Hey Guys.

I had a pretty cool experience today(which just happens to be my birthday). Liq Nix was to be interviewed prior to a show we are playing this coming weekend by a lady who reports on local bands around Erie Pa. I thought it was going to be kind of a homegrown newspaper type interview trying to fill some columns of print between adds for touchless car washes.

Turns out there was a guy with a video camera there and it was a live interview that will be edited and soundtracked with our music in the back ground.

I thought it would be a good idea to have my Stick along for a visual aid when the inevitable "you play Chapman Stick, what the heck is that" question. That question didn't come up during the interview, but afterword our drummer mentioned that not only do we have the tallest frontman/lead singer in the area(at 6 ft 8 inches) we also have the only Chapman Stick player in town that we know of. Then she asked the question and ended up turning the camera back on and did a short interview with just me and the Stick. I don't know how much will survive the cutting room floor, but it was cool none the less. Unfortunately I didn't have my cable or amp since I thought the interview was taking place at our guitarists Record Store that is beneath our rehearsal studio, so there is no audio of me playing. But I hope it will draw more interest for Emmett's invention in Erie Pa. and surrounding communities. I think the ratio is 1 Stick and 1 WARR guitar for about 50, 000 inhabitants. So neither really dominate the market yet.

When the interview runs, I will try to provide a link here. Likely in a day or two, I think the interviewer thought.

Then our show is this Saturday night(or really Sunday morning-we don't go on till about 1AM)

I will be sure to report on that as well.

Mike

I look forward to hearing more, you big tease.

Mike,
That is really cool! Wow, in the middle of a media circus! Hopefully they pick some tracks for the background that feature your Stick Playing.

Every band needs some feature that sets them apart- so if your singer was in the movie"Big Fish" great it got you the interview or at least pulled it up from the pile of the other ones they were going to do.

Touchless Washes…..hmmm, might be worth the 3 hour drive up! That was funny!

Mike it warmed my heart to see you are getting the recognition your band, but more importantly , the recognition that you rightfully deserve.

Congrats and Kudos,
Dave B "DBro"

@Rob and Dave...fist bump!

Nice, Mike! Looking forward to the video when it comes out.

Sorry I don't know how to post the link. If you google "Erie's Downtown Diva" the Weekend Showcase article and Video should come up. The press will be good for the band, but unfortunately they didn't include the Stick footage in this clip. I don't know if she is saving it for some other feature or if she just decided not to use it. Bummer. I will say that it would have been hard to include my interview and still have the whole thing be about the up coming show with Gang of Thieves.

A clear example of counting my chickens before they are hatched.

Mike

http://www.goerie.com/downtown-diva-liquid-nixon-gang-of-thieves

Nice clips and pics!

Thanks for the help sagehalo! I have to get more tech savvy, Sheesh.

So that's the link fellas. Also the show is on the 6th and not the 4th. When I showed up with my stuff they wouldn't let me in for some reason. (Just kidding-it was a typing error!)

Mike

Well, it is the day after (does anyone remember that tv special?-gave me night mares...so glad we live in a world free from nuclear threats nowadays!)
and the show went well. I don't have any pics as of yet but some friends took a few, not to mention the various phonephotos many curious attendees took of me playing the Stick. (CRINGE...)

The only downside was the crowd seemed really into our stuff but we had to cut our set short since the out-of-town band played into our time slot. Still, they were pretty awesome, so we could hardly blame them.

Over all a nice representation of our music and more exposure for the Chapman Whatchamacallit!!!!

Mike