I know, I know, we need to update more. AND WE WILL. Know why? TST is fixin' to play more shows. By that I mean Jon, David, and Eric are officially back together and seeking a drummer. This week we are working out the details of a new rehearsal space and getting all our gear back in order (like buying replacements for stuff we sold).
ARE YOU A DRUMMER? Are you fast and loud and articulate and really cool? Drop us a line, let's play!
So we're still alive. Most people already know, but for those who don't, The Speeding Trees is back down to the original duo (David and Jon). Shaan left to join some funk band. Yay funk. What? No, of course we're not bitter about it!
Anyway, what we're doing now is completing the album we started before Eric showed up and distracted us from getting things done by asking us to "start a band" with him... and "play shows" ... what do you take us for, musicians?? Well we hope to have this thing done in the next few months so that you can get your face-rocking fix when there aren't enough Trees to put up a show for you!
Yesterday we recorded a song that hasn't been recorded (studio style) yet. Many of you have heard it at our shows, and enjoy it almost as much as we find it hilarious. It's called Big Loud Gun, and it rocks. Special thanks go out to Shaan Oberdieck for writing the drums, and to Jonnie Cohen for writing most of the guitar part, back when this was a Doctor Hypnocracy song.
This recording is special, because it sounds goddamn fantastic compared to anything we've recorded so far. Helping this recording is David's new Gretsch drum kit (his old one was used on Three Cheers... true story), a much better room/mic setup, and increased knowledge of engineering/mixing. Find it in the Media section!
It is with heavy sorrow and partial erections that we must announce Shaan's departure from The Speeding Trees. This was his decision, we're all still friends, and there are no hard feelings. We still love him, and we'd like to sincerely thank him for all his time, effort, and van. He truly contributed some serious Rock to The Speeding Trees and will be missed. Let's all wish him the best with his future projects.
However, in light of this fact, we are short a drummer (and little pieces of our souls).
For any drummers who are up for the mission, and feel their style could mesh with ours, we'd love to set up tryout jams. Please contact us if you're interested.
In the meantime, TST sans Shaan will be focusing on new material.
Peace, love, and jerky to all!
-The Speeding Trees
Happy New Year peoples!! We're kicking off 2008 by kicking it in the rock-n-roll parts! Come out to Morning Star tonight in Fairfield to see what the fuss is about. More info.
Tonight's show was postponed due to bad weather. Come out next weekend for the rescheduled show!
After taking the past few months to regroup & reorganize (both personally, and as a band), we're excited to announce our final show for 2007! We'll be playing Fairfield on Friday, December 28 with the badass, 2-man rock band, The Post Mortems (coming down from Iowa City to rock your face!). Come help us bid adieu to this fine year that saw the birth of The Speeding Trees! The show is at Morning Star Studio - 8:00pm - $5 at the door. See Shows for more details.
P.S. Don't be surprised if you hear some new material from us at the gig... :D
We're currently working on some new material, which we hope to debut at some of our upcoming shows, which we're also working on setting up. Check back soon for more info.
Just wanted to let everyone know we're still alive. We'll be posting pics and videos from the Battle of the Bands show soon. We've also just confirmed a show at The Casbah on Sat, September 15th. Go to the shows page for details.
We're super stoked to announce the release of our first studio demo CD! It's called 'music to stuff your bra to' and has 6 songs:
1. Fee Fie Foe Fum
2. Carpe Freakin Diem
3. Under Control
4. Three Cheers
5. Save The World
6. The STD Song
All songs have been completely redone & re-mastered. You can get your hands on one of these babies for only $5 at any of our shows. We're working on a way to have them available for purchase online.
Meantime, send us an email if you want a copy and can't make it to a show and we'll get one to you. All 6 songs are also available now on the media player page as well as the lyrics.
We're excited to announce that our concert will be broadcast LIVE on KRUU FM tonight! The radio show is hosted by Jonnie Cohen & Quinn Shanahan and goes on the air at 10:00PM tonight. You can tune in to 100.1 if you're in the Fairfield area OR you can listen to it via LIVE internet stream! Go to www.kruufm.com and click on "Listen to our live stream" at the upper left of the home page. Streams should open and play in iTunes.
We can't wait to rock you in person, on the air, and over the intertubes tonight!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: THE SPEEDING TREES & NORTH TO THE FUTURE IN FAIRFIELD!! That's right, kiddies, we've confirmed another show at the Dharma House with North To The Future on Friday, August 17th! The last show was just too much fun to not do it again! Doors open at 8:00 with the show kicking off at 9:00. Ages 14 & up are welcome and it's only $3!
Full details on the shows page. You do not want to miss this event! We may just have a surprise or two in store for you... :)
We're also excited to announce our Iowa City debut! We'll be playing at The Picador (formerly Gabe's) on Tuesday, August 21 at 9pm. Other bands include The Daisy Chains & The Wild Animals. More on the Shows page.
First off, we'd like to thank everyone who came out to the show on the 21st in Fairfield and helped make the night a total success! It was so great to see all your sexy faces dancing, moshing, head-banging, and generally having a great time! You guys rock! We had an absolute blast and can't wait to do it again soon!
•Thanks to The Dharma House for hosting the event and keeping everything running smoothly.
•Thanks to North To The Future for kicking the night off and giving a great performance!
•Thanks to Anternicy for lending us their monster PA so we could rock you out loud.
•Thanks to the neighbors for not calling the cops :)
•And thanks to the engineer of that serendipitously timed train that came through right as we were introducing our song "Locomotive Hell". That couldn't have been better if we planned it!
Secondly, thanks to everyone who came to the show last night in Burlington, and especially those who stuck around til the end!!
•Kisses to all our Fairfield friends who came out!
•Thanks to the bands, venue, sound guys and COFEN for making it all happen.
•Thanks to Julia for taking some great photos (which will be on our site later today).
In the next few days we'll be announcing more shows. In the next few weeks we'll be releasing our first demo CD! In the meantime, we have some new shirts in our store for your wearing pleasure.
Hugs & Sprinkles!
-TST
We've just confirmed a show for July 21st in Fairfield at the Dharma House! We'll be performing along with North To The Future (killer band from Ottumwa you need to check out!). The show starts at 9:00pm and is open to ages 14 & up. Full details on the Shows Page.
In other news: We're hard at work preparing our demo CD! We're shooting to have all the recordings done in time for the show on the 21st where we'll be selling "pre-official release" copies for a very nominal fee. Check back this week for more updates.
The Casbah is moving to a new, bigger location. Our show will be the first one at the new place. We'll be performing with Tattooed Millionaires (a kickass band from Hollywood. Check 'em out!). Visit the shows page for updated address and map. See you there!
We've confirmed our show for July 3 at The Casbah in Ottumwa, IA. Read all about it on the shows page.
We've just added a new song to the media page. It's called Jump Start and we like it. We hope you will too. It's the first recording with all 4 band members playing their parts (most of the other demos were recorded before Eric and Shaan joined the band), so we're even more excited than usual to release this new song! We're hot and heavy into recording new songs so check back soon (and often) for more gems. We'll also be announcing more shows in the next few days... so yeah, keep it locked here, baby!
Last night we started recording Shaan on drums for some of the new songs we haven't demo'd yet! Some will be redone again before we post them, since recording allows us to refine our stance on the song and change certain things we didn't hear as strongly before. However, I know that at least one of them will get to the media player very soon! Keep your ears peeled!
So
we've got a video up in the media player.
It's rather short due to high amounts of skipping problems with both the original
video footage and our means of getting it from camera to computer. It's a clip
from our performance of Three Cheers last Friday in Mt Pleasant. Thanks to
Stephanie and Meara for shooting. No thanks to WalMart/JVC for selling me a
bogus camera. Anyway, new photos, and another video clip or two, coming soon!
Thanks to
all the great fans at the Iris show! Muy especial thanks to The
Treats for opening, and to Anternicy for
headlining (and completing the bone-crushing metal fix that people were looking
for). Photos, and possibly videos (the camera's microphone was acting up,
so we'll see what we got), coming tomorrow!
The point of this event was to raise money for Relay For Life, a cancer-fighting organization. By playing this show we raised over $600 for them!! Again, thank you to everyone involved for making this fundraising possible, and for making the show insanely fun!
For those of you who were unable to attend, we still have 2 shows lined up! There's the show on June 30th, at the grand reopening of Pure Imagination Tattoo in Mt Pleasant (all ages). Also is the show on July 28th at Burlington Convention Hall (21 and up). Visit the Shows page for full details!
So in a few hours here we'll be on our way to our show in Mt Pleasant with the Treats and Anternicy. This weekend we'll get the photos from last weekend's gig, and any we get from this one, up on the media player for your viewing pleasure. Cheers!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped, donated and participated with their
time and money, and to all the great people who showed up to enjoy the show
(that's you)! Thanks for getting our first show off the ground! Thanks to you
we are now a gigging band!
For those of you who missed the show, here's a chance to redeem yourselves: our June 1st show!
We have lots of great photos to post (thanks to Tommy Miller), of the band AND the crowd, as well as some fun video snippets that will be arriving soon. Come back often and check the media player for these updates! (Ron, what did you do with that tape?)
Personally I'd like to apologize for the strange vibe that emerged during the show. My feeling is that it was due to certain dodgy PA equipment SNAFUs causing the vocals to drop out occasionally, as well as miscommunication, on our part, on instructing the security personnel. I'm afraid people may have felt a bit too 'regulated'. We noticed that once moshing started it was immediately stopped by security and that was probably a estranging factor. This was not our intention---we simply wanted to keep things on the safe side due to kids going a bit nuts and breaking bones and getting hurt at previous rock shows in Morning Star. Nobody wants to get sued!
In any case, we were definitely glad to see so many faces, some new, some
familiar, all sexy. Thanks again to Anternicy for
lending us their PA woofers to enhance the bass! We look forward to performing
loud and hard with you guys Friday in Mt Pleasant!
-David
We've confirmed the show for June 1st in Mt. Pleasant. This will be a benefit concert with proceeds going to Relay For Life (part of the American Cancer Society). Go to the Shows page for all the details!
Added a few items to the Store.
Added a few new pics to the media player.
We've officially announced our debut concert for May 26!. Prepare to have your face rocked off! It's gonna happen at Morning Star Studio Saturday the 26th. Go to the shows page for all the details.
We're also working on setting up another show for June 1st. This will be a benefit concert for cancer research and will be headlined by Anternicy. The show will probably be in either Burlington, IA or the Mt. Pleasant area. More news on this soon.
Congratu-Freakin'-Lations to The Speeding Trees (us) on launching our brand-new, stunningly gorgeous website!
We'd love to welcome you to explore all the goodies we have to offer. The buttons above are self explanatory, but if you have problems or questions about the site, please drop us a line. We're still working on adding more content so check back often!