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Monday, February 2, 2009
January 2009 Thoughts
Alright! Here is my first official blog of 2009!
I've been trying to think back on the times we had at the shows in January so I can bring out some fun key parts. We started it out at a bar/ski resort in New Hampshire. Apparently it has revamped itself and weened out the crazies cuz it was a really fun place to be at! All kinds of music to put on from a juke box hanging on the wall to Deer Hunter video games and a pool table. No cell phone service though! I'm so dependent on my cell phone, it's sick. The way the lights were set up in there made a cool reflection from something on the wall:
At one of the shows in Massachusetts, a woman had brought her daughter that was probably about 5 years old. She was super smart (and adorable!) and I ended up playing with her all night. She saw me taking pictures and wanted to try, so I let her put my camera around her neck and try and take some pictures. She was stealing my job for sure! She took some pretty cute pics!:
Chris with his now old school banjo.
We also ended the month with a few shows in the home state of Massachusetts! Bill's Bar in Boston is such a fun (and close!) place for a show. The band had a good turnout despite the snow falling down at a pretty fast rate! By the last show of January, Chris had a new electric banjo, woot!
Nice, eh?
The final show of January was in Vermont at a military school benefit show. I had the pleasure of sitting through almost all of the bands that played, and let me tell you, it was a pretty eclectic mix of genres! First a jam band, then a pop rock band, then a hardcore band, then a pop rock band again, then Oneside (aka pop rock with a banjo, as I like to call them :P). It made for an interesting transition, that's for sure! I lost my lenscap to my professional SLR camera, so while i'm waiting for it I have to use my point and shoot camera while on the road. I just got it so I started playing with the settings on it at this show, and I got a pretty cool raw black and white shot!:
That is all for now! I'll write more when I have a funny picture or story to tell. :)
I've been trying to think back on the times we had at the shows in January so I can bring out some fun key parts. We started it out at a bar/ski resort in New Hampshire. Apparently it has revamped itself and weened out the crazies cuz it was a really fun place to be at! All kinds of music to put on from a juke box hanging on the wall to Deer Hunter video games and a pool table. No cell phone service though! I'm so dependent on my cell phone, it's sick. The way the lights were set up in there made a cool reflection from something on the wall:
At one of the shows in Massachusetts, a woman had brought her daughter that was probably about 5 years old. She was super smart (and adorable!) and I ended up playing with her all night. She saw me taking pictures and wanted to try, so I let her put my camera around her neck and try and take some pictures. She was stealing my job for sure! She took some pretty cute pics!:
Chris with his now old school banjo.
We also ended the month with a few shows in the home state of Massachusetts! Bill's Bar in Boston is such a fun (and close!) place for a show. The band had a good turnout despite the snow falling down at a pretty fast rate! By the last show of January, Chris had a new electric banjo, woot!
Nice, eh?
The final show of January was in Vermont at a military school benefit show. I had the pleasure of sitting through almost all of the bands that played, and let me tell you, it was a pretty eclectic mix of genres! First a jam band, then a pop rock band, then a hardcore band, then a pop rock band again, then Oneside (aka pop rock with a banjo, as I like to call them :P). It made for an interesting transition, that's for sure! I lost my lenscap to my professional SLR camera, so while i'm waiting for it I have to use my point and shoot camera while on the road. I just got it so I started playing with the settings on it at this show, and I got a pretty cool raw black and white shot!:
That is all for now! I'll write more when I have a funny picture or story to tell. :)
Monday, January 19, 2009
Before Bed Thoughts...
So I've been thinking about this blog and what it means to me, as well as the band. My original plan for this blog was to get people into Oneside through it. To see how fun they are and how good they are at what they do, as well as give myself a chance to write about the fun through text and photographs. But, as I started getting into writing this blog the past few months, I realize it started to lack something.
It started off funny and sarcastic, which is what myself and the guys totally are, and it came off great at first! But then I lost that spark, and it turned into merely a pictorial blog of almost all performance pictures.
Jake and I had a chat about 2 months ago about how I should try and focus on the behind the scenes stuff, not just the show. He was totally right then, and he still is now. I started to do that, yet I'm still writing the same blog entries.
I have so much more to offer. And so do these guys. Yes, I can take a few good show shots and talk about the show in general, but what about those funny moments that everyone would love to read about? Like when Ned wore the hat his mom knitted him religiously everywhere we went last time we were in Vermont, and all we did was joke about how it made him look like such a nice person. Or the time when we drove to Ned's house in the middle of a bad ice storm and had to take back roads that we compared to Narnia. Or the late night drives where Jake and I are the only ones awake and we sing along to amazing bands like Kings of Leon. I could keep going, but the story would be better with some pictures, right? :)
From now on, I think I'll write blogs a little less (as in not for every single show so that I don't lose sight of my objective), but they will have so much more fun detail and pictures.
I have about a month of stories to catch up on, we've had a ton of fun this past month (especially with all the snow), so stay tuned for my next blog, coming soon, that might even have some pictures from the stories I told above.
Point is, I spend most of my weekends (and some late weeknights/mornings) with these guys. Traveling, planning, helping, selling, promoting, shamlessly plugging, etc, and we are like family now. They are my brothers. And I want to extend our family to you, the Oneside family.
Stay tuned!
It started off funny and sarcastic, which is what myself and the guys totally are, and it came off great at first! But then I lost that spark, and it turned into merely a pictorial blog of almost all performance pictures.
Jake and I had a chat about 2 months ago about how I should try and focus on the behind the scenes stuff, not just the show. He was totally right then, and he still is now. I started to do that, yet I'm still writing the same blog entries.
I have so much more to offer. And so do these guys. Yes, I can take a few good show shots and talk about the show in general, but what about those funny moments that everyone would love to read about? Like when Ned wore the hat his mom knitted him religiously everywhere we went last time we were in Vermont, and all we did was joke about how it made him look like such a nice person. Or the time when we drove to Ned's house in the middle of a bad ice storm and had to take back roads that we compared to Narnia. Or the late night drives where Jake and I are the only ones awake and we sing along to amazing bands like Kings of Leon. I could keep going, but the story would be better with some pictures, right? :)
From now on, I think I'll write blogs a little less (as in not for every single show so that I don't lose sight of my objective), but they will have so much more fun detail and pictures.
I have about a month of stories to catch up on, we've had a ton of fun this past month (especially with all the snow), so stay tuned for my next blog, coming soon, that might even have some pictures from the stories I told above.
Point is, I spend most of my weekends (and some late weeknights/mornings) with these guys. Traveling, planning, helping, selling, promoting, shamlessly plugging, etc, and we are like family now. They are my brothers. And I want to extend our family to you, the Oneside family.
Stay tuned!
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