Here’s some photos I never posted. Deep Pockets went upstate to visit Suny Uttica and play for their student union. Justin’s buddy goes there or something and asked us to play. We got our pals in Make It Plain on the bill as well. We knew overall it was going to be very, very weird however we were also offered big cheese to do so. We opted for that $$$$$.

It was a decent little drive there and originally the plan was to go, watch Make It Plain, play, and drive home. Turns out the show ran later and the drive was more tiring than any of us thought.

Here are Matt and Conor standing next to our makeshift merchandise table. Where we probably guilted two people into buying something – one of those two being a 40 year old security guard who was probably a Mets fan.

Part of the sweet deal was we got free food and ice cream. Justin was able to get gluten free and vegan put on the old rider there.

Here’s homie that put us on the show. His name is lost on me cause I took too long to scan this stuff.

Matt is sampling from the free ice cream bar (aka the “other” only-reason people showed up for this shindig.)

As we were done loading in Make It Plain rolled in. Duncan and Von were wearing their rock-star shades which was awesome.

The first band of the night was just a jam band who covered everything from the Hives to Zeppelin. Quite a scene.

Here Justin is signing some paperwork in the champagne room so we can receive our fat stacks. He’s got a button undone. Look at that.

A little Von mosh in that backstage area.

Make It Plain lookin’ fancy. It was fun hanging out with Kristin and Tom too because I either  don’t see them much, or know them much respectively. There are more shots somewhere (I can’t figure out where the other rolls are) but we ended up playing well to a very weird crowd. There was a raffle going on that night that Matt opted to do during our set. Smart move because it was probably the only reason people stayed and watched us. Well that’s not true, we sold some records after the set but it was a very strange night. There is video of it, just not online yet. Look for an edit of Matt announcing the raffles soon. After the show we went back to stay with Make It Plain at their hotel. We were going to go down to Swifty’s to get ourselves some Swifties but instead we went to the hotel bar. They gave the boozers in the group lots of booze and kept us happy. The bartender found out we were in “indie bands” and flipped out. Pretty funny shit. Maybe more from this, maybe not?

 

So here’s some other DP stuff almost a month later

We recorded at Quiet Country Audio outside of Buffalo, NY

Justin was in a band with the operator of the spot, Paul, a while back so it was like a little buddy reunion

We got in and started setting up almost immediately

Here’s my drums

Check out those wood things. They designed those as sound dampeners. Pretty cool concept. It breaks up the bounce.

The mic shelf

So one of the cool things about it is they shoot multi angle video of two of the recorded songs, so that was fun

we did every song in one take and that was that

Matt had a cymbal dick that day

Everything turned out pretty awesome

The end result is up at quietcountryaudio.com

More shots of the space

We wanted to do one of these for everyone but Justin was busy talking

So we did three

Mine was weird anyway

Here’s Justin being Justin

And thumbs up to that

Here’s the Crew standing behind the boards listening to the mix. Everything is also up on a bandcamp and youtube. I should be posting the embeded video right after down here:

I chew gum like a cow in these videos. I like em though

So we went back to House of Guitars and this time I made some purchases. I started digging through their stock boxes. Look at that shit. Nirvana “Bleach” cassettes, just in a giant box. Montell Jordan, REM, 2 Pac, and Lil Wayne actually made it to cassette.

Conor enamored by the giant space

Looky what was hanging from the ceiling

Back in the main space checking out the antiquities

And the sheer volume

Look at all these fucking things!

Conor ended up buying a Gibson and as we were leaving I asked Bruce if he would jump in a photo with us. He did it so routinely it was hilarious. He was like “here, let’s grab some guitars first”

He then thanked us for the support and business and gave us some legit ass hoodies and sticker packs

Conor and I left with 4 copies of “Bleach” on cassette.

We then it up a banging Ethiopian spot in Rocester. So fuckin good.

Conor and the new ax

Back at Keely’s, getting a last hang in with kitties

Little weirdo cuties

Matt… weirded out by cats forever

And a helpful fella

We got the customary shot of Conor holding something up in front of the van. Luckily this time it was just an oil rag

Here we are at the show in Buffalo. Lotta fuckin fun that night. Matt’s got bullhorns

Keely took this, hey that’s me!

I had taken this at a vegan spot in Buffalo at some point, can’t remember when. EVERYONE spells weird wrong

Here is Matt as the Emperor in the van down to Philly. We were going to be playing a house show that night and had a decent drive ahead of us

Check out this weird space shit. Going warp

Here is probably the only shot I got in Philly. Cool West Philly sky.

Back at the house show hanging with kids in the living room

Matt drinking beers. We had a good time until Matt got shitty news that sent us home early. He’s alright now, but it was a lame night for him. More photos from the future to come