Oh My Dear Lord: More Star Track

Hey Soul Mates,
those G4 commercials for Star Trek are stoopid. Bry thinks Charlie Murphy is the voice of Spock. Watch Star Trek Cribs, see if he isn't right. These are the funniest stop motion cartoons since Davey & Goliath!







In band news, the photos from the Good Hurt are up on RHS.com. There are a lot of great shots of Doug. Look for Bryan doing the "blazing solo" faces. If you are a friend of ours on MySpace, check out the new banners that are available. Use the html code to link directly to Rush Hour Soul's homepage or MySpace page. Cool.

Have a peaceful Saturday. Live Long and Prosper.
Love, Power, Peace

A Plum Night [Show Recap]

Hey Soul Mates,
what a great show at the Good Hurt last night. You all sent us off in style. It was fun to play without a set list again. Your requests were fabulous. We had our eye on the first couple of songs, then we turned it over to the audience.

The sound in the Good Hurt was spectacular too. You can tell when the opening act is an industrial techno pop group and you don't need earplugs. That venue has been really good to us. Bryan's new guitar is simply amazing [And now we're twins. Ok, Fender, where's our endorsement? American made Fender Jazz is all the way live!] The player? We already knew he was the bomb. How'd you like that knee drop solo!? The rhythm section was slamming too! Doin' it Vulcan style, baby!!

The band did the stroll in our shades of magenta, fuschia and purple. Yes, a plum bunch. The pictures will be up soon, but here's a taste.


This is the set list to the best of our knowledge!

Set List:
Sucka
U Had The $
Everyone's Ingenue
Down By Love (requested by Tiffany)
The Word (requested by Rosanna)
Supermodels With Gatling Guns (requested by Adina)
Saffron Dancer (requested by Patty)
Fall Out (requested by Jana & Mari)
A Talent For Loving (by popular demand)

Now we have to shift gears into overdrive. Our next show will be in Jolly Old England in the heart of Sheffield. Nothing but pure excitement. Needless to say, we are going to miss all of our dancing girls from LA. But we'll be back. And we expect to have them grooving across the UK!

I've spent the morning writing and playing at the piano. And the dog is tearing up my knee. She really likes the new ballad I'm working on and she stands up and digs into my leg. Guess it's the high notes!
Love, Power, Peace

"My Prerogative" Vulcan Style Baby

Hey Soul Mates,
Doug showed us easily the funniest thing on tv today. We must have watched it about 20 times this weekend. And everytime you watch it you notice more freaky behaviour on the behalf of the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Or maybe it's the Mothership Connection. This is a 30 second clip for reruns of Star Trek on a new cable channel. I used to have the Spock doll in question. In fact, I can remember being very upset when I lost his phaser and then Spock. All before age 7. Oh well. We'll always have Paris or karaoke. Watch and weep with laughter.


Courtesy of YouTube.com

See you at the show tomorrow. "Haaa! I don't give a daaaaammn!" Go, Spock, it's your birthday!
Love, Power, Peace

Earth Day in NorCal [Show Recap]

Hey Soul Mates,
we've had a most relaxing weekend and a great time here at Free Heart. Our Earth Day performance last night was a lot of fun. We ran through a whole bunch of material and kept the peoples dancing even in a light drizzle. Spirits were not dampened though. It was our first time working without a set list, which was a challenge but really kept us in tune with what the audience was feeling. With when they wanted to keep dancing or bring it down a little. It was very much an all ages crowd, only a few members of the audience knew who we were or our original material. It's satisfying to know that we went over well with such a diverse group. Special thanks to the Rolstons for putting on the event and all of the love we got from the people up here. Thanks for coming to the show. Extra thanks to Jolly Roger for playing on the bill and supplying the sound. You rock!

Set List:
Everyone's Ingenue
Fall Out
Hold On I'm Coming
U Had The $
Everything My Heart Desires
The Word (yes, our Beatles' cover for Liverpool. Now that the video has spoilt the surprise. Ha ha.)
Down By Love
Done Lost My Mind
Miss You
Bad Penny Blues/Gold Digger
Supermodels With Gatling Guns
A Talent For Loving
Love Someone

As the set list wasn't committed to paper, I can't be sure of the order, but this was more or less it. We also had a really productive rehearsal today. We cranked up the machine and revved through the set for Wednesday's show at the Good Hurt. We also ran down our 2nd Beatles' cover twice, dusted off some older material and worked on our new song, Roosevelt's Revue, which will get its debut when we return from the UK. The afternoon was topped off by a very competitive round of bocce ball on the back 40. Congrats, Doug. Ah, country living.

The drive North to Esparto was really beautiful. Parts of it, very green, lush and hilly, reminded me of drives up the Ohio turnpike through Amish country. I half-expected to see a horse and buggy driven by a buttonless man in black. Oh, and everyone... boycott Yahoo Maps. They did us wrong and set us on a one-hundred mile detour. We could have taken the 5 freeway, virtually door-to-door to get here. Instead, they sent us due west for 60 miles to flipping Oakland, y'all. No joke. We stopped in Walnut Creek to get our bearings and realized that Yahoo owes us a tank (about $42) of gas. Then they had us doubling back toward Sacramento. So please, do not rely on Yahoo Maps. Thankfully, we were having a good time in the car and the destination was worth the effort.

Love, Power, Peace