Resolutions

My 2009 resolutions for BBH are to release 5 Weezy Pieces and Mood Stabilizer Vol. 2 no later than March as download only. Physical releases of these might follow at any time, but it is more likely that a Best of however many Mood StaBILIZER VOLUMES THERE WILL BE, WILL BE THE ONLY PHYSICAL RELEASE TO RESULT FROM THAT SERIeS. aT SOME POINT IN 2009, FIRST FIFTEEN (15 SONGS FROM THE FIRST 15 YEARS OF bbh) WILL BE RELEASED, NOT SURE HOW THE DOWNLOAD ONLY/PHYSICAL RELEASE situation will pan out. In a year and a half or more, a FIRST FIFTEEN VOLUME TWO (15 more songs from the first 15 years of BBH) will probably be released. More volumes in the Mood Stabilizer series and the all new GNOME SANE? album will probably not see the light of day in 2009 because

My 2009 resolutions for Headflap, the live arm of BBH, have me prioritizing the quartet over my onemanband BBH activities. Headflap is trying to draw attention to my backlog of material, so it is not like I need to add TONS of material to an already cloged pipeline. So I have a three year plan in mind. It starts with us releasting -- preferably download and physical simultaneously -- the mostly recorded Headflap's version of FIRST 15 (15 songs from the first 15 years of BBH as performed by Headflap) also no later than March... maybe April? and just gigging as much as possible and networking and all the rest. As BBh's 2nd volume of FIRST FIFTEEN gets released, I hope to release twoHeadflap albums COLD SPONGE and WARM DOVER in fairly quick succession (6 to 12 months apart?) throughout 2010 and 2011. The two albums are a 50/50 split of the old BBH stuff and brand new material, only a small fraction of which might appear on GNOME SANE or even maybe a MOOD STABILIZER album. Finally, I hope to try and have Headflap play the 2010 and 2011 CMJ festivals so submitting stuff to their stations in 2009 seems wise.

So there it is. My 2009 resolutions list. Hope you liked 'em. Me, I plan to live them, best I can. In 2009 I'll do what I can to set this 3 year plan in motion. I have ideas what Headflap could do beyond that but a 4 or 5 year plan seems too ambitious. Okay then. Good morning. Have a great day.

Phasing out Headflap.com

For budget reasons, I am phasing out headflap.com as it exists at this time. Pretty much all the info on that site is already being moved to my label site, HumanInhumanRecords.com. This new way of doing things will more clearly show that BBH and Headflap are inter-related projects, but are in fact 2 different bands with separate but similar personalities. I think this one blog will continue to cover both projects. But keep your eyes out for all those other sites like Myspace, ILike, etc where specialized blogs n bulletins will keep cropping up. Deep sigh. This is exactly how I never envisioned it.

So Much Music, So Few Blog Posts

Here we are in mid October and the number of posts for 2008 is still in single digits??? Outrageous I tell you. But I swear the level of commitment to musicmaking has not decreased one iota on the parts of myself and my bandmates.

I've been mainly blogging the lyrics on the Fear of Music myspace page. The live arm and I now share a renewed commitment to feature the songs from that album when we play out. We are taking time this month and next to add a couple more tunes to the repertoire. Meanwhile we will polish current material and new material to record at Second Story Sound on Nov 15. Meanmean while I have recently recorded four songs for Mood Stabilizer vol 2 and 2 new songs for Gnome Sane? -- which will be my next ummmm... "usual" sort of BBH one man band album, completed by maybe late 2009? we shall see...

We really wanna wrap up 2008 with a show either in Philly or Brooklyn and we would love to find longterm booking assistant / agent asap.

Warm Weather, Warm Response

On Saturday, September 20, we played Clark Park's Fall Fest in West Philly. It was a warm, perfect autumn afternoon. I am bad at estimating the size of crowds, but more than one friend estimated this one to be about 1000 people. And I think I felt a little bit of love from every single one of them. If not love, then at least respectful co-existence or a lack of indifference upon hearing our material. Oh, and a peculiar man named Omar danced in the dirt directly in front of the stage and tried to swipe my USA hat right off my head. He totally broke my concentration as I tried to introduce the band. But I did finish doing so, and then I wanted to tell him he was demonstrating way too much disregard for his own clothing to deserve my hat. But by that time, guitarist Kermit had spit a full mouth of beer at Omar and told him he was lookin for a world of pain. Words to that effect anyway.

But Omar danced on, in his way, and I could not help but feel he too was sending out his odd brand of love and appreciation to Headflap.
And I now send out bundles of love and gratitude to Kermit and all the other organizers of the Fest for showing West Philly a great time and letting Headflap be a part of it.

again with the boffo gig

wow, another enjoyable "blitzkrieg" set as kit called it, was perpetrated by the flap yesterday afternoon. this time we performed at the fire, opening for the orphans at their reunion gig. the place was packed, the crowd seemed completely content to bounce and bop along to the tunes. i woulda gladly played for a second 20 minutes and i don't think they woulda minded. i really wish i had remembered to announce that we had cds for sale cause i'm sure we woulda sold a bunch. THANK YOU ERIK AND DENISE for inviting us to play on your turf. We had a blast and I think we accomplished the mission of giving the people a rockin slice of west chester's yesteryear.

My friend Heather took a bunch of pix which I'll post here and on our myspace,etc. and I also noticed a second steady flash so if you're reading this, o mystery photographer, please send em as a comment on our myspace or whatever method you choose -- thanks for being there, first o all, and thanks for considering it an event worth remembering. You rock!!

Oh and co-founder Hicks showed up. That was a genuinely pleasant surprise.

What a show

Man alive I am thrilled with how our show at Millcreek Tavern went on Fri. night. Our set was brief but effective, to say the least. Our latest line-up totally had our game on and shined. Shone?


millcreek is a great place to play and hang out. Friendly staff, steady stream of patrons. Expert sound, of course. I hope we get to play there again.

i'm looking forward to being a part of the Orphans reunion show/ return of prodigal son Brian McGee at the Fire at the Philadelphia Bar and Grill on the 26th. I'm sorry we cannot lengthen our setlist for that show but believe me -- that is a top priority for us as we roll into early spring.