January 4, 2008
Wow, it's 2008.  It sounds so...futuristic.  Where's my flying car?!?!  Well anyway, hope you had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.  I personally celebrated by breaking my toe on a set of stairs.  Yeeeeouch!!

So for now, I'm off to tend to my pain and agony.  Agony, I say.  A-GO-ny.  Alright, until next time, which I promise will be soon - at least more frequent than last year's - hallypeelapotatah to ya.

Frozen underwear!
-WornOutShoes

October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween, kids!  Don't look at me like that.  You know you've always wanted to dress up like a freak and go clubbing.  And so we did.  And I loved every minute of it.  =)

Trick or Treat!
-WornOutShoes
 

August 9, 2007
I'm in your studio...

...listening to your tunes.  Muahaha!  This is a WornOutShoes pic for myspace.

Petunias,
~WornOutShoes
 

April 20, 2007
What's up ya'll? We've now reached over 10k plays on myspace and over 5k views and over 2k friends. Nnnnneat. And we didn't even use one of those silly bot programs that automatically gives you view and plays. Well, now, ain't we special?

The links to some of our mp3s have been removed from the music page. Come on, now. You knew it wouldn't last forever. For those of you that downloaded them already, well good for you. For those of you that didn't, well don't you feel underprivileged? And rightly so.

SO - there's lawnmowers to tune up, yards to mow, graphics design projects to finish up, then, hopefullfreakinly, it's back in the studio. Lot's of good ideas, little time to lay down the tracks. We'll get there. 2007 is already looking like a little acorn sandwich sitting atop a frankincense filled tubular pomegranate wrapped in a wicker flavored salad bowl....umm, I'll let you decide what that means. Have a fill-in-the-blank day!

There's no business like show business,
~WornOutShoes
 

April 11, 2007
What up ya'll. Just another wild and wicked update. Yay! Didn't realize it has been so long since an update was posted here. We've been doing alot with myspace lately. (So the myspace wornoutshoes site is myspace.com/wornoutshoesrocks. Add us. Play us. Make us feel loved.)

We did finally register for trademark at the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office). This was done on March 29th. Isn't that great? Of course it is!

Music is coming, I swear. Just sort have been covered up for several months. It's just a matter of time. We are WornOutShoes. You will be musiciated. Resistance is fertile. Ok then. That's all for the moment. Stay cool.

I Bet The Neighbors' Just Lovin' This,
~WornOutShoes
 

April 8, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOGAN!
 

January 24, 2007
Greetings, oh worn out ones!

Thought I better toss an update out there just for good measure. So basically our studio has been trashed by acts of God...or just by crap bursting, leaking, screwing up the whole place, etc.. So next week, we're finally going to have it cleaned up for the most part. In addition, we're going to install some sound-absorbing material along with a few more upgrades while we're at it. Maybe I'll take some pics when we're done so you can see what the place looks like.

Don't forget to add us over at myspace if you haven't yet - myspace.com/wornoutshoesrocks. It's just fun to do....see?: Wheeeeeee!...ok then.

It's a shame myspace is getting so much bad press lately because of predators. Honestly, we subscribe more to parental responsibility and knowing what your kids are doing. If it's not myspace, it could be chat rooms or alot of other places on the internet. There should some kind of law protecting businesses against absolutely ridiculous lawsuits (remember the lady that sued McDonalds because their coffee was too hot when she spilled it on herself?).

The latest myspace lawsuit is to the tune of $30 million and it involves some kid who got attacked by some pervert who she met on myspace. Does it really matter that it was myspace? Why didn't the parents know any of this? In reading peoples' comments on the story, most people have the same sentiment. So how do companies keep getting sued over the most idiotic things? Why do we allow it if we all agree it's plain stupid? I have to say, I am ignorant on the matter.

Next thing you know, we'll all have to live out our lives in our own small room because your going outside and breathing the air may be contaminating someone else's or otherwise inhibiting their ability to breathe and you are therefore liable and deserving of being dragged into a big fat lawsuit. Sound too ridiculous? Yeah, so do all these lawsuits that destroy people's hopes of running their own business and finding prosperity in life.

We run a message board here. If two people meet on it and one turns out to be an axe murderer, supposedly we could be liable. Which is ridiculous. We should all have the right to pursue our dreams without being held liable for someone else's rotten behavior. People have a responsibility to themselves. If you're stupid, that's no one else's fault. Stupid parents. Stupid kids. Stupid pervs. Stupid lawyers. (The parents probably hired the attacker so they could sue myspace then they'll all get rich. Probably wouldn't be the first time.) I would prefer NOT to line scumbag lawyers pockets who represent and pursue such outstandingly stupid claims.

Myspace has been a great, FREE place to express yourself and make contacts, whether it's friends or that potential music label that might discover your 'greatness'. There's no reason for that company to suffer. Planet Earth is where predators find prey. Is the entire earth liable because this is where you met an attacker? I think I'll sue that family because by their suing myspace, my ability to promote our music has suffered. Pay up, bitches.

In other news, we've revamped the message board a bit because of another type of scum - spammers. You gotta enter a validation code to post your message. See how this works for ya. I think this will help curb the spam thing. I didn't want to resort to having users log in. I mean don't you have enough user names and passwords for every fricken thing today? The message board was meant to be free, fun, easy - we want to keep it that way if at all possible.

So enough ranting and other various and sundry chunks of word nutrition for today, I guess. Have a grand weekend.

Word to the wise,
~WornOutShoes
 

August 18, 2006
Hey. Just doing some research on the 'business' of the music business. In case ya didn't know, these days you can't sit on a street corner playing your guitar and expect to get signed. It doesn't happen. In fact, submitting your stuff to big record labels will pretty much result in getting it trashed and never looked at.

So what do ya do? Well you do alot of this crap yourself. You promote yourself, you make your own website, your own cd, you schedule your own shows, and FINALLY you HOPE you get signed by a small, little-known label. Oh yeah, and somewhere in between, you make music. Remember - the fun part?

ANYWAY, with that in mind, we did this:

WornOutShoes
of
Church Hill ,  TN
United States
Is Now Officially
Registered Online In The

Registration Date: August 18, 2006

Yeah, can you believe we've gone this long without doing this. Also, we began using the ™ symbol beside our name. The "TM", as I have studied, indicates the intention of officially registering your trademark with da fed. After some months, you get a notice in the mail stating that you are registered and then you can start using the ®. I guess it's not such an entirely big deal since we've had this site for-freaking-ever now and that can be clearly proven as well as the copyrighted cd in our name. WOOT! Getting an official trademark will cost some fees but I think it will be worth it.

Nah, we're not out to 'get' anybody. This is just as a protection for our name. A name which I thought would be temporary when I first registered this website. Can you believe that? Now it's gaining in popularity for whatever reason. I can't even register myspace/wornoutshoes. It's taken!! Not by a fan. Apparently, The Wallflowers wrote a song that included something about "worn out shoes" (not us...at least I don't think...haha..wouldn't that be tha shit?) in the lyrics and a fan of them got the name. There's also some guy that likes cars using the name to post in car forums. I don't know why he started using it. There's also http://www.thewornoutshoes.com. LOL - can you believe there's actually people somewhere else in the world that had the same thought of wornoutshoes for a band name??!

But the whole point of all this is - we really don't give a rat's a$$ who uses it so long as no one tries to lay legal claim to the name but us. Or as this place pointed out - you could end up being a success without having the trademark when suddenly someone comes along who does have a trademark on the name and tries to jerk it out from under ya. Well we ain't gonna let that happen. Besides, like I said, we've had it longer than anyone and it's easily provable, so there. Neener neener!

And that's my thoughts as of now. Have a great weekend all!

And you thought all you had to do was play your instrument well,

~WornOutShoes

August 1, 2006
Whew! What a summer! Hot one ain't it? IIIIIIIII LIKE IT! But I've been busier than a flea-infested gorilla standing on a pile of fire ants. Um..yeeeah. But let's jump right into things.

We are back in the studio, beginning work on our new song, which should be done in a week or so. It's definitely shaping up to be a kick-ass start for our new cd which will be assembled over the coming months. 'Bout time eh?

We did indeed end up with a Roland electronic drum set, the TD6 SW. Also, on sort of a halfway, not quite so spur of the moment, I just had to have the ESP LTD F-500 with EMG 81 active pickkups - yep, it's a guitar. And it rocks. I am happy. You will hear both these new purchases in the next song which is guaranteed for 90 days from date of purchase to rock your pulse into a machine gun type of explosive salad dressing. Yes, I know it sounds fatal, but that's the assumed risk you take by listening to our music.

So anyway, we got preliminary guitar, vocal, drums and bass recorded at this point. That gives us a foundation to really start from and sets the timing for the song. Now it's time to start smoothing things out then follow up with finishing touches that make you go "eeewwww that's so keeewwwll.....I have to pee pee!!!" when you hear them. Come on, admit it. You know that's what you say every time you listen to us.

Oh yeah - Logan and family have moved to Arizona, so we are short one railboard player. I know you'll miss him and so will we. Man could he play that railboard like no other. I swear his technique is absolutely flawless. He would never admit to it but I tell you it was perfect. But don't worry. We promise to turn out some rocking good songs like always and we'll just have to find a way to fill in his part with something else. It may make for a different sound for us but hey, that's life I guess.

When we release the new song, be sure to listen for the double kick bass - we have one now *big grin*. We'll keep working and have it for ya soon. I guess that's it for now. Keep smiling. Keep cool. And for crying out loud, keep rocking.

Smile for the shoe!
~WornOutShoes

May 22, 2006
Greetings and salutations. I just took down the visitor counter. I only intended to leave it there for a short time anyway. And yeah, I know, if you've been paying attention, we're not really 'podcasting'. I posted up a coupla songs but podcasting I think is more for speech or news. I mean it can be for music too but oh well. I'm leaving it anyway because I like the little icon. And because I intend to use it one day anyway.

Just like I intend to invest in an electronic drumset. A real one is great but I can have greater control over the sound quality without worrying about becoming an 'expert' at micking drums. And they're more portable even though I'm sure 'real drummers' use real drums. Whatever. Real guitar players use real, vacuum tube vintage amps too, right? Blah blah blah.

There are songs written that we play acoustic versions to and people end up with them in their heads and later request we play them again. Many of you haven't heard them because I'm delaying their recording until I can put the percussion in. I can just hear the beats in my head to these songs and without percussion, they won't be half as good.

The credit card bill will be paid off this month so looks like it's time to start seriously considering which set of electronic drums to get on the budget we have. This is a busy time of year and I personally have taken on a side project doing some graphics design to gain some extra flow. And June 8-11 we'll be 'on tour' at an FZ1 rally on The Tail of The Dragon at Deals Gap, NC. So there ya have it for now.

SK8,
~WornOutShoes


May 2, 2006
Mayday Maday!! Oops that was yesterday. Well hello all you freaker lippers. (I have no idea what that means.) So anyway, we have a myspace now. Aaaand who doesn't? Tis at www.myspace.com/wornoutshoesrocks. Enjoy. There's several songs in the works that need recording. I just gotta....record them.

How ya liking this warm weather? I love it. Winter time isn't as great as it used to be around here. It just doesn't snow like it used to. So it's just cold, dark, often wet, and miserable. But now we got the green going on and I think it's great.

I never even use the air conditioner in my vehicle. I will always have the windows down. Why breath that cold filtered crap when you can take in the pollen, pollution and other fine particulates that bring a congestion to your lungs and a smile to your face? Ah I love it. That makes me think of a song. One day I might record it....

Don't look now, our train is coming on,
~WornOutShoes
 

February 17, 2006
Yes. An update. Lost focus there for a minute. But hey the studio's been a mess and things and things and more things. Got a microphone in the mail yesterday. That's right kids - it's the Shure KSM44. You heard right, the KSM44. Ok so maybe ya got no clue and could care less. Well lemee tell ya. You're going to hear our off-key vocals with perfect clarity now. We're talking NO noise. No hissing. Just beautiful clearness. Yay.

So I should update this place more shouldn't I? Well like I said, I kinda lost focus for a minute but no more. I have had time to put down some words in several songs. And I guess I recently took on fuel for more words burning in my brain. But to get it right, I'm going to need drums. That means time to go shopping for one last item. And then it's go time. Argh argh WOOF WOOF!!!! *cough sputter collapse*

And so...I'm not going to make excuses for the slooowww updating. Hey this is meant to be fun. You think I'm going to put forth some kind of effort at this?? Well ok but still...so..yeah still. Ok. So I'm craving some fire sauce on a burrito. What ya think? Well ok then!! Let's go!!!

Have a great weekend all. Don't fear the waterfall.
~WornOutShoes

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