SO much going on.

Yesterday ETB did a Samsung promotional training/contest thing for the launch of the new Sidekick 4G phone. Played a few songs for some Samsung reps, who filmed it on the new phones, the vids of which will be posted online for voting. If we win could be huge. Will post a link when I get one. Pretty cool, we got free phones as well! Awesome.

In gear news, saw another beat to shit Dietz 2x15 on Craigslist. I couldn't afford to buy it myself, so Eric bought it to harvest the EV's from it for his Vibroking. Then he sold me the enclosure $100. Which I then put some Eminence Delta 15's courtesy of Austin Vintage Guitars into it. Haven't fully tried it out yet, was going to tonight at our residency gig at Speakeasy but Rob threw his back out after our ETB business meeting this afternoon. He's improving, but I will not be trying out new gear at Antone's tomorrow...! So will just use my custom cab or the house Dietz tomorrow, we play with Damesviolet.

Our manager Stephen flew out from Chicago for the Samsung thing yesterday and had a meeting with us today. Got the India dates for next month, the first leg of summer US/Canada tour are just about solidified and the second leg dates are falling into place nicely. Sweet. Good to be busy, good to be traveling, good to be WORKING. Dates are up at my Facebook page.

Going to be a busy week.

Going to HAAM today to renew for another year. Yay medical coverage. Photo shoot for ETB at 4pm, then residency gig tonight at Friends.

Over the weekend had a 6-hour ETB band rehearsal. First actual band practice with Rob as well as being a three-piece. Felt really good tho was like a Louisiana bayou in Hyde Park Showdown's practice room, which they allowed us to commandeer for the afternoon. Tightened up some existing stuff and worked on some new.

We will be squeezing in ETB rehearsals whenever possible for the coming week. We have been chosen to be part of a Samsung promotion for the new Sidekick phones. Will relay details when I find out if I am allowed to even talk about it. Could be pretty huge. bring it on.

Yesterday spent the day with Eric and our photographer friend Cameron at his place shooting pics of our guitars for an in-the-works ETB phone app. Pics look great and app idea is sheer genius. Will also relay details when I get them. Did I mention the pics look great? Total gear erotica. Our guitars are beautiful in all their beat-to-shit glory. And with these pics (had guitars hanging from ceiling by fishing line) you can see every nick/chip/ding/gouge/scar/jager spill on them. Front, back, top, bottom views. They look like catalog photos or something in the centerfold of Guitar World Magazine. Nice!!!

Gotta run.