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Vegas, are you Serious?

2006-03-20T16:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, Y'all, here's the Vegas pics, or at least some of them. Overall, it was a great time and we were happy to see many of our friends there, including: Andrew, Terri, Mark, Michelle, Joe, Kelli, The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls, RBF, Tazy Phillips, Fishbone, Westbound Train, Mo, Judd, Karl(Carl?) and everyone that I forgot, or met that night. (especially the girl with the "special backstage passes")let's just say they looked like this: (.)(.) and didn't work. Security was pretty tight that day, something about it being a State Park.
Anyhow, it was great fun, from the after-party to hittin the casinos the next day. I think that the big winner in the Pie crew was John Darby with about $200 in slots. I think that made up for what the rest of us lost. We had better luck gettin Guinness at the bar with the MOJU crew, (on Michelle's tab, of course(thanks!!!)). Ok, 'nuff said, check out the shots, we've got some special guest photographers this time.

This one was taken in our shitty hotel by the man: Moshe Koenick

(Big thanks to the dude that brought the tequila, it was much appreciated!!!)

These Pics were taken by JuddIrishBradley, and I think they came out real niice:

Jerry from Voodoo Glow Skulls, Moshe, Jorge

John and Jorge

Steve, Jorge, Toby, Andy

The whole band, right before playing...

These on-stage pics were taken by our good friends, Joe Simpson and his Girl, Kelli. We missed you guys at the after-party!

The Frizzle-Frazzle Tour '06

2006-03-07T19:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, back from the-- frizzle-frazzle-fucking-cold-are-you-serious-bad-back-drink-ticket tour, and things couldn't be better with your friendly neighborhood Pietasters. We'd like to thank everyone that came out and helped us git down every night of last week. Here's the short list: The Tossers, the Stabones, the Fun Junkies, the Five Maseratis, the Planet Smashers, Cenzo, Lost City Angels, Big D and all you fuckers at the kids table. Uh ok, I shouldnt have started that, its gonna be a long list. Everyone that helped put the shows together, performed, and especially the fans. No thanks to those of you that were on the guest list FREELOADERS!!! I kid.....youre a great bunch of people....for me to (you know the rest).
Im SERIOUS it was a great time, and I hope that everyone of you got a chance to FEEL IT. Highlights were playing Fiesta with Tony and the boys from the Tossers, and getting to see Gregory Isaacs play in Burlington. GOOD GRIEF! He was amazing!
Anyhow, here are the pictures. Many of the pictures are courtesy of John Kang, and they are all courtesy of his camera, because mine was fucked up. Check them out, tell your friends, and I will try to get some shots in Vegas!!!

The Hotel bar in Philly

It may not look like it, but this is the Stabones, on stage at CBGBs

Pappy Jackson, Willy B -Independants, and Bartley -Stabones (duh)

Gettin crazy at CBGBs

John and Vinnie Nobile -Bim Skala Bim, Pilfers, Cenzo

Poster from the Rochester show

"Merch Twins Powers Activate!!!"

Gettin' Funky at the Band and Breakfast

Yeah, we played Bongos. We're a bunch of fuckin hippies.

Darby sleeps through his slice of Pizza. "But it was sooooo good!!!"

Eating food at Higher Ground with the Planet Smashers

Playing in Burlington, VT

More of the same

Jorge shows off his "Exile on Main St" Guitar book

Oh Shit, Are you Serious?

Vinnie rocks with Cenzo

John Kang and Ron from Lost City Angels, Spring Heeled Jack

MC J-Dizzle

It's been a long time.........

2006-02-16T16:34:00.000-08:00

Well, I should stop saying when I'm gonna post on this, because It never happens.....Anyhow, here are some pictures that have been taken since the last post, sorry there aren't many live, check the website for those. Dont forget the message board here and we are all looking forward to a great tour starting Feb 24th!!!

Da New Ride

Show in Marshall VA with the Stabones

Making the Setlist

Bart preps for the show

The Stabones Rock

Food at Mother's Federal Hill Grille was awesome, especially dessert

Show at the 8x10 Baltimore

Toby and Johnny Joe

Onstage at the 8x10 courtesy Vic Brocato

Jeb plays his last show as official key'taster

Jer says "Seeya!" to Jeb

Long Live Crandall!!!

John Darby takes over on Jeb's ORGAN

Sound check at the Cat's Cradle

We were blown away by this amazing sketch on the dressing room wall

Andy's can of whoop-ass

930 Club Show

2005-09-28T13:48:00.000-07:00

We would like to thank everyone that came out to the 930 Club last Saturday. 871 paid admission, and 70 on the guest list. Not a bad turn out at all! The show was a success, what with Trip Lizard, The Pressure Sounds, The Players and Rude Buddha opening up. I'd like to mention everyone that came to say hello to us, but there were so many, let me just say it was a good party. Oh, and some guy named Chris chickened out of proposing to his girlfriend on stage. Wherever you are, Chris, you made the right move!!!
The next day, we got together for a quick rehersal to hammer out some new songs with Carlos before he headed back to Dallas, and that turned out to be really productive. We worked on 2 songs and ate 4 pizzas......lol! Over all the song to pizza ratio was a little low, but what can you do? Afterwards, Jackson, D'Anj, Crandall, John Rockwinski and I went and saw The 40 Year Old Virgin, and laughed like crackheads on welfare day. thats about it. Next posts will be about the October tour with Big D and the Kids Table.

-Al

VA Beach Show

2005-09-18T16:02:00.000-07:00

Here's the report of the Jewish Mother show.
The food was great, they know how to make a Turkey samwich in that joint. We hung with my highschool buddy, and Iraqi war vet Dave Taxson. (Jer and I watched him change his tire. WooHoo!)Many beers later, We watched Backside Slappy play. Those guys mush have signed a bomb deal, cuz they had all new gear. Next was 33 West, good as usual, except that they didn't know who Blur is/was. We played our set, joined by our trumpet whiz Mike Trumpet (i wonder where he got that name?), who seems to know our songs better than me, despite never practicing with the band. After the show, the real fun began. Jackson had ordered 7 chocolate eclairs from the restaurant, which came in handy later. (They make them fresh there, possibly the highlight of the whole event)
Next, we decided to go to the beach, at 3:30 AM. The water was so nice, we all said fuck it and jumped in. There were also bigger waves than usual there, possibly due to Ophelia. The bonus to this part is that we were joined by 3 topless girls in pietasters thongs. It's good to be the band. We were all on top of the world, until we were woken up at 6AM to go home. (sometimes its not so good)
-Al

Pictures from Europe

2005-09-12T14:35:00.000-07:00

Ok, Folks, here it is! Pictures I took in Europe of our trip from Sept 23-31. As I said in the last post, this tour was a celebration of Rob's upcoming wedding. Therefore, you may not recognize some of the guys in the pictures, so here is a short list of some of the dahs that you will see. Jeff: Rob's best man and member of Plans Plans. HT: Trumpet player in the Legwarmers and videographer. SK: Matt Kelly, member of the Five Maseratis and Legwarmers. John Darby: Bass player in the Five Maseratis. Andy Gilmartin: Pietasters tour manager. Bartley: Merch guy and Stabones lead singer. Chris: our English Bus driver. Ernesto: owner of the coolest bar in Holland (and wife Wendy). Rich and Daz: our crazy Scottish connection. All others were incidental, or don't matter. Enjoy!

Rob starts it off right!!!

Andy and the guys in the airport

Airport bar

Jorge sports his Doody-free

Heathrow Baggage Claim

Daaa Bus

Dressing room in Norwich

Jackson and SK

English Breakfast....mmmmmmmmmmmmm

The World's End and The Underground (the club we played in London)

Inside the Bar

Camden Market, London

Carlos, Rob and Toby outside the venue, Isle of Wight

Jeff and SK, Isle of Wight

Darby, Isle of Wight

Beast rides from the Scooter Rally, Isle of Wight

Some pictures of the guys doin their thang

The Skipper

Jorge Toby and HT

Carlos' quote on Prawn and Mayonnaise Sandwiches "Tastes like food in England"

Bartley in the morning

Bobby Rob

Rich is a member of the Scottish CSI team

For Fans of the Beard!!!

Amsterdam (only one picture? Sorry, we were only there for 2 hours!)

Jer and "Don" Ernesto

Chris Jer Rich and Daz outside of Ernestos

SK and Bartley chillin'

DJ Reno: The Sounds of Sittard

Five Maseratis Rock the House

First Pie Set

Steve and Miss Wendy

Paul and Ringo (Beatles Set)

More Pie

Daaaa Fans

Hands doing the Devil's Work

Some Guy....Please let us know who you are....

Al and Rich livin' Large

Andy Jeff Darby Rob and Toby

Back in DC!!!

Ok, There ya go, hope you enjoyed it, and I will try to do the same for the trip in October.

All Day,
-Al

Muse Fest

2005-09-08T13:16:00.000-07:00

Well, last saturday was the Muse Fest, near Ithaca, NY, and it was a surprisingly good time. Nice weather, and a well-mowed field contributed to a pretty good camping-festival. We arrived early, as traffic was light, and watched some of the earlier acts on the Rock stage, and Skateboard ramp. Eventually, LaPlaca arrived, and then it was OK to start the drinking. The whole time i was cursing myself for not having my camera, because it was so nice out. We played around 8:30, and had a good response from the crowd. People literally came out of the woods to come check us out. After the show, we continued to hang around and enjoy the party. The stars up there are trippy, Man!!!! We want to shout out to the Brakes, from Philly, who we met in the beer-ateria, after the show. They seem like great guys, and we will likely play somewhere on the East coast with them soon. After that, it was back to the Band and Breakfast to play original Nintendo, and sleep. As for the Europe pics, I have plenty of available space here, so I will post them as soon as possible.

-Al

Back From Europe

2005-09-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

Hey Gang!
We made it back from Europe, and everyone is alive, so far. This is going to be a short post, and I'm gonna take my laptop this weekend to New York so that the other guys can help recover my memory while on the drive.
Want to shout out to Rich McPie and Daz for coming out from Scotland, It was great to see you guys. Don't know how you found the bus after Amsterdam, Rich, but my hat is off to ya. Overall, a great trip, the isle of wight show was a killer time, with the most vintage scoots i think ive seen in one place. Amsterdam was cool as well, though we didn't really have a lot of time to kill while we were there, as the show was about 10 miles away from the city center (a tip for the Dutch: Put in some Damn Cash Machines and we might spend more of our American Greenbacks, Dammit!!!) Of course, the best part of the trip was Sittard, where we must have played something like 4 hours, broken up by 2 Five Maserati's sets, one originals, and one all Beatles covers that totally blew my mind. I'm going to try to post a few pictures of the trip. (I took like 500, but 475 of them suck) Nothin like going to Europe with 15 of your good (and drunk)friends to celebrate Rob's Nuptuals!!! Thanks to All involved!
More to Come,
-Al

Pietasters Head North

2005-06-16T08:54:00.000-07:00

My apologies for being so late on this one, but I've got many other things to waste time on besides this. Anyhow, last Thursday, we headed up to NYC to play on a Booze Cruise. This turned out to be a great show for many reasons, not the least of which was that there were so many die hard fans that we could hear them singing over the PA for the majority of the set. Thanks for coming out and supporting us, guys!!! Also, during our set break, we got a good look at the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis and Governor's Island. Hopefully John Kang will post the pictures that he took somewhere. So no one fell off the boat, and if anyone puked, I didn't see it (no complaints here).
Next Show was the Middle East in Cambridge, MA. Also a good show, we played with 2 good Boston bands, Riki Rocksteady, and Mass Hysteria. Spitshine records is 'keepin it real, yo'. All attempts at having a party at our hotel FAILED, not exactly sure why, but I think it was that we couldn't remember the name of our hotel.
Off to Albany, where we played with the Ducky Boys, always a good band. This time we were a little more successful with the hotel room party, and we hit the swimming pool at 3:30 in the morning. Against our will, we were treated to a full-frontal scene ala' Phobe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Jackson. (ugh).
The show in Columbia MD was much better than could have been expected. The weather was nice, and a lot of our local fans came out for a sunday afternoon of family fun. We Palyed right after the Glen Allen High School Jazz Band. For the second time that weekend, I was insulted and called an Asshole by KT (Stalker), less that 10 minutes after finishing our set. I guess she just really likes the band. (?) I've decided to try to be the Bigger man and accept her randomly rude comments as some type of 'German' compliments. Big thanks to Lucas and his Lady for taking Da Hanj and Myself to Baltimore after the show, it was much appreciated.

-Al

PS the new songs that we played over the weekend were:

(Working Titles)
Triflin' Ways
Dream of You
Late Night Call
Ordinary
Listen to Her Heart (post a comment if you can name the original artist on this one-google is cheating!!!)

Five Maseratis Take Manhattan

2005-06-02T06:11:00.000-07:00

Sorry I'm so late posting this, a little thing called work got in the way of me building mindless online drivel for your viewing pleasure. The Five Maseratis played the Ace of Clubs, NYC last Saturday www.aceofclubsnyc.com and the show was AMAZING!!! (i guess maybe i was a little high) Then we all went to some club on Canal Street after and got the Puff Daddy treatment with a table and a bottle of Belvedere and what-not (this ain't no Pietasters party). Well the bottle was gone in about 20 minutes, and we moved on to drinking $7 Bud Lights, and dancing to the Human League. (Don't you want me Baby?) That's all I remember, apparently we all got home the next day.

Weekend of May 21-22

2005-05-23T09:44:00.000-07:00

This last weekend was Jeremy's Birthday, so we celebrated with a barbeque at Steve's and then continued to throw down at the Legwarmers show at the State Theater. Despite drinking Absinthe and numerous other things, Jeremy was OK to do some recording on the new ablum with Todd Harris. So far, it looks like we have 10 rhythm tracks complete, and yesterday, we put horn tracks on 4 of those songs. With this new project, we got Todd Harris to record it for almost nothing, so we don't have to pay $100 an hour for studio time. The end result of that, however, is that we are taking our time with this one, and it could be a while before it's in stores. Anyways, thats the news from this weekend, stay tuned for reports on the Five Maseratis show in NYC on Saturday May 28th at the Ace of Clubs.

See you there,

Al

Welcome to the Pietasters Blog!!!

2005-05-23T09:31:00.000-07:00

This is a new blog for all things Pietaster-related. (as if we needed another online place to rant) In the future, this will include tour journals, and drunken rants by the guys in the band. I'm still getting the hang of this, but look forward to lots of inside info on our shows, and the recording of the upcoming Rock Skapera. Working title: "Im Thinkin' about the Past, but I'm Excited about the Future"

More to come,

Al