Ten Mile Ride
Dec 4th, 2005
Ten Mile Tide is hitting the slopes with a two week ski town tour. We're in Colorado right now where we're doing shows for the rest of the week, then we'll be heading back towards Truckee for 2 shows on the 16th and 17th. We're really excited for Truckee and are looking to make it a weekend rager. Send us an email, info@tenmiletide.com, if you're planning upon coming and we can help with places to stay.
Thanks to our good friend Mags in San Diego, we now have a Yahoo Discussion Group. Click here to check it out!
P.S. There actually is a band in Germany named Ten Mile Ride....
And with record in hand...
Oct 24, 2005
From the mad mind of Knuckles:
So now we start our return trip back to the west coast after spending a month traveling up and down the east coast and recording our new album in Rhode Island in between shows. Tour so far has been somewhat of a learning experience. First off; never underestimate the powerful nostrils of a German sheperd, and likewise, don't ask a border patrol man if it's ok to use their bathroom. I'd like to take this opportunity to tell the inhabitants of Arizona that they have a beautiful state and diligent task force. From AZ we had our first ever show in Oklahoma (where we saw two drunks playing rock-paper-scissors to determine who drives on the way home, nice), and a brief but memorable stint in Kansas, complete with Jason sacrificing the use of his thumbs for the next week in order to take on the challenge of Mike Tyson's Punchout after a ten year hiatus only to be bitch slapped by the gap-toothed convict and once again receding into the shadows of Nintendo shame until the fall of 2015. This is not over, Mike, this is not over...
Moving quickly from Kansas to Vermont, we made an appearance at our now annual gig at the University of Vermont's Outing Club Fest, this time sharing the stage with The Breakfast. After the show we continued tradition and partied with the OC Fest crew where Knuckles wore a Wonder Woman outfit while playing Beirut against a five-foot tall girl named Liz who had already defied the laws of logic and physics by imbibing a couple of seventy-two ounce 7-11 Slurpy cups full of Natty Ice. She would finish two more by the end of the night for a grand total of two-hundred and eighty-eight ounces of Natty Ice. Liz, you are an ispiration to us all.
From Vermont we took off to Boston where we had our best Boston show to date followed by our traditional party with "the optometrists", a group of two brothers and their two roommates who really know how to serve up some brew, not to mention give directions with a bit of drunken flair, i.e. "ok, your ganna bang a Ricky right up here and then go two lights and bang a Lizzy real hard..." Mike, I'm going to win over your sister, married or not. This is where we deviate from tradition. We left Boston to play shows in Maine, one on Vinalhaven, and one in Portland. Sure we've played both of these places before but Portland was different this time. After our show we filled the bus with some friends from Bowdoin College; in the confusion a really drunk guy with fresh tears strewn down his cheeks, who said his name was Gulosh, snuck on board and said we had to go to his house and get his weed before we could continue on to Bowdoin. He berated Steve with directions, scolding him when he messed up, until we got to his house, at which point he said, "I've just got to run in real quick, I'll be right back. You guys are going to ditch me aren't you?" Of course not, Gulosh. He went inside and we left, not ditching him, but dropping him off at home like good friends do when you're wasted, scary, emotional, and threatening the driver. You'd do the same for us.
After some more recording that week, we played a show in DC with one of the most creatively, and offensively, named bands we've ever shared a stage with, Special Ed and the Slow Learners. Quality. The following night we played a festival in the Pennsylvania woods by the name of SHAREfest, and then drove all night to lay down some wedding grooves in upstate New York.
Conneticut College was next with a show that started out as a heart breaking performance in front of about fifteen people for the first set and ended with an all out rock show to a packed room of about three hundred screaming people to make the strongest dynamics shift in a crowd that we have ever seen. The next day we drove through the worst trafic we've ever seen on tour, to Harrisburg, PA for a show at the Appalachian Brewing Co. for our SHAREfest friends and just about every one they know. It was a monumental show; Jason wailed, Justin crooned, Steve sawed, Knuckles wore the cape and short-shorts, and Jeff, surprising even Death himself, had yet another birthday surrounded by gorgeous women.
Somewhere between all of this we managed to record another album with a little help from our good friends Don and Marty Lewis of the Sons of Ralph filling in on pedal steel guitar, banjo, twin fiddle, mandolin, and true grit. Sorry for the obsurdly long update, but it's been a while, you know? Anyway, we're on our way home now, new album in hand, and with new hairsyles to boot. (Jason is growing dreads so, not to be out done, Knuckles is willing to crop the fro-hawk into any absurd hairstyle you guys suggest. Light up the message board.) We still have a lot of ground to cover and we may even play a few shows along the way. See you out there.
On the road again...
Sep 1, 2005
That's right, the Good Times wagon is hittin' the pavement again loaded up with new songs, friends, haircuts, scars (Knuckles), and nutritional abominations. We're heading through the Midwest to the Northeast where we will be recording our new album during the week and gigging on the weekends. Check out our schedule on the Shows page to see when we are coming to your area.
We wish the best to Matt Mitchell who will be staying behind to start his own project The Free Range Robots. We will be holding auditions for our new keyboard player across the country so if you know people who might want to try out shoot us an email at info@tenmiletide.com.
See you on the road!
Ahhh…the lazy days of summer are finally upon us…
Aug 1, 2005
It’s been quite the rocket ride for us this summer. Finally we have a little down time to tell you all about it. It all started with a now very familiar drive across the blazing desert to a state (Kansas) that gives us warm fuzzy feelings every time we approach. The happy vibes were nearly quenched when we got pulled over for the second time since we’ve owned Old Skoggins. To our surprise it was the same overachiever-cop that pulled us over 6 months ago. He was absolutely determined to give us a ticket for something (which he told us in no uncertain terms) and was quite put out when he was again unable to do so. So, for anyone at home wondering, Skoggins is up to code and it is arguably safer to be inside the bus than outside of it.
Well we made it to Kansas and after a rip-roaring warm-up show in Manhattan we hit the 30,000 strong party of music lovers we call Wakarusa. The setting was beautiful, the planning was impeccable, the bands were amazing, and this festival—only in its second year-- is well on its way to becoming one of the top festivals in the country. We made a dramatic entrance by pulling behind the campground stage and immediately sinking into the loose gravel and blocking the entrance. In an effort to lighten the load, we started pulling out the equipment and one of the cargo doors decided he had gone too many miles without proper benefits and fell off. So now we were quite the spectacle. Two hours, 50+ Helpy Helpertons, a desperate search for sunscreen, a vigilante forklift, and a AAA-approved tow truck later we were able to move the bus about a hundred yards to a place that was a little more suitable for long-term camping. We pitched our tents, hyper-hydrated ourselves, and made it back to the stage for our Thurs. night set. The turnout was awesome, the energy excellent, and the show a blazing success. We followed it up with another rockin’ show the next afternoon and proceeded to spend the rest of the weekend roaming from stage to stage seeing the greatest bands you can imagine and having ourselves a proverbial blast. The weekend ended with a spontaneous late-night jam on the Own-Grown stage—sponsored by the good folks at Dark Horse Productions and the Central Plains Jamband Society--where we had a brief but beautiful merger between TMT and our good friends in 56 Hope Road. Thanks to everyone who made it such a memorable weekend.
From Kansas we headed to Salt Lake City for a night with Shanti Groove. These guys are awesome and we hope to cross paths with them again soon. They pulled Steve up on stage for a couple numbers at the end of the night which absolutely rocked. The next day we played the Utah Arts Festival which was an awesome show. The people were there to dance and the organizers did a great job putting everything together—we’re definitely looking forward to going back next year.
From Utah we made a straight-shot to High Sierra. We arrived in the beautiful town of Quincy, CA in time to spend a relaxing day camping in the area. We kept ourselves entertained with some campfire jams, river games, and a Gallagher-inspired incident involving a train and a watermelon. We pulled into the High Sierra campground on Wednesday when only the artists and workers could get in and decided to kick off the party early. We set up our PA and lights near our bus (the Renegade Stage) and put on a show for the volunteers and good folks who make the magic of High Sierra happen. Our ragtime-busker friend Eli Charleston joined us for the festivities. The show set a great tone for the rest of the weekend which will live on in Ten Mile Tide history. We are so lucky to be surrounded by so many friends and fans. Bloody Marys and Mimosas set the tone for our morning set at the Vaudeville tent. We were pleasantly surprised to find that people were ready to rock. On Sunday we played in the afternoon. We were honored to see the guys from Railroad Earth at our show at the Americana stage, especially since we wore a groove in their new album this summer. We ended the weekend on a high note by joining up with our new friends in the Happy Brigade and leading the parade to the Railroad Earth late night show. We finished the festival as we started it, and welcomed the sun with a late night acoustic jam for anyone still standing.
The last run of the summer was up to the Pacific Northwest where we had fantastic shows in Ashland, Spokane, Helena, and Salmon. The Mt. Helena Festival was a blast and the folks there really made us feel welcome.
So that brings us to the end of our summer tour. We will be spending the month of August treating our sunburns, preparing for a Fall tour of the East Coast, and finishing up the tunes for the new album we will be recording this Fall. We are excited about how it’s coming and we can’t wait to share it with everyone.
Until next time thanks to all the beautiful and kind people who have made this summer so memorable. We’ll see you on the road!
...Where the wind blows sweet and the sun is shining...
June 2, 2005
Hello everyone. Somewhere deep in the upper altitudes of the Sierra Mountains the last skiiers of the season can hear the faint drumbeats and lazy grooves of Ten Mile Tide's next album float just over the murmur of the infinite small streams flowing down the mountain. That's right--we are holed up in Tahoe preparing in every way we can for the onslaught of Festival season. We are drinking water by the bucketfulls, practicing being in the sunlight for more than 2 hrs a day, perfecting our BBQ techniques, and acclimating our bodies to the pre-1970's camping chairs we acquired for the mission.
Festivities will begin on Sat. Jun 11th as we play a full night at the Tongue and Groove. Cas Lucas will open the show around 9PM and we will hit the stage at 10:30.
From there we will head straight to Kansas where we will be having the time of our lives and performing two slots at Wakarusa: Thursday from 9 - 10pm and Friday from 7 - 8:15 pm.
After that more Festivals and Fun, so stay tuned!
Jamming with the Everyone Orchestra!
May 1, 2005
Great news! We’ve been invited to participate in the Everyone Orchestra show on May 14th at the Independent in San Francisco! We are very excited to be a part of this very cool benefit for environmental conservation. The night will consist of an opening set by Ten Mile Tide and then we will be jamming with some of the biggest names in the Jamband community including members of the Disco Biscuits, ALO, Jambay, Samantha and the Ritual and surprise special guests. This is going to be one of our biggest and most exciting shows ever, so get your tickets early because the show will almost surely sell out.
More great news. We have just been added to Wakarusa and the Utah Arts Festival this summer! On top of a High Sierra slot and being the new groove of the month on jambands.com we are so ready to strip down to our skivvies and run through the proverbial sprinklers we can barely wait for season to change
And now stories from the road:
We had a great time in the Northeast. Lawless island adventures off the coast of Maine where the bartender had to call some patrons and ask them not to come because they might get too rowdy. They came anyway.
In New Hampshire we met a great Chicago band that I am are sure we will be crossing paths with again in the future. Check out our friends in 56 Hope Road.
Next, some extremely persistent fans kidnapped us in Portland and led us North to Brunswick to an afterparty at Bowdoin College. After making ourselves at home and devouring a huge meal Knuckles cooked, we realized no one had any idea who’s house we were in. We slept a very short while and woke to play a spontaneous afternoon show in the soccer field that turned into quite the festival. We had to cut out early to make it to Boston and this time we kidnapped a couple ride alongs. It was another epic night in Boston including a great Birthday party for Mike “Bombed in Boston” Hill. Mike was one of the original cast members from the Lion King musical and we backed him on one of his originals.
The surprises kept coming with another spur of the moment show back with our friends in Pennsylvania at a beautiful spot known as the Lodge. We shared the stage with one of the premier ragtime guitarists around today—check out Eli Charleston. Thanks for letting us hang around the campfire, sorry about the pre-dawn whip-cream fight. We found some new loving houses to crash at in Pennsylvania bringing the grand total to 7. PA adventures continued including a capsized midnight canoeing trip, Ten Mile Tide team childcare (thanks for the cookies, they were gone before we hit Ohio), and way too many nights in a row seeing the sun rise. We are now fully nocturnal so feel free to call too late at night.
Check out some new pics on the pics page.
Festivaaaaalllllll!
April 10, 2005
We are pleased to announce we have been asked to play High Sierra this summer. The set time is yet to be determined but it is looking like we may play two slots. Man, are we excited for festival season—we’ve got some other big ones in the works, we’ll keep you posted. If only we could bring everybody with us… Actually, we’re thinking of doing a reality TV show where we sell ride-along slots in the bus. We could pick the most random assortment of people we could think of and have them be our roadies. We’ve got enough room for at least five more travelers and we would vote each week to get rid of the most useless or annoying one—you know the one who never changed his socks or spilled his Country Ham and Bean Cambell’s soup (It’s a real flavor--it’s terrible) all over the couch.
New York City is always an adventure. After our show at the Lion’s Den we wandered into a neighborhood open bluegrass jam and played so long (4AM) the bartender had to forcibly kick us out--right in the middle of a rousing rendition of Devil Went Down to Georgia too. Believe it or not, NYC is the only city in the country where we can park in the middle of downtown (Greenwich Village to be exact) for two days, and live in our own private little studio and no one cares. We had a day off so we just figured we’d stick around until someone asked us to move but it never happened. We had a blast, wandered around the village, met a lot of cool people, and ate a combined total of 32 delicious falafel sandwiches.
In other exciting news, we’ve been selected as “The New Groove of the Month” on Jambands.com. Check it out at www.jambands.com and vote for us as the CD to listen to if you were locked in a room by yourself with one studio album.
Well, we’re on our way to play on Vinalhaven, one of our favorite stops of the tour. I’m sure we’ll have some stories from the island so stay tuned…
It's All Aboard!!!
April 1, 2005
As I sit down to write this update, small pink sugar sparkles are saturating my blood stream and a large amorphous marshmallow mass is lodged somewhere just below my pancreas. That’s right it’s the next installment from the traveling circus we call Ten Mile Tide. Tonight was the Peep-eating contest. Six of us went head to head in the 2nd annual discount-Easter candy eating contest extravaganza. Justin won the crown a second time (he also won last year’s Cadbury Crème Egg contest) by defeating us all in the one-pink-marshmallow-bunny per minute contest with a record 39 Peeps.
It’s been a monumental tour so far. We’ve had no less than 10 people traveling with us at all times and are considering renting our services as a “party in a box”. If only we were rolling tape full-time. So now we’ll try to update you with a verbal montage:
The tour started strong with a run through the Midwest. Steve had a week long birthday celebration that ended in a new verse of Never Gonna Drink Again and the phone number of a man named Sandro in his pocket. By the time we left Illinois we’d already autographed two separate noise complaints.
We cleansed our souls by drinking the healing waters of Hot Springs, AR. Knuckles drank so much of the water he ended up running around the bus stark naked for two days muttering something about a pitching wedge.
Nasty Nate Munning joined the crew for the tour in Baton Rouge. Next time you spot some dude in the crowd with dreads in a $6 pimp suit, be careful, the cane is just a ruse. On our days off we headed up to Asheville to catch a show by our friends the Sons of Ralph. Ralph cooked us a 50 gallon pot of the tastiest gumbo we ever had and Steve ate so much he passed out on the couch. According to Standard Operating Procedure, he was promptly tattooed with the fattest permanent marker we could find. Things were a bit tense the next day when Steve was pulled over in the supermarket parking lot before he had a chance to fully wash off the facial graffiti. Luckily the officer was just showing off his mustache not really trying to “law” us.
Nothing aggravates a St. Patty’s day hangover like waking the next morning to your home spewing billowing white smoke that envelopes the entire block. Somebody must have forgotten to wear green. The first tragedy to befall Old Skoggins—apparently something gave way the night before when we were drag racing the #46 city bus and we broke a piston clean in half. As Irish luck would have it, we found the coolest repair shop in the country, which just happened to be located on Scoggins Drive. We spent a few days camped out at the repair shop and made fast friends with Ken and his crew. They put us back on the road better than ever and even chromed our broken piston for us.
Somewhere in the middle of our St. Patty’s week breakdown, we visited the charming little town of Augusta, GA. A lovely photo shoot opportunity next to a fluorescent green fountain turned sour. We discovered quite by accident a video feature on Kristen’s digital camera. We'll get the footage up here soon.
Which brings us to Philadelphia where we have made some great new friends and bonded over things like Lasertag, envelope stuffing, and Peep-eating. We’ve got some new pics up and some great shows coming up so thanks everybody for the support and we hope to see you all soon!
Get Yourself Ready!!!
February 27, 2005
Ten Mile Tide hits the road today for a 10 week national tour. We'll be all over the country, check out the Shows page for the calendar. We've been working hard on new material, and can't wait to hit the road again. Come out and help us make adventures and we'll promise to post the gory details. This is bound to be our best tour yet!!!
The Big Easy...
January 31, 2005
Come join Ten Mile Tide for the first ever San Francisco TMT Mardi Gras Bash. The night will include specials on theme drinks (hurricanes and the like), a Mardi Gras Parade (yes, a real parade with real floats inside the Tongue and Groove) and over three hours of Ten Mile Tide’s special blend of feel–good acoustic rock, foot stomping folk and beer drenched bluegrass. Opening the evening is Eleven Eyes, so come early and stay late. Costumes are encouraged and appreciated.
We've been in the studio working on new material and getting ready to head back out on another three-month national tour. This will be our last SF show before leaving town, so throw on some beads and come on down to the Tongue and Groove. It’ll be just like Bourbon St., but inside.
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