O.A.R.

Just got back to NYC after our first few days on the road. We’ve been around a bunch already this past month. March was a fun time, mixed with off/on the road, and now April is going swell. We participated in some really great events, the MayerCraft for one was very cool. It was basically a floating festival, of love, of mirth…and well, alcohol. This boat was a trip. I say that because the last boat I was on was the exact same boat except it had twenty of my closest friends on it for the bachelor party of MFR. FYI, the décor on Carnival cruiseships changes, but the structure and frame of the boat are exactly the same. So everything feels the same, but looks different. Was a good time. And oh yea, we beat Guster’s booty in eco-flip cup.

Now that we’re on tour again, and not on a boat, I thought I’d bring up that being on a bus feels pretty comfortable. I have probably
spent more nights on a bus in the last seven years or so, than not.
Kinda crazy.

New stuff happening on tour. Well our band is all a-twitter. First of all, a big WTF to all internet mediums that catch on in California- like wildfire epidemics. Not sure what happens that things catch on in big ways, maybe I need to read the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell again, but maybe I just will never quite understand it. What I can input here is that well Jerry Marc and I are kinda obsessed with it. When something happens on the road, we all write our little notes and giggle. How did this happen? Why is writing 140 character messages so fun? And how come following people is such a thrill?

In other happenings of the O.A.R. Shattered went platinum. Wow.
Thank you everyone who is supporting our music! A dream come true indeed. Can you believe it? I can’t, not until that plaque gets here...ha!

We also were recently awarded the Environmental Quality Award by the EPA for our work on the Green Dream. We have been gearing up the continuance of this program this summer and we’re looking forward to
doing our part to make our planet a bit greener in the near future.
Look out for our eco-setup Summer 2009.

Music, oh music. Richie wrote a new song that we’ve been rocking our faces off to at soundchecks a lot. Good groove on this one. I smell album material. Bringin’ back Coal Miner some time too. That’ll be good, if we write a bridge for it.

Um, other news, watching a Pixies documentary on Sundance channel.
Quite a good watch actually.

Other tidbits, Red Rocks June 5. Madison Square Garden for the third time August 15. Can’t wait for more shows, lovin being in my band right now.

See you all soon…I hope.

Best, Benj