Left Coast Live ticket prices have dropped to $15 in advance, $20 at door. Pretty awesome. The $2 discount code still applies: lclserenity
If you already purchased a ticket at the original $25 price and were coming to see us, let me know. We’ll make it up to you with some merch.
http://www.myspace.com/westfestjammin
I’m gonna make a solo acoustic appearance during the Westfest at West Valley College in Saratoga on Saturday, May 9. I have a few covers that I just might bust out, and possibly one or two new songs. No promises but I do hope to debut some new stuff there.
The acoustic area, from what Barb tells me, is pretty casual, and it’s really for anyone to come in and play whenever they want. I’ll probably be around later in the evening but not sure. Follow the band’s twitter (user: serenitynow1) and I’ll keep you updated on when I’m heading over.
Any song requests?
You can get your wristband here. For a $2 discount on tickets, use discount ticket code: lclserenity
Serenity Now! is playing SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS. Here is complete venue line-up with times (thanks Barb!):
Main Stage:
5:15pm – 6:00pm RED SUNDAY
6:30pm – 7:15pm MY MONSTER
7:45pm – 8:30pm AIVAR
9:00pm – 9:45pm JADE OF DAYS
10:15pm – 11:00pm KUNG FU VAMPIRE
11:30pm – 12:15am MONKEY
12:45am – 1:30am JONNY MANAK & THE DEPRESSIVES
(all bands have 45 minute sets; with 30 mins between sets)
Small Stage:
6:00pm – 6:30pm LETTERS MAKE WORDS
7:15pm – 7:45pm USURPER VONG
8:30pm – 9:00pm SERENITY NOW
9:45pm – 10:15pm NORTHERN SON
11:00pm – 11:30pm POINT 3
12:15pm – 12:45am RIVALS
(all bands have 30 minute sets; with 45 mins between sets)
I’ve had this Fender Jaguar for five years now. So far, I’ve tried to sell it twice but bailed at the last minute because it has too much sentimental value to me. The first time it was played in public was at my buddy’s wedding, and the last time it was played was for the solo in “Folks Like Me.”
I brought the ol’ Jag out today for a string change (haven’t touched it since recording the “Folks” solo) and thought it might be cool to offer something a little bit different to our friends. So…
I am offering:
– A copy of The Ultimate Trip, autographed by Erik
– A Serenity Now! t-shirt or girl shirt (available sizes only)
– The strings that I used to record the solo in “Folks Like Me”
– I will personally pat you on the back and hand you a can or bottle of beer (at my expense, of course) at Serenity Now!’s Left Coast Live afterparty (location/details TBD)
I'm just giving away the strings, not the guitar. Don't get carried away meow.
I’ll send the CD, shirt and strings (or hand-deliver if you prefer) to the first person who sends me a screenshot of their receipt for a Left Coast Live music festival ticket. Yes, we’re confirmed for Left Coast Live, and yes, if Left Coast Live were a train, it would be a crazy one going off of its rails, as Ozzy once said.
The contest starts… MEOW. First person to email me with a screenshot of the LCL music festival receipt wins, so come and get it.
Love,
Erik
We’re confirmed for Left Coast Live here in San Jose on Friday, May 15. This will be a big one!
San Jose’s Serenity Now! has metalled it up for its forthcoming album, The Ultimate Trip. A Sabbathy Zep influence is not exactly what one might have expected from the band that has found its biggest success so far with the sweet slice of alternapop that was “Miss Congeniality.” The hooks are as strong as ever, and just when you think you have the group pinned—or repinned—“Folks Like Me” rolls out as a poignant Gram Parsons–esque ballad, and the album’s best song, “The Long Way to Suicide,” sounds like a song from the fourth album Big Star should have made instead of In Space.
– SanJose.com (thanks Metro)
“Serenity Now! sounds like all the elements that made various ’90s bands great collected into one spot – and there’s plenty of quiet-loud-quiet to go around. If you don’t hear “Miss Congeniality” and everything you loved on the radio in 1997, you weren’t listening to the radio in 1997.” (Steve Palopoli)
Thanks to Steve and Michael Gant at Metro. See y’all on Saturday at Streetlight.
i should be watching through the window
just like my father used to do
i should be walking around on tiptoes
keeping your rightful spot warm for you
that’s what i’ll do
i should be napping through the anger
kind of like mama does today
to think, i never stopped to thank her
like it or not, i’m here to stay
i’m sad to say
i swear that scene you’ve got won’t star me
i swear i’ll let the spoils walk on by
thinking and knowing ain’t the same
imagination is to blame
you made the one who became me
win, lose or draw, it’s all i’ll be
but when push comes to shove
i’m not the man to keep
the thinning of the herds can start with me
please let me think that i can be him
please let me think that i’m not that bad
thinking and knowing ain’t the same
imagination is to blame
you made the one who became me
win, lose or draw, it’s all i’ll be
but when push comes to shove
i’m not the man to keep
the thinning of the herds can start with me
