thanks to Meat Puppets, Dead Confederate

just want to personally thank the one and only Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate for having us along to play some really great shows last week. it was probably the single best week of my musical life for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the Meat Pups are an amazing band to see and hear live every night and because they are so damn cool. they were really gracious and nice to us and i came away from it feeling a lot smarter just from having talked with them. plus, the nashville show was Cris' 49th birthday so it was cool to be around for that.

this piece from abcnews can sum up why it was such a great experience to talk to these dudes:

do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing:

so thanks Curt, Cris and Shandon, it was an honor. thanks to the guys in Dead Confederate too. their crew was real good to us, just like always. and of course, thanks to anyone who came to any of the shows (the most important part).

TICKETS!!! Friday, October 23 2009 at the Masquerade with Meat Puppets, Dead Confederate, and Winston Audio

Friday, October 23, 2009 at the Masquerade (Atlanta, GA) with Meat Puppets, Dead Confederate, and Winston Audio.

The show is in HELL, and the doors are at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $10 presold through the PayPal button below, but $20 at the door (so be sure to get yours through us!)

IMPORTANT! You can pick up your tickets at The Masquerade will call on Friday, October 23. The name on your paypal account will be the name at the will call door so be sure to bring photo id!

SORRY!

THE PRE-SALE TICKET BOOTH IS NOW CLOSED.

THANKS, SEE YOU TONIGHT AT THE SHOW!

a few bits of recent press

here's a review of our recent ASCAP showcase show at Smith's Olde Bar.

here's a piece that ran a little while back in the Red & Black.

notice a few new items over on the sidebar there-->.

now you can hear music, watch some videos, and join the mailing list.

there's also a link to our ReverbNation.com page, which is responsible for powering these little widgets and stuff.

oh and this too:

october shows with meat puppets and dead confederate

we are playing 3 shows in october with meat puppets and dead confederate:

Wednesday October 21, 2009 @ Bottletree Cafe (Birmingham, AL)

8 p.m. 18+. $12/$14. buy tickets.

Thursday October 22, 2009 @ Exit/In (Nashville, TN)

8 p.m. 18+. $12/$15. buy tickets.

Friday October 23, 2009 @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA) in HELL

8 p.m. $15. to buy tickets for this show email us at: gifthorsemanagement@gmail.com.we will get em to ya.

hell yeah!

you can also see us this thursday october 1, 2009 at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta for our ASCAP showcase ($5. 7 p.m.)

nyc and back vol. II

Ok so we went back to n.y.c. and even though i said i was going to take pictures this time...I didn't. So here goes my best attempt at recounting:

Headed up to Chapel Hill last Tuesday to play The Cave with Juanita and The Rabbit, a blues-metal two piece from San Francisco. They rocked ass with such classics as We Live in a Motherfucking Van and a cover of Motorhead's Orgasmatron. And yes, they really do live in a motherfucking van and it is quite possibly the baddest van in these United States. Thanks to all who came out to see us: Mimi from The Pneurotics, Joe from Hammer No More The Fingers (looking forward to playing with those guys, stay tuned), James the Chapel Hill photographer, and our pals from Athens' very own Pride Parade, who were also playing Chapel Hill that night. Killer show and a really cool venue.

From there it was on to Philadelphia PA to play at The Fire, a cool little joint in Fishtown/Northern Liberties of Philly. Once again we were with our new pals Juanita and The Rabbit and their killer van. Thanks to all of the staff of The Fire for letting us post up in their great little apartment and teaching us how to play dominos. They do in fact have fine cheesesteak sandies in that town and even better breakfast joints, but thats neither here nor there.

We rolled in to New York on Thursday to play a show at Manhattan's Cake Shop with two really great stoner/sludge type bands from the city: Heavy Hands and our pals Ancient Sky. Another stellar lineup and a grand show.

Friday we hung out in Manhattan and went to go see Pride Parade kill a 1 a.m. set at Arleen's Grocery. The beer flowed like wine...

Saturday we headed out to Brooklyn to play our final set of the week at the Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg. It was a great little room with a cool atmosphere. Thanks to our old homeboy Hunt a.k.a. "HDHR" for letting us post up at this brownstone Brooklyn Great Gatsby house that he may or may not have legally had access to. Either way, we played the grand piano, slept like kings, got up late, drove 16 hours to Athens and got into town about 5 a.m. Monday morning.

Along with HDHR thanks so much to all our other pals who were so hospitable to us on this recent trip. See ya.