Oak Harbor...You rock!!!

We woke up, groggy and hung over, from our pile of beer cans and body parts. "Oh shit, we have to go to Oak Harbor." With some ibuprofen, vitawater, and sunglasses, we set off for the two hour journey.

Our expectations? Shit was our expectation. We were hoping for the bridge to Deception Pass to give out so we could either watch massive amounts of death and mayhem or, at least, turn back around and grab a margarita. Anything but playing at some bar in the middle of nowhere. Our experience with this is two people show up to the show, we don't get paid, and some old guy wants to tell us about his experience with Credence Clearwater Revival.

But, we were wrong.

Oak Harbor Tavern kicked ass! The place was packed with people that really loved listening to the bands. Everyone was friendly as hell (a few of you were a little too friendly... you know who you are...). The staff at the bar were extraordinarily nice and generous with their PBR tallboys.

Beer is always an expedient way to a musician's heart.

And the other bands kicked ass, as well. I don't know how we fit that many bands into one night. Many thanks to the following:

Potbelly. (These guys really brought the crowd and went the extra mile to set up the show.)
Absence of Faith
Cocky
Stagger Lee

Now here's the best part. Pictures of you crazy fucks! I'm going to compile all the pictures and post them here in this blog. Feel free to comment with pictures you have.

Cheers and Destruction!
Sethalicious

Drunk, stupid punk rock takes lots of work

Sethalicious here. What the hell is THE THEM doing? We've finished our freakin' recording and are now in the process of mixing our CD. We've got a few un-mastered songs we've been handing out at shows. To get one of these, you need to show up to a show!

What songs?

• "We Killed Bettie Page" Finally got a version that doesn't suck!
• "Bury the Hatchet" A kick ass tune that Joseph insists is metaphorical.
• "Drag You Down" A better version than we have up on Myspace.

That's it for the demo for now. We should be finished with this in the next couple of months. It takes a while when you're doing it yourself!

Thanks for hanging in there with us. When we're done, we're going to have some cool, FREE stuff to give away on our main web site, http://the-them.com. Stay tuned!