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NEWS
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NEW T-Shirts and CD's Now Available!
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Our previous shirt designs all sold out! So we had some brand new ones made up with a cool image of your favorite band on them.
Get one before they too sell out and you have no choice but to do laundry.
Also, we are now accepting orders for our forthcoming album, Seize the Day.
Order yours today and it will be autographed and shipped out as soon as we get them in. We expect to have them done and back by the end of March, so you can have a sweet treat in your Easter basket.
The tour went great and we are glad to be back home working hard on the album and setting up the fall tour. Pics from the Summer tour to follow soon, so check back often.
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Summer DisasTOUR- over the speed bumps we go.....
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Hello from the road,
We're about a week into our Summer DisasTOUR and it has been a very interesting adventure. The shows are going surprisingly well, in spite all of the broken guitars, broken bones, and broken plans the earth can throw at us in one short week.
Because of 1000 fun and not-fun distractions, it has been quite a while since we had enough time to get to a computer....
Scott wrote the following passage on Tuesday, somewhere in between St. Simon's Island and Daytona Beach:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
If the offensive odor of a paper mill
won't motivate my lazy hung-over ass the persistence of a hotel clerk
will definitely get asses out of beds. Its 1:06 and I'm in the death
throes of my worst hangover so far. We're cruising along the golden
isles of Georgia on the way to Daytona Beach, FL. I haven't been to
Florida since Disney world when I was 12. Totally looking forward to
another state and making some new friends. Last night was a great time.
Rafter's Blue in St. Simon's Island is a venue we'd like to revisit.
A cool older place with a healthy bar, two rooms, great sound and banging
BBQ tucked upstairs from the typical storefronts of a beach town. I
want to play there on a weekend night. I woke up at 11:26, crusty eyes
opened to familiar faces, nearly a half hour late for check out and
ready for another night of jamming. Contemplating the lovely tanned
sexy women of FL…my white ass baked in a Georgia parking lot…
As we backed out of the hotel parking
lot there was a disturbing sound... someone had left the back doors
of the van open and Shane backed over his back-up guitar! It is fucked.
No more backup guitar. Shep left his sandals at the venue. Brandon is
licking his wounds from the devilish rocks at Folly Beach in Charleston,
SC, and all I want is a bloody mary and a double cheeseburger.
Can't wait to see you all.
Thanks for reading,
Scott Birch, on behalf of Cougar Magnum ====================
Back to now......
The show in Daytona went very well. The Ocean Deck is a slamming bar. We played with a cool band In My Words, whose drummer Aaron Hearst let us crash at his house in Orlando after we rocked to a hookah-mellowed crowd at the Meridian Hookah Lounge. Tonight we are in Tampa, about to rock another location of the Meridian Hookah Louge. We're excited.
----Just want to take a moment to recognize the hard work that two very important members of our touring party have been doing: Cat Strandberg - She has a phone in her ear constantly, working, pushing, making connections for us. She is doing more work than anyone could ever ask for. We are so thankful to have her on this tour with us. She really earns the term "Tour Manager." Jim Schaeffer - We asked Jim to come with us on this tour with only 36 hours notice. He said yes and instandly assimilated into our weird little family. Suffering a near-concussion in Charleston, and a lobster-like sunburn in Daytona, Jim remains the most organized and hard working member of this group. With a background in lights, he has been running our sound when needed, filling our mailing list every night, carrying stuff that takes two of us weak band members to haul by himself, and generally keeping us in line and level-headed day and night.
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For Tonight, We are lucky enough to shack up with one of my best high school friends, Jon Scott and his cool-ass roommate Hugo. We got 3 days off in this area. I heard Clearwater Beach is a badass place to chill.....
Happy 4th of July. Thanks for reading. Sending 4000 smiles, Brandon and the entire Cougar Magnum Team
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ANNOUNCEMENT: New Music Coming Very Soon
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Studio versions of lots of songs you've only heard live coming soon...
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For almost 3 years, we have been constructing and expanding a
"diverse" repertoire of original music that people have said sound like
anything from Van Halen to Weezer to George Clinton. For almost 2
years, many friends, family members, and skeptics have asked us, "When
are you going to record a damn album?" For almost 1 year, we have been
discussing and deciding what, where, and how we were going to record
our songs for an album. And now FINALLY, for almost the last week, we
have been making moves and getting started recording our first full
length album. Its true: we have cleaned out our practice space and
turned it into a recording space. We borrowed some drum mics from our
friends Drew, Adam, Eric, and Andrew who rock stages as The Old
Regime. We borrowed extra cables and condenser microphones from our
friend Cyrus. We have turned Shane's iMac into a
recording-machine. Now all we need is a few weeks to lay down the 20
or so tracks that have gotten us through the last few years of our
lives. And now today, Thursday, May 14, 2009 we can proudly say
that the recording of "Seize the Day" has officially begun. Although
it's a small step in the huge project we're about to tackle and pump to
completion, we're proud to say that we have in our possession solid
drum tracks for 3 songs: "Good Gangster," "Walk to Work," and "It is
What it is." Over the past almost 3 years, we have played to maybe
thousands of people, and everyone seems to have different favorite
Cougar Magnum songs. Some people like the heart-pumping shredding
guitars of "Evil," while others just want to sing along to "Felix
Chesapeake." Others want to dance and groove to "Just a Dream" and
some just want to demand that we play "Freebird" or "something we
know." So, here's a short list (sneak peek) of some "hits" you might
see make it onto SEIZE THE DAY: "All Your Cares," "Take Me Out and Draw
Me a Picture," "Checking Your Watch," and at least 4 or 5 others that
we hope are brand new to you. We anticipate lots of long hours and
late nights while this project gets rolling, but we'll do our best to
keep you posted on our progress, and also maybe upload a couple raw
tracks for your scrutinizing pleasure. Thanks for reading, thanks for
listening, and thanks for your continued support. Without each and
every one of you, we'd really have no reason to make an album. Ciao.
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So far, 2009 has been a really great year for us. A couple weeks ago we got to play a really cool slot at the Raleigh Spring Music Festival. We finally got to play with Assembly Required, a fantastic Greenville band that we were supposed to play with on at least two other occasions. And I'm glad we finally got to meet those guys! Behind the Sun really did justice to every Red Hot Chili Peppers song they played--they rocked! Parmalee definitely got the crowd rocking and Appetite for Destruction closed up the NightTrain of Rock Music, blasting all of our favorite Guns N Roses tunes.
And then this past week in Charleston, we played a really cool event called Rock Stock 2009, with 3 badass Charleston bands: Plainfield Project, Valkyrie, and Number One Contender. It was a really eclectic mix of bands! Plainfield Project reminded me of Barenaked Ladies mixed with the String Cheese Incident.....the Valkyrie blasted my face off with thoughts of Megadeth, H2O, and Fall Out Boy......and Number One Contender, who just got off the road with Shine Down was like Rage Against the Machine taking Against Me! out for a dinner of fresh monkey brains.
While we were in Charleston, we had a radio interview at the College of Charleston radio station with master disc-jockey Nick Statuto. We should be getting the audio and video for that very soon. Alex said "Cooter" on the radio, so we're really looking forward to hearing that and reading the angry letters from the FCC! We'd like to send out a huge thank you to CofC's PRSAA Committee, and in particular, Lauren Ashley, for putting the whole event together. She said she planned that event for 6 months! And the turnout really proved it!
We just posted a brand new video on facebook of a brand new song called "The Way We Started." If you got 3 minutes and 39 seconds to kill, have fun watching it!
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