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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Some video of the shoot!
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Photoshoot Video!
Go to www.youtube.com/drifteffectband.
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Still goin'
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Holy crap it's early...
We're taking photos with Chelsea (www.stillcoda.com). We'll let you know when they're available!
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Drift Effect @ The Fineline for Semeron CD Release show!
Hey guys! We're really excited to announce that we'll be playing @ the Fineline (Mpls) on August 14th for Semeron's CD Release! Doors are at 8:00pm w/ Pantown (9:00pm), DE (10:00pm), Semeron (11:00pm) and Marshall Cretin (12:15am). Four great bands for only $6!!! All you 21-plusers come support this lineup Friday, August 14...it'll be a killer! See you out there.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Festival Show Confirmed
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Midwest Movement 2009 Summer Sampler
Is now available at the DE.com store! (http://www.drifteffect.com/DriftEffect-STORE.htm) It's free!
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Clapton and Winwood
So it was my birthday on June 17 and as a gift my sister and some other family and friends pooled money together to send Nate and I to see Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood at the X the night after. I should have talked about this earlier, but I just bought the DVD of the concert at Madison Square Gardens and I'm fired up all over again! If this isn't the best concert I've seen, it's definitely in the Top 3. I've seen the Who, Clapton two other times and a slew of other modern rock acts and lower profile blues players. But this show...
It was all Winwood. I could listen to this man sing for days. There's a subtle power in his voice but it has an easy timbre to it as well. And if any of you are thinking that Winwood is some kind of pansy or that I'm sellin' out somehow for saying this, you haven't heard him belt out Jimi's Voodoo Chile. Not this Slight Return, pop bullshit. I'm talkin' about 12 minutes of Jimi magic on Electric Ladyland that Winwood actually played keys on back in the day. Seriously, I'm talkin' goosebumps on my taint!
Everyone knows Clapton can play. He's old and has rehashed things to a point where it's tricky for him to get into it right away. But when he focuses and sets his mind to blowing yours, he does it in a way that you couldn't anticipate unless you're on a similar par in your art or craft.
The Madison Square Gardens concert was their first of the tour and I can tell you that they were MUCH better in St. Paul. This was simply a warm up...getting comforable with each other.
My take on this is simple though I would love to make it sound more insightful and profound. There is a mastery that we in a younger generation are still privileged to witness. Not only a mastery, but a compound of excellence and wisdom and age that can't be substituted. It's something universal that only genius can convey through different age groups and backgrounds. Those words do it no justice...which is why people have their arts. But this was the nature of the music Nate and I witnessed at the X and you can catch a glimpse of on the Madison Square Gardens DVD.
Check it out...don't check it out. Whatever. I just can't contain myself.
Ben
2009 Midwest Movement Summer Sampler
The 2009 Midwest Movement Summer Sampler, featuring bands like Attention, Johnnyrook and ourselves, is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD!!! Check it out hear: http://midwestmovement.wordpress.com/mwm-summer-sampler-2009/. The site shows the track listing and other information about the bands. Enjoy and crank that shit up at the beach!!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Musings
It has been an interesting few weeks. I read, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It is set in a dark and dismal world. A place destroyed by what the reader assumes is nuclear war. The story focuses on a boy and his father trying to merely survive in a brutal world; a place and time where cannabilism is rampant as food sources are beyond scarce. The sole
act of grace the father bestows upon his child is a gun with one bullet, as if the greatest gift he can give his child is the chance to escape this terrible existence. There are no creature comforts in this world, only the will to live...but for what? The earth is dead. The grounds will not produce crops. The oceans are acidic.
So, what do they have to look forward to? What kind of quality of life will his child inherit? This is all there is. Nihilism. At the very core of human existence is the basic law of nature. The parent bestows all the wisdom to their offspring, so that the offspring has a chance at survival. There is no point to human existence but that basic law, and when all the pretense of modern life are stripped away...no more creature comforts...you are faced with the inevitable conclusion that you live and then you die. That is it. Religion and politics
serve no purpose in the scheme of things...
While at the same time, I have been listening to the Dave Matthews Band. Their new CD is called
"Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King." This is as we know an excercise in dealing with the death of a close friend. Whereas McCarthy would say that this life is it. Dave Matthews turns to religious themes to cope. Throughout the album, the listener can hear religious connotations delivered in earnest by Dave Matthews. He chooses to focus on what is important in his estimation: faith, family, and friends...a common rationale when faced
with mortality. It is obvious to me that Matthews spent hours pouring over his emotions. He took the time to craft the lyrics to capture these emotions, and this is by far the most intense and best written album of his career.
On top of all of this, I have spent a great deal of time talking with one of my closest friends. He has a PHD in Psychology, and is an expert in the field. He gave me many things to think about, which I need to share. The first is the idea of collective unconcious. He equated it to the same mechanism that makes geese migrate south for the winter, or the same mechanism that send millions of green turtles into the ocean at precisely the same time after they are born. What
I call Soul, he calls collective unconcious. Some ancient code embedded into our DNA that gives our species the best possible chance to survive.
He feels incredible peace of mind knowing that this is all there is. He believes that it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend infinity. The universe is never ending, time is
never ending and it is therefore impossible for humans to comprehend that once they die that is it. They won't know they are dead as they will no longer be conscious. Likewise, it is very difficult to accept the death of those we share our lives with. The only way humans have been able to cope with this is to make up fantastical tales. "They are not gone, they are in heaven"
Where do I stand on all of this...I don't know. I want to believe in some force controlling my fate. I want to find peace. I guess in the end it doesn't matter. You live and you die. In the middle, you try and contribute to humanity. You surround yourself with like minded people and experience life. When it is your time, you hope that you can look back and be at peace with all that you have done. You can't concern yourself with what happens next.
-Ray
act of grace the father bestows upon his child is a gun with one bullet, as if the greatest gift he can give his child is the chance to escape this terrible existence. There are no creature comforts in this world, only the will to live...but for what? The earth is dead. The grounds will not produce crops. The oceans are acidic.
So, what do they have to look forward to? What kind of quality of life will his child inherit? This is all there is. Nihilism. At the very core of human existence is the basic law of nature. The parent bestows all the wisdom to their offspring, so that the offspring has a chance at survival. There is no point to human existence but that basic law, and when all the pretense of modern life are stripped away...no more creature comforts...you are faced with the inevitable conclusion that you live and then you die. That is it. Religion and politics
serve no purpose in the scheme of things...
While at the same time, I have been listening to the Dave Matthews Band. Their new CD is called
"Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King." This is as we know an excercise in dealing with the death of a close friend. Whereas McCarthy would say that this life is it. Dave Matthews turns to religious themes to cope. Throughout the album, the listener can hear religious connotations delivered in earnest by Dave Matthews. He chooses to focus on what is important in his estimation: faith, family, and friends...a common rationale when faced
with mortality. It is obvious to me that Matthews spent hours pouring over his emotions. He took the time to craft the lyrics to capture these emotions, and this is by far the most intense and best written album of his career.
On top of all of this, I have spent a great deal of time talking with one of my closest friends. He has a PHD in Psychology, and is an expert in the field. He gave me many things to think about, which I need to share. The first is the idea of collective unconcious. He equated it to the same mechanism that makes geese migrate south for the winter, or the same mechanism that send millions of green turtles into the ocean at precisely the same time after they are born. What
I call Soul, he calls collective unconcious. Some ancient code embedded into our DNA that gives our species the best possible chance to survive.
He feels incredible peace of mind knowing that this is all there is. He believes that it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend infinity. The universe is never ending, time is
never ending and it is therefore impossible for humans to comprehend that once they die that is it. They won't know they are dead as they will no longer be conscious. Likewise, it is very difficult to accept the death of those we share our lives with. The only way humans have been able to cope with this is to make up fantastical tales. "They are not gone, they are in heaven"
Where do I stand on all of this...I don't know. I want to believe in some force controlling my fate. I want to find peace. I guess in the end it doesn't matter. You live and you die. In the middle, you try and contribute to humanity. You surround yourself with like minded people and experience life. When it is your time, you hope that you can look back and be at peace with all that you have done. You can't concern yourself with what happens next.
-Ray
Monday, July 6, 2009
Another tune...
off to a fantastic start!! There's no better feeling...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
MySpace
This is kind of cool. If you go to www.myspace.com and click the music tab at the top, then search for Drift Effect, you'll see a bunch of our song results which have an Amazon icon for direct purchase...sweet!
Spread the word...anyone who needs some DE cheer has very easy access now. You don't even have to go to our various pages! You don't even have to sign up for anything.
Pretty soon you'll be able to just think of a DE song and you'll have it...we'll stop at nothing to make this happen.
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Spread the word...anyone who needs some DE cheer has very easy access now. You don't even have to go to our various pages! You don't even have to sign up for anything.
Pretty soon you'll be able to just think of a DE song and you'll have it...we'll stop at nothing to make this happen.
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Throw The Fight @ The Taste!
Wishing James and TTF luck at the Taste Of Minnesota tonight with Staind, Chevelle and Hailstorm...bet James dominates! Throw that cancer off and rock the f*!# out!
www.myspace.com/throwthefight
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www.myspace.com/throwthefight
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Hilarious!
Okay...seriously! Go to www.phillyd.tv. Nothin' to do with DE, just freakin' funny!
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DE.com to be Mind Spun!
DE.com is currently being overviewed and will be revamped by Craig Geiselman. See what he's about at www.mindspincreative.com!
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