West Indian Girl

yesterday we played in santa ana at jade howe’s store. jade is a great clothing designer. check out his line howedenim.com. anyway, jade’s store, called howe homme is not only a store but also his home (funny how adding an “m” changes that word). so the place he has is basically a fantastic loft. check out the pics below and keep your eye out for the next “10 with Ten” cos i did one with Jade last night. ok, on to the show – this was officially our first acoustic show! we set up on the top floor of his space and played 6 songs with a real stripped down sound. rob was playing electric/acoustic, chris was playing a moog, i played an old vox bass that sounds like an acoustic, mark played a snare and some percussion, and angela played a harmonica and sang. by the way – if you have been reading my journal you know you can see pics from the show in the photo gallery. i’m not really posting pics from the show in here so just go to the gallery. anyway, it was a cool vibe – i think the ability to play our songs in this way will be a nice thing for fans to check out because even though the songs remain the same (ahh zep) the vibe and interpretation is totally different. watch for us at in-stores and radio stations cos this is the way we’re gonna be playing the songs in those situations. let’s see, random other notes about the show, well, i drove my landcruiser down and served as the cargo van for this trip. i brought tony so he got to go on a few walks. it’s great bringing tone along to the gigs. he’s dope. that first picture was taken right outside the store. the second pic is of angela and chocolate – i really like this pic of us 3. as usual, lot’s of women at the show which is always a plus. i dont think there can ever be too many women at a show. that’s patty in the pic to the left, she works for jade and she is awesome! hey patty i’m sorry i haven’t emailed u yet but i’m gonna and i can’t wait for you to take measurements of my favorite t-shirt. jade had the gig catered so there was also great food. all in all u really couldnt ask for a better place to kick back and play your acoustic set for the first time. it was a comfy gig…F. Ten 11/7 5:30pm

we played at the house of blues in anaheim yesterday. REMEMBER you can check out all the pics from us playing live on the photo page – if it’s not up soon it will be. i just dont want to post them here cos its kinda like posting the same pic over and over again right? anyway, strange times at disneyland. it’s weird down there. i felt like i was in another state. this was actually our first “real” show at a proper club on a proper stage. at we had no monitor mix or sound check so in some regards it sucked ass cos when you have shitty sound on stage you can’t really get into it that much. and when u cant get into it u not only feel lame but u look lame. it sux not getting a sound check but sometimes that shit happens and you have to make do. all in all it went well and chocolate thunder made sure we got treated right. since the house of blues is right next to disneyland it draws somewhat of an odd crowd. one moment when i looked out into the crowd i felt like i was playing at a huge applebee’s restaurant. before the show all of us (except rob who was sleeping in the van) went walking around handing out free tickets to the show. i gave these 2 kids free tickets and they were pretty stoked to get them. they stood in front for the whole show and really seemed to like what they were hearing for the first time.

if u guys ever read this come out to our next show and say hi – i wanted to thank u for watching the whole set. you guys rock. on a side note i literally bounced off of a girl with huge tits when she gave me a hug. seriously i bounced off of her. um, if you’re reading this and still have my number give me a call. thanx.

here are some pics of the kids i was talking about above. check it out. it was really funny that someone actually took those 2 other pictures of them watching the show. strange coincidence. when i saw the pics i was laughin, like “holy shit, there are those 2 kids! —F. Ten 11/5 5:45 am

Question: how can you beat playing at the Ocean St Brewery in laguna, ca? answer: you just cant. on wed night we rolled into laguna with very few expectation. i mean we were playing at a brewery with no stage and we brought our own pa. nevertheless we set up right on the floor of the bar and busted out a 7 song set. all the guys that ran the bar we great. thierry was a great to us and treated us like his brothers. speaking of brothers, carter’s bro was there along with his mom. gotta love the carter family bringin the love. the opening band was cool but i forgot their name. cool three piece. i’m starting to like the oc. it’s kinda fun having a valid reason to cross over the orange curtain. good times in laguna. this was also the first time tony rolled with us. his first official show. i’m proud of how he held up in the back. i brought his big dog bone and bed to make him feel comfortable. i’m really into driving the cargo van. marcos was my co-pilot. he also helped us move and set up. we had fun listening to the stones on the way back. ever really look at the cover of “some girls”? HEY! if you want to see more pictures from the shows check out the photo section cos i am gonna be posting images there. they will be bigger cos in some cases bigger is better —F. Ten 6:00 am 11/4