It was a nice Hot saturday afternoon when I and all the other weldermen met up at our rehearsal studio in Bushwick to pack our gear into Steve's car and start our journey to PA.
This trip to the Harrisburg area, was to play a gig supporting the launch of our beloved "The Black Saxons" CD Disaster.
It took us 2 full hours from Bushwick to the Holland Tunnel.
After.crossing the tunnel and reaching NJ, the trip would have been quite "Peachy" if it wasn't for our bypassing our target location by a few miles.
And i thought that GPS malfunction only happened in small towns in rural Brazil.
Our getting semi lost was not in vain, Declan & Greg managed to grab a case of beer and all was fine once again.
When we arrived at the Whole Cannoli, the Dirty Shames were hanging in the parking lot,
The Black Saxons were playing some music and a hand full of homeless punks, most likely rich "kids", were moshing and stinking up the place, literally.
The Whole Cannoli was NOT happening, but The Dirty Shames still played a punchy set, Us Welders played a solid show right before The Saxons taking the "stage". They played 2 songs before a total meltdown or a beautiful Disaster.
Was that all planned? Was the meltdown a stunt?
Damn you all lovely Saxons!
It was close to 2 am, I had a splitting headache due to a lung infection I was unaware i had.
Declan massaged my temples, Don of the Saxons lit us some firework and we left for NY. Lar doce lar.
A couple of weeks later it was time for us to go back to the recording studio and start making some magic. I met Steve earlier in the day at his place for some awesome home made pumpkin pancakes.
While eating al fresco with Steve and Amy, i once again fell for a Pussy. Most of you know it isn't my "forte", but how can one resist this one amazing Pussy?!
Our first 8 hour recording session went really well. We were very prepared and Ben was very mellow and pleasant to work with.
We recorded 5 songs and hope to start releasing them in early october.
Declan n'est pas mort. Il dort like a vagabond.:)
Last saturday was the awaited roof rockfest event we all looked so forward to and in great MTW fashion a storm was born and moved our way ever so slowly. The first band had to call off their performance due to some illness or their drummer and a hospital stay, something like that. Right up MTW alley .
With modern gadgets in hand most of us followed the storm coming our way and hoped for the high rain probabilities to be wrong. Shhhh...my phone is not that smart ( i don't want to hurt its tech feelings), so i relied on the kindness of others and their smart gadgets aka smart phones.
The rain came and went throughout the event.
The Deacon Bishop Revival were the first to Rock and they did. These guys are plain awesome!
The Black Saxons arrived just in time to take over and Rock OUT in great style. Steve joined in and fulfilled his dream of playing with them. I must confess i was a little jealous. Perhaps i was just really proud to see his talent and know that he is with us. Yeah! That's it.
The saxons played a full set with no interruption from "Sao Pedro" and the rain. It was now our turn to take the stage and do what we do best. Play an amazing live show.
There were not enough positive dry thoughts or reverse rain dance to stop it. And it came down half way in our set.
The rain started to come down heavily. We kept going and so did the audience. But when Declan could no longer see through his drenched glasses and the high risk of electrocution, it was time to sadly give up and pack it all up. We still managed to play a beautiful 1/2 set. Now, you all will have to come to us for more. Like candy. :)
Tomorrow the guys are going back to the recording studio to finalize laying their phenomenal vocals, and in two weeks we are off to Boston for the mixing. Exciting times. These tunes will be sounding amazing soon and we can't wait to share them with you.
For now, click on our ReverbNation link in the upper left for a free download.
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Peace, <3 & Rock
MTW
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