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Viewer's Choice Thursday info
Posted on November 29, 2005 at 12:32 PM
This week's round of Viewer's Choice Thursday options are up for voting NOW at www.fuse.tv/polls!
This week's theme is "Friends From Other Lands," and the choices are:
The Dead 60s [UK]
Funeral For A Friend [Wales]
Silverstein [Canada]
Bauhaus [UK]
H.I.M. [Finland]
Mosey on over to www.fuse.tv/polls to cast a vote (or ten votes - you can keep coming back!) for your favorite, and tell your friends to do the same! You have to complete ALL the poll questions for your results to count.
The "Friends From Other Lands" episode will air NEXT Thursday, December 8.
Also, if you're curious about who who the winner was in the Epitaph Records Viewer's Choice episode airing this Thursday night, then you'll have to be our friend over at MySpace and check out the daily bulletins we're posting about the Epitaph bands yet to come this week. If you aren't already part of our MySpace community, head on over and add us at www.myspace.com/surs.
Thanks for watching, thanks for voting, and thanks for rocking!
Cheers,
ProBRUCEr
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Add to:Keep Your Heart
Posted on November 26, 2005 at 11:02 PM
You guys know what a fan I am of this band, so I am so super excited to tell everyone that the Loved Ones first full length album will be out February 21st on Fat Wreck Chords. The title is Keep Your Heart and I cannot wait. Cannot WAIT.
check them out at http://www.thelovedonesband.com/
and/or their myspace page www.myspace.com/thelovedones
all for now
Steven
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Add to:If you want to send snail mail to Phil...
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 03:04 PM
Greetings! I talked to Phil, and found out that in addition to the donation/fundraiser options mentioned in the previous post, you can also send checks or money orders MADE OUT DIRECTLY TO PHIL PIRRONE to:
Phil Pirrone Benefit
c/o Active Mailorder
1360 Locust Street
Ontario, CA 91761
If you can't afford any dough, I'm sure he'd be glad to get your cards and letters through that address as well!
Cheers,
ProBRUCEr
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Add to:Phil Pirrone from A Static Lullaby needs our help!
Posted on November 16, 2005 at 03:02 PM
Some of you probably know that Phil Pirrone from A Static Lullaby had a really bad auto accident about a month ago, and there are some benefits happening to help him and his family with the massive medical expenses. Read on!
BLING FEST 2005, BENEFITING PHIL PIRRONE: This Saturday, 11/19, A Static Lullaby, Letterkills, A Thorn For Every Heart, Take The Crown, and A Dose of Adolescence will be playing this festival at the Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter. The event runs from 1pm to 5pm and tickets are just $10!
TO MAKE AN ONLINE DONATION: visit www.activemailorder.com and click "Bling Fest" fists on the upper left. There isn't a donation option, but you can buy a ticket to the event (even if you can't go) and all the money will go to the benefit fund for Phil and his family. And they'll still ship you a ticket, so you can have a token of the very cool afternoon that it's sure to be!
JANUARY BENEFIT: Mark your calendars! On January 21, Finch, Nate, and Phil from A Static Lullaby will be playing acoustic covers of some of their favorite classics from the likes of Pink Floyd and the Beatles at the Glass House in Pomona, CA. Also on the bill will be Satori, featuring members of Rx Bandits.
I hope some of you can spare a few bucks and that you'll support Phil in one of these ways. We need to get him on the road to recovery - so he can LITERALLY get back on the road and entertain the masses!
Cheers,
ProBRUCEr
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Add to:R.I.P. Beatz
Posted on November 4, 2005 at 05:30 PM
A little addendum to the Bayside post from yesterday: first off, I wanted to put up this picture of the band from the Victory Records press center, 'cause it's my fave, and I think it conveys a taste of John's personality [he's the third from the left, for those who don't know].
Secondly, there are two awesome memorial t-shirts that have been made to honor John "Beatz" Holohan and to help raise funds for his family. Check them out at MerchRobot and Entrust Clothing Company. I'm buying both right now, and I hope some of you will do the same.
Cheers,
ProBRUCEr
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Add to:Bayside members' statements regarding their tragic van accident
Posted on November 3, 2005 at 05:08 PM
As many of you know, the band Bayside's van hit a patch of ice and flipped over early Monday morning (10/31) near Cheyenne, Wyoming while on the Victory Records Never Sleep Again Tour. The accident caused varying degrees of injury to everyone involved, and tragically took the life of their drummer John "Beatz" Holohan.
A memorial fund has been established through PayPal to assist John's family during this horrible ordeal. PayPal users can send their donations (of any amount) to the address johnbeatzmemorial@victoryrecords.com.
John's funeral services are being held Saturday, November 5 on Long Island.
On November 2, the two surviving non-hospitalized members of the band (Anthony Raneri and Jack O'Shea) announced that they will pay tribute to their fallen bandmate by rejoining the tour on November 16 in St. Petersburg, Florida and performing acoustic sets for the duration.
Below are two very moving statements from singer Anthony Raneri and hospitalized bassist Nick Ghanbarian, sent to us by Victory Records. Many of us at Fuse were brought to tears by these touching testaments to the band’s brotherhood, the amazing music community in which we operate, and the healing power of music. Our thoughts and our hearts are with the band and their circle of friends and family. -ProBRUCEr
A statement from Nick Ghanbarian, bassist in Bayside:
I'm laying here in the hospital, awaiting my surgery tomorrow. To clear up any questions, I broke my back (L4 vertebrae). I'm very lucky to not be paralyzed. I was thrown through the window of our rolling van, after hitting a patch of ice. I have a full torso cast on, keeping my back straight. I just started eating again so now I can take some percoset which helps with my intense back pain. All in all, I'll be ok and the minute I can have my bass in my hand and be playing in front of people again I will. It's all I know how to do and the only thing that makes me happy.
Once hearing about all of the support from friends, bands and fans, my spirits where immediately uplifted. All we have in this world are each other, and in times of tragedy, you find out who is by your side until the end and who is bullshit. Thankfully our music community surrounds us by mostly heartfelt people who are going out of their way to help us in our time of need and to help us keep our dream alive.
John Beatz was someone I looked up to, yet I walked beside him as a contemporary. I learned from him as he learned from me. We started playing in bayside 14 months ago and have both realized that our whole lives had been lived to get us to this point, so we spent the time working our asses off and making sure that that this band was going to succeed in what we wanted: having people hear our music.
With his passing, we realize he paid the ultimate price as all of us would have or else we wouldn't have been beside him. We live for rock and roll and when you believe in something enough, sometimes you die for it.
What I want everyone out there to realize is the sacrifice every member of every touring band makes. Safety, money, health etc. All of these things are a distant second to our music. People get vans, trailers, equipment and other personal items stolen, we play in unsafe neighborhoods, we travel far distances in sometimes unsafe vehicles and unsafe weather. My point in all of this is that we are a community, not a business. Support and understanding with an open mind are what's most important in our lives. Not record sales. Whether or not you like a band you must realize that bands are giving their all for what they love, including their lives. Showing your faces at shows and talking to us and letting us know you appreciate the music and the hard work is infinitely more important than the business side of things.
I'm happy to have my life, I'm happy to have known John and I'm happy to still have a band. Please give your time and respects to John’s family and wife. All he ever did was speak of her, and every ounce of energy he put into his life was for her. Hopefully we can all have love like that in our lifetime.
See you all soon
Nick
Anthony Raneri of Bayside talks about the events of October 31st, and their plans for the future:
The worst day of my life is over. It lasted 72 hours, but it's over. I know now that everyday for the rest of my life will be a piece of cake to wake up to, I'm just glad that I get to wake up to them. On Halloween I lost my best friend, big brother, mentor and band mate. I find a lot of comfort in knowing that I had a best friend, big brother, mentor and band mate in the first place, when so many people will never know what it is like to have someone as magical as Beatz in their lives. I'm so lucky for that and so lucky that I survived this thing to tell everyone about him. Anyone that knew Beatz fell in love with him instantly. Whether you were his brother, his wife, his friend or you met him for five minutes. This letter, this week and the rest of my life is not going to be a mourning of a lost life, but a celebration of a wonderful one. He will live forever in all of our hearts and in the music he created so passionately.
On behalf of Bayside, everyone in the Bayside/Victory camp and the Holohan clan, I thank you all so much for your support through all of this. I have to thank the members of Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein and Aiden, all of their crews, everyone at Victory, our manager Nate Albert and our families and friends for everything they have done since the second this happened, to get us past the last few days. Our guitar tech Nicky Raneri, tour manager Scott Robinson, guitar player Jack O'Shea and I are all home safe. Nick is going into surgery in a couple of hours and will make a full recovery; our drum tech Dan Marino is out of surgery and we hope to get him home by the end of the week. Every one of the fans, the press and any other company or person that has gotten in touch with us has just been amazing and it's all that support that got us through this.
On November 16th, Jack and I will be flying out to St. Petersburg, FL to join up with the Never Sleep Again Tour. We will be playing an acoustic set that night and every night through the end of the tour on December 11th. We loved this tour. Beatz loved this tour and this is something that we need to do for ourselves, for our band and for John Beatz, who would kick my ass if I didn't finish up what he gave his life for. After that, we will be taking the holidays off, as planned, and then getting back on the road again as a band in 2006. Aside from the next two weeks, we can not let this situation slow our band down or cancel one more show or tour. All any of us ever wanted to do was play music and make this band into something that people would know and love. That hasn't changed and we can't let it. Beatz wouldn't have it any other way.
It will take me a long time to get the horrible images from that night out of my head and it will take some time for my friends Nick and Dan to get their asses out of bed, but I will, and they will and life will move on with only the happier memories of my best friend.
Thank you all for your support. The whole Bayside camp and the Holohan family are living on it right now. Please look into the John Holohan Memorial Fund. It's not about money; it's the thought that counts. For all of us and his family to know that he made a huge impact on the world is all we have right now.
Thank You,
Anthony Raneri & Bayside
R.I.P. John "Beatz" Holohan
31 years is not enough
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Add to:Here is London...giddy London
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 06:55 PM
As Steven mentions in tonight's show, I was lucky enough to check out a couple of SURS-relevant concerts while I was on holiday in London back in September!
I got to see Thrice at a venue called Mean Fiddler, where I had gone to see Instruction on my last trip to England in the spring. It was a madhouse on the floor of the venue, and since I wear glasses and don't love tight spaces, I stayed at the back of the house to enjoy the show. Here's a slightly blurry shot of Dustin on my tightest zoom setting.
I think this next one is a cool action shot, with both Dustin and Teppei throwing their heads back (I believe this was during one of the tunes in which Teppei plays electric piano rather than guitar).
And here's a wide shot with the crowd. It was an amazing show (best I've seen Thrice play in the half dozen times I've been able to catch them), and what was more amazing still was that the crowd seemed to know every single word of Image of the Invisible, and shouted along with exuberance!
And then a couple days later, I went to a venue called The Underworld in Camden Town, just a short walk from my friends' flat in Chalk Farm (north London). The main attraction there was a New York City hardcore band called Gay For Johnny Depp, which is a side-project of Arty and Joe of the band Fires (formerly of the previously-mentioned and now defunct Instruction).
These first few shots are of an incredibly foxy Londoner called Ben who asked the members of GFJD to autograph various body parts. In order, that's band members Arty, Justin, and Joe scrawling their noms de guerre on the sassy lad.
If you think those are a little risque, you should see the ones that I wasn't able to post! Let's just say his torso wasn't the only thing that got some Sharpie marks that night!
My performance shots of GFJD were much less clear than the impromptu body autograph session, but here are a couple anyway...
The funny thing is, even though the band is called Gay For Johnny Depp and a hot guy asked a bunch of dudes to write all over his body, I think I was actually the only gay guy there!
Anyway, right after Gay For Johnny Depp played their set, I had to jet so I could catch the Motion City Soundtrack show at Islington Academy, a short tube ride away.
My vantage point for their show was kind of obstructed (and I didn't want to hold my camera too high 'cause it was so hot that I was soaked with sweat and didn't want to drop it), so I didn't actually get any shots of their amazing set, but did manage to catch up with the guys after the show, and got some cute snapshots for posterity.
Here's Justin backstage (which was really deep in the bowels of the building) after the show...
...and here's Aaron from Copeland (one of the support acts on the MCS UK tour, along with Circa Survive and The Maple State), along with Josh outside a little post-show gathering at a fab pub called Crobar.
And here, also at Crobar, are Matt...
...Tony (and Stella)...
...and some dude I don't remember meeting, standing next to Jesse.
The next morning I had to get up bright and early (like 6:00 am) to catch my flight back home, and then come directly to work the morning after I got back. But it was all worth it for an amazing trip.
I can't wait to get back over to London for another visit - especially since every time I go, there are amazing bands playing in town! If you hear of any cheap sale fares between the New York metro area and Heathrow, give me a heads-up!
Cheers,
ProBRUCEr
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