tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22294045627881035362024-12-10T02:06:45.509-05:00David .T Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16005088163071745080noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2229404562788103536.post-41761357367011092522011-04-06T22:07:00.000-04:002011-04-06T22:07:51.669-04:00

Apologies!  It has been two months since my last post. You may think there has been nothing to post, but you would be wrong.  WRONG!  "Wasteland Radio," "Slugger Field," "Down Again" are three amazing songs that have been written and slammed out in the past few months.  We played Local Live on WFHB, if you missed it, you can soon download it as part of their podcast series.&

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Our drummer, AJ, describes rehearsal as a fancy meal.  There is the appetizer, or as he calls it "pre-food" (Classy),  The main course, and dessert.  This is a great way to think about practice.  Start with something light; something that will give you a taste for the evening.  Then comes the work.  The main course is where you will spend most of your time, cutting

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Like Rob Gordon says in High Fidelity:  "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules." When you play for 3 hours, timing and

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902s CD Release show When you are a gigging band, some things are laid out in front of us: How long we will play, what we get paid, the typical audience. Some things we just pick up on: The audience that night, the stage, the scenery around us. Its all subtle: So we get in at a bar we've never played at before.  We  have an idea of the audience, we see old tin signs on the wall

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Saturday was our Louisville release show.  The fantastic Levee Bar and Grill was kind enough to host us once again for quite possibly our best show to date.  We fired up at 9.30, and didn't stop until damn near 11.  We stuck mostly to songs from our album, Cold Friday.  We threw in the covers we love playing, and the crowd was on our side the entire night.  We had so much

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Nov. 13th. It can't come too soon. We have been working the much less fun side of the album now. Templates, files, typefaces, proofs. Thursday we shipped the album off to DiscMakers in New Jersey. We have approved the proofs, the images they send us verifying what we want. Now we wait... We have it on good authority that we will have "Cold Friday" in our hands the 11th. Let's hope that is

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Piggybacking off of the cover art post, we had a photo shoot on Thursday. Boy god, someone is going to see us on our album somewhere. Brian and I again worked with Eric G. Hanus, and we had a great time. We shot at three different locations; we shot with and without guitars; we got something that might just be worthy of the back cover of Cold Friday. We have something like 600 shots to look

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We are getting to the point where art is our concern.  We want an image that expresses the sound of our band, the sound of our record, and pulls emotion out of the listener before they even hit play.  If it looks nice, that is a plus. Eric G. Hanus has been working tirelessly out in the fields of rural Indiana and at his computer getting our images together, and we can't thank him

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Zero for two in terms of spelling, but what can you do?  We had a blast at the Levee this weekend.  We had a great crowd, and we rocked like the southbound trains that they are.  The band started at 11, later than usual, but totally worth it.  The crowd began to pile in just as the tubes were warm and we fired up with Riders.  Three sets of bar music, and they ate it up.&

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Paste Magazine suspended publication today.  For those of you who don't know, Paste was a fine publication.  It introduced me to a lot of great music and supported tons of artists that I love.  It wasn't sarcastic or mean, and sometimes it could be a little too flattering of musicians that were being showcased; but it was a publication that loved music and it always upheld the

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Rehearsal, Dave's basement.  Amps are fired up, drum heads tuned, mic stands placed.  We discuss any minor business, record update: Mixing begins this week.  Ear plugs are in, and we are ready.  New covers are tried, old ones are finely tuned.  We figure out what works and what doesn't.  Heart of Gold is a great song, but it is still a tad loose.  Stray Cat

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The Levee is our homebase, so it would seem.  We play there about once a month, and we always have a great crowd.  The bar is perfect for live music, though we jam ourselves onto the stage with no room to spare, we do our damnedest to give every ounce of energy to the audience. Two weeks before a show Brian and I are rehearsing new covers and playing new originals back and forth.&nbsp

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Brian Johnson & The Acquitted This is The Acquitted.  We rock.  That isn't all you need to know, but it is a good start.  Dave Allgeier is our drummer extraordinaire.  From the bowels of Louisville, he has played in many a band and sailed the seas playing on cruise ships.  His basement is one of our main rehearsal spaces, his kitchen one of our many drinking spaces.

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We had a great time opening for Heart Of Gold last week.  They have a show in Indy tonight, as well as another Louisville gig on Friday, then they continue on to the East Coast.  Zanzabar had a great stage and a great sound system, as well as a collection of fantastic classic arcade games such as Donkey Kong and a Ted Nugent pinball machine.  The crowd was great to both bands, and

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