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Ok, so maybe I did realize that 7pm could actually be -6pm. Also 9pm isn't exactly 9pm, but who cares about details like that?

Thanksgiving

What's up everyone? I just got back from my trip to Maine and boy am I fat. In the course of my trip, I had 2 thanksgiving meals, deer stroganof, moose chili, mexican food, indian pudding and of course the smiley face at the top of this post. Am I crazy for loving eggs sunny side up? I feel like everywhere I go I am ridiculed for this. Is it such a shame to essentially enjoy raw eggs? Ahh, what's that awful thing you can catch? I can't seem to remember.




Along with getting really fat over the past week, I did manage to shoot skeet with my relatives. Despite my hunting roots, I had never actually done this and it's a little harder than it looks. The video here shows my sister's boyfriend showing us how it's done. It's hard to see the clay pigeons in the sky that he's shooting at, but I still thought it was postable! Hmmm.."postable" should be a word by now shouldn't it? Stupid spell check.

The band had a great practice the night before our various thanksgiving expeditions and we worked hard on some new material. "You Have No Heart" is a dark, edgier rock tune that we are finally calling "gig ready." We also have a new song called "Fight Fate", which we are just dying to show people. The new stuff is sounding amazing!!

Currently Jeff is in Guatemala and Justin is in Central America...not for thanksgiving, but for fun. Hope you guys are living it up down there!!

Zac Mac

A Broken Thumb, The Hard Rock Cafe and Hot T-shirts

Hey y'all. In case you haven't heard, ZMB t-shirts are the coolest thing to own right now (for sale on our website store) . Well, I should say they are a close 2nd to owning our debut album "Don't Look Down." Check them out! We had two great shows over the weekend. A huge shout out to WPI where we played Friday night at their Homecoming Pep Rally. It was an awesome time! Saturday night we played at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston for Halloween! It was one of the best shows we've ever had. We opened for The Joshua Tree, a popular U2 Tribute band that is simply phenomenal. The band was in full costume and we really rocked hard. The most Rock N' Roll part of all of this is that Jeff played both shows with a broken thumb. He suffered the injury karate fighting Chuck Norris about a week ago, but did he stop playing bass? Hell no. Jeff played phenomenally as illustrated by the pic below!

A Huge Thanks

First off a thanks to Tiana DeAngelis, a student at CHS and a gifted photographer. She took the above shot of Ben and many more are to follow in this blog entry! Thanks Tiana!

Well, what's new...hmm....Our album dropped last Thursday! BOOOOM! It was a over a year worth of recording and mixing and finally a product, a neatly shrink wrapped cd, bar code and everything (I was almost in a band once called "The Bar Code", but people hated the idea quite appropriately). I began selling the cds weeks ago, since our website was doing a pre-order. Many cds were shipped out the very first day to all the lucky fans that pre-ordered. The cd is currently available at our site and will soon be available at itunes and amazon.




I sold 30 or so out of my backpack on Friday, which was more than I expected to sell. That's indie style right there. My very awesome mom bought 6 or so for my whole family. My very awesome aunt also bought several. So far, those are the top sellers! The response thus far has been excellent. I can't say I wasn't nervous after spending over a year on a project. The songs are my passion and they each tell stories of different snapshots of time in my life. Most of the stories are true, but some of them might be a stretch, haha. To quote Chris Cornell, I just love "creating musical environments that I can sort of walk into." I am so blessed to have moved to Mass and met the wonderful group of guys I have around me in this band. We are also fortunate to have signed on with Zac Cataldo at Night Train Records, someone who put the band in high gear and worked his butt of for us 24/7. Two years ago, I had just moved here and didn't know a soul. If it wasn't for the glory of craigslist, I wouldn't have met any of these people. Just try to avoid the dating forum on there...as many of you have heard there are psychos lurking. So far, the musicianforum has been nothing but a positive networking environment, bringing musical soul mates together all in the name of rock n' roll.

I definitely need to send out a huge thanks to all my friends and fans. It wouldn't be possible without your support. Many of you have bought the album and you don't know how much that means to each of us. We put so much into this project and we hope to release many more albums in the future. Muchos Gracias!! (About all the spanish I know)



With Rocking,

Zac, Ben, Jeff, Justin and Jay

"Don't Look Down" Tracklist

Hey guys,

Here is the tracklist for our debut album, coming out in 14 days!!!

1. Highest Level
2. Roll Me Over
3. 15 Songs on the Radio
4. Lonely Me
5. Myspace Heartbreak (remixed!)
6. Cougar
7. Loaded Gun
8. Stepping Stone
9. Darcie
10. Oh No
11. Trap

Preorder now here!!!!

A Weekend to Remember

This is the incredible tale of the weekend of the Utica Music Festival. Most things will be discussed and the names will be changed to protect the guilty. The picture to your left is the 257 Steakhouse in downtown Utica, NY. We were scheduled to be on stage at midnight on Friday. We hit the road at 4pm, with a 4 hour trip ahead of us and all our gear and personal effects neatly packed. After about 30 minutes, Jay looks at the speedometer and we are apparently traveling at 95mph. Pretty sweet. The radio and everything died. Who needs a battery anyways? Oh how close but so far away we were. Ok, we were just far away at that point.



Anyways, to make a long story endless, with the van on the side of 495, we had to go back and all get our own cars. Roadside assistance came and we were able to get a new battery into poor old Daisy, but then we thought to ourselves: how do we know it's not the alternator?! The roadside guy, Jake I think his name was, was the man and told us where the nearest garage was. We left it at the garage and transferred all our gear in the rain. By this time, we are cutting it close. We hit the road together (in separate cars) and made it to the steakhouse with 15 minutes to spare. How's that for cutting it close?! A huge shoutout to Autumn who played before us at the steakhouse (sorry we missed it Autumn!). She is an amazing singer/songwriter from Texas that we exchanged cds with. Lovin the cd!


After an awesome show at the steakhouse, we hit the road for another 10 miles to get to our cabins, in a campground in Poland, NY. We awoke the next morning to the sounds of yelling kids dressed up in halloween costumes. Did we sleep until halloween? No, it's just halloween in Poland, NY. Dozens of campsites all decked out in cobwebs and beware signs. Children marched by a groggy and confused Jeff, scaring the poor chap half to death. Later in the weekend, our neighbor asked us 'what was in season?' The whole campground had assumed we were fisherman. We informed them that we were rockstars, chilling at a halloween campground to save money on hotel costs. Such a strange combination.



We then searched the streets of downtown Utica for food for what seemed like hours. Everything was closed. For a moment, we thought Armageddon had happened and we would be living a real life "Jericho" in Utica, starting out with nothing but our instruments and our wits. Luckily, we eventually found the main drag with all the good stuff.....we found several other hungry bands at the one and only Dennys. After eating 1500 calories, we headed back to the cabins for pre-show rock skipping and showed the other campers that we were clearly no fisherman. Somewhere along the way, Ben ended up with a flat tire. While changing the tire, we saw Amash people and a rainbow with a clear ending in front of a small tree. I am not making this up.

We finally headed back to town and found the venue of our 2nd gig. The stage area was outside and had flooded, so we had to squeeze onto a tiny room. Good thing we get along with each other and had an ample supply of TAG at the cabins. At the venue, I met the owner's brother Jay, who taught me how to play buckhunter and floss Cadillac Escalades and also Sick Rick, a cool biker dude who was concerned I was going to hit my head on the ceiling fans. We rocked hard and won over the crowd. Ben had to split at 10 and drive all the back to Manchester, NH...he had a flight to catch the next morning. I learned a lot about my bandmates on this trip....two members of the band snore louder than I sing...1 wears an irish kilt on occasion (he wore it at the show)....and other things which I'll leave up to the imagination.



Not sure why I put this last picture up here....this was on the ride back, with no coffee in my system....I was ready to keep going south and do a tour! Hopefully someday soon!