Monday, June 23, 2008

Pindral Pics from The Fox Theatre


We now have a couple cool collections of pics from our set taken by friends Dave Chambers and Kurt Brown. There's an album by each on my Photo Site.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Fish w/ C.A.R.S. T-shirt



During our sound check Jamie gave Fish the Colorado Art Rock Society T-shirt he's wearing at the meet and greet in Milwaukee. Cool!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

FISH Show was fantastic!


Was a LONG day. Things went well though. Amazingly enough the Fox's stage was able to accommodate both band's gear. The folks at The Fox are an amazing bunch to work with...very professional and generous. We didn't get to really hang with Fish or many of the band members, but did get to watch their sound check and some brief exchanges with those guys. Favorite Fish moment was when we were doing sound check he came across the stage on the way to the greenroom and exclaimed sarcastically, "Jesus f*cking Christ, do you need all those f*cking drums!" (we had Jamie's drum kit, their drum kit and Scott's percussion rig up on stage) and gave us one of those classic big Fish grins. Jamie presented him with a Colorado Art Rock Society t-shirt...he thought it was cool.

Larry battled his way through his cold/lung infection (I think he drank about 6 gallons of various juices in the days before the show along with other remedies) enough to be able to perform his singing duties on Court of The Crimson Schizoid Man (which he did wonderfully) and Gretchen managed to make it to the theater just as we were to start doing song run throughs during sound check. (She was in Detroit on business earlier in the day).


Fish's set was fantastic! He really is quite the performer still and the band was very solid. His set blended selections mostly from Clutching at Straws and The 13th Star.

I'm guessing there was over 200 people there...not bad for a show like this on a Thursday night.

Our set seemed to be well received and we gave away over 50 free Pindral live CD samplers. Jamie looked stunning decked out in his kilt too!


I have a bunch more pics on my photo website.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Down The Stretch To The Fish Show!


We had our final rehearsal last night. Why three days before the show? Gretchen has to fly to Detroit for business and won't return until 5:00pm the day of the show. Fingers crossed for airline efficiency that day! In other band member news Larry has come down with some sort of cold-like thing and is resting at home today...good thing we have a couple days until the show. Hoping for a speedy recovery!

Anyway, I think we have a pretty entertaining set worked up. Hopefully we won't be one of those opening bands one hopes gets off the stage quickly! ;)

We're in the middle of producing 60 Pindral Live CD-R Samplers to giveaway at the show. It's a multi-media disc with both audio and video tracks on it. The audio tracks are new mixes from our 9-20-07 show at The Oriental Theater when we opened for Blue Oyster Cult's Joe Bouchard. They are soundboard/matrix mixes. Think they turned out pretty good. We'll have T-shirts and caps for sale too.

Yesterday we found out we can load-in early Thursday if we want so we hope we might get to help Fish load-in and maybe get to sit in on Fish's sound check. One concern we have is we have a lot of gear and since we're the support band we might be rather cramped on stage. I'm sure The Fox Theatre folks are used to this kind of situations.

Oh, a self-proclaimed prophet in Texas just predicted that Thursday, June 12, 2008 will be the end of the world. Hopefully that won't put a damper on the show. ;)