something to believe in...

so i think we're really gonna give this whole blogging thing a shot.  i've never been good with things like keeping a journal (though i've tried on numerous occasions) but hopefully this will be a bit more consistent.  this is where we're going to put our interesting (maybe) stories or anecdotes about the goings on with Pico vs Island Trees.  here's the first one:

  yesterday, we drove from nashville to atlanta to see our friends Maroon 5 play.  it's nice to do a road trip every now and then, and not have to worry about when sound check is, or unloading (it may be argued that i usually don't worry about unloading, but you'd be wrong John Henry, dead wrong).  the arena was probably one of the nicer venues i've been to.  Way to go Georgia!  We met up with the guys backstage right about the time the Hives started playing.  The lead singer of the Hives is an amazing frontman and had the attention of every one in the audience.  The band was pretty entertaining overall, with the guitarist and drummer doing tricks with their respective instruments, and let's not forget the black and white dummy amps to send home the theme of their new record The Black and White Album.  On the side of the stage there was a family of like 13 young blonde kids, which Brian pointed out probably belonged to the members of the Hives, since they are, in fact, a Swedish band.  He was right.

Maroon 5 went on afterwards, and we were thoroughly impressed.  They're definitely one of the hardest working bands out there.  After the show, we caught with the guys on the bus.  Possibly inspired by the shredfest James and Adam put on earlier in the night, we spent the rest of the night watching this:

it started getting late, so we said our goodbye's and headed back to nashville, with even more inspiration and motivation to get this thing going...

well thats it for now.  we've been doing a lot of writing as of late, and hope to have some demos and videos available soon.  one down.

bryan