Wednesday, January 11, 2006
i am in mourning . . .
my favorite band pedro the lion is no more.tw and david went separate ways and david doesn't want to continue doing pedro stuff without tw. who knew that my last pedro show happened this summer? if i would have known it was going to the be last, i would have savored it more . . .
here's what the site administrator for the pedro message board has to say:
"here's the deal...
Dave will be making music, touring, and releasing records under his own name. He'll still be writing and singing the songs. Just not under the name Pedro The Lion. The short term plan is for Dave to do the Undertow Orchestra tour in February (see that other post) and then do some solo touring and maybe some Headphones touring in the spring and summer.
We'll probably have some sort of web and show only CD ready by Feb or March. It'll be Dave doing stripped down versions of Pedro songs and maybe a new song or two. We don't know exactly what songs yet.
Then Dave will work on a proper studio album in the spring and summer that will be released by Jade Tree in early 2007.
There will most likely be a new Headphones recorded by the end of 2006 for release by Suicide Squeeze sometime after the solo album.
TW decided that being a full-time musician and being away from his family 100+ days a year was not the best thing for him now. Dave does not want to call what he does Pedro The Lion without TW's involvement. There are no hard feelings, no weirdness, or anything dramatic to worry about. TW did not break up Pedro The Lion. Dave has been thinking about dropping the band name for a long time. They are still good friends. TW will continue to work on The Soft Drugs recordings and i'm sure will be playing shows in and around Seattle whenever he can.
This is not to say that the Pedro The Lion name will never be used again. But for as far as we are planning ahead, there will be no new releases or touring using the band name Pedro The Lion.
I hope everyone is not too bummed out. I know it seems like Pedro The Lion is breaking up. Remember, Pedro The Lion is one of my favorite bands too. So I can’t help being a little sad.
But it’s more like a shift in energy and not a really a break-up at all.
Dave and I are really excited about what's coming up. The Undertow Orchestra tour is going to be amazing. To have these four guys touring together is a dream come true for me. It's an amazing chance for Dave to collaborate with these other artists that he has great respect for and do something new with his music.
I hope you all stick around."
Bob
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it's just not going to be the same . . .
here's a picture from the last time i saw them in concert:
see that guy and girl in the bottom right hand corner of the picture? yeah, the guy with the big hair and the girl in the blue tank top? those are our friends josh and holly and they just recently got engaged . . . i just noticed that they were in the picture and thought i'd share . . .
say it don't spray it 10:03 AM
11 i heard that
