Friday, August 25, 2006

underground railroad surfaces sept. 8th

this from underground railroad gtrist-mastermind bill pohl. who knew prog guys had a sensahumour?

This will be our first gig since Sept. '05; we'll also be debuting our new trio configuration! [um, that'd be bill hisself on gtr-taurus pedals-vox, matt hembree on bass, and kurt rongey, who now plays drums _and_ keyboards like he was in yeti or something.] This is a sort of warm-up gig for our big North American Tour '06...which only consists of four or five gigs. However, as these gigs will take place in North America, and as they are in different states, we will refer to it as our North American Tour '06. (note the cap's; please use them in any written reference to our North American Tour '06).

Warr Guitar virtuoso, Mark Cook, will be onhand that night with his trio, consisting of Jason Spradlin and Bob Fisher. Hmmm. That might be spelled Fischer. Probably not Fissure. Alright, I'm going with Fisher.

Anyway, Bob is a virtuoso player on both sax and flute. Jason is the drummer for 99 Names of God, one of Mark's other groups. Mark will have just gotten back from playing Progday with the group, Hands, up in North Carolina, so be sure to ask him how that went. Also, be sure to ask him about his Warr Guitar. Say something like, "What is that? It's like a guitar, only the neck's REALLLL wide, and it's got a lot more strings, doesn't it? What is that?" He LOVES explaining it.

His trio will warm up the audience for The Underground Railroad. If you're planning to attend, I hope you don't mind this kind of manipulation; being "warmed up" and all....or the assumption on our part that you, the audience member, might NEED to be "warmed up". You know what? They're not even the warm-up band, anyway. What am I talking about? They're just playing first. We thought that since you're paying five bucks you oughta get two bands.

This whole thing will happen in the live music venue located downstairs from Competition Music, which is at:

3136 E. Lancaster
Fort Worth, Tx 76103

The music will start somewhere between 9:30 and 10pm. Oh yea, no liquor license there, so it's BYOB IF UB21.

Cheers,
Bill

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