shawn avery

THE YEAR THAT WAS so... my extended treatise on 2006. the year that was. some intro commentary followed by the list thingy... btw, in tribute to the scene we *almost* have now in bham.. a good bit of the list will be locally focused... and although it's a music awards list, i'mma throw in some other notable shit as well. 2006 has been the most productive year for me, since moving to bham. its also been the first certifiably good year of the century... although '04 and '05 weren't bad. civilization was greatly altered by the "mini-ice age" that lasted from 1350 to 1800. and we owe our entire existence to a meteor that dropped to the ground around the gulf of mexico. a year ago i was in a situation of focusing my efforts on getting out of debt. i had recently gotten back from LA and was preparing to make another trip to LA for NYE. i remember taking stock l...

time to update again . the show with john strohm went well. at least i think it did. we had about a week and a half to learn an entire record and perform it as tight as possible. we were reading notes in the greenroom up until the last minute. i didn't get much response after the show from strohm, but i think he was reasonably pleased. for the time given, and the money paid... he got a bargain. it was a lot of fun and bottletree was fun to play again. ashby showed up for about 17 mins wearing a cool hat. he was never seen again. the pernice brothers headlined and although they were all nice, they were kinda flat onstage. great melodies, just not much to look at. i heard that our set sounded great... which is all you can ask for. the staff at bottletree treated us like royalty. katie and merillee and bryan, all super people. the previous night... friday... wild sweet orange played bottletree for a benefit show and killed as usual. packed house. lots of people there. finally FINALLY...