We're still chillin', gettin' ansy for the show on the 17th. We left Berkeley this morning, and now we're in Medford! It's wonderful! Now we're watching a series of Aquateen Hunger Force episodes on the computer we brought  along. ....C0MPUT3R....We'll leave for Portland early tomorrow morning. We play the day after that with Julie! Tonight we're going to the Black Bear Diner, which was recommended por nuestro amigo Bobb Bruno. Quisas voy a comer unas hamburgesas o algo como asi. Estoy muy emocionado de ir a Portland manana, vamos a explorar las parques y caminar en las calles the de la ciudad.

Hay I'm typing about the tour! We left today at 9:25 from Long Beach, got on the 5 North up to Northern California. Now we're in Northern California, and my Oakland situated sister Hanah hooked us up with a place to sleep and some chili. It's really fun. Tomorrow we'll leave at 9:00 for Medford, Oregon, where we'll stay the night at a Travelodge before leaving the morning of the 16th for Portland!!!!!! 

1. SUMMER CUM

2. WHAT'S IN IT FOR

3. RACCOON

4. WE CAN'T TRY THIS AGAIN

5. WHERE'S YOUR DIRTY MIND

6. TIME ON YOU

7. I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS

8. SOCIAL MONSTER

Hey ya'll. It's Avi. I want to fill you guys in about the record.


I am finishing up some overdubs here at my house with a Macbook Pro Tools and SM58/57.
Mixes are being rounded off.

Sorry there have been so many delays.

WHO PLAYS GUITAR? ANYONE?

PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE OR E-MAIL

avi_buffalo@yahoo.com

IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR IN THE BAND.

Avi Buffalo at The Echo
I only learned Avi Buffalo was on the Robert Francis residency at The Echo earlier in the day and any plans I had were off. This was not to be missed.

I'm beginning to feel a bit pummeled by all the incredible shows I've attended over the last five days and this only added to the list. This was the third time I've seen Avi Buffalo, only my second with his full band.

As his set was scheduled for 9 o'clock, I walked into the nearly empty club beforehand and wasn't completely surprised to see Aaron Embry, since I'd heard they were recording together. Not only happy to congratulate the new father in person, I was doubly pleased to hear he was playing guitar with Avi Buffalo.

There's a gathering buzz around this remarkable band of extraordinary youth and an interesting crowd of music fanatics assembled. This included Rob Danson of Death To Anders, Ashley Jex of Rock Insider, Mary Chartkoff of The Monolators and Ben ('Mouse') of Classical Geek Theatre among others.

Avi Buffalo composes some of the most original, quirky, inventive and intelligent songs I've heard in the entire indie rock movement. Oh, hell, let's just call the songs brilliant! No wonder he's collaborating with Aaron Embry and Amnion. The more I hear what this band wants to say, the more I want to hear it.

It's great to find an 18 year old writing with apparent prescience about life's weightier topics like life and death, and in such a clear headed voice. His writing possesses a certainty I find reassuring. Just listen to the lyrics for "Where's Your Dirty Mind".

Performing as a band of six, their sound overwhelmed me. Much as I enjoyed them before, I wasn't ready for this. Avi Buffalo and Rebecca Coleman handle most of the vocals. He has an appealing high voice and a slightly peculiar delivery as the words just tumble out while he plays some of the most accomplished guitar I've ever heard. She adds strong harmony and vocal support while mastering the keyboard.

Aron Fazio adds amazing bass and bounces around the stage in a fit of joy that's catching. He also adds vocal harmony and when Aaron joined in, the vocals became an overwhelming wall of voices. The extraordinary drumming is by Evan Trine and there was another player in the back on another keyboard, I believe.

Besides "Where's Your Dirty Mind", they played a great song called "What's In It For" and "Sun", I believe. Not only are the lyrics fresh and original, the music sometimes achieves such great beauty, it becomes unbearably moving. And yet it rocks so hard, you just want to dance. Incredible! The whole audience seemed awe-struck.

I stayed to speak to them afterward and was glad to hear Avi's CD is almost done. I am most anxious to have some recorded material. The whole band is refreshingly pretension-free. I would love to have stayed to see Robert Francis for the third time in three weeks, but there's a lot of shows coming up, so I sacrificed.

But I came away from the show feeling I have been lucky to have seen some amazing bands in my life...and this may be one of the most amazing. It will be fun to watch Avi Buffalo progress over the next year.

All this on the eve of the inauguration of President Obama. It's becoming difficult not to be optimistic about the future.

whrabbit

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I figured I should write a bit about what we've been up to lately!

THE NEWS

The Record:
We're getting very close to being finished! It should take us about a week and a half to two weeks to finish everything up. As you may already know, we're recording in Glassell Park in Los Angeles, California at Hunter's Hollow Recording Studio, which is also the home of Aaron, Nikki, and soon to be Mayla Embry. She's in Nikki's uterus right now, and is expected to make her debut very soon. Aaron is helping us out infinitely in our recording process, and we're very happy with the sound that we've been documenting.

WESLEY CHUNG of BORIS SMILE put together a video with his friend of us in the studio, and it will be uploaded soon for everyone to see. I believe it's 13 minutes long, and i hear it's very informative. Thank you, Wes. You are a true friend, and a great guy. Love you, Wesley. I love you so much.

The Shows:
We haven't had very many performances lately since we've been so immersed in the recording, but we have about 6 coming up! GET READY! We're GONNA ROCK YOU! WOOoaoazoajzjzjz

January 12th: Good ol' Dipiazza's in Long Beach with our friends Brown and Blue

January 18th: Alex's Bar in Long Beach

January 25th: Motion LA in Downtown Los Angeles

February 3rd: Millikan High School in Long Beach! Ram Pride! it's a VH1 Save The Music Benefit Concert!

February 7th: FOL CHEN is having their record release at PEHRSPACE in ECHO PARK, and they were kind enough to ask us to play. We're very excited. This band is fucking good. This show will be huge, and we're still very excited. Come.

February 21st: Elaine Layabout is putting on some kind of a show! i called it elaine-a-palooza, but that's not really what it's called. I don't know exactly what it's called. or where it is, but i'll let you know!



And here's the bad news:
I have a bit of a fever, and i'm trying to get over it so we can keep recording. hopefully be back on track tomorrow.


be safe, and have a good new years,

Avi

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