| "Welcome Home" from the record release show at Johnny Brenda's on May 24th. |
| Monday, May 28, 2007 | bloodline |
 From all of us kids in the Bloodline, thanks to everyone who came out last night; it was a blast. My veins are still relentlessly pumping iron with more force that a tyrannosaurus rex pulling a chariot from one of pharoah's cursed army. Hope to see you all sooner, rather than later... Love, Ryan |
| Friday, May 25, 2007 | Ryan Hull |
| Chris Dickens here. My daily recommendation is: If you are using Firefox, the awesome-if-occasionally-buggy free web browser by Mozilla, and you close a tab by mistake, just click Cntrl-Shift-T (for Macs Comm-Shft-T) and watch time reverse itself and correct a tiny part of your sad, sad life. Labels: chris dickens |
| chris dickens |
 showing you this allows me to adequately express my joy on a wonderful day like today. adam |
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 | bloodline |
 los angeles? too sunny. las vegas? watered down. poughkeepsie, the real city of sin. |
| Tuesday, May 22, 2007 | bloodline |
| the following is a "bio" for a.d.b. by our buddy serge from marah. we decided it should be called a testimonial instead! enjoy... ADAM & DAVE'S BLOODLINE: I am ready to admit that I have no idea where I fit in to this world. I am a grown man, a normal American guy, who happens to play in a rock'n'roll band. But mostly, I am just average and a little lost. I like Motown music and I like The Cure quite a bit too. By no means am I cool by todays definition because I know that I laugh at Larry the Cable Guy and The King of Queens, usually more than I laugh at say, Lenny Bruce. When I go into a Wal-Mart, I get giddy...hopeful even...that I might be able to actually shop for stuff AND be able to afford it. Sometimes when I surf the internet I look at bands I have never heard of and I wonder if the guy in the photo standing out in the desert next to a cactus in the sunset, I wonder, is that guy cool? Does he like bar-b-q as much as me? Or is he into the newest organic fusion curries? Then I get to wondering if I am eating the cool foods and then I know that I gotta remind myself that it's all ok; I am just confused a bit about who I am . But that's the way it goes, you see. You like what you like and do what you can to get by and try and steal a fistful of joy from the clutches of life whenever he happens to pass by. So, I am pretty happy listening to Adam and Dave's debut record today. The music is making me happy: it has dance-y rythyms and electric guitars and voices singing out in favor of love or forgiveness; Christ, I have stumbled upon something inevitably cool, but yet also easy to love, to tap your foot to, to close your eyes and just be for a time. And, yeah maybe I am not quite sophisticated enough in a critic way to classify their stuff in today's pigeon hole market place...but if I had to take a stab, I'd say it's soul music. For people who like to ride in cars with LOUD music on and the windows down. And that actually seems pretty cool, huh? So fuck you. A few years ago I was sucking down light beers in a bar in Philly with my buddies when I ended up talking to these two dudes who were dressed up like young urban guns: skinny jeans, All-Stars, a western shirt, I think. They were young, their energy was contagious, and they were full of excitement about music. I remember that I was fairly buzzed by the time one of them said something about BORN IN THE USA, which isn't really one of the "coolest" records ever made according to most music-geeks, but is still one of the best. Adam, or maybe it was Dave...I don't know, they both riccochet off each other like Mick and Keith, anyway one of 'em started getting very hoppity and joyous talking about that Bruce record. Then the other one chimed in just as electrified. Talk turned to TUNNEL OF LOVE, another Bruce masterpiece of love and sorrow. Hell, then we were off to the races. By closing time I was staring through beer-goggles at these two kids sucking down beers next to me and wondering how the fuck they knew so much about all this great great music??!!! They had blown me away with lovespeak for Jim Croce and Neil Diamond and Sinatra and The Faces and a millon other things. Then it hit me. They were me and my brother.....living in a world where they let music be their salvation. They were down-to-earth and amiable and well-spoken and beer drinkers to boot. On our way out the door we all joked that we would certainly end up playing music together in the same band someday. That came true, too. Now this. This record with a big LOVE on the cover and just one song after another that kicks my ass with the big things ( like melody, and swift smart lyrics, and power beats) AND the little things (like tambourines, and 4am backing voices, and the fact that they made it in a garage in South Philly). If you need references, I got that. Try: Chuck Berry sipping strawberry wine at a Gang of Four show....crazy, huh? But, cool as fuck. Or how about Bono cheating on The Edge with Al Green's band? Sexy and dark, yet pious somehow. Or my best one? Listen to the last song love #24 or twist the knife and tell me you don't hear Strummer dirty dancing with ten drunk and gorgeous Latino women in that Hard Rock Cafe they put up in Orlando, everybody delirious with sweaty lust after a long weird day at Sea World. If that's too much for you, then I'd just say if you own any Dylan, The Cure, The Stones, or you grew up listening to punk but then fell in love with Nick Cave, then this band , Adam & Dave's Bloodline, and this record....well, you gotta get it into your life. Maybe I am confused a bit about life. Who isn't? Let me tell you a secret. Music like this, if you close your eyes, sip a drink, and listen in the dark....you will see that we were all cool all along. Sometimes we just need a really great rock'n'roll band to remind us of that. See if I'm wrong. Serge Bielanko Marah Salt Lake City, 2007 |
| Saturday, May 19, 2007 | bloodline |
| So Joe Jack Talcum is playing at our record release party. He was in in The Dead Milkmen, Touch Me Zoo and a lot of other great Philadelphia bands. Needless to say we're pretty excited to have him play. If the only song you know by him is "Punk Rock Girl," (amazing.) then check this out. I've been super into this song lately... See you all on the 24th... adam |
| Wednesday, May 9, 2007 | bloodline |
