February 2008 Archives
the rad new homie Sloan put up the valet and white rainbow sets from athens and atlanta on his awesome blog in mp3 and FLAC formats...check it out http://southernshelter.com
now off to boston in the fixed up cryptovan and hopefully not too much snow!
tour has been fucking crazy. van started fucking up around DC on thursday, we drove to baltimore got it looked at on friday, they couldnt fix it so we got a rental and drove to phil, borrowed a bunch of gear last minute, played a show, hung out, woke up, drove it back to baltimore, our van still not fixed, got a bigger rental, drove to new york, pulled up to mercury lounge at 830 on saturday, got a ticket for talking on the cell phone while trying to park the rental, met john norris of mtv news ?!?!?!, somehow lost the ticket in all the rock and roll fracas sunday was a show in brooklyn big pro place, not that packed, oscar night.... the car i was in on the way to the bar afterwards got pulled over for no headlight/me being in the car, keyboardist almost broke his ankle and had to go to a doctor the next morning, now on crutches. kristin and stephanie went back to baltimore to return the rental and get the van today then drove to phili to pick up the pedals honey left at the club friday night..... on monday honey brad and i hopped a ride with a film crew to play at vassar, left at 3pm got back at 3am. tomorrow we are supposed to go to boston and then on to montreal and so forth, but there is a huge blizzard scheduled to hit boston tomorrow, so we'll see.....
the white rainbow sets have been fun, its hard to get all calm and focused for my shows while in such a constant rush...whiskey has helped a bit. honey's valet sets with brian and bradford are seriously the best valet sets i have ever seen and heard. the drums and samples and keyboards bringing added depth and undulating pulses or psychedelic blues bliss. mmmm
atlas sound sets have been pretty fun. its fun to play songs again as opposed to the straight ambient improv i do, and it seems like for the most part the audiences have liked what we add to bradford's songs. its a very interesting combo of bands on this trip for sure.
also, return of dog drugs...
Thanks Lyn!!!!!
@ the black cat, DC
i perhaps never noticed how totally fucking 80's lame-o guitar shop rocker my guitar looks like. THANKS FOR TELLING ME, WORLD.
also, there is audio of the whole show here
and pictures here
it is indeed very weird to play shows where the people closest to the stage all have very fancy cameras....we live in a weird world. .......taking pictures of sound......
The other day we were loading up the lil' shuffle for Honey to take to the gym with good work out tunes, but mostly what we have on our itunes is trips and mellows and weird stuffs and jams.
So while she was at the gym i made this white rainbow work out tape.
maybe if you jog or do the elliptical machine or the bikes or hard cardo tai-bo/kick/ step or whatnot, maybe this could work out for you....
also, honey and i are both extremely excited to go on tour. we leave this friday!
these are the shows:
SAT 2/16 ATHENS, GA 40 Watt Club
TUE 2/19 ATLANTA, GA Drunken Unicorn
WED 2/20 CHAPEL HILL, NC Local 506
THU 2/21 WASHINGTON DC Black Cat
FRI 2/22 PHILADELPHIA, PA Johnny Brendas
SAT 2/23 NEW YORK, NY Mercury Lounge
SUN /24 BROOKLYN, NY Williamsburg Music Hall (NorthSix)
MON 2/25 VASAR COLLEGE
TUE 2/26 BOSTON, MA Middle East
WED 2/27 MONTREAL, QC Casa del Popolo
THU 2/28 TORONTO, ON Horseshoe Tavern
FRI 2/29 DETROIT, MI Magic Stick
SAT 3/1 CHICAGO, IL Empty Bottle
SUN 3/2 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Triple Rock
WED 3/5 VANCOUVER, BC Pat's Pub
THU 3/6 SEATTLE, WA new club as the other one went out of biz
FRI 3/7 PORTLAND, OR Holocene
SAT 3/8 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bottom of the Hill
SUN 3/9 STANFORD, CA Stanford
TUES 3/11 LO S ANGELES, CA Echo
FRI 3/14 AUSTIN, TX SXSW afternoon - atlas sound (two different afternoon things)
FRI 3/14 AUSTIN, TX SXSW night - atlas sound, white rainbow, valet, and opening band called 'fuck buttons'
SAT 3/15 AUSTIN, TX SXSW afternoon - atlas sound
SAT 3/15 Austin, tx TODDP nightime show
see ya on the road!
yo doggs
If you are in SF or LA come check out the awesome shows going down
SATURDAY FEB 2nd @ ELEANOR HARWOOD GALLERY S.F.
W/ LUCKY DRAGONS & A CLASSICAL INDIAN ENSEMBLE
8pm $8 All Ages
295 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
cross street is 25th
415. 867. 7770
(visit www.eleanorharwood.com to buy tickets)
SUNDAY FEB 3rd @ McCabe's Guitar Shop in SANTA MONICA
ARTHUR MAGAZINE PRESENTS
ENTRANCE GROUP
WHITE RAINBOW
WINTER FLOWERS
7pm $12 All Ages
Visit McCabes.com to get tickets