So i was thinking on my drive home about that statement, and it made want to go back to all the bands in my life. and i made this list and decided to document it here on the interweb. So for 99.9999999% of you this will be boring and warranting skipping. There were other bands, orchestras, chamber ensembles, musicals, one off jam sessions, and solo performances here and there, but I'm counting bands that played real shows.
Cows Eat Pigs/ Analysis Positive('99-'01)- This was my first band. started in 9th grade and went until like 10th ot 11th grade. We played a couple parties but never really played a real show. But seriously, your first band, no matter how bad, is so much fun.
Main Guys:
Steve Peterson- Vocals/Guitar
Jay Roth- Bass
Mark Turley- Drums
Matt Solgatto- Guitar
Marty!('01-'07)- This was the first band i played guitar in. Started in high school, and went off and on through out high school and college... hence the many member changes. never a really great band, but we did alot with what little we had. played a bunch of shows all over NY, recorded and released alot of things ourselves, made a ton of merch, and had a blast the whole time. how many bands can say that?
Main guys:
Mark Turley- guitar/vocals
Adam Wickert- Vocals/guitar
Chris Haverlock- Bass
Dave Parkhurst- Drums
Other guys:
Josh Haverlock- Cello
Nick Streeter- Bass
Kyle Younis- Drums
John Urban- Vocals
Dave Buffum- Guitar
Steve Peterson- Drums
Shows: 52
Places: Syracuse, Binghamton, Rochester, Buffalo, Potsdam
Recordings: 1) Greatest Hits Demo
2) Punk Rock Ninja Stars
3) Evolution EP
4) Live at The Westcott
5) You're Old Enough and You Know Better/We Still Haven't Learned Our Lesson DVD
The Skatastrophies ('04-'05)- This was a ska band that i joined in college and played drums. Half the band loveed ska music, and the other half couldn't find better musicians to jam with. Lots of high energy shows and i must of lost like 30 lbs. playing in this band. At the end of my sophomore year, half the guys didn't want to play ska anymore, and it fell apart.
Main guys:
Mark- Drums
Alex- Bass
Phil- Trumpet
Greg- Guitar
Chris- Trumpet
Brian- Vocals
Other Guys:
John- Vocals
Thomas- Trombone
Shows: 7
Places: Binghamton University
Recordings: none
The Barbers of Mischief ('06-current.. sort of): This was a group of musicians i met playing in the pit orchestra for the musical "Gypsy" at college. A blend of jazz, and funk and all improvised. We had a saying that playing with musicians is like having sex. If you're in a band, its a committed relationship. When you play shows its like having sex. you know what's going to happen when and you know all the guys routines. When you just sit in and jam with random musicians its like a one night stand where if you play something they might not pick it up and run with it... anyways, back to my point... we didn't have songs, we had a collection of riffs everyone knew, and we would just jam on them and they were different orders, lengths, and solos every time we played them. All the guys are now all over the country with various jobs, school, and projects, but when everyone is in the same place we bring it back together. since it needs basically no rehearsal time.
Main guys:
Mark- Drums
Sam- Trombone/vocals
Zach- trumpet
Jack- Keyboards
Shows: 2
Places- Binghamton
Recordings: 1) One Night Stand
The Andrea Doria('07-present): My current baby. A fun energetic, incredibly sarcastic and pessimistic band of so and so's and the reason most of you read this blog. formed at the end of my senior year of college, and has gone on 2 tours accross the midwest, and northeast. going on tour in 3 days across the country and back. enough said.
Main Guys:
Mark Turley- Guitar
Steve Peterson- Vocals/Guitar
Matt Proietta- Bass
Nick Streeter- Drums
Other guys:
Adam Wickert- Guitar
Shows- 41
Places- Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Purchase, Norwich, Binghamton, NYC, Bloomington IN, Memphis TN
Recordings- 1) Live Every Week Like Its Shark Week EP
2) Champagne Dreams on a Beer Budget
Stonelord ('07-Present): My other current project. sounds like if Led Zepplin were born in 1983 and grew up listening to the white stripes. A little different, and not in a scene by a long shot.
Mark- Drums
Brian- Guitars/ Vocals
Barry- Bass
Other guys:
Marvin- Keys
Shows- 46
Places- Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Purchase, Burlington VT
Recordings- 1) Chest Pains
2) Untitled
Lucky 13 ('08-'09) : A cover band formed by some friends at work plays alot of social distortion and johnny cash. Andy went on to in Unholy, and Dave is going to be the next big country sensation or the andrea doria's greatly underpaid and over worked guitar tech or something like that.
Main guys:
Dave "Allyn" Roseboom- vocals/guitar
Mark Turley- bass
Steve Port- drums
Other guys:
Andy Miller- Drums
Shows: 13
Places: Syracuse, Utica, Camden
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
i'm kinda bored so i'll bring you down to speed
I realize that some of you may not be as well acquainted with our history of touring to appreciate the sheer depression and negativity expressed here. so here is a brief recap of the "What The Heck Are You Gonna Do...." Tour from June 2008.
Our adventures began, as most do in downtown Syracuse, NY. We were scheduled to play at the Taste of Syracuse. Once onstage, there was a homeless man screaming at us to "PLAAAAAY!!!! PLAY NOW!!!!!! like i got time to wait through this." I turned to matt and said, "seriously?? he's homeless. where is he going to go and what does he have to do?" and matt replied, "hey! be nice or he'll take his bag of trash and go somewhere else." we played to a decent crowd and everyone seemed to have fun with us.
The next memory i have is us leaving and driving to Buffalo, and once we get off the highway and on to city roads i see a beautiful white steam coming from the hood. Now this may be important to this and future stories: I AM NOT A CAR GUY. never have been, occasionally pretend to be. but i generally have no idea. so as far as i can understand, we should have gotten a preasure release top and instead burned through a shit load of coolant. So i get the the venue, and there's no flyers. and no promoters. and a couple of confused bands. I called our buffalo contact who arranged for us to be on this show, and he put me in touch with the promoter. When i asked where he was, he replied "yeah I'm not coming to the show tonight. i got things to do." Now for my non musician friends, this is bad. like real bad. So we played for the other bands and our friends who came. and one of the bands packed up and left during our set (before they played). So we went to mighty taco with our friend alex. (check out his blog: Nerd To The Core) and we went to get veggie oil from some local restaurant. While we were there scouting out good oil, a police woman came and asked us why were in this parking lot at midnight. We said we were having engine trouble, and she said she would return in like 15 minutes to check on us. we took what we could and went to our friend Ed's place to crash.
the next morning we woke up and went back to take the rest of the oil. and as we worked i noticed that the building next to the restaurant, was an m&t bank. Maybe 6 dudes outside of a bank in a big white van does look a little suspicious. So our next adventure took place in Bloomington IN. Now as some, most or all of you know, Bloomington is nowhere near Buffalo. Since non of us had ever been on tour before, and I have never booked a tour, i tried to plan everything around where were knew people so we would have somewhere to stay. so as we drove we stopped somewhere in OH for gas and Adam (our old guitar player) and Matt had a legendary tiff about money, taking oil, and general tour life. As we pressed on I remember seeing signs for Tom Rapper RV's and i remember thinking that that is the most horrible name for a company especially one that sells large enclosed vehicles, and driving through a rain storm.
When we arrive in Bloomington it is still raining and we called the venue on the way to say we were running late, and they said "we don't have a band playing tonight." to which i said "yes you do, and we're on our way." We get there and there's very few people there and we're like "fuuuuuuuuuuuck... is this even worth playing?" then i saw my friends jack and sarah who traveled pretty far for this. so i figured it was worth playing as a thank you for the effort to them. so we set up wicked fast, and the remaining bar people came up to the band area. we played and by the first song realized something weird and special was happening. We'd never met or seen most of these people before, and they were picking up everything we were putting out and loving it. So we played an awesome show and as we were loading up people weren't letting us get to our van. they were like "when are you coming back??!!" and we were like "we don't even know when we're getting home." so we crashed at Sarah's and the next day had veggie hunting and driving.
well that's it for now. After 2 shows of no promotion, and no one even knowing we were playing this, is where the story starts to get sad and depressing. but i'll catch you up on that in a few days...
Our adventures began, as most do in downtown Syracuse, NY. We were scheduled to play at the Taste of Syracuse. Once onstage, there was a homeless man screaming at us to "PLAAAAAY!!!! PLAY NOW!!!!!! like i got time to wait through this." I turned to matt and said, "seriously?? he's homeless. where is he going to go and what does he have to do?" and matt replied, "hey! be nice or he'll take his bag of trash and go somewhere else." we played to a decent crowd and everyone seemed to have fun with us.
The next memory i have is us leaving and driving to Buffalo, and once we get off the highway and on to city roads i see a beautiful white steam coming from the hood. Now this may be important to this and future stories: I AM NOT A CAR GUY. never have been, occasionally pretend to be. but i generally have no idea. so as far as i can understand, we should have gotten a preasure release top and instead burned through a shit load of coolant. So i get the the venue, and there's no flyers. and no promoters. and a couple of confused bands. I called our buffalo contact who arranged for us to be on this show, and he put me in touch with the promoter. When i asked where he was, he replied "yeah I'm not coming to the show tonight. i got things to do." Now for my non musician friends, this is bad. like real bad. So we played for the other bands and our friends who came. and one of the bands packed up and left during our set (before they played). So we went to mighty taco with our friend alex. (check out his blog: Nerd To The Core) and we went to get veggie oil from some local restaurant. While we were there scouting out good oil, a police woman came and asked us why were in this parking lot at midnight. We said we were having engine trouble, and she said she would return in like 15 minutes to check on us. we took what we could and went to our friend Ed's place to crash.
the next morning we woke up and went back to take the rest of the oil. and as we worked i noticed that the building next to the restaurant, was an m&t bank. Maybe 6 dudes outside of a bank in a big white van does look a little suspicious. So our next adventure took place in Bloomington IN. Now as some, most or all of you know, Bloomington is nowhere near Buffalo. Since non of us had ever been on tour before, and I have never booked a tour, i tried to plan everything around where were knew people so we would have somewhere to stay. so as we drove we stopped somewhere in OH for gas and Adam (our old guitar player) and Matt had a legendary tiff about money, taking oil, and general tour life. As we pressed on I remember seeing signs for Tom Rapper RV's and i remember thinking that that is the most horrible name for a company especially one that sells large enclosed vehicles, and driving through a rain storm.
When we arrive in Bloomington it is still raining and we called the venue on the way to say we were running late, and they said "we don't have a band playing tonight." to which i said "yes you do, and we're on our way." We get there and there's very few people there and we're like "fuuuuuuuuuuuck... is this even worth playing?" then i saw my friends jack and sarah who traveled pretty far for this. so i figured it was worth playing as a thank you for the effort to them. so we set up wicked fast, and the remaining bar people came up to the band area. we played and by the first song realized something weird and special was happening. We'd never met or seen most of these people before, and they were picking up everything we were putting out and loving it. So we played an awesome show and as we were loading up people weren't letting us get to our van. they were like "when are you coming back??!!" and we were like "we don't even know when we're getting home." so we crashed at Sarah's and the next day had veggie hunting and driving.
well that's it for now. After 2 shows of no promotion, and no one even knowing we were playing this, is where the story starts to get sad and depressing. but i'll catch you up on that in a few days...
Friday, June 5, 2009
the positive aspects of negative thinking
well summer is almost officially started, and that means bug bites, sweaty arm pits, and driving aimlessly through the wonder of America and taking in all of its local legends, and tales of misfortune. who knows we may even play a show or two!!
here is the most up to date list of shows this summer:
lets see if i can name these all form memory...
July 2nd- Syracuse, NY @ Singers Kareoke Club
July 3rd- NYC, NY @ Kenny's Castaways
July 4th- Richmond VA @ possibly a house party, possibly crashing a park and just playing
July 5th- Wilmington, NC @ Lucky's
July 6th- Charleston, SC @ Village Tavern
July 7th- Jacksonville, FL @ CD Connection
July 9th- Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
July 11th- Pensacola, FL @ The Handlebar
July 12th- New Orleans @ Bank Street Bar
July 15th- San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
July 16th- El Paso, TX @ Badlands Billiards
July 17th- Tuscon, AZ @ The Living Room
July 18th- Los Angeles @ The Rainbow Room
whoo hoo not bad mark! Still working on July 8th in either Orlando or Gainsveille, July 10th in Tallahassee, July 13th in Baton Rouge, LA, and July 14th in Houston, TX. So if anyone can help out, please do.
Due to a change in plans because of jobs and such on July 19th, Steve will be flying home, and the remaining members of this traveling circus will be driving the Stockholm back across this land of opportunity. (which will consist of getting to vegas and placing all of our merch money on red.) Also, we put a new song up on our myspace. check it out! www.myspace.com/theandreadoriaband
ok, well time to go to bed and plan for the next few weeks of gathering the goods we need for tour, learning more songs, and training Colin how to drive the Stockholm.
PS: sorry to whoever's mailbox in Canastota i backed the Stockholm into the other day. i'm not that good at doing 3 point turns with it. I just have to learn how to drive it because i play guitar
here is the most up to date list of shows this summer:
lets see if i can name these all form memory...
July 2nd- Syracuse, NY @ Singers Kareoke Club
July 3rd- NYC, NY @ Kenny's Castaways
July 4th- Richmond VA @ possibly a house party, possibly crashing a park and just playing
July 5th- Wilmington, NC @ Lucky's
July 6th- Charleston, SC @ Village Tavern
July 7th- Jacksonville, FL @ CD Connection
July 9th- Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
July 11th- Pensacola, FL @ The Handlebar
July 12th- New Orleans @ Bank Street Bar
July 15th- San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
July 16th- El Paso, TX @ Badlands Billiards
July 17th- Tuscon, AZ @ The Living Room
July 18th- Los Angeles @ The Rainbow Room
whoo hoo not bad mark! Still working on July 8th in either Orlando or Gainsveille, July 10th in Tallahassee, July 13th in Baton Rouge, LA, and July 14th in Houston, TX. So if anyone can help out, please do.
Due to a change in plans because of jobs and such on July 19th, Steve will be flying home, and the remaining members of this traveling circus will be driving the Stockholm back across this land of opportunity. (which will consist of getting to vegas and placing all of our merch money on red.) Also, we put a new song up on our myspace. check it out! www.myspace.com/theandreadoriaband
ok, well time to go to bed and plan for the next few weeks of gathering the goods we need for tour, learning more songs, and training Colin how to drive the Stockholm.
PS: sorry to whoever's mailbox in Canastota i backed the Stockholm into the other day. i'm not that good at doing 3 point turns with it. I just have to learn how to drive it because i play guitar
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