This weekend

Alright we are going to San Angelo on Friday, wow a 10 hour drive round trip!!! That is going to be interesting and fun. The life of a wanabe rockstar, just plain good stuff. Then Saturday we will be out in Denton, which is kewl. I like that town and I am a UNT alumni so it is always kewl.

Life, I wrote a song about it...

Yes I did and it was off of our latest CD. Though it is a simple song it has a lot of meaning for me. Funny I have had people mention that it sounded like a worship song and maybe that isn't a bad thing. The point of the song it, you will never know what life brings. I mean sometimes the worse things in your life turn out to be the best things that ever happen. Since most of us care about right here right now, we don't like to suffer. So when things are tough or bad we tend to avoid them. I think suffering is just as good for the soul as happiness. I think if you were never sad, you wouldn't know what it was like to be happy. Me personally, I do enjoy the journey of life, don't get me wrong there are times when I have been beaten down, but I always know that something around the corner is going to be good.

Dallas this Saturday night

I know I have poked fun at the fact that we are a Dallas band playing Dallas, seriously we have not been playing Dallas that much at all. Actually we have been playing out of town 4 times to our 1 show in the area. Now this is a good thing not a bad thing. See when you first start out as a band, all you play is your home town, because that is where your friendbase is, notice I said friendbase and not fanbase. A lot of these people turn into fans, but they initially come out to see you because they know you and want to support. If a band can stay together longer than a year then the next quest is to go out of town. As fun as it is on the road, these gigs are humbling. When you go to a town with no friends or family and just the people in the bar, they don't know you shit from shirley, so you have to win these people over as fans. To this day we still play out of town gigs that consist of 5 people and yes you still perform like there are 500 people, but in the back of your mind you are CRAVING 500 people. So come out this Saturday to O'Riley's, it is $5 cover and no charge for parking, it is off of forest around greenville ave. We would love to see our FRIENDBASE there!!!

Peace
Chris

What to Do???

This past 2 months amazingly I have been offerred and accepted 2 jobs, and I am still not working either one. When I mean offerred they said "Do you want the job" and I said "YES." Now to me that means that we have a verbal contract and that I am hired. To them I guess that means, sure you are hired when just don't know if we ever want you to officially start. Now this wouldn't be a bad thing if I was getting paid to sit around and wait for them to get me started, but that is not the case. What ever happened to the "good ole days", when you got a job, it meant you got the job. Actaully this could work in my advantage. I am giving anyone and everyone who listens to monkeyshyne a JOB, you pick the salary and the hours!!! (Just don't ever plan on there being a start date...)

You don't know how it feels

This past weekend we spent the whole weekend in Wichita Falls, Tx. playing a couple of shows. And the kewl thing about it was on Friday night we had a woman name Chrissy, booker/new fan, buy us a shot. Then on top of that there was a woman out there named Lisa, also a fan, who was having her B-Day. Well Oz and I did our best to embarras her and make her B-Day a night to remember and I think we did. And at the end of the night, her party she was with picked up my tab. WOW, twice in one night I had woman buy me drinks and that is just AMAZING. I mean I have know plenty of woman, including my wife, that go to bars and never pay for a drink. But to be a man and have that happen, well "you don't know how it feels" just like the great Tom Petty sang.

This Weekend

Yes I am ready for the weekend, we have 2 shows in Wichita Falls that should be awesome. And I always like road trips. Of course I don't like listening to Big Colin snore at night, but this time Oz and I have our own room, I know what you are thinking "do they have 1 or 2 beds? :) " Hell yah we have 2 beds, Oz might be a good looking guy but homey don't play that.

What a Weekend

Well it was a good one. First we finally played a gig as a band again on Friday in Temple Texas. Then Sat. Oz and I and the wives went out to Firewater Bar and Grill in Dallas and saw Kind Zero and Pistol Whippin Ike, it was a good show and that place is bad a$$. Sunday I got to do nothing but cruise on my motorcycle. For those of you who don't know I own a 2004 Harley Softail Standard, and what a bike it is.

Gig this weekend

Going to play in Temple, Tx tongiht, woohooo. Bum's is a killer bar and Randy and Dave usually break me a discount on my Jaeger bomb bill :) Been a couple of weeks and I am jonsin to play. Temple Texas here we come.

CD's

Today I went through all of my CD's and tried to group them. They have been in like 20 piles. 2 in my car, 3 piles in my music studio and a couple here and there. When I was finished I had about 200 CD's of Local bands (I think everyone I got for free SWEET!!!) and about 100 national bands, then a few copies that I have been meaning to buy the originals. Oz likes to copy CD's for me and get me to listen to new stuff, so I have a few of those. And then about 100 CD of monkeyshyne stuff, including old live recordings, parts of songs, new and old songs, home recorded songs and so much more I don't even know. Being Organized is a good thing right, but sometimes a pain in the butt.

What holds us together?

Lately I have been thinking about the band and what has held us together after this long, and I came up with a couple of things. It isn't just one person that holds it together it is all of us. Yes this sounds mussy, but just hear me out. Big Colin, as most of you know him, is the corner stone of the band, I admire Colin's heart, it is almost as big as him. I don't know how many times I have berated, batted and beaten him down and he still has a hug for me (yes I said hug and yes I think he is gay), but when this group is down he is quick to pick us up with his words of encouragement, especially when it comes to me being down, thanks Colin. Oz has been like a brother to me, always letting me have may say and then making his suggestions low key. Of course his suggestion are usually the ones we go with (even using the drumstick for a brake holder, but I won't admit that). And then there is Keith the new guy, he just makes us better. His passion and lust for music have driven us to new levels in playing and writting. Funny all of us contribute a lot and they always say the whole is greater than the single and in this case that is so true.

Peace
Chris

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