headliners

may 17,2006 we played a really cool show at headliners music hall. WOW it was awsome regaurdless of the fact thats it was a wensday night. Tons of people showed and all the bands rocked. The line up was The OLB,THE SOL Band,and Subrosa it was a great time,I have seen other bands there and often thought about playing that stage. I once seen Steve vai at headliners=I played the same stage as Steve vai!!!! D.J rhino provided cool visuals and the sound man did a good job for us. The show was video taped as was the audio it turned out great but only by the grace of god! I currently have the audio tapes which sound great! and at least 9 songs from our set will be available as well as a kickin DVD! Big thanks to matt he did all the recording himself with Janet running the camera thanks baby!! We also have to thank the Sol for getting us the gig and Tony for throwin the party! Here is some things from the show including setlist and some cool photo's!........We played a lot of new songs as you can see! check out the new les paul and jay's playing the toby, karl rocks the drums as always!!!!

Here we go again!!!

well, here we go again. What can I say? A lot of our plans fell threw and things where looking bad for a minute there. No TV show, no acoustic Olb ,crap everything fell threw! We have not been playing out much(at all) and this blog has not been updated in months.....Thanks to my- space. I'll be creating a link to our myspace site soon and it will have some of our music on it!!!
So here's the skinny we been down and we are currently clawing our way back to the top. We have at least 10 cool new songs in the works and we are getting ready to record them. (swing)
next tonight we are playing out ! (swing,swing) on saturday we have another gig(swing,swing,swing) and we have decided to do a 2 hour live DVD that will be for sale sometime this summer.(swing....You get the point) I am also gathering material for an official outerloop web site. that should be very cool!!!! so hopefully I will have some photo's to put up of our next 2 shows and a story to go along.

Sneak preview

Well, we finally have put wheels in motion for many things. And are waiting to hear back on a number of plans but we are moving forward after a long wait. We have some new songs and a good start on the next grouping of tracks for a new spring CD release. I really don't want to say much but I will say one thing monster will be on this one without any question. So we are going to put that song to bed after all this time. I have to say that this one as always will be very different than last time and very different from alive and dying. But we are still writing very much and have a lot of cool ideals about what we can do to make some songs that we can really get behind!(photo: OLB artwork, this image appears on all the packages sent to labels,radio,etc).

New years rig details

since the new years show I have had several questions about my rig that night. I don't like to give up all my secrets. But.... What the hell here we go.......That night it appeared that I was using my jcm 800 but in reality I was using the 800 and my old blackface twin both amps where on at all times the twin was flipped around backward behind the 2-12 cab so noone could see it!!! During the first few notes we played I could see people giving the 800 weird looks. Of course I had a ts 808 reissue (just got it and its great) Clyde deluxe wah, boss octave pedal and a old mxr phase 90. Photo(my twin and me: in the background the birthday amp)

New years has come and gone!!!

Well, another year down the drain. Also a really great show to close it. In case you didn't know we had an our annual party and this is what happened. The show started at 9:30 (set 1) The crowd was fair considering all the things in this town to do on new years. The set ended with the breaking of a string and after a replacement, we finished the song for good measure. At 11:00 we started again to a slightly larger crowd. I would say my guitar tone was the bomb to say the least. possibly the best I have had for a while. We rocked fo sure but failed to film it. we finished the set just in time for the ball to drop. We did film the 1st set for OLB tv. After everyone was finished with all the shouting and etc. We started what was supposed to be a huge jam. It turned out ok but very unorganized and kind of crazy. there were a few highlights but mostly just insanity. the party ended with a dazed feeling not from booze but just the unsure feeling of,did anyone have a good time ? We rocked and did anyone care? the keg was empty the deli tray gone. the year was on its way!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

Well, here we are another year is almost over and I find myself reflecting on what we actually did this year. I know it does not seem like we have done a lot, only a few shows, less than any year we have been together. But what people don't realize is we spent the year basically brainstorming on how to turn our band into something more than just sitting around saying "one day wouldn't it be great if...." And we figured out playing tons of shows and all that goes with that is only part of being a band. So what I am trying to say is most of the things we are working on may take a little longer to pull off than booking a show at a local pub. And in the mean time we are enjoying the holidays and still working hard, no worries. We would like to thank everyone who has helped and believed in the OLB and wish them a very Merry Christmas. We hope to see everyone soon and we hope to be rocking out new years eve.

Our lighting concept

well, we had some money to play with and we decided to start the search for the perfect lights. We didn't want anything that would take away from the show, or lighting that was to busy. instead we wanted somthing that just kind of created an overall vibe, part of the fabric of the outerloop show if you will. and effects that reflect who we our and what we are about so what did we do?..............drop light of course you know the kind you hang them under your hood as you work. we replaced the blubs with blue ones for now. green would be cool to. we might be really crazy and add some matching rope light at some point.....wow but really we dont feel the need to have another aspect of the show we have to babysit we have alot to do already and this concept looks cool takes seconds to set up and fits perfect with our overall vibe and concept.

CHECK OUT THE KICK DRUM

HEY, speaking of new stuff check out our new kick drum we wanted an old school vibe. So we chose flames and skulls and bones pretty standard really. We do miss the monster and the madman being on there but we knew it was time for a change. So this is it for awhile. Next time we'll go all out and do something crazy!!!!

New OLB gear

hey, here are some shots of some new olb gear. Its our winter cap. It has a big OLb on the front and The Outerloop Band on the back its really boss. Its not into production yet but this will give you an ideal of what it looks like!