Monday, April 30, 2007

The Hot Skillet Lickers


I’ve got some really great songs floating around out there that I wrote with some friends of mine back in the day after The Woods were done. Our goal was to write the dumbest, most lowest common denominator, stupid sing along tunes that we could write..and I think we succeded. I had the funky redneck “Cornbread” and NASCAR classic “Dale Earnhart” ready to go when they asked me to join. So along with “Whoop Your Ass” and “I Wish I was your Thong”, we put out a really fun little 4 song EP locally in 2001. That is available now to you download freaks at Napster, ITunes and Rhapsody and I think it is really worth checking out. These songs are hilarious…. and I hep’d!
It’s called “Lickin’ It and Lovin’ It“ by The Hot Skillet Lickers. It features Biscuit on bass, Slappy on guitar, Skeeter on lead vocal, Molly Mae as the hottie back-up singer and me, T-Spot on drums.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

This just in...

Tir Na Nog Tonight! Sat. April 28th!
If you haven't seen the stupid new Oak TEAM shirts we've been wearing lately well tonight is your chance. Tir na Nog is an Irish bar just up the street from The Pour House. Weez gonna rock the bitch about 10-ish and I don't think there's a cover charge. Come on now, I know you wanna see them shirts. What else you gonna do, watch the NBA playoffs? Ppfffft!

on being an asshole

I’m not a very good asshole. I’m just too nice. Somewhere along the way around Raleigh though I became known as some big asshole, but I have no clue how that got started. There were times when I wanted to be an asshole, but failed miserably. There were moments when I wanted to go Buddy Rich on everyone and cuss them into a corner, couldn’t do it. I did get a gun pulled on me by Judy at the Free Advice (now gone..but not forgotten club in Raleigh) but that was because David Enloe and I were being silly, not assholes.
Email is different though. I can sometimes pull off being a jerk via Email, like when I Emailed Al Sharpton about the Imus thing. The letter started out “Hey Dumbass!” and then proceeded to inform him of his hypocrisy, namely on how he was the first to jump on the innocent Duke lacrosse players. I kinda went Buddy Rich on him, but not Ty Cobb.
And recently I got an invite from a record store in Ramseur (wherever the hell that is, in the Sandhills I think..) to come to an Avette Brothers in-store appearance. Huh? Are you kidding me? Now those guys are assholes! We (Yayhoos) were hanging out backstage at Twangfest in St. Louis last year and those guys come in and just take over the room, never saying “hello”, “kiss my ass” or nothing! Their shit was everywhere like they just moved in on top of us so we just kinda…left. Anyway, in the Email invite they included all these quotes from famous people about how great the Avette Brothers were so I asked them to include mine..”They suck!”-Terry Anderson.. and to please take me off of whatever list I was on for any future very important updates. Now whether they really suck or not I guess is directly connected to your taste in music. But I for one care less for their brand of Screamo Bluegrass.
Hey wait a minute, maybe I am an asshole. Maybe that’s how I got that reputation by talking shit about other bands? Nah, I just call’m like I see’m…or hear’m.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

sounds like..

I'm still trying to figger out what the next OakTeam record could sound like. I really have wanted all my life (EVEN AS A SMALL CHILD..AND BEFORE THAT!) to make a record like "Never a Dull Moment". Seriously, what would be a better model for a great record? I could do that shit too! I gotS the damn songs fer it! But then I start thinking about the minimalist rock and roll thing and how cool, hip and (still) hick it could be. That would be where you (we) could hit mainstream rock radio. Almost a Fine Young Cannibals approach, four guys rockin' they parts and you get them to break it down to the note, almost a bass part. If you have a drummer and three bass players (practically) with great singing of REally really REALLY stupid lyrics........................hit.
But my heart is more true to the acoustic thing..Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Just as LONG AS IT'S FUN TO PLAY LIVE!!!!!!!!!!
It will work itself out...I just gotta quit worrying about it!

Happy Birthday (#79) to my Dad, the greatest.

movie review

"Catwoman"

Halle Berry, thass all you got to say. And not necessarily Halle the person but Halle Berry the boobs and butt. They were definitely the stars of of this fine film. Man, one time there was this close up on her butt right after she had first put on her outfit and..DAMN! it was HOT! And the producer took full advantage of every shot of it as she walked away in her very sassy cat-like swagger. She also bowed her back as she walked making her back all curvy and sexy and shit.
Her boobs shared top billing with her butt. Every once in a while the camera would take a good close up look at'm in just the right light, providing a beautiful bronze glow that left many a grown man watching drooling and almost in tears. Something I haven't seen in too many art films like this one is the boobs "in action". Once or twice I noticed a jiggle as she landed her jumps. This was a nice effect. I wish they would use this more.
Now I'm sure there was some kind of plot or stupid storyline that went with the beautiful cinematography but I really couldn't tell ya what it was all about. It's worth watching (two or three times) though if you'd like to try to figger it out on your own.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

It's many uses..

The more I listen to our new live CD, “When the OakTeam Comes to Town” the prouder-er and prouder-er I get. It’s selling like crazy now and the reviews (a new one out this week in The Philadelphia Inquirer) are off the hook!
So really, what good is it? This thing has many uses. Number one is that it’s great for cleaning house. With only one slow song in the middle, you will have your place spic and span in just 64 minutes or less! What I love about it is that you can put it on and drink wine or moonshine, Thunderbird, beer..whatever! and cook dinner to it. Your little ass will be shaking all over the kitchen as you whip up a feast for your loved ones. Also! If you have a long trip planned make sure you got this sucka for the ride! That hour will FLY by! And I guess the MAIN reason we did this thing (besides handing it out to club owners that will NEVER listen to it) was so that you’d have something to play at your parties! You’ll be grillin’ and chillin’ and everyone will come up to you and say..”What is this shit on the jukebox?” And you’ll tell’m “Just shut-up and listen, you might hear something that DOESN’T sound like Journey!”
It really is great to have and the price is right! Just a mere $12.99 from The Yayhoos site and Dave, the guy at Great Big Island, is a pro at getting your order out to you IMMEDIATELY! It’s also available at CDBaby.com. So jump on it and git that place cleaned up for your next party!

Booked it!

No sooner than I mentioned it, keyboard dude, Greg Rice jumped on it and ran. He's got these dates down for us in August. See y'all there!


oakteam "rest of the world 2007" tour

august 3: prague, czech republilc
august4: budapest, slovenia
august 5: bucharest, romania
august 7: kiev, ukraine
august 8: moscow, russia
august 9: moscow, russia
august 11: baghdad, iraq (with u.s. congressional delegation)
august 14: seoul, korea
japan mini-tour:
august 15: Suminoe-ku, Osaka
august 16: Maizuru, Chuo-ku, Fokuoka
august 17: Club Quattro, Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya
august 18: Hibiya Outdoor Theatre, Tokyo
august 19: Zepp, Parett Town, Koto-ku, Tokyo
august 20: On Air East, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Weez going to Russia!

As I’m sittin’ here listening to The Rolling Stones from 1972, I’ve got a real hankerin’ to get outta town. I ain’t talkin’ about somewhere in the states outta town. I’m talkin’ about outta of the frikin' free world outta town. I git Emails every day, “When is y’all's asses comin’ the hell to Alabama?” “Would you be so kind as to play California soon, thank you so much.”, “How come the OakTeam hain’t played Nashville yet?”. You know, shit like that! Well, screw that! I wanna rock Russia and I ain’t settlin’ fer nuthin’ less! I'm head strong on the trail of a Russian promoter! Ya know, when The Yayhoos were in Finland I watched the local news in Moscow. I said then…”that’s where I wanted to rock!” I don’t give a shit about playing China, Japan is the place to go in Asia. Hell, we sell bunches o’ CD’s in Japan. That’s not out of the realm of possibility. My wife’s got folks over there anyhoo. India’s too crowded. Seen Europe. Where in the hell in Africa would we play? Well, South Africa I guess.
Now Australia would give Russia a run for it’s money in my book. It would be real hard, if not impossible to choose Russia over Australia if’n I had my druthers. Uhhh....OK! screw it! Weez going to Australia!

Monday, April 23, 2007

May run

Hey! How y'all durin'? So git this, when the OakTeam plays Robbie Fulks' XM radio show on May 20 in Chicago we gonna leave outta there and head to Cleveland. We gonna play that Beachland Ballroom on the 21st right there in Cleveland. Then we are headed to Columbus to play that bitch on the 22nd, I forgot what the club is called but we're opening for the League Bowlers. And then on the 23rd we gonna go to Lexington and play Lynagh's (is that how you spell it? hell, I don't know). Anyway, I'm giving you fair warning right now to make plans to have your ass kicked on any or all of these dates. Thank you'unz!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

132 channels



Sometimes I feel like a studio engineer in one of those great big studios in LA or NY that has one of those 132 channel mixing boards running from one end to the other pushing up this and adjusting that. My day Friday started at 7:10am. I poured a cup or two and checked my Email before running out the door to go to work at about 8:30. By 11am I had two coats of paint slapped on an accent wall and was starting on the other 3 walls on the bedroom I was working on. At 2pm I had 2 coats on everything and was grabbing my check and walking out, another happy, if not thrilled customer.
At 3pm, the guys show up at Margaux's and we load in and do a pretty thorough soundcheck, hoping that the people would suck up some of the reflection off of the brick walls and metal ceiling. The acoustics in this place were atrocious. We were done at 5 and at 6pm we were on the airat WKNC radio on the campus of NC State University. We had a great time talking up the new Live CD (which will be reviewed in the Philly Inquirer this week- BTW!) and show with ("see you guys on the airways in 10, 9, 8...") Stevo and by 6:45 we were walking out the door.
I had enough time for the 30 minute drive home to change clothes and eat. I was walking out of the Chinese joint at 7:45 and headed home with take-out. After eating I had about 10 minutes to throw my legs up before getting ready to leave. Out the door a little after 9, I arrive at the club at 9:50. I am informed that showtime is NOT 10:30 as previously expected but 10:15 instead. Hmmm... I call Dave to see where he's at. He's 15 minutes away. He'll walk in and throw a guitar on and we'll get the party started. I'm told by both the resturaunt manager and the head bartender to keep it down!, and this is before note one is stuck. Yikes! We're already on "one" on the amps and I'm using the smallest sticks known to man (besides 2 toothpicks)and the smallest cymbals I own. "You'll wanna start off low and then you'll be able to kick it up as you go along" says the dude. Uhhhh...OK, but we only got one gear. Let's see... we have about 3 slow songs..I guess "All Dressed Up" from The Yayhoos record would be the best one to start with. So we do and it was fine, only a few folks sticking their fingers in their ears. Dancers were immediately on their feet. From there I figgered we could get away with "Mr. Busdriverman" and we saw a few more toes tapping and a few more smiles. We continued, keeping it as much on the down low as possible. Sorry, but we're just used to cranking up the truck and pushing the pedal to the floor. I haven't felt this restricked since Lauchhammer.
The first set ends about an hour and 20 minutes after it starts. We didn't lose too many of the older crowd that was there but the "kids"(30 and younger) were having none of it. One left in disgust after we wouldn't play Journey. Doesn't give you much hope for the future of music does it?
We hung out for a few and got right back to work at midnight. After losing about half of the crowd during the break, the room got even boomier and less managable. Dude tells me we gotta turn down for the second set. I'm speakless. OK, what's below one on the amps..zero! I guess we could'a put the live record on and done a Boys2Men/Milli Vanilli thing. We came to the conclusion that the room (which USED to have baffles in the ceiling but were taken out because they collected dust) was just not set up for what we do. It was worth a try and the money was good but we were just not gonna be able to make it work, not in the room's present acoustical state. So we were done at 1am and out the door at 1:30, just in time for Jack and Greg to run over to Slim's and close it down. They called in their order before walking in the door at 2. Is that legal? Anyhoo, I got home about 2:30am and took Advil PM just so I could make myself sleep late.
At 10:22 I was up pouring coffee again and preparing to do some cleaning up and going to the dump. I gotta start gettin' rid of all this crap around here. I need to haul off a load of these damn guitars!
About 3:30 Nathan and I left for Durham to meet Jack at the D-BAP (Durham Bulls Athletic Park). The weather was glorious and we had a great time watching Saturday afternoon baseball. After the game we got to meet a few of the players and get their autograghs. We were home by 9pm and I was beat down. Everything finally caught up to me and my old ass had to crash.
Today I'm off to do more recording with my friend Bob Wallace. It's never a dull moment when you're trying to manage 132 channels in your life.

Thanks to Gigi for the pic!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Hook us up!

OK, so Jack and I signed the new OakTeam live record up for digital download service with our friends Dave and Andy over at Deep South (I say Souf) Entertainment. One of the great things they'll be doing is pairing us up with other artists who are actually selling records. So when you buy an NRBQ record, for instance, there will be a note at the bottom saying that if you like NRBQ then you'll LOVE The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team's "When the OakTeam Comes to Town". So now they got us sittin' around thinkin' "who do you guys pair up well with?" My first thought was Southern Culture on the Skids. But I'm sure there are many others, and they don't want Rolling Stones blah blah blah, Faces blah blah blah..they need current, hip and hick. So there, talk amongst yourselves and git back with me. You may be very helpful in making the OakTeam come to YOUR town. Ya never know...if we sell enough records..uh..downloads!
See ya on the radio, WKNC between 6 and 6:45pm and at Margaux's LIVE between 10:30 and 1:30 tomorrow night..no cover!..shoooz!.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Free CD!

Free new Live OakTeam CD ("When the Oakteam Comes to Town")to the first comment on the blog telling what these words/names have in common...
Whitney
Jitney
Dubya
Incest
Crystal Meth
International Harvester
Birthday

Margaux's friday!

Hey, shit! Don't forgit! The OakTeam is playing at a fancy sit down dinner place,
Margaux's on THIS Friday night! The food is AWESOME! And Hell, there ain't no cover charge. So what ya got to lose? My friends from the Delbert cruise are coming and I'm really looking forward to seeing them...you too!

Where's the damn raisins?

You ever go in a grocery store and look for raisins? Hell, ever-damn-body has got'm in a different place! When I go to the damn Food Lion in Bunn they might be by the nuts one day and then in the produce section the next. Today I went to the one in Wake Forest and walked around about an hour before I found'm. They were in the baking section. One day when you're bored as hell go into a grocery store and look for raisins.
Hey, speaking of the Bunn Food Lion (which really sucks! BTW, I mean their wine selection is one step above MD 20 20, Night Train, Boone's Farm and yes, THUNDERBIRD. And you should judge your store by the wine they sell, definitely), I was in there last week and I needed extra cash to pay my stupid expensive water bill. So I punched in an extra $80, or so I thought...She gave me change back and it was 80 cents. Huh? "I thought I was getting 80 dollars change?" "You put in for an extra 80 CENTS!" "Now why would I want a damn extra 80 cents?" "I don't know, maybe you needed it to buy a paper?" Uuugh!

Monday, April 16, 2007

11 pairs!

My son Nathan likes to amuse himself by seeing how many pairs of underwear he can put on..
 

..he's at eleven!
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my rig

My buddy, Monty bought me some new bad ass 13" hi-hat cymbals so my rig is now complete. Thanks Monty!
The world is gonna love your new record!

 
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

glutton for reassurance

 

Keith pulls the old "socks behind the strings trick!"
Well, it's day three of the Keith experiment and surprisingly no one's killed him yet! We've really done great work on his new record tenitively titled "Glutton for Reassurance".
Of course, my personal favorite is the one I've had the most to do with, "Oh no you di'ent!" That is a bad ASS mutha..shut yo mouf! I am here to testify! All of them are gonna be..if not hilarious then heart breaking! Dude's got soul, yo!
We did Keith's version of "Beer Run". We did an Irish thing that he wrote called "She still sings". We did his great pop thing "Jennifer". We did a very Humble Pie/Jimi Hendrix jam called "The Wrong Girl" (badass!) We did a Tex/Mex/Appalachian thing called "I garrangoddamnteeyaaaaahhh!" and that thing is gonna KILL! But the spleen splitter of the bunch is gonna be "Precious". Keith and I wrote that, or at least first worked on it in the back of Roscoe's Suburban on the way home from Philly after a gig we did on Dan's 50th birthday. It's taken this long to bring it to the hilarious realization that it's about a cat funeral. You will cry when you hear it. For a number of stupid reasons...
OMG! IT's turning into a real record! Watch the hell out!
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Saturday, April 14, 2007

kwikeith update

After Keith got up at 4pm on Friday, he, Jack and I went to The Raleigh Times and had dinner (breakfast for Keith). When we got back to "Jack Tracks" also known as 411 Pod, we got right to work on a song that had been in my head all day. I had a bass line going that I thought would work great with "Oh no you di'ent!" and oh yes it did! Took a while for the other guys to hear what I was hearing but in the end it came out sounding not unlike an Expencive Winos track. That one's gonna be one big fat groove! Then we laid down a really good version of a song that Keith has had laying around for a while, the very Hollies sounding "Jennifer". It's a vey solid track indeed. Jack is playing bass and Keith is playing guitar for the purposes just getting the drum tracks right. Keith may wanna go back and redo the bass if he feels like it but Jack can certainly more than hold his own, and especially since he and I have been the Raleigh groove machine since 1978. There are a cool few jams that may turn into something and just before we quit last night we got some ideas down for "She dug me up (just to kill me again)". So things are moving along swimmingly as long as we can get Keith to wake up and get going before it gets too late into the night.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

keef in da house!


We've got Chappy in the house y'all, yo! Yes! Keith Christopher of Yayhoos fame and misfortune has landed his ass in the 919 to record the follow up to his last effort which never..well never actually happened. OK! So this is his first solo record EVER! And Jesus!..is this thing gonna rock!? Are you kiddin' me? Have you seen this dude play? Unbelieveable talent! And I ain't just sayin' that cuz I play with him in The Yayhoos. Everywhere I see him, he's got me in stitches or in amazment at his musical abilities! Just imagine what a great new record is gonna do for 'ol Chappy! I mean the sky is the limit! He was bouncing off the walls when he called this morning to say that he was headed to the airport. "Excited" would be putting it mildly.
So the recording gear is ready to go, the band is here ready to rock and all we need is Chappy's directive as to which dot on the fretboard to press and what beat I should play. And I'm pretty sure he'll get right on that....as soon as he wakes up!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

going to church

Me and the family went to church Sunday, Easter morning. I ain’t one to go much at all. My older son goes..too much. Well, I won’t say that. I’m proud of him. I wish I had it in me. I just don’t. I was unmoved on Sunday…and not because Joe the preacher was “dry as toast”. He’s a good preacher. I just felt entirely out of place. I mean, I look over and there’s a guy in an American flag dress shirt and mullet. (sigh!) I mean, I ain’t prejudice against rednecks or nothin’ but these ain’t my folks y’all.
I use the excuse that I can’t sit there that long, and a lot of that is true. There’s just so many questions, ya know? Even Nathan, (now granted he hadn’t taken his medicine that day and he sometimes gets morbid without) had his questions. “I just don’t know if it’s true or not...” said the soon to be 11 year old. Man that’s heavy on a young boy’s mind. Hell, an old man’s too! I guess if you pinned me down and beat me until I confessed I would say that I'm more down with the God idea than I am with the Jesus one. I ain't doubting Jesus, mind you, but he ain't the first one that I'm gonna thank after I win some National Championship.
All I know is that I don’t know, but I thank him, somebody!.. every day that I have my family and friends and that I get to play with the OakTeam and The Yayhoos!

more Euro pix

self portrait
 
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Keef enters the little boys room!
 
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holy lunch!..Weert
 
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the arsenal
 
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Belgium welcome!
 
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disturbing CD cover in Belgium
 
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our rental outside of the "haunted" hotel in Belgium
 
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Dan-sterdam!
 
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Weert hotel
 
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More "Blue Nun" grapes being grown behind the hotel in Winterbach
 
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fancy sit-down Winterbach dinner
 
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soundcheck in Stockholm, sans Dan, for the gig that never happened..
note the glass around the drums!

 
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the "Cindy Danny" look!
 
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Cock Rock!
 
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

git it!

The new live OakTeam CD is now available from the CD page on the Yayhoos site!
Go git that son of a bitch and turn it wide the hell open!

Monday, April 09, 2007

Tax (revolt) time!

Well, it’s tax time again. Time to put that $3 a gallon gas in your car and drive down to your accountant’s office so that he can tell you to give the government 30 percent of your income from last year so that they can spend a HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A MINUTE sending 18-20 year old kids off to die in Iraq to protect us from Al-Qaeda who are based in Afghanistan. Just imagine what kind of national health care system we could provide for this aging country for a million dollars a minute. But NOOOOO! Then pharmaceutical companies couldn’t rape us and the insurance companies couldn’t sodomize us!
We seriously may not be able to survive the level of corruption that is currently being provided by President Cheney, his little buddy Dubyah and the rest of those clowns on Capitol Hill. There will soon be NO more middle class and no such thing as "an American dream". I ain’t gonna tell ya who to vote for but just think about the last 6 and a half years for a minute and name one good thing that has happened. Oh yeah, that $600 tax rebate about 4 years ago! That will put gas in my cars for one month. Thanks a lot, you bastards. I’m talking about GLOBALY. The most predictable thing in the world to me is that the Democrats will cut off funding for the war and the Republicans will always blame them for not letting them finished the job (that had already been accomplished, remember?) and the Democrats will be right in saying that we shouldn’t have gone there in the first place, wasted lives and wasted dollars. It’s sickening. If the troops wanna protect Americans they should attack the White House!
So good luck finding all of your receipts and getting those deductions, I hope they owe YOU money! Now will someone please tell me why I haven’t moved to Spain, yet?

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

DodgerTown

More pix from FLA, Vero Beach..

 

 

 

 
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Thanks Scott!

Hey T-50,
Just picked up the new live disc……fan-fuckin’-tastic! Dude, you are one of my most prized musical finds of the last few years…making the kind of music that matters. Rock and roll ain’t supposed to be rocket science…..it is supposed to be loose, fun and raucus….and you, both as solo artist and with the Yayhoos, do it better than most. Thanks for the great music and keep churning it out.

Scott

You seen me dance?

So after work yesterday I was meeting the guys to go out to dinner with Monty before we started back recording. I had brought a change of clothes since I was painting all day but I forgot to bring shoes. I needed a new pair of shoes anyway since I had left a pair in Gijon, Spain. So I had about an hour to run around town and try to find some. First, I went to Target (which reminds me..somebody from Target slammed my MySpace account! It’s not from me!) but the shoes I like there were closed out, Penny’s..no, REI..no, and then I went to this place called The Shoe Dept. It’s kind of a cheap joint but not as cheap as Pic-N-Pay or the Shoe Show. Finally (after about 15 minutes of searching), I found some cockroach killers. They were dress shoes with a really pointy toe. As I’m checking out, she takes a good look at them. “They are both 9’s, right?” “Yep!” she says “Left and right?” “Yep!”. So I run out and make it to Jack’s only 20 minutes late. I change clothes and as I’m putting on these shoes I put the left one on first and then I reach for the right one but it’s lefty too! That bitch! I specifically asked her if they were opposing. Two left footed cockroach killers! So I just put my paint shoes back on and went out to eat. When I got back from dinner I went over there and got my money back. I can’t believe that bitch!
So we get to talking about Keef snorting his Dad and all and I have to say that I just don’t believe it ever happened. He’s getting like Jerry Lee, just talking all out of his head drunk all the time. I also find it hard to believe that he’s only 63. Are you telling me that I’m gonna look like THAT in 13 years? God help me!
Speaking of Keef! Our very own Keith Christopher will be in town (Raleigh) recording with the OakTeam next weekend! Yeaaaah!! What the world has been waiting for..a Keith Christopher record!

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

youtube fun

For those of you who haven't seen this, it's pretty damn funny. These are videos from Jack's and my first band, The Fabulous Knobs..."Don't Stop" was lifted from an afternoon kid's show that we were on back in 1982. "Pleez ya no More" was a stupid video shot by our friend, Steve Boyle...and yes! that's really ME on drums!

pleez ya no more

don't stop

Sunday, April 01, 2007

The Monty Project

 
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This weekend has been insane! Our friend from the FLA Monty Warren (YES! That’s his REAL name!) came up to record a CD of his songs and we were happy to accompany him in this effort. They’re really good songs and Jack’s VERY up to date Pro Logic rig and new microphones sound amazing! And our favorite engineer, (even though he spent company time on buying RUSH tickets!... OMG! One of the only people we know on the entire planet that would endure such a pummeling!) Jonathan Lowry is making things rock like ever-lovin’ ASS! From Friday night at 7pm until today (Sunday) at 4pm we laid down 9 amazing Rock and Roll tracks! Which kinda got me thinkin’..if we can make this son of a bitch sound good…we can make ANYBODY sound good! April Fool’s on Monty!! He really sounds great! His voice is quite enduring..I mean..endearing!..almost Ian Hunter-like, and that’s a good thing! Its gonna be a party record FO SHO! So look out for it!
And as for the rest of you! If you got enough songs to make a great rock and roll record, just Email me! The OakTeam, along with DoubleNaught Records, will be happy to make you sound like a superstar for the paltry price of 7 thousand dollars a week. We can prolly git a whole record done in that time so think about it…Thass purty damn cheap! Hell, I don't wanna paint for the rest o’ my natural born days!

I don’t play to no damn click! The click plays to ME!