Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com More than music… it’s a way of life Fri, 11 May 2012 02:14:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Adios Sunset Studio, Aloha…??? http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-sunset-studio-aloha/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-sunset-studio-aloha/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 02:07:19 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=253 We are starting a new phase in Sunset Junkies history, we have left Sunset Studio and have set up a new practice space. For the entire existence of Sunset Junkies, we have practiced on Keith’s property but with the completion of Craig’s new house, the band has moved. It seemed weird that we were practicing . . . → Read More: Adios Sunset Studio, Aloha…???]]> We are starting a new phase in Sunset Junkies history, we have left Sunset Studio and have set up a new practice space.  For the entire existence of Sunset Junkies, we have practiced on Keith’s property but with the completion of Craig’s new house, the band has moved.  It seemed weird that we were practicing somewhere different and it may take some getting used to.  We are taking suggestions for names for the new crib on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/sunsetjunkies.  Some early suggestions are Horizon, the Beach, and Basement Blasters.  So we will see what name might stick and report back on the blog when a final consensus is made.  While our practice space might be unfamiliar, our next show is anything but.  We are back in the friendly confines of Mulligan’s in downtown Lima.  We can’t wait to see Jody and Chris and play the last Saturday before the rallies start Downtown the following Friday.  The show starts at 9:30, come hear all the new original songs we have written over the winter.

More than music… it’s a way of life.

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-sunset-studio-aloha/feed/ 0 Alter Ego http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/alter-ego/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/alter-ego/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 03:24:21 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=250 We all got in touch with our Alter Ego’s this past Saturday. As previously mentioned in this blog, we played for fans during free comic book day at the local comic book store, Alter Ego Comics. Keith and Craig know the owner Marc in their professional lives and Joe knows Marc because he feeds his . . . → Read More: Alter Ego]]> We all got in touch with our Alter Ego’s this past Saturday.  As previously mentioned in this blog, we played for fans during free comic book day at the local comic book store, Alter Ego Comics.  Keith and Craig know the owner Marc in their professional lives and Joe knows Marc because he feeds his comic book addition.  We had no idea how Sunset Junkies would be accepted at free comic book day but there was not doubt after the fact, it was a great success.   There was a line a block and a half long the two hours that we were playing.  The crowd loved us and we set out about 50 CD’s and they were gone in about 45 minutes.  The rain held off so that we could play outside on the sidewalk and it was a great morning.  This show holds the title of our earliest show ever, we started at 10:00 and played until noon.  It’s not everyday that you can play to fans like Batman, Spider man, the Flash, etc.  Kids of all ages were dressed in costumes, we were dressed in comic book t-shirts.  It was a fun day and we were happy to help a fellow entrepreneur like Marc.

 

More than music… it’s a superhero way of life.

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/alter-ego/feed/ 0 Soaring to New Heights http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/soaring-to-new-heights/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/soaring-to-new-heights/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 02:43:24 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=247 That’s right, we are soaring to new heights and venturing into unchartered waters. We are playing a show tomorrow at a comic book store. This might only be something that could be dreamt up by our lead guitarist Joe, but it is true. If the weather permits, Sunset Junkies will be setting up in two . . . → Read More: Soaring to New Heights]]> That’s right, we are soaring to new heights and venturing into unchartered waters.  We are playing a show tomorrow at a comic book store.  This might only be something that could be dreamt up by our lead guitarist Joe, but it is true.  If the weather permits, Sunset Junkies will be setting up in two parking spaces in the front of Alter Ego comics tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. (that’s right a.m.!!) for free comic book day.  This is really early for Keith, but if he puts some Bailey’s in his coffee he should be ready to go.  This is a huge event for downtown Lima, there should be well over 2oo people in and around the store.  We will be giving away cd’s too, so come and see us!!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/274156306003673/

More than music… it’s a way of life.

 

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/soaring-to-new-heights/feed/ 0 Mellow Fellow http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/mellow-fellow/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/mellow-fellow/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:18:18 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=241 Sorry this post is not very timely, we are all getting back

into the swing of things after the winter off season. Last weekends gig at Pappy’s was a success and we hope to be back there again soon. We had played Pappy’s last fall as a split show with Ohio Noise machine but this . . . → Read More: Mellow Fellow]]> Sorry this post is not very timely, we are all getting back

into the swing of things after the winter off season.  Last weekends gig at Pappy’s was a success and we hope to be back there again soon.  We had played Pappy’s last fall as a split show with Ohio Noise machine but this time we had the whole night to ourselves.  Once we got our equipment up to speed and the rust knocked off the set list it went really good.  Jeremy decided with the crowd that was present that we should start with our more “mellow” set.  We had two great sets of rock and roll to end the night.  The staff at the bar were great.  Leanne is a lot of fun and even made Jeremy an extra long straw so he could keep drinking while playing.  After we were done playing we had a lot of people give us good compliments. One lady commented to Craig that we were “too mellow” and needed to rock more.  We thanked her for the suggestion but told her that being laid back and mellow is our style.

More than music…  It’s a mellow way of life!!

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/mellow-fellow/feed/ 0 Not again! http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/not-again/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/not-again/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:51:18 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=237 Yes, it has not even been a full year since we stopped bombarding you with updates on our album Therapy and now we are back at it again. We have more than enough material for a third album and have loosely started the project. We will start by mixing some rough demos on our digital . . . → Read More: Not again!]]> Yes, it has not even been a full year since we stopped bombarding you with updates on our album Therapy and now we are back at it again.  We have more than enough material for a third album and have loosely started the project.  We will start by mixing some rough demos on our digital recorder in Sunset Studio.  We have about twelve songs that we are working with and will probably not use all of them on the album.  We are also looking forward to going back to Pappy’s in April on Easter weekend.  Stay tuned for more updates on the new album and all the upcoming gigs for the spring and summer.

More than music… it’s a way of life.

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/not-again/feed/ 0 Old School http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/old-school/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/old-school/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:40:58 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=233 We had a great time this past Saturday night at Mulligan’s. It is our favorite place to play and we were able to play some new music that we have been writing. It was a cold, dark, night but we had our faithful followers out to see us. Between the gig at Harry’s and this . . . → Read More: Old School]]> We had a great time this past Saturday night at Mulligan’s.  It is our favorite place to play and we were able to play some new music that we have been writing.  It was a cold, dark, night but we had our faithful followers out to see us.  Between the gig at Harry’s and this past show at Mulligan’s, it was good to see all the familiar faces after a break of about a month and a half.  We started rocking right away, we have used a similar set for the first two shows.  We are finding that we have a lot of great songs that we can mix throughout the night and that the sets of music are flowing much better than they ever have.  We had a table of people who had never seen us before and they really got into our music.  One guy kept hollering “Play some old school rock and roll”.  So we quickly nicknamed this fan “Old School” and would give him a shout out anytime we played any of the old classics.  We also played two new songs; Fantasy World and Call My Bluff.  They were both well received but another newer song Seize the Day is becoming a quick crowd favorite.  It is also a song that everyone in the band is really excited about, it should definitely make the next album.  Which is something that we are starting to brainstorm about.  Another album just seems like the logical way to keep building on our current success.  We have more than enough songs in the hopper to start developing the next musical gem that will be our third album.  Since there are no shows currently scheduled until April, it will be fun to take some of our raw material to the next level.  Just like pink slime will turn into McDonald’s burgers one day, our songs are born in a moldy studio will come out hot and fresh on a CD. Lovin’ it!

 

More than music… it’s a way of life.

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/old-school/feed/ 0 Slammin’ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/slammin/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/slammin/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:27:54 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=228 We had a great night last Saturday at Harry’s with Storm Kills 4. We have played at Harry’s before, but it was definitely PJ (Pre-Joe), so we’re talking years since our last appearance. We found out later that Dawn (manager of Harry’s) had requested us to play there, she had heard good things about us. . . . → Read More: Slammin’]]> We had a great night last Saturday at Harry’s with Storm Kills 4.  We have played at Harry’s before, but it was definitely PJ (Pre-Joe), so we’re talking years since our last appearance.  We found out later that Dawn (manager of Harry’s) had requested us to play there, she had heard good things about us.  We always enjoy playing on someone else’s PA, it’s a lot of work to haul all of the sound equipment.  So we showed up with amps, axes, and skins and let the sound team handle the rest (Ryan did a great job on the board).  Since we were headlining, we brought our stuff in and had time to relax before SK4 went on.  Bad things always happen when we have time on our hands and this was no exception.  Harry’s has a punching machine that measures how hard you can hit the punching bag, so we all decided to take a turn.  Any casual observer would have bet on Jeremy, but Keith was the surprise winner!  We then went and played pool and were disappointed when the bartender told Joe he had blue pool chalk on his forehead, we were hoping he would go onstage with the blue dot.  SK4 set us up nicely, they finished their set and we had a nice crowd to rock out to.  We played some of our best music Saturday.  I am not sure why the stars all aligned right, but our sets were killer.  The crowd was getting into it all night and we had a blast.  Joe again had two guys fist pumping and finger pointing during his solos.  Joe did his behind the head guitar solo but may have been outdone by Joel from SK4 who break-dances while doing a guitar solo.  The night ended with our rendition of Dark Night.  There is an old basketball hoop at the side of the stage and everyone joked that Craig could do a patented stage jump and dunk on the hoop.  While it seemed outlandish, it happened.  At the end of Dark Night, Craig dropped his guitar and tried to dunk a wadded up set list with a leaping behind the head Clyde-Slamma-Jamma… he missed!!  What a fun night!!

Speaking of fun nights, we have a great show scheduled this Saturday with our friends at Mulligan’s!!  We have some new original material that we have written, we can’t wait to try it out.  We hope to post videos soon from Harry’s and will look to shoot film at Mulligan’s Saturday.

 

More than music… it’s a way of life!!!

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/slammin/feed/ 0 Here we go!!! http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/here-we-go/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/here-we-go/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:42:41 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=221 It’s 2012 and Sunset Junkies are crawling out of their hibernation cave to deliver some rock and roll to audiences around the Lima area. Maybe you thought since the blog has had no posts for so long that you might not hear from us this year. Wrong!! We have 9 shows already booked for this . . . → Read More: Here we go!!!]]> It’s 2012 and Sunset Junkies are crawling out of their hibernation cave to deliver some rock and roll to audiences around the Lima area.  Maybe you thought since the blog has had no posts for so long that you might not hear from us this year.  Wrong!!  We have 9 shows already booked for this year and some good leads for some new venues.  The venues are familiar names; Mulligan’s, Luke’s, Pappy’s, and Harry’s.  Yeah, Harry’s!  It’s been about three years but Sunset Junkies are going to invade Harry’s with our com padres Storm Kills 4 this Saturday, February 4.  We will start at 10:00, there is a three dollar cover.  Here’s a bonus; if Sunset Junkies music is not your thing, pay the three dollar cover and dance to hip hop music in the other section of the club.  Or if you can’t make it to the gig and you want to send us your three dollar cover for reading the blog, send it to the address listed here on the website!!  The following Saturday, the 11th we will be playing on our home court at Mulligan’s.  More details to come in the upcoming blogs.  We’ve got some new original songs we will play at the next two shows and they are SMOKIN’!  Maybe we can put some videos up over the next few weeks.

 

More than music… it’s a way of life!

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/here-we-go/feed/ 0 Adios 2011 http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-2011/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-2011/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:58:26 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=206 Happy holidays to the millions of readers that come to this page for comic relief!! Sunset Junkies have put a wrap on another year. This starts the sixth year for the band which is sometimes still hard to believe. When we originally launched this project we never knew if we could succeed or not. Our . . . → Read More: Adios 2011]]> Happy holidays to the millions of readers that come to this page for comic relief!!  Sunset Junkies have put a wrap on another year.  This starts the sixth year for the band which is sometimes still hard to believe.  When we originally launched this project we never knew if we could succeed or not.  Our biggest gift comes from the support of the people who enjoy listening to our music.  As you can tell, we really enjoy what we do.  I think all four of us can agree that we had all dreamed someday we could play in a band and make our own music and that people would like it.  Then on top of that you add the two albums that we have made, all the places we have played, and the people that we have seen; when you  step back it sometimes feels surreal that four guys from Lima can claim this.  Looking back on 2011 the main highlight was the release of Therapy.  This was much anticipated but there is no doubt that this album was not rushed in anyway.  No sacrifices were made, no corners were cut, and we learned a lot during the process.  If you have not gotten a copy, check it out on iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sunset-junkies/id438340407), or our  Facebook music store.

Other noteworthy events from 2011 would include; Playing in Ft. Wayne and Cincinnati, and adding new venues  Luke’s, Beer Barrel, and Pappy’s.  We will be releasing a full calendar sometime soon with plenty of opportunities to see Sunset Junkies in 2012.  But in the meantime we will be laying low in January when the weather is bad and everyone has the holiday hangovers.  But behind the scenes there is always something going on, this rock and roll beast never sleeps!

 

More than music… it’s a way of life!

]]> http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/adios-2011/feed/ 0 Fanta Claus http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/fanta-claus/ http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/fanta-claus/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:44:28 +0000 Sunset Junkies http://www.sunsetjunkies.com/?p=202 We had a great time this past Saturday playing for the Dana UAW party. Jeremy’s dad Greg has hooked us up with Ohio State /Michigan gigs but this was a much bigger affair. We had decided before the gig that Joe should dress up as Santa Claus. But after debate since Thrash loves Fanta Cola . . . → Read More: Fanta Claus]]> We had a great time this past Saturday playing for the Dana UAW party.  Jeremy’s dad Greg has hooked us up with  Ohio State /Michigan gigs but this was a much bigger affair.  We had decided before the gig that Joe should dress up as Santa Claus.  But after debate since Thrash loves Fanta Cola so much we had decided he should dress up in an orange and white suit and go as Fanta Claus.  However, this dream never left Sunset Studio (fortunately there are a lot of dreams that never leave the studio).  The UAW hall is one of the bigger indoor venues we have played and there was a lot of people there to celebrate their Christmas party.  Some party goers like our buddy Chad were really out to have a good time, it was fun to watch all the people.  We mixed in two Christmas songs with our regular set, one was great, one was not so great.  Hopefully they cancelled each other out.  The night ended with Craig /Shooter jumping off the stage and running around the room during an encore performance of House of the Rising Sun.  When back on stage he mocked Joe’s “over the head” guitar solo to find that someone had followed him back on stage.  The king of the Hill had ran up on stage behind Craig. With this madness, nobody was sure how to end the song!  It was a fitting end to  one wacked out Christmas party.  Cheers again to Greg who not only keeps us rolling in his Sunset Suburban but booked us for such a big event!

 

More than music… it’s a way of life.

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