I played Madison Square Garden tonight with Matt Nathanson. We opened for O.A.R with Gomez. It was sold out and O.A.R. taped a live DVD. I thought we killed it. We also had a new drummer named Lyle Molzan. He’s a Canuck from Toronto and plays with Jann Arden. He is a total bad ass and the band has NEVER sounded so good. I’ll post some more pictures later. What a great experience!
So much has been happening lately. I’ve been recording the new Tenlons Fort record with Jack Gibson. I’ve also been busy playing local shows with Suzanna Choffel, Erin Condo, Sarah Glynn, Craig Marshall, Jade Day and Dave Madden but I’m about to hit the road again. January 12th through the 23rd I’ll be playing bass with a fantastic singer/songwriter named Brett Dennen. He is a mix of Dylan, Paul Simon and Jack Johnson. He opened for the last leg of Matt Nathanson’s tour last year. I finish out this month in NY with Matt and we are playing a show at the world famous Madison Square Garden opening up for O.A.R. and Gomez.
We finish Matt’s record in L.A. in February and then I jump back on Brett’s tour in Lexington, KY on the 19th and I’m with him until March 18th in Dallas. We’ll be playing some shows during SXSW and I’ll get to be on tour and sleep in my own bed at the same time. That’s the way it should always be.
Go listen to Brett (iTunes) and check out his MySpace.
The tour dates for our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf are starting to come in, so here are a few. You can find out more info here.
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I’m playing on KVRX 91.7 FM tonight with Suzanna Choffel as part of Local Live. We play from 10 – 11 PM. I think there will be an archive of the show online if you miss it. You can also listen live online via Real Player (STREAM) at the KVRX website. I love playing with Suzanna. It’s pretty much the perfect gig for what I do as a bass player.
EDIT: The show was a blast. Here is a clip of Weeds. SCWeeds
HERE are some pictures from the taping.
Things are gearing back up with Matt Nathanson. There have only been a few fly out shows this year with some recording in the spring. We have a gig opening for Train at The Greek Theater in Berkeley next week and then the tour starts up on September 15th with our show at the Austin City Limits Festival. Then there are a few days of rehearsing and the rock starts in L.A. at the Roxy as part of our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf. They have some great songs and I hear they are great live. It should be a blast and it will end sometime in November. More dates to come.
Such a colorful weekend. I play tonight at Momo’s with Jade Day and tomorrow with Blu Sanders. I’m playing the ol’ doghouse bass with both of them with lots of bowing on both gigs. Jade has been a weekly gig for the past month or so, but it’s been years since I’ve played Blu. He lives in Nashville now. I really miss playing with him and I’m psyched to play with him and Jason White (drums) again and we’ll have Aben Eubanks on guitar. Aben and I played together in Matt Nathanson’s band and now you’ll find him playing with Kelly Clarkson.
We did a co-headlining show at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island with LifeHouse. I always forget that Matt is so big in the North East that a University would booked us us on a co-headlining show with a band that has several huge singles. I guess it goes to show how a grass roots following can have a similar impact as a shit load of radio airplay. The show went as well as can be expected considering it was in a gymnasium and we were using rented back line gear. I twisted up my knee after the third song, so I gimped around on stage the best that I could. We got to see some of our favorite fans, which is nice since we probably won’t do a full tour until the fall at the earliest. Matt wants (needs) to finish tweaking lyrics for the new album which is basically ready to go as far as the band is concerned, so that is a priority this summer. I know we have some fly-out gigs in June like the Ever-fine festival in Cleveland and a KFOG radio show in San Jose.
LifeHouse are a bunch of great guys and they write some incredible pop songs. I think they are cursed with being the guys that have songs that everyone has heard, but no one can name the band that does them. Or maybe that’s just me.
Matt is out doing a short solo tour for his new solo acoustic record, but we are all meeting up in Texas so we can play some full band shows. We will be playing a bunch of new songs from the upcoming new record.
Wednesday March 22, 2006 8:30 PM
TENLONS FORT record release party.
Celebrate the first edition of Haunted Maggot records
“The Golden Handshake”
at Cactus Cafe
2247 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78734
w/ special guests Brother Will and Friends
this is a free show!!!
please buy the new record and support the wonderful Cactus Cafe by
drinking and listening.
Tenlons Fort presents “The Golden Handshake”.
All songs written and produced by Jack Gibson. This debut record was
recorded July 2005 at Rockhouse Studios in Liberty Hill, Texas.
Engineered and Recorded by John Thomasson whom also played Upright
Bass, Electric Bass, and Cello Bass. Assistant engineer Joseph Cordi
provided Piano, Accordian and Horns, and Paul Schlichting played the
Drums Banjo, and Percussion.
Tenlons Fort has toured and shared the stage with Dolorean, Damien
Jurado, Amy Annelle & The Places, Crooked Fingers, The New Mexican
Revolution, Ian Moore, Jeff Hanson & Holy Sons.
Previous Releases:”Last Days” soundtrack, a film by Gus Van Sant,
featuring the Tenlons Fort song “Believe” available on MK2 records
(France) “The Pain is Still Alive” underground CD-R (2004)
The week is turning into a beast of week for me. It makes me want to go hide in a hole, but I know I’ll love it once it all starts.
Official SXSW show
March 17th 8:00 PM:
Maggie Walter’s (Eclectic Pop) showcase at COPA
Pirate SXSW Showcases All Free
March 15th:
Craig Marshall (Melodic Pop) at South by South Austin 909 West Mary Street. 8 PM Outside Stage
March 16th:
Aimee Bobruk (Indie Folk) at Becks on South Congress 2 PM
Melissa Greener (Eclectic Folk) at the GoGirls Music Fest at Trophy’s at 2008 S. Congress. 9:15 PM
March 17th:
Seahorse (Beautiful, jazz and country inspired rock) at the new Joes Coffee on 2nd street 3:00 PM
Craig Marshall at Rockin’ Tomato
3003 S. Lamar, Suite F150 5 PM
March 18th:
Tenlons Fort (Elliot Smith inspired symphonic pop) at Woody’s South Austin, TX 7pm
March 19th
Flipnotics w/ Craig Marshall at 7:00 PM and Jade Day (Jeff Buckley-ish) at 9:00 PM
iTunes Music
Maggie Walters
CD BABY
Tenlons Fort