Last Thursday

Well, we had a fun time last Thursday at the Rhythm Room opening for Perpetual Groove. Nice Thursday crowd. The P Groove guys for Georgia seemed affable fellows--I particularly enjoyed chatting with their keyboard player for a bit. They take the award away from Brothers Past as far as the band that has most equipment on the stage for a show. Damn. I enjoyed their Peter Gabrial cover for sure.

We debuted a new song on Thursday night. Which is kind of an old song. Weird. We have (had) a song that was a funky number called Harry Carry which we used to play with regularity. Then we got tired of it and stopped playing it. About 4 months ago, we decided to revitalize it. Al came up with two new parts (beginning and end) and we saved the middle part of the old version. We still called it Harry Carry. We played it a few times live--and got a nice response every time--and we even recorded it last December. But, over the holidays, we decided we didn't like the one hold over from the old Harry Carry. So, we came up with a new part. So its a whole new song. NOW, its called Sweet Air. It is still funky. We were a bit nervous, but we pulled it off last Thursday. We also definitely played the best version of another new song we have called "Ride this Hurricane" that we had ever played live before. Cool. Here is the setlist.

THU, FEB 17, Rhythm Room, Houston, Tx, (Opening for Perpetual Groove)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Turnaround, Sweet Air*, Sweet Leaf, Situation Room, Memphis Soul Stew, Everybody Wanna Get Rich (Right Away), Ride this Hurricane

Hey now, we are heading back to Louisiana this weekend. This will be our first time in Lafayette, LA, as we are playing at The Keg on Thursday, Feb 24. If you know anyone in Lafayette, please tell them to come check us out!!! We are also playing in Lake Charles at Breezy's opening up for our pals in Thinking Plyers. Show starts early--9 pm--so come check out PLUMP early.

Also, we have two shows in the Bryan/College Station area over March 3 and 4. We are playing the NORTHGATE FESTIVAL on THU MAR 3. We are at the Pavilion behind the Chicken. We start at 9 pm, and we play right after our pals in GNAPPY. Cool.

Then, on Fri Mar 4 we are at Revolution in Bryan, where we are gonna throw down some serious jams. Hey, if there is anyone in Bryan/College Station who would like to help us get the word out about the shows and pass out handbills, we will make it worth your while (wink wink). Please send me an email at dougpayne74@yahoo.com if interested in helping flyer for these shows. Excellent.

Studio time

Hey hey,

We had a real good time in the studio this past weekend. What we did was to continue working on the recording we began in December. We spent all day Friday and Saturday holed-up at the Bungalow with our pal and engineering-extraordinaire Mark Shannon, and we are getting very excited about the results. Right now, we have 7 songs that are ready to be mixed. We anticipate going back to the studio in June to record hopefully at least 4 more songs for what will become ther next PLUMP album. We are getting excited, because this recording sounds really good so far.

FYI, we are playing at the Rhythm Room in Houston, TX this Thursday night. Perpetual Groove from Georgia is a-coming to town, and we are going to open for those guys. They have been getting all kinds of good press, so we are looking forward to meeting and hagning out with them. PLUMP plays at 9:30 pm, and the RR is at 1815 Washington.

Next week, we will be at:

THE KEG, Lafayette, LA, THU 2-24, 10 pm
BREEZY's, Lake Charles, LA, SAT 2-26, 9 pm (opening for Thinking Plyers)

All right

Hey Hey,

Sorry for the lack of posts on here. But, don't take the lack of posts for lacks of shows. We played some wing-dingers. The weekend before last we had a nice little Louisiana-East Texas run of shows. We played a show at Twiropa in NOLA with our new friends called Gravy. They were extremely nice guys and did a very nice version of "Ophelia" by the Band. The Twiropa room was definitely a cool room to play in. Next, we headed to Beaumont and the Vortex. Everybody there treats us right, and it was good to see our pal John Fulbright, and Dave and Shaggy at the Vortex were their normal cool selves. Nice. Next, Revolution on Saturday night. Man, it was cold, but it was fun. Thanks to Jim Owsley Jazz Quartet for playing with us, and thanks to everybody that came out and danced and stuff. You all were great.

Wednesday Feb 2, we played during set break of the Dark Star Orchestra show at the Meridian. Man, we had a ton of people up and dancing and that was a real cool show. It was real cool when the "Jerry" of DSO was admiring Al's set up. He was even kind enough to buy a cd. That's the Jerry I know and love. Fri the 4th we were back at Brian Oneill's. We were enjoying ourselves until the venue got nervous about stage volume and were afraid the cops were gonna give them a ticket and made us shut down. Heck, we were playing real quiet anyway. So, it goes.

This weekend PLUMP goes back to the playground that is The Bungalow Studio. Mostly just to hang out with our pal Mark Shannon, but also to record a bit. Here comes fun.

PLUMP does have the following shows for Feb:

THU FEB 17, Rhythm Room, Houston, Tx--opening for Perpetual Groove
THU FEB 24, The Keg, Lafayette, LA
SAT, FEB 26, Breezy's, Lake Charles, LA--opening for Thinking Plyers

Cool Beans