Sometimes in life, doing the same things somewhere new, can be like starting all over.
We can remember all the way back when we first started as a little band in Chicago, playing covers and a few originals for friends in dive bars in Chicago. We remember the nervousness, the palm-sweating and the excitement of our friends who had never seen our musical sides.
There is a different energy in the air when you are brand new ... people have absolutely no idea what you are about to do and where you might lead them during your set. It is a unique energy that can only truly be experienced as you pour your heart out into the songs you have carefully crafted for your audience. As you play, song by song, you can watch as the "uninitiated" turn and watch in earnest as they only now start to scrutinize.
It is a key moment in the show, when you realize that right then, right at that moment, you have the opportunity to truly display your wares, because you have the crowd's full attention. So you sing a little louder, wail a little harder and pour even more.
Tonight we had the chance to experience this moment, and to deliver. Tonight we had a blast playing in front of a great Wednesday night crowd at Hard Rock Nashville. And we cannot thank all of them enough as they truly gave us their attention and love. It was a great way to start the tour.
It is late and we all need to sleep ... on our way to Atlanta at 1:00am ... Good night guys ...
VB
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
On Tour in Two
Who wouldn't want to travel in a confined space with 6 grown men for 5 days, 41 road hours and 2,344 miles?
As scary as this proposal may sound to your every day corporate executive, it is the opportunity of a lifetime for a group of guys that got our start a few years back playing Johnny Cash and Rolling Stones tunes to a handful of friends at a hole in the wall in Chicago. "Blue September," as we are calling this short-run tour, is the culmination of years of work on honing our craft, creating our sound, playing live, telling/forcing our friends to come and see us live, and continuing to grow as writers, musicians and friends. The tour planning has been much more condensed and without a booking agency, there have been many lessons learned about recruiting bands, negotiating contracts with venues and debating every last possible detail. Thinking about every detail that has gone into this trip, from the big things, like what cities to play ... all the way down to the smallest of details, like who is bringing the hand towels ... it is stunning that we are only two days away and that mostly everything is under control ... (where is some wood to knock on ...)
As scary as this proposal may sound to your every day corporate executive, it is the opportunity of a lifetime for a group of guys that got our start a few years back playing Johnny Cash and Rolling Stones tunes to a handful of friends at a hole in the wall in Chicago. "Blue September," as we are calling this short-run tour, is the culmination of years of work on honing our craft, creating our sound, playing live, telling/forcing our friends to come and see us live, and continuing to grow as writers, musicians and friends. The tour planning has been much more condensed and without a booking agency, there have been many lessons learned about recruiting bands, negotiating contracts with venues and debating every last possible detail. Thinking about every detail that has gone into this trip, from the big things, like what cities to play ... all the way down to the smallest of details, like who is bringing the hand towels ... it is stunning that we are only two days away and that mostly everything is under control ... (where is some wood to knock on ...)
If this is the first you are hearing of our tour ... WAKE UP!!! The tour will begin on Wed, September 19th at the Hard Rock Cafe Nashville, where we will be playing with local bands Classic Addict and Adam James and the Firecrackers. This is a big event for us as Nashville is such a key city for musicians and we will be meeting several contacts to expand our network in the industry. We will move from there to Atlanta, where we will be giving a lunch-time performance (1PM EST) for the employees and staff of Sixthman LLC. They are the company that puts on many of the world's biggest and most awesome "concerts-at-sea" or Rock Cruises.
The tour will continue to Ocean City, Maryland where we will be performing in-studio at WOCM or www.irieradio.com at 8:30am EST. WOCM was the first station nation-wide to start spinning our record and this was an easy decision to come in for a visit.
From Ocean City we will travel up to Philadelphia, where we will be playing a cool little bar called Rebel Rock Bar with local bands Music Box Dynamo and The Great Party. With a little side trip to meet the Zimmerman's at State College, we will then make our way to Cleveland, to play the World Famous Cleveland Agora. So many acts have come through that venue and we are proud to be playing such an amazing venue with SIX other bands!We hope that you will keep up with us as we make our way across the country. We will attempt to keep you all posted on this blog daily, as well as Instagram (vintagebluechi), twitter @vintagebluechi, and Facebook (www.facebook.com/vintagebluemusic).
In addition, if you know anyone in these cities, please let them know we will be coming though!
THANKS!
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