Thoughts Of The Townedger-July

It's been a shitty year right from January 1.  I try not to be superstitious about anything but I do think that 2013 has been a year to forget and we are only half way through this year.  Five years ago, we did our last album and kinda went through life situations.  Met a super sweet girl and she moved down here and we attempted to make something of it for a year before moving her back home.  And then having Geoff Redding come back into the fold to make a return to the music scene.

For being over 50, No Exit proved to be one of the most hard rocking albums I've ever did and for the first three months in a shitty winter where it snowed every other day we stuck with it and came up with a album I thought would be for the ages.  And I thought up a program that designated 2013 to be the year of The Townedgers and we were going to work the album through a networks of social sharing and getting the word out.  The fine folks at Radio Buzzd headed up by our biggest fans Diggy Kat and Brittney promoted the album by playing it whole one memorable day in April.  And I was gearing up a summer tour of certain places to play as well.

Sad to say that didn't happen.  Ken Miller opted out into retirement after going through life saving surgery and the other Robbie Knowles had knee surgery but that the real reason why The Townedgers got put on hold.  The major reason, the weather.  Spending four straight months trying to move shit down the stairs after more water in the basement took the living spirit out of me and basically with a major cleaning campaign on the way here, I couldn't find the time to promote The Townedgers the best way I can, hell I couldn't even do anything on this blog in lyrics and comments and other assorted reasons.  Another reason, No Exit, nobody wanted.  After printing up about 50 copies, we waited and waited for anybody or anything who wanted a copy of their very own.  This has never happen in our long career, nobody cared.  It's rough out there to get music played with so many outlets on the internet and so few on regular radio.  So after sopping up the basement for the 30th time this month while stomping on those GDed earwigs (a summertime annoyance) I told Geoff to go on his own and his band.  Yep I gave up but life happens and sometimes you have to pay the bills the old fashioned way rather than trying to convince somebody to pony up 5 dollars for a CD that they would probably play once and then pawn off to somebody at a unknown party.

This wasn't the way to celebrate 3 decades of Town's Edge Rock and Roll.  As for Soul Biscuits, if you want a copy of it, write me and we'll see what happens.  Maybe when the fucking rainy season ends in November maybe we'll salvage something out of year that was supposed to be promising but ended up being the biggest disappointments I've ever known.

I'd advice you to check back for updates but then again nobody reads this anyway.

Townedger's Not Touring This Summer

Once again due to Mother nature's wrath and another month of flooding in the basement and other issues  The Townedgers will not be performing this summer.

So much for the year of The Townedgers, we're sorry this had to happen but this weather has been a bitch.  And I haven't been a right frame of mind to focus on the music whereas other shit continues to happen, which is monsoons, floods and now a onslaught of earwigs and other creepy crawlers in the house.

So for the rest of summer, I am committed to make some wholesale changes at my place of residence and try to find some way to keep the fucking water out of the basement one month straight this year.  What I wanted to do I can't do so there we go.  Geoff Redding will continue to play in his other band.  Besides No Exit turned out to be a bomb of an album.  First record I can think of that nobody bothered to ordered up a copy, even though we got some promotion and airplay on Mouse Tracks on Radio Buzz'd.

In September we'll take a final assessment and then go from there.  Till then, thanks for your support.