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Electric Scooter Holiday Blowout Released Tomorrow!

T-minus 28 hours and counting until the new Grandpa Griffith album will be available for purchase! For all you fans out there I suggest you buy it soon in its pristine 16-bit 44.1 kHz form before all of the ugly MP3 versions start showing up. And by the way-yes, this IS a headphone album, with all kinds of technical, stereo doo-dads employed to swirl the music around your head before hitting you right in the gut.

This CD wouldn’t be nearly as exciting if it weren’t for the fact that there are some surprises on it: some never-before-heard songs, a few new musical parts on songs we’ve been playing live for awhile and some other niceties that shall remain unnamed.

In my head, this CD is going to be a real catalyst to world peace. If somehow George Bush and the Iranians and the North Koreans could get their hands on a copy of this, we would enter into a new era of world relations. If every fifth grader in the world were to hear some of the stuff on here, there would be no more need for schools. All you need to know about life and death are contained within, digitally encoded as subversive, super-catchy, eargasm-inducing audio art.

It has been such a struggle keeping this thing under wraps and ultra-secret for all this time. Now I know how the Knights Templar must have felt guarding the Da Vinci Code over the centuries.

But as of tomorrow night, the waiting will be over. If you’re local, I suggest you come to our CD Release Corporate event at MetroTech Auditorium at 1700 SpringLake Dr. (Just little bit down the street from the Omniplex in the opposite direction of Remington Park on MLK between NE 50th and NE 36th.)

Electric Scooter Holiday Blowout. I challenge all of you listeners to unlock the meaning of it all.

Also, in the last week, at my house, I have completed the compilation of rarities, demos, and madness called Holiday Leftovers, the exclusive bonus disc for those who donated to our worthy cause all of those months ago. There is some interesting stuff on there as well, some of it ultra-rare--so rare that the rest of the band heard it for the first time last week. So, if you were a donor, don’t forget to pick up your copy of that as well.

Anne and James, we need to schedule dinner with you guys some night. I have been polishing up on my cooking skills. I now know that you put the pop-tarts in the toaster.

Thanks to Will Hunt for recording, engineering, and producing us at such a cheap rate. It takes a very special person to keep up with the flood of ideas and imagery that mostly flows out of Jeff’s mouth. Here’s the website for his studio.

posted by Mike @ 1:24 PM