Wild Honey Pies

Last night we played one of the most fulfilling shows in recent memory. I suppose the inspiration to tell you about it after my terrible lack of blogging  in the past month arises from wishing that everyone that has ever seen us live or heard our music or read this blog had been there last night. I don't say this because I think you would have fallen in love with our band or thought we were as good as Local Natives or anything like that, but it was the first time it felt like the worst set we could have chosen was the best set we have ever played. There were really awkward conversations with the audience about making guitar picks, some pretty bad musical mistakes, some funny conversations amongst the 5 of us on stage (we never talk to  eachother on stage) and a really awkward, what seemed like 10 minute break as I tuned my guitar down a whole step to play what is by far the hardest song we have ever showed to an audience.  

Over the last two years since we put everything (sans day-jobs) on hold...it seemed like shows were just a way to bring what we had figured out in a small space sitting down, sweating, all looking at one another, oftentimes not really understanding why the fuck we were doing this..,playing to our friends and the people that cared about us. We went back and forth all at different paces between drinking too much, not drinking, warming up, not warming up enough, tuning, not tuning and all the silly little nuances that will drive a band crazy as they are in their infant stages. And Not to be overly sentimental on this here lazy blog, but last night I don't think any of us were really thinking about any of that, at all. It was almost as if 2011 being here, had made us realize that when we made the decision to do this it was in 2008 and the fact that we had the opportunity to try out a bunch of crazy untested songs at cozy little Dipiazzas still playing at the club that gave us one of our first shows ever, was one of the most rewarding experiences I can remember.

Thank you to everyone who came out, we really appreciate you.
-Matt

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Oh yea!!!

Below is a version of Empathy that we recorded in Echo Park in December with The Wild Honey Pie.

If you reading this are the one that started honking during the bridge>>>thanks, that worked well.