Well, it's been a while since the last one here.

First off, we spent every weekend in June recording...OUR NEW RECORD! And yeah, it's been obvious with the new music up and all, but this is an official announcement. The songs (soon to be removed until it's released) are not mastered so the quality is not what it will be, but we ain't making excuses for it cause it rocks! Thanks goes to Black Lodge, Eric Graves (The Esoteric) and Ed Rose for the killer recording. We're in the process of mastering right now, so when that's done we'll have it packaged and in your cd player's in the next few weeks. We'll also be offering MP3's online as well. Be on the lookout for it.

Speaking of recording, we're going up to Black Lodge again this weekend for a yet to be announced surprise. It's completely kick ass, trust us.

Secondly, Locofest 2.

The all day show at the Cotillion couln't have been cooler or ran more smoothly. Tony knows how to run a stage. And a ton of thanks to Joe Roach for giving Gulch the opportunity to play it. If you missed Locofest, try not to do that again.

And finally third, Farmageddon 1.

Duane was fast asleep, dreaming of the BIG ROCK SHOW, when at 1:15 am he gets a phone call. Sound engineer extraordinaire, Jeff Corbett, calls to say he's broke down in Longview, Texas after doing a show there. Talk about a nightmare (with everything we were about to deal with, we were still better off than him...damn). In any case, as the overused saying goes, "the show must go on". And it did.

Marty (Star-Vu proprietor) wrangled a P.A. from this old cat named Stan (78 years old to be exact) and he also rounded up a goose-neck trailer as well. So it looked like a FARMageddon for sure. It reminded us Gulcher's of the old high school pasture parties we used to have, which was pretty cool.

The only thing that was the real issue was our scheduling. We are already planning Farmageddon 2 for the Summertime. We started earlier in the day, maybe too early as the first few band's didn't get much of a crowd (although there were a few hard core folks that managed to stand, in the blowing wind, ALL DAY. We were impressed. Which takes me back to Stan, that old man, hung all day with all of us and who knows if he ever sat down.

I'm sure a few bands were discouraged about the set up, but all of them didn't show it and rocked just the same. Thanks to all of you brothers!

And we need to thank Jason Taylor and Joel Nelson for being on-the-spot to help get things accomplished.

And to our "crew-chief" and man-at-arms, Jason, thank you very much for being the supremely-cool dude and hard worker that you are. YOU and Chad pulled this off.

There will be adjustments and surprises for Farmageddon 2 and every year after that.

Thanks goes to all of you who faced the blowing wind and long day for the love of rock.

And special thanks to all at the Star-Vu, you worked your asses off and should be applauded.

Gulch loves you and all the BCFC.