September 2011
25 posts
MILK DOES YOUR BODY GOOD.
To me, high school was a glorious, glorious experience. I got to see my friends everyday, sleep through some classes and have little to no responsibility all while learning some cool stuff. I was by no means popular as I spent most of those years being a dick, but I had a pretty close knit group of friends that I still hang out with even though I’d like to see them more.
While I was there...
SLOOOOOOOAAAANNNNNN
We’re playing two shows with Sloan next week and I’ll be doing my best impersonation of someone who isn’t a complete fan boy (as I accosted two members this summer and asked if I could shake their hands). Tuesday’s show is in Ottawa at Mavericks and Wednesday’s show is at the Alehouse in Kingston, we’re incredibly excited for both.
I leave you with a video that...
Living In The Past Prt. 3 - Cain and Abel
I started writing the songs that would become the first Cain and Abel album while I was still in TMSR, the very first song I wrote was called, ‘Media and Youdia’ which eventually became ‘Eve’ on You Lost The Human Race. It was the only song that made it all the way through from beginning to end and many different band member changes. This week I’ll bring you up to...
Hey guys,
I started working on a new song in the...
FIRSTS
Hey all,
Do you ever think about how good track ones usually are? I did a mixtape for THE INDIE MACHINE in the spring and couldn’t help but notice that about half of the tracks on there were album openers. It seems like these track #1’s always seem to sit in the top few songs on the album in terms of quality but are often able surpass the single on the record in terms of creativity...
King of the Windmill
The third installment of ‘Living in the Past’ will continue next week when things get a little less crazy around the Teenage Kicks camp. Instead I present to you a series of videos in which Pete Townshend executes his infamous windmill. Why am I showing you these videos you ask? Simply because I did a (great) windmill last night during band practice and Jeff made fun of me. Come see us...
NOT FOR YOU.
I originally had the idea of doing my blog post about the Pearl Jam show Peter and I went to on Monday, but then Peter posted about it. However… I’m going to write about it anyways because it was THAT good.
Pearl Jam have been a constant in my life since I was a kid. One of my earliest memories is of listening to Ten on a cassette player with headphones as my family and I drove down...
KIDS!
Listen to this POS kid try and play high-hats over this little ripper.
Closely followed by a noble effort at Sublime’s Santeria.
Pearl Jam + lots of shows this weekend.
My dad and I went to see Pearl Jam on Monday night, his first PJ concert and my first concert with my dad. There’s something about that band that makes them so special, and I’m still thinking about their set four days later. I’m at a loss for words… what more can be said about one of the biggest bands in the world not only holding the attention of 16,000 people but,...
Living In The Past: Part 2
After my unceremonious dismissal from The Goodbye Celebration I ended up joining my high-school friends in a full band reworking of their band, Thee Oneironauts. For the second year in a row I ended up spending another summer abroad, this time for the reasoning that my parents decided to split up. I reacted as any mature young man would, I burst into tears, borrowed a CCM Ice 5-speed and rode my...
Say Something Nice
Here’s a cool little video I lurked off of my good buddy Chance’s twitter feed. IMPROV EVERYWHERE stuck a megaphone podium at Union Square in New York City and told people to say something nice. Niiiiiiiiice.
Beliefs - She Comes Alive
Lots of friendly connections on this one, great tune, great video. Our good friend Sean Foreman is at the helm of this one… Check it.
- Peter
LYLA (OASIS COVER).
Oasis are one of those bands for me. You know, one of those bands. I’m enthralled by them. They put out one of my favorite albums of all time and the larger-than-life personalities put forth by the Gallagher brothers are undeniably magnetic. Just to be clear though, let’s not misconstrue my love for Oasis as a love for Liam. I’m a Noel man.
Sure, they put out a lot of...
AT LAST, THE ANSWERS
So several weeks ago, we broke ground on a new twitter game we like to play called “#whichteenagekickami?”. Its simple, in fact, its real simple - we mention some sort of embarrassing fact or foolish habit and you get to guess which one of us is the culprit. Although the first round was brief, you can look forward seeing more of these roll through your twitter feed this month, most...
Living In The Past: Part 1
I’m going to take a few weeks off from my acoustic video posts as we are doing quite a bit of demoing/playing and I haven’t had much time to make them happen these days. In lieu of those posts I’m going to put up some music that I’ve made over the years (some with Jeff, some with Christian) in chronological order so we can all take a journey through the past via my...
John Bonham
Hey, I recently found these isolated drum tracks from Zeppelin songs. Guy’s the best, so solid. The sound they got is incredible. There are more of these around, here’s just a couple.
-Cam
O MY HEART
Just a quick one for y’all because Patto and Jeff both posted on Wednesday.
We’ve just confirmed a show on September 11th in Guelph at Peter Clark Hall with the almighty Mother Mother. Their album O My Heart is one of my favourites in the last couple of years so I’m all revved up and ready to play. We’re still playing Jimmy Jazz the following Friday with The Sweet Mack so...
