We are pleased to announce that after a week of extensive filming we have several hours of performances and interviews to cut together into several films on our collaboration to create The Ice Suite. We would like to thank all the crew involved - Marcus Cloherty on direction and camera, Adam, William Martin and Jackie Fae on extra footage. William and Tegan for sound recording at the Byron concert through the Bay FM studio 4 desk, Juan and Peter for live concert sound and also Adrian and Kali for the live webstream which we will post a link to her at a later date.
Our next performance will be June 1st at the Blackbird Buvette downtown Albuquerque. We will be joined by The Strange, coming in from Santa Fe, and Abq's very own Psykick Monkey.
I am very saddened to inform you that my great friend and collaborator, Ray Manzarek, co-founder of The Doors, passed away today at the age of 74. Always stretching the boundaries in music, art and poetry - this is one of the true rock icons that had heart, intellect and talent - and a terrific sense of humor.
He was a great friend and will be missed. ~ Roy Rogers
Have we got shows for you! We have lots of shows for you...
from Campbell to Los Altos, we have the South Bay covered... our Summer Season is gonna be kickin... foot stompin... and rockin down the highway... yeah...
check out our calendar on our website... and please check the information on the website of each event... some locations encourage picnic baskets and others do not... we all want to have the best time at the shows so please check out the information on the event for the do'z and the don'tz... thank you...
btw: do you have a favorite Doobie Song? what is it?? we'll do all your favorites by popular demand, so tell us your favorite song...
Well what can we say, other than if we could spend our lives in a state of suspended animation it would have to be at The Hop, Leeds on a Saturday night.
Fantastic crowd and great team at the Hop. A big thanks to you all, particularly the guys who set us up and controlled the mix.
We were taken back by all the kind words and request's for Saxophone lessons etc. Indeed the whole band now want to play Sax!
It was a debut night for Steve Pipes on the Drums and he is just itching to get back under the Arches after last night's gig, although it will likely be 2014 before we return.
Our next outing is the Jug'N'Barrel, Stanningley on Saturday 25th May. This is always a great night so get along if you can.
Sunday 26th May see's the band performing at the Horsforth Hotel, Leeds LS18, at the Music Festival in aid of McMillian Charity. This is going to be a storming event. The band s on the outside stage between 5:00-6:00pm and appears again inside the pub between 9:00-10:00pm.
What a great way to spend a bank holiday Sunday wuth beer and live music. Don't miss this one!
While waiting to release our next record, we've been writing and making demos of lots of new songs and thought we'd share some of what we've been up to with everyone.
Click HERE. to stream and get a FREE download of a song we wrote a couple of days ago called "Silverado".
The Green Pajamas will play first of three bands this Saturday night, May 18th, at Slim's Last Chance Chili Shack & Watering Hole in Seattle. So come early! The show will start at approximately 9:00 with the PJs followed by Jilly Rizzo and The Fentons.
THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF A MORIARTYS 3 SONG EP IS HERE!
We can now confirm that following the marvelous "Stay", released last month, there will be two more Fenwick written tunes that are intended to make up an "old school" style EP. You may wish to think of these tunes as an un holy trinity? However having had the pleasure of listening to the advance mixes of them here at Casa Mojo (the Moriarty's European HQ), we think the EP is a thing of pure beauty!
So we are most bloody pleased to bring you the second installment, and it's absolutely free to download;
MELANCHOLY TOWN (Come Down Vibe)
The T-Bone fans out there will be most exited when they hear what can only be described as an earth shattering guitar solo from the Master. Here at Casa Mojo, during our 4 hour lunch break at the bar, by the pool, we had a extremely heated discussion as to what exactly are the best T-Bone solo's? Well we thought we would ask you guys out there, all over the world to take on this impossible task and choose your top 3 and let us here in the office know. To make it more interesting all entries that match T-Bone's selection will be put into a sack and Flavia (the girl sitting by the TV) will pick out a winner. T-Bone has a very special prize lined up for the lucky winner!
RICK MORIARTY - ALIVE AND WELL AND NOT GOING ANYWHERE!
HAPPY 3OTH BIRTHDAY RICK MORIARTY!
Rumours that Rick has recently celebrated his 30th Birthday can be confirmed. Congratulations to him from all of us. However rumours that he has been asked (by Fenwck) to leave the band because of his age, can be categoricaly denied!
(Obviously Fenwick has been known to sack members for far less serious crimes, but that is neither here nor there!)
Next time we shall report on some of the highlights of Rick's birthday bash!
Hello Folks! Mr. Elliott is on his way back from a 3 week tour of Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas with some fantastic shows under his belt and great visits with Jerry Jeff Walker, National Rodeo Pro Larry Mahan - and a cast of characters that have been friends of Jack's for many years.
Welcome back Jack! :)
June 1st RJE heads up to the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley in the beautiful Tahoe foothills and opening for him will be Nell Robinson and Jim Nunally - new friends! - to celebrate their duet CD release "House & Garden" - street date May 28th.
In addition, a very special event, Ramblin' Jack will also join Nell Robinson for a PBS shoot 'Rose in No Man's Land' on June 15th at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. (Jack's on Nell's new recording project being produced by Joe Henry - Joe produced Jack's Grammy winning release "A Stranger Here in 2009 for the Anti label.)
Nell Robinson and the Rose of No Man’s Land is a special evening of music and storytelling curated by Alabama native, Nell Robinson. The show will be filmed live for a PBS special slated to air in the Fall.
Special Guests: two-time Grammy Winner Ramblin’ Jack Elliott; actor, poet and musician John Doe; distinguished author Maxine Hong-Kingston; and acclaimed actor/director Julian Lopez Morillas.
All Star Band: Bluegrass stalwarts Jim Nunally (guitar), Keith Little (mandolin, mandola) and Sam Grisman (string bass), master of all-things stringed Craig Eastman (fiddle, slide guitar) and jazz percussionist Zach Harmon.
The evening will also spotlight local outreach, Berkeley Food & Housing Projects Homeless Veterans Program.
Here is the show page to get your tickets early! See you there!
Tommy Allen & Johnny Hewitt join Killer Line-up at Pakefield Festival....
We are thrilled to add Tommy Allen & Johnny Hewitt to the line-up at the new Pakefield Blues & Boogie Festival taking place September 13th – 15th. Tommy & Johnny play superb blues guitar and harmonica with the power and energy of a full band, and were without doubt one of the highlights of the recent blues weekend at Alvaston Hall this year. This talented duo join a killer line-up with Dr Feelgood, Jerimiah Marques, The Cadillac Kings, Bad Influence and more! This weekend is priced very keenly at just £149 for three nights half board including the Blues & Boogie Festival. As an extra bonus you can also go to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival taking place in another room at the same venue, with ten bands including The Jets, Earl Jackson Four, The Downtown Daddyo’s and more
We're very stoked to introduce our new band mates Kristen Wells on bass and Kyle Smith on drums. So happy to be rocking n' rolling with a full line up again. Our first show will be June 13 at May in Toronto for NXNE. After that we'll be back on the road for some summer tour dates throughout Eastern Canada with our label mates Verse The Sun. Full details on that tour coming soon. To celebrate the new line up we'll be giving away all our music free for one week on bandcamp. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us over the last couple years. You all rule!
New single released. Title of track Blood Covers Me. The verses in the track are based on veses from Isaiah 25. The song considers how God walks with us in every area of our lives. We are always covered by the blood of Jesus. Listen to it on music player here or watch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqx_5rFMbk&feature=player_detailpage
Dave Collins decided to leave the band and has been replaced by Stephen Pipes. All the band wish to thank Dave for his tremendous contribution and wish him well for the future.
Stephen makes his debut on Saturday 18th May 2013 at The Hop, Leeds.
The band would like to welcome back to our line-up Asli Goncer! She played with us in the early days and has jumped back on-board as our lead guitarist and adds another harmony and lead vocal to our sound. You can hear her harmonies on our early recordings!
Asli is a member and co-coordinater of our local NSAI chapter and is an accomplished musician and songwriter. To check out her personal sound and story, slide over to our links page and click on her name. It will take you to her site!
We're delighted to announce we'll be playing legendary Sheffield gig venue, Plug, following in the footsteps of many great bands including Sheffields own Arctic Monkeys.
We will be playing Plug on Saturday 15th June, supporting the Fallen Trees, tickets can be purchased from band members in advance of the gig for £6. We need your support on this one so please make every effort to attend, it threatens to be a fantastic night of top music with the line up being completed by The Encounters, Yellow Elevators & Ediffus Rex. Get on it!!! #soulfiremania
This is a great venue and only two minutes walk from the railway station. Last train back to Horsforth is 11:20 ish and the band play between 9:00-11:00 pm.
What more do you want, they have arranged the train time table around us.
Well we "released" Vol.I WAR MACHINE a couple weeks ago, only we have no fukin copies to sell. Two fold problem here 1. we went almost right until April 20th finishin up edits and stupid shit. 2. our distro company failed to tell us they needed a months notice before a release can be sent out due to pressin issues that can arise in the pressin process. We are hugely sorry and will probably blame the next drummer hahaha. Either way we aim to have copies readily availavble right here for physical purchase or digital download. We will also be sellin copies at our next string of shows so go look over to yur left and see if we're comin to yur town next. Like i said, we fukd up, our distro fuk up, but what can yea do. Also a huge announcment comin soon in the next couple of week so keep it locked here and on all that poser ass social bullshit.
Here's yet another tune you can download as we're working on putting a live digital album together- this time it's Hot Mess- give it a listen, download and share-
Hey Folks! Taking a couple of weeks off for production of the new Ray Manzarek/ Roy Rogers' project 'Twisted Tales' which will be out soon ~ and some work for a new site called RiffTime - in which Roy will be doing some online lessons to be launched in the fall.
Look for upcoming new summer dates to be posted soon - and some new news about July travel in Norway and Fall travel in Europe! ~ :) Happy Spring!
What an amazing night we had this past weekend at Petaluma's Mystic Theatre! BIG THANKS to all who came out and made it a very special night for us and to Zoo Station who played a great set and then sat in with us on couple of tunes… GOOD TIMES!
SUMMER SHOW SCHEDULE: Well if you haven’t already noticed, things are starting to heat up around here and that means it's summer festival season. We’ll have a lot of announcements coming out over the next few weeks listing all the great outdoor shows we’ll be performing at this summer. Keep checking our show schedule on our website for the latest updates on shows near you! In the meantime our full May/June schedule is listed below.
"Buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as I come, cause I cant stay long"
Keep up on the latest updates and other cool Tom Petty info by FOLLOWING US ON TWITTER or ADD US ON FACEBOOK (and invite your friends) and we love to play parties... CONTACT US to book the band for your party now!
A friend of mine, photographer Jon Blacker has done this great photo book in black and white using an infrared camera. It's been a labour of love for quite a few years, and it's about to be released to the public.
You can check out the details and some of the portraits here: Musical Ink
The book is available for pre-orders now here's the Amazon Canada link -
And if you are not in Canada here's the links for you at Amazon and Borders.
By way of example for what you're getting here is his shot of yours truly:
First off, thank you everybody who came and supported us at Jammin Java this past weekend! We got to perform some new music as well as some old stuff and having you guys there made all the difference. I just wanted to give you guys an update on things and let you know about some of our plans for the near future.
As you know, we are working very hard on getting the recording done for our upcoming record release. Of course, it's going to take a little time for us to get this thing finished the right way in order to meet our standards and out-do our previous record "When the Mighty Fall". We appreciate your patience and continued support during this process.
We CAN say that the first song we have already recorded sounds AMAZING without any mixing or mastering done yet. This allows us to believe you will not be disappointed with the outcome of this record. Our plan is to release a few songs as singles one-by-one until the record is done. This will give you guys something to listen to while the recording process continues.
As far as shows go, we are considering doing the battle of bands taking place at Jammin Java in July in hopes to win some money that will go towards recording cost. Also, the winner gets recording time as well. This could be very benefitial to us and could help speed up the process of releasing our new album. We would very much appreciate your support if and when we decide it's what we are going to do.
In the meantime please continue to spread the word about Fight the Lion however you can. Our music is available for free all over the internet. Spotify is a cool place to stream bands at no charge and our previous album is available there right now. You can find our music on Youtube, Itunes, CDBaby, Amazon, and plenty of other places too! Just a simple google search will give you more options.
Now I would like to give you guys a little treat for reading this update. I've mentioned before I wanted to do a kind of "Behind the Music Blog". Well, today I'm going to pick a random song and talk about how it came about and some of the meaning behind it. Check it out!
The song is called "In or Out":
It's time to sort out all these questions with no answers
dragging me down and it feels like falling faster
like the first time
tell me now are you in or are you out
i hit the ground every time you wait every chance you waste
im turning around if you hold back any longer
give me a sound dont let my distress get any stronger
like the first time
tell me now are you in or are you out
i hit the ground every time you wait every chance you waste
wait...wait...wait...
wait...wait...wait...
tell me now are you in or are you out
i hit the ground every time you wait every chance you waste
tell me now are you in or are you out
i hit the ground every time you wait every chance you waste
Okay, so I try not to write every song about relationship drama, but it seems to be a common theme in my life lately. This song is very much about the beginning of a relationship and how it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. One person just won't take that leap. It's not a fun place to be when you're always wondering if the other person is really all in or not. I figured there would probably be somebody else out there who could relate to this. Unfortunately, I've been on both sides of this old familiar story. Hopefully someone out there got something good out this. The song was released on our EP "All the rage in a plastic age" which you can stream on our website now.
In March, our travels took us through Norman, OK, where we had the privelage (or were just crazy enough to) hop in a 1977 VW Vanagon and go for a ride around town.....while performing!
