| 03.02.10 - Working on the NEW Spoken Record. |
| So, i'm in Nashville Tennessee, recording vocals for the new Spoken Record. Things are going really well so far. We have 3 songs complete, and 2 more with music finished. Now i need to get myself in gear and finish vocals on them.
So far we have a Really Heavy song called "Illusion", a slower tempo song about Love called "Learn To Love Again" , and a mid tempo kinda heavy, kinda Pop, sing along kinda jam called Dagger. I'm not sure when you'll hear them, but we are going to be playing Illusion LIVE on our next tour. Check out our tour dates on Myspace, and come hear the new song Live.
See ya soon
Matt Posted by Matt |
| 01.29.10 - Cold! In Albuquerque, NM?!? Seriously?!? |
| We just finished up some interviews and had an amazing breakfast with the M88 people here in a very VERY cold Albuquerque, NM. I know that most of the country is under a winter storm warning/watch but we're in the Southwest I mean seriously.
That being said, we're playing a show tonight @ The Believers Center and if all goes well we may even play a new song. Last night in El Paso, TX we made history by playing a new song from our as of yet unfinished new album and we could not be any more stoked that we've started playing some of our new material. The recorded versions are better than we could have ever hoped, and we can't wait to let you all hear it.
That's all for now, I'll hit ya'll up again in a couple of days.
JefSpoken |
| 01.27.10 - Lion Hunt 2010 |
| Well hello out there, right now we're smack dab in the middle of our first tour of 2010! We've had several weeks off there at the end of the year and it was amazing to be at home with our families and get to enjoy our home life for a while. That being said, we're stoked to be back out on the road and for this one we brought along our new buds "Sent By Ravens". This band is seriously giving us a run for the money each night, their new CD will be releasing on Tooth and Nail records soon I highly recommend that you go pick it up when you get the chance.
Also, as some of you know we've been working on new material over the last couple of weeks and I cannot stress how happy we are with the new material. As of yet we don't really know when the new disc will be ready but I promise that it will be well worth the wait, we're making every effort to completely blow your minds!
So, if you get the chance to catch us out on the Lion Hunt 2010 come by the merch table and say "hey"!
JefSpoken |
| 11.18.09 - Here's one from the heart. |
| You know I never really know what to write here in this section, for the most part it’s always been of the update category or a “what I’m doing now” kind of thing which really isn’t what it was intended for. As far as I can tell a journal is more for the here’s an internal look and what we as a band feel I guess. And that in of it’s self is a tricky line to tread because how much of our “profession” should we share here? How much do you want to know? What’s good to share from a spiritual stand point? What’s good to share from a business stand point? How much of our personal lives do I allow to show up here? Our struggles, our hopes, the things that keep us up at night sometimes. It’s a very tricky balancing act, because if we share to much or we share the wrong type of things we’re likely to either offend people or even loose fans. I know that at this moment I’ll keep things on the more professional level with a little bit of humor even thrown in there, but at some point I would like to feel confident enough in “pulling back the veil” so to speak and really let some insight in to what it’s like being in a band for the better part of 14 years. It’s a lot to ponder and pray about even so once we get more figured out on that I’ll be posting it here. When you get a chance check out the book of Malachi, I read that this morning and it really hit home on a couple of things in my life. When it’s talking in the 3rd person try putting your name in there and I think it will open your eyes a little bit.....sometimes it’s a good thing to be put into place. I know that I don’t say this enough but we/I really do appreciate all the people that come to our shows and buy or record/merch and connect with the songs that we write, unfortunately it’s something that I take for granted 98% of the time and I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart and I personally promise to show my appreciation to you all more often. Hope to see you all soon! -Spoken via Jef Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/spokenontheroad |
| 03.01.09 - stuck |
| Right now I'm stuck in a hotel room in Forrest City, AR waiting on the roads to clear enough so the fellas in Decking Ceaser can take me home to Nashville. There truly isn't anything that I can think of that's more anoying that sitting helpless 4 hrs from your home. But on the bright side, I'm able to write here in our tour journal, and update all of our online outlets. So it's not a total waste, but I would much rather be hanging out with my wife at the moment since I haven't seen here in several days.
I just posted a bunch of new shows with a little known band that you may have heard of. And that band is the ALL MIGHTY RED, so you should get excited and if your in the areas that, that tour is going through come out and support your boys.
That's all I have for the moment, I'll do this again in a few days.
check you later
JefSpoken |
| 02.11.09 - A plug for our boys. |
| Well our boys in RED released their new CD “Innocence and Instinct” yesterday and let me tell you, this is a monster of a record. You should definitely treat yourself and go out to pick this thing up; I really believe that it’s going to be one of those defining records that bands rarely get the chance to put out. I went to their CD release show last night at the Exit/In here in Nashville, and they did a great job with the new material. Right now I’m in the middle of collecting all the information for Spoken to do out taxes, and I pretty much hate it (you have any idea on how much stuff it takes to run a band, I wish I would have before this responsibility fell to me…hahhahahaha) Ok, talk to you later. JefSpoken Posted by JefSpoken |
| 02.09.09 - Nickelback |
| Well, well, well, lastnite I was updating some of our tour dates on all our online sites and came across an unfortunate event. Seeing as we hardly ever play in the Nashville, TN area (my home). I was fairly stoked to actually be booked at the Anchor Fellowship on the 25th of this month, that is until I tried sending the concert information to the local rock radio station here in town. Nickelback is playing Nashville that night :( and to most I know that's not that big of a deal, but I kinda wanted to go to that show so I know at least some of the people that would attend our little event are now going to be at that HUGE event just a few blocks away. So it's pretty much par for the course when Spoken comes to my hometown. But hey if your not going to the Nickelback show, come down to the Anchor Fellowship on The 25th, the details are on all our show sites.
Thanks
JefSpoken (want's to see Nickelback) Posted by JefSpoken |
| 06.18.08 - I actuall updated stuff today, and I have an amazing sense of acomplishment now. |
| Today I spent the entirety (and it's not an exaggeration either I literally spent from 6am to about 7:45pm at an airport) of my day at an airport, I know that if you even remotely keep up with what I write here in the Spoken journal that it's not all that surprising that I did. But due to the wonders of technology I got to spend a vast majority of that down time online taking care of some long overdue updating. And now that I'm basically caught up it leaves me wondering why it's so hard to keep all this stuff updated. But other than that I don't really have a lot to write. We play 3 shows this weekend starting tomorrow, so I'm stoked about that. I'll write some more later and let you know how the shows go. Love you all Posted by JefSpoken |
| 04.19.08 - Airports |
| What is it about airports that makes the world seem sterile? Is it the dull shine on the almost always white or off white tile floor? Is the the constant hum of the bazillion flurescent light bulbs? Maybe it's all of the people buzzing around trying so desperately to get to wherever it is that they have to go, and working so hard to casually ignore all the other people doing the same.
Right now it's 3:09 in the AM, and as is usually the case I'm at an airport. It basically feels like the last 2 years of my life have been spent sitting, just sitting in a faux leather simi-paded chair waiting for a flight either to or from a tour. I'm extreamly tired, we just finished up 18 days straight and I'm looking forward to some time at home with my wife.
I'm kinda scared to fall asleep b/c I always fear that someones going to run off with my stuff while I'm streached out over the four empty seats in my row of chairs. So I have to sit here and fight the tired off for 3 more hrs before I can check into my flight. But I've got my laptop to ramble on the internet with and my trusty iPod with the new Thrice(GO BUY THIS RECORD) on it, so hopefully I'll make it.
WOW, a whole fleet of people just showed up in the American Airlines tickiting terminal, so it looks like I may be able to check in early and go sleep at the gate. That's a nice bonus, I hope to write more later but for now I'm like a Sullivan record. (a ghost, as in out of here)
JefSpoken Posted by Jef |
| 03.11.08 - Home |
| Right now we’re right in the middle of our break in touring, it’s always good to come home and get to have a somewhat normal life. But it’s always tough b/c your never really “off the clock”, when I get home there are always things that need to be taken care of. It feels like I just got home and now it’s already time to start preparing to head back out, this is the toughest part about being in a band that tours all of the time. You never really get settled, don’t get me wrong I absolutely love what I do with my life but it gets hard trying to balance the two lives.
Our next tour “The Masters of Disasters Tour” starts in a couple of weeks, so I’m looking forward to hitting the road again, I really hope to see you all there.
I’m still trying to figure out who to vote for in November, I encourage you to research the people involved and make the most informed decision that you can.
Later!,
JefSpoken
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