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July 27, 2010
2 night weekend of musical frivolity at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz!
We'll be in Santa Cruz on August 20 and 21 with our very good friends Sourgrass for two nights of crazy good times.
It will be like a music party that lasts 48 hours. Make a weekend of it - Santa Cruz, so we've heard, is a nice place. Beaches or something like that?
Come down, bring your swimming trunks and some zinc oxide to rub on your nose, and drink and dance the night away with all of us.
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July 25, 2010
Ahoy folks! So sorry for the long time between updates. Our official website updater (yours truly here) was enjoying a vacation away from such technological doo-dads as computers. But now, on with the updates:
Tao Seeger killlllled it on Friday night. He is a great performer, as was his cohort Laura Cortese. They were amazing, and we loved their set. We were able to cajole them into playing a song or two with us on stage, and that was a blast. Don't know when they'll be back through town, but we sure hope we'll be on stage with them again!
Observe our Shows list to the right... the only thing it is lacking right now is a possible second date in Santa Cruz... and the dates for our upcoming tour in September. But hey - that's a month away. We'll update when the dates are all together, and we'll let you all know all about it. See yous soon.
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July 11, 2010
New show added: Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz opening for Tao Seeger on Friday July 23! Of the Pete dynasty, not Bob. This is going to
be good fun - and a chance to warm up the Santa Cruzians a'fore we roll through for our first Headlining spot in August.
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July 11, 2010
BIIIG NEWS: The good and amazing people at Mongrel Music booking agency have picked us for the team! They will be handling all bookings from now on, and the mission is to book far, wide, hither and yon! We're very excited. Check out their band roster on the site - we are honored to be on the list!
As for this past weekend: Tahoe is always so good to us Brothers. Thanks Tahoe. Note to bands - playing beerfestivals means that you get
paid to drink beer. Lots and lots of different and free beer. Life is good.
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June 30, 2010
Aloha thou website surfer.
On the shows listed to your right, you'll see that we added Northstar (at Tahoe)'s Beerfest and Bluegrass to our calendar, and several other choice musical morsels as well. Paruse them at your leisure, and we'll see you tonight in the Poster Room.
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June 28, 2010
THAAAAANNNK YOOOUUUU!!
That goes out to the amazing, rowdy and wonderful people who rolled out to the shows this weekend.
Y'all came... What a solid, down-home, make Ben drink some whiskey, good-'ol crowd you all were. We can't thank
you all enough, really - there but for the grace and rowdy support of you go we...
We'll be off of the stage for July, but we'll be back in August - and keep your eyes peeled for footage of Strawberry and Telluride in
the meantime!
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June 23, 2010
Hail hail all web viewers!
We are very much looking forward to tomorrow night - a mere 24 hours from now will find us in our first headlining show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco! If you still need tickets, you can buy them Right Here!
We'll see you there. And remember - go for the Weird Beard Challenge - two shows in two nights (if you also come to Friday at Hopmonk). Become deputized, and sport your badge of honor with pride! See you soon. |
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June 17, 2010
New Video on the new You Tube Channel!
Click on that there link to see we Brothers Comatose in Saint Maries Idaho. This video is from the Spring tour, and we played
at Saint Maries Middle School for the greatest crowd a band could ask for: a brigade of rowdy, foot-stomping, sing-alonging 4th 5th and 6th graders. This is them creating the world's greatest
version of "Y'all Come" ever. |
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June 15, 2010
We have given our myspace page a wood-grained, linkified face lift. Please do feel free to investigate.
The You Tube channel
will be receiving a similar treatment in coming days, so now you have something to look forward to. |
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June 14, 2010
The News:
Our Weekend saw good Thai food and good peoples (thanks Davis and Sophia's). Our weekend saw the beautiful Anderson Valley, apple spritzers, playing music while marching through an orchard, basses bungie-corded to handtrucks, the van, photos with the van, and some warm weather.
What does the future hold for the Brothers Comatose? Well, the band is sending an Ambassadorship on a diplomatic mission to ... The Telluride Bluegrass Festival. There our brave exploring diplomats will be forced to drink and fratrenize with all manner of bow-puller and string-plucker. Will they succeed in spreading the word of The Brothers Comatose? Will they succumb to the temptation of Reno en-route? Only time will tell. |
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June 7, 2010
Two posts in one day... must mean we made the front page of Crawdaddy!!!
Head on over, read up on Brothers Comatose lore, and
leave comments about how they are an amazing and awesome magazine. |
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June 7, 2010
Another great weekend of music and festivals. We're heading off this Thursday for the land of Davis. Come to Sophia's and
we can all eat Thai food and play music together. |
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June 2, 2010
We received a great review in Performer Magazine! You can find it on
that link right back there... For that and all other links to the Brothers Comatose Summer Reading List, check out the bio & press page! |
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June 1, 2010
Viva La Strawberry!!!
We had the time of our lives. For further details, please visit the tour page. We'll put up some photos
and video just as soon as we collect them from the various cameras and peoples that used them.
And so now we're back, and it's time for more shows, more tours, and more shows. Come and see us at the San Francisco Underground Market this
coming Friday! Check their website for how to become a member, get in for free (or discounted) and learn the wild and delicious ways of the urban forager.
Saturday finds us down south in
the San Lorenzo Valley playing at the Redwwod Mountain Faire. We play at noooon! See you soooooon!! |
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May 25, 2010
We've gotten in another ripe and delicious batch of album reviews and we've posted choice quotes and links over
on the bio & press page. This is our pre-Strawberry hype. We read the reviews to each other in
a big huddle before, during and after rehearsals... we casually drop photocopies of the reviews on tables at crowded cafes... we
pretend that we're reading them very loudly to our elderly relatives in public places... We've collected them, bound them,
and are giving the "Selected Reviews of The Brothers Comatose's 'Songs From The Stoop'" to friends and family for wedding, birthday,
graduation and holiday gifts; ask for it loudly and in front of other customers at your favorite crowded bookstore. |
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May 23, 2010
Strawberry preparations are in full effect. Blindfolded practices have been rough, as have the autograph signing rehearsals (record is currently 205 autographs in one minute).
The sychronized dance moves have been coming along nicely under our choreographer's strict guidance, and we're always busy with our stitching and needlepoint for
the costumes. Strawberry is in for a treat.
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May 19, 2010
We'll be in the Mission tonight, celebrating Phil's senior recital, and playing a few tunes...
after he plays his Mozart, his string quartet business, and his concertos... Then it's back to the rehearsal chamber wherefore
to prepare for Strawberry! We trust you all have your tickets and campsites.
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May 10, 2010
Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend. Slim's was glorious, as was the East Bay (in both its Starry Plough
and Anni's party settings). We consider the busy weekend as the beginning of our grueling regimen of military-like, kill-us-or-make-us-stronger-style
training that we have undertaken to prepare us for Strawberry. We have superglued our instruments to our hands. We are speaking only in
opera-like, vocalized recitative. We eat only bacon. We drink only water from Appalachian springs. We have less than three weeks to learn and master
every song ever written.
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May 3, 2010
Yes, it has been a spell since we last updated - but it took us that long to recover from the amazingness, goodliness,
greattimeyness and goodmusicness of the Devil Makes Three show... but we're back. We're back, and we're ready to play
Slim's this Thursday. What? Oh, yes, that was not a mistake of the typing fingers: Slim's this Thursday is where
we will be - playing. We'd love to see everyone there - to make a good impression on an honorable and vererable venue, and party party with
friends and loved ones. See you then.
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April 21, 2010
Hi Ho! Happy Wednesday to ye. This Friday we'll be winging our way to Santa Cruz in the plush, red luxury of
our sweet, dear van - wherefore to play music with the gracious and amazing folks of
Devil Makes Three. Come down to the Catalyst and enjoy!
And have you investigated the bio page recently? We have been getting some folks to write about the album - sometimes in foreign
languages. Anyone speak Dutch?
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April 13, 2010
We're playing the Strawberry Music Festival this May!!!... which is exciting.
We have updated shows appropriately. Hope to see you this weekend, and then for an entire weekend in May. (That was another
reference to the fact that we're playing Strawberry... did we mention that we're excited about it?) |
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April 6, 2010
The Brothers Comatose would like to usher in the lovely month of April (one week late) with a slew of new show dates. Just feast your eyes on those venues and those bands! Summer is looking nice. See you soon. |
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March 29, 2010
We're back! Bellingham, WA to Petaluma, CA in 16 hours - with a passenger drop off in suburban Seattle and headlight replacement in Eugene, OR no less. The van, our beautiful, beautiful van, has taken good care of us all. Bellingham show update here. |
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March 27, 2010
Happy Birthday Phil! And we celebrate it in beautiful Bellingham, WA. Last night in Seattle was fantastic - have we mentioned how much we like Nettle Honey? For more updates and photos, click here. |
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March 26, 2010
Sorry we missed yesterday folks. It was tough to work an update in between all the amazing, amazing, and altogether
amazing things that have been happening in Idaho. I'm having coffee with our champion-like host, Cliff, as I type.Click here
to see what we're talking about. |
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March 24, 2010
Update from Spokane (haven't played yet) ...over here.
And of course, more photos. |
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March 23, 2010
Update from Portland. ...over here.
A new photo too... from the first day of driving. |
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March 22, 2010
Still updating, and still on the road. Click here to investigate.
We're posting some photos too. |
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March 21, 2010
Updates from the road! Check out the tour page. We'll try and get some
photos up and videos one of these mornings. Things are good. |
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March 18, 2010
As promised: Behold our van! We love her so. Departing tomorrow for touring.
Thanks to the friends and family who came through and made van ownership possible. |
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March 15, 2010
Thank You!!
The CD release was beyond all of our most fevered and grandiose dreams. It was birthed to the most lovely,
raucous and goodly bunch of friends, family, fans and folks ever assembled under a San Francisco roof. Thanks.
Also - please prepare yourselves to meet our newest band member: the 1988 Chevy G 20 van. She is so
very beautiful... Pictures to follow. |
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March 7, 2010
CD Release Party this Friday! Cafe Du Nord!!!! Exclamation points designate our level of
excitement and happiness for this event!!!!! We should even have an online store up and running in coming
weeks to accommodate all you online shoppers.
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March 12, 2010
CD Release Party Tonight @ Cafe Du Nord. See you there!
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March 7, 2010
CD Release Party this Friday! Cafe Du Nord!!!! Exclamation points designate our level of
excitement and happiness for this event!!!!! We should even have an online store up and running in coming
weeks to accommodate all you online shoppers.
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Feb 22, 2010
Goooood weekend. Friday was the SF Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival - Thanks Ken! This was our one year anniversary with
the festival. We brought it chocolates to celebrate. Saturday was... a reason for living. Pete Bernhard, his band and his fans are
amazing. We broke our faces smiling too much at Moe's Alley. Music is fun. See you all at the Hootenanny this Saturday.
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Feb 18, 2010
Album promo is in full swing - tour preparations are engaged - our mission: to find a van. In the meantime,
we're looking forward to another weekend of good music making. Hope to see you at one of them shows.
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Feb 8, 2010
Tahoe was gorgeous - thanks to Missa and the dancing Tahoe crew, and to Jeannie and Bob for the
hospitality.
We're very much looking forward to tomorrow night... playing under the same roof, the same night as
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch? Yes please. Hope to see you there.
Oooh - and in news from our website, we put up
a bio page. If you've never wanted to know anything about us, don't click here.
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Feb 1, 2010
Rabbit rabbit.
Also, come to Tahoe this weekend. We'll be back at Whiskey Dick's, and happily warming ourselves by the
Apollonian fires of our own musical power. (Don't even know what that means, but surely it is enticing you
to be at the show...)
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Jan 25, 2010
CD's are on their way - we need to get the word out to all manner of man and beast. If you have a favorite blog, magazine
website, newspaper, radio station, bulletin board, graffiti wall, etc... that needs to hear about our album, please let us know by
clicking here and sending us an email to that effect! We'll make sure they know alllll about us and our goodly works.
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Jan 21, 2010
CD release date is set: March 12, at Cafe Du Nord, SF. Take a gander at the monster
show and tour schedule. We're serious folks. Tell your friends.
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Dec ? - Jan 12:
Family, holidays, traveling band members, website neglect.... our deepest apologies.
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November 30:
Nice to see y'all at Murphy's. A Great Thanksgiving was had by all - there are a great many shows upon
the horizon. Please investigate. Then come to them all.
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November 10:
We'll be on Justin TV tonight - 7:00pm! Please do tune in. We'll be playing
live for all of you hordes and masses of internet viewers.
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November 8:
Tahoe weekend enjoyed by all! Thanks to Missa for rallying the crew and the hospitality - thanks to Bob and Jeanie for
the beds and good foods - thanks to Mike and The Divided Sky for the pick-up show and the warm welcome! We hope to be back soon!
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October 21:
Mastering is done, and the album now awaits brilliant and inspired artwork. Also, thanks to those of you who rocked the floor
of Annie's on Tuesday - acoustic good times were had by all.
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October 5:
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was the greatest day of our lives. Thanks Warren, and everyone who came out and sang and danced with us.
Mastering shall commence in 10 days, and then the album can be made. Stay tuned.
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August 23:
We're in the process of mixing our first full length. Woo woo! Soon as that, the mastering, the art work and the paying of the money to get it all
done gets done, we'll have ourselves a CD release Hoot'n'anny.
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