EISLEY IN AUSTIN - KUT 90.5 radio and Waterloo Records
August 22, 2003 05:11 AM
IN BIG BOLD TYPE: ADDED IMAGES BELOW
THAT WAS AN ATTENTION GETTING HEADLINE.
KUT 9o.5 - Live Radio Show. Thurs. August 21
Pics to come. i'm still on the v-fest images. sorry.
So, Eisley did this live radio show that started around noon. Some of yo
might have heard it. We arrived in Austin late Wed. night so we could
avoid driving 5 hours starting early Thurs. morn. Everything went pretty
smooth...we arrived on time - around 10:30 at the studio on UT campus.
One small problem presented itself after unloading: when Weston pulled
out his drums, there were no "hats". Turns out that "Echo and the
Bunnymen" borrowed his cymbals; we're not sure what happened, but in
the confusion, we never got them back...so the band did a modified
acoustic set; That means, Chauntelle: acoutic guitar, Jon: bass, Weston:
tambourine, Stacy: Rhodes/voc's, Sherri: Voc's.
There were definately a few boggles and warm up issues on the first two
songs perhaps, but the last 3 were well worth the listen. Of course, very
different sound; one thing you wouldn't know is that Chauntelle doesn't
always play straight up chords on Eisley songs...so, minutes before they
were on air, she was having to ask Sherri and Stacy what chords to play.
In the end, she did great.
Weston was reduced to tambourine - which is something he never does,
so that was interesting.
All and all, it was good. If Warner Bros. would allow me the space, I
could upload some of the tunes. Well, they will...but I have to send them
and get a link after they upload them to a special server. (not for
long...remember, this fall everything changes. I will have so much power,
I fear a hostile take over of.....yes, of the Universe.
Waterloo Records - In Store show. Thurs. August 21. 5:00pm
So, here we are in Austin at the guitar center - buying new hi-hats and
some other misc. stuff. Apparently, the Waterloo show starts at 7:00pm.
We arrive arouind 5:45pm. Expect a raw, indie show...soundwise; the
only thing runnin through the board are the keys and vocals.
What a great place... Only days ago, I read about Waterloo - or it was
listed as one of top 5 indie record stores in the country. (world?) We'd
been to Amoeba in LA only weeks ago and were blown away. Glad to
know that Texas has something that rivals those Cali's. Austin is indeed
the music mecca of Texas and John's store on 6th and Lamar surely lives
us to it's ranking. I think my kids dern near went broke from buying CD's
last night.
Anyway, brief report: I think I'd call last night a success. The half of the
store where the small stage is was pretty packed - from front to back.
Eisley did 4 songs, took a break and came back for 4 more...signed for a
long time and we packed up and left...and got home at 3:30am. The
people were very cool; it was an intimate show - the sound was "o.k.". -
no subtones from kick, vocals feel like they're on another planet because
there's no guitars in the mains - raw, imperfect, accoustic drums, indie
rockish - Austin style, brain-melting heat, dead cow sculls, tumble weeds,
lots of gunfights in the streets....sort of like Eisley at the O.K. Coral. nah,
it was fun. And that nice owner - John, gave us Waterlooo Shirts that look
like "the Underground" logo - which I thought was cool, so I will wear
mine with Texas pride.
Feel free to post comments about the show. It surely wasn't big sounding
like the one down the street there in Winter....or even a shadow of the
SXSW performance, but... it was important and we're thankful to
Waterloo. Hope to come back to Austin. bd
AND NOW: THE IMAGES BELOW
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- have to upload them and code them in. in progress now. 5:15pm friday.
everyone is leaving work and going out and nobody cares about my
progress except for me. I am almost caught up with all of this - bd
Before shows, you'll always find her here...
There was no place to put the road cases, so...why not in front of the
stage. That way, when Austin's enraged crowd of Waterloo Warriors
decide to storm the stage, the'll have this anvil moat to deal with.
And it worked perfectly.
Chauntelle, without a mic - "hey, everybody...we're eisley..."
3 seconds later, she's rocking it out...well, sorta.
These are unedited live shots...absolutely no photoshop work...
liar. the liar spews forth his intrepid ooze.
All natural...Sherri sings the bridge in "Over the Mountains We Go".
Right after the first song, I told the girls to turn up guitars.
She's like...."what?"..."oh, ok...." Remember, there's no mic's on
the amps, or drums... the only control is from stage, so....
you do what you can.
It came in...some solar flare...and lit her face in an angelic glow.
Luckily, I captured it on video.
They did a split show with a break in between 4 flanking songs.
Just like in the real battle of Waterloo. Very strategic.
I am keenly interested in understanding this band's demographic.
Did you guys notice that there were babies, kids, youths, college,
adults, middle agers, seniors present at this show? I'm not joking.
We had old granma's jigging with it...raving to us after the show
about how much they loved the music; there were parents who
brought their kids...and, i dunno. I guess it just shocked me. There
were reverends and dopers and ropers, of course, mostly our types -
regular music loving scene peeps...but; whatever... what does it
mean? Or was it a fluke? What's the Austin scene like?
It was a nice group of nice people in the store that eve. Here
they are... find yourself if you can..
And because I'm nice, I made a pretty little panoramic photo for you
to see. I think my brain always wants images to be like what the
eyeballs imbedded into these socket things on the upper part of my facial head see's... more perspective. Speaking of....this perspective is bogus.
And after, John wanted them to sign stuff... so that was nice. Eisley
always likes to meet people even though they're sorta scared of them.
And WB was VERY happy - sighting record sales. (no, record record
sales) Thanks everyone who bought the ep. seriously. It helps. Labels
like to recoup.
That's all for Waterloo. Now stay tuned for KUT images. And I'm trying to find space to toss a few songs up on the worldwideweb soon. bd
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KUT Radio - Live Eisley Radio Show
Weston was spinning Collin around inside this road case.
Weston left his hi-hats in the UK, so...guess who didn't get to play drums
during the live show? Tamborine man.
Sherri was getting a set list together. 5 songs.
This was on the wall. Thought it was funny...in a morbid way.
jon tuning.
Jon and Chauntelle were hard to see from the control room.
speaking of...
Sherri singing.
Jon's midrif, cool gumby shirt and vintage bass.
Stacy singing.
Chauntelle and Jon again...all during live show.
That's the DJ. and that's the room. They were very nice.
That's all for now. Thanks everybody. have a great weekend.
boyd
RECORDING SESSIONS - Last minute photoblorgs from LA
August 10, 2003 09:13 AM
WELL, THINK AGAIN...
but this time, don't think I didn't put up last minute photoblorgs. That's evil. (wait...I have to go get some code. I'll be back)
Thursday August 7 - the last day in LA
Misc. photos
That's Craig Aaronson and his boy Weston (not shown).
Rob Cavallo smiling
Rob Cavallo squentching
Sherri too close
missing Chauntelle
The Eisley Choral Singers
Stacy too close
Sherri is a cute girl geek.
Lucas is the new Street Team honcho at WB and is one of our
many favorite people at the label. He transcends the label...he resembles
the label... the label is it's people. Lucas is WB. He pays me fatly to write
this suck-up.
Lucas wanted to play with the camel but made one big mistake. He said, "it doesn't work". Eisley was deeply offended and, well, you can see from the silent movie that there were words.
Sherri is just a big faced girl geek on the way to the airport after leaving WB.
Voyeur Jon peers from behind while the event unfolds.
Jon is fun to sit next to on the plane.
Chauntelle starts freaking out and screaming, "MAY DAY, MAY DAY! WE'RE GONG DOWN! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!... until the stewardess goes tap -tap on her shoulder
and say's, "if you don't sit down young lady we're gonna have to hurl you out of that exit door... and you know what? - the Captain say's he's got some exlax for you
if you don't sit right down!"
I had a panic attack on the pier that Forest Gump ran down in
the movie. I must think I look pretty handsome using that cell phone.
RECORDING SESSIONS. Wed. August 6th. (more pics)
August 06, 2003 10:51 AM
Wednesday August 6
It's 4:20pm. The girls are at A&M with John Shanks finishing guitars and
vocals on Silver Bugs and Brightly Wound. (dropped them off at 1:00pm)
This morning, we got up at 8:30am (well, the girls did..and I did)...we
had to be ready by 10:00 to go with Darin to PUMA for some
publicity stuff....which translates into shoes for Eisley. So, we met Darin
at Jamba Juice and got our usual "boost" of vitamns or fiber or immunity
or whatever and headed to Puma.
At Puma we met the main guy from the UK named Christian - who
greeted the band, took photos for their wall. (I saw Dave Growl with his
new wife...that's the only one that caught my eye; I wouldn't know Good
Charlotte from 50cents) Anyway, they were super nice and well...eisley
walked away very shoed. That's all I'm saying.
We dropped the girls off at the studio and came here. That's as boring as
the day has been. I'm working and we're starving. Not sure how long the
girls will be required. It's the last day. Tomorrow we meet with some lady
producer who wanted to meet them (produced Pink) and the producer of
Muse - who emailed me a week before Coachella - and met us there.
He's a super cool, young guy.
This is boring. You know it, I know it and the american woman (should)
get away from me...bye bye...bye bye....
And NOW!..pics from yesterday and the day before...and there are more
to come...
You know the story. Charlie, then Herb, then Jim.
Ole Jim's gone now, but his memory lives on...
Kermit THe froG...
John in his very cool environment.
He has tons of guitars and instruments.
and he has glossy's from cool bands.
I wanted to steal this..but I didn't.
That's a bad photo of Chauntelle.
That's a cute, mean looking glance from Stacy, but she wasn't mad...just talking to Weston...
Thanks to Airport, Sherri is wireless at high speed.
This place is very sheik - very mod - very hippie lair. awesome. I couldn't resist shooting the fabric and drapery.
More of the same with Sherri.
We drove from Hollywood to the beach...here's the place our friends work at.
Chris - manages the Hotel California.
hanging out in their cool, old, wooden walled room.
Richard - friends of Cole and Scott (scott from this forum) and other good friends of ours.
Walking toward the beach.
Excersize on the beach.
Lots O rope climbing was done.
jon and wes on the ropes.
jon self portrait.
the water and the sunset in front of the pier.
This is the pier that Forest Gump ran down in the movie.
Walking back to the hotel to let Richard listen to new tunes.
Wrap Up
It's now almost 1:00am. The girls finished recording with John around
6:45 or 7:00pm... I think they finished everything and I think that John
Shanks just has to do some mixing or editing or comping and we'll get
the finish product in the mail next week or something. It's been an amazing two weeks.
We had dinner with Eisley's support team at Universal Studio's
Center...(some restaurant - this whole place is something like Biff World
or Mulan Rouge and no, I don't know how to spell it) thanks to Craig and
WB, and came back to the hotel where Weston and Jon have been
packing. Our newfound LA friends Richard and Chris were next door with
freinds so they called us to say goodbye. I met them outside with an
Eisley CD (they'd asked for it but kept leaving it). We're leaving
tomorrow... will be glad to fly back home although it appears more
recording will resume in Sept. I might not have time to post tomorrow.
Meetings for coffee at 10:00am with management and then at WB offices
at 11:30 and we leave for airport tomorrow afternoon.
Gunite and thanks for tuning in everybody. Hope it didn't get too boring
although I know it did and you're a liar if you ever disagree with me or
cross me. Remember. - "This...is my Xanga".
Boydout
p.s. pray that we don't crash in the plane...that would be wicked.