Friends, sorry for the inactivity here. As you may know, APril is hard at work at Columbia University so BLX is down.
Im slowly working on a new band entitled: THE DAMN LOW. More on that to follow once we get our touring legs etc.
THE DAMN LOW song titles:
Big Intro
Hush Hush Hush
The Devils In The House Tonight
My Shotguns Loaded
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Big Outro
Busted (cover. also done by J. Cash and R. Charles)
THE DAMN LOW:
AP Schroder: Vox and guitar
Steve Hash: Drums and Vox
There is some serious talk about doing the first DL show in Greenpoint Bklyn for new years eve. Once all of this is firm ill surely post it and move on to more formal promotional avenues.
Doing touring and recording bands is some weird business. Ive personally got about a half dozen releases under my belt, and roughly 3 worn the fuck out vans in the grave yard somewhere that got me to this point. I guess the cool point of my lineage so far is that I have never had to put a down payment on any of the vans that I have travelled in. Ha. Fuck it. AND all the people that did put the payment in on the van(s) are now retired of touring bands. Go figure.
I take a moment to say thanks to you guys. Thanks for putting up with my stilted optamistic late night drives and and my persuasive booking endeavours... all be it super fucking risky and rambunctious, we had a rad time, and some of us got out alive. (there is stuff here i wont type b/c of the code of the road).
Looking on tho, fair reader, I tread much lighter in my musical quest lately. If we show up late to a rehearsal i wont fret out loud. I may even cancel a rehearsal b/c i got a case of camo high life at my feet.
Lately I am not the once militant young man band leader i once was. This is a new approach. It will be fun, in fact it already is fun as hell.
FOR THE FANS OF BLX: I AM GOING TO KEEP WRITING HERE, MEMOIRS OF LIFE IN NYC AND NEW BANDS... there will however, be a THE DAMN LOW BLOG ETC going up but with little to no text, so keep coming back here if you care about my late night rants etc.
BLAH BLAH BLAH i might know of a few people that read this blog, and a few subscribers. Thanks. It is a late night here in BKLYN and I am all alone w nothing but a 30 pack of beer. Its really not so bad.
Moving on...
APril and I had a great career as BLX. We recently got a letter from Jello Biafra telling us to "not give up". Ha. That says it all I think. One of the first great shows I remember with April was at Devils Point in Portland where we opened for some strippers. It was funny b/c at the time i wasnt involved romantically with her and honestly having strippers flaunt in front of us, as band members, was kind of strange. At that point I wouldnt let myself think of April that way. This show happened at the end of a west coast tour and we were on our way back up to Seattle. Back then we toured the west coast every 3 months or so. It was pretty ambitious.
Back in those days it was super fun to do BLX b/c to me, i was just practicing for all of The Building Press tours that were happening. I really enjoyed those early days with BLX. Also, APril was so focused on the songs she had written for BLX that I couldnt refuse any idea she had. It was pretty special.
The spirit that April has about her music is the only thing that keeps me moving in the whole BLX realm. I have always loved to watch her sing, especially when I am playing guitar.
I remember answering an ad she put up in the stranger (a seattle weekly paper) asking for a 2nd guitarist.
Well, I made contact with her and met her for the first time at a little coffee shop out in front of the old BLX rehersal space, the named "the chop house". She was sitting outside, all golden and glowing..with a coffee and her guitar case propped up against the buillding waiting for me. Nice.
