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A Close Second

About Me

Put four grown men in a tiny little basement with a lot of amplifiers, two crappy directional mics, and some spiders and ants, and what do you get?A heavy pile of awesome. That's what you get.

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Member Since: 28/09/2007
Band Website: www.aclosesecond.com
Band Members: Al, Casey, Jeff, Jerome
Sounds Like: Butter. Silk. Ice cream. Only with the gain turned up too high.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

We Have a New Name

The scars from the basment knife fight have healed, and Al won the acey-ducey contest, so we have come to agreement that the new moniker for the band formerly known as Deep Dish Gravity is...* drumrol...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:10:00 GMT

First outing

Last nights show at Poggie Tavern was a bushel of fun. Thank you to Jim, Dan (and cronies) and Jackie for helping with the awesome. We are planning another visit their stage soon. Be sure to check ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:13:00 GMT

Going Live at Poggie Tavern in West Seattle

We got a last minute invite to play late at the Poggie Tavern in Seattle.   Naturally we scrambled like mad hares to get the basement cleared out, we haven't rehearsed in three weeks, and Jerome ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:12:00 GMT

13

A new song is born. We spent a good portion of last night hammering out the arrangement for another juicy slice of awesome! Still working on that new name...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:06:00 GMT

Name Change Coming

Alan doesn't like Deep Dish Gravity, so a new moniker for the same old pile of awesome is in the works.   We're gonna have a knife fight in the basement and the winner gets to pick.  Or...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:24:00 GMT

New Song Up

We did some magic with the MR-8 digital thingamabob,and came out with our very first multitrack recording, "Thursday's Child."    It's a bit of an acoustic folk number, inspired by a five ye...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:30:00 GMT

Youve got to grind grind grind at that grindstone...

Still plugging along at the demo.  We took a week off and some of our songs are being slightly revamped.  We've also got a couple of new ones in the works.  So stay tuned.DDG
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:51:00 GMT

Fm11

07.10.24:Sunday afternoon's the big day.  We'll be going to Casa de Dano to record our first four songs. We spent rehearsal last night getting the songs we've chosen dialed.  They'll be post...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:52:00 GMT

07.10.17 Stardate Schrove Tuesday.

Rehersal last night went well.  We are in the process of getting a body of work together for a recording we are going to make in the near future.  Also, we are working on a set list for futu...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:10:00 GMT

The first log entry

Greetings from DDG!  Gotta do something to get the blog going...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:51:00 GMT