Jason Castro
Jonathan Tyler
The Northern Lights
J.J Grey
Seabird
The Movement
The Guggenheim Grotto
Villanova
G. Love & Special Sauce
Three Legged Fox
SOJA
Kid Rock
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Electrcic Chameleon
Inner Circle
Cage the Elephant
Manchester Orchestra
Silversun Pickups
Incubus
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels
Ian Thomas
Can't Hang
Sugar Glider
An Horse
Shawn Fisher &
The Jukebox Gypsies
Maroon 5
Fitz & the Tantrums
Thrice
Brand New
and all of the other, many opening bands, etc, that I unfortunately do not remember all the names for...
I am thankful for you all, in many many different ways....
I am thankful for my life, my family and my friends - especially the ones who totally "get" that list up there. You complete me... [/Jerry Maguire]
XO
Ash
11/25/09
11/4/09
10 days of awesome music
My ears need to start putting out more, cause I am really treating them right lately. Frigid bitches...
So, tonight I get to check out "the walking encyclopedia of rock and roll", Barry Drake, and his lecture on music in the 80s. Fun stuff. I have seen his lectures on the music of the 60s and 70s and know that this one will be just as entertaining.
Ok, then this weekend?? The fine art of containing myself is not something I practice often enough to be good at it. This weekend I get a double dose of Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights and I don't even have to get a hotel. They will be local. No one is EVER local for me, so I am like triple excited for these shows. And I really hope they play this song:
Definitely not my video, but with any luck, I will have one of it very soon....
Then I get a few days off to recover (I will probably need them, actually...) and next Tuesday, I get to see these guys:
They are opening for another band, who I will talk about in just a second, but I am really tripping out over these guys and look forward to their set probably more (?) than who they are opening for....
They are Fitz & the Tantrums (something in that Los Angeles air for me, I guess...srsly) and as soon as I found out they were opening, the album was downloaded and on it's way to being memorized. Check them out. They remind me of everything I love in music, and I haven't even seen them yet.
I am hoping for another SSPU August experience (I have to distinguish here, because my SSPU Sept/Oct experience was entirely different...)
Oh, ok, and the band they are opening for? I have seen 3 times already actually, and paid a ridiculous amount of money for a 3rd row seat last time.
Maroon 5. Like I even need to link them. But I will, so y'all can go there and be like "Shit! I love Maroon 5, I definitely need their new album!" You know how I do.
So um, Adam Levine...just so you know, Virginia is for lovers...see you Tuesday. Yowza.
Then my real job kicks in and takes me away - to the great Northest for a long weekend. And I get to see another band I have been really hoping to catch live while in am in the City of Brotherly Love. I am excited for my ebay ticket to the sold out Brand New concert.
Waaay back in August, actually at my first (*sigh*) Silversun Pickups concert (see what I did there? Like that? LOL.) I met this guy named Vic and he sees a lot of concerts and typically people like that and I get along pretty well.
So, we are watching the TVs in that venue with the "coming attractions", so to speak, and the ad for the Brand New concert pops up and he goes "Ok, that is a band you have to see."
Generally, when people who I have just met who also happen to love 80s and 90s era indie/alternative/rock/new wave music tell me that I HAVE to see a band...I try my hardest to do just that.
And I am going to get to. Hooray. I shall report back, as I do.
And then...I guess the best I can put this is "We shall see...."
As I have found over and over and over and over...music leads me to new music and so on. And I look forward to it.
However, there has been a "change" in me recently that will hopefully prevent some of the dramatic things I tend to encounter in these adventures. There is only so much of that a person can take, you know? Keep it about the music, Ash...that is what I keep telling myself.
I hope I listen (which goes back to treating my ears right...)
XO,
Ash
So, tonight I get to check out "the walking encyclopedia of rock and roll", Barry Drake, and his lecture on music in the 80s. Fun stuff. I have seen his lectures on the music of the 60s and 70s and know that this one will be just as entertaining.
Ok, then this weekend?? The fine art of containing myself is not something I practice often enough to be good at it. This weekend I get a double dose of Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights and I don't even have to get a hotel. They will be local. No one is EVER local for me, so I am like triple excited for these shows. And I really hope they play this song:
Definitely not my video, but with any luck, I will have one of it very soon....
Then I get a few days off to recover (I will probably need them, actually...) and next Tuesday, I get to see these guys:
They are opening for another band, who I will talk about in just a second, but I am really tripping out over these guys and look forward to their set probably more (?) than who they are opening for....
They are Fitz & the Tantrums (something in that Los Angeles air for me, I guess...srsly) and as soon as I found out they were opening, the album was downloaded and on it's way to being memorized. Check them out. They remind me of everything I love in music, and I haven't even seen them yet.
I am hoping for another SSPU August experience (I have to distinguish here, because my SSPU Sept/Oct experience was entirely different...)
Oh, ok, and the band they are opening for? I have seen 3 times already actually, and paid a ridiculous amount of money for a 3rd row seat last time.
Maroon 5. Like I even need to link them. But I will, so y'all can go there and be like "Shit! I love Maroon 5, I definitely need their new album!" You know how I do.
So um, Adam Levine...just so you know, Virginia is for lovers...see you Tuesday. Yowza.
Then my real job kicks in and takes me away - to the great Northest for a long weekend. And I get to see another band I have been really hoping to catch live while in am in the City of Brotherly Love. I am excited for my ebay ticket to the sold out Brand New concert.
Waaay back in August, actually at my first (*sigh*) Silversun Pickups concert (see what I did there? Like that? LOL.) I met this guy named Vic and he sees a lot of concerts and typically people like that and I get along pretty well.
So, we are watching the TVs in that venue with the "coming attractions", so to speak, and the ad for the Brand New concert pops up and he goes "Ok, that is a band you have to see."
Generally, when people who I have just met who also happen to love 80s and 90s era indie/alternative/rock/new wave music tell me that I HAVE to see a band...I try my hardest to do just that.
And I am going to get to. Hooray. I shall report back, as I do.
And then...I guess the best I can put this is "We shall see...."
As I have found over and over and over and over...music leads me to new music and so on. And I look forward to it.
However, there has been a "change" in me recently that will hopefully prevent some of the dramatic things I tend to encounter in these adventures. There is only so much of that a person can take, you know? Keep it about the music, Ash...that is what I keep telling myself.
I hope I listen (which goes back to treating my ears right...)
XO,
Ash
11/3/09
New River Stage
Video blogs in action. Meet Alex Parrish:
Nothing fancy, but here is the general idea...Get the director, actors, technical director....etc. involved in video blogging. Get these things out in internetland. Get people interested, get people in seats, get people in the theatre.
Culture is good for you.
Nothing fancy, but here is the general idea...Get the director, actors, technical director....etc. involved in video blogging. Get these things out in internetland. Get people interested, get people in seats, get people in the theatre.
Culture is good for you.
YESvember....
I am an optimist, so therefore I will be calling it YESvember instead of NOvember.
It truly was ROCKtober for me and ended with a bang (I was the Energizer Bunny for Halloween people, nothing kinky here...)
But Halloween night also brought forth an opportunity for change for me, which I definitely needed.
I am very excited to announce that I am moving! Granted, it is only to the "city" instead of the 'burbs...but I needed a social change big time. I will be closer to the local music scene, closer to some more cultural opportunities and will also be in a FIERCE new place with the most amazing windows I have ever seen in an apartment. I am stoked. Granted, I hate preparing to move more than most anything, I currently have 59 days to do it and if I do a little at a time, then I should be golden.
And trust me, I am going to have a little throwdown to break in the new digs a bit. Some kind of theme party in Jan./Feb....so yeah. If you want in on that, lemme know ;-) I am going to be living next door to a "luxury hotel", so.....my out of state friends can certainly be in on this...
Also, my little business is taking a different direction and instead of concentrating specifically on music and bands, I am expanding to include the ARTS in general. Right now, I am doing social media/publicity/marketing for New River Stage, and more specifically their spring production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
I have a theatre background, folks.
This is a natural progression for me.
Plus, I really believe there is value in social media as a marketing tool (duh...) and don't see any reason for something as classic a theatre not to get involved. My "market research", so to speak, has been the Broadway production of Rock of Ages. This thing has been on Facebook, Twitter, You Tube....you name it, from its off-Broadway inception. And it has worked.
Now the New River Valley is no NYC, but I don't see why the same concept wouldn't work here, or anywhere else for that matter.
So in addition to tracking down new music, I will be doing the same for art of all kinds.
Limits are limiting, don't you agree?
XO,
Ash
It truly was ROCKtober for me and ended with a bang (I was the Energizer Bunny for Halloween people, nothing kinky here...)
But Halloween night also brought forth an opportunity for change for me, which I definitely needed.
I am very excited to announce that I am moving! Granted, it is only to the "city" instead of the 'burbs...but I needed a social change big time. I will be closer to the local music scene, closer to some more cultural opportunities and will also be in a FIERCE new place with the most amazing windows I have ever seen in an apartment. I am stoked. Granted, I hate preparing to move more than most anything, I currently have 59 days to do it and if I do a little at a time, then I should be golden.
And trust me, I am going to have a little throwdown to break in the new digs a bit. Some kind of theme party in Jan./Feb....so yeah. If you want in on that, lemme know ;-) I am going to be living next door to a "luxury hotel", so.....my out of state friends can certainly be in on this...
Also, my little business is taking a different direction and instead of concentrating specifically on music and bands, I am expanding to include the ARTS in general. Right now, I am doing social media/publicity/marketing for New River Stage, and more specifically their spring production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
I have a theatre background, folks.
This is a natural progression for me.
Plus, I really believe there is value in social media as a marketing tool (duh...) and don't see any reason for something as classic a theatre not to get involved. My "market research", so to speak, has been the Broadway production of Rock of Ages. This thing has been on Facebook, Twitter, You Tube....you name it, from its off-Broadway inception. And it has worked.
Now the New River Valley is no NYC, but I don't see why the same concept wouldn't work here, or anywhere else for that matter.
So in addition to tracking down new music, I will be doing the same for art of all kinds.
Limits are limiting, don't you agree?
XO,
Ash
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