We’re happy to present the final of our four new songs: 1 Night Stand. 1 Night Stand is one of the most classic and popular songs at our live shows. As you can tell from the title and lyrics, this Rockabilly groove depicts the story of the singles night-life in Downtown Denver. Listen to the verses and see if you can pick out the street names.

Thank everyone for giving our songs a listen! If you’re interested in download them, you can do it for free at our web site.  Also if you’re in Fort Collins/Northern Colorado on Sunday, come out to our benefit show!

I just wanted to take a quick minute to thank him for all of he’s done: both on and off the field.  John Lynch has been an amazing presence on the Broncos.  I remember hearing the news that he signed with the Broncos and went out the next day to pick up his Jersey. I’ve been proudly wearing it ever since.

Like Shannon Sharpe, Lynch has gone out with some gas left in the tank.  While I’d love to see him play another year, it’s also good that he’s not Willie Mayes dropping fly balls in the outfield.

I’ll write more later, but I wanted to say “thanks”.  If you read into the story, you’ll see that he’s going to retire both as a Buc, and a Bronco.  I know in the NFL your retiring teams are a little meaningless, but it’s really cool to see that he’s appreciated his time in Denver - even if it’s a fraction of how much Denver’s appreciated him.

Here’s why I hate it:

• Another Night for Football -  I give the NFL a lot of my time and money. When the Broncos play at home, I spent all day going to the game and then come home and watch Sunday Night Football.  Even though I have a Monday commitment, I still find a way to catch part of Monday Night football. Yet now the NFL is wanting me to give up another evening to watch their game.  I have busy things during the week so that my weekends can be free to watch football.  Look NFL, believe it or not, I have a life outside of your game.
• It ruins all of the games surrounding football - Whether it’s fantasy football, pick’ems, survival football - most of these games require you to solidify your picks/lineups before the first game.  Last week the Broncos played the Browns and you bet I had that game on my mind, yet I forgot to go in and change the lineups for one of my fantasy teams and missed the pick’em.  After 9 weeks of conditioning myself to prepare for the weekend, you throw a wrench in and take away 3 days on many of these games. It’s asinine!
• The NFL Network - The idea of the NFL Network is great, but it is the State-Run-Television of the NFL.  The quality of the broadcast & commentary isn’t up par with the major networks, and yet the NFL keeps ramming these games down our throat on these networks.  After watching the Broncos/Browns last week, watching the same 5 commercials over and over again got old pretty quickly.  On top of it all, 40% of the US doesn’t get the NFL Network.  I’ve heard rumors that the NFL may sell the games next year to another sub-par cable network like TNT. Just make the games go away, admit this idea failed miserably and go back to airing classic games.

Come on NFL, give Thursday night back to College football.

Also if you’re in Fort Collins/Northern Colorado, we’d love for you to come out on Sunday night and support a great cause with us!

Pagans is one of the strangest songs in the Greenfoot catalog. Not only does the song bounce between melodies, but also changes tempo, time signatures and beats to reflect the lyrics. Some images that came to Jake, our lead singer when writing the lyrics: Celtic lore, sacrifice, and celestial worship. It also touches on mob mentality and the difficulty of opposing the establishment.

What do you think of the song, especially in comparison of the other songs we released?  If you want to hear the rest of them, check out greenfootmusic.com/music

Check back next Friday, we have a really fun song to round things out!

Part of this project was to create an identity package, which includes hats, jerseys, a bus and a plane.  I’ve applied my logo to those as well:

Once again, I’d be anxious to hear your thoughts!

I’m not a big baseball fan, but I just wanted to put this out there and say that while this was a good trade, it’s going to be perceived as a boneheaded Rockies move.  The young talent that we received for a player in the last year of his deal - a deal that’s too expensive for the Rockies to re-sign - will make this trade worth it. Rather than have nothing to show at the end of next year when Holliday would have left, we’ve managed to get something for it.

Nonetheless, one can’t deny that Holliday is a popular player and put fans in seats.  We’ll see how this plays out next year, especially if the Rockies aren’t competitive.

Entangled is one of the most fun songs to drum. As we were writing this song, I experimented with a lot of different cymbal colors and rhythms that change in each phrase. I love bass riff Julien adds in the middle of the song (around the 2:19), as well as how the soloing guitar trades off with the vocals at this part.

If you’d like, you can download a free MP3 of this song by becoming a Friend of Greenfoot. Just go to http://GreenfootMusic.com/friends/ and sign-up - it’s free!
I’d love to hear what you think of the song! Be on the look out next Friday when we release the 3rd of 4 new songs!

You’re more than welcome to buy the track (name your own price) by clicking on “Download” below - but if you’d like the track for free, just become a “Friend of Greenfoot” and download the MP3. It’s free to sign up, simply go to the Greenfoot Web Site and join!

I’d love to hear what you think! Feel free to comment!

In the fall of 2007 we went though a lineup change.  Getting a new member up-to-speed is always difficult, especially when you only have a 3 piece band.  We were back in the basement for seven months getting up-to speed on all current material (essentially re-writing many of our songs), working on some new material and getting the lineup comfortable enough to play out again.  In the summer of 2007 we were finally on a roll, playing over a dozen shows and getting our name out there.  That all came to a grinding halt during the lineup change and we basically disappeared off the face of the Earth.  When we finally re-emerged in the spring of 2008, we basically were starting fresh.  We didn’t do a good job of maintaining contacts with booking agents - especially when we didn’t have anything to offer them (ability to play show). With the live music biz being what it is, many of our contacts had changed as well.  It took a lot of work to try to get part of that momentum that we had before the lineup change.

Now Greenfoot is currently on a 5 week break from rehearsing or playing any shows due to our bass player traveling, as well as our lead singer welcoming their second child into the world.  While this break was much-needed, it also has come at a time where we again had strong momentum.  We were playing a steady stream of shows, writing new material and making good progress towards our goals.  Being off the radar for 6 weeks would be another significant blow for our progress.

This time we’re trying something different, using these new songs to our advantage. Over the spring and summer we recorded these four new songs, with the typically “as soon as we get them done” release date in mind.  When we realized we were going to be out over a month, we sat on these songs for a while, with the idea that we can at release something new and have some exciting developments at a time when we’re not playing shows or rehearsing.  These songs aren’t tied to a new album, so rather than releasing these all at once, we’re putting one out each week to get people back to our web site, as well as checking out the new and songs we have posted.  Hopefully we’re now able to “disappear” correctly, with fans not realizing that there’s no one behind the curtain.

We were fortunate enough to have these songs in our back pocket, but looking back at where we were a year ago I’m wondering what we could have done differently when we disappeared.  Is there a right way to disappear, especially when it’s something as unexpected as a lineup change?  Is there anything that bands on hiatus can do to keep contacts fresh, as well as maintain interest from booking agents?  I’d be anxious to for any ideas people may have.

I was doing some Greenfoot work tonight, and am trying to upload our new tracks to a hosting/steaming service.  The service is asking for WAV files so that they can encode on-the-fly - fair enough.  I upload the WAV files ranging from 40-55mb, not huge by any means, but sizeable.  I tried uploading directly to the web site, but about 20% into the upload my DSL connection drops for a few minutes, reconnecting to a different IP address and breaking my upload.  I’ve tried different protocols/applications (Live Mesh, FTP), which resulted in the same behavior.  I’ve eliminated any doubt that this is being caused by a specific machine, then eliminated my router from the equation.

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me using Qwest DSL, so I’m left with my original question: Is Qwest dropping DSL connections that are uploading large files?

I *think* I’m solving the issue by breaking the file into 2mb pieces, FTP’ing the files to a non-DSL machine and uploading them that way.  Talk about a pain in the ass!

Hopefully this will be the last survey I’ll need to give for this class, but thank you all again!