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News Archive
7/14/05 - We are playing at The Chatterbox tonight. We are opening for High Ed, and the show starts at 9:00 PM. Some small amount of money gets you in the door. Come spend your Thursday summer evening the right way with us!
6/22/05 - We are playing at Knickerbocker's tonight for the 18 and Over show. The fun starts at 9:00 PM, and it is $5 to get in the door. Hope to see you there!
6/3/05 - We are playing at Antelope Park for a graduation party this afternoon, around 1:30. We raised over $800 for the American Cancer Society at our benefit concert last week.
5/24/05 - We are playing a benefit concert for the American Cancer Society this Friday. Sam and Nate's dad is a cancer survivor, and his band String Demons will be playing as well. The evening starts at 5pm and goes until 1am. There is a $5 dollar donation to get in the door, and that all goes to the ACS, the bands are donating their time to this cause. String Demons will start the evening, and we will play after them. There is an entire night of music planned, to make the most of your $5 donation. The event is being held at Duggan's Pub, 11th and K streets in Lincoln. To see the poster for the event click here. We hope to see you there, to support the cause of finding a cure for cancer!
4/20/05 - Why hello there stranger! Long time, no see. Just wanted to let you all know we have a "reunion" tour coming up, starting with the Arts and Humanities Benefit on Friday. We should probably be playing at around 8pm. They will probably be taking donations at the door for charity - a good cause. Hope to see you there!
1/4/05 - Happy New Year everyone! To get the new year started off right, we are playing at The Chatterbox on Friday, January 14 at 6:30. Cover is probably going to be just $2. How can you argue with that? See, you can't, so we'll see you there!
12/13/04 - We will once again playing at Knickerbocker's this Friday. We are the headlining act (for sure) this time, but the other two bands that are playing are unknown to me at this time. I'll post if I get more info. $5 gets you in, door opens at 6pm. Hope to see ya there.
10/11/04 - This Friday we will be playing at Knickerbocker's. We will be the opening band, starting at 6:00pm for an early all-ages show. The headline act is Keller Hamilton. Come on down to see us at Knickerbocker's, only $5, be there early!
9/26/04 - We have a gig coming up on October 8th at the Chatterbox. We will be playing at 7pm until 9pm, and will not have another band. So come on down to the Chatterbox for an evening of fun and good music for all ages.
9/18/04 - I'd like everyone to help me welcome Sam back from his travels in Europe. He arrived home safely Thursday night after a month and a half long trek through Germany, Holland, Italy, and France. Now that he is back, we should be lining up some more gigs soon.
7/19/04 - Starting to sound like a broken record: We are playing at the Chatterbox again this Friday night at 8:00pm. The cover is $2, and Ed's Groove and Potash will be opening the show. Hope to see you there. Enjoy this Hugh Jass poster.
7/1/04 - We will be at the Chatterbox again tomorrow night at 8:00pm. This time, we will be the headlining act in a night insanely packed full of music and such. Hey, the cover is only $2, how could you go wrong?
6/3/04 - Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know that we will be playing at the Chatterbox (formerly the Haymarket Hideaway under the O Street viaduct) tomorrow night from 8-10. Jared will be opening for us with his acoustic wizardry. Come down and spend your Friday night with Jive Pistol at the Chatterbox.
4/27/04 - We've got 2 shows booked for May so far. We will be playing at Arts and Humanities for a benefit on the 7th, and then have the all ages FAC at Duggan's Pub on the 28th. Check the Upcoming Shows page for more info.
4/13/04 - I put a new batch of Knickerbocker's pictures on the Photos page. Also, I put a batch of photos from our recent Antelope Park gig on the Photos page as well. Head on over and check 'em out.
3/29/04 - Howdy stranger. Well, after a little break, we will be playing another show at the Antelope Park Shelter. This time, I'll try not to have the flu. We will have plenty of new material for you all, as a reward for having to wait so long for us to get another show put together. So, we will hope to see you on April 10 at 7:00pm at Antelope Park.
1/2/04 - Hope everyone had a happy holiday and new year. We're going to be playing at the Antelope Park Shelter at Capitol Parkway and A Street on Friday, January 2, 2004. Potash and High Ed will be joining us for a versus style show, which starts at 7:00. There is a $2 cover charge. Come to the completely enclosed and heated shelter and ring in the new year the right way, with Jive Pistol!
12/19/03 - Well finals are over with so it's time to update the site. I have added a bunch of posters created by Joe. There are 5 on the 1st and First page, and 2 on the page for our upcoming show at Antelope Park. Head to the Upcoming Shows page to find more info on that. Also, look for our music soon on the Starcityscene.com online radio. Have a happy holiday season.
11/11/03 - There have been a lot of Guestbook forms that have been coming to me lately that have been empty. Not quite sure what the deal is with that, but I updated the scripts for all the forms, so hopefully the problem should be taken care of. If you have submitted a guestbook entry that has not been posted, it's because it came to me completely blank, not because we don't like you. Feel free to resubmit and I'll slap it up on the site.
11/1/03 - Had a good birthday yesterday. I'm 21 now, so maybe I'll have to get a beer at our show tonight at Knickerbocker's. Yes indeed, we're headlining the early all ages show that starts at 6:00pm and runs until 9:00pm. Come on down to see the show, and get yer hands on a CD!
10/26/03 - Hello everyone. This is short notice (because it was short notice for us too), but we are going to be playing at a party at Grandpa John's Pumpkin Patch on Monday, Oct. 27, at 7:00pm. The party will be in the barn. The details we have received are sketchy, but it is apparently a Halloween party being thrown by some former Lincoln High kids, but anyone is welcome to attend. If you're unsure of where Grandpa John's is, just go north on 10th street and take the I-180/Highway 34 overpass. Stay on this until you see the Kawasaki plant on your left and then a gas station on the left as well. Grandpa John's is just past the gas station (separate driveway from the gas station - there is NO separate left turn lane for Grandpa John's). CDs will be available for sale.
10/22/03 - I finally got the pics from the studio scanned and put up on the site. Check them out here.
10/14/03 - Hey all. We're gonna be playing live on the radio on KZUM 89.3 FM on Thursday night at 10:00. The broadcast will also be available with live streaming at http://www.kzum.org. The show is Alive in Lincoln. Tune in to hear us live.
9/30/03 - THE CD HAS ARRIVED!! Click here to get the details and to purchase online. That's right, for only $10 (plus $2 shipping if purchased online - yeah I know fine print sucks), you can be the proud owner of a brand spankin' new Jive Pistol CD. This is our first CD that we've released, and it includes old favorites like "Southern California" and has some new tunes like "Trying to Sleep". We hope you enjoy it and thanks for your support!
9/19/03 - Hey ya'll. Just wanted to let you know that we have a gig Saturday evening at the M&N sandwich shop. It is gonna start at around 6:30. We had hoped that our CDs would be here before it, but it looks like we won't be receiving them until the end of the month. They're being manufactured right now. So, yeah, anyways... drop by Saturday and listen to some tunes, get some food, and the show will be over early enough for you to get on with the rest of the evening. See you there!
9/13/03 - The CD is done! I'm uploading it to the printers as I type this. We should have it available for sale very soon. We also have some gigs up on the Upcoming Shows page, so be sure to check out when those are. The soonest one is Sept. 20 at the M&N Sandwich Shop. Check back soon for CD availability!
8/23/03 - Due to all the virus and worm crap that's going around, the server at UNL where the website is now hosted might be taken offline temporarily. Also, it's possible that UNL's network is so conjested that the page is unreachable. Bear with us for the time being, and keep checking back until you can get the site to work for ya. It seems to just be down for an hour or so at a time, so if you don't get in, just wait a little while.
8/20/03 - We were back in the studio tonight. We have 9 songs at what is more than likely the final mix. We're back in again on Friday night to finish it up. If we decide that we're going with those mixes, we'll send the songs off to have the CDs pressed. Probably won't be out until into September sometime. Hang in there!
8/11/03 - Welcome to the new site! Hope you all like it. Explore all around and see what new things we have to offer here (and there is quite a bit). Feel free to sign the guestbook and let us know what you think. Also, here are some interesting (or at least I think they're interesting) site statistics: the website has 43 html files, 198 images, 18 mp3s, and takes up about 65 megs of space. Neat, huh?
8/5/03 - Really exciting news for everyone. We bought www.jivepistol.com, so the website will be moving there once I finish the new design. It promises to be really awesome.
7/31/03 - All the mixes are done. We'll probably find some things we want to fix while our producer is on vacation, but that's life. Here's one more sample for ya'll: Space Monkey. Have fun!
7/30/03 - We got more mixes done last night, and we have three more songs to go. Our producer will then be on vacation for about a week, and we will take that time to listen to the CD endlessly to try and weed out any more things we want to fix. Then, it's off to get them actually made. Here's a sample of Spirit Lake to whet your appetite until it's done. There will probably be one more sample up on the site sometime this week. Check back.
7/24/03 - Well we've got nine of the fifteen songs mixed now. It'll still be a couple weeks before the mixing is done, but we expect the CD to be out somewhere near the end of August or beginning of September. Until then, here's another demo for you all to snack on. This one is Cement. Check back at the mp3s page for more Jive Pistol music downloads.
7/21/03 - We'll be back in the studio tomorrow and Wednesday, after a slight delay due to Joe's vacation and my body trying to kill me. I am healing however, and should be back to normal in a few more weeks. On a different subject, I noticed while I was browsing around today that we have a fansite. That's really cool. It looks like there's going to be some neat stuff up there soon, so check it out at http://www.geocities.com/jivepistolfans. Also, we have a new web counter, yet again.
7/9/03 - Ok so apparently fracturing my arm wasn't enough medical stuff for me. I woke up Monday morning at around 4:30 with severe stomach pain, and went to the ER at around 8:00. They determined that my appendix needed to come out, and started cutting me open at around 12:30. I spent Monday night at the hospital, and was cleared to come home Tuesday evening. I'm still in a lot of pain and slow getting around, so I probably won't be able to help with the mix down for a week or so. I'll try to have Sam keep me updated on that progress.
7/6/03 - We've started the mix-down, and we've got a little treat for you. Click here for a sample of Amazon Turbo Slut. This is just a rough mix, but keep checking back for more news on the project. I'm working on a way for the CD to be purchased online, so look for that as soon as the CD is done.
7/2/03 - I've got some good news and some good news. First the good news. The recording for the album is done. We'll be starting the mix-down on Saturday, and that will take a few days. I'm not really sure what the next phase of the project is, but I'll let you know. And now the good news. My arm is feeling a little better, and my wounds are healing up pretty well. I'll probably be drumming on a practice pad this weekend to ease back into things. I'll let you know how that goes.
6/28/03 - Ok, well it's a good thing I got my recording done for the album. I had a bike accident yesterday and fractured my right elbow. I can't drive, ride bike, drum, use a mouse... I'm typing this with my left hand only. So it will be at least a month before I'll be behind a drumset again. I'll keep ya updated.
6/26/03 - Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Knickerbocker's yesterday. We've been busy in the recording studio these past two weeks working on an album. It's going along quite well and is getting close to done. We'll definitely be letting you all know when it's ready to go.
6/2/03 - Hey everyone. This is just a reminder that we have a show on Wednesday at Knickerbocker's. We will begin recording an album on the 16th of June, so the more people that come, the more money we will have to put towards studio time. We will also be at Knickerbocker's again on the 25th of June. Hope to see you all there and hope that you'll come out and support us. Thanks!
5/19/03 - Well, we're back online. The cable guy just left after setting up our new account. Welcome back.
5/14/03 - Starting either today (Wednesday) or tomorrow (Thursday), the website will be offline. I will be moving into a new apartment and will not have an Internet connection again until Monday. See you then.
5/5/03 - Changed the link colors, started the About Us page.
5/1/03 - Hey. Just in case you didn't know, we'll be playing Spirit Lake at the Lincoln High JoyNite on Friday. The entire show kicks off at around 7:00. Hope to see you there.
4/26/03 - Good morning to everyone. Just wanted to let you know that we will be at the Road House again this Sunday night. The house band starts at around 7:30 and will play a short set before we can start. Come on down and hear something a little different.
4/9/03 - Hey all. Well, it's been said that when it rains, it pours. We'll we've had a drought of shows lately, but starting this weekend, it's gonna be pouring. We've got all kinds of things to tell you about.
4/1/03 - Hey everyone. Just letting you know that there have been some big changes to the Jive Pistol website. The Photos page has been improved, and two more sets of photos have been added. Also, an mp3s page has been created and there are a bunch of previously unreleased mp3s on there, so go check them out.
2/27/03 - Well, well, well. Long time, no see. We've kind of been in a no-show rut lately - anyone wanna be our booking agent?
2/18/03 - Ok, so I just talked to someone at Time Warner who knows less about networking than I do... what the hell is wrong with that picture? So yeah, the connectivity issues have not been fixed, mainly because I don't think anyone there has a clue. Hope to have the problem fixed soon, but bear with me in the mean time.
2/13/03 - Well, hopefully the downtime will be kept to a minimum now. After three IP changes and TWC not knowing why my connection isn't working, hopefully things have sorted themselves out. We might be playing a show in someone's basement this weekend, but I don't know of any other shows that we have booked right now. We'll try and find some more places to play real soon.
2/4/03 - Looks like there was another server outage. This time though, it was on stupid Time Warner Cable's end, so there's not much I could do about it, short of calling to bitch about it.
1/10/03 - Happy New Year everyone! My server is back up after getting some much needed upgrades, so the site should be back up pretty much permanently now. There will probably be a few little outages here and there if I need to work on it, but otherwise you should be able to count on being able to reach the site. Be sure to check out the new photos from our gig at the Arts and Humanities building.
12/27/02 - Hope everyone had a good Christmas, or if you don't celebrate Christmas, a good late December. Anyways (check out how I segue), (BAM!) if you're interested in some motherboards, processor, and RAM, check out my Ebay auction here. Could make a good present to yourself if you didn't get everything you wanted for Christmas...
12/24/02 - Merry Christmas everyone. I have a card for you all, which can be found right here. Have a good holiday everybody!
12/16/02 - Hello everyone. Time for yet another exciting Jive Pistol update! We have a show this Saturday the 21st at Knickerbocker's. We're playing with Metropolitan Ape at an early all-ages show, which starts at 6pm. The cover is $5, and we're playing first. Come early and hang out with us! See you there!
11/20/02 - Thanks to everyone who came out and saw us at Knickerbocker's this Friday. It was great to have such a good crowd there. You guys are awesome. Check out the Upcoming Shows page for the latest concert info. Those gigs aren't set in stone at this point, but they're a definite maybe :)
11/19/02 - Hey kids, it's that time again. And we all know what that means... another Jive Pistol show! We're going to be playing this Friday (that's right, this Friday the 22nd of November) at Knickerbocker's for Metropolitan Ape's CD release party. The show is an early all-ages show that goes from 6-9pm. We'll be playing first, and $5 will get you in to hear us. Hope to see ya'll there!
11/2/02 - Hey everybody. This is just a friendly reminder to come to our show tonight for my 20th birthday. It's at the Bethany Park shelter, at Cotner and Vine. Since my birthday was actually on Halloween, feel free to wear your favorite costume! The price of admission is next to nothing... in fact it is nothing - FREE! Joe's other band Potash will get the party started at 7:30, and we'll take over from there.
10/19/02 - We're going to be playing next Friday, Oct. 25 at the Antelope Park shelter. Apparently there's going to be a lot of bands there. That's about all the info we have on that right now. We'll definitely pass on more info when we get it.
10/8/02 - Yo ho ho, mateys. Time for another Jive Pistol concert update. We're playing THIS FRIDAY at the Haymarket Hideaway with a few other bands. Show starts at 5:30. We're PROBABLY playing 3rd, but with that place you never know. $5 booty to get in the doors. Can't have much more fun for $5 and still have it be legal. So come on down and have a good ol' time with us. OK so see you there!
9/23/02 - New counter. Only counts unique hits instead of adding one every time the main page is loaded, like if someone used the back button. Counter should be a little better at reflecting the true site stats for ya'll.
9/19/02 - Ok, everybody. Time to try this again. We're gonna give the Haymarket Hideaway another shot. This Saturday, we're kicking off an entire evening full of music. We start the show at 5:00pm, and we're the first of 4 bands. Metropolitan Ape is playing and 2 more bands, whom we don't know the names of right now, are also playing. The cover is $5. So, again, that's Saturday, 5:00pm, $5, Haymarket Hideaway. Come on down and see us!
9/16/02 - Well we might be giving the Haymarket Hideaway and Metro Ape another chance this Saturday. Metro Ape claims that it's official and that we're on the bill this time. We'll see. I'm going to check with the Hideaway before I send out any email or give any other info out. We might have a gig on Friday as well, at another location with other bands. If this Metro Ape/Haymarket Hideaway thing doesn't pan out this time, I think I'm going to have to do something terrible. I don't know what yet... but... but I digress. In website related news, it appears that our hit-counter is really screwed up. For some reason it reset itself and now I can't even get into the server to change it. Perhaps it's time to find a different one. In case you haven't found it on your own yet, if you click the little planet-looking icon at the bottom of this page, you will find some very detailed statistics, with visits broken down by the hour even. Quite interesting stuff. Well, maybe just to me. Anyways, hopefully you will be hearing more from me later about gig info this weekend. Until then.
9/12/02 - Yeah so there's not going to be a show tomorrow. Somebody messed up. Whether it was the Haymarket Hideaway or Metropolitan Ape we don't know, and it's not important anyways, but we're not playing tomorrow. There is another band booked to open for Metropolitan Ape. We were told by Metropolitan Ape that we were opening for them. They claim they told the Hideaway. The Hideaway has another band lined up. Needless to say we're pretty peeved about all the mess and total lack of professionalism, but there will be another day. Hopefully we will have something lined up before the end of the month. So, once again, there will unfortunately be no Jive Pistol tomorrow. Sorry about the confusion.
9/10/02 - Hey all. This is just a short message to let you all know that we have a gig coming up this Friday that was just recently arranged. We are going to be opening for Metropolitan Ape at the Haymarket Hideaway on Friday, Sept. 13. The show starts with us at 6 pm, and then Metropolitan Ape will take the reins from there. The show lasts until 9 pm. The cover is $5. Come down and have a blast!
8/30/02 - Well a big thanks to everyone who stopped what they were doing and came to see us at the Back to School Bash. I think it's fair to say a good time was had by all. At least, I had a good time. Stay tuned for more concert info. Looks like we've got something lined up for September already. More to come on that.
8/29/02 - Hey all. Alas, the school year is once again upon us. And as we walk in the valley of the shadow of homework and classes, we rock on. And tying in very nicely with that theme, tomorrow we are playing at the Back to School Bash at Lincoln High School. The whole block party kicks off at 6pm on the north side of the school. There will be 3 bands playing, with us headlining. Trial by Error will be getting things started from 6-7, Grover will take over from 7-8, and then we'll take the stage and play as long as we *darn* well feel like. Or until we're kicked out. Which ever comes first.
8/13/02 - Reminder about the show at Knickerbocker's on the 21st. Also, the date we gave for the Back to School Bash is incorrect. It's actually the 30th, which is a Friday. Check out the Local Inferno show tomorrow (Wednesday) on 90.3 KRNU for a possibility that part of our new CD will be played on the air. And on a related note, we're working on a CD :)
7/21/02 - We've got a show booked at Knickerbocker's on Wednesday, August 21 from 6-9 pm. High. Ed. will be opening for us. The cover charge will be $5 at the door, all ages. Come and rock out with us! Also, we will be playing at the Back to School Bash at Lincoln High on August 25. We don't really know much more than that, other than it will of course be free to attend. Lastly, we are going to be in the independent film "Breeders" that is currently being shot in our area. We filmed our scene this Friday. It was a lot of fun but was really tiring since it went from about 8 pm Friday night to 7 am Saturday morning. One more thing, Joe is on vacation this week, and Sam and I will be off in Colorado for a week in the beginning of August. Just FYI.
7/14/02 - Ok got some pics taken at our rehearsal yesterday, so those are now up on the site. Look in the Photos section and also check out the About Us page. Hopefully will have more info on a rescheduled date at Knickerbocker's in August very soon.
7/13/02 - Sorry about the lack of updates. Just got hooked up with the Internet at the new place. As far as the band goes, we've got some new songs and are sounding pretty good (at least in my humble opinion). We got a show booked at Knickerbocker's in August, but Sam and I will be out of town. If we get a new date we will let ya'll know.
7/7/02 - Well tomorrow is a big day for me. I'm moving out of the house I've lived in all my life into an apartment with a couple friends. I'm not sure if the Internet connection will be up and running over there tomorrow or any time soon for that matter, but I'll get this updated somehow. Sam and I are expecting Joe back from Colorado either tomorrow or Tuesday, and we're both eager to practice again. We're also going to take pictures for the website. Hopefully everyone has seen the new guestbook, counter, and site statistics things at the bottom of the home page. We may or may not have recorded a song last week that may or may not make it on here somewhere, we'll see. Stay tuned.
7/6/02 - Changing font sizes (they're too big). Also added the beginnings of the About Us page (just filler for right now). Will add more when Joe gets back from Colorado early this next week. Hopefully we can borrow a digital camera and get some pics of us and our brand spankin' new PA speakers that came Friday!
7/5/02 - Yeah so this news thing is new.. so I guess that's news... Also, here's some plans for the future: the about us page will actually have some bios of us, some more of Joe's art will make it on here somewhere, we'll get some pics of us playing (if you have any, send them to us), and maybe we'll have another mp3 or two someday (wink, wink). In other news, there's a counter and a guestbook and all kinds of other fun stuff here (there's mp3's on the Solid Ground page if you haven't found those yet), so spread the word to everyone you know to come here and sign up for the mailing list and put yer name in the guestbook. Ok this is getting long so I'm gonna sign off.
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