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Finally,
an update! Hola Amigos! I haven't updated our website in a long time but if you've been tuned into MySpace you know I've been sending out regular updates. So here we are in 2007 now and still no Strange Dick. It's hasn't been tossed just put on the backburner for a bit. We all hope that it will be done soon. I couldn't tell you when but I think even Axl Rose is saying "Damn, you guys take a long time to put out a record!". A lot of people have been reviewing tracks from Strange Dick on Garageband.com. I am really happy with the comments so far. It's great to get a completely unbiased review our stuff. In fact, today Peezlee is the Pop Punk Track Of The Day! I have been noticing more and more hits on our MySpace page as well so as long as people still give a shit and are listening I am happy. Hopefully, you will be rewarded very shortly with a brand spanking new Strange Dick upside your head! Also, our engineer and unofficial 4th member, Steve Blake and Toad Hall Studios, will be putting out a compilation soon and WKS will contribute Fuck Or Fight from Strange Dick. We look forward to seeing the finished product and there will also be a show to promote it, details which will be coming soon! One other note, You Got Owned has been dropped from the album. It's a song I still think sounds really good but just not on this record. It will pop up elsewhere though. I will make sure of it. ;) So that's all I got for now. Keep checking in on MySpace and we will have something for everyone shortly. Cheers,
We're
almost there...seriously. Hey kids! Sorry I haven't updated the site lately. We have still been very busy. Only been updating the myspace page. You should go there if you haven't already. We now have 4 songs from the new album posted: Truro, Dick LeBone, Peezlee and Hey Joe. There's a LOT more good stuff on the record. We are all tremendously pleased with how it's coming along. By the way, do you like the cover art on the splash page? We have also been trying to promote Strange Dick as much as our time and money allow. Don't be too surprised if you happen to hear some songs of ours on the local music radio shows soon. Call in and request WKS! It looks like the album will be ready sometime in November. Much later than we expected but the result is much better than we expected as well. There will be some shows too. You can count on it. We would love to hear from our peeps so stop by the myspace page and leave us some comments. Rock on, New
song now posted! Just got back from the east coast and another couple of days in the studio. We have put the basics down for 3 new songs, Fuck Or Fight, You Got Owned and Letters To Richard. We wanted to give the album a bit more substance and these 3 songs balance the record out nicely. We should be wrapping this up during the summer and then the packaging and shit will be done after that. So by Xmas I would expect everything to be finished finally. It's going to be great and you won't be disappointed! DW New
mixes and album name!!! Just received new mixes of all the latest stuff including a new avant-garde piece by Mick, Liar's Lament. There was some work done on Heavy Crow as well which had a keyboard part added and some phone messages and stuff like that. We may set the record for most phone messages on a record EVER! The way things seem to flow now is really good though. If you liked the off-the-wall mood pieces of Fat End First then expect more of the same. I am feeling like we need a couple more songs with substance in there so we are going to try and record two more songs in April when I head back east. That is going to be a busy week. We need to get the photography done for the album artwork and possibly could be playing a show as well. I know I have been trumpeting this thing for a LONG time. It seems like the never ending project much the way Fat End First was but I really think the end result will be as good or even better than FEF. Bear with us. It is also time to christen the name of the new record...we christen the.... STRANGE DICK!!!!! You were expecting something normal? So look for Strange Dick to be out this summer. I will post fully mastered previews as soon as I can. Cheers, Done
In By The Turks!!! Our message board got severely hacked over
the weekend to the point where I couldn't even fix it. So unfortunately,
everyone will need to re-apply to the board. The good news is it
is now more secure and we didn't have that many posts to lose anyways!
Let's build this thing back up! Fuck the Turks!!! Oh, and Merry fucking Xmas (I am too lazy to type out
Christ!). New
Album Previews Are Up!!!! I posted some preview samples from the upcoming album. Listen to them here. Our
Gay Space I created a page for the band on myspace.com. Yes, I was bored this weekend. Please be our "friend". We'll take all we can get. Here's the link. Finally!!!
An Update!!! Hey! We're not dead! Not only that but we have some news as well! I have just returned to the Midwest after my trip back to good ol' Massachusetts. The three of us were able to get together for a day down at Toad Hall. We spent our time cleaning up a bunch of vocals and adding some ear candy. We focused on the 5 tunes that we had on one reel, Truro, Surburban Freak, Peezlee, Dick LeBone and Hey Joe. Those tunes, aside from some last minute guitar work from Rich, are ready to mix. This record is actually a hybrid, half is being recorded to analog tape and half is being recorded to hard disk. Unfortunately, we picked a bad time to try to do an all analog recording due to the shortage of tape that was going on when we started this record. We could get another reel now and go back and re-record the stuff that's on the hard disk but I feel like most people won't know the difference. If it's done right, you won't be able to tell. So this is just a little note to let everyone know that we are still alive and getting closer to the end and we hope to have something for people to hear soon. Also, I just noticed that the first update on this new site was exactly one year ago today just before we started recording this new album. See, I told you we don't work fast!
DW
How's
Your Retirement Plan? Some sound financial advice from your pal, Rich Maliska: If you bought $1000 of Nortel stock a year ago, it
would now be worth $49. With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the
original $1,000.
Wedding/Recording
Review As I embarked on my first ever 2 week vacation, I had one goal in mind...to make sure I got my money worth. So I grabbed two 30 packs (one Old Style and one Special Export), my drums, guitar, microKORG and hit the road east to Chez Dolbear, the practice space. We were able to get a couple of practices in before the wedding, which makes me think how bad we would've been of we didn't practice. But we did OK in the face of adversity. Bad weather. Crooked dance floor. No Schaefer. Somehow, we pulled through. We really like to thank Mike and Traci for putting up with us for 3 days. We also happen to have an audio clip from the performance courtesy of My Buddy Mike (Stanley). A Special send-off for the bride and groom. I know there was a bunch of pics taken as well so anyone who has 'em can post them in the forum. A few days later we were able to pull our act together and head on down to Toad Hall to record 4 more songs for the record. The big surprise for me was a song we recorded called Parasite Pete. For a song that we pulled together at the last second it really came out amazing. After Fat End First came out I said that we would be lucky to do another record as good as that one. After these 2 weeks, I am starting to feel like that might actually be possible. We've still got a long way to go but we are starting to see the whole package of what we got now. And it's a nice package. A big, bulging package. A rock-hard, gi-normous package. But we still don't have a name for it yet.
DW Peezlee
Is At It Again WKS tried to warn you. We tried to show you the danger but unfortunately he has struck again. Super-duper Trooper Peezlee (though he spells it Peasley) was on the end of a 9-1-1 call when a bike accident was phoned into emergency. In a slightly more pleasant manner, Trooper Peezlee basically told the witness to the bike accident to get fucked. One week later, the motorcyclist died from severe head injuries. According to Connecticut State Police, response time to the accident was not delayed because you know they always make sure they are prompt when someone's life is at stake. They just want you to know that you're bothering them and leave you with the impression that perhaps you'll see an ambulance soon if you're lucky. Now fuck off and have a nice day. WKS has preached the word about Peezlee before at shows and on our soon to be released album. He has struck again and he must be stopped. Avoid this swine at all costs. DW New
album update Hey folks! A lot of time has passed since I last updated so I will try to catch everyone up with what has been happening with WKS. Over the holidays, I was back East finishing my vocals for Truro. I took a much different approach to it and I think it paid off. Richie is re-tracking ALL of the guitars to the four songs we currently have on tape. The last session was a bit rushed so he wanted a whole day to put his parts down without looking at the clock. Now I say currently on tape because there is still some talk about putting more songs down. I have a couple songs that I feel are ready and are WKS worthy and I know Mick has one or two as well. My problem is I am out here in Chicago and I don't exactly have easy access to the instruments I need to do this myself. Not to mention, I would MUCH rather do these songs with Rich and Mick. This still needs to be discussed though. I know I will be heading back to Mass. in April with kit in tow so perhaps we can do something then. Again, as soon as I have something worthy for you to sample I will post it here. And now it's time for the HAMMERHEAD OF THE MONTH AWARD!!! This month it goes to Richard Kral, a Slovakian who was trapped in his car after an avalanche buried him in his Audi with 60 half-liter beers inside. How did Richard solve his life-threatening predicament? By sucking down those 60 half-liters and pissing his way out to freedom. When they freed the car, they found Fat End First in the CD player! OK...I made that last part up. Congratulations Richard! DW
London
is a WKS kind of town Sorry it's been so long without an update. I've been pretty occupied since I last posted. Last week was an action-packed week for myself. I had a business trip to London for the week, which also coincided with the Sox being in the World Series. I didn't get much sleep to say the least. My London workmates took me out a few nights on the town and there was a lot to take in. It's like Chicago with nicer architecture. I scoped out a few of the local clubs I thought WKS could play. One that was by my hotel was the Astoria. On the schedule, I saw that New Model Army was playing there in December. Any place NMA plays at is cool with me. I think I liked that town a little too much. Beers of choice out there were Stella Artois and Kronenberg. No Schaefer to be found but I made do somehow. On the WKS front, everything is recorded for the 4-song disc except for some of my vocals which have to be polished up and possibly a few extras (horns, various noises, etc..). Those will be done over my Xmas break. I'm excited to hear the finished product. As soon as we have something available, I'll post a sample for everyone here to listen to. Finally, I just want to say that the independent music world lost a great man while I was out in London, John Peel. I saw a lot of documentaries on John while I was having my battles with insomnia out there and I have a tremendous amount of respect for what he accomplished in the music world. He would listen to every demo tape and CD that bands would send in to the station for him to hear. Why would he torture himself like that? Because he was deathly afraid that he would miss the next great thing. That's awesome. All the while, he had a strong distaste for music commercialism in any form. Always knowing that you have to dig below the corporate crust to unearth the jewels below. RIP John. DW A
forum of pure action! Lately, I've been spending some of my free time on forums. Mostly, Sons Of Sam Horn because I can't stop talking about the goddamn Red Sox. But now there's a whole new place for all of us to bitch and moan, Dick LeBone's Place! We now have our own forum to talk anything WKS or anything else that's on your mind. Basically, we would like all of our WKS friends to come and post, talk music, politics or whatever else. Just click on the link to the left. DW
Do you guys do
Love Shack? To prove that we truly have insane friends, WKS has been asked to play a wedding. Yes, a wedding. It's for a former bandmate of ours, Traci O'Toole and it will actually be the third one we've done as a group (not for Traci, I mean!). It's rather appropriate because WKS formed out of a band that we were in with Traci and her sister Terri, Tripstick. Hmmm, I really wish I had some of that stuff properly documented. Anyways, the wedding will be in April of 2005. If you're lucky your invite will be in the mail soon. That gets me thinking of actual "wedding" bands. Where is the line between business and pleasure when you play in those bands? Is there a line at all? Would I even be able to pick up my drumsticks if I new I had to bust into a rippin' 10 minute version of "Celebration"? Many questions that need to be answered here. I suppose if you are able to make a living of it and you have made the appropriate arrangments with Beelzebub then you're in good shape. Now WKS will not be doing "Open Arms" by Journey or "Dancing In The Dark" by the so-called Boss. Hopefully, Traci's guests know this and are OK with it. We also tend to drop the following words when we play as well: fuck, shit, tits, ass, dick (as in LeBone), nuts, bitch and fuck (wait, I said that already). You've been warned. Now bachelor parties...those we have done. We are always available for bachelor parties. Tell the strippers they don't need the boombox. DW
We've got the ca-ca!
Pick it up!
DW
Recording begins I still am not sure whether
or not there will be more songs on this album or not. That's it for now. More later.
Back for more!
So I've started packing the gear up and on Tuesday I leave for the east coast. I'll try and update this site as the recording goes on. Even if no one looks at the site, I'll have my own diary of it. So there. If anyone would like to pick up a copy of Fat End First you can either email me, or if you like getting shit in the mail you can buy it from amazon.com, or if you like downloading shit you can get it from iTunes, MusicMatch, eMusic, or most other music download sites. Support our drinking problems dammit!!!!! Later,
Download Fat
End First from iTunes or MusicMatch now!
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