Patrick Dangermond and Nicole Nelson (9-25-09) – Patrick and Nicole are big Suburban Home/VC supporters and when I went to San Diego for this year’s Narm convention, Patrick was kind enough to take me to a few record stores and to Pizza Port which has killer beer. We boozed it up together one night and at the end of the night they took me to Del Taco which ruled. They are in Denver for this year’s Great American Beer Fest and stopped by the office. I told them about how much fun I had last night and told them a few stops they had to make. Oh man, they are gonna have a blast tonight. Thanks for stopping by guys.

Other Visitors to VC can be seen here. And if you are coming to Denver, make sure you drop us a line and come by.

Have you ever been up front for a show so excited to see someone playing and at some point during the set, a loud group of people start yapping away oblivious that a show is even going on? This happened to us on Friday night during Chuck Ragan’s set and the good folks around us were great about telling the group of loud, drunk ladies to Shut the Fuck Up. But this disruption was a bummer as we had all been looking forward to seeing every moment of Chuck’s set especially the new songs he played. Luckily, the ladies did not return for Lucero’s set. My buddy Zach and I were talking about it over the weekend and we decided that when this happens in the future, we need a little card that pretty much says, “Could you please be quiet, We are Trying to Enjoy the Show” or “Can you Please Shut the Fuck Up, We are Trying to Enjoy the Show. (note that we said Please)”. Brandon is going to design the cards that will be downloadable from our website. We plan to offer a number of cards with varying levels of rudeness.

Can you help us with the copy for these cards? Think of a nice way and a mean way to say “Please be Quiet, We are Trying to Enjoy the Show” and we will select our favorites to be posted on our site. Post your suggestions in the comments of this post or on our message board.

Feel free to share any stories of this type of occurrence happening to you.

Thursday, April 2nd, Frank Turner, Look Mexico, Chad Price, and the Rooster Brothers will be performing at the Marquis Theater. Words cannot begin to describe how excited I am for the show as I love Frank Turner, Look Mexico, and of course Chad Price.

Our friends at Soda Jerk Presents and the Marquis Theater have been so kind as to allow us to give away 5 pairs of tickets to 5 lucky individuals. I have been trying to think of the best way to give away these tickets and have decided to award them to the folks who pick one of my five favorite Chad Price sung Drag the River songs. Only one guess per person, must be guessed by someone who lives in Denver and plans to attend the show, and when you make your guess, I need you to include your full name (and email if you comment on our blog). You can submit your guess either in the comments section of this blog post or on the Vinyl Collective Message Board.

Winners will be contacted via email and their names will be put on the guest list plus 1. Good luck.

You can purchase tickets at this link. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW. People will be talking about this show for sometime to come. I dno’t even know how to express how lucky Denver is to have this show. Frank Turner flies back to London after this show.

The other night, Chad Price opened for Tim, Austin, and Josh, and he was amazing. Chad played a bunch of new songs and everyone was absolutely amazing. I am so excited for the day he goes to record his first solo album. I didn’t capture any of the new songs, but I did get “Tobacco Fields” going into “Cathy’s Clown” (an Everly Brothers’ cover). Check out the video. It is agreat. And next week when Chad plays with Frank Turner, I promise to get a new song or two.

Chad has the following upcoming shows:

Thursday, April 2nd at the Marquis Theater w/ Frank Turner and Look Mexico
Friday, April 3rd at the Suburban Home “We Put the F Back Into Art Party”

So I am kind of feeling sorry for myself because I am hungover after seeing 2 great shows over the past 2 nights (Teenage Bottlerocket/Nobodys on Monday, Tim Barry/Austin Lucas/Josh Small/Chad Price). I think that I am getting too old to stay out til 3 am on a school night.

Ralph just shared this video with me and I wanted to share it with any of you having a rough day. It is an uplifting video that I hope puts a smile to your face.

Friends, my rep at ADA offered me the following deluxe set for Silversun Pickup’s upcoming album, “Swoon”. I don’t plan to bring any in unless someone actually wants one. The price is just a little too rich for my blood, but if any of you are bigtime Silversun Pickup fans have extra money (Tax Refund maybe???), just comment on here, on our message board, or drop me an email. The cost will be $99.98.

Silversun Pickups “Swoon Deluxe Fan Pack” limited edition LP Box $99.98
4/16/08 street date (expected to ship upon arrival)

12×12 canvas/cardboard box set features:
-Swoon vinyl (180 gram/gatefold)
-12 page book with handrwritten lyrics, photos, etc
-12×12 lithograph
-Swoon T-shirt (men’s medium & men’s large)
-download card for digital version of album
-stickers
-buttons

Normally, I only post Drunk Dials on the Suburban Home site, but 2 of the 3 calls are from Vinyl Collective supporters (Matt Ramone from our message board is one of our callers). If you get a second, check it out.

Drunk Dials – Matt Ramone / Breast Augmentation

Mike Hale’s weekly column, For Those Still Standing, has just been posted. This week’s column finds Mike’s good friend, Chris Wollard, experiencing a really tough situation. Chris’ ex-fiance was recently murdered and both Chris and Mike are having a hard time with this news. We all have different ways of coping and Chris decided to write and perform a song about his feelings. I highly recommend you check out the column and watch the video.

For Those Still Standing [Punknews.org]

Our heart goes out to Chris, Mike, and Chris’ ex-fiance’s family.

The lyrics are hard to understand as Chris was choking back the tears while performing so Mike sent us the lyrics:

“Over Mine” by Chris Wollard 3/17/09

The shaking deep inside
my heart builds up at night
in waves that slowly rise
and crash out of me.

and flames of rage find life
and tears of pain they fly
from streams that never dry.

So, i remember,
your hand over mine,
your body over mine,
taking our sweet time.

I lay awake with my,
Big windows open wide,
and wait there for a sign
so i can slip away.

but questions seem to fly
on wings that never tire

of love after we die

So, i remember,
your hands over mine,
and your body over mine
taking our sweet time.

As you should all know, I greatly value your thoughts and opinions when it comes to the things we do at Vinyl Collective and Suburban Home. I have been presented with a few really great opportunities and I need your feedback. My good friend and rep for Victory, Rick, has offered us an exclusive color of vinyl for each of the following albums:

Streetlight Manifesto “Everything Goes Numb” LP
Silverstein “A Shipwreck in the Sand” LP
Darkest Hour “Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation” double LP

We will have to place an order for 400 copies of each title in order to get an exclusive color and I just want to make sure these are records you would have an interest in purchasing. To explain the situation more clearly, there will more than likely be 3 colors of each release (a Victory exclusive, a Vinyl Collective exclusive, and a color that will be available to all other retailers).

Let me know if you would purchase the VC exclusive color if we made one available for each of these releases. Thanks.

We just posted the Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, In the Red, and Drag the River bad at breaking up pint glasses up for sale individually. The pint glasses, along with pretty much all Suburban Home CD releases, and a handful of vinyl releases, are available as part of our Pick 5 for $25 or Pick 10 for $50 sales. I highly recommend picking up these pint glasses and replacing those old ass Chipmunks and Fraggle Rock glasses you got at McDonalds 20 years ago. Beer tastes better out of these pint glasses (even Root Beer).

AUSTIN LUCAS “Somebody Loves You” Pint Glass
IN THE RED “Volume 2″ PINT GLASS
JON SNODGRASS “Visitor’s Band” PINT GLASS
DRAG THE RIVER “Bad At Breaking Up” Pint Glass
Suburban Home Pick 5 for $25 Sale (CDs, Vinyl, Pint Glasses)
Suburban Home Pick 10 for $50 Sale (CDs, Pint Glasses)