BigDrag

The House Cafe - Sept. 13

2007-08-31T22:51:00.000-05:00

Big Drag At Otto's August 9

2007-07-23T23:02:00.000-05:00

Big Drag @ The House Redux

2007-07-15T22:02:00.000-05:00

We liked it so much, we decided to do it again. Here's the flyer:

Summer Dreams...

2007-05-26T12:41:00.000-05:00

Thanks to John at Kickstand Productions, we'll be able to walk proudly into the studio in the coming months, heads held high, knowing that we can pay for at least a few more hours of recording time. If you'd like to contribute to the "amnesty for the music trapped inside of Big Drag" fund, check out our upcoming shows at the House Cafe in sunny DeKalb, IL. Here's a link for the first one (click the picture for a printable version):

A Flyer and a Deal

2007-05-02T22:20:00.000-05:00

John over at Kickstand Productions has agreed to accept these printed fliers at the door for a $1 discount off the price of our May 17th show at the House. (Not sure what the cover will be just yet...)

If you click on the picture here, it'll take you to the actual, full-sized version. Print it and bring it along to save a buck and help us prove that we have friends.

Roger and out.

Ed Rocks the Heezy

2007-02-16T10:41:00.000-06:00

Monthly Update

2007-01-22T20:27:00.000-06:00

We all seem to have made it through the holidays unscathed and, in fact, through the playoffs. That's right, the Bears are going to the big dance. Too bad we're not the headliner (stupid Prince.)

Anyhow, things are getting up to speed with a good, solid demo ready and a bunch of other stuff in the can and waiting for finishing touches. We're working on getting some shows and should have an easier time of it in a few months with all this new material to show people.

I'd like to try to consolidate this blog more directly into the web site and keep it as simple as possible to keep on top of all the goings on with the band. It's all good in the hood. And by hood, I mean Sugar Grove.

One Week From Tomorrow:

2006-11-16T12:11:00.000-06:00

Big Drag Boats

2006-10-16T14:48:00.000-05:00

I think I have an idea for an album cover...

big drag boats USA

My Space

2006-09-14T21:57:00.000-05:00

Chris has used this image at the official bigDrag site and OD has it for our mySpace page. Maybe one of these guys can blog about this thing and explain who came up with it first - I like it but I feel like an idiot because I'm not sure where it came from. That is all.

Wings Over Plainfield

2006-09-04T21:16:00.000-05:00

Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things (because it’s only rock ‘n roll blah ditty blah blah) but we played one of our best rock shows ever somewhere in Plainfield over the weekend. I think the set was something like:

1. the End of Everything
2. Sound
3. dil
4. new Instrumental thing
5. Urlacher (for future reference, 2 instrumentals in a row confuses the audience)
6. Spill
7. How Are Things at LaGuardia?
8. Hey Lucky
9. Done
10. Stupid Now
11. Imported Wine and Soul Food
12. B.F.I.
13. Any Questions?
14. She’s a Burner
15. Three’s a Magic Number
16. Real Eyes
17. Norwegian Wood

There was a nice guy at the shindig who claimed that he was the drummer for the Hooodooo Gurus (sp?)…pretty neat. He said that he worked for mTv now – and I said “If you’re looking for a reality show about a one-eyed bass player and the drummer who picked out a Saturn with him”…

Uh, I think this blog just got nuked by our drummer who may or may not drive a Saturn.

Back at It

2006-08-18T12:35:00.000-05:00

Decent practice last night and we're getting close to solidifying Dev's new song. There's going to be a call and response thing...he posted the lyrics on his blog so I'll probably check them out there. Our friend from the District brought some Booker's to get the creative juices flowing.

We're lucky we got anything done.

*smootches

Clarification

2006-08-15T15:26:00.000-05:00

The gig referred to in the previous post is a private party lest our loyal throng be misled. We'll be out and about officially before long...

Nobody Will Help Me

2006-08-11T10:24:00.000-05:00

I want that to be the name of the new dev song. I don't think anyone else agrees. It's ok. We've had a good three week run with at least one new song every practice. Chris has solidified a Labor Day weekend gig for us. Ms. J and I may end up trashing another Moonwalk if we are not careful.

Joe looks so cool with his Jonestown glasses. The glass is always half-full in Jonestown.

Half Kool Aid, half cyanide.

HFC vs. HFA

2006-08-04T09:05:00.000-05:00

More new material @ practice last night. We also came up with the most disturbing Mr. Kool Aid Man commercial ever. We worked on my new slowed down Alarm song. This probably does not sound like a ringing endorsement of anything. We're also putting B.F.I. earlier in the set which I am fired up about. Here are the new songs so far (hopefully for the new live set)

1. The End of Everything
2. this little instrumental thing ending B.F.I. and leading into
3. Understandable
and last night 4. HFC @ Full On Gain

The new set is (for now) running like this:

1. The End of Everything
2. Sound
3. B.F.I.
4. instrumental
5. Understandable
6. H.F.C. at Full on Gain

I've got six or seven more new songs finished that I want us to lear. Dev's got some parts of songs he's working on - plus he came up with a new thing last night that Chris is posting so Dev can come up with words at his leisure.

Do any of us have any leisure these days?

Does anyone remember laughter?

What am I, Robert Plant?

OK I'm In

2006-08-01T23:44:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the e-vite ChrisB and for setting up these digs on blogger. We'll make the Old Dog do the My Space page. Can you say My Space on blogger? I was on My Space the other day and I felt like I was back in the 6th grade.

And not the good days in 6th grade like when I climbed the gym rope...

...but like every other day when I wasn't climbing the gym rope.

I love that gym rope. I wonder what ever happened to it.

bigDrag is a rock band. I've been spending some time adding tracks to our inital offering Me Drive Car designed by Chris, D, photos by MKS and the like...

I've expanded it into something wholly over which may get me fired from the band.

But hey, we can work it out here, right in front of y'all on the new blogger page.

I hope none of our ideas gets clogged up in this series of tubes.

It Lives Again

2006-07-28T08:54:00.000-05:00

Yep, what's old is new again. We've gone around the block and back and it looks like Big Drag is the moniker we like the best. Apologies to Giant Drag out in L.A. but I'm fairly sure we were here first.

Big Drag has been around (in one form or another) for the better part of ten years now. Time really does fly and we are having fun (right fellas?...)

We're going to "Web 2.0" this mutha in the coming months, however, I realize that every time I prophecise about something we're going to do, it either fizzles or takes a few years to implement. So, forget what I said about Web 2.0. Who really knows what that means, anyhow. I guess we should focus on making music.