Feb 17

THE GOOD EXCUSES @ RAW in Philadelphia 2013 – Lit Ultra Bar 2/28

Greetings! I’m gonna skip the shenanigans and get right to the point, because this is really cool: We’re being featured in the RAWards; it’s an arts organization that holds events in a bunch of cities to promote independent music, film, photography, fashion and so on. There’s going to be over 30 different artists/bands there, including Boyd Tinsley (Dave Matthews Band) who will be screening his new film “Faces in the Mirror.”

There’s also going to be a cocktail bar (we’ll all be wearing three piece suits, and Andy might even shower beforehand). Buy Tickets here …. and the party starts at 7:30. We actually have a really fun idea planned that you’ll just have to be there to see.

Also we’re a few weeks away from posting newly recorded songs, stay tuned!

- Jeff

Rawards Flyer

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Nov 26

Kung Fu NeckTie!!

$5

w/ Dive, Last Hour Battle, & For What It’s Worth.

This show is going to be sick. We’ve been suppressing all of our emotions for a month. An effort which we thought was being sponsored by Pfizer, but really wasn’t. Just a miscommunication I suppose.

Somebody sent us this ransom letter with a picture of our drum head. He said if we ever want to see it again, he/she wants pictures of our butts. So if you see us with this drum head at the show…you’d be safe to assume we sent pictures of our butts to a stranger.

 

-Andrew

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Oct 25

COME HALLOWEEN WITH US!

We’ll be taking the stage in costume at the Rebel Rock Bar this Saturday! Halloween isn’t until Wednesday, but Halloween on a Wednesday is like a vegan Thanksgiving (“Thanksgiving” is now a synonym for “ANYTHING”). Jim will be dressed as a woman who thinks she’s a man, Andy will be wearing a very realistic looking bald cap, I’ll be dressed as something slutty, cus it’s the only way to get guys to notice me… I really do have a great personality n all that, but… it’s just, it’s hard sometimes… oh, and Adam. He’ll be our “bass player.”
REBEL ROCK BAR THIS SATURDAY THE 27th! BE THERE, OR BE THERE!

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Sep 07

Show @ Dave and Buster’s FlugTag!!

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Sep 06

Beta-HiFi Success!!

200 bands applied to be a part of this year’s Beta Hi-Fi Music Festival. We were selected and had a hell of a time. Playing at World Café Live was amazing. The sound in there is amazing. My glass of water with no ice was amazing. AMAZING.

We were booked on a night with some seriously great bands and musicians. Worth mentioning, though, is how laid back and chill they all were. It was so good. When we got up there we gave it a kick in the ass. We also got featured in the recent issue of Wilmington’s “Spark” magazine.

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Jun 12

Podcast and a Poster


So we just rehearsed for Friday’s show. We played the set twice in our space that has no windows, no vents, and no fans. I looked over at our dollar-store thermometer at one point and the glass tip at the top was showing off the  elasticity of thermometer-tip-glass that we all know and accept as fact. Beads of sweat formed and rolled down the side while it was inflating and deflating like a ballon.

In all seriousness, this setlist is awesome and it’s going to be a lot a lot a lot of fun to play at Dobbs again. Get out to it! Rock. Sweat. Completely Losi*ng Our Shit. It’s going to happen.

We also went and did a podcast over at www.yourlocalnote.com . The host, RJ, is such an awesome dude. He’s giving us local musicians a place for someone who wants to get to know more about us a place to do it instead of having to cram every damn adjective and buzz word into a bio. You get to hear the stories, the banter, the dynamic of the band when they’re not playing instruments. Really cool stuff and he actually went the extra mile and also bought our 6 song Binge Thinking off of BandCamp for way more than we’re asking for it. (www.thegoodexcuses.bandcamp.com) Hopefully he’ll let us back when we get the full length together and have some more stories to tell.  Here’s another link for the podcast: Click on these words that I’ve typed

We did another podcast too with another internet radio station which had a totally different, satellite radio, format. It was actually a lot of fun. We’ll post a link on here soon.

More info on the full length later….

 

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May 08

The Plot Thickens like an old milkshake…

"Nice blood, but I think it'd look better sprayed all over my face." -Snare Drum

 

 

No time for a formal greeting: we’ve found our favorite opening act for any local show ever. He’s a pirate. He plays the keyboard. He sings. He’s so good at both keyboard and singing, he’s been described as “the Billy Joel of pirates.” I can’t find a link anywhere online but the musical act known as Captain Scurvy was through and through both enjoyable and educational for those of us who were ignorant about the ways of pirate life.

 

So we’ve been playing shows the past few Saturdays in a row and it’s been boatloads of fun, but you may be asking yourself (a.k.a. I hope someday even one person asks themselves this): “What are The Good Excuses up to those other six days of the week?” Well, I will TELL you. But it’s going to be in the form of an absurd quiz I’m about to create off the top of my head. The answer will be nearly undeterminable, as it will be hidden amongst four very possible and perfectly reasonable scenarios.

 

This week, The Good Excuses have been:

 

A) Attempting to develop a new form of renewable energy that is created through the wondrous power of rock music.

B) Desperately trying to finish our recording sessions which go on forever because we’re obsessively in love with what we do and can’t let go of it until we know it’s perfect.

C) trying to go back in time using a car with silly looking doors to fight sentient computer viruses that appear as grim-faced men in expensive suits alongside sentient toys just trying to get back to their owner, while simultaneously rousing 300 over-excited and under-dressed spartan soldiers in order to throw down an evil wrinkly Sith lord and his half-man half-dog companion, using a mixture of comedic karate taught by both a mutant rat and an imaginary friend who happens to be Chuck Norris, while also fearing that the same day may just repeat itself forever in this quiet town of Punksatony where everyone has already been killed by zombies, but ultimately defeating said zombies along with Zuel, Zurg, King Koopa, the Scarecrow, Captain Hook and an unreasonably large great white shark,  just in time to send an alien home, get back in bed before our parents find out we skipped school, and get back to the future for THE talent show, which is of course comprised of an outlandish Nintendo competition and an unlikely rock n’ roll performance by four guys from Erie PA, with the vain hope of winning the girl, saving the world, reserving a table at Dorsia, winning the local karate tournament, stopping the T-1000, and ultimately destroying the One Ring thus saving the galaxy.

D) Shuffleboard.

 

Whoever guesses the right answer will be the lucky winner of a strong desire to have the last three minutes of their life back.

 

- Jeff

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May 01

Well THAT was a good show…

This past Saturday night was beyond awesome. We’ve fulfilled our career-long (this week’s) goal of getting a crowd to dance like they haven’t danced since they got drunk at their aunt’s wedding last year and “accidentally” fell into the muscular arms of that cute waiter…Anyhow, a huge thanks to everyone who partied with us, and also to the promoter for not being annoyed over the number of snot rockets Andy blew onstage (one, but it was a doozie). We’ll be back at Tom n Jerry’s a month from now and we’ll be playing with The Silent Signals facebook.com/thesilentsignals, who happen to be excellent like a chipotle burrito: a bunch of awesome components that somehow mix together perfectly and totally won’t give you diarrhea.In the meantime you are all cordially invited to hang out with us at The Fire this Saturday May 5th. We’re adding a new cover song to the setlist (hint: Matthew Broderick + parade floats –  school). Stay tuned.

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Apr 26

THE GOOD EXCUSES @ Tom n Jerry’s in Folsom, PA Saturday April 28th 9:00 (music starts at 10:00)

So we took a few weeks off from playing shows to write and record, and much sound has been captured thus far. Several good ideas and one broken amp head later, we’ve finally mustered the courage to venture into the outside world again. So, if you enjoy music, food, and a reasonable supply of decent quality oxygen (bar closes at 1:00 but the oxygen’ll be flowing strong all night), come hang out with us at Tom n’ Jerry’s in Folsom this Saturday. We’ll be debuting a new song, and the wait staff’s service is so superb that band members can, and have, been served food mid-song. If you don’t come hang out with us, you’ll regret it at least as much as every time you’ve just ordered the salad.

Don’t order salad. See, and hear, The Good Excuses.

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Mar 19

GOOD TIMES

What’s in a name?

First, let me say that we’re pretty easy going guys. The only thing you kind of hope for when you play somewhere that has a sound guy is that he’s good at it and does his job.  And if there has to be someone yelling your band’s name into a microphone right before you play, that they know what it is.
Earlier in the week we were referred to as “the no excuses”. Then at the show it was “the new excuses”. Not a problem. After we started playing no one had a problem remembering it and someone from the venue rubbed our sticker on their wall.
It reminds me of a great scene from my favorite movie “That Thing You Do”, when The One-ders (the wonders) were getting called ‘The O’Needers” by the talent show host and Boss Vic Koss introducing them when they were first starting out. Hopefully you’ve seen that movie because it’s friggin awesome. We’re not spelling our name in any sort of clever, over thought way though. So it’s kind of even more hilarious that it’s been happening.
We’re obviously not upset about it, I mean, shit happens. I’ve forgotten the names of bands we were playing with before simply because I had other things to worry about and I’m just not familiar with them. I also have a serious problem with forgetting the names of movies, adjectives and nouns related to the plot, and who the main actor is in them. So all I have to go on when I’m talking about it with someone is ” You know that one movie where an extra in a blue shirt walks past the camera when Terrence Howard was getting in his cyborg suit?”.

Our set ended up going great. Jim’s hybrid 4×12 held up and there weren’t any equipment issues for a change. Hopefully we get to come back to this place. The sound guys were awesome and the venue’s about an 8/10. I’m taking 2 points off for absolutely no reason.

-Andrew

 

 

the note tla electric factory

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