AhhhHhh....

August 22nd 2010

So.. How YOU doin'. That good eh? I get that.. The summer is slipping away.. and so is
the bands three week hiatus.. It seems like it's been so much longer than three weeks..

I've noticed that our website gets the most hits on it on Fridays.. Don't worry people we are BACK and better than ever!

We had a couple of rehearsals with Andy, and will be having one more this week in preparation for Saturdays gig.. I'm pretty sure you will love him. The last couple rehearsals have been us getting used to each others way of playing and styles. I think we are pretty much all set.. Cant wait for Saturday!

As I promised in the last post.. (about a month ago.. really sorry for slacking again) I would put a few pics up of one of the rehearsals, here's some for ya. please note some of us just came straight from work.. and may look a little dorky..

 

 

Welcome Andy!

July 28th 2010

Hey Everyone.. I know I know.. 7ish weeks without writing.. I can explain.. I ran out of
gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD. (quote from the Blues Brothers)

We had a tough last few weeks.. We had to say good bye to Steve.. His shoulder really started causing him troubles and he had to back out of the band... So, we had some auditions for drummers.. and well let me tell you.. This guy walks in calm and cool and totally blew our socks off! Playing shit on the drums that I didn't even know drums could do. AMAZING! This guys name is Andy (will come up with a name and bio for him later)

That's him in that pic above.. I cant wait till all you guys get to see us in action with him as the driving force now.. So in the next few weeks.. we will be rehearsing getting ready for our next gig at Johnny Macs in Worcester for Andy's debut with The Last Call Band!

 

More to come soon.. Really wanted to post about Andy.. We took a few pics at rehearsal last night.. I hope to get them and put them up here soon.. Come back!

 

 

`...And Now For Something Completely Different

June 10 2010

What does a rock band do when they have a weekend off from playing out? Well.. Not
all of what you would think.. I'm guessing you think PARTY! We did that and more! I'll give you the skinny..

Friday night:
Some of the band and wives went to The Cannery on 12 Crane Street in Southbridge to check it out for future gigging possibilities.. Looks like a real fun place to play hope to play there in the fall! We stuck around for a while as High Octane was playing. Check them out if you get the chance.. Good times!

Saturday Late Afternoon:

Some of us went to see / listen to The Al sing opera. That's right Opera! Lots of you probably didn't know that he does that sort of thing.. But it was very beautiful. Very emotional sitting there and experiencing that sort of thing. I got to tell you.. It was really hard (that's what she said) getting us together and being serious.. We did a good job of not losing control like we usually do. Al.. you were awesome! Also were all of the others that sang! You all ROCK! does that work in this situation? You All Opera! I got nothin'.. If you want to hear Al chirp a couple of his opera tunes, click on these 2 links..

Alan Ritacco - Amarilli, Mia Bella

Alan Ritacco - Bring Him Home

 

Ok.. moving on.. After that was over.. We went to Beatnik's Bar in Worcester to kick back a few gallons of our favorite tasty beverages..No Alibi was playing there. (Thanks for the great tunes guys!) I gotta say.. we got wrecked! Then ended up in our usual hangout after we play.. IHOP! Gotta say.. That is a very interesting place at 3 a.m. I ate everything on my plate(s) which really helped me sober up.. But it wasn't pretty later on.. You don't want those details.. lol (ug) I'm sure I left a lot out.. but that's what I remember..

Facebook Update: over 4200 fans! BoooYeah!

 

Sweet Satisfaction

June 1st 2010

We had three kick ass shows since I've written.. So, I'll give you the scoop on them.. We
Irish Timeswere excited to play with Suzy again. She's great! We only had a couple of practices with her and a total of about 4 hours (if that) to get her used to us and the new tunes.. Needless to say we did awesome! The gig Suzy played with us was at The Fifth Amendment on May 22nd. We did run into a small snag as soon as we got there.. Well, let me back up a few hours first.. We got to Buds house to load up all the gear, Suzy had to pick up her drums as well. After all the gear is loaded, we took a breather for a few minutes. I was telling Suzy that we've been playing out so much.. that I don't think that anything can surprise us anymore.. Well, we get to the Fifth, and the first thing the guy that runs the place says.. There's no sound guy and asked if we had all our mics and cables.. (which we didn't because they had always supplied them with their PA) The guy made a call and got some cables.. and we made due with what we had and still had a great time! So.. I guess we can still be surprised with weird situations.. Goes with Live Rock I spose! During the gig, We unleash our original song "Sweet Satisfaction" Didn't tell anyone at first it was an original.. During the song, we saw people getting into it, already singing the chorus before half the song like the heard it before.. It was awesome!! We got great feedback after the gig about it as well.. Hopefully we will record it within the next few weeks..

Now on to the double shot weekend.. I think this is the first time we had back to back gigs.. Not only did we have two in a row, we had to add some stuff in between them.. As you know, we are a blue collar band.. (we all work day jobs) some of us a lot more then others, but non the less.. we all work.. Friday comes around, We rock out The Irish Times till' 1:30. By the time we're done packing up our gear it's 2:30. Harvest invited all of us to her house for an after party. Harvest, (real name btw) saw us the first time we played at The Irish Times, and really liked us and made a point to come to most of our shows ever since.. We became really good friends with her and If you go to any of our shows, I'm sure you will get to meet her.. She's really cool.. anyway, most of the band goes to her house to pretty much wind down and hang out for a while. (Steve didn't go, He had to work in the morning sucks huh?) I figured why not, After a gig, I'm so wound up with energy I don't go to bed till the wee hours of the morning anyway.. We just hung out, chatted had some munchies.. and acted like the fools that we are.. Good times!I Got home after 5am.. Slept till about noon, Then the band was to meet at Justin's parents (very very cool btw) house for a pre-gig hang out sorta thingie in Marlboro. Good plan, Gig's at the Lazy Dog in Marlboro.. So, We ate chinese food and crashed for a little while before the show.. Marlboro is Justin's stomping grounds so that makes The Lazy Dog a cool gig for Justin.. Some of his friends showed up to check us out and have some fun. We also played Sweet Satisfaction at both of those gigs and had awesome feedback as well! Can't wait to get it out there! After The Lazy Dogs gig, most of us ended up at IHOP (becoming a usual thing for us after shows) to eat and wind down and shoot the shit for a while.. Then the weekend started for us.. We had Sunday and Monday to rest and recover our sore dehydrated bodies... Living the Dream!!

 

"Crash" At The Fifth Amendment! on 22nd

May 18th 2010

Welcome back my friends. We've been busy busy lately.. Playing.. Working.. Breaking..
Suzy "Crash" Gillies" Breaking? Yeah Breaking.. Steve aka Silent Assassin, has broken himself. He didn't do it on purpose, Well.. If I told you the truth you wouldn't believe me.. You want the truth? ok.. here goes.. He cut off a car full of ninja girl scouts.. You've seen them on the highway I'm sure.. It was a little Volkswagen bug (the new style) anyway, they followed him till he had to stop at a red light.. All 37 of them pile out of the little car (like clowns) and tore him out of his car and tried to beat him from an inch of his life.. Well long story short. He took out 36.5 of them and walked away with a small limp and a hurt shoulder.. even with them flinging their girl scout cookie ninja throwing stars.. crazy huh? Told you you wouldn't believe me!

So.. We have a guest Drummer Suzy "Crash" Gillies filling in for him for a gig or so until he gets better.. That's a pic of her up there in the corner.. maybe she was a girl scout.. hmm... conspiracy? Nah..

 

We had a couple of Kick Ass gigs lately as well.. Played a couple new tunes.. And met tons of new friends!! I can't say this enough but meeting new friends that come out to see us and getting involved in our shows.. makes it worth lugging all the gear, setups, and usual problems that follow with live music..You All ROCK \m/

 

So.. Make sure you come visit us at The Fifth Amendment this Saturday Night and come see a rocker chick beat on some drums!!!

 

Last thing.. A very powerful rock / metal icon passed away on Sunday.. Ronnie James Dio. I grew up listening to him in Black Sabbath and Dio.. He was a big impact in my life to what music I listen to now and even play.. Rest in Peace RJD! You will live on forever!

 

 

Worcester Music Awards

April 26th 2010

So.. We were nominated for Pulse Magazines Worcester Music Awards as most of you
"Per ma-smile" already know.. well, that's because you all nominated us! Anyway.. We were asked to play at The Lucky Dog last Thursday the 22nd for the ceremony along with some others to entertain between handing out awards. So, I was pretty nervous playing this gig. It's kind of of a big thing for us.. I got out of work and went straight to the The Dog. Supposed to be there around 6ish for setups and whatnots... Got there about 5:30 and was going to wait around for at least one of my band mates to show before going in.. I got sick of waiting, and went in.. Well, as soon as I walked in the door. I felt so welcome and was greeted buy Pulse Magazines Laura. She was great! Asked if I was in The Last Call Band, and said.. sure am.. gave me a t-shirt, felt at ease.. The others showed up shortly after that, loaded in our guitars, amps and drums.. Hung out a bit.. Then we were graced enough to meet Kim Jennings. She was nominated in a bunch of categories as well.. and she was to perform as a solo artist playing the acoustic.. I have to say. She was so cool such a beautiful voice.. Make sure to check her out.. You wont be disappointed. The night goes on, Awards are handed out and we didnt win anything so far. Now it's time for us to play.. So we kicked ass for the next 40 minutes or so doing what we do best.. Having a blast playing music and watching the crowd getting into it.. I know I can speak for all of us (as I usually do) That 40 minutes felt like 5 minutes! It was over before I knew it! After we played.. it was time for another round of awards to be given out.. The category of Best Rock Band in Worcester County is being called out.. and we are one of the four nominies..Well LOW AND BEHOLD WE FREEKIN WON IT!!! I was Like Holy Crap!! We were all are Psyched!! Went up on stage to accept the award and give a short speech.. It was awesome! Later that night, We also won an award for the Band with the best Groupies!! So we walked away with TWO Awards!! GO US!! To make the night even better.. Our new friend Kim Jennings also won her award for Best Female Vocalist! You Rock Kim!! Take a bow.. We're a fan!!

ok.. about the pic above with that big-ass smile on my face.. Well, that's not my usual smile.. but it was for the rest of that night and well.. I think I'm still sporting it.. Kim mentioned she still had the "per ma-smile" going on still. so that term is hers (maybe I should ask for permission? lol)

 

 

"Voice of Reason"

April 09th 2010

Simply wow.. Haven't written in over a month. It's not like me, I usually go about two weeks and feel
"Voice of Reason"bad about not writing anything.. So go ahead.. call me a slacker, lame ass whatever. lol..

Anyway, I figured I'd write now because my wife is watching What Not to Wear on tv right now. I've got to admit, the chick they are fixin' up is a banging looking babe! (long pause... ) sorry.. was watching tv!

 

OK! Back to business! We have been pretty busy this past month. Had a couple great gigs, met some more of our awesome fans and getting some public recognition. For starters, We made top 4 best cover band in Worcester County!! And you know why we did? That's right.. Because of OUR Sweet Gracious Awesome Bodacious Fun Loving Fans! Hell Yeah!! Do you know what that means? Man, I'm asking you guys a lot of freekin questions aren't I? It means, on April 22nd we are performing at The Lucky Dog at the 2010 Worcester Music Awards!! And then we will find out where we fit in the top 4! So keep all your digits crossed for us! And maybe see you there!!

 

So.. about the pic I re posted on this post. We entered Wormtown Rocks Photo exhibit! (For those of you that have no idea what Wormtown is, well it's the nickname for Worcester, Like Boston is known as Bean Town) The Idea for the Exhibition is to capture Rock in Worcester County.. We entered three photos, and one of them was accepted for the exhibition.. Pretty rockin' right? we thought so.. The photo that made it was the one above that was titled "Voice of Reason"

 

I also wanted to show you this cool pic.. So.. This is rock and roll right? Sharon's rockin
"Pain"out on the way cool light box,, But really what's going on in her head is "Oh shit.. this light totally blows up my skirt thing and everyone can see everything!" and Mike (me) Looks like he's Getting down grooving to the tune.. Right? But what's really going on in his mind is (and I should know.. I was there) "F^@%!! I know these shoes look Kickin' But Daaaamn these fricking things are killin my feet!!" Sharon actually banned me from wearing these forever!! She told me she saw the pain in my face all night.. UGH.. Rock and Roll eh? LOL..

 

We have a bunch of gigs coming up.. so hope to see you again!! You all ROCK!!

 

One more mention... I know I can speak for the band.. But we really need to thank Bonnie Ritacco, The Al's Woman, The Al's Main Squeeze, for doing almost, if not all of our public recognition like The Worcester Art Museums Wormtown Rocks Exhibit and Pretty much responsible for our 4000 that's right FOUR THOUSAND! Facebook friends!! She spend more time online working for us and really without much credit at all.. So, when you see her at a gig, walking down the street or Driving the Bonnie Mobile.., Please go out of your way and flash her some skin, give her a hug.. or at least a thumbs up!! Way to go Bonnie!! You Rule!!

 

 

I... AM... LAST CALL MAN!

03/07/10 (Gallery Pics)

Faster than a gentle breeze on a cool summer day....
More powerful than a snuggie in a washing machine... .
Able to fall down the stairs in tall buildings in a single bound.

Look! Up on the stage!
It's a dude. It's got a bass. It's Last Call's Bassist Justin-man!

Yes, it's Justin-man - strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Justin-man - who can change the course of music, bend steel bass strings with his bare hands, and who, disguised as Justin Leandres, mild mannered Bassist for a The Last Call Band, fights the never ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way.

 

We had a blast playing at The Black Bear Saloon down in Hartford Connecticut last night. As you read above.. You can see that we finally got our banner! And I think Justin took it home and slept with it last night.. (Just wash it when your done with it Dude.) It was an amazing night.. TONS of people there! We had such a great time with everyone! Thanks for having us there Black Bear! Check out the pics here!

 

Facebook update.. We have 3446 friends!!! That's Insane!! We love you all!

 

Almost There.. Vote once More PLease!!

03/02/10

Ok.. I know.. I'm a wicked slacker! Been two weeks right?!?! Lots to tell and lots to keepsecret.. LOL.. Anyways, on to the cool part!! We have been nominated thanks to all of you out there!!! YAY!! We are STOKED!! but we have one more favor to ask of you all.. We need you to vote one more time to set your nominees set in stone!! So please go to this link, click on the image or click in the title. Just click something...

Thanks so much to all of you, The Last Call Band has made it into the final round of voting for Pulse Magizines 2010 Worcester Music Awards!!! Please vote one last
time (this time you will only need to click on The Last Call Band from
the list)The band is in the top 4 in the following categories:
#5 Best Cover/Tribute - The Last Call Band
#6 Best Female Vocalist - Sharon LaRange
#7 Best Male Vocalist - Al Ritacco
#11 Best Live Act - The Last Call Band
#13 Best Up and Comers Act - The Last Call Band
#18 Best Rock Act - The Last Call Band
#21 Sexiest Musician - Sharon LaRange
#23 Band with Best Groupies - The Last Call Band

(copied that above part from our Facebook page.. so apologies if its a little redundant)

 

After you voted (hint hint) you may come back and continue reading... The band is doing mostly well with one exception.. Steve is sick.. here is the email we got from him for canceling practice the other night.. "Sorry for the short notice again been throwing up all afternoon...shoud be able to Wednesday if the good lord does not take me like I've been asking sorry again I totally suck..." You see why I love being a part of this band.. feeling like he belongs on deaths door, he's still funny!

Some of the band made it up north NH for a snowmobiling weekend.. All I can say is WHAT A FRICKIN RUSH IT WAS!! Never been on a snowmobile before.. and I cant wait till I do it again!

 

Big gig for us coming up in Hartford, CT at The Black Bear Saloon this Saturday night.. Hope to see some of you there.. I know its a little further away than usual for most of you.. but It's a really nice place.. and will be tons of fun!!

 

We also got some new equipment this week.. We GOT SUBWOOFERS!! Hell Yeah! Cant wait to play out with these babies.. It's gonna sound SOOoo Good!! We will have them with us in Sturbridge's show at Tj's.. Sweet!! Okies.. that's enough of my rambling.. so.. if you learned anything, the moral of this story is, VOTE Please!!! (ABOVE)

 

Vote! Vote! Vote!

02/12/10

Hey Everyone! Hope you all are having a great winter so far! I know we are! We are getting close to being fully booked for the rest of the year already.. We took the month of February off, and lucky we did. Most everyone in the band came down sick with one thing or another, bruising things, body parts falling off.. just terrible.. even cancelled a couple practices because of it..

But we have a favor to ask of you fans out there.. Go to Pulse Magazine online and vote for The Last Call Band in the 2010 Worcester Music Awards.

#5 Best Cover/Tribute - The Last Call Band
#6 Best Female Vocalist - Sharon LaRange
#7 Best Male Vocalist - Al Ritacco
#11 Best Live Act The Last Call Band
#13 Best Up and Comers Act - The Last Call Band
#18 Best Rock Act - The Last Call Band
#21 Sexiest Musician - Sharon LaRange
#23 Band with Best Groupies (That's all of you!) The Last Call Band

 

Thanks for your help and support.. That's it for now.. Gonna go hit the NyQuil now.. Man, that's good stuff.. Later!

 

Still on a Natural High...

02/04/10

Yup.. I'm still on a high from last Saturday night's show at Irish Times. We have gotten a
pic taken at Irish Timesbunch of positive feedback on what a great time everyone had. I still cant stop smiling when I think about it,

Here is one of the emails...

 

This is Harvest, the ridiculous person that integrated herself onstage.  Just wanted to thank you all for not kicking my ass, and hope I wasn't that much of an intrusion.   You all have a wonderful energy that gets an audience caught up in the performance.  I appreciated your tolerance of me in your space.  Can't wait to catch you guys again soon.  Please feel free next time to kick me off right away lol:).  Great show, great energy again, appricated your performance!  Take good care, let me know when everyone is in town again.

Harvest
(yes, really is my name..)

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams

 

Thank you so much for the input! We would be nothing without you guys rocking with us!

 

Chicks dig scars, Pain Heals, Glory Lasts Forever...

1/31/10 (Pics from this show)

I wasn't going to write so soon.. But I just had to. Last night was Freeking AMAZING!!
pic taken at Irish TimesMan.. I woke up with a smile thinking about it.. even the pain cant stop me from smiling.. I'll get to the pain part in a minute. We got a chance to play with the lights.. I must say. It added so much to the show. But what really added to the show was all the energy from the crowd! It was awesome.. The place was packed.. and everyone was dancing and singing with us on and near the stage.. It was so cool!

Almost every time we play out, I wonder why I do this .. It's not that I don't love playing my guitar.. Its lugging all the gear around.. Loading, and unloading and setting up.. But its its nights like this.. and the people that make it worth all the sweat and tears and appreciate what we do.. I know that I can speak for the rest of the band.. That we do in fact LOVE ALL of you, and we REALLY appreciate your support for us.. OK.. enough of this emotional shit.. haha!

Ok.. now to the pain part I was talking about.. During one of our songs.. I jumped off the

stage to join Sharon singing with the audience.. well, when I went to jump back on.. I totally misjudged the height of the stage.. and pretty much did a face plant! I got right up and threw my hands in the air.. What else could I do.. right? Go with the flow.. Maybe I'll be a stunt man on the side.. LOL!! anyway.. I skinned up my knuckle pretty bad.. black and blue on my leg.. and had slight damage to my guitar.. But as the title of this little story says.. Glory from a kick ass show! I love it! So this week I will make my way down to Mr.C's Music in Marlboro and Chris can do some repairs to my Wolfgang,,

Big thanks go out to our new Facebook friends that came out to see us.. and a Really big thanks for Dave B, and Mike for coming out and giving us a hand with the PA.. also.. our fan base on facebook is almost to 3000 people!! Wa-hoo!!

Our next gig will be out of state.. Not that far away.. Hartford Ct. is the place, and Black Bear is the name.. so we will be working on a few more tunes for that show.. Hope to see some of you there!!! Enough rambling on for now.. Peace!

 

So.... Irish Times Tonight!!

1/30/10

Yeah.. So.. I'm sorry that I haven't written in a while.. Just been a little busy.. I'll try not to let it happen again! We had a great gig at The Wheelock Inn a couple weeks ago. Had a wonderful turnout for a crowd, unleashed four or five new tunes on our audience.. and it went awesome! We gave away a few band T-shirts.. blah blah blah.. You get the idea .. It was a great night!

We sold a few items already from our merchandise page.. I'm wondering and
if we will see them in action tonight at the show.. (especially the thongs!) You know who you are!

 

I know I can speak for everyone in the band.. that we are VERY excited to play tonight! The show at Wheelock was really good.. But tonight seems to feel different for some reason.. Maybe its the lights we scored that we are going to try (if we can get all the gear in the vehicles lol) or just because we haven't played all that much since the mid of last December. Tonight will be fun!! Enough for now.. I need a nap before the gig.. Some Rockstar life huh?

 

 

Getting Ready to Rock Again!!

1/10/10

First Off.. Happy New Year! Hope everyone's holidays were great and I'm sure most of
pic taken at The Fifth Amendmentyou are glad it's over! We had a nice little break off over the last month. But we're gearing up and ready to start rocking again! Added some new tunes, So we hope to see you so we can unleash them on you this coming Saturday at The Wheelock Inn in MIllbury! Hopefully we'll have a few T-Shirts left and we will throw out a few to the crowd during the night..

 

We also had write up in the Daily MIllbury Paper, you can check it out here.

 

On January 2nd, A good portion of the band went to Rhode Island to see Halestorm perform at Lupo's. ( We do their "I get off on you" song) I have to admit, watching them on youtube performing live prior to this show, I was a little worried.. maybe it was the recordings.. but they didn't sound great live.. But DA-AMN! We were totally blown away with their sound, and performance!! If you get a chance to see them, Do it! Halestorm finished their set just before 10 o'clock, so we beat feet and flew to The Fifth Amendment in Worcester to see Justin's friends band "Never in Vegas" Again.. another must see band! Incredible..

Last but not least.. We are over 2500 friends on Facebook! Thank you so much for all of you for becoming our friends and helping us grow! Because without all of you, What's the point? Right? You all rule! Thanks Again!

 

 

What a Night at the V!

12/19

First off.. My apologies for starting late.. Were were supposed to go on for 10 o'clock .. But the comedy guy started late and finished late before us.. So we didn't even start till about 10:45. We started the first song (sound check) and Bud's amp died.. Great.. what now.. So after trying this and that.. we figured it to be a fuse in his amp head.. A stupid simple little fuse! Of coarse we didn't have the right kind of fuse.. So Nick (Runs theV) finds us some tin foil.. Wrapped up the fuse in tin foil like a pig in a blanket.. stuck it back in.. and Wa-La.. it worked! That only set us back about 5 more minutes.. Yes it was risky to do that.. it could've fried his amp head.. but the show must go on!! So even though starting late and the amp issue we felt responsible to keep it going and turn it up a notch.. So.. we played all night without stopping.. we played from 10:50 to past 1:30 without a break.. It was pretty cool. We were all so beat and dehydrated by nights end.. I felt the worst for Justin.. He told me he had to pee really bad fifth song in, ( I thought he was jumping around more than usual..must've been his pee-pee dance!) and was going to go at the first break which never came! LOL poor bastard!

 

The Fifth!!

12/8

So.. Winter is here.. and it's cold as a witches.. ahhh you know how the saying goes..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gotta tell you, We are VERY excited for this Saturday night. We are playing The Fifth Amendment!! BOOYAA!! Can't f'ing wait!! It's We had a great write up in the Worcester Telegram today as well. Thankfully it wasn't something like one of us was in jail.. HAHA! check it out here. As the pic above says.. Lighting the tree.. deck the halls.. So as you can see, it's a x-mas bash! So naturally the band wants me to dress up as Santa.. Why me? Is it my witt and style? My cheery laugh? My generosity? I doubt it.. Lets face it.. I'm the largest of the group.. haha! I'll wear the hat.. that's about as x-mas as I'm going to get.. ok.. that's all for now.. Hope to see you at The V Saturday!!

 

Sardines? anyone?

12/6

Wow! What a great night! The Gas Light was packed!! People were out the door trying to come in.. It was great!! I should've tried to crowd surf!! Nah.. that would've crushed someone.. for sure.. HAHA! We sounded great too! It was the first time we miked all our equipment.. and what a difference it made!!

 

You need to check out the pics from the show.. Sharon was Smokin' Hot as usual! Look here..

That's all for now.. check back.. in a day or two.. we are playing at the Fifth Amendment this Saturday!!

 

Happy Anniversary!!

12/03

This Friday's gig is kind of special to us.. It's actually funny how it worked out.. We played at the Gas Light in Dudley one year ago December 5th I think.. (close enough). It was Our Drummer Steve's aka Silent Assassin first gig with us. Not only that, It was the first time that Sharon came to see us play and we had her sing a song with us.. and she joined us not long after that!! So if you get a chance.. Come out and say hi to us at the Gas Light!

oh yeah... we are getting close to 2000 fans on facebook!! 1891 last time I looked.. I'll have to come up with something creative for our actual 2000th fan.. most likely it will be drinking for free at one of our gigs.. I dunno... if you have any ideas email me ...

 

Had a Blast at JJ's!

11/29

Had a blast at JJ's on Friday night! What a night! We sounded great thanks to the sound guy Tim. And we had a great crowd to boot! I know myself, I started out a little slow.. waiting for the DayQuil to kick in. Now I know how Justin felt at the last gig playing while sick.. I got to tell you.. it sucks ass! But once ya get started playing, you kinda forget your sick and get into it. The show must go on!

So.. we are undecided whether or not that we are having practice this week since we'll have to setup all the gear only to break it down again for this Fridays gig at The Gas Light Cafe in Dudley. I'm sure we will get together anyway just to hang out.. Good Times!

 

 

Kick A$$ Show at The V!

11/09

For starters... We had a kick ass time playing at The Fifth Amendment last Saturday...

This place has an AWESOME sound system and is run by what I think is the best sound guy out there! Thank You Jason for making us sound our best! We had tons of great feedback because of you! We had a great crowd and THANKS go out to all that made it out there.. We would be nothing without you guys!!

 

We also have almost 1500 people on our Face book! Thank You everyone!

 

Wow.. I'm thanking a lot of people tonight.. I must be in a good mood or something..lol.. I'm sure that will change soon..

 

As for practice this week.. Not sure we are having it.. The Al is hopefully getting over his laryngitis which he just started to get before Saturdays gig.. and Steve is limping and has a swollen wrist.. It's tough being a rocker at our age!! But I guess its nothing that some Advil and Ben-Gay can't fix! We might want to change our name from The Last Call Band to Aches and Pains! HAHA I crack myself up!! Anyway.. thanks for reading my crapola.. Peace!!

 

 

I Plead The Fifth!

11/03

Great gig coming up for us at The Fifth Amendment in Worcester.. We are all looking forward to play there! We decided to learn a few last minute songs for this place.. Hope it pays off!

On another note, I have news about our sound board. Sharon and I (Mike) went to guitar center to look at new boards..We asked the guy in that section about The Mackie 1402-VLZ3 Mixer, then I mentioned about our mixer we bought there back in July that crapped out on us and gave us nothing but problems.. He said we should talk to the manager.. I was thinking here we go.. we're going to get the speal that breaks down that they are sorry, and we are hosed.. I told him some of the issues and he tells me to stop talking and go get the mixer and they will give us a FULL refund on it! Sharon and I couldn't get out of there fast enough to run back home and get the old one and get the new one we looked at! Kudos go out to Guitar Center in MIllbury, MA for making good on this for us! We had an AWESOME practice the first time we used it.. Everything works like it was supposed to.. and could finally hear everyone!

 

Pleading the Fifth may have another reason behind this post.. Most of us attended The Gion's Halloween Party.. and let me tell you.. the costumes were Fantastic!! What an awesome evening!!

 

The Beast over Boston

10/22

A while back, Sharon and myself (Mike) had nothing to do and ended up going toRalph's Diner in Worcester to see some tribute bands.. One of these bands we saw was The Beast over Boston. An Iron Maiden Tribute band.. We were blown away! We shot the shit with Art (Lead Vocals) for a little bit after his show.. and he was a wicked nice guy by the way.. anyway.. Him and Sharon have been in contact ever since.. Where am I going with this you ask?? Well I'll tell you. Art is such a great guy, He is letting us borrow his Mixerboard for a few days in order for us to diagnose the issues were having with our PA system. We're pretty sure its the mixerboard we bought only a few months ago from guitar center. We bought it as we thought was a floor model.. but it rang out as used.. so we may have to send it back to Mackie for them to repair it.. anyway... lesson learned on that one! So we are testing out the PA tonight so we can play out at Trumbulls tomorrow night without worrying about the PA again..

 

Thanks so much Art!! Click on the picture above and check these guys out!!!

 

 

Rocking with the Bride and Groom!

10/20

We had a BLAST playing at Admiral Tj O'Brien's on Saturday night!! We got a little bit of a late start because there was a last minute table with a bunch of people eating pretty much where we had to play.. So we waited till they were mostly done and asked them to slide down so we could set up our gear.. We were setup in no time and started rocking the place..

We were graced with the presence of a beautiful bride and groom and the rest of the wedding party during our last set of the night.. We let them pick out a song from our set list to play for them.. and they picked she f'ing hates me by Puddle of Mudd! lol.

So thanks to everyone that made it out and big congrats to the bride and groom!!

 

 

 

Also we are pleased to report that we have over 1000 people on facebook as friends now!! Rock On!!

 

We will be at Trumbulls in Spence this Friday nite!! Come on by and say hi!!

 

Insomnia

10/6

This is what happens when Sharon can't sleep. This is what she posted on facebook last night..

HEY LADIES!!!!!! NOT ONLY DO THEY ROCK, THEY CAN DANCE!!!!!

 

 

It's ok Sharon.. We've got it...

10/3

For starters.. it's October already.. wow. I'm still waiting for summer to start, and here it is.. October.. Lets just hope for a decent winter..

 

We had a great gig at the Wheelock. Had tons of people, , great energy and it was Justins' first gig with us. What could be better?

We brought some new tunes to the plate for the first time, and I still can't believe Sweet Home Alabama was such a hit! We do it our way so I don't mind playing it.. We do it more of a jam song.. but man, the people got up and danced to it!! so I guess that's a keeper..

 

If you're wondering why the title of this section is "it's ok Sharon.. we've got it.." well, During setting up for the gig.. it's usually chaos plugging in everything and making sure it works.. but we had a problem with the PA system.. So as The Al is getting a little frantic trying to figure it out.. Sharon had disappeared to god knows where to do god knows what.. LOL.. she comes back and asked if we needed help.. Al says sarcastically "it's ok Sharon.. we've got it.." She didn't catch the sarcasm and took off again.. so we made fun of the rest of the night saying that to her.. I told her what it really meant last night.. and she felt like a dork.. hahaha Love this band!!

 

On another note we are pretty much booked up for the rest of the year.. which is great.. but we are kind of bummed out because we are missing some great opportunities to play at the Lucky Dog.. We've been asked to open for the Fool's and also Trevor Rabin of YES. But some of us are busy those days and cant change our plans.. No worries.. there will be more..

 

Facebook fans!! WOW.. we have about 730 friends now.. So those of you that check out this site as well.. Thank You!!! Hope to see you at one of our shows

 

 

Calm Before the Storm

9/26 Nite at the Wheelock Inn (Millbury)

We had a really nice last few weeks... We added some more tunes to our set list.. Pink, No Doubt, Halestorm's I get off on you , another Ozzy's crazy train and another tune from way back that I don't care to mention..lol.. We mainly turned it into a jam song.. but should be fun non the less! We will crank it out tonite

 

During these last few weeks, Justin (Meat) went to Aruba with his babe and family.. I saw the pics from that trip.. and let me tell you, they had more than a blast!

Steve also came to rehearsal limping.. He gave some lame-o excuse on what happened.. but if I know him he's being modest.. My gut feeling is that he was jumped by 27 ninjas and he kicked all their asses and came out only with a slight limp.. You go Silent Assassin!

 

Also our fan base is growing on Facebook. We're close to 500 people so far. So, if your not on there yet.. check us out and friend us.. We have some videos on there that aren't on this web site.. Even though the vids still have our old bass player.. We hoping to see Sean again soon from Echo Video Productions to video us again!!

 

In the Paper

9/10

We are in The Hot Spot in the local newspaper.. There has been a cancellation for what is listed in there.. It says we are playing at The Emerald Isle this Saturday the 12th, We are NOT going to be there. However we will be at The Wheelock Inn on the 26th! Look under Gigs..

 

On another note.. check back in a few days.. During practice last night, Sharon disappeared for a bit to pose for some sweet pictures for the site.. so they will be posted soon!!

 

Tonight's Rehearsal

8/26

Ok. I'd like to ask this for starters.. Where the hell has this summer gone already? I mean.. REALLY?? It's the end of August already, kids are starting school and it's getting darker earlier. I just hope it's at least a mild winter. Enough of this rant..

So.. we had a nice surprise... Wayne was at our practice.. well it wasn't really a surprise, cuz we knew he was coming. Wayne is going to join us on bass along with Justin (aka meat) at the private party this Saturday. When we didn't have a bassist for a little while, Wayne was filling in for a few gigs and he still wanted to play this gig with us.. So we are going to have two bassist switching off tunes.. Should be pretty cool! We are hoping for NO RAIN for Saturday.. (since this will be an outdoor gig.) So everyone please get naked and do your Anti-Rain dance for us!!

 

We have also started booking clubs to fill out the year.. and Angel from Trumbulls in Spencer called me today to book something.. I'll have to call him back tomorrow so we'll be able to rock Meat's stomping grounds! BooYaa!!

 

Randomness

8/14

I know, I'm a slacker. I haven't posted in a while. We have been busy getting Justin up to
(Bud, Ben Carroll of Ra, Sharon and Mike)speed learning all out new tunes, in addition we added some more tunes our self. We have four more songs for Sharon.
We are so excited to play at this private party coming up. It's the perfect gig to break in Justin. Wayne is also going to be there and sharing the stage with Justin on the bass . It's going to be awesome!

 

This was us in Hartford to see the band Ra. What an AMAZING show. If you haven't heard of the Band Ra.. Look them up on Itunes. I promise you that you will love everything they have! You can also check them out on our friends page on this site.