Just Starting to Change
I walked into English class today and this kid was like, "Ian, Dude, congratulations!" I was a little confused. As much as I would like it if random people congratulated me on a regular basis for nothing in particular, it's a rare occurrence. I looked at him kind of blankly and said, "Thanks... what'd I do?" and he was like, "Dude! Congratulations, that's awesome! I was really excited for you, way to go with your first air time." Now I was interested, but still unenlightened. "What are you talking about?" I asked him. He looked at me, this time he was kind of confused. "Don't you even know?" Nope. None of us knew.
This guy, Ben is his name, was listening to WSTW (that's 93.7 for anybody who lives around here) on Sunday night, when all of a sudden the announcer came on and said, "Now for the radio premier of a new band from Philadelphia, the Look Machine!" and played one of our songs. Pretty cool right?
I sent our press kit in to WSTW and Y100 on Thursday afternoon. They both have shows for local and unreleased music, but I never expected that they would start playing our stuff this fast! I'm excited about it. I figured that I would wait about two weeks and give them a call and bug them till they played it or told me no, but I never even asked. They couldn't have gotten it any earlier than Saturday and they had it playing by Sunday.
The CD I sent in had three songs on it, Fanatic, Becoming, and All Our Hands. I asked Ben which song it was and he wasn't sure because he doesn't know our music. However, he was kind enough to describe the sound. "It was very guitar full and the singer hit some high notes." OK, it was that one! That's a pretty good description for all our songs. I'm guessing it was Fanatic. All our Hands is too long for the radio without some trimming, and he said it wasn't all acoustic. So anyway, we're big radio stars now and didn't even know it. If you want to hear us, listen to 93.7 between 9 and 11 pm on Sundays. Probably they won't play us again this Sunday but we just might be on the next week.
We'll be signing autographs at our show this Saturday for a small fee.
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That's sweet. Congrats fellas.
I checked the WSTW web site and it says they played Fanatic. http://www.wstw.com/heroes/?num=2
Woohoo! My brothers-in-laws are stars. Don't think I am not going to ride on your coat tails all the way to the TOP! By the way...Jase, I am really glad that you liked Howie Day and can't believe that you hadn't heard of him before. Thanks for referring to me as the"older person". and thanks too for making me sound like a faker...like my unexplained and unexpected sickness was just a chance to stay home and watch t.v. I had a fever dude. A FEVER! and my throat was scratchy...SCRATCHY! I could have died.
Many congratses!!!!
A fever with no thermometer verification. .. and somehow you recovered enough by the the next day to attend an early lunch.
I'm looking forward to rockstardom
Next Sunday everyone needs to send an email to Requests@wstw.com around 9 and ask them to play it again.
Here is why I picked the title fot this post. The counting crows say:
"I was out on the radio, just starting to change/ somewhere out in America it's starting to rain/ can you remember just one thing you will remember about me?"
um, ACTUALLY JASON LATSHAW...there was a verification by thermometer PLUS, Darby felt my head and said that I DID feel warm. So there. PLUS, I went home and went straight to bed and when I woke up the next morning my throat was still scratchy, but I wanted to celebrate Jenna's birthday with her. SO THERE AGAIN!
I'm gonna have to support her on this one. A Darby-verified warmth holds more water than a Jason opinion, man.
I am soooo excited for you guys!! Congratulations! Getting played on the radio...how awesome is that :)
--Katie
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