Kailey Ruth Allen - Little Rocker Is Born!

hey, hey,

my daughter Kailey Ruth Allen was born Sept. 8th @ 5:43 pm, she needs my constant attention, so i at least will not be able to attend practice for a couple weeks (i need to jam w/ her loud vocals!)

i haven't even told everyone in the band yet, but figured i would ppost. Joe if you're reading, tell the guys i can't make tonight or next week. i'll try to find yr phone and give you a call, but got alot on my mind right now getting situated with my new baby girl.

peace out, til next i write...

Bay

new song "running" coming along

hallo,

been a while it has...thought i'd fill all in real quick about whats been happening.

joe and heinz came down to crosscheck last wed. and we went over a new song in 7/8 loosly titled running. i can't wait for manny to put the sticks to it.

well, that's about all i've got time for. (i know, lame, right)

c'ya

Mix It In A Mixer & Pretend It's Beef...

howdy, peeps of the not so marshmallowy kind,

this is a quick post in reguards to some in-the-birdnest concerns which actually aren't concerns at all.

apparently, J posted a blog, Joe read and got upset and sent a reply to J, et al.

well, the whole thing started with Jay going off about Pop music and just overall sounding like everyone else out there who are just doing so themselves to make a buck. Slow Joe Crowe is not Pop music. Plain and simple.
Joe really likes Pop music, therefore he naturally got upset with J's stance aginst it (when in actuality, he doesn't mind most pop music, just the stuff that sucks).

anyhoo, the reasion there is no concern whatsoever is...Slow Joe Crowe is not a Pop band.

Now the best part is, Slow Joe Crowe is a melding pot of various styles, each of which, the musician brings forth into whatever song we work on. if i hear soulful r&b lyrics so be it, if joe hears poppy guitar so be it, if manny hears a psych/prog drumline_all the better for it, if J throws in some funk with bluesy solo work (J's style is mostly straightforward rock/hardrock...just his lead style comes off extremely bluesy) awesome....the point i'm trying to make is that the combination of the various styles within the band make everysong...Slow Joe Crowe...not fitting into a specifcic genre, but just being what it is.

now as long as everyone else feels this way...(i know J and I do, just from talking with him...i think the way he wrote his blog could be misconstrued as an attack, but speaking with him plainly it's clear to see he's of the same forementioned opinion)...then Slow Joe Crowe will continue to put out some great music, unclassifyable at times, at others perhaps fitting perfectly into a mold...but no matter what the style, we will continue to keep it real and play the songs as we hear them.

that's what collaboration is all about...you write the basis for a song...cool...once you bring it to the table it is no longer your song but that of the entire band. the song will evolve. maybe not the way you heard it originally, but with everyone's input it will become a part of the band's bloodline instead of just that of the original donor, ya dig?

so, enough ranting about a topic I'm sure all in SJC are on the same page about but just may have a hard time finding the right paragraph due to misconceptions of intention & direction for the band.

As musicians, lets write music.

Joe brought a couple of tunes out when we got together last week at J's, can't wait to work them out and hear what everyone brings to the table with them.

night-night.

Slow Joe Crowe Player...Online!

brotherhood of the wing,

can you hear that? I hope you enjoy the tunes...if you want to go elsewhere and bring us with you, open up the brotherhood of the wing's SJC Player in a separate window by clicking here.

Again, hope you enjoy! Can't wait to play out in a town near you, see you all soon.

Rumor of a New Door

Rumor has it...(I heard this from Jay, who actually claims to have done it himself!)...the vocal booth now has A DOOR!

I know, unheard of.

A door...

Seriously-i-deficate-you-not...

Anyhoo...I've been granted permission to paint the inside of it with whatever I choose. If you have any good ideas, i'm thinking murals...poetry...famous-people-who-didn't-suck...if you have any good ideas let me know in the comments box down below this post. (Keep the bad ideas to yourself...or at least to a minimum, please.)

There is a door, I need to paint the vocal isolation booth (inside only) to inspire my muse to inspire me...

I'll let you all know as this story progresses.

Garage-Rock w/ Capt. Kidd

Hello there, winged onlookers.

The band got together on Wed. in Michael-Jacksonville (Dubois...not French, Western Pennsylvania...pronounced "do boys") and we had a rather productive practice. Light on disaster was definately a priority, and i am pleased to anounce, it's pretty friggin' close to being tight enough to play out. The last run through was pretty tight, so our comfortability level went up to around 9.65 on that one.
we also went over Over You and Down & Out and they, too, are coming along wunderbar!

we added a couple covers to our future-setlists-with-overdone-crowd-pleasers...

Alive...by Pearl Jam
Hard to Handle...by The Black Crowes
Rock 'n Roll...by Led Zeppelin
Pride and Joy...by Stevie Ray Vaughn
Midnight Train to Georgia...rewritten by me, originally performed by G. Knight and the Pips

The band had a quick photo shoot, to be able to get some new pictures up on the myspace site, Manny's mom was guest sniper in Fern Forest, trying her best to hit her mark, but...we were slightly blurred. oh well, we may still be able to use some of them.

Jay recorded part of the performance and we had a late night listen-to at my place upon returning to Indiana...overall, we sounded pretty good...Manny needs to stop with the performace enhancing drugs though, his hits were so powerful, everything else was going in an' out of the audio recording like a Jenna Jamison 10-minute-love-mate. but what we could hear, there is definately some progress goin on.

well, i'm getting ready to watch some Bleach and go to bed...so, 'til next we meet, that about does it.

Alfred Hitchcock n'at...

jam in a room...not a jar!

well, what can i say...jay, joe, heinz & I all got together on wed evening @ crosscheck studio, and jammed out some material.

it started out on acoustics on the back porch, where i showed joe the main riffs for over you. we also jammed on the screaming trees' dollar bill and a few others before heading down into the studio to plug into to full-frontal amplification.
we went over light on disaster and tightened up the parts so it's pretty much ready for manny to put his sticks to work...eagerly anticipating that, I am.
we also went over midnight train to georgia, and quasi-wrote a new song, which for all intensive purposes is called "how 'bout you" which is pulled from the tag lines of the chorus: "when your shoulder's up against the wheel, & the arrow penetrates your heel, how 'bout you?"

the night ended with many sad goodbyes manifested by late-night/pre-morning retribution...it was getting late.

the next day i drove to altoona via johnstown (yes, i had quite a blonde moment...not going to discuss it) and got together with joe. i brought my acoustic guitar (and an extra capo for him) so we could go ver over you and other songs.

i taught him my part to don't stop me, which he is going to take over. yeah, it's his now.
(i'm going to be playing jay's old part, a little easier to sing over top of) we also went over reciprocation, a couple riffs that have been floating off his fretboard lately...and...just overall, jammed. no real structure to it in reguards to what we played, my ADD even carried us into Ireland for a song...but, needless to say, we learend alot about how we each play, what kind of things we like to do within our styles and how to compliment each other which is very important.

i look forward to next wed when the full band will be meeting at Dubois H.Q. to get better aquainted and go over whatever we decide to, light on disaster most likely being a priority.
we will also discuss covers v/s originals in our future set lists, and how well the crowds tend to accept them et al.

bay here, signing off, good night...er...morning...whatever.

"Believe It" song lyrics, new song in progress

so where you gonna hide
when all this sunshine
sheds a little light on yr dirty clothes
yr spot-free bride
married into yr dirty little secret from last night
you were smart not to let her know

____(jam)

so what you ganna do
when yr past finally finds you
& tells stories from yr foolish youth
that woman never knew
the man she said "I do" to
was a master tailor of twisted truth
____
____chorus:

without trust
a relationship will turn to rust
a king & queen will bust with those aces up yr sleeve
if yr not on the level
little lies will grow up into big devils
on a steady diet of yr dark deceit...
yeah, you better beleive it
________________________
___________(jam/solo/repeat chorus)

yr judas smile
might keep her clueless for a little while
but one day a baby grand will come crashing down
it's not too late to come clean
forgivness is too large for meaning
can the king of deceit give up his crown?

(jam out)

check us out on myspace!

greetings brothers of the wing,

check us out on myspace, listen to the tunage we have posted there for yr listening pleasure, and, let us know how it pleased you. i fixed the banner so that it actually has a link to our myspace page now, so click away, bookmark, and come back to it some other day for udated news on the band, set list construction, whats going on in the studio, and more!

Our Myspace...In Your Face!

Slow Joe Crowe...Etta James Style (aka. at last)

well, it is official. Slow Joe Crowe has now become a complete band. I'm talkin' rythm section, guitar chuk-chuks, low-end woofage...everything it had only known before via multi-track recording equipment.

the band now consists of:

Bay - Lead Vocals/Rythm Guitar/Bad Jokes

Jay - Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals/Biting Sarcasm

Joe - 2nd Guit-Fiddle/Rythm Guit-Fiddle/Translator of Bad Jokes for those ADD-less unfortunates

Manny - John Bonham incarnate/Seth Thomas Metronome

Heinz - Ketchup-King of the Low End/Hippie that bathes regularly

we've only had our "pleased to meet ya, let's try a 7/8 time signature" get together, but it rocked like a spinal tap wet dream.
at our first meeting of the amps we had alot of free-jamage as well as going over tunes such as rock 'n roll, too hard to handle, stay with me, and a couple of original tunes...light on disaster being the one most focused on as well as being the one we are most looking forward to tightening up at our next reharsal.

well, that's it for the first post. I'll keep it going, and hopefully start putting some sound clips n'at on here to kinda fill in the gaps of audio-evolution that will endure and insue in the near future.

rock-a-bye baby, rock-a-bye-bye.

-Bay

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