So sometime has passed since the last blog, so I wanted to give some updates.
It's been 2 months and a few days since Brad died. In some ways it seems like an eternity, in others it feels like yesterday.
We have been staying as busy as we can, I will give a brief summary of what we have done since then, then tell you what our plans are now...
Most of you know we played our show the day after he died...that was hard, very hard. We had alot of support from people though. His parents encouraged us to keep all the upcoming shows, and its what Brad would have wanted. We had alot of you guys travel from all over on short notice for that.... Thank You.
The funeral was beautiful, our best friends Made Avail (www.myspace.com/madeavail) drove up from Chicago as soon as they knew what happened and stayed with us untill the funeral was over. They even wrote a song and played it at the funeral. We played "please tell me" and it was one of the hardest things ever.
After all that we decided to do the next thing that made sense... We put together a CD called "Legends Live On", We brought Made Avail out to our studio (The Bambooroom) and had our producer, Erwin Musper, record the song they had wrote for the funeral. We included some live tracks we did with Brad and other songs from bands that were his best friends or related to the situation. (www.myspace.com/legendsliveon)
The CD was released Dec. 8th at a memorial show we put on for Brad. The show was incredible...unlike any thing we have ever been a part of. Not the biggest crowd we have ever faced...but def. had a unique feeling through out the room. Everyone there was there for a reason, and it was a celebration of an amazing life and to perform as Brad would have us.
Anyways, that is a brief over view...we did shoot a music video the week before Brad died too. You can view it at the top of our page. Our friend Luke from Made Avail stepped in on bass for it.
Now to the future, I just cleared all our dates for Dec. other then a big Christmas show Dec. 22nd.
We will be in some very important meetings and doing alot of the "bussiness" side of things to the end of the year. Also working on lots of new material we plan on playing live soon. We hope to have some big news in the first few weeks of 2007.
For January and on we are looking to tour, tour, tour. I am currently seeking a full time booking agent for us, in the meantime I will remain booking myself. It looks like in January we will head down south to FL, then up the east coast for a few weeks.
Our CD is looking to be released in Europe in March. We should be going over there right around the time of the release.
Either way, lots of new stuff coming from us...
Josh.CTH
"Everything happens for a reason, if only to make us stronger....there's no where to go but up from here." -Brad Andress (BGTA)