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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I always thank of Thanksgiving as the start of the whole holiday season. It's a wonderful time of the year I think.

As November comes to close we will be finishing up what has been a busy year for us on the road. It was great getting out and meeting so many of you this year. We made many new friends and fans both. We got to play along side of some great bands too that we now call friends as well. We had the opportunity to play at some really awesome venues as well. Unless we play a holiday show or two we are going to focus the rest of the year or what's left of it around the holidays and work on the new records.

The record is coming along quite nice. We are all excited about the tunes we have and the direction the band is moving in. We are excited about a lot of opportunities that the band has coming up in the next year. A new record, tour, Eurpean tour, festivals, etc.. I get overwhelmed just thinking about it! haha I love it all,

So as the holidays start we hope all of you have a happy & wonderful holiday season.

Sorry!

Before I even get started this morning let me say I'm sorry for not blogging the way I should. I do post daily mini blogs on myspace & twitter but it's not the same thing. It's hard to say much in 140 characters or less. Well myspace does give you 160 but that's not saying a lot more either. I do spend a lot of time everyday answering all of the messages, emails and comments we get. I think it's more important that we talk to our fans in a direct way if we can. Blogs seem so open ended sometimes. Maybe that's just because I ramble.

As for the records things are going really good. I think the spring deadline is right on track. It has been so much fun so far putting this one together. We have learned a lot about what we like & don't like and had fun in the process. I think we have learned some good life lessons as well.

On a side note, our song 'Be Mine' is now on 200+ radio stations across France! We are very excited. Thanks to Sophie and all of our French fans for making this happen!

I know I Know I'm Behind Again!

Even with my best intentions at heart I am so behind on updating blogs that I thought I would never get to it! haha Wow recording records is a fun business but it takes up a lot of time. Massive amounts to be honest. I am now dreaming about pro tools work screens and having night terrors that I forgot the settings for that 'just right' bass sound I just loved three songs ago. Oh well to make music one must become a part of it or so I have been told. I don't quite feel like a treble clef just yet but looking at leadsheets does make the eyes cross after awhile.

We are making good progress on everything. The songs are really coming together just as we had hoped they would. So good in fact we have more songs in final stages then we had originally planned to even record.

I know all of you are excited to hear what we have been up to. We do want to post some demos and some videos of the new tunes in the not so distant future. Amazing how far behind we got with my two week absence for the flu and Jimi taking a weeks leave himself with a kidney stone but all is back on track now. Now if I would just blog more often....

Back to work!

After my unwanted two week vacation for the flu it was back to work this week. I was ready too! It was tough to stop working on the new record right in the middle of everything but there was nothing any of us could do. It's been a really great week so far. We have had some really great creative moments that we were all excited about. It felt good to be making music again for sure. I think we all shared that feeling. Maybe the time off was good for all of us. A chance to recharge our music making batteries.

I better get back to work just wanted to let everyone know we were back to making music. Hopefully we will have something for you to hear very soon!

Broke or not ready to commit just yet?

Starting here in October you or someone you know can get a physical copy of our debut record 'Pompous & Proud' on www.amazon.com for $4.99!

We can also understand that some of you aren't sure you like us that much yet, which is cool because relationships take time. So, this $5 album deal could be the cheap date you need with the Third Grade Haters to take it to the next level.

PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR LOVER, YOUR MOTHER AND
YOURSELF TO GO GET A COPY OF OUR RECORD PLEASE. THE RECORD IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON iTUNES (HINT HINT!) SO IF YOU CAN GET TO iTUNES YOU CAN A GET A COPY OF THE RECORD THERE TOO!

Blame it on the Flu!

My new catch phrase for the past two weeks now has been blame it on the flu. For those who don't know I have had the dreaded N1H1 swine flu. Let's just say it's not a lot of fun folks. Worse then that all work on the new record came to a halt. I think that made me feel about as bad as the flu did. Just when you think you can really feel the momentum of everything coming together it just stopped. Oh well it's not like I tried to get to the flu or anything, but still I feel bad about it.

The past month has been a long and hectic one, and unfortunately I was a little too distracted to write on this thing as promised. For all the things I wanna do I seem to want to do music more then anything else. Write it, recorded it, play it, etc.. now if I could just update it like I should I would be on top of everything.

On a side we do have some press coming out the next bit.

Hope all is well with everyone. I'll try not to disappear again!

Woo Hoo

It has been a super fast, busy, productive, exciting and crazy week so far and the weekend is just getting started. No telling what kind of trouble we can get into the next two days. I had some trouble planned for tonight but it got cancelled out. Oh well that left me time to catch up on things have not gotten done this week.

Lots of progress is being made with the new record. Yesterday one of the best days yet if not the best. While working on a couple of tunes the heavens opened up and we were struck with the ideas for two totally new tunes. Both of which are quite good I might add. I was quite exicted about both.

I really like taking our time on this record it allows for amazing things like that to happen. As much as do outside of the studio on our own its great when it really comes to together with all of us there.

I am kinda in a who knows what will happen next mode so lets don't do anything to jinx it! I love change & I love how all of the creative juices are really flowing right now.

Sorry for the lack of posts. I am going to make it top priority to update & blog everyday next week! I'll try to keep my fingers crossed! haha