Sweet. Did you start out playing at local parties? Must've been good times.
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Pantysoaker (Long Spike)
Our first actual shows was inside a Zumiez clothing store and outside a Blockbuster lmao. My friend had a huge attic and thats the only place we could practice in the neighboorhood b/c we made so much noise. We eventually got signed to Volcom and did the entire Warped Tour 04' and '05
we were selling about 200 cd's a day, then limewire and kazaa showed up. Then we stopped touring because gas went from 1$ a gallon to 4$ a gallon, just bad luck.
Our friends we used to tour with, the band Pepper, were on the same label as us at the same time are huge now.
Kinda sounds like something they'd put on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack.
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Dude (Old Spike)
This could go straight on MTV
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lawngnome (Long Spike)
I think touring will die off soon, or change in a big way... no more record labels & tour managers doing everything.
Like, maybe the band will "Air Bnb" a city/region for a couple months and do some live shows, record albums here & there releasing albums online, maybe live streams of the recording process... Corporate backed and corporate owned from the start, in the guise of "We'll put you up and stream your music, but you have to plug this and this and this"
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(Old Spike)
Sweet. Did you start out playing at local parties? Must've been good times.
(Long Spike)
Our first actual shows was inside a Zumiez clothing store and outside a Blockbuster lmao. My friend had a huge attic and thats the only place we could practice in the neighboorhood b/c we made so much noise. We eventually got signed to Volcom and did the entire Warped Tour 04' and '05
Some of the footage still exists! haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R48g08qI2NE
(Old Spike)
That's the real shit! Cool.
(Long Spike)
we were selling about 200 cd's a day, then limewire and kazaa showed up. Then we stopped touring because gas went from 1$ a gallon to 4$ a gallon, just bad luck.
Our friends we used to tour with, the band Pepper, were on the same label as us at the same time are huge now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJQmnQ8brM
those are the breaks
(Old Spike)
Kinda sounds like something they'd put on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack.
(Old Spike)
This could go straight on MTV
(Long Spike)
I think touring will die off soon, or change in a big way... no more record labels & tour managers doing everything.
Like, maybe the band will "Air Bnb" a city/region for a couple months and do some live shows, record albums here & there releasing albums online, maybe live streams of the recording process... Corporate backed and corporate owned from the start, in the guise of "We'll put you up and stream your music, but you have to plug this and this and this"
Because it's what the people want. wink wink
(Long Spike)
under rated comment now in covid times