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It’s mid December and we’re still drummer shopping. In the meantime, don’t forget we have sweatshirts, t-shirts and posters available for sale on our merch page. They make excellent holiday gifts.
Album Review
800 Octane is a long-running Northwestern punk rock troupe whose fourth full-length release finds the quartet in fine form. Playing the kind of hard-edged punk rock that bands like Black Train Jack, H20 and Face to Face employ, the 13-track RISE AGAIN combines gritty guitars on Bloodline with melodic choruses like Apology to You, creating a bouncy yet hard-hitting listening experience. 800 Octane pump out high energy, contagious anthems that, while both wistful and poignant, pack the kind of punch that only seasoned veterans can muster. (Skratch Magazine / Dug)
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The street team CD’s are out and done and the street team page got a few new updates as well.
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Halloween weekend has come and gone and we’d like to say thanks to everyone who came out to the shows. If you haven’t checked the web site in a bit we’d like to point out that Sunday was Jim’s farewell show. It’ll be weird playing music with anyone else, but times change and life must go on. As for the rest of us, we’ll be taking some time off from shows to try out drummers, but with a little luck hopefully we’ll be playing shows again after the new year. Until then, we’re going to try and keep writing new songs so we can hit the ground running. Again, we can’t possibly give enough thanks to Jim for the recording, the shows, the drives, the late nights, the early mornings, the excitement, the boredom, the laughs and all of the other good, bad and ugly things that come along with being in a band.
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the two Misfits shows. Next up are our Halloween shows in Richland on the 30th and Longview on the 31st. Be sure to check out the Longview one in particular as it will be our last show with Jim on drums! His road case company, Caseworks, has taken off so we’re actually going to be parting ways on pretty good terms. Unfortunately this means we’ll be taking some time off to look for a new drummer so if you or someone you know wants to play drums for a band like ours then have them e-mail us. In the mean time come check out our two remaining shows this month!
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Wow, thanks to everyone who came to the Portland show w/ the Misfits last night. If anyone is looking for some entertainment we are playing with them again on Tuesday in Bend.
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We’ve got some new shirts and stickers. Check ’em out at our merchandise page. Also, due to some miscommunication the Eugene show on the 22nd is cancelled. Bummer.
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The pics from the tour are posted. Check them out on the pictures page in the ‘2004 Tour’ section. Also, we’ve gotten a lot of e-mail about Halloween. We are actually playing two shows that weekend. One in Richland on the 30th and one in Longview on the 31st. Different nights, different sets, maybe even different costumes, try and check one (or both) out. Speaking of shows we just added a second date with The Misfits on October 19th in Bend!!!
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After one last twelve hour drive we are home from tour hopefully in time to catch the impending eruption of Mt. St Helens. Overall the tour was a sucess. No major mishaps and we manged to play in 8 new cities and return to 4 other towns we hadn’t played in since 2002. Pictures and show journals will be added later in the week. Huge props to Thirty3 for letting us play with them for the first week. Even bigger thanks to Dan for filling in on drums for the second week of shows. Show your support and check out his real band Alliance.
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