The JayDoc free health clinic in Kansas City rules. It’s as simple as that.
Last year, Ultimate Fakebook rocked the Uptown Theater for the JayRock benefit with The Republic Tigers, and this year its The Dead Girls.
On February 12 at the Uptown Theater, we’ll be playing with two awesome bands, New Orleans’ Generationals and KC rockers Thieves.
We’ll be playing lots of new songs from our upcoming 2010 LP “Out of Earshot” (we swear it’s coming out in two months!) and we’ll be raising money for a great cause.
Together, rock will do what the politicians cannot seem to do and help provide free healthcare for people in KC who really need it. The show starts at 7pm and it will be the coolest thing you’ll do all month. Come out and say “hi”!
Here’s the link to buy tickets and to the Facebook event page. The JayRock Twitter account is here. Spread the word. Invite everyone you know and we’ll see you there!
I just wanted to say a quick than you to everyone out there who voted for The Dead Girls to open up for KISS last Thursday at the Sprint Center. The show was absolutely amazing and KISS and their crew were very cool and helpful all day. (I’m working on a blog about it right now, but am worried it may be overkill right now…)
Since I’ve been obsessed with the band ever since I was six years old (They are pretty much the reason I started playing drums in the first place), it was a pretty big deal to me. So again, thank you to all our friends and fans, 101 the Fox for selecting us as a finalist, and KISS themselves for being so hospitable.
The Dead Girls love KISS (this isn't really them, though)
I have been playing music in some capacity for about fifteen years now, and especially in these times of economic hardship, I have found myself wondering why more than once. A lot of the time, it’s a ton of hard work for very little payoff. But, I knew that going into it, and whenever I find I am beating myself up about the choices I’ve made, I ask myself, “What did you expect? That you would open for KISS someday or something?”
Never in my wildest dreams did I actually think this would be a possibility. But, as of last night, that possibility has materialized.
When 101 The Fox, a classic rock station (sorry…THE classic rock station) in Kansas City, announced their “Open For Kiss” contest, I had no idea it was even a thing. I was still trying to figure out how to win some free tix to the show, because my friend Eric (notorious KISS superfan and Dead Girls drummer) had done this through another radio contest that involved writing an essay about why you love KISS and sending in a photo that was KISS related. Thankfully, Eric had some fake blood on hand (fresh from his appearance at the Air Guitar National Championships in DC), doused his tongue in it, and took a picture of himself in front of his velvet KISS…now how would he NOT win that competiton?
Gene is Eric's favorite
So imagine the possibilities when this same guy hears about this OTHER radio contest, except this one involves having your BAND OPEN FOR KISS. Eric’s tenacity (which is fueled by KISS like a junkie’s joneses are fueld by smack) is one that is hard to match, and usually impossible not to notice. He sent a demo of our song “Last Words”, and the contest folks loved it. All of a sudden, holy SHIT dude, we could open for KISS?!?!?
Like a lot of the contests and shindigs we get involved in, our winning–our ability to share the stage with these rock gods–depends solely on the amount of votes we can gather up on the 101 The Fox website. You all have been amazing about voting for us in these contests, as we have won many of them, and it is continually appreciated by all of us. But, if you have helped us at all in the past, PLEASE don’t hesitate to help us this time. Using words I’m sure Gene Simmons has used at some point in his life, “This is the BIG ONE.”
Visit the 101 The Fox Website to VOTE for THE DEAD GIRLS today, and thank you all!
Justin Pierre, the singer for our pals Motion City Soundtrack, was in town on Sunday promoting the band’s forthcoming album on Columbia Records. He taped an on-camera movie review with Eric for Scene-Stealers.com and spent the middle part of the day in The Dead Girls’ exclusive basement studio.
Why, you may ask?
Why not? We decided to try and write and record a song from the ground up in five hours and that’s exactly what we did.
J.D. Warnock in The Dead Girls' basement studio
Our good friend J.D. Warnock (The Blackpool Lights, Ultimate Fakebook, The Creature Comforts) also joined us and Lawrence studio whiz Steve Squire engineered this whirlwind recording session.
After arranging a couple of riffs, everybody instinctively worked together assemble the pieces into a song. After one live take, Justin and Cameron wrote some quickie lyrics and recorded vocal parts. Add a little Warnock backup sauce, and we’re good to go. Squire did an amazing job making it NOT sound like it was recorded in a basement, and we were good to go. Since we don’t really know what to do with it, we’ll just out it here for you to listen to for now. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!
Here is a video shot by Pitch.com’s Nick Spacek of The Dead Girls covering “Don’t Change” by INXS. We opened for Brendan Benson at The Bottleneck last Saturday, and Mr. Spacek was there to review the show. Read his review HERE. Thanks to all who came out and rocked that night!
The first track on Out Of Earshot is the first track for a reason—that is, it represents our initial undertaking of the album’s recording, which began waaaaaaaay back in 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
The Dead Girls have spent about a sixth of our lives recording and preparing “Out of Earshot” for release. So, there’s gotta be some stuff to blog about, right? You bet your ass–we should have been doing it gradually this whole time, actually. But, hindsight works wonders, as we usually learn.
JoJo decided he needed to flee to Spain to visit his beloved (see the track “Te Quiero”), but having one (or even two members) missing has never stopped The Dead Girls before. On this night of the second of October, on the occasion of the Present Magazine Anniversary Bash at RecordBar, no exceptions were made. This is us rocking “Hair Trigger” in true stripped-down fashion. Fun stuff!
This is a newly-discovered clip of The Dead Girls performing the title track of our upcoming sophomore full-length, live at Riot Room in Kansas City, 5/29/09. Enjoy!
The JayDoc free health clinic in Kansas City rules. It’s as simple as that.
