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Feliz Ano Nuevo

Ringing in the new year. Hard at work for you guys in the mixing studio…hence the boats. Check out our youtube channel for some fun clips and stuff: www.youtube.com/whoisden
Our new years resolution, finish this album and find a way to get it to the masses…hence the boats.

Hurt So Good

Last night was my birthday, and what better way to celebrate then a packed homecoming show. Thanks for coming and enjoying my birthday suit and our moustaches.

Here's some pictures thanks to Dorian Kahles Photography:

BACK TO LA!

Quick Update:  We finished the bulk of our tour in early October and moved into a dome-shaped house outside of Austin to record what will become our debut LP to be released in 2009.  After a couple more shows in Austin and a dead sprint across the country, we're back on our way to LA for a show at The Good Hurt in the Venice Beach area.

We've got new songs, a new album in the works, and big plans.  We all look a bit haggard from 2 months living on the road out of a Suburban, and some grand moustaches have sprouted in that time, but hopefully we can refuel over the holidays. 

Recording Documentary Sans Words

Austin Again. Momo's.

We left our den of seclusion in the woods for the opportunity to play up on 6th Street in Austin at a place called Momo's.  Less broken beer bottles than the last show, and it was nice to get back to civilization, I shaved my neck especially for the show.  Kurt got lost and took a taxi cab back to the woods.

Life: Version Den

Recording in a studio flop house outside of Austin.

Choose your own adventure:

Morning:
Wake up and-
A. Record your instrument
B. Engineer the recording of someone else’s instrument
C. Drink a modelo or espresso and whiskey
D. Throw the football for 4 hours
E. Shoot cans with the daisy bb gun
F. Drive to the alberstons in New Braunfels to buy more modelos looking down when in the checkout line to realize you are wearing dirty gym shorts, cutoff sleeves of a thermal shirt as leg warmers, a white tshirt covered in sharpie, and your disheveled beard is only trumped by your disheveled hair (yet, you somehow still leave with the checkout girls number)

Repeat for 2.5 weeks

The Tour Is OVER

Having seen more cities in the US in the past month than I have in 25 years of existence, I feel blessed with such an experience and a small sense of relief that it is over, and I still have my life. Wasn't sure we were going to make it out of Denver alive, or Lake Tahoe, for that matter. So what's next?

Well, we've rented a house out in the wilderness about a half hour outside of Austin, and if this is the last blog post, you will at least have a general idea of where our bodies are buried. We're setting up a studio and we're beginning work on a full album, maybe you could say that little stretch of touring was just practice for this...

Austin Is Wierd...

...but so are we.  Our boys Earnie Banks from Houston and Airline from Dallas came and joined us at Cain & Abel's for a Saturday night show down by the University of Texas.  Broken beer bottles were afoot, and even one of the ceiling fans was torn down by someone wearing a cowboy hat with a chair.  Some places in Austin, you won't find stereotypical Texans, but you did here.  Good times and a ridiculously large bartab helped the confusion of waking up 2 hours north of Austin in a dirt parking lot?  How the hell did that happen?

Check out Airline

Maybe THIS is the real SOUTH

NEW ORLEANS AND BATON ROUGE.

We skirted the outside of the French Quarter to dodge the trannies and such and played down on Banks Street.  Strong showing from Tulane, well done. 

Baton Rouge put us on the radio, got some true airtime for "A Song" and plunked out a live in-studio version of "Commonwealth Girl", with acoustic guitars and a sweet kawasaki keyboard that Andy couldn't stop raving about.  Magik Fox, you rock our magik socks off.

Thanks to Green Frog Entertainment for setting us up for the showcase on their Indie Lounge night at Triple A Bar, we will definitely be coming back to Baton Rouge...

Hurricane Couldn't Touch 2nd Houston Show

Maybe shoulda been cancelled due to the hurricane, the AC was down and it was probably 120 degrees 80% humidity. The bartenders had been without power for 2 weeks, hats off. We had fun in the sweltering humidity, I'd do it again.

Dallas: Sold Out, Houston: Underwater

The Green Elephant reached capacity, good sign. It's nice to have support in the Southwest, hopefully the trend continues when we leave Texas to return to the United States.

Had a gig cancelled in Houston due to power outages from the hurricane. But it looks like power is back up at our Houston show for tonight, so we shall be leaving Dallas shortly.

Our run is nearing an end and although many of us are violently ill, no one is dead. Late nights, long drives, and lots of cities have taken their toll, but we're still moving. Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Austin this week. Rock on Den.

We Lost Our Gig in the Hurricane

Houston show cancelled by this:

Pics From The Green Elephant, DALLAS

DENton?

I've never heard of Denton, but supposedly there's a college here...and it Denton does have Den in it.

Fun Quotes from The Tour

Lake Tahoe, 3am

"Follow this guy on the motorcycle, he's going to take us to our money".

Denver, 4am, Under A Parking Garage

Paramedic: "We got a call that there were some dead bodies under here, you guys probably shouldn't sleep here."

UP date

It's not as easy to find internet access across this desolate cow field of a country as you would think, thus the congruent desolate nature of the blog. Well, maybe it's easy, but our priority at most stops has been finding the cheapest whisky as quickly as we can before making the next 6 hours to get to the next gig.

Everyone is alive, and we have made enough money to pay for gas and whiskey. What more could we ask for. We've made it to Dallas and have a little more than a week to go. Houston may be underwater so we might not be able to play our two shows there. Two nights ago we won the Habitat for Humanity battle of the bands in Fayetteville, Arkansas to get a $250 gift certificate to a music store, unfortunately they didn't sell whiskey.

Arkansas, who knew?

George's Majestic Lounge.  We won the Battle of the Bands. Woo...hoo...

The U.S. is FLAT

                    Denver to Albuquerque to Oklahoma City to Arkansas is a nice little drive. Truck starts to smell worse and worse.  I think someone will die.

Arvada, Boulder, Denver. CO.

3 shows to cover a grand triumvirate of Colorado college town, classy suburb, and big city.

Notes: Adjust drinking for altitude (Drew), it is a mile high city. 

Thanks Russ for putting us up, Denver rocks.  Andy's birthday saw us sleeping under a parking garage because our sober drummer left us for dead, thanks.  We awoke to paramedics who thought we were dead, boy we fooled them!

These pics are from our show at Owsley's Golden Road in Downtown Denver, one of the coolest venues ever, a maze of huge gallery-like rooms and bartenders who will tell you about the magical powers of gemstones.

Shit, we have to be in Albuquerque tonight...DRIVE!