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Here's the flyer for the 2nd ever BOH acoustic show. You should go...

The weekend has been good, aside from it being about -80 degrees outside or whatever. Spent some time in the studio last night with Scott working on some new acoustic songs. One of the songs was an older one that we never really finished, but i really really liked, so i came up with a working version and we'll see what happens. Its amazing when you write a song, and then other people put their spin on it. Scott was doing some amazing things on that song, and it just took it to a whole different level that i hadn't even thought of. its gonna be badass. The other song was a bit different. I had taken a whole different approach to it. Its not really tuned down at all (like a half step maybe). I was watching TV and was trying to vibe off the tv, and it worked. I'm a geek so i'll spare you the details of what i was watching... I played the song for scott and he said 'now, don't take this the wrong way....'. usually when someone says that, you prepare for something bad. and i was prepared because it was different kind of song. Sometimes certain things will work, and other times they don't. So, he says, 'it reminds of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.' Thats not bad, that's a compliment! I've listened to my fair share of John Reznik songs. And not the overplayed ones on the radio. Listen to 'Gutterflower' all the way through (skipping the songs Reznik didn't write of course), and tell me that its not good. I dare you. Anyways, so yea, Scott agreed with me, and I think that song is gonna be pretty kickass. It has a very somber feeling. its a very different song for me and a very different song for BOH. I left there last night feeling pretty damn proud of myself and proud to be playing with the guys i play with.

Last week, i ran into an old promoter friend of mine. I haven't talked him in quite awhile, and I was talking to him about BOH. He puts on 1 or 2 all day metal shows in Omaha every year, and he asked what we sounded like. I told him it wasn't really metal, and i told him who was in the band. He just kind of looked at me and smiled. I've gotten that alot since we put BOH out there. The whole philosophy of 'metal' is kind of a 'for life' kind of thing. I had to explain to him that all of us are all metal heads in every sense of that term, but we wanted to play something a little different. We wanted to expand and really explore our limits of what we can do musically. We are trying to break the molds we've created for ourselves. and its working.

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