We are the Champions", complete version, and it was note for note perfect (ya gotta respect that), and then finally with their hit "Time of our Lives" (I guess that's the name of it).
We DID have the time of our lives and my son got a pair of Zeb's (sorry forgot the drummer's name) sticks and his buddy got one Billy Clyde's guitar picks.
..all I got was ROCKED!
Many thanks to Greg Howard for making it happen!

green day

Y'all pray for me. I'm taking my son and his friend to see Green Day tonight and I got no clue what to expect. Will says he really just wants to go to see the opener, Jimmy Eat World (now there's a great name for ya, who thunk that one up?). His buddy, Chase is a huge Green Day fan. My buddy, Greg Howard is Green Day's guitar tech and is not only getting us great seats but he's also getting us backstage after the show. Should be exciting..well, for the kids I mean. Now where did I put those ear plugs....?

charter flight

What's this? From the "Comments" page a few days back it seems that someone is actually considering the trip over from Europe for the CD release party. Nothing would make me happier than to have 2 party's. One for the US and one for Europe. But no, the booking powers that be are a bit, shall we say...CHICKEN! to allow that to happen any time soon. So all y'all over there where Rock and Roll still matters need to hook up and get a charter flight to Raleigh-Durham International Airport. I'm waiting for the club to confirm the opener but it's 99% for sure gonna happen. As soon as the The Pour House gets it up on their website I'll feel better about saying "Get on that plane, get your ass over here and let's rock!"

doggie pee-pee's

Jack's been workin' on the cover for the bonus disc this weekend. The CD itself will have printing on it but we're only gonna put it in a sleeve for ya. You're gonna have to download your own cover. So he sends me what he's got so far and I'm making a few minor changes to him over the phone like..."uhhh Jack, is that Pilate's little pee-pee I see right there on the front?" Pilate is the dog on the cover with a monkey in his mouth and who is also a featured vocalist on the real record. He just started howling while I was recording vocals on "Feel a Drunk comin' On" so we just left it on there. (Hey! it was what it needed!) "Yup, that sure is his little pee-pee" he says. "Uhh.. are ya sure we need to see all of that? I mean, can't you put a black box over it or something? Yeah!...and maybe one across his eyes too, that would be cool, huh?!"..."Nope"
So there ya go people, I tried. But I think we're stuck with the doggie porn shot. (I think I'm gonna put a black piece of tape over mine!)

long weekend

..been having a right good time this weekend. My cousin, Don, who is a trial lawyer in Durham, NC, has a 4 story chalet on Hyco Lake, fed by Hyco Creek north of Roxboro. He invited us up for a wang dang doodle celebrating the 21st yr. since his first daughter's (the beautiful Miss Collin's) birth. He has a band called Randy Anderson and The....oops..sorry..well nevermind what they are called...they can all play. We went through all the wedding hits.."BrownEyed Girl", "Heard it Through the Grapevine", "Play that funky music, White Boy", " I Wanna Take you Higher" and some obscure Stevie Wonder thing, (well..actually it was a big hit, I was just too F'ed up to remember). Folks had dey asses a'shakin'!! We threw on down 'till 1:30 or so before the thang shut down. Woke up with bruises on my damn hands from a tamborine beatdown I inflicted upon myself.
Got home around 1pm from the Lake and figgered I'd go approve the proofs of the cover of the record over to Jack's crib. It's all good, make the damn thang already!..if there's a screwup we will post a notice on the website. It's that kinda world!.. ain't nothing final. Do you think TV was invented to keep America dumb? Think about it..
I've been sitting here for the last hour trying to figger out if the real record was better than the bonus CD or vicey vercy? I'll tell ya what, ya ain't never heard a better guitar solo than the one that Mike Krause plays on the song "Count on it" on nothing! ...And I'm putting it up there with the one that Mick Taylor played on "Time waits for no one"!!!!
But the crowd at the Lake last night was shitting on themselves about the new record too..so which is it? You decided! ...and soon!


"Honk if you hate noise pollution!"

stones stuff

...gotta admit I'm gettin' pretty excited about the new Stones Tour even though I wasn't gonna go to start with. I hear stories about the new record making them sound like a band again and not just a producer hanging out with whoever from the Stones happens to show up that day. I don't know, we'll see. I love "Rough Justice" but the clip I saw of them rehearsing "Oh no! Not you again" was well...pitiful. I mean, that's the kinda shit I throw away every day, and I ain't pumpin' myself up... it just flat out sucks! Sorry, there's no other way to put it. But what I'm REALLY looking forward to is the prerequisite Keef song that either breaks your heart or rocks like hell!

date change

It's been a wild, wacky and frankly HAIRY 24 hours...we realized at the last minute that there might be a conflict on the original date for the CD release party. The No Depression Anniversary Party was the same night at the Cat's Cradle. So instead of having our friends, Caitlin Cary and Scott McCall (not to mention our audience) not be able to come, we've moved the date to the 24th of September. Thanks to Eric at The Pour House for his understanding and patience. The new date will be much less, shall we say..worrisome. Jack has ordered new T-shirts (2 new designs) and buttons for the event.The contest remains intact. The only change is that there are an extra 2 weeks in which to get your picture in. We've received some already and they're gonna be tough to beat. But ya never know until you try. Plus, ALL of the pictures will probably get on the website...especially the topless ones! Just kiddin'.. (not really!) Some of the new CD's arrived today. The bonus discs which will be given away to the first 100 orders arrived today on the doorsteps of doublenaught records. Lookin' good! Jack is working on the cover for it which will be downloadable from the website. It's all comin' together quite nicely afterall.







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secret revealed

There's a blog, I've lost the address, but it's a place where folks go to post their deep, dark, painful secrets. I went through it a few times and there's some compelling stuff on it, from childhood memories that still haunt to silly crushes on co-workers. We'll I've decided if I had to post one what mine would say. I'm not gonna reveal it at this time, it's just too painful...I just can't, sorry....But you know, the whole reason for the secret blog is for people to get the pain out and get on with their lives, to help the healing..so maybe I should?...No! I can't, it... hurts... too bad...
Ahhhh! OK! I'll tell it! So now the world, the entire world will know!...My Mom did it, my sister and Dad still do it!...they call me...
Randy. Oh God! The shame of it all...it's more than I can stand! But I just couldn't live with it any longer. My middle name is Randall, so my folks thought they could call me Randy. But when I grew up, I said "Screw that!"..and I saw my out when 2 other guys in my 3rd grade class we're named Randy. So I told the teacher it would be FINE! with me if she called me... Terry. Ever since that day, that's who I've been, Terry. Only family members call me Randy, and I don't even hear it...they might say Randy but it comes into my ears as Terry. I just can't imagine....Randy Anderson and The Olympic Ass Kickin' Team!













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..PS

After speaking with Dave, he says he'll get all the contest info up on the website today, Monday. So get busy! Send them pics in and get your new record and new T-shirt for free!















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Furthest Poster Contest

OK I haven't talked to Dave (website guru) about this, but here's my wacky and fun new idea. I wanna put the CD Release Party Poster (shown here) up on our website: (www.olympicasskickinteam.com) as downloadable. Friends and fans can print it out and put it up somewhere in their own town. They would then have their pictures made beside the poster and Email that to: doublenaughtrecords@gmail.com. The person that sends the picture in from the town that is the furthest from The Pour House in Raleigh, NC wins the Gold medal. Silver and Bronze medals will also be awarded. Prizes of free T-shirts and CD's will be given out and the winning pictures will also be posted on the website. All submissions must be in by Sept. 3. Winners will be announced shortly thereafter. What'a ya think? Sounds like fun huh? I let ya know..

car nuts

Good God, it's hot 'round here! A perfect day for a limey flavored tequila drink. Don't mind if I do...
In an Email from my friend John Holcomb, I was reminded about what a car nut I was when I was a kid. I'd beg and plea for the newest muscle car mag that had just come out. That's what I wanted to do with the song, "Purple GTO", cojure up all those images I remember of mags, lifters, shifters, racing stripes, the gas pedal with the foot on it, dual exhaust, those big wide tires with no tread..just all that stuff. I used to stand there looking at all that shit while my Mom was shopping at the IGA. Sometimes I would slide the latest edition of Juggs or Gallery inside but most of the time I really was looking at cars and lusting after them. I wanted, and still do, a '57 Chevy more than anything in the world! Problem now is that I can afford the car a lot more than I can the gas to put in it!





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Oakteam Plans

Ok, I'm not boring the 4 or 5 folks that check in daily on this blog any longer with the particulars of the new record. It's done. It's gone. Sent off. We'll get it back in a couple of weeks and we are really looking forward to that day..and hopefully it will be before Sept 10, 2005 (when we are having the CD release party)! But like the last blog descibed it, it's a done deal. Now it's time to think ahead. So here's the plan. Next year, a best of TA record will get released. We will re-record songs from the first record, the second record, a few tunes fromThe Woods days and an acoustic version of "Battleship Chains" (with a fiddle on the lead line..like Doug Kershaw!). There are some great songs on those shitty little records and we wanna do'm right, like we do'm live. It should be a 2 CD set. There's just way too much to choose from for it to be less! The Yayhoos record will come out later this year too, so that will take up a bit of my time but I do plan on getting songs together for another TA studio record by 2007. After that, I might be too old and just quit. Hell! I could get a job parking cars or something, shit! Ya never know! Something cool could come along! ..OR!!! ...my truffle farm could take off!! ..Yeah, that's the ticket! ...Truffles!















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done deal

God! I can't believe how involved this record making thing is! I'm used to handing the record off to the record company, hoping they like it, approving the mastering, then just doing some minor tweeks on the cover and approving it for release. This time OUR asses are on the line. It's OUR money we've put into the thing. And from top to bottom, note for note, word for word, Jack and I have had to weigh the the viability of every single idea that's popped into our heads (and the heads of others) about this record.
The songs started without a care. I was determined to write whatever I wanted to and not to change'm for anybody! ..not for radio (ha ha!) or TV (even bigger HA HA!...but ya never know "Safety First" was on a show on the Oxygen Network!). That's why I can say "Kiss My Ass!" in a song, cuz it's me, it's just the way I am. These are songs I wrote for myself to listen to and I ain't changing'm! Focus?! Fuck focus! Rock like ass! There's yer focus! This record is a part of all of us in the OAKTeam and now it's done and it's headed to manufacturing in the morning. I really hope y'all dig it and I think you will, otherwise we wouldn't have worked so hard on it. I'm already hearing "Best one yet!" and the like from people that I trust and who know music. I hope so. Isn't that what we want? ..to learn from our mistakes and get better..no matter what age?









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Sunday adDress

Drinkin' wine, listening to the new Yayhoos...rocks like hell..The Oakteam record rocks too. Jack, Paul and I have been workin' on the cover and it is unbelievable! Hey! So I'm headed to Charlotte, NC tommorrow to take my son to the Warped Tour. I think it's some kinda Woodstock for traveling skateboard bands. 12am-12pm..8 stages..nonstop rock. Gonna hang wif my buddy Jamie Hoover while my son and his friend are rockin' out. Tuesday night when I get back, I'm headed over to Jeff Carroll's crib to approve the mastering on the companion CD,"Ya Can't Bite Me with a Monkey in Your Mouth!", to the new Oakteam record. Now wait a minute, y'all couldn't think of a name for the main record but ya gotta name for the companion CD? Huh? I promise it'll all make sense when they both are released, you'll dig it..believe me! Only 200 of the companions are being pressed so get your orders in as soon as you are allowed to on the "Merch" page of the new Oakteam website (www.olympicasskickinteam.com) cuz with the first 100 orders..it comes FREE! See y'all Wednesday. -T















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Waffle House fun

Welcome to another episode of wasting time blogging about another old road story while there's really nothing else going on. Maybe Dan won't be mad at me for telling this one because it's really more of a reflection on me being a smartass than anything about him.
One morning on one of the quickie Yayhoos tours a few years back, we stopped (as usual) at Waffle House. This one was on I-26, a few miles south of Asheville, NC. I think we were on our way to Atlanta. Anyway, we walk in, four hungover longhairs, look around and realize that we've stepped into a time warp. There's about 30 big fatass redneck truckdrivers in there that all turn around at the same time just to stare a hole through each of us. So we slowly take our seats at the counter, not sure if we're really gonna stay or not. We place our orders and Dan decides this is a good time to go outside where the phone is, have a smoke and call the wife. He stands up and loudly announces "Well, I'm gonna go make my love call.." and just as he's opening the door to go out I say, "Tell HIM we said "Hey!" As the rest of us are trying to stay on our seats laughing, Dan is cutting me that "I'm gonna KILL you!" look. It was priceless and I gotta admit it was pretty mean on my part. Sorry 'bout that, Danny boy, you know I love you!
Of course, this immediately made the truckers quit staring at us!





















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cover art comin' together

Workin' with Jack tonight, we've decided that the bestest is the simplest! So here's what the new Oakteam record will look like..If you're familiar with "digi-pack", this refers to a soft cardboard cover, now imagine the bottom 2 guys on the front of the OakTeam T-shirt..if you don't have one..then i can't help ya!...THAT'S IT! OK, those 2 guys are the front of the record...and that's it! Pretty simple, huh? But that's not all! Everything you see upon opening the CD is in black and white..then! you realize there's more!..yup! inside the sleeve is a poster of the OakTeam (in full glorious color!) and on the back of that are more pictures (color as fuckin' well!) and all the lyrics of the songs..it really looks amazing...You can buy one at our CD release party...(shhh! it's Sept. 10th @ The Pour House in Raleigh, NC, USA!!) and forevermore after that on the Oakteam website..www.olympicasskickinteam.com.... Ain't a damn thang wrong with it!

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bye bye Butterhead

In the interest of time and our reputations we (the OakTeam) have decided that new record will not be called "Butterhead" afterall. The cover art will now include the ass-kickin' guys featured on the new website and on our T-shirts. The record itself will be self titled, "Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team". I know this will dissapoint many of you who were looking forward to seeing our faces carved in butter on the cover or a picture of a naked girl (everything BUT HER HEAD) but we just couldn't make it happen...this time. We will now officially go back to refering to it as ..the new OakTeam record. Please disregard any reference to "Butterhead", but ya gotta admit..it WAS pretty damn funny!
And this from my wife: "They cloned a dog? Like there ain't a damn 'nuff of'm! Hell, we got two they can have!"











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My Dad

My Dad is damn nut. Not many people can say that their Dad is one of their best friends but I can. We've always hung out and played golf together and have a great relationship. He even gave me my start in music business. I played drums in his band, The Wake County Ramblers at age 12. Before that he put me on stage in front of about 1400 people to slap the belt and whistle on "Mule Skinner Blues" at a fiddlers convention in Liberty, NC. He won 2nd place electric guitar at the world famous Union Grove Fiddler's Convention. Here's some other little tidbits about him...He drove a jeep for a high ranking Colonel in the Korean war. He was a feared fast pitch softball pitcher for 25 years and had wicked Greg Maddox type stuff, like a sinker ball that fell straight down at the plate. He was a painting contractor and made a bunch 'o money painting schools around the Raleigh area. He wrote songs too. He's got one called "I'm not a city boy, not by a country mile!". He let us invade his house for a week to write and record the first Yayhoos record. I'm sure many of you would wanna shake his hand for that! A girl at Hardee's once told him to "have a good one", he said, "Hell, I got a good one!" Once when the lawn mower wouldn't crank, he gave up and pushed the mower over the whole yard anyway making the motor sound with his mouth. Then when he was finished he swung it around like a helicopter and let it fly off into the woods. My Aunt Bertha was laughing so hard, said she "would'a laughed, even if that thing would'a hit her!" One Saturday he and I went to play golf with some higher-ups in the school system and he hit his first drive outta bounds left, mulligan outta bounds left, then his fairway shot outta bounds left so he picked up the BOTTOM of his bag, and again in helicopter fashion, swung it around and around until all of the clubs were out. This was the first hole! I think the stress of work and having two crazy kids was getting to him. Believe me I know how he feels. He's still going strong at 77, so who knows what he'll do next. He's a good'ern! I think we'll keep him!








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leave me alone!

I was singing a little melody last week as I was driving up the road to look at another painting job. It was catchy as hell and kinda reminded me of something from an early Stones record like "12 X5" or "December's Children". So I rolled it around in my head for a little while until I got to the lady's house, where my mind trailed away from the melody and concentrated on the job I had to do. When I left her house the song was gone. I couldn't remember it to save my life! So for a couple of days I let it go thinking something that "hooky" would grab me again oneday. Well it did. First, on Sunday afternoon as again I was in my car. Off and on, all day it would be blasting in my brain, rockin' like hell. I couldn't turn it off! When I went to bed that night it took a while to nod off because of it. I finally fell asleep and then about 3 or 4 hours later in the middle of the night there it was again. It's like someone reaching over tapping me on the shoulder and turning on a radio. Uuughh! I'm trying get some sleep here! Can I write you tommorrow? This is something that happens quite a lot actually, some people call it a gift. Sometimes though, it's more of a curse! Those damn songs just won't leave me alone until I write them. Little bastards!















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