l8r boi to everybody in gobfans land....
i know, i know, i know, i know, i know! fuck!
it has been a very, VERY long time since i have posted on here. there really is no excuse for this kind of delay. i suck as a blogger!
as a gob blogger anyway. i'm sure that if i had a personal blog i could babble on incessantly about all kinds of retarded shit that i think about. but when it comes time to writing about the band, i draw blanks! go figure?
but the time has come and now i feel that it is my duty to personally inform you of some recent (and maybe not so recent) happenings here in the gobdom.
tours!
we have done a lot of touring since i last posted. thanks to everyone in japan, canada and the US for coming to the shows. for the most part, the shows were awesome! i'm not about to dig into my diary and give you little anecdotes from all the shows, you were there, you have your memories and if you weren't at the show, then too bad! you should come to the show next time and you'll see what it's all about.
i will say this though, japan was even better the second time. thank you Japan! (Nippon Ichi Ban!)
news!
we are no longer on arista records. i know! this is hardly "new"s but i'm sure you would like to hear it straight from us. the story is fucking boring really, we could talk for hours about arista's problems all of their firings, hirings, droppings, etc. but i am not the least bit interested in that. the bottom line is: we didn't sell a million records, so they aren't all that excited about working with gob. fortunately, we got out of our contract no problem, free to do whatever we like, and we will be happy to be on a label more suitable to gob, which brings me to the most exciting part of this post, the only part that really matters.
NEW GOB RECORD!
that's right kids! we are presently writing a new record that we aim to record sometime in the next few months. not much to say about it now, i don't want to go letting the cat out of the bag or anything.
more news.
again, most of you are already aware of this. due to artistic differences, craig wood is no longer part of gob, he will now strum his guitar for avril lavigne.
sad, but true.
we will go ahead and make our record as a 3 piece. for those that don't understand how a record is made, don't worry! there will definitely be bass on the record. it just wont be played by craig. if we find the right person by the time we record the record, they may play on it or maybe we'll get, i don't know, sid vicious, or the guy from the replacements or maybe jaco pastorius. i hear that dead guys play better. one thing i know for sure, no matter how you slice it, this record will have the best fucking bass EVER on a gob record.
anyway, good luck to craig.
in the meantime, our good friend john franco will be playing bass at our live shows. being that he is the star vocalist for the band byathread, he is overqualified for a bass only position but maybe we can get him to do some italian opera singing at our shows. anyway, it's great have him aboard.
we did a show at mount tremblant this past weekend and it was awesome. we are concentrating on writing a record so we aren't playing many shows but we do have a couple in whistler later in the month so get your asses out to rock with us.
well, I'm gonna chill with gabe and iggy.
l8r.
posted by tom at 5:44 PM
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