Wow, I haven't updated this blog for a number of months...until now. I remember my friend
Demian Johnston giving me shit about not updating The Empennage regularly...about two months ago when we played a show with him in Seattle at the Comet. Demian and Shane used to play in the now defunct and lovable
Playing Enemy and now they have a two piece project called
Hemingway (which to no surprise really was absolutely amazing!).
This was the first show of the west coast Conifer tour but actually wasn't even a Conifer show but a Conifer-Lesbian improv-supergroup-sound-worship collective known as
Machu Picchu Mother Future. I must really talk about this show as I rank it as one of the best performances I have ever participated in. Truly amazing, members flying in from around the country, making it to the club literally minutes before playing on stage. There were 9 of us total including two drummers, four guitarists and three bass players....and a fog machine. A packed house at The Comet where at one point, when I felt like a goddamn spaceship was lifting off inside the club, everything went slow motion and the stage and audience were one swirling ameoba of hair and smoke and fists shaking in the air,
the sound clowns climbing and circling to greater heights weeping and wailing.. Ahhh, what a PERFECT way to kickstart the energy of our tour. You can see more pics of the whole west coast jaunt at the Conifer myspace site if you're interested. ...oh, here is a gigposter I did for the Baltic Sea at the Space Gallery coming up soon....
This was the first show of the west coast Conifer tour but actually wasn't even a Conifer show but a Conifer-Lesbian improv-supergroup-sound-worship collective known as Machu Picchu Mother Future. I must really talk about this show as I rank it as one of the best performances I have ever participated in. Truly amazing, members flying in from around the country, making it to the club literally minutes before playing on stage. There were 9 of us total including two drummers, four guitarists and three bass players....and a fog machine. A packed house at The Comet where at one point, when I felt like a goddamn spaceship was lifting off inside the club, everything went slow motion and the stage and audience were one swirling ameoba of hair and smoke and fists shaking in the air, 
the sound clowns climbing and circling to greater heights weeping and wailing.. Ahhh, what a PERFECT way to kickstart the energy of our tour. You can see more pics of the whole west coast jaunt at the Conifer myspace site if you're interested. ...oh, here is a gigposter I did for the Baltic Sea at the Space Gallery coming up soon....
