Great week, canceled show We played the main stage at the Silverton Jamboree, it was a great time, we went on before the rain and before Tony Furtado (who kicked ass) after that we played the Juke Joint at the Miner's Tavern in Silverton, it was also sweet. Unfortunately the Miner's tavern doesn't want us there on the 4th because apparently we bring a "rough crowd" although, if I remember correctly it was some local Silverton gals smashing each other's faces into things the last time we played there, we didn't bring them. Then there was the dildo who starts fights at all of our Silverton shows, a rabid drunken local who has no business breathing, let alone hanging out at bars. Oh well. We're going to move the party (and consequently the bar tabs) to private land in the hills so we can avoid getting the public lands people angry. Then we went over to Telluride for the bluegrass festival where we played both the bubble lounge and the brown dog. Great times. We were very excited to play to a new crowd.
We were scheduled to play the Derailed on June 25th to make up for the double booking that happened last month. They made up for it alright, and double booked us again. They've double booked lots of folks. They've done some shady stuff to other local bars. They think they're the shit. I think that we should actively boycott them, maybe they'll go under and be forced to sell the business to someone who is humble enough to do business in a small town.
On July 8th we'll be at the Summit (a local music venue without a shitty attitude) opening up for the Stereofidelics, a really cool band from Asheville, NC. After that we're going to regroup, write some new material, do some chillin, and get ready for the exciting end of the summer. written by: eric edited on: June 24, 2009
The Store, Festivals, KDUR We've launched a new Online Store which has our new CD for sale, our old CD as well as some limited edition tee shirts. Keep your eye on it, we'll be adding new products consistently. We're heading off to Silverton to play the Silverton Jamboree, a groovin festival 9000 feet above the sea. We'll be playing two shows there, one on the main stage, one late night show at the juke joints. Weekend passes are $90, and Juke Joint passes are $15. In other news, we're going to be featured on the world's best radio station, KDUR on the Music Lesson program Friday, June 12th at 5:30 PM mst. You can listen here in Durango on 91.9fm or you can listen anywhere in the world at the KDUR WEBSITE
written by: eric edited on: June 12, 2009
Some old funny stuff
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I'm doing some late spring cleaning through Aftergrass stuff over the last 8 years, old flyers, old recordings, some funny old photos, just some funny stuff in general... I stumbled across one of the funnier items... well two of them. The story goes that Kelly and I were playing with Dialogue, touring around Colorado and we ended up at the Eldo in Crested Butte and it was a very slow night, to make matters worse the hiphop acts we were opening for shows up with no turntables... (what? yep) so basically we're left with a small crowd and we ended up just playing some backing beats for the rapper for a while but then it just got to the point where.. well you know that point. So we were trying to think of something to do, and we decide, hey let's play What's Inside (the aftergrass song jesse wrote)... I didn't have a vocal mic in the early Dialogue days, so I told Kelly I'd write the words down for him... I wrote them on this super small guest check. You could hardly see anything in the dim light and basically it took me giving them to him to realize there was no way in hell he could possibly read a single word of what I wrote. Oh well.. Whatcha gonna do!? written by: eric posted on: June 08, 2009
Live CD is Finished Well, it's done. I think.. No really.. it is done. We're working on an easy way to sell the CD from this website, rather than waiting for CD baby, iTunes, and all that nonsense. We should have a fancy pants shopping cart ready to roll in the next day or so, stand by! written by: eric posted on: June 03, 2009
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