By james on 1/20/2010 11:07 AM

So, it's been pretty quiet around here lately. Yeah, turns out our last post was a bit premonitory. In that post I said we weren't dead that that we were a band even! Turns out, not so much. At least for the moment anyways.

Back in November, shortly after our last gig at the Terminal Bar, our bass player decided to hang it up. He lives way down in Chaska or Chanhassan or someplace down on the southwest corner of Minneapolis and we practice up in Coon Rapids. So it was getting to be too much work/driving and not enough having fun/jamming for Mark. Anyways, we don't blame him. Life is a pain in the ass sometimes. We appreciate him hanging with us for as long as he did and we wish him the best. He's a great bass player and a great guy (a pretty rare combination indeed!).

So, Dave, Corey and I are still around but are not actively seeking a new bass player. If something or someone great happens to fall into our laps, we might kick it up again, but for now, we're just winging it. It's quite possible that there will be some cover gigs here and there (my wife intends to walk 60 miles for boobs again this summer and has informed me I better get a band together for the annual summertime fund raiser). So, hopefully I can convince some bass player somewhere to at least jam with us every once in a while! 

Anyways, we'll keep you posted and we'll keep this site here to let you know if/when anything changes or if we throw together any gigs. We appreciate all you crazy mf'ers who came out to support us along the way!  

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By james on 6/10/2009 9:02 PM

So, our first Save Second Base show of the summer is in the books. This turned out to be one hell of a good show and an equally good time. We had lots of our up north friends and family come out as well as a few hardcore friends from the cities drive all the way up (Elvis never leaves this building!).

Playing cover tunes can be a lot of fun when you get it done right and it was fun since there was a fair amount of new stuff that we pulled out this time around. Even played a handful of tunes that night that we've never played, ever, and they didn't even suck! That's saying something, not sure what, but something. There was also a very good response to the Deadwoods original tunes we threw in there, so we're starting to feel pretty good about this whole Deadwoods thing.

Anywho, thanks to everybody who came out and pitched in. The event raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 which is more than what was expected and comes very close to closing the deal for my wife, her sister and the other 3-day walkers involved. Not that that will stop us, we're still on the hook for the show in Princeton on August 15th. Keep that date open, you don't want to miss this!

Also, we posted a few photos from the show up on the Deadwoods Facebook Fan page. Go check em out. Someday I'll figure out a better way to display pictures right here on our site, but for now we'll take advantage of Facebook. 

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By james on 3/17/2009 9:20 PM

So, first of all thanks to everyone who came out to our show (and hung around all night for our late start!) at The Terminal last Saturday. I have to throw a special thanks out to FCab who hung out all night and screamed for more drums! Gotta love fans who love drums and drummers I say! Hope you guys enjoyed your stay in the van in Minneapolis that night!

Over the past couple weeks I've been talking with a few people that are all over Facebook. So, given our lack of skill utilizing MySpace, it seemed logical to try and do a less than average job utilizing Facebook as well. 

So, that's exactly what we're going to do! I signed myself up for Facebook to figure out what it's all about. After some poking around, I found 2 ways to promote a band in the Facebook world. I don't know which is better, so I did the logical thing and set up both. So here they are:

The Deadwoods Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Deadwoods/61202396566

The Deadwoods Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55955922295

If you're a Facebook user, go check em out and become a Fan or a Member. Let us know if you like one or the other better. See you on Facebook!

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By dave on 2/3/2009 12:31 PM

Thank you to everyone who made it out on Friday.  What a great showing and a good time.  For those of you who missed it, you missed a good one and we hope to see you at one or both of our March shows.  The only negative from the show was feeling my age the next day.  not just from the hang over, but I pulled a leg muscle.  How the hell does that happpen?

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