“Maine, the way life should be.”

So we just went up to Bangor Maine to be part of the KahBang Music festival.

We arrived to the city around 5:30 and went directly to our venue, the Sea Dog Brewery. It’s a pretty big restaurant/brewery and stay’s busy. I got excited thinking that we wouldn’t be playing to a room full of nobody and before you knew it we were carrying our instruments through a packed room.

The clock struck 10:30pm, and the set began. 1st song good, 2nd song good, 3rd song good, 4th song = not so good.

We were playing the song “Coward” (on the new EP). It turned out to be the most appropriate song for the moment. There were 4 guys standing by the side and one of them proceeded to heckle us by fake dancing. My hands began to sweat. AFter the first verse (as if Chase and I were telepathic), we stopped playing on the downbeat. I asked him, “Are you done?”. Thankfully they stopped and walked away but came back later for another minute to fake dance. It was difficult not to throw my glass of beer in his face. I can’t imagine what Chase was thinking, but after the show he waved his drum hardware in the air shouting “You want to dance! You want to dance! Let’s dance!!!” Luckily, the loser dudes were no where to be found and the night ended without instance. Not the best venue for our music, but we had a great experience and did make new fans regardless of a few mean people.

THE ICING ON THE CAKE

A day before the show I received 100 copies of my new EP, “Somewhere To Go”. I was excited and decided to bring the whole box to Maine. Unfortunately, I spaced after the gig and left them at the venue!

Beam me down Scotty!

Random occurrence – About 20 minutes into our 5 hour return trip home we drove past my neighbor on the highway!

PICS!

Hi All,

So this is my website! I plan on using it more.

What’s new?? Chase and I are heading up to Bangor Maine this weekend to perform at the Sea Dog Brewery on Friday Aug. 13th!

It’s gonna be a long 5 hr drive. Should be a fun time, as we generally have a good time together.

More shows on the way, in the meantime – back to practicing George Gershwin! I’ve been studying Rhapsody in Blue since X-Mas!

Oh yea – new EP comes out next WEEK!!  Real piano – finally

jamming out at Waterplace Park - Providence, RI

peace out! Johnny

Well,  we are not really touring as of yet, but i just felt like starting a diary.

Two weeks ago we finished our first big trip together driving down to Mount Saint Mary’s Universiy near Gettysburg, Maryland.   Actually, the University is 10 minutes away from Camp David and the students get their cellphones monitored regulary…

The day of the show we didn’t leave until 12:30 pm and it was quite the white knuckle ride considering we had to be on stage by 9pm!  For those of you who have never driven down there from Providence….it’s a solid 7 hour drive – without traffic!

Anyway we made it in time to have a quick meal and get to the venue by 8:30pm (cutting it too close.)  Luckily 5 students were eagerly waiting our arrival and immediately carried all of our equipment out of my car!  We didn’t have to lift a finger.  Thank you

The venue was in one of the oldest buildings on campus, a renovated church I think, and the acoustics were phenomenal.  I felt like we were being blessed by the old spirits inside and the show flew by.  Before we knew it, we had already played for an hour and a half straight through.  Everybody in the audience stayed for the entire show and we kept on hearing people shout “More!” after each song.  At first I thought they were asking us to play my new song which is titled “More”, but silly me finally got that they just wanted us to keep on playing!

AFter playing the show, the students stuck around for CD’s and Q&A, then of course graciously helped us load out to get some shut eye.

When we arrived at our hotel it was way better than expected.  The normal hotel that the University provides for their entertainment entourages was full, so we got a guest suite at the infamous Wyndam hotel!  The place has a special vibe to it, with stars on the rugs, and portraits of past presidents on every wall.  Really cool I must say.  The beds were amazingly comfortable as I pretty much immediately went to bed and Chase stayed up late to explore the hotel.

The next morning after a restful night’s rest and starting our day off watching “I Am Legend,” we packed up and sped03 Drive back home.  Unfortunately there was no time for sight seeing on this trip.  A place of interest was the “Crystal Cave

long day on the road!

s” but maybe next time.  there’s always next time right?

tour diary #1

ps. hopefully I can keep this up at least every couple weeks..

good night, Johnny

HI All,

We got a really nice review in the Arts and Leisure Section of the Wheaton College Newspaper.  Thanks, it’s moments like these that keep us “Drive” ing!   http://bit.ly/ACoce

Happy Friday people!   Are you not loving the cool fall breeze today?  it’s so refreshing

So last night was a blast.  When we arrived at the venue, we were a little concerned that anybody was gonna come….but once doors opened there were a steady flow of Wheaton students checking us out.  Much thanks to the energetic girls dancing around to our songs!  Some of them were really busting a move!  It felt great to play in front of new people and further our music.  We played for about an hour and half straight with 3 songs we made up on the spot.  Which, unfortunately I forget em… need to be recording more/all shows.  One of the them was a funky song with the chorus saying…..”Myself – Myself – Myself to blame!”  Obviously hard to hear what it sounds like without the melody,  the chords were Cminor to Fminor to Bflat dominate to Eflat dominate to dminor(but sometimes BFlat).   ANYWAY –  if you are reading this and play music,  jam out on those chords!

At the end of the night we were told we get $20 bucks of free food!  So we had to order a ton of stuff that we couldn’t finish… and munched on some veggie burgers and veggie quesadillas and fries and salad and milkshakes and nachos and chicken fingers and water and beer and salsa and whatever they would give us cause the prices were mad cheap!

compliment of the night:  ”You guys are Fucking awesome and are gonna be playing Lollapalooza in the next year or two!”

Well, if that does happen…I’ll have to thank that girl for her psychic abilities! What was her name? maybe she’ll read this….