Posted by Frank Busch on August 22, 2011
There is a new “Hardest Working Man in Showbiz.” Six shows last week, which isn’t that big of a deal, but Three of them were on Saturday alone. Â I started my week with a chill little happy hour show at Tex Tubb’s on Atwood. Â Looks like I will be doing every other Tuesday from 5:30-8:30, it’s a neat little place and I had a really good time playing. Â Wednesday I went up to the Dells to play a show at Marley’s. Â That was a strange experience. Â I guess I am less comfortable playing dinner music for families in a water park town, but that is fine with me. Â I hope I don’t get comfortable doing it…. Thursday we played a full band show at The Great Dane downtown, those shows are always a good time and we had a great turnout of our wonderful fans 
. Â Then came Saturday..
The alarm went of at 6 am, I got a ride down to the Memorial Union, where we had parked our trailer the night before. Â The skies were very ominous, so we set up inside at The Rathskeller. Â We played our first set right after the Mini-Marathon started, which seemed kinda silly cause there was no one there. Â By the time we had finished the weather outside was beautiful, so we schlepped our gear outside and set it all up again to play where all the people were lol. Â We played till 1 pm, then packed up our gear, again, and headed for The Riley.
Rileyfest is an institution in the Madison area and this would be our 4th time playing it. Â The tent was packed, the beer flowed and we couldn’t remember if we had played some of these songs already 
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After getting our van packed up, again, we pointed The Red Zeppelin towards Lake Geneva for our final show of the day at Chuck’s Lakeshore Inn. Â This place is always a blast. Â The bartenders feel the need to pour you a shot of whiskey every time you pass by on your way to the bathroom lol. Â The whole bar danced from the first note we played till the last rock n roll ending. Â I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how the ladies that go to Chuck’s have the best legs of anyplace on earth… Â It’s really quite remarkable.. Anyhoo, yesterday was spent recovering so I can do it again this week. Â See you around
special thanks to our road crew Apak, Frymark, and underage Rory, also Andrea our merch girl!
Posted by Frank Busch on August 15, 2011
I have decided that I am addicted to TV. Â I got netflix a while back, and since then I have watched every episode of My Name is Earl, Mad Men, and Phineas and Ferb (I have a four year old boy.) Â So I decided to take a week off of the idiot box. Â I am on day 4. Â Could be worse. Â I feel like it has robbed me of some creativity, as I haven’t written anything new in a while. Â Hopefully this churns up the creative juices.
Shows have been good, but exhausting.
Starting pre-production on our latest project. Â We are retiring to a barn in Northern IL near the Mississippi river to record a stripped down acoustic “Americana” album. Â I put that word in quotations because I have no idea what it means… Â The plan is to put up a mic in the middle of the room and put a mic near each performer, play the songs a bunch of times, then mix it down, and SHABLAZZLE, we will have a cd/dvd ready to go. Â I am hoping to coin the term “shablazzle,” so feel free to use it. Â We are following that up with a proper studio cd in the next few months as well. Â I am hoping this project will balance out the soul sucking process of recording a rock record. Â Sometimes overdubs and heavy mixing takes its toll on a person. Â I will keep you updated on the progress..
I have a solo show at Tex Tubb’s on Atwood tomorrow (tues) at 5:30. Â The full band is at The Great Dane on Thursday and we have not one, not two but Three shows on Saturday… Â Madison Marathon in the am (Memorial Union Terrace,) Â Rileyfest from 3-6, and Chuck’s Lakeshore Inn (Lake Geneva) at 10 pm.. Please come out.. thank you, that is all