I’ve been neglecting this blog like so many adults neglect children on Law and Order: SVU. More info coming soon on how we plan to remedy that.
Here you go! One of the songs off our first release, the song is Who Punched Pat Moore’s Face. You can hear more tunes and friend us via our Myspace (but honestly, who besides bands, uses myspace?).
We are back to school and with that comes hours spent in the library, our shitty jobs, Merk yelling at us, and getting the Cattle Drums ship back out to sea. Our first release is going to be in our hands pretty soon and we couldn’t be more pumped. Right now it is being mastered by Steve Sopchak, this dude is a wizard and does a great job keeping up state NY on the map. Check out The Square Studio. With all this excitement I thought it might nice to share the album cover with you all (y’all)..
Like Vic always told me, keep it simple. And I think that this accomplishes that idea very well. Also there will be details on the release show/party (emphasis in party) soon and a chance to hear the recordings even sooner.
(This song is called “Bovrg the Nag”)
So the first two days of the year could not have gone better. Both shows were real sick, like small pox sick! Zona Mexicana, Sports, The Dan Drake Ensemble, and Sirs are all bands that you need to give some attention to. We played in one of the nicest homes I’ve ever been allowed into in Ridgewood NJ and by contrast the house in West Chester PA was in one of the coolest locations I’ve ever been too (a huge industrial area full of car dealerships). The drive home was one of the worst things I’ve ever done for these reasons:
That being said, I’d do it all again in a fart-beat.
After a night of getting kicked out bars we’re heading out to do a weekend of shows and parties. Jan 1st is Ridgewood NJ and the 2nd is West Chester PA. Needless to say we’re pumped that they are both house shows. Don’t let the the cops know about Sam being with us.
(this is one of the coolest flyers I’ve ever seen, props to whoever made it)
In other news, the album is about ready to go out for mixing and the art work is done, despite Darin hating everything I come up with. So our songs will be able to climb in your ears and lay eggs the same way spiders do when you sleep on the couch at 16 Church st. With the spring semester and a new decade right around the bend we’ll be looking forward to the following things:
Cheers to the new year!
With a pair of gnarly shows on the horizon and the weight of school off our butts for a bit the Cattle Drums engine moves along. Back at our first show there were two young ladies taking pictures. These are some of the low-lights of that night.
(thanks for all the brews Nick!)
Thanks to chelsea and Leigh for their fine photography.
We had our first show this past weekend and we could not have asked for a better time. (Besides the overly long klezmer intro) All the bands killed it, absolutely killed it. And why should the Cattle Drums doom train stop moving? It shouldn’t thats why. We’ve got some shows already in the works for the new year with our pals in Zona Mexicana. dickButt is hard at work mixing the as-of-yet untitled EP. Until then here’s is a little piece of “inspiration”…
“Thanks Biddy”
The day started with Darin drinking two cups of coffee and not calming down for the next 3127469 hours. The house shook for the next 6 hours as Pat and Gulab recorded clean and not so clean guitars. Something needs to be said for the way these two nail things on the first try, even Fatman (dickButt’s second half) was impressed and nominated Pat for a dickButt medal of honor (not that I think it’s worth much, anywhere). 
(Gulab preparing to strangle Darin or myself)
After the loud stuff was done we pulled out the Banjo and the Acoustic to add the extra flavor and shape to some of the songs.
Now it was Sam’s time to shine, and shine he did. But something over shadowed his vocal performance and that was his butts reaction to the aloe vera juice he drank. I’ve heard some farts in my day but what he did brought us to tears in the best and worst sense.
All and all we got everything we could get done in the time we had done and now the rest is up to our good buddies at dickButt. Recording is a long and strenuous project but it’s already worth it. We can’t thank Mama Natoli enough for her overwhelming hospitality and tolerance of 5 stinky dudes making here home too loud for a non-stop weekend. And to Fatman and Mike we owe you more than all the doo doo juice in the world.
Songs will be ready for listening soon.
Gettin’ there.
So we are well into day two of recording and I thought this would be good time to share some updates about how day one went. Sam, Gulab, and I (Jarad) left cold and wet Oneonta bound for Albany to pick up Darin. After a quick stop at dunkin’ dounuts where Sam was questioned about asking for Kat-soup (ketchup). We journeyed down to sunny Suffern NY, home of dickButt studios. Drums took about 4 or 5 hours and we rewarded ourselves by watching Natoli play in the alumni hockey game. His goalie prowess is a bit lacking but his recording ability more than makes up for it. Apples to oranges you know. After the game we stated in on Bass.
(Sam ate that camera soon after this photo was taken)
Darin wrapped up his parts with time enough to watch the end of “50 First Dates”, which we all agreed is not Adam Sandlers best work and none of us give two shits about whats-her-face Barrymore. We cracked open some post-beer-and-tracking Champaign and called it a night.
P.S. Look who’s back in our life…
(my head is there to block out the sun)
Tomorrow starts guitars, vocals, and weird shit.
