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Thursday, October 25th 2007:
Well what can I say...The Moistboyz and Sound
of Urchin just fucking kicked ass last Wednesday! The most rock I have seen on a Wednesday for a long time. Nice fucking guys every last one of em too.
I can't say enough good things about them and their music. I heard we even played well. I don't buy into that though...haha.
It was my first gig with the ASSMASTER and I am a happy camper. Fuzz and ass together again!
I would like to take a moment and sing the praises of an unsung
hero. Trucker John our drummer. He is usually hiddedn behind a wall of amps and smoke so he doesn't get the praise he deserves.
Next time you see Trucker John, buy him a drink and tell him what an unsung hero he is and that he has a great ass. Here's to you and your great ass Trucker John! Kampai!
As many of you know every year I make a trek up to the Northwest to visit with my old buddy and Indian Casino Records president Jack Bensonhurst in Seattle. Every year Jack and I party our asses off until we're almost dead and then roll some tape and record a song. The first year I went up there Jack and I witnessed a murder. True story. Some crack deal gone bad or whatever but we saw a guy get his throat slashed and then had to identify the dude that killed the other guy. We even saw the slashed guy i his death rattle. Not really pleasant at all but that's life and death for ya. It was my first trip to Seattle and nothing, not even witnessing a murder was going to ruin my vacation. I earned it! After the ending of lives and the capture of the other guy we went and had sushi. We recorded our first song entitled "Murder and Sushi" thus starting a tradition of recording a song together at the end of my visit. We have since lost Murder and Sushi and a few others in some moves and computer crashes but I thought it'd be nice to share what we've been working on for the last couple of years.
This year we had a Breathalyzer to document just how much damage we did to our bodies and how much over the legal limit we still were when we woke up the next morning. I believe at the height of recording these tracks both of us were blowing in the .33/.35 range so it's actually a miracle these songs even exist or were recorded at all.
We'll add a new one every year, but you can go ahead and make you pre-orders now for the album should be done around 2015.
Enjoy The Pungent
Sound
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Wednesday, October 17th 2007:
Well if you missed the Inebriated
Conclusion at the Wreck a few weeks ago you missed one hell
of a good time. The Me-Thinks headlinging anything is a bad idea
but for the final Saturday night at the Wreck it was perfect! Drunken
tomfoolery abound! We all had a great time and I hope you all did
too. The Wreck will be missed of course. That's been our home away
from Haltom City for 10 and a half years now and I am sorry to see
it go. But like Carl said to me the other night...it's only a building.
He's right. We'll all just move down the street to Lola's and set
up shop there and it should be like old times...but with working
bathrooms for the time being.
I also just returned from the Great Pacific Northwest for my annual
Indian Casino Shareholders meeting in Seattle. Don't let the big
name fool you, it was just me and Ole Jack Bensonhurst getting gooned
from morning till night. Drinking glass after glass of Dutchesse
de Bourgone and eating pub
food everyday. Made it down to Portland too and crawled around
that towns pubs as well. Rogue rules Oregon and rightly so. Check
out Sassy's too if you're ever up there. Ask a cabbie, they'll know
exactly where it is! Good times! Jack's a great host and if you're
ever up in the Seattle area. If you get him drunk you can sleep
in the Snakepit for free!
In the immortal reversed words of Toby Keith...enough about me
let's talk about you...You will be at 6th Street Live in beautiful
Fort Worth, Texas tonight. Why you say? Well tonight we open for
two great bands both hailing jointly from New Hope, PA. and Brooklyn
NY. ...Sound
of Urchin and the Moistboyz.
They are on tour and they need you to be there! As a show of their gratitude for you making it out on a Wednesday. Everyone gets a copy of SOU's new CD with admission!
I told you they were cool! See you Goons there.
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Monday, September 17th 2007:
Listen, I am real sorry I haven't been posting as often as I should. What can I say besides I am lazy and we are busy?
I was removed and banned for life from a Southwest Airlines flight
for what they deemed too SEXY and showing too much cleavage. Too
hot to fly I guess. Trucker John lost his long running law suit
to have the term "Well Hell Yeah" copyrighted. Bandy's busy with
his Rodeo Clown certifacation right now and is doing really well
in the classes down at the Stock Yards. Marlin is still dazzling
people with his one man Meatloaf tribute - A
Touch of Meatloaf and is getting rave reviews from the dinner theater crowds he draws. All in all, we're all pretty busy besides our duties in the Me-Thinks.
We did manage to reschedule court dates, classes and tribute shows well enough to play the VERY LAST SATURDAY NIGHT at the WRECK ROOM...EVER! It's
going to be Saturday, September 29th. Come on down because it won't be there for more than 48 hours after we play. You can say goodbye to the Wreck and you can be part of the INEBRIATED CONCLUSION with us...your hosts...the Me-Thinks
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Thursday, July 26th 2007:
Well kids, I hate to say it but we had a great time over in Assassination
City (that's Dallas's nickname I learned). The crowd was great,
the bands were great, the club was great...all in all a good fucking
time. I don't think the club liked our smoke machine though. Oh
well. We're definitely going to have to do it again and this time
maybe we could do a "tour" and play a show with the Gringos in Fort
Worth even.
I talked to and saw a lot of relics out there that night. I got
to meet Jeff from the Hickoids, lots of old Zorlac
team riders were there as well as the Reverend Horton Heat too.
I was really happy so many Fort Worthians made it out there too.
It was good to have our own crowd. Made us feel at home even though
we weren't at the Wreck in Fort Worth. Pancho gave me his guitar
at the end of the night too! Let me just say it again in case you
haven't found out for yerself...The Gringos Fucking Rule!
Here's some pics from the night that JJ took.
Thanks again to the Loco
Gringos for inviting us to play with a band we emulate so much.
It was great to share the stage with you. Also, Dragna
was kick ass too and if you haven't seen em, go check em out. They
will be at the Wreck Room on August 4th.
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Friday, June 22nd 2007:
Well we got nominated again this year for best hard rock band.
We're grateful people actually seem to like us enough to nominate
us every year. And we're stoked to have actually won 2 years in
a row. This year it seems like we're competing against all of our
friends though. Blood of
the Sun, The Great
Tyrant, Addnerim...al
great bands and god friends. At any rate we're sending the Asian
Media Crew regardless. They'll cause hilarious chaos and drink up
all of our drink tickets. We are also nominated for best hard rock
album of the year too. Maybe Jack B.
could make some kinda return if we won that one too.
Here's the online link to go vote.
Don't forget that we are playing with the legendary Loco Gringos and Dragna Friday, July 13th at the Lakewwod bar and grill in Dallas, Texas.
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Wednesday, June 6th 2007:
Sorry our posts have been so sporadic. We've been spending a lot
of time drinking and tracking down new equipment. We also picked
up and moved the Me-Thinks
World Headquarters about a half mile down the street. No one
will ever look for us there and if they do find us we got a new
moat filled with sharks
with fucking laser beams! they gotta get through to steal our
shit this time. That's right Motherfuckers...sharks
with fucking laser beams!
We're still in the HC though. We the fuck else are we going to go?
We've got some shows coming up here pretty soon. We're doing a
benefit for a local gal most know named Lan Nguyen. The show is
at the Wreck Room this Sunday
(10th). We play at 2PM and we're doing a split set with our
friends One Fingered Fist. Should be fun!
And speaking of fun...we're playing with the Loco
Gringos! That's right...the Loco Fucking Gringos! It's us them
and Dragna on Friday July 13th at the Lakewood Bar and Grill in
Dallas. It's our first show in Dallas too technically. We're super
fucking excited because most of us grew up watching the Gringos
play in the late 80's and have tried to emulate their brand of good
time rock and roll. Come on out or your just an idiot!
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Tuesday, May 8th 2007:
Well another successful tour for the Me-Thinks. We played Cinco de Mayo at the Wreck and then the next day we played Fredsfest and boy are we beat! I am glad we only do tours(haha) once a year!
Thanks to the Wreck for having us out and thanks to Fred's for having us out. It's always nice to play our two very favorite places in Panther City and get beers and burgers to boot!
And while we are in a thanking mood, we really wanna thank some people and places that have helped us after some piece of shits stole all of our our gear (RIP). It makes you realize how cool our friends and this town really are
when we needed help. People came out of the woodwork to let us know they had equipment we could borrow and we really got the hook up on the new gear we have been purchasing.
Thanks to Curby Forte for letting us use the PA and the bass rig.
Thanks to John Zaskoda at Sessions Music for putting some price lists
together for us. Thanks to Scott Dyson and Everyone at Competition
Music for letting us play the speakeasy and then cutting us a killer
deal on a new PA. Thanks to John Russell for calling that very night
we got ripped off and offering his amps to us. Thanks to Scott Walden
and Jay Tines for getting us the "cool guy - rock and roll" discount
at Guitar Center. That helped immensely! And last but not least...thanks
to everybody in the great Panther City for giving a shit and letting
us know that there are a thousand eyes and ears out there and if
any of our old gear turns up, we'll be the first to know. Karma's
a bitch you thieving gear and porn stealing pieces of fucking shit!
Amen!
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Thursday, April 12th 2007:
Bad news from Haltom City...Some low down, no good, meth smoking, kiddie porn watching, piece of motherfucking shit stinking bag of fucking dicks broke into our
tin shack in Haltom City and stole everything! All of our precious equipment that we had painstakingly found, brought back to life and meticulously maintained, is in the hands of some
fucking assholes who probably don't even know what it is or how angry we are about losing it. I pray the cops find them before we do because I, for one, will cut a motherfuckers head off
with a rusty bottle cap, cut their little shriveled cocks off and shove them up their own AIDS infested asses. Pieces of motherfucking shit! Goddamnit!!!
Here's the goddamn list. I can't even look at it anymore. If you
want to see a grown man cry...just mention my Marshall
JCM 800 Superbass "Marlin" amp...fuck!
1 Mid 80's Marshall JCM800 bass series 100w amp
head (Says "Marlin" on front instead of Marshall, one of a kind)
1 Mid 80's Marshall JCM800 Lead series 50w amp head
1 Early 70's Ampeg V4B 100w bass amp head (Haltom City Booze sticker
on front)
1 Late 90's Marshall Plexi Superlead 100w amp head
1 Mid 80's Marshall JCM800 Bass Series Speaker Cabinet 2x10 1x15
Wheat Grill ("The Me-Thinks, Haltom City" painted on back of each
speaker cabinet)
1 Late 70's Ampeg SVT 8x10 Speaker Cabinet Silver/Blue grill ("The
Me-Thinks, Haltom City" painted on back of each speaker cabinet)
1 Late 80's 1962 model straight Marshall 4x12 Speaker cabinet Black
Grill ("The Me-Thinks, Haltom City" painted on back of each speaker
cabinet)
1 Marshall 1960v vintage slant Speaker cabinet 4x12 Black Grill
("The Me-Thinks, Haltom City" painted on back of each speaker cabinet)
1 early 80's fender concert combo amp 4x10 Silver Grill Black Face
1 early 70's fender rhodes 73 concert electric piano
1 early 70's fender rhodes concert electric piano speaker cabinet
4x12
2 peavey pa speaker cabinets 1x15 & horn (One missing grill on one
cabinet)
1 Early 80's Ampeg b215 speaker cabinet 2x15 Silver/Blue grill (Covered
in Britney Spears stickers)
1 Late 70's fender bassman 135 4x12 speaker cabinet Silver grill
(Red and gold molding down each side on front)
2 shure column speaker boxes w 2x10 and 4x8
1 ross 12 channel mixer
1 90's crown 600w power amp
1 Tom Sholz Rockman Power Soak
1 90's alesis nanoverb reverb unit
1 1950's Klipsch Klipschhorn stereo speaker (Wood)
1 80's EV 15 & horn stereo speaker (Black)
1 Shure sm58 microphone
1 Korg DTR-2 digital rack tuner
1 Furman M-8 power conditioner
1 Smoke/Fog machine
1 Yamaha pa speaker 1x12 & horn + speaker stand
2 Daleletroc DanEcho Delay pedals
1 Vox distortion pedal
1 Roger Mayer voodoo distortion pedal
1 Electro-Harmonix Green Vintage big muff distortion pedal
1 Electro-Harmonix Black Russian Big muff distortion pedal
1 MXR Blue box octave pedal
1 Electro-Harmonix Small Stone pedal
1 Green Ibanex Tube Screamer pedal
1 Gibson Goldtone Channel Selecting Switch foot pedal
2006 Tama Superstar bronze mist metallic all matching 6pc drum kit
w/
10x8" rack tom,
12x9" rack tom, serial#059080
13x10" rack tom, serial#065513
16x16" floor tom, serial#058861
22x20 bass drum, serial#058738
5 1/2 x 14 snare drum serial#065871
Cymbals:
14" Sabian vault hi hats
19" Sabian vault crash
20" Sabian aa medium thin crash
21" Sabian Phils choice hand hammered raw bell dry ride #000150-160
14" (Phil Collins)
Zildjian amir II hi hats
14" Zildjian amir II hi hat-top (worn logo)
16" Zildjian z custom medium crash
19" Zildjian z custom medium crash
20" Zildjian k custom ride
16" Wuhan china
1 Black Canvas Cymbal bag
1 Pacific/PDP 2-leg hi-hat stand
Tama Iron Cobra jr double bass drum pedal
DW 5000a accelerator bass drum pedal - single
Premier xpk red vinyl matching 4pcs drum kit (22", 12", 13", 16")
covered in stickers in a matching mars music drum bag set
1 Chrome Premier 6.5x14 snare drum & hardshell case with assorted
bells
1 Cosmic Persussion Chime set and case
1 Brown drum throne
1 Pork Pie leopard print drum throne
2 Tama cymbal stands (boom) w/ starcrest mounting
2 Pearl cymbal stands
Roadrunner 5 pc standard drumbags
1 Tama mount arm
1 18" Remo roto-tom
1 Black & red LP cowbell
1 Orange pearl clave block
1 Denon stereo reciever
1 Sony Double tape deck
1 Sony cd player single disc
1 black boom single mic stand
1 mic stand w/ goose neck top
1 short black boom mic stand
1 Latin Percussion steel drum shaker
1 Drumdial drum tuner tension style tympanic
1 Tama drum tuner tension style tympanic
1 Tama snare stand
1 Bach coronet style trumpet & mouthpiece and case
1 broken Daewoo VCR
Our Contact Information:
Ray Liberio - 817-681-6667
Chris Lundy - 817-831-8541
Jon Simpson - 817-296-9814
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Wednesday, April 4th 2007:
Sorry I haven't been updating this shit as regularilly as I should
but what do you want from me. SOmetimes there just isn't stuff to
report. Sometimes there is. Today is one of those days. Plenty of
stuff going on in the Tin Shack out in the HC. First of all Boyo
has decided that he could better the band by stopping playing guitar
and being our "spiritual advisor" from now on. We've always been
big Pet Sounds era Beach Boys fans so why the hell not. So from
now on, Boyo will be from here on out know as the Boyo-Lama.
He will contuinue helping us stay grounded (drunk), focused (fat)
and centered (stupid). He is curently in Tibet, high on a mountain
top, writing our new opus.
We are also happy to announce that Bandy
from one of Trucker Jon's other bands, will be joining the Me-Thinks
fold on another Gibson guitar. Yup. Dualing Guitars are here to
stay! Tunes in the shack are going pretty good. They have to because
we went ahead and set up a shitload of shows (3)!
- April 27th - The Speakeasy w/ Blood of the Sun
- May 5th (Drinko de Mayo) - Wreck Room (prolly our last Wreck Show)
- May 6th - Fredsfest @ Fred's
Yeah, two fucking shows in a row. That's me and Boyo's birthday
weekend too so we'll be fucking hammered! Marlin
is already to go as you can see! I am also doing some shows with the Stooges cover band, Stoogeaphilia, that I play in. April 25th at the Wreck and We're also on the Fredsfest bill on May 6th.
Order a copy (or two) of our new Double EP right
here at Indian
Casino Records. You never know you could get hit by a bus tomorrow
so buy one today!
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Thursday, February 1st 2007:
I know I usually go on and on about what drunks we are and what
fuck ups we are and yes it's all true, but I am actually going to
report on some band news this time! We are writing new songs. Believe
it or not! Got a few going as a matter of fact. Also Jack
Bensonhurst and the good folks at Indian
Casino Records have our CD available through a bunch of different avenues. You can go to any of the following places and find us now:
- Amazon
- iTunes
- Rhapsody
- CDbaby
- Indian Casino Records
FUCK, that's almost professional. We better dial it down a bit
or the kiddies will call us sell-outs. They can call us fat, old,
slow, stupid, dumb, asshole, muddafucka, anything they want, but
sell outs...we ain't got time to sell out you little no day job
havin, no wife/girlfriend havin, no mortgage havin, can't even buy beer yet little power rangered-ass Fucktards!
...and in other band news, your favorite bearded guitar wonder and mine,
Marlin Von Bungy, would now officially like to be known, from here
on out, as Shredmaster
the Studly. Thank you and good evening.
Order a copy (or two) of our new Double EP right
here at Indian
Casino Records. You never know you could get hit by a bus tomorrow
so buy one today!
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Wednesday, January 10th 2007:
Well Happy New Year MuthaFuckers! I hope everyone has taken up
smoking again and quit the gym already after making those stupid
New Year's Resolutions. I know I have. We hope Santa brought you
that vibrating cock ring with removable anal probe or the weapons
grade plutonium you wanted for Christmahanakwaanzica. I got socks.
Marlin got an herb garden that he can plant himself. Trucker John
got football phone and Will got a pony.
Not a bad haul there!
I am going to straight shoot you here and tell you that this year
is going to be the same a every year for the Me-Thinks. We've already
started out "break form playing live" break. We have a mountain
of CDs to move or figure out if they will be permanent furniture
structures in my living room. We'll play a grooling number of live
shows like we always do. I think we are shooting for 6 this year.
That's one every 2 months. Whoo! We're going to drink a lot, write
a few new tunes, maybe get around to spring cleaning the warehouse...maybe.
So business as usual for us here at Me-Thinks
World Headquarters. We'll see you down at the pub.
Order a copy (or two) of our new Double EP right here at Indian
Casino Records. You never know you could get hit by a bus tomorrow so buy one today!
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