Congraduations...

It just occured to me that I might as well start doing post-show thoughts *here*, rather than elsewhere, we'll see how it works out. Last night we played at a graduation party, and it was one of the strangest experiences I've had as a musician. Due to some unforseen sound issues (it being so windy, we had to have more doors closed than I anticipated, and so the setup we had planned was far too loud), I think I can speak for the whole band in saying that we played the show only being able to hear bass and drums. And somehow, it worked. Especially when you consider we were using a drummer that hasn't played with us much, I think it was an excellent show.

Though I think we did dance a little too close to the edge last night - I'm in awe of the musicianship of the other three just by the fact that we pulled off Still Haven't Found... without any practice (oddly enough, a few people came up to me and mentioned that as a highlight of what they heard). Good Riddance happened the same way, I decided yesterday morning that I wanted to play it... so I did. But it was the scariest three minutes of my musical career - I couldn't remember the chords, couldn't remember the words....I just figured I'd keep going and hope it worked out. And, again, somehow, it did.

Now, a week off, then much rehearsal.

T

Shows in June

Hey all

Just to let you know about our summer plans thus far - we have a couple of shows coming up in June:

June 3rd, Windsor, Colorado

We're gonna play a fairly long set in the middle of the day to coincide with Windsor's annual "Crazy Days" garage sale event. Look for us on 1st and Walnut at around 11am.

June 16th, Ault, Colorado

Regeneration Youth Church is sponsoring a concert in the Ault park - Expiration Date is coheadlining with another band. Details are still being confirmed, it should kick off around 5:30pm.

Sometime in June there's looking to be a show in Johnstown, but all I know about it is written in this sentence.

So that's our summer plans so far - everyone's busy writing stuff at the moment, so hopefully we'll have many new songs to rock out with. And it's even better if you're rocking out with us.

T

First Post

Ok, this is my first post so I'm going to make it loud and proud with a possibility of a few misspellings.

Our last show was actually for my church (Faith Lutheran) which I think went pretty well. We got to play for a little bit more of a mixed crowd then we usually do. By this I mean younger kids and adults. I don't know if we helped get a youth group established or not but we tried our best. The acoustics of the building were kinda funky but we managed to sound fine after messing with the board. Well thats enough talky, time for pictures.


Here we are doing a sound check before the show, Tom and Brian are struggling to get the computer stuff to cooperate.




I have a ton of pictures like this from the show, but this one seemed to rock the hardest. This was taken either during a sound check or one of our original tunes.



This is my personal favorite picture of the show. We managed to fit the sound system and the drums in the back of my 89 Jeep Cherokee. Impressive.

-Mike