Well, happy spring Gooseheads!
Dale here, with the Lowdown.
We hope everyone is keeping a check on our Landings page for the concert dates nearest you.
The band is happy to be out there on the road visiting with fans again,
playing that music we all love and spreading the Good Goose Word.
Our online message board is a popular Goose Oasis. Our website's
Company Store
has been humming along splendidly as well.
Rumor has it that the first three Goose Creek Symphony albums from
Capitol Records are on CD and available for purchase. (No, you are not
dreaming.)
A
music distribution company in Atlanta is placing them in stores. We
hope to have them in our online company store soon, here at the official
Goose site on the web, www.goosecreeksymphony.com
The distribution company has gotten so many calls about the GCS CDs that
they asked us not to advertise their phone number anymore.
Now what does that tell ya right off?
We'll announce here on the site when we get them in stock. More later
as we know more.
Deep Purple/Dixie Dregs guitarist Steve Morse mentioned Goose Creek
Symphony when he was being interviewed for Guitar Player Magazine, May 2000
issue. Thanks Steve.
Charlie's Hillbilly Nation Poem was quoted in the February 28, 2000 issue
of Time Magazine. It was in an article about the presidential primary
in South Carolina.
Speaking of Hillbillies, GCS was in the Hillbilly Days Parade in
Pikeville, Kentucky this year and did the concert later that day.
The Goose Creek Symphony Goin' Home T-shirt now being sold on the tour as
well as on the Company Store page has really caught on. Not only do
fans seem to love it, but it has been chosen by the T-shirt studio were
it's made as the best design of the quarter and is up for T-shirt of the year at
ScreenArt, the Middle Tennessee company that produces them for us.
I was not going to mention this, that yours truly designed it,
but Pearl made me swear I'd put it in this Lowdown.
Matt's been working on videos, commercials and so forth, as production
assistant at a film company in Nashville, and keeping everything
together on his computer.
We know Matt will master it, like he does most everything.
He's ready to pound the heck out of those drums. Matt's so mean he has
to take all that energy out on those drums or who knows what might
happen!
Paul's been writing new songs and working in his home studio to cut some
of his original tunes. Got to hear him play some of the new tunes
when the Pearl visited the other day and we enjoyed 'em.
Paul's been dying to play more music. The winter break gave him the mean
ol' guitar jones. His New Grandson, Seren, is growing fast. Miana says he's getting huge
and sure can eat!
Paul said he was talking to Miana the other day and noticed that Seren
has found his voice.
"While we were on the phone, he was in the background talking up a
storm--just babbling away. "He's a little doll," Paul reports.
Did you folks know Pearl can cook? Well, he's been quite famous in
recent years for his HOT! salsa, which is SO hot it makes your ears burn, but
ya can't stop eating it. You know that feeling. Too much is not enough.
He's thinking of marketing his Serenerros Arizona-Style Salsa.
The Pearl has also been enjoying baking his Jalapeno Cornbread. I
haven't tasted it yet, but he gave me a few tips for making my own.
Doug says he stayed home in "GNASHVILLE" for the holidays
which "was a nice change of pace."
He's been playing bass sometimes with those groovy dudes, The Trailer
Park Troubadours and also with the Chainsmoking Altar Boys, who are
releasing their second album. He says he's started writing again and he's
contemplating a few other special projects.
Mostly, he's been biding his time until warm weather, so he can get back
onto the golf course.
Charlie's been busy. But not too busy to fish, of course. He and Travis
got to fish a few days while in Arizona this winter.
He's also working on some new songs which sound totally cool.
Travis, our ultra-snazzy live sound engineer, has been learning his way
around the recording studio recently. He and some buddies have been
recording and Travis has gone back to banging the drums for a few
tracks. He also plays his Yamaha and writes some heavy metal grooves.
Travis, Stevie and Ryan jam EVERY chance they get.
Johnny Ray is doing some remodeling work and is ready for the road.
He made it to the Everglades on New Years Eve for the big Phish show.
His baby girl pit bull (Colby terrier) has grown all winter and is about
too big to fit in the truck now.
JRay has found some rural acreage and is ready to start building as soon
as possible. Says he wants to build a cabin in the woods where he can
say "hi" to the toad.
Gary has not laid his fiddle down, but has been playing here, there and
everywhere. He was able to visit with Charlie and Carolyn recently
and it became a party. Zorox even showed up.
Excitement is building for this season's concerts. The tour is sure to
be historic for devoted Gooseheads and for first-timers too.
Do NOT miss GOOSE 2000!
Later with the Lowdown,
Dale
