RTP-area local music and culture

["dmccall" <dmccall AT nc.rr.com>]

Good luck to all of you. Great note, Matt!

-- 
Dana McCall
Raleigh, NC

"Matthew Tomich" <matt AT novia.net> wrote in message
news:3fd80325$0$807$45beb828 AT newscene.com...
> The Scaries will be playing our last two shows December 13th in Chapel
> Hill, NC at Go Rehearsals.
>
> DECEMBER 13 - GO REHEARSALS - CHAPEL HILL, NC - 6 P.M.
> the scaries + alli with an i + letdown
>
> DECEMBER 13 - GO REHEARSALS - CHAPEL HILL, NC - 9 P.M.
> awk (our andrew wk cover band) + the scaries + alli with an i + xtreme
> badasses
>
> If you are planning on going, the show are almost sold out.  E-Tix does
> not have any more on-line, but you can order tickets with a credit card
> over the phone by calling the Cat's Cradle at 919-967-9053.  There are not
> many left.
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
> Goodbye!
>
>
> "Breaking up" sounds overly dramatic.  More accurately, we're playing our
> last show and then not showing up to band practice anymore.  "No call, no
> show" is more like it.
>
> People ask why we're playing our last shows.  There is a popular
> misconception that rock bands stay together forever.  Bands get together,
> write their songs, release them to the world, and then the members go on
> to work in restaurants or play in tribute bands.  Maybe while they were
> together they were lucky enough to come to your town and play live and get
> drunk and sleep on your local beach.  But nothing lasts forever, which is
> exactly the reason why after reading this and jacking around on the
> internet, you should get up and go do everything you keep talking about
> doing instead of just sitting around and talking about it.
>
> As for what we'll be doing after this, Bill and Lyle will be continuing
> their metal instrumental onslaught in Amish Jhiad.  Mike will be moving to
> Gainesville, FL and starting a new band with Jon and Derron from the band
> Gunmoll.  On top of that, Mike and the guys from Gunmoll will be putting
> out a split-EP of acoustic versions their own bands' songs on Law of
> Inertia records sometime in 2004.  And Matt will write for glossy rock
> magazines and travel to foreign countries that require inoculations.
>
> We have a lot of people to thank from the last eight years.  Let's start
> with the entire populations of Orange, Durham, Wake, Burlington, Wayne,
> and Alamance counties in North Carolina.  That should cover everyone we
> know around here.  And everybody in the Virginia Beach area, and whoever
> lived in Harrisonburg, Virginia from 1997-2001, gracias amigos.  Thank you
> Florida, as somehow we never got a ticket for speeding or indecent
> exposure in your state.  And thank you Garden City, Kansas and Lincoln,
> North Dakota for showing up in droves, because otherwise I think we
> would've committed seppuku out of sheer boredom while driving across the
> Midwest.  Meanwhile, anybody who drives the speed limit in Connecticut or
> runs a crooked rock club in California, you can kiss our ass.  You shook
> our faith in humanity and we hope you all get audited at least once in
> your lives.
>
> If you heard our songs, you should thank these guys who made sure our
> records came out:  Fab Del Rey records, Matt Kelley at Route 14 records,
> and Ross Siegel at Law of Inertia records.  If you guys were waiting for
> the big MTV breakthrough hit so you could cash in on our back catalog, I'm
> sorry we let you down.
>
> Thank you Matt Ehlers and Travis Groo for sending a lot of e-mails and
> making a lot of phone calls for us at one time or another.
>
> We've played a ridiculous number of shows across three countries and can't
> remember all the fun places we've played.  But we'd like to especially
> thank Go, Cat's Cradle, Lizard and Snake, Duke Coffeehouse, and Matt Dauer
> in Virginia Beach, as they always hooked us up and gave us whatever we
> wanted like the spoiled children we are.  But the crowded, out-of-control
> house shows were some of the most memorable and we had some of the best
> times of our lives at the High Life House in Colorado Springs, the
> Spaghetti House in Harrisonburg, Tommy's apartment in Morgantown, and
> whatever that house was in Atlantic, NC where literally the whole town
> showed up.
>
> We can't begin to name the bands that we want to thank.  We wish we could
> play with you all one more time.  If we could get all the bands we wanted
> to play our farewell show, it would be a three-day outdoor festival with
> $10 parking and $5 beers.  But for the record, we'd like to say it sucks
> that The Revolvers, 65 Filmshow, and Gunmoll broke up before we did, and
> we wish they were waiting for us in band heaven.
>
> And if sometime in the last eight years you came to our show, bought a CD,
> wore a t-shirt, or downloaded our songs and put them on a mix tape,
> thanks.  You have no idea how stoked we were when you thought something we
> did was worth taking home (and likewise, we realized we were going to have
> gas money to get back home.)
>
> And to every single person in Japan, thank you!  You're all so nice.
>
> Some people have written us some really kind letters saying all sorts of
> incredible things.  We'd like to say that you should cheer the hell up and
> go start your own rock band.  It's a great way to spend seven or more
> years of your life.  We highly recommend it.
>
> If we have any regrets, it's that we didn't get to finish another album
> before it was all over.  But we hope somewhere along the line, we did
> something that made your day better than it would've been if we had just
> decided to stay home and watch movies.
>
> If at some point in the last eight years we were some part of your lives,
> you made the band that was our lives worthwhile for us. For us, it came to
> an end while it was still fun. And we hope at the end of your days, you
> can say the same.
>
> Ciao bella!
> The Scaries
>
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