The morning after...

The morning after a great show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco!!!! Last nights show was one of the best. The crowd was huge and lovin' it, the sound was great, we played really well and we had a lot of fun on stage.

I can't wait to post some video of last night show. Thank you to all who came out, tell your friends and come see us again!

Today... More music. Playing with Brian Hart this morning, killer bass player.

Have a great day! STEVe

PS... Tell us what you thought of the show, on Facebook, Myspace or the blogs.

Last song at Bottom of the Hill, song is called Patience.

Local Bands

Well, last night was the final night I am going out to flyer for our show at Bottom of the Hill. After seeing many many local bands, most of which I had never heard of, I have to ask some questions....

How many people really enjoy seeing local bands, verses how many go simply to support a friend?

How many of you go out to see local bands and expect the bands to be good, verse assuming it's going to be bad?

Is there a scene? Do people want there to be a music scene?

And, since other bands feel the need to cover up our show posters before our show has even happened, are the local bands actually ruining the scene?


These questions are on my mind. Some shows were packed, others empty. Seemed to have no relevance to how good the bands were. Are we wasting our time handing out flyers?

Feel free to post responses...

STEVe


Bottom of the Hill
April 21st, 9:00
All Ages, $8
Doors at 8:30

GREEN DAY!!!!

Well, I was one of the lucky couple thousand people who scored a ticket to the Fox Theater in Oakland to see Green Day last night. They played through their entire new album, 21st Century Breakdown, took a break and played another hour or so of old hits.

The show was great. High energy, entertaining... They play really well together. I did think it was interesting that they had two extra guitar players and a keyboard player on stage. One of the guitar players was the same dude that played with them on American Idiot and they still don't treat him like he's a part of the band. Maybe he's not? Maybe he just plays with them, but still lives with his mom? Maybe he gets to come out on stage with Green Day, be a rock star for 2 hours and then after the show they all throw things at him, like soda and cotton candy, so that he remembers he's not a member of Green Day? Maybe he cries? I feel bad for the dude.

Anyhow, it was a great show. STEVe

Park St. Trio @ Rosenblum

Hey, I had a great weekend! Park St. Trio did our second show ever and it was a real success. We played at the Rosenblum Winery Tasting room in Alameda CA. (www.rosenblum.com) It was a perfect day, the sun was shining, it was warm with a small breeze to keep us cool. We played outside on a stage they had set up for us, with a nice cover to keep our instruments out of the sun. The band sounded great from the start and we had tons of people complimenting us. People asking us where else we play? When they can come see us again? How much we charge to perform at house parties? It was a really good response.

We were super excited about playing this show and can't wait to play the next one, which is a wedding, so you can't go... sorry!

Then on Sunday, I went hiking up in Pt. Reyes and cheese tasting at the Cow Girl Creamery. (which of course meant that I bought cheese and had more at home, it's my favorite)

I say it was a good weekend.

This week... More recording with Trip Device, rehearsing with Farewell Typewriter and practicing with brushes - Whoo hoo!!!

STEVe

Tired, but very happy - Drumline Competition

I have to say this past weekend was a really busy one. Friday was all day rehearsal at Mission High School. The drum line had their final competition on Saturday, so we had that one last day to clean things up. Then Saturday morning was the early morning wake up call, getting up at 5 AM to arrive in Fremont at 6 AM. The show was in Stockton, so we had to leave quite early to get up there in time.

We did a nice two hour rehearsal before we performed adding some more visuals and excitement to the show. I was really excited and nervous for the students, in the past performances something had been lacking. Some of it was visuals, some was playing, but mostly it was missing attitude. During this performance the students finally pulled out the attitude for the crowd, and it worked!!!

They played their asses off, pushed the level of performance to a new place from the past shows. All this payed off, their over all scored raised by almost 4 points and the group ended up in 3rd place. I am really really proud of them for all their hard work and participation. Every year these students amaze me!

So... I am HAPPY!!! (But now I need a nap)