Newz!!

Vassssup. Long time no talky…..

Sorry no updates lately.  We are in the midst of writing/recording new songs.  In early 2010 we  have 3 new releases coming your way.   A 12″ compilation out on Norwegian label Compost Modern Art Recordings (myspace.com/compostmodernart ) with some really great French noisy bands like cheveu, crash normal, the dictaphone, De La Cave, The Feeling of Love,  Don Vito from Germany, and some Americans too..  Ty Segall, Agent Ribbons, Sneakers (drummer from Cave), spits, and us.  Really stoked, and flattered to be amongst such great talent.

Also in the works are a full length out on Portland’s Stunned Records (stunnedrecords.blogspot.com), and a split 7″ with KK Rampage!!  Again psyched to be orbiting some siiiick folks!

In band member news…

-Our drummer Chris’s other band Dikes of Holland  (myspace.com/dikesofholland) are doing a  tour in November, and have a track on an upcoming Matador compilation!! Check their myspace for dates, etc.

-Expensive Shit (supergroup featuring dinos George, Nate, and Cory + Chopper Dave, Klint, and Mike (formerly of Black Eyes) has a new release out on Los Angeles powerhouse  Not Not Fun Records (notnotfun.com)  “Pow Wow with Chopper”  will be available at an instore this sunday at 6pm @ End of an Ear.

Later Days…

Please welcome

this little bitch to the dinos family

sunn beta lead combo

Back in austin.

Whoa Lubbock was by far the best show of the tour. Thanks for the happy ending.   Numerators and Go to Hell killed!  Pretty happy to be home.  I’ll leave you with a pic of a scarface truck toy..

Lubbock or leave it…

Sorry we havent been keeping up, but we’ve had some brutal drives and limited internetz..

Missoua

Played at a sweet spot called the badlander.  The local was called Fag Rag and they killed it.  Probably our favorite up to that point.  People seemed into it, but not enough to offer us up a spot to sleep.  So we slept in the van. Not very fun and a cop came and said whaaaazup.

Butte

Sweet sweet time in Butte.  Possibly the high point.  Good friend of mine lives there and owns a coffeeshop/sandwich spot.  Also lives above it and has a guest bungalow.  We just chilled and relaxed there. Was a very welcome change to the usual hustle and grind of touring.  The show was in his shop with two high school punkish bands and it RULED.  Tangle Bang and Mordecai!!   The bands were great and we had a blast.   Spent the next morning sleeping in, eating food, and walking around the little town. Truly a great 24hrs. Thanks to Jimmy, Essie, and Leo.

Salt Lake Shitty.

TTYN!

Denver

Another brutal drive! Ate some good food, and met up with some old friends.  Dani and John,  Elliot, Pat and Rachael. Show was tevs, but big money got pizz-fucking-aid!  Stayed at Dani and John’s house (thanks!) and we drank some of the wine that he makes.  It was awesome. I have friends that make beer, but my first homemade wine that I can remember.  Next morning we decided to class it up a bit and went and ate crepes.  (thanks again for the hookup dani!)

Santa Fe

Played at a pretty cool art space called Meow Wolf.  They saved us from having a night off since our albuquerque show got cancelled.  We played with two folk meisters that were pretty good. Their names escape me.  Kiel and Jake ? was a tevs show as usual.  They let us sleep in the venue which was pretty fun actually and we just drank beers.

Now we’re back in Tejas.  Sitting in Lubbock. Gonna play our last show of the tour tonight..

drving from montana

uptown butte

john and his wine. denver

george sleeps in missoula.

hummingbird cafe. jimmy and essies shop. butte

somewhere?

oh man. this may have inspired me to start collecting bad paintings of kurdt

dani and john's wine.

crepe meisters

storm approaching. driving to santa fe

jimmy on his harley

in salt lake shitty

big money gets pizzaid

who knows where this is?

jimmy, leo, and essie

butte

fag rag in missoula

marc pre throw up the day after missoula..

dreamcatcher drivin

one more cuz they so cute..

T.L.T.R.

San Jose

Lazy morning in SF followed by easy drive to San Jose.  Ate at an really really awesome Veggie restaurant (name escapes me).  Free video games at the venue (nickel city arcade).  Show was fun, and then we drove and drove to Portland.

Arrived in Portland and remembered how many hippies live there. Weather was perfect, but jeez dudes come on!  Chris’s parents live there so he met up with them.  Marc, George, and myself were exhausted and had no place to go so we went to a park.  We totes looked homeless. sleeping bags, 40 0z’s, stinky, and very tired. We tried to sleep but instead just talked about uncle foamy.   Marc got stung by a bee on his foot while we were running our football drills. (shoes off so we could fit in with the locals). Managed to get a shower in over at our friend Jacolyn’s house even tho she was out of town for a wedding. Had a couple beers with our friends from Austin (emily and ian).

Show was fun.  Some old friends came out (johny from expensive shit, marlo gil!, erik blad, and chris’s parents!)  We played with a band called Family Curse (enjoyed watching them play).  We rocked it and stayed over at Erik’s house.  Woke up, had breakfast, saw Demetri Martin, and drove to Seattle.

Seattle was our best show thus far. Good crowd, good bill, and we played well.  Stayed with our friend Aaron at a recording studio he works.  Something about the dude that owns it wrote all the code for amazon.com or something.

Yesterday we drove to Spokane, was pretty        (boring).  Lady that owned the venue Empyrean was very nice. Fed us a bunch of free pitchers of beer!  Was open mic night (brutal), and the local bands were uh interesting.  Chris did a bruce springsteen song, and then marc, george, and chris did a silver jews song (silver booze). The sound guy really liked us and put us up at his place. Thanks Henry!

18 pack of tall boys. very noiice!

We played to a few people in chairs looking at us.   The show ended with this rap rock band called “crunk rap supreme”.  oh man! i have some video i’ll try to upload at some point. they were all pissed about not getting pizzzzzzaid cuz we had a guarantee.  They were slightly stoopid imho.

Just drove to Missoula. Again nice drive.  that’s all i’ve got.

driving to montana

You've been selected for jerry duty.. ??

marc works the door in seattle at the comet tavern

comet

george ate a pb & j & bacon panini in seattle!

Aaron shows us diesel power on the moon!

spokane kitchen we stayed in..

chris plays the boss. (open mic in spokane)

local band in spokane

this is me right now.

Pics from San Jose and Portland

I don’t feel like writing text right now, but here are some snap shots of our last couple days…

marc drinks some country club..

drunk tooth brushing

erik's flannelz

deadhedz

breakfast in portland

j-deck

sweet

chris kills in san jose

nba jam mon

brutal 12 hr drive from san jose to portland. george naps

dreamcatcher portland

vindicated

night time dino drive

irie

we live in nickel city

change in a light bulb?

San Francisco

Played at Hemlock Tavern. Other than the amount of people actually watching the show it was a great night.  The other bands were killer, and strangly enough one of the dudes that played has played in my garage in his other band called Citay.  Some friends came out Trent Knott who I went to High School with, and also our friend Brooke came in from Oakland! Great to see familar faces.   Like I said small turnout, but the staff was insanely nice to us!  Free drinks and food and stuff!  Thanks!!!

So after we play our friend Mike Sanchez (former bartender at emo’s) showed up and we got pretty wasted.  He let us stay at his place, and get this shit. . Dude lives in Jimi Hendrix’s old house!  Literally two houses down from hippie meister land Height / Ashbury!! Crazy shit!  A roommate just moved out so we had this rad whole room for ourselves! Was super amazing!!

So today we were severly hungover.  Had breakfast with Mike and then just walked around and looked at tourists and stuff.  Also Mike has a legal Marijuana card thing, and he bought us some weed candy!  Havent tried it yet tho. George bought some “rad” shoes..

Currently in a coffee shop in San Jose. Playing at an arcade, and then after the show we to drive all night to Portland. Not Noiice!!!

standing at jimi hendrix'z house where we stayed the night.

weed sucker. vassssup!

Mike lives in Jimi hendrix's house. Thanks for showing us around!

george's new shoez

that one time he played the star spanged banner and his guitar was on fire, and he was on acid

horse on the highway

Los Angeles

Spent the morning doing laundry. Drove in to LA went to Amoeba Records and spent way too much money on records. George bought a shitfuckton of $0.50 rap singles. Marc got some Country Teasers, Jim O’Rourke and some more of them rap records.  Chris got some Suicide 10″s. I got a Lindstrom/Prins Tomas double  record, and a bunch of dub.  Then we went to George’s friend Eric’s house in Hollywood and sampled some of California’s excellent agricultural produce. I went to Highland Park and visited my friend Tracie, and her son Elijah.  We went to the smell and loaded in, and a few friends showed up… David from Red X Red M, Harsh (who designed the snacks cover), Tan, and the weed dude Eric.

The venue we played (the smell) is an alcohol free diy art space so We went to this gay tejano bar down the way. It pretty much ruled.   Played with a bunch of dancey electronic bands that made me feel old.  Met a band from Denton called Florene, nice dudes. Actually everyone was super nice all night.

Went back to Eric’s place and drank some beers and stuff and on a giant fucking sweet TV we watched the end of John Carpenters The Thing, and then Wild Pacific.  Woke up and ate a delicious breakfast at a place called Dupar’s. Yum! Then we saw Thomas Hayden Church and we wanted to scream

“I’m not drinking any Fucking Merlot!” but we didn’t.

Currently we are driving to San Francisco, and the surrounding mountains.. look like west Texas.

PS. It should be noted that this tour is called “The Registered Handgun Tour”. I forget to tell you dudes

Dinner in LA

Between LA and SF.

Tan let us stay at his crib in LBC

We eat so much fucking breakfast food! This is in LA.

San Diego//Irvine

Had an awesome show on a monday night in San Diego!  Casbah was rad to us. We finally met Batwings (the other artist on our 7″ on us two records). They killed it!  Also we each got 6 free 24 oz pbr’s!  Was super fun!

One of the highlights of touring for me is regional chips

Marc’s best friend Tony and his fiancee Amanda live there and they let us invade their apartment.  Thanks thanks thanks for being awesome!

We played a set on KUCI 88.9 FM it's probably archived on their site if you care at all.

Holy fuck!! a shitton of jandek records at KUCI!!

We spent our day in San Diego at the beach with Marc's friends Tony and Amanda!!

hard to top dmb personal plate..

one more time!

at the san diego show each band member got 6 24 oz'z of pbr....

rocks. calif south of san diego.....

ya man