Has it really been 5 months since I've posted anything on here? Geez....really droppin' the ball!
Well, an awful lot has happened in the last 5 months, let's break it down and then bring ya'll up to speed on what's coming round the bend....
That's all for now! Peace, Love and Rock n Roll!!!!
- Aaron M Howell
#PartyThePlanet #TheFrontLinesOfGoodTimes
Well, an awful lot has happened in the last 5 months, let's break it down and then bring ya'll up to speed on what's coming round the bend....
- 1st and foremost...EUROPE WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!!! Thanks so, so much to everyone who followed the MF Rummage sale, made donations, purchased merch, donated items for auction and flat out loaned us money to make this happen. This was the single greatest experience of our adult lives so far and it would not have been possible without your help and support. Every single show was incredible! We made a lot of new friends, new contacts and learned a lot about life on the road in a foreign land. Thanks to Steve Goldberg for filling in, to John Fate for corralling the cats and Jan Lipkens for Corralling John and driving us around. I think we ought to post a video where we all talk about some of the high points. We do certainly need to share some of these stories because they are hilarious. Stay tuned for that!
- The homecoming show at The Gothic was excellent. We love the stage there and it was just plain awesome seeing all of our friends out there in the crowd. We take a great deal of pride in having such a close relationship with the folks who support our band. All the bands were rock solid too! Muscle Beach, Runaway Slave and Il Cattivo were bad as shit!
- Our short lil trip out to Chicago was also a blast. Great to see all of our friends and play an old favorite The LiveWire Lounge. Mad props to our friends from the Chicago Turbojugend for making that happen. We rocked, we ate good food, we raged and then we limped onto a plane. Thanks to Rob from Love Hope Strength Foundation for getting us into Riot Fest too, that was awesome! Love Hope Strength travels around the country registering and testing people as potential bone marrow donors. They do fantastic work saving lives and you should support their cause by visiting their website http://lovehopestrength.org/.
- In October, we had the immense pleasure of performing with Nick Oliveri's Mondo Generator and Peter Pan SpeedRock. I'm just going to say flat out that you really missed out if you missed this show. Holy hell! Mondo Generator did a bunch of their great songs plus a bunch of Kyuss/QOTSA favorites, PPSR blew us away and we opened the show by jumping out of a giant cardboard cake we made for Nick O's Birthday (Tony's sister is somehow the only person who took video. You can see it HERE.) All in all...a memorable night!
- Parker and I had an interesting Halloween: After doing an early gig w/ White Fudge (Btw...The new WHITE FUDGE album is TITS!), we went over to 3 Kings and performed as an all-male tribute to The Donnas along with our buddies Mike and Yaiko from Six Shooter. We called ourselves THE DONS. It was simultaneously the silliest thing we've ever done as well as the most well received by a female audience.
- Ty and his rad super mega-babe wife Jessi will be having their first child, Carter, any day now. We're all pretty stoked about that! We're gonna be Uncles for the 3rd time since Jerry and Berad had their kids. Pretty exciting stuff!
- We have begun pre-planning and demoing for our next album "The Front Lines of Good Times". I don't want to give away too much, but it's going to be a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi concept album complete with a graphic novel by our good buddy Josh Finley who designed most of our posters as well as the cover for "Thieves of Thunder"
- We're currently in the process of putting together a one-time live event "The History of the Fresh Fudge Family". It's a musical journey through 18 years of music from MF Ruckus, White Fudge and Forth Yeer (Freshman). We'll be performing this show June 8th at the 3 Kings Tavern 10th Anniversary party. More info to come!
- We're in the process of scheduling another tour to Europe, several shows in the US including some shows around our home state of Colorado, so stay tuned for those announcements as well.
- We will also be rescheduling shooting for the "Hall of Champions" video which was postponed last month due to a lack of organization on our part.
- Damn....when you write all this stuff out, it looks like we're up to a lot! High five!
That's all for now! Peace, Love and Rock n Roll!!!!
- Aaron M Howell
#PartyThePlanet #TheFrontLinesOfGoodTimes