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This is a glimpse into the process of our screenprint poster for our Tractor show. Tric and I hashed out themes and composition styles. He then vanished for a couple days into his room and sketched his fingers off. We made an old school text box and got the screen made.

Patrick & Paul Toney are some of the most creative people I know. Keep your eyes open for future stuff these kids will be pulling off, NUTS. Paul & I went to school for graphic design and then both happened to work for the same screen printer after school. He has put in at least 24 hrs on this project (thank you bro!) what a champ. We also had some help from our friend Heather (thank you siss!).

We’ve made 2 diff color versions for this event. Patrick went all over and posted about 70 around. He went back a couple days later to see a lot of em gone.. so I guess people are really diggin em and taking them. Patrick said people were asking him for prints as he was puttin em up. SO we had to make another 100 and tried a new color scheme.

We also made a couple shirts…would anyone out there be interested in wanting this shirt if we made…lets see….like 20? Maybe you could only get it at the Tractor show? Give us some feed back, we’re debating on doing it or not.

Denis Carrier

Nice Feeze & Thaw reference right? NiCE See more of Carrier’s work HERE

Last night we had the delight of being in an incredible line up. Travis Ehrenstron-Young Lions-Tony Kevin Jr.-Valhalla Hill. Each artist played for free for the benefit of the Q to up the anti with new sound equipment. It certainly was one of my favorite shows to be involved in and everyone who came made for an excellent audience. Thank you all for sharing your time, your money, and your ears. It is so good to support one another and we cherish yours.

I didn’t shoot much on this tour, though i planned on shooting even more then last tour! I did manage to snag some snaps while we drove through San Fran. This was our last day in Cali, we ate amazing Thai food (I got this pumpkin curry that was filthy good), snagged some amazing jazz albums (Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain & Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue) at Amoeba music, had a lengthy GV meeting at Borders about what we’ll be doing next, AND picked up 3 bags of my favorite coffee beans from Blue Bottle. YUM!

ROAD DIARY FIVE

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Statue 1

Over the weekend, my friend Jesse Ferguson and I worked as living statues at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s music and arts festival. Today, we were in the Seattle Times. Here’s what they said:

“Meanwhile, in the great, rainy outdoors, two living statues — no Bumbershoot is complete without them — braved the elements. Jesse Ferguson, a 7th Day Adventist preacher by day, and Patrick Toney, a musician with a band called Garage Voice, have been coming to Bumbershoot for eight years, always standing in the same spot, with different outfits each time.

“This year they adopted an American colonial theme, with Ferguson playing George Washington. Unlike some living statues, these two move, depending on what kind of vibes they’re getting from the Fisher Green Stage.”During happy music,” Ferguson explained, “we move more to make more money.”

“Their aged-copper-green-statue complexions (one concerned lady passing by said, “I hope that’s not lead-based”) were achieved with movie makeup. “The same as they used in ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,’” Ferguson said.

“Apart from chatting with this interviewer, they stayed silent, beckoning festival-goers to dance with them or have their photos taken.”

-Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times

Statue 2

Statue 4

Statue 3

Photos by Ben Blood
Video by Brenda Ferguson

Castle/boys

The Tabor Space is SO amazing & it looks like a castle! Our friend Seth Martin introduced us to the Tabor crew last time we where in Portland and found out they were going to be turning this castle/church into a community hub. We were then invited by Seth to join in the debut of Tabor Space and what a treat it was to be involved. We played an entire acoustic set with no sound system. Candles were the only light inside. It was probably one of my favorite shows we’ve ever done. We played some new material from Freeze & Thaw, and a really cool version of Tips of Your Hands with Kale on sax! It was so nice to have Kale jump in on this special acoustic set, he also contributed to a solemn version of Quiet My Love and after the show i talked to someone who was connected to the family that the song speaks of! Crazy! We can’t wait to be back at Tabor and all you Portland folk need to get on out to Mt Tabor Space and check out their future events, on Sept 11 they are going to have a swell jazz trio and an 80yr old beat poet! AMAZING!

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pano

The more pixely snaps are from my phone, but i just had to share the idea of the space we were in, its a pano shot!

Portland Corner

After the show we hung out with our pals Eric/Hollin (who did the video for “Between Pride & Love”) and caught up with talks and amazing food from this street corner dedicated to random taco truck style food establishments. In the middle of the 6-7 places there is a community outdoor cafeteria of sorts with picnic tables under a tarp roof littered with Christmas lights! I had the best fries of my life with rosemary/truffle/ketchup (WOW!) and split a mushroom fajita with Bru, YUM! At the crepe joint next to our table there was a recently married couple feasting on fries and crepes! SO SO COOL, everyone around was wanting pictures with em or taking pictures of em. I jumped in too :D

Can’t wait to come back to Portland! Look out, we’ll be back Sept 23 at Muddy Waters! Woot Woot! ALSO there will be some more video collabs done with the talented Eric&Hollin so watch out for that too, d’lish things are happenin!

1) REGARDS

Friends of our lovely Seatown, THANK YOU for sharing your evening with us at Studio 7! It was so nice to have your support in our home town and to see that some of you have some sweet dance moves :D I know that Michael & Kale sure made me move on stage!

ALSO for the first time we had a vinyl pre-sale sign up for our upcoming release “Freeze & Thaw” ! This will be available at our local shows and maybe i can figure something out for all you non locals if you want in on getting our next release on vinyl!

VINYL PRE-SALE FLYER

(Anna Hurley is doing the artwork, this is a taste of her skill, SNAP!)

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2) THE COLOR TURNING

LE COLOUR TURNING

Last night the main act was The Color Turning who deff. impressed us GV boys! Their songs are well thought out, blending drive with great melodic instrumentals. My favorite song was a wonderful stark 2 guitar song that blends amazing tones of the warm electric with the rootsy finger picking on the acoustic, bravo! I really enjoyed their progressions as well, not predictable. Live you can see em blend some amazing tones from their Rhodes to the meaty bass tones. The dance percussives with the additional shakers and tambourines reminds you to keep your feet moving while you enjoy the ethereal delay swirls, YUM! Go HERE to catch their tunes!

They are at the tale end of their tour to support their release “Good Hands Bad Blood” and have one more date in WA tomorrow night at one of our favorite venues in WA, the RED ROOM in Kennewick! We deff. recommend catching the show and chatting up with em after the show, great kids & great music, so don’t miss out -> 8pm | AUG 29 | $5adv/ $7 door | RED ROOM | KENNEWICK

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