What a show!

I don't think any of us expected the crowd we had on Saturday night at Ruckers. It was outstanding! We had friends and family from all over come to the show, and they brought friends and family...what a great time!

Mark from Road Warrior Productions did a great job with the sound and lights...it's great when stuff goes so smoothly at a show, it comes off as seamless. The folks at Ruckers were good to us, too!

We got some pretty great pictures from the show, check out the Past Shows link on www.noisepollutionrocks.com to see if you're in any of them! And I know we have more pictures coming soon.

All in all, the band played well. Poor Nick had a cold, again. That's 2 shows in a row! But damn, he pulled off the vocals in spite of it all, and 18 & Life, as usual, got the crowd cheering. Too bad the guitar crapped out in the middle of your solo on Enter Sandman! Jim was in true rock star mode, leather pants, abundant poses, and all. Vic, you are THE kung-fu fighter man! How cool of Dean from the Metal Men to pay Chris a compliment on the solo to Wait. Way to nail it man! And for me, well...I spent many an evening watching Problem Child and High Treason back in the day...to have those guys (now the Metal Men) in the crowd and paying compliments to Noise Pollution was definitely a highlight.

Thanks to our spouses who made it to the show, our friends from Harley-Davidson, the Metal Men (www.metal-men.com) , and 76 Juliet (www.76juliet.com). The list of people that came out could go on and on and on...but I think I'll leave it at this. Thanks to all who came to the show, despite snow advisories and all! Next time we're in the area, hopefully it'll be under better weather circumstances.

The next show is slated for Saturday March 19th at Hitch N Post Saloon in Burlington, WI...just north of Hwy 36 on County Road W. Hope to see you all there!

More Demo work

Well, we've had the demo for a week now, and we've decided to make a few adjustments. We're going to have a few songs remixed. Not a big deal. But I'm going back "in the studio" to re-do one of my lead vocals. One song just didn't cut the mustard, so I'm gonna re-do my parts. That should make a world of difference as everyone else's performances on the song sound great. So the recutting is happening on Monday.

Saturday night is the big show, and we are psyched! Everything is confirmed with the agent and venue, the show is set to go on at 9pm. Hope to see you there!

Paul

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hello friends. It's Valentine's day. A day for lovers in love. Also a day to remember to buy that certain someone something that says how much you love them. I great gift would be a Noise Pollution Tshirt. They're only 8 bucks, and you can get one at our post-Valentine's show this Saturday night, February 19th, at Ruckers in Big Bend, Just east of I-43 and Hwy 164 on County Road ES in Big Bend. Big Post V-Day bash. It'll be a good time. I promise!

ON another Noise Pollution note, the demo is finished. Check out tracks on our website, www.noisepollutionrocks.com. Go to the MP3 samples page and download all 6 songs from the demo. Good times.

The Demo ROCKS!

Hey, I got the first complete draft of our demo, and I must say I am very pleased. As a matter of fact, I'm almost tickled!!! Yeah, I know, kinda minty, but it sounds really quite good. Brian did a helluva job with the production. Everything is completely audible and it just sounds great. The rest of the band will hear it tonight. I'll let you know how that goes!

Paul

the excitement builds

Been a few days since the last update, so I thought I'd post a what's happening now kinda thing.

Chris has his own blog as of today. It's available at http://whatapisser.blogspot.com.
I've got my own blog, it's at http://howitshangin.blogspot.com.

Website is current, check it out at www.noisepollutionrocks.com.
We've got a few new tunes we're debuting at the February 19th show. Gonna add in Bang Your Head (Metal Health) by Quiet Riot and Bathroom Wall by Faster Pussycat. There's a chance we'll have a couple more new ones in there, but those 2 are for sure.

Well, I'm excited. We are getting our demo back tomorrow. This is the first full draft, and I'm psyched. Our producer said he's pleased with it and thinks we will be, too. We shall see!

Paul

Here's our new promo pic! 

The music is coming

We heard from our producer yesterday that he is diligently working on the mixdown of our demo. Hopefully we'll have the complete first draft back from him by the end of the week. We've played it for everyone in the band except Jim our bassist. He'll hear what we have so far on Thursday night at practice. If you wanna hear a 40 second snippet, check out our website, www.noisepollutionrocks.com. Go to the MP3 Samples link and click on the Dirty Deeds sample. We'll have more up there when we get the final mix done.

We've played it for a few others, too. Everyone says the cymbals need to be a bit louder and so do the vocals. Also seems the low end needs to be tightened up, but then again, all we have is a quickie rough mix of two songs. When we get the rest, I'm sure it'll be much improved. I can't wait!

talk to ya soon,
Paul