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Man that's terrible! That site was unreal. I wonder if he was forcibly shut down.

I was in Brantford during the storm too and it was unreal! I've never seen that kind of devastation after what was basically a 7 minute storm. Thankfully I didn't really see too much property damage (aside from a van with its back window blown out) but lots of tree with big branches torn right down and into the street. I saw one street entirely blocked off because most of a large tree had been pulled right down. Also saw a very old-looking tree completely uprooted and pushed onto a neighbouring house...unreal man. Like the kind of shit you see on the news.

Thanks everybody and ...Sarah, you can check out my page for a whole whack of dates I have over the summer, with more to be added in a few days...this on top of trying to finish my solo record and a full-length with Jawbone, it'll be a busy summer!

More details in a new blog - http://www.myspace.com/thegoodrevoverdrive A while ago me and Cam Malcolm were joking about MySpace hits and he said to me that I probably had the most hits of anybody around who had never actually released any of their own music. So I thought about it and realized I had all these tunes - leftovers from the Achievers, songs that didn't quite fit for Jawbone, other random ditties - and figured I should put them out there. So I sat down to write some more, just to round out the group of tunes, and I think the writing is just about done. I've recorded maybe a half-dozen of the songs, where I play everything from the drums, bass, multiple guitars, pedal steel, and organ, and sing all the parts. Not yet sure if this is the record I'm doing or demos from the record...we'll see in a few weeks I guess. I'm calling it 'Espanola', after a town in Ontario I've never been to. To me it sounds like a Texan trying to say 'Espaniol'. The style falls somewhere between the sweet alt-country of the Surly Young Bucks and the heavy roots-riff rock of Jawbone. There are some moody moments, a couple heavy moments, and definitely some Gram Parsons/Al Perkins moments so far. In any event I had an offer to play this gig and realized that of the 86,000 bands I play with, every single project had a member out of town on June 7. So I took the opportunity to christen the live Espanola counterpart - that is, me, backed by the awesome Northwest Division, four Charlottetown natives now living in Toronto who are an unreal band in their own right. So the gig is tonight, we're playing in the early evening, around 6:15, on the Jackson Square rooftop. It's free of course, and part of a big bash for the Hamilton Commuter Challenge week. Just thought I'd throw the word out there...hope some folks can make it.

I'm incredibly excited to be playing this fest...and with a band that I don't think many of you folks have seen yet. http://www.myspace.com/hamiltonjawbone

Alex McMaster is a gal, dude! And she's a fine cellist at that, she and I both appeared on the Foreign Films' record last year and played a few dates together. I'm playing at the Toronto farewell show with Dan and the Regrets...bittersweet feelings for sure, they've been quite an incredible group. I suspect they'll be quite awesome at these shows though. I have the good fortune to be able to play with Pete Hall quite often these days...as he's the drummer in my new band Jawbone. He also has a new solo project called Blackburn which is awesome. I doubt this is the last you've heard from Mr. Hall...

Somebody oughtta e-mail that guy.

Reminds me (hilariously) of this: and this and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxcS3IiIPVE and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN3momCGyWw and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGjeAPrLog and this

You're the man Marc, keep on keepin it real!

Man, we had a Midnight Shift rehearsal last night and the band is cookin...this other guitar player I'm bringing, Brian Murphy, is a smokin player. Expect lots of Buddy & The Crickets but some other stuff as well...I don't want to give you any spoilers but we'll be moving beyond 1959 at some points for sure...prepare for the first saloon dance party of the summer! And no rain this weekend eh!

I heard an Old Man Luedecke album when I was out East and thought it was awesome! Maybe I should come to this!

Oh man, this is the second happy ending bike story I've read in as many days! If you've got ten minutes, read about how this guy finds his stolen bike on Craigslist and he and a girl he only really knows from Stillepost meet up and reclaim it from the thief: http://www.stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=104958.0

Thanks everybody, you're all too kind! The big 2-5 is hitting me hard, feel like an old man over here. The Burittos are getting me through the work day though. Thanks for the wishes.

Jaydawg I'm trying to consider whether to follow the example of your avatar before the weekend...

Hey, my band The Midnight Shift has just been added to play the Saloon on the Friday night. Lots and lots of Buddy Holly as well as some other favourites, get ready for a super old-school rockabilly dance party! The band is usually a trio but this time we're bringing my buddy Brian Murphy to play guitar, I met him playing in Nick Rose's band. He's a shit-hot country picker, you won't be disappointed. I might even pull out my Letterman sweater: See you all there!

Yes it is, and yes I will!

This record is incredible (ok I played on it) but it's still incredible. Fans of Can-pop-rock take notice...we will look back on this innocent EP fondly for many years, mark my words. The whole things is streaming for free above and you should listen to it!

I sat in with Deromantic on steel at Pepper Jack's a couple weeks ago...sweet band, total Wilco action. The guitar player is awesome! And good songs too.

What year was that? Original guitarist Ed King left the band due to illness in 1996. Guitarist Allen Collins - their most important member outside of Ronnie Van Zandt - died in 1990. Bassist Leon Wilkeson died in 2001. I'm not exactly sure when Artimus Pyle left the band. I believe at best you saw three original memebers. Only two core members exist now in Skynyrd: Gary Rossington and Billy Powell. Lynyrd Skynyrd remain one of the best "non-official" tribute bands, although it feels wrong calling them Lynyrd Skynyrd. It would have been 2001...Leon Wilkeson died just a couple months after the show I saw, on the same tour. I didn't even think that Artimus Pyle was ever a part of the reformed Skynyrd but Allmusic tells me he did one record with them and left in 91. But yeah, I use the term 'half-original' very loosely, I'm pretty sure I was aware at the time that I was only seeing three O.G.'s and a crew of hired guns. It was still a sweet show though.

Man I skipped my high school graduation to see Skynyrd (with Deep Purple and Ted Nugent). I took a lot of shit for it but I don't regret it in the slightest. Fuckin Skynyrd man! Even if they were a half-original abomination. My first concert was Jose Feliciano and Don MacLean at Roy Thompson Hall with my dad. Feliciano was awesome and had a killer band. After that I saw a double bill of Moist and I Mother Earth at the Warehouse as part of a four-night run. Alex Lifeson came out to play with IME who tore the house down. I was in grade 8.

So some of you may know that I have this new band called Jawbone, where I play guitar and sing...it's the only band I'm playing with currently where I don't play pedal steel. I write a bunch for this band too. Joining me are my buddies Adam Melnick (Griff's Regrets, Surly Young Bucks, Achievers), Cam Malcolm (Sweet Homewreckers), and Pete Hall (A Northern Chorus). Check out our MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/hamiltonjawbone . I figure your favourites are going to be Chicken Wing and the Biggest Dig, but there's a bunch of live tracks on there you might dig. We're playing in the Casbah lounge this Thursday with two awesome bands - Kilhuminzu and the Northwest Division. Two of my personal favourite bands in the past little while. Cover is $5 or if you're coming to the Cuff the Duke show in the venue you can slip into our show for nothing. Hope to see some people out!

They used to be a hardcore band, and then got way into Neil Young and Plaskett's Down at the Khyber and went all heavy-folk-rock/popped-up Crazy Horse. I think they're a great band, and my buddies Arkells are opening up. Here are the tunes: http://www.myspace.com/attackinblack http://www.myspace.com/arkellsmusic Both bands have pretty exciting live shows, especially Attack in Black. I'd probably be there if it wasn't Passover.

Well...I played in Fredericton on Friday night and that was awesome...and then played in Ottawa on Saturday night and that was great too. Stayed up too late drinking whiskey, then drove by the Parliament buildings on Sunday on our way home for some much-needed rest.

You rule Brad, thank you for doing this.

Sorry I wasn't able to provide timing last night...we woke up in Fredericton yesterday and headed straight for Dekcuf, loaded in at 9:45 and played at about 10:40. We really had a blast last night...felt really good about our set and were really glad that people dug it. So the tour is over now. Our tour blogs are posted at http://www.myspace.com/dangriffinmusic for anybody interested. They'll be embellished with pictures in the next few days. Sweet show, thanks to everybody that came!