7/16/04 CityGoat @ Berkley Front: Saturday
July 24th @ The
Berkley Front (3087 West 12 Mile, Berkley MI) opening
for Makkafroi. We'll be rokkin'
the house. No Albin. We miss him already, and he ain't even gone.
AND - watch for some sub-set of CityGoat to
grace the stage of the Elbow
Room on Thurs 7/29 for the Steve Earle roots night! This'll
be lots o' fun.
AND we managed to record most of the tracks
for an acoustic EP with Albin earlier this week -- two glorious days
in the studio... much thanks to Julie for runnin' the session for us.
Watch this space for more info on this as it coalesces.
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7/7/04 CityGoat @ TC's Speakeasy: Wednesday July
14th @ TC's
Speakeasy (207 W. Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti) - no cover.
CityGoat is taking over the stage @ TC's for Dan's Day
Late and a Dollar Short Birthday BASH, Wed. 7/14!
The party starts @ 8ish and we'll be playing 'round about 9. We'll
be doing an acoustic and an electric set, and are likely to be joined
by a few guest artists... to be announced later, or maybe even at the
show (I guess that's still later). AND this will be Albin's final performance
with us before he moves to Albany -- this time we really, really mean
it. Cross our hearts.
We've been working on the final mixes of the album - we've remixed "Another
Home" and "Less than Blue", and added
several new tracks to most of the songs on the record. We really
hope to be done by mid-August.
AND last but not least, we've been auditioning new guitarists to fill
in Albin's spot. We're nearly ready to announce... It'll be worth the
wait.
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3/19/04 -
OK - so I'm finally setting a tenative release date for the first CityGoat
CD... 6/15/04. Those of you who have a copy of the fine
vintages of our Teaser EP's can get $5 off the release version
when purchased at a show (just bring in the CDR to get the discount).
We will be selling a new vintage at our next show (tenatively, mid-April
at Frenchie's in Depot Town).
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3/12/04 - Hey, just finished
a rough mix of Goin Down.
All of the tracks are there, and it sounds particularly good I think...
but I may be replacing the lead vocal (again) before release. We're
really psyched about this one.
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2/24/04 - Erik and Dan will
be performing a couple songs at the BYRDS fest at the Elbow Room in
Ypsi on Thursday 2/26... starts at 10?
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2/7/04 - Yesterday, Dave and
I recorded the basic tracks for a brand new song, Goin' Down.
Erik is laying down the bass today. Hopefully vocals and guitar will
happen tomorrow. Keyboards on Thursday. Albin's guitars on Friday.
We're really excited about this one. I'll post a rough mix as soon
as it's close.
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2/2/04 - We're in the Studio - Workin'
on some new tracks for the record (Learn to Fly, Long Before,
I Can't Take It, and a couple others)... when I'm not sitting
in front of the fire trying to stay warm. Here's a couple pics from
the studio: Dave, Erik,
and both talking to Taylor.
Of course last Thursday, Erik and I had the pleasure of doing a couple
songs at the Elbow Room's Uncle-Wilco-Volt festival. That was a really
fantastic show, a lot of great performances (too many to count) of
some of my favorite songs ever.
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1/4/04 - Dave and I threw together this new song
(I Can't Remember)
over the last couple days in the studio... Erik is in Japan, Albin
is in Vermont, Neil is playin' gigs... but it still turned out all
right I think.
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