yep, we're reunited again, again.  And we're playin at Bombs Away tomorrow night with Norman and The Occupation!  I believe Norman is also releasing another recording!  I don't know how many this is for them, but congrats anyway!  the show starts at 9:30 and costs $5.  hope to see you there!

Heya people,

"Rocket in the Sky" was just given the "Track of the Day" award on Garageband.com, making it the 5th Stack song to be given the award.  It also recieved loads of other "reviewer's favorites" type awards, like best keyboards and best lyrics and best trained monkey.  so check it out here:

YEAHH!!! MONKEYS!!!

and while you're there, become our garageband.com "fan" because we have precious few on there.  Let us know you love us!  because we love you.  and we let you know.  silently. 

Hey everybody,

I'm in Ireland right now, but decided to drop a quick line saying THANK YOU to all of you who came out for our last shows!  I even saw some of you at more than one of them!  It made all of us feel warm inside, and glad for the opportunity to share our new music with you.  We've gotten some questions about when we'll be recording next, since we already have 5 songs towards a future project, the answer to which was and still is "I dunno."  We kinda have to like, you know... make some money before we record anything new, not to mention try to get rid of some of the CDs we already have.  So tell all your friends and family that don't own our stuff to get off their arses and buy some!!  At the newly redesigned STACK WEBSITE you can find out all the different ways to get your hands on our music.  And then, we shall give back to you in the form of the majesty of song.  As time moves on and we write more material, and tour some more, we'll be better able to tell.

Speaking of which, I'll remind you that we will not be playing any shows this winter.  I'm very sorry, and I was really looking forward to doing so, but it just can't come together this time.  We'll be spending our time instead planning a more thourough tour in the coming summer, a whole year from now, which will actually include some Corvallis shows this time :).  So we'll let you stew in your curiousity  about our new songs until then.

That's all for now, keep tuning in for writings about our tour, which I still haven't finished, and for an upcoming homemade music-video for one of our songs!  YAY!  

Hello Hello,

We've got just a few shows left before I leave the country and everyone heads back to school.  It's been a great summer for us, though I apologize at the lack of Corvallis shows.  Since we've played here so often we focused on playing elsewhere and in the ensuing chaos nothing got planned.  BUT!  A couple of our last appearances will be in the area: we're playing the Benton County Fair (again) on Friday August 3rd.  Check out the middle spread in today's Entertainer to see yours truly!  We'll be playing 2 sets, at 2:30 pm and 4:00 pm, so if you happen to already be at the fair, come check us out.  I'm not even going to try to convince people to come to the fair solely to hear us, as I would never wish the fair upon anybody.  Anyways, that'll be followed up in very short order by our appearance at Woodstock Corvallis.  It's a full-day event going on at Starker Arts Park (so go there for all of it!) with a lot of young local bands, including Hooray! Hooray! and The Nobles.   We'll be closing out the thing, playing from 7 pm until 8 pm or so.  Starker Arts is the place where we held WoodstAck, for any of you who were around then. 

The next night (Saturday, August 4th) we'll be playing once again at Luckey's Tavern in Eugene.  The show starts at 10 pm, and I believe we're the opening band and that there's one other band after us.  We had a great time at our last show there (regardless of the unexpected obstacles), and we expect this one will rock just as hard.  Come out and see this great bar and great music to boot! 

After the gig at The Uptown, complete with random people's uncles and crazy sound engineers, we headed back to the hotel in San Francisco that we were staying at.  We had a pretty sweet 2-bedroom suite that we managed to wrangle for $50 a night, thanks to Mike's aunt.  There, we had a fine repast of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with water (on tap!) and passed out. 

The next night was our gig at Cheer's Cocktails and Lounge, in Vacaville.  With a name like "cow town" we weren't expecting much out of Vacaville but we were pleasantly surprised by the relative cleanliness and lack of cows.  We did find out, however, that "cocktails and lounge" doesn't really paint an accurate picture of the place, which turned out to be a bar, with some tables.  Didn't really see a lounge.  Either way, when we got to the venue they immediately suspected we were under 21 (dammit) and marked us with huge red X's on the backs of our hands, and sentenced us to stand outside the back door while all the other bands played.  But besides that, we had a great experience there, the crowd was good and liked us, we sold some CDs, we made friends with the other bands and got some tips about venues and bookers from their members.  And we got paid!  How weird. 

But probably the highlight of the evening was our conversation with the guitarist from "Subject," a Sacramento-based band.  I'm sure it would have seemed slightly less humorous, and more genuinely sincere, if we had imbibed as much as he.  "When you're touring around like this," he said at the height of the conversation, "it really is, like... all about... everything.  Yeah... it's all about everything."  From that point onward The Stack tour of summer 2007 would be known as the "EVERYTHING TOUR," and we were sure to put emphasis on everything, wherever we went, because after all, that's what it's all about. 

That's all for now, stay tuned for the saga of the southbound drive to the city of angels, and the rest of the tour! 

Hey everyone!

I've finally made it to a computer that I can use for more than 30 seconds so I thought I'd give an update about the ol' tour.  So far we've had a blast, meeting cool people and playing cool music with other cool people and it's a good time all around.  At every concert it seems like we meet some really interesting person, the kind of person you hope to run into again several years down the road.  While I was getting something out of our van outside The Uptown nightclub in Oakland, this voice shouted out "GO DUCKS!" and I looked around to find this dude leaning against the wall with a cigarette and looking at me, so I looked confusedly at him for a second, wondering why he would feel the need to divulge his favorite animal to me.  Then I made the connection "uh... right yeah!  go ducks!  ok..."  Then he asked where in Oregon I was from so I said Corvallis, which is the Beavers but whatever and he said "ohhh right right I meant the Beavers!  NATIONAL CHAMPS!  YEAH! Maybe you know my nephew, he's in corvallis too."  Turns out this was none other than Ian Anderson's uncle, randomly on the same street as me in Oakland, California.  How weird is life... anyways he ended up just giving us $50 to "support the arts," and was on his way. 

Bobby the Sound Man was the next character we met on our spirit journey.  As I limped into the green room of the Uptown (since a little accident on the 4th I've had to limp around), the first thing he said to me, while brandishing his cane, was "YOU MAKIN FUN O' ME??"  Definately a great way to hit it off.  He had an excellent personality for a sound guy; irritable, but funny, light-hearted but somehow in a get-out-of-my-face way.  Basically, Bobby was awesome, my favorite moment probably being when he came up to me after we finished (we played last out of three) and said "yeah, the first and last bands were the best" and turned to the lead singer of the second band and said the same thing.  "I was actually in the second band" he said.  "no, no," said Bobby, "you were in the first band."  The guy walked away, bobby laughed and said "well, I love music and I hate people, so that's what you get I guess."  We got a taste of that side of him when we went back into the venue last minute to get something we forgot.  As we stumbled through the pitch-black backstage area, a voice rang  out "WHO'S THERE?!  WHO'S IN MY CLUB?!"  After he found out it was us, he said "ok, well... this is my fuckin club man, so you can't just come on in here in the dark man... but... since you're a good band, I'll let it slide."  Ah, Bobby.  You rock.

A cool part about playing for all these people that haven't heard us before is hearing what we sound like to them.  Bobby said that while watching us he thought he was watching Gomez, a band we hadn't heard of but turns out is super good... he played some over the PA while we cleaned up.  Also we do CD swaps with all the bands we play with, so we're coming away with a lot of new music and new bands to find and listen to. 

Well I'm about out of time, which is lame because I've only talked about the first gig, but I'll do a post about each one as I get the time to do it.  Thanks everyone for reading, stay tuned for more posts!  Wish us luck in Roseville tonight....

Alex

YO!

We have successfully replaced our cancelled gig in portland at the fez ballroom with a gig at Luckey's Tavern in Eugene.  It's this Friday (in two days, yes), the 6th of July.  There'll be 3 bands playing, and we'll be first, starting it off at 10 pm.  We'll play an hour of rockingest and I assume the other bands will do the same.  It costs only 3 little bucks!  You do have to be over 21, unfortunately.  So, what better time to get a fake ID than now!  The place is in downtown Eugene, 933 Olive Street.  Mapquest that shiat for directions.

Meanwhile, we're getting everything ready to leave for California in just one week!  Our first show is in Oakland at The Uptown Nightclub (if you know anyone in the SF area, tell them to go see the world's best band!  and tell them to see us too!).  We'll do our best to keep you updated on the road, though I don't know how much internet we'll have, exactly.  probably none.  but we'll try. 

hey everybody,

our gig at the fez ballroom was inexplicably cancelled, as we were informed yesterday by Tim, the dude who booked it for us.  bummerundo.  But we may have a gig replacing it (sort of), one day earlier and in Eugene.  That would be this coming friday, the 6th.  We don't know where yet, or who with, because we're waiting to hear from Tim still.  So if you're in eugene, know that sometime, somewhere, we'll be playing.  with somebody.  ok... more details will come as soon as we know!