Gift Horse played a show with Arizona last Saturday in Asheville, NC at a smoky little dive called Broadway's. Much like last time, the guys were extremely hospitable and put on one hell of a good show. Arizona currently calls Asheville home, and a modest and appreciative hometown crowd came out to see the show and give the local boys hell throughout their entire drunken, bad-ass set. Special thanks to Arizona's drummer James and his roommate Claire for letting us crash at their house after the show and listen to some 80's music until 4 a.m. We awoke Sunday morning to find that it had snowed pretty hard throughout most of the night. After we got rolling we went over to hang out with Arizona at Echo Mountain Studios, an old church complex converted into a really upscale, professional recording house unlike anything I have personally ever seen. Helluva place. Special thanks to Arizona bassist Alex for cooking us a huge delicious breakfast before we made the trip back to Athens. They are really a great group of genuine people who have been extremely kind to us from the moment we met them. I very strongly recommend them to the curious and look forward to playing many more shows with them.
Thanks a ton to Lydia See for coming out and taking some pictures and for writing a review of the show on her blog. Very cool.
Also, the John Cougar TrainingCamp has a review of our 40 Watt show up on the Flagpole's website. Read if you please, but be quick because after a while it will disappear from the linked page that I just provided for you, which is retarded.
And finally, I'm thinking of reformatting this here blog for a variety of reasons. First off, I don't really think I want to promote that hard for a few of the bands over there on the left hand side of the page anymore. Some yes, some no. But anyhow, I'm thinking about centering this blog around my band (and Blue Flashing Light). The fact that I have to say "Gift Horse played a show with Arizona..." and not "we played a show with Arizona..." is starting to wear on me. Plus no one in Athens really cares because (gasp!) there are a lot of dicks out there. So don't be surprised if you search for this blog one day and it doesn't exist anymore.
Comments?
2 comments:
i don't blame you. what is new with the record? getting mastered and such?
Ha! I waited exactly one month to respond to this comment, and on a different site too.
The new record is being perfected because we are perfectionists. It sure is sounding very very good, but we are certainly in no hurry to get it out. It looks like mastering will be pushed back a little bit.
Thanks for asking Johnny, I promise there will be more updates once more work gets done and now that we have a relevant blog.
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