The New CD Release Show

We have to change the date of our CD release show. It was gonna be next week but with our drummer forgetting his parachute (again!) we need some time to recoup. It's back to solo acoustic mode for Schnitzel until Johnny Five is better. So that leaves the next show at The Cave in Chapel Hill.

We'll be a full band again for the Richmond premier, Sept 8th at Cafe Diem (with the Atkinsons). Hopefully Shelby can get away. He and his wife just had their second child and the band is honored they named him in honor of the band, Schnitzel Murphy.

I try to make this more of an interesting kinda blog as opposed to just giving stupid band updates so here's some obscure Schnitzel trivia. My favorite blogger Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame just finished reading Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of The Great War". He liked it. I loved it. It made a huge impression on me. My girlfiend at the time, Julie Finnel (and I mention her full name in case she ever googles herself-if you do how the hell have you been for the last 10 years?) thought it was ridiculous or stupid or something. Whatever, my point is that the book stayed with me and I always wondered if it should since she was the only other person I knew who read it and I respected her opinion. But I respect Glenn more. Well now I do. At the time I don't the Internet was more than the CB radio of the 90's.

Anyways, the Schnitzel song "Song For Tift Merrit to Sing" has a line "When birds take off they go straight across borders". That was really about a moment in the book when the main character is asked if he believes in God and he says he does everytime he sees birds take flight. When I wrote that I was thinking specifically of that.... as opposed to all the stuff I ripped off of Honore Damuier. But that's for a post some other time.