August 22, 2005 THE LA SHOW!!!! Troubador. Yahoo Finale'
August 22, 2005 02:29 PM
With Richard Swift opener!!
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Eisley at the vip afterparty
Eisley with Haily Joel Osman(d)? - the guy from 6th Sense and Second Hand Lion.
Flying beats driving... Cowboy hats make Texas girls look so Texan.
Flying into the cloudy city... That's not smog. Hollywood is to the left of LA.
This is boring, but I was impressed over our rooms. Le Montrose Suites.
My first boss out of college used to say, "that's elegant as hell".
Psykotic shot these for me. We were eating with very important poops.
Just kidding. I can't give industry people too much credibility...what, and risk my own?
I heart Warner Bros. I love the Troubadour.
Stacy sings "Just Like We Do".
The gang all got in. Half the gang. It's not fair.
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Today Rules
Up at 7:00am, phone calls to SIR, change Tama kit to white Sonar sparkle to work for video as well as live side, walked to get coffee while checking 15 messages, called back the art director for the video, got the most amazing prank call from new management ever (laughed till i cried even though the gag was on me), layed out all receipts for tour, organized and worked spreadsheet for accounting, talked to video director (Marvin Garrrett - NYLON) about us meeting for breakfast, arranged for earlier than 4 transport to get gear from hotel to venue... (gotta GO!!!)
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Back from b-fast meeting w/ Marvin. Woah, that was amazing food. Anyway, the band is rested, in good physical, mental health, they're off right now to Marvin's house (LA Nylon office) up on the hill near Studio City where (we stayed for 3.6 months while they did all pre-production and recording on Room Noises) for sizing/clothing styling/fitting, etc. for the video that starts at 8:00am tomorrow morn.
Ok. Well, hope to see you guys tonight. Sorry there's no official band signing. You have to win something to get the vip deal. Kinda sucks, but... that's the way it's going down. Hopefully you guys can meet the band some other time, or outside afterwards. I don't know. Anyway.... take care. See you tonight!
boyd
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The Troubadour Show
I'm sure by now there's already been some information about the show. I haven't been able to get on line until right now. We're in Long Beach - where Eisley is getting hair and make up for their video shoot. But let's talk about last night:
The evening was picture perfect - for everyone except the however many people that got turned away at the door. That makes me so sad. It really hurts to the core. I heard varying reports on the numbers... 750 - 1000 total, but 400+ were turned away. Their only consolation was - they got Yahoo/Eisely T-shirts. I felt bad.
But the 500 inside created quite an electric atmosphere - full of energy and excitement. It was unlike any show... i think because of so many factors. Silly as it sounds, celebs and editors and publishers and directors and management and label and on and on... were there beholding the magnitude of the turn out... relishing the significance of the evening for Eisley.
Gotta go. The band is about to get video-taped. bd
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....and, having made the comment about the celebs and vip's, it's you guys that they're responding to. Think if nobody had come; what would be their reaction? (wait, band is on set. action. gotta go get "b roll" to edit something for after this release...!)
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I'm just going to say - the Troubadour show was great, you guys were amazing... as usual, the band, who feeds almost completely off you, felt welcome and loved... and hopefully you felt the same thing from them.
DANG. eisley on set again. off to film.
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It's hours later, the band is finished being filmed but there's more drama being taped - stuff they want to see, so... even though a SUV and driver has been waiting since 4:30pm, they're not leaving until they see the spaceman scene. It's almost 8:00pm right now.
Sherri and Chauntelle are gone. ( 
) They just left to go back to Malibu, where NFG is recording demo work for their new record.
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Anyway, some great acting going on in there. Had to catch it. sorry.
SO.... wrapping this up: Last night was one of the most memorable, wonderful nights in Eisley history. The fact that nearly 1000 came (I know, it was free) to see the band was a total shock to the band... and sent a wonderful message to WB, who was there in force. We had dinner with all those guys - the head of marketing, our day to day in the marketing dept., new media, A&R and staff, management (3), Chad, and others. Indonesian food is pretty amazing.
Second Hand Lion Guy
That Line. Luke shot it... i mean, video-taped it for me. Pretty weird. Weirder was when Jeff (new media) spotted the kid from 6 Sence in LINE. woah. whatever. that's crazy. He waited since like 3:00 or something, though people were there since 10:30am I heard. Anyway, he got in and all good. Apparently he's a huge fan of the music. Heard "Sea King" while on a plane flying home from Japan. He freaked and researched the band... but this was the first time he's been able to hear them live. The kids said he was so nice... humble, cool, a radiohead fan, told them how crazy he was about their music... Stacy said he was so complimentary and polite. That's nice. I met him but stood off so as not to be a lameoid gaulker.
Michelle Trechenburg
In Harriette the Spy? and The Ice Princess.... and other things. I dunno. She was in our dressing room almost the entire night, except for during the show. Afterward, she was beaming. So complimentary and excited about the band, the show, etc. She was leaving to go to Japan; Rick (manager) hooked her up with a CD so she could digest it on her journey. All of this is so strange to us... but so sweet.
Ice Cream Man
http://www.icecreamman.com/site_draft/new/index_new.html
Go to this site to see the review, the pics, etc. Also... this guy (the ice cream man) pulled up at the Troubadour and actually gave away free icecream! That was amazing. He's doing this all over - and promoting his site, etc. We met him... i think it's Mack? Awesome guy. Pat knows him well. Thanks so much for the cream, dude. Great marketing. Great concept.
I should rap up this day. It's getting out of hand. Too long. Take care.
August 21, Day Off Turns Fun
August 21, 2005 03:34 PM
Hey to the few of you who are online this weekend.
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/eisley
How is everyone in LA? It seems so peaceful and quiet here - where we are. We arrived yesterday at dusk(see yesterday's report). There wasn't much to do and we were famished from no food, two flights with a layover in Dallas. We walked down Santa Monica Blvd for miles looking for the right experience, wore ourselves out and settled for Subway. We were bummed but after we started eating, Stacy muttered something like, "I don't know... people would laugh at us, right. We come all the way to Hollywood, head out on Santa Monica, and end up eating Subway when there's all this exotic food around us... but then again, it's just like us to do this. We're so average. It's funny really..."
But Chauntelle and I split a toasted Jalapeno bread Tuna foot long with honey mustard, pepper jack cheese, bells and bannana peppers. BAM. Oh my gosh... that's the best. That's our newest Subway discovery. You have to try it.
Anyway, we came home after a stop off at The Coffee Bean/Tree Leaf and were completely famished from our long walk. This is a different area for us, I must say. There were no girls here. All man couples. Everywhere. I think we're minorities in this zone. We're right near the Troub. off Santa Monica. oh well...
About to leave for San Diego for birthday party of new manager's little boy. How fun is that. His kids... and I quote, are "super narly stoked over Eisley". Like, they bought a Kareeoke machine because they're singing the songs non stop in their home. Rick say's, it's out of control... their family is over the top over Eisley... himself included. This kind of energy and passion is the new driving force in the band's path. I can't tell you how addictive it is - hanging around these guys.
Work. Work. Work. I'm not caught up. And I didn't bring the firewire chord that connects the video to my Mac. #@!$ how dumb of me. sorry. ahhh... frustrated.
Tommorrow, meetings followed by fittings for the video followed by load in and sound check and the show. (nutshell) Busy-ness. After the show, we load up and head to some location outside of LA... like an hour or something, not sure. Next morning, up early for the shoot. Fast pace but sounds pretty fun.
The video is going to be cool i think. Reserving judgement but i love the script, the vibe, the set... the band is on board with this one finally. They had direct input. Conversations are ongoing. Marvin is rad. yes it's another performance video but there are actors and other things happening. The girls are so stoked over the Sci-Fi-ness of it.
Ok. CAr is here. gotta head to San Diego. boydout.
San Diego
Awesome time. big blow out b-day for Rick's twins. It was amazing. pinata's, roasted smores on a pit, swimming, his little boy singing every lyric to every song on Eisley's record kareeoke, meeting tons of people, the ocean, that beautiful drive... great food, etc. Good times. Normal. Familes.
yes.
August 20, 2005 Traveleisley Day
August 21, 2005 12:01 AM
US Skeisley One
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That's the name of Eisley's brand new 2006 Boeing 747. It's so rad... all
polished up, painted drab green with the gold logo on the vertical
stabilizer (that's the tail for you non-geeks). Yeah, I mean, with all this
money they've made from touring, it was finally feasible... I mean, it was
high time to paint the sky with their mighty, mighty AIRBUS... that's right,
the biggest bird in the sky. It's all custom inside. Herman Miller chairs,
Ralf Bozoid Bunk Beds, an upstairs loft featuring a Mac store (yes, the
spiral staircase is made of thick glass) with 10 g5 work stations and 20 g5
laptops (we get the newest stuff, of course), there's a Hank Rockcrok
BulkPro 6000 personal work out gymnasium and best of all, it's got a
practice space complete with gear (everything is welded down). Yes sir.
We bought that sucker with merch money. It really adds up.
Puffy Pufferoo’s
30,000 ft. up - in route to home sweet away from home - Los
Angeles, California. Every time we fly to the West coast, I think...” man,
how is it possible; It takes me 10 hrs to drive from Dallas, Texas to El
Paso Texas... and we just did it in an hr.” Then I think - “This is so much
faster and easier”. Then, I look down and think - “woah, our van and
trailer wouldn’t even be a spec down there”. (...here, and I’m floating in
my tin can, far, far away”); And i stare out across the silvery cloud poofia
and think - “I wonder how long this adventure will last”...and, less
reflective, “ - “I wonder how many times we’ve flown this or driven this?
why didn’t i count?”. Meanwhile, the captain just told us to look down to
the right (where I am, by the window) to see Phoenix. “Hi Phoenix! I
wonder who’s playing at the Marqui Theatre tonight?”.
Small to US
The US seems so much smaller to all of us these days. Flying above it at
super-sonic speeds even amps the idea more. Think about it... we’ve
been to the West Coast 7 times (SEVEN) times in less than 10 months:
Snow Patrol Tour, WB Town Hall performance, Winter West Tour, NFG
Tour, Summer Scenic Tour, Hot Hot Heat Tour and now, the Yahoo Tour.
We’ve been to Chicago, New York, Detroit, on and on 5 (FIVE) times
during the same period of time. Before the year is out, we’ll have been to
Los Angeles at least 8 times in one year. It can’t be that big of a place if
you can just drive all over it in such short amount of times.
When I drove over half way from Seattle (left on a Friday morn at
9:00am) and drove into my driveway on Sunday around noon, something
happened to my brain. I’m not sure what... but the US seems smaller.
See ref. again for fun:
[img] http://www.eisley.com/tourpics/Eisley2005TourRoute.jpg [/img]
Yahoo Finale’
I know I speak for the band when I say, this lil’ tour has truly been a big
blessing. It’s gone like clockwork. Everything has been perfect. We’re
very, very thankful to Yahoo and Saturn for doing something that allowed
us to so something so fun.
The only hard thing was saying goodbye to Jeremy, our beloved bus
driver. This morning, the girls, Garron and I were all crouched around the
front seat and steps in the front yammering and talking to him on the sad
drive from the hotel to the Detroit airport; you could tell, everyone was
just trying to hang on to the moment; wanting it not to end. When they
saw the sign “DETROIT AIRPORT”, and signaled, they screamed, “no!!
NO!!!...”; he looked over calmly with a smile, and said, “is this where we
call in and say the bus broke down?”. Then he said, “well, you guys are
welcome to just ride back with me to Indiana... I’m just going home”. But
everyone tried to persuade him to buy ONE bus only, drive it to our
house, live with us, park it outside and he becomes our permanent guy...
to which he said, “ok, but i have to be given the honorary name: DuPree
and get one of those T-shirts that say’s “DuPree University”... to which we
said, “done!”.
Anyway, Jon and Weston watched the last bit of some DVD in the back
lounge while Mark and John took their last nap in the bunks. We piled out,
grabbed our gear from the spacious compartments underneath, hugged
Jeremy and waved goodbye as he drove off. Everyone had that “we’re
probably not going to get on another bus for a long, long time... but
wasn’t it grande”.
But the tour is NOT OVER YET! Troubadour, here we come... Captain just
said we’re descending and will arrive in 25 minutes. Those mountains
look awesome. I like ‘em better flying above them than I do driving thru
them...I see I-10 right below us. But I can’t see cars as specs yet.
“This is Major Tom to ground control.. I’ve really made the grade”
bd
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We're at our hotel finally. "I'm so dizzy, my head is spinnin'. Like a wirl pool in never ends. You're makin' me dizzy.." No, but for real. I can't stayy awake. It's not even late, but it would be if we were still in Detroit. This is jet lag. I knew I shouldn't have bought that 747. night.