The Luxury Liners

2005-09-21T23:20:00.002-05:00

so - it's been a while. way too long. but that's how things go when touring northern canada. we're back in the mid south now and this week has been a busy week of shows. sunday i saw coldplay, tuesday david went to atlanta to see paul mccartney and scott and i were just at keane.
keane and coldplay were both great shows. coldplay was a top level rock show. highlights were when they covered ring of fire and the last song of the night - fix you. keane left everything they could give on stage. awesome.
i have a few observations from both shows:
-white accessories seem to be the latest stage trend.
-both bands seemed like normal guys just trying to make great music and were really appreciative of their audiences.
-if there weren't already enough good reasons to not drink too much, i have another. camera phones capable of video. there was a guy with a few too many in him 2 rows up from me thinking he was the lead singer of keane - air mic and all. then there were the 2 dudes 1 row up from me capturing it all on their phones all the while cracking up. i found the whole thing quite amusing myself.

2005-09-21T23:20:00.000-05:00

2005-06-14T21:26:00.000-05:00

this is interesting and a bit late.

listening to the new coldplay.

happy birthday pac-man!!

2005-06-06T22:21:00.000-05:00

hey y'all. how's it going? nothing new to report from our end. just being regular dudes and slowly finishing the next album. what are you up to?

2005-05-17T22:36:00.000-05:00

here's a great article about a real, genuine hero.

these are some other interesting people.

billy corgan has new stuff coming out. his confessions section has some of the most eye opening accounts of how hurtful people can be. rumor has it that he's going to be on the cover of relevant.

tracking for our next record is nearly complete. man oh man....

Flickr

2005-05-03T18:11:00.000-05:00

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2005-04-24T14:40:00.000-05:00

introducing liliana. the latest addition to the lux liner family. she's 9 months old and was welcomed home last week. she's a little sweetie and we are super happy to all be united as a family back in the u.s.
ethan's doing great as a big brother and the other day even did an impression of scott. he said, "hey look,i'm scooter!"

2005-04-14T23:04:00.000-05:00

evening. long time no speak. hope y'all are doing well. things are going good in nashville from where i sit. the weather has been superb this week. we've been working on the album again. i think we're really gonna just finish it this time. scott's lawn service, atlas lawn care, mowed my lawn yesterday. they do a great job. larry text messaged me from germany the other morning at 4AM. thanks for the wake up call, larry! he's got a little surprise for everyone when he gets back in town.

i just got back from a chris thile solo show at bongo after hours. absolutley amazing. he and his mandolin. no microphones. maybe 100 people crammed into a tiny tiny living room. glen phillips from toad the wet sprocket got up and played some songs. it was a top five amazing musical moment in nashville for me.

here are some other things that are knocking my socks off right now. maggie moo's udderly cream milkshakes, tim bluhm's new album, fish tacos, nashville film festival, searching for god knows what, feist, mashups, and npr.

2005-03-17T11:38:00.000-06:00

happy st. patrick's day! blimey! big irish props to u2 for the hall of fame induction and for bono and his wife's new line of clothing, edun, based on fair wage practices. now if only their clothing mogul hip hop counterparts would follow suit- or follow with suits.
in liner related news, we played a show last week. a couple actually. a hardy thanks to keith from hail to the keith for filling in for me on friday. i heard it was awesome! i was in kazakhstan for nearly a month adopting a sweet baby girl. more info on that once it's final. saturday's show was good too. peeps in the crowd said we had more energy than ever. it was nice to win again.
dd has been busy with the foxymorons lately. their album drops 22 march and is awesome.
we're also still working on finishing our album which is taking longer than anticipated, but the end result will be worth it. stay tuned!
oh - and good luck on your brackets for march madness. anyone in nashville have tickets? go oakland and oklahoma!!!

2005-02-01T22:09:00.000-06:00

i know we've been overly quiet here, but it's not because we don't love you. it's because we're hard at work. tracking is nearing completion and mixing has begun on some of the songs. i'm loving it.
i'm also loving my g5 imac, u2 ipod and itunes in general. someday maybe apple will want to help us out a little. my latest downloads were kids songs by some of our favorites around here. butterfly boucher, sarah mclachlan, guster, david mead and a new one to us that we're all really liking - paper moon.
peace out.

2004-12-07T23:02:00.000-06:00

i can't believe christmas is just around the corner. that means the new year is as well. crazy talk if you ask me. which leads me to want to know what the best movies and albums of the year were...

i'll start with music:
U2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb
mindy smith - one moment more
keane - hopes and fears
alanis - so called chaos
kanye west - i kid!! i kid!! really

has any one heard anna nalick? i heard the song breathe on the radio and was digging it quite a bit.

2004-11-12T08:50:00.000-06:00

well it's official. we've turned in several songs to be mixed and have set a deadline to get the rest completed. stay tuned for the title and track list. we're excited and you should be too!

in the mean time you can download a song we contibuted to the jetpack covers section on their website by clicking here.

2004-10-22T10:07:00.000-05:00

wow! it looks like band aid is going to happen again. the line up looks pretty interesting. i can't believe the first one was 20 years ago.

lux liner question of the week/month/whatever we're on now:
cardinals or red sox?

2004-09-07T08:47:00.000-05:00

i'm excited about two albums coming out this fall from two of my faves - u2 and the choir.

recording is still going well. we're having lots of fun getting good parts, good sounds, collaborating over the internet, editing and just hanging out while working together. there is a great feel to this project. can't wait for your to hear it.

2004-08-12T14:27:00.000-05:00

howdy. it sure is purty in tennessee this summer. how are things in your neck of the woods?

we've been getting together every wednesday night to work on the album. seems like we're just working on one song a week. recording parts. erasing parts. adding funky little noises. it's been fun but it sure takes a long time when you don't have a studio time clock ticking away in the background. we don't really have a deadline but we're hoping to have all of the recording done sometime before 2005. i know, i know, that's a long time from now. wish us luck.

scott's playing in nashville next week with trevor morgan. they're opening for one of my favorite artists, john davis, of superdrag. go scott!

2004-07-23T15:18:00.000-05:00

this seems interesting. i wonder if they are going to tour with yanni or charlotte church?

want to go to space? even some of the training missions in moscow sound cool.

do you think david or gary have a chance in the best guitar face contest?

album stuff is coming along cool.

2004-07-12T10:26:00.000-05:00

i've been into the tour de france lately. i think it's in anticipation for the olympics. pretty cool stuff. the french country side looks so cool. i want to go to brittney (sp?) and the isle of jersey.

lux stuff: back recording. good stuff for sure!! can't wait to have it be heard. we gots a new song. it's called fall awake. we're setting up some late summer shows too.

2004-06-08T13:34:00.000-05:00

big props to the detroit pistons for trouncing the lakers in game one of the nba finals.

has anyone seen shrek 2? if so give a report - also, is the marketing of shrek the most comprehensive job ever done? shek is at burger king and on dial soap, m&m's, at the post office....
post shrek sitings as well.

2004-05-20T10:13:00.000-05:00

thanks to everyone that went to the solo show. it was fun to play with sean. his new songs were knocking me out. i sorta felt dumb being up on stage smiling like an idiot as i listened to his songs. i can't help it though, his songs make me smile.

i was loving the laid back vibe of springwater. no cover. lots of chairs. crummy sound system. two really bright stage lights. good friends.

larry and scott will be playing with trevor morgan next week. man, i wish i could see that show.

2004-05-11T14:09:00.000-05:00

strange things are afoot. david's touring with everman. scott, gary and i are playing some shows with trevor morgan. the cure is doing summer dates. alanis is doing shows with the barenaked ladies. ringo's son is playing drums for oasis...

2004-04-06T22:53:00.000-05:00

i can't believe it's been 10 years since kurt cobain took his own life. what a tragedy.

on a happier note: this week marks the beginning of sesame street's 35th anniversary and the lux liners are pleased to report that none of us were close to being around when it debuted. can you imagine if it were created today, it would most likely be a reality show. survivor sesame street. or sesame street idol.
who would you vote off?

newsweek said this is suppose to be hotter than potter. interesting.

congrats uconn on the double win!

2004-03-19T09:49:00.000-06:00

check this out. and speaking of jennifer garner, alias is all new for the rest of the season. cool.

it's march madness time again! good luck on your brackets and good luck to vandy. my two hopes for the tournament is for vandy to advance to the 2nd round and for st. joseph's to win it all.

recording is still going well. getting close to test mixing a song to make sure we're on the right track.

2004-03-17T14:08:00.000-06:00

if you haven't heard... the latest thing these days is mp3 blogs. kids post daily blogs, just like the liners (HA!), but they're only talking about music and they give you a link to an mp3 of the song they're talking about. i've been exposed a bunch of good (and bad) stuff in the last couple months while surfing these sites. today was a really good day though. two sites posted links to unreleased wilco songs. yeah!

Song: At Least That's What You Said - mp3
Album: A Ghost Is Born (Hits stores in May)

Song: Cars Can't Escape - mp3
Album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Outtake)

2004-03-09T15:45:00.000-06:00

we rocked ipo and the end hard last night. nice work guys. one of the coolest things about playing the end is seeing everyone with earplugs in has purple glowing inner ears. awesome.

2004-03-03T07:56:00.000-06:00

man, lord of the rings cleaned up at the oscars. looks like mel gibson's passion of christ is cleaning up at the box office. cool. has any one seen it yet? any commments?
i just read disney is going to cash in on a different fantasy creation of one of the inklings - the chronicals of narnia. also cool. looking forward to that.
in lux news - we're plugging away at recording and play monday night in nashville - part of the international pop overthrow happenings. see you there!