SETLIST FOR SATURDAY, JAN. 14th - BONDS 007
"THE" intro.. old school will know...
"New Light's First Kiss"
"Anger, Power, Misery 3"
"Ranting and Non-Hearings"
"Marvel"
"Come to Life"
"Ignore Everything"
"Switchblade"
"Signs of a Storm"
"H.S.S."
"New Sun Rising"
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You guys won't recognize most of these, because they're all new stuff we've been working on since July! Hell, you probably won't recognize the band... the addition of Jared, and this newfound intensity, brought us somewhere we just weren't able to get to in the past. Half the set is all brand new stuff that we're putting on the new CD.. which we'll resume work on after this show. We're psyched!
We were lucky to get such a strong bill. It promises to be a night of metal to remember....
I've put up the code to the flyer on our myspace page if you guys would like to help us promote online & around myspace.. all help much appreciated.
--Jen
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Friday, December 9, 2005
Jen: COME TO LIFE lyrics
"COME TO LIFE" - 01/07/06
what did it take to conquer? / to be the one left standing / let go of all my fears / there was no compromise
why turn the other way? / stay trapped and waste away / lay to rest thoughts of failure / will you call upon your saviour?
to release me / a penance set free / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
what did it take to find peace? / to be the one true clear voice / just listen for the truth / deny the plague that haunts you
celebrate each day / passions embraced / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
choose your fate / and never surrender / prepare the injection / old life's execution
all veins glow / light up the inner soul / burn in glory / rise from the ashes
and now, you have found / the elusive truth / a secret so evasive / you know you need it
and now, you have found / the elusive truth / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
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Dave's on a roll.. he asked me to post this for him. This is one of the new one's we'll be debuting this Saturday.
what did it take to conquer? / to be the one left standing / let go of all my fears / there was no compromise
why turn the other way? / stay trapped and waste away / lay to rest thoughts of failure / will you call upon your saviour?
to release me / a penance set free / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
what did it take to find peace? / to be the one true clear voice / just listen for the truth / deny the plague that haunts you
celebrate each day / passions embraced / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
choose your fate / and never surrender / prepare the injection / old life's execution
all veins glow / light up the inner soul / burn in glory / rise from the ashes
and now, you have found / the elusive truth / a secret so evasive / you know you need it
and now, you have found / the elusive truth / new vision in sight / new hope has come to life
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Dave's on a roll.. he asked me to post this for him. This is one of the new one's we'll be debuting this Saturday.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Jen: Jan. 14th "a go"... in remembrance
Our show on January 14th is still on at Bonds as planned. There may be a line-up change, but we'll keep our stuff updated to reflect any changes.
I was going around to our friends pages to post a graphic of a ribbon memorializing Dimebag.. one year today. I realized that was going to take all night, so I just changed our graphic for the day. Time has flown by. I saw something on the net today that reminded me.. and I thought about his brother. It's going to be a rough day for him.. it sucks assholes to lose someone so close.
I was going around to our friends pages to post a graphic of a ribbon memorializing Dimebag.. one year today. I realized that was going to take all night, so I just changed our graphic for the day. Time has flown by. I saw something on the net today that reminded me.. and I thought about his brother. It's going to be a rough day for him.. it sucks assholes to lose someone so close.
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Jen: Ain't that some bullSHIT!
Some shit went down yesterday concerning our first show back on January 14th. It's another case of bullshit where the bands in the end get dumped on. Isn't that the way it always happens? Something doesn't work out and the bands always are inevitably chosen to take it up the ass.. no matter who's fault it is. You learn who to trust in this business really quickly... no one. Trust no one. Stay tuned for more on this...
Practices have been good. Progress has been great. We went a week with no practice and it felt like ages!! The Saturday before last, November 26, we had some people come out to check out practice. It was supposed to be a few people.. came to find out Frank invited the greater San Antonio metal scene. Thank God just a few people showed up (sorry, Frank). It was cool having people check things out and give honest feedback. Mike and Chris of Deadpool, Gonzo from The Scene, our good friend Crystal and a friend of Frank's from work, Lisa, checked out the set.. like 3 times or so. It was Jared's first time with us as a group in front of people and he did good despite feeling sick ("there's another compliment, Jared. Mark it down...." - he says our compliments are rare, criticisms many...). After that a few more people came by and had a couple of beers, then the night was cut short. Our party days have come and gone, dude.. well, not Frank's & Jared's.. just Dave and I. We can still throw down, but on rare occasion! So that was good. We wore ourselves down.
Jared took his guitars in to be set up and was feeling a little down this week from some shit he caught. He's also been getting stuff together for this business venture he's doing so thats cool. Frank had his little girl Thursday through Sunday. That was awesome... much overdue. Jared and Dave finally got together this last Saturday night to run through some riffs. He taught Jared a couple more songs and went over those pesky picking nuances in the riffs to tighten things up.
The last practice was last night. I wasn't able to participate for lack of a babysitter... it happens! Our only able sitter that we fully trust with all three monsters, my sister, has finals this week so we have to respect that. Things started late so there was only an hour or so to work. From in the house, I could hear them throwing down on some killer writing most of the time. That's one thing we have to be careful not to ignore... the writing is still so strong. We have to really be cautious and make sure to take our shows slowly and be more particular in what we commit to.
Practice is tonight.. another hectic evening. Dave's getting home late because he's working late, and I have to take a kid to dance class.. getting back at 7 right when practice is scheduled for. Tomorrow is not an option because Frank has his daughter.. Friday is a possibility (as far as I know), then Saturday won't work because our daughter has her Christmas dance receital. Then the next Saturday, he has his kiddo.. the the next Saturday is Chrismas.. things get rough this time of year. It's gotta roll like a well-oiled machine to work... and so far, so good.
Practices have been good. Progress has been great. We went a week with no practice and it felt like ages!! The Saturday before last, November 26, we had some people come out to check out practice. It was supposed to be a few people.. came to find out Frank invited the greater San Antonio metal scene. Thank God just a few people showed up (sorry, Frank). It was cool having people check things out and give honest feedback. Mike and Chris of Deadpool, Gonzo from The Scene, our good friend Crystal and a friend of Frank's from work, Lisa, checked out the set.. like 3 times or so. It was Jared's first time with us as a group in front of people and he did good despite feeling sick ("there's another compliment, Jared. Mark it down...." - he says our compliments are rare, criticisms many...). After that a few more people came by and had a couple of beers, then the night was cut short. Our party days have come and gone, dude.. well, not Frank's & Jared's.. just Dave and I. We can still throw down, but on rare occasion! So that was good. We wore ourselves down.
Jared took his guitars in to be set up and was feeling a little down this week from some shit he caught. He's also been getting stuff together for this business venture he's doing so thats cool. Frank had his little girl Thursday through Sunday. That was awesome... much overdue. Jared and Dave finally got together this last Saturday night to run through some riffs. He taught Jared a couple more songs and went over those pesky picking nuances in the riffs to tighten things up.
The last practice was last night. I wasn't able to participate for lack of a babysitter... it happens! Our only able sitter that we fully trust with all three monsters, my sister, has finals this week so we have to respect that. Things started late so there was only an hour or so to work. From in the house, I could hear them throwing down on some killer writing most of the time. That's one thing we have to be careful not to ignore... the writing is still so strong. We have to really be cautious and make sure to take our shows slowly and be more particular in what we commit to.
Practice is tonight.. another hectic evening. Dave's getting home late because he's working late, and I have to take a kid to dance class.. getting back at 7 right when practice is scheduled for. Tomorrow is not an option because Frank has his daughter.. Friday is a possibility (as far as I know), then Saturday won't work because our daughter has her Christmas dance receital. Then the next Saturday, he has his kiddo.. the the next Saturday is Chrismas.. things get rough this time of year. It's gotta roll like a well-oiled machine to work... and so far, so good.
Monday, December 5, 2005
Jen: New Light's First Kiss of Pneumonia
Daaaamn. I am so sick of emergency rooms. This winter, our daughter swallowed a 2 inch screw, my son got a viral infection and was puking buckets, I went in for the migraine of all migraines, and then again, the night before last, I went in because I couldn't breathe and had chest pain.
I first got sick the second week of December and two days later, our 3 year old daughter caught RSV while Christmas shopping with her dad at the mall. Despite our attempts to keep her away from the other two, our 1 year old son soon got it, with our four month old baby girl to follow. So I guess between all the breathing treatments, medications, and caring for them, holiday mess and practicing, I forgot I was sick and didn't do anything for myself. We DID manage to keep the three of them out of the hospital though.. which was the objective.
So we practiced Monday, and I started feeling really bad during pratice. Went to bed that night and Dave touched me and said "dude you're burning up." Took my temperature and I had 102.5. He went to work and I stayed here at home with the kids.. as usual.. and my fever let up during the day. We were supposed to practice, but Jared learned his mom was coming into town, so we cancelled so Dave could work on lyrics. Night came and I couldn't breathe - just very shallow. It felt like I had a corset on, and with every attempt at breath, 3 or 4 big guys pulling the shit out of it. I was scared.. thinking that I hadn't made a will... that I should get up and write a letter to my kids - kind of scared. I got up and thought that it would help if I took one of my kids breathing treatments. I got out some of my medical books and started to read while doing the treatment.. and I see that "shortness of breath, white/pink mucus, and tingling of extremeties" are indicators of heart disease. Now I'm really scared... both my grandparents died of heart disease and my dad has congestive heart failure.. so I decide to go to the ER. Problem is that I popped back 3 tylenol PMs to help me sleep before the problem had progressed so I needed someone to drive me. I called my sister and she picked me up. I get there and there was a prick at the triage counter. I start telling him my problem, in some detail, and he cuts me off. "WHY are you here?" You tell me, Buttface!
The rest is a blur.. the tylenol kicked in. My sis said I was snoring away in the waiting room. Diagnosis not heart disesase. I have pneumonia - well developed in my left lung, and not as developed, but also in my right lung. We cancelled practice yesterday and Frank has his daughter today (it worked out) so i'm not sure when we'll get together again, but we're at an o.k. place. All guitars are setup, drums will have new heads by the end of the week. Dave's been rockin' on lyrics. He wrote these yesterday.
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FIRST STRIKE - OR - NEW LIGHT'S FIRST KISS (title undetermined)
clench the fist / let the tension build / fan the flame / new light's first kiss
release all fury / frenzied flurry / of all my mistakes / of all I can't take / your pains not enough for me / a shattered mind you shall be / recipricate the violation
fall in line for the first strike / there will be no absolution / twist my knife inside your mind / go to hell - victim of the first strike
raise the hand / symbol of power / feel the flame / new light's first kiss
release all fury / frenzied flurry / of all I control / of all that I know / your pains not enough for me / a shattered mind you shall be / recipricate the violation
bring dawn to light / bring dawn to light / shroud your remains
bring dawn to life / bring dawn to life / feel new light's first kiss
fall in line for the first strike / go to hell - victim of the first strike
all I wanted / was what was mine / but you were inclined / to walk across the line / now you'll face the first strike
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so I apologize for any typos, but this was typed with one hand - I got a baby in the other.
Pneumonially yours,
Jen
I first got sick the second week of December and two days later, our 3 year old daughter caught RSV while Christmas shopping with her dad at the mall. Despite our attempts to keep her away from the other two, our 1 year old son soon got it, with our four month old baby girl to follow. So I guess between all the breathing treatments, medications, and caring for them, holiday mess and practicing, I forgot I was sick and didn't do anything for myself. We DID manage to keep the three of them out of the hospital though.. which was the objective.
So we practiced Monday, and I started feeling really bad during pratice. Went to bed that night and Dave touched me and said "dude you're burning up." Took my temperature and I had 102.5. He went to work and I stayed here at home with the kids.. as usual.. and my fever let up during the day. We were supposed to practice, but Jared learned his mom was coming into town, so we cancelled so Dave could work on lyrics. Night came and I couldn't breathe - just very shallow. It felt like I had a corset on, and with every attempt at breath, 3 or 4 big guys pulling the shit out of it. I was scared.. thinking that I hadn't made a will... that I should get up and write a letter to my kids - kind of scared. I got up and thought that it would help if I took one of my kids breathing treatments. I got out some of my medical books and started to read while doing the treatment.. and I see that "shortness of breath, white/pink mucus, and tingling of extremeties" are indicators of heart disease. Now I'm really scared... both my grandparents died of heart disease and my dad has congestive heart failure.. so I decide to go to the ER. Problem is that I popped back 3 tylenol PMs to help me sleep before the problem had progressed so I needed someone to drive me. I called my sister and she picked me up. I get there and there was a prick at the triage counter. I start telling him my problem, in some detail, and he cuts me off. "WHY are you here?" You tell me, Buttface!
The rest is a blur.. the tylenol kicked in. My sis said I was snoring away in the waiting room. Diagnosis not heart disesase. I have pneumonia - well developed in my left lung, and not as developed, but also in my right lung. We cancelled practice yesterday and Frank has his daughter today (it worked out) so i'm not sure when we'll get together again, but we're at an o.k. place. All guitars are setup, drums will have new heads by the end of the week. Dave's been rockin' on lyrics. He wrote these yesterday.
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FIRST STRIKE - OR - NEW LIGHT'S FIRST KISS (title undetermined)
clench the fist / let the tension build / fan the flame / new light's first kiss
release all fury / frenzied flurry / of all my mistakes / of all I can't take / your pains not enough for me / a shattered mind you shall be / recipricate the violation
fall in line for the first strike / there will be no absolution / twist my knife inside your mind / go to hell - victim of the first strike
raise the hand / symbol of power / feel the flame / new light's first kiss
release all fury / frenzied flurry / of all I control / of all that I know / your pains not enough for me / a shattered mind you shall be / recipricate the violation
bring dawn to light / bring dawn to light / shroud your remains
bring dawn to life / bring dawn to life / feel new light's first kiss
fall in line for the first strike / go to hell - victim of the first strike
all I wanted / was what was mine / but you were inclined / to walk across the line / now you'll face the first strike
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so I apologize for any typos, but this was typed with one hand - I got a baby in the other.
Pneumonially yours,
Jen
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Jen: STRONG MOMENTUM - STEADY PACE
It's finally happened... things feel like they did back in 2000. We've got something strong going on and it's comforting!
We practiced as a full band last Thursday, tightening some things up, then again Saturday. That one was a long session. We actually ran out of gas. Frank got here at two and we stopped at 8:30 so Dave, Frank and Jared could check out the Edge Magazine CD release at the Rabbit. We have been exhausting all our babysitting time lately for practice, so I stayed home with the kids. The sole babysitter is my sister.. and with finals coming up, I can tell she's getting worn down as well.. but she's here every practice ready to help us out. I'm sincerely grateful to have her.
SO then we took promo pictures on Sunday. We went out to this factory off of 35.. I'm sure most of you have seen it. I went out there in highschool to shoot photos and have had a fond feeling for it since. It's an old run down, crumbling warehouse that has a soul to it... hard to describe. We had to walk through the woods, jump a couple of railroad cars, but we got there with a good hour or so of sunlight to shoot. It was kind of spooky but serene... I made Jared run like a girl but that's another story in itself. Haha... A huge, big ol', fat "thank you" to Rick for lending us his photographic talent! We very much appreciate it.
The guys practiced yesterday and broke down some riffs piece by piece to get Jared over some hurdles. He got our toughest song down.. its all downhill from here. Today is full band, tomorrow is either Dave writing lyrics or guitar sectional (depends on how today goes...), we're off for Turkey, then Friday and Saturday we're practicing again. It's unexplainable.. it feels great!!! It's such a release right now to get in there and pound out these songs. The new one's are fast... so we walk out of there sweaty with sore forearms but with a clear mind.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Steve Di'giorgio is God!
Jen
We practiced as a full band last Thursday, tightening some things up, then again Saturday. That one was a long session. We actually ran out of gas. Frank got here at two and we stopped at 8:30 so Dave, Frank and Jared could check out the Edge Magazine CD release at the Rabbit. We have been exhausting all our babysitting time lately for practice, so I stayed home with the kids. The sole babysitter is my sister.. and with finals coming up, I can tell she's getting worn down as well.. but she's here every practice ready to help us out. I'm sincerely grateful to have her.
SO then we took promo pictures on Sunday. We went out to this factory off of 35.. I'm sure most of you have seen it. I went out there in highschool to shoot photos and have had a fond feeling for it since. It's an old run down, crumbling warehouse that has a soul to it... hard to describe. We had to walk through the woods, jump a couple of railroad cars, but we got there with a good hour or so of sunlight to shoot. It was kind of spooky but serene... I made Jared run like a girl but that's another story in itself. Haha... A huge, big ol', fat "thank you" to Rick for lending us his photographic talent! We very much appreciate it.
The guys practiced yesterday and broke down some riffs piece by piece to get Jared over some hurdles. He got our toughest song down.. its all downhill from here. Today is full band, tomorrow is either Dave writing lyrics or guitar sectional (depends on how today goes...), we're off for Turkey, then Friday and Saturday we're practicing again. It's unexplainable.. it feels great!!! It's such a release right now to get in there and pound out these songs. The new one's are fast... so we walk out of there sweaty with sore forearms but with a clear mind.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Steve Di'giorgio is God!
Jen
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Frank: Sorry...
Sorry guys for the lack of the updates...it's been pretty hectic and i'm sure your guys understand....
So here it goes:
We finally got to here Jared sing backup vox last week and lemme tell ya...blew us out of the fucking water man! And that was just the first go 'round!
Keep working on it Jared...it can only get better!
But needless to say...all of the practices last week were awesome! things are getting tighter and we are feeling more and more conditioned as time goes by.
On a technical note. Dave is working real close with Jared to establish/achieve a better guitar tone. When Jared first brought his new stuff to practice, we noticed right away that it was real 'muddy' sounding. Dave said it was the gauge Jareds strings at the time. So since then, Jared has taken his guitar to Gene at Crazy Kat and has had it set up with 50 Gauge strings. But David still wants him to go up to a 54 g at least! It's just more of a tension issue, and plus it makes the staccato riffs sound better and tighter. (Damn...i had to do spell check on that bitch)
Moving on:
Promos pics were cancelled. Brobee got sick and Dave and Jen had to tend to that matter first. They have been rescheduled for this weekend.
Dave and i got together last night for about an hour.
We just went down the list:
Marvel
Ranting's
Switchblade
1 open song
And that was it. David pussed out. Just kidding....I was down to ZERO sticks...so we had to stop...
Full practice on thursday.
Frank
So here it goes:
We finally got to here Jared sing backup vox last week and lemme tell ya...blew us out of the fucking water man! And that was just the first go 'round!
Keep working on it Jared...it can only get better!
But needless to say...all of the practices last week were awesome! things are getting tighter and we are feeling more and more conditioned as time goes by.
On a technical note. Dave is working real close with Jared to establish/achieve a better guitar tone. When Jared first brought his new stuff to practice, we noticed right away that it was real 'muddy' sounding. Dave said it was the gauge Jareds strings at the time. So since then, Jared has taken his guitar to Gene at Crazy Kat and has had it set up with 50 Gauge strings. But David still wants him to go up to a 54 g at least! It's just more of a tension issue, and plus it makes the staccato riffs sound better and tighter. (Damn...i had to do spell check on that bitch)
Moving on:
Promos pics were cancelled. Brobee got sick and Dave and Jen had to tend to that matter first. They have been rescheduled for this weekend.
Dave and i got together last night for about an hour.
We just went down the list:
Marvel
Ranting's
Switchblade
1 open song
And that was it. David pussed out. Just kidding....I was down to ZERO sticks...so we had to stop...
Full practice on thursday.
Frank
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