As I get around to offering up some more insight to some of our videos that have been on the internet for a while I would like to take some time to talk about this one as there are many folks who have asked about it.




This summer we had the honor of performing on the children's-cable-access-dance-party-show: Chica-Go-Go. They film two episodes every Saturday morning and since we were playing Milwaukee Friday and Toledo Saturday we stopped halfway to put on our best show for the kids. I had heard about this show from some friends and lablemates of mine The Telephone Company. Who traveled up to Chicago to be a part of this awesome show. So when planning our tour, I knew this was a place we had to stop. Unfortunately, I didn't do enough research and didn't realize we would be lip-syncing our performance. It seems obvious now, but the thought didn't even cross any of our minds until we were questioned about bringing our amps in. On top of that we, we were told that the camera wasn't going to stop once we finished our interview and that we should just "dance our equipment off stage" as they shot around us. After carefully selecting what parts of the drum set were needed and deciding that "sure! an organ sound could come out of that melodica!" we were ready to go. After our set we all joined in and danced to the rest of the eclectic mix of pop songs for all ages. Here's to you Chica-Go-Go!

Me and Daniel after the show.

Daniel Johnston and other business.

Hey everybody,

I know I promised more updates and video comments on this blog only a few posts ago and believe me, I've been trying. Last week I spent two nights filming and editing a "Fishboy newsletter" video to post and ultimately decided it was a little too mediocre to post on here. Some parts I liked, but in the end I thought I would only be posting it up here for the sake of putting up video content. In short, you deserve better.

So instead of that, let me sum up some of the more important point with text and pictures.

There are two new songs posted up on our myspace page. The first is from the Zac Crain benefit compilation. If you haven't heard yet, Zac is the former Dallas Observer music editor who is now running for mayor of Dallas. For more info, p'fork gave it some nice coverage here. The song we contribute is more of a demo sounding song that has now been fully realized with the live band. It can be broken up into two parts, the latter being a story of how Zac Crain went back in time to shoot JFK to create a landmark for Dallas.

The second song is the long time coming full band version of Louis the Bear featuring our extuba player High-C. This track is coming out on an epic Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records compilation in a few months. More info will be passed out on this soon.

Lastly, we will be opening for Daniel Johnston's band Danny and the Nightmares this Sunday afternoon. It's not everyday that I get to open for one of my heroes and everyone in the band is extremely excited to be able to play this show. Some of the first casset tapes I ever made in middle school with a radio shack microphone were compared to Johnston and it took me a few years before I really "got it" and discovered how generous of a complement that really was. I am forever debt to Johnston's music for being the first to teach me that you don't have to have a slick sounding recording if you write great songs. If you come Sunday, I will be the one with the huge smile on my face.