Merry Christmas!

Shapiro spent this past weekend recording a special Christmas song just for you. Go to our myspace to listen to/download it. It was all recorded with an 8-track generously loaned to us by Sean Namei. All instruments either went directly in or were recorded with a single SM-58.

Yes, we're poor musicians. Financially poor, too.

Thanks to EMU for letting us use your timpanis and other instruments. Actually, I should say thanks to EMU for not kicking us out after we snuck into Lehman and used your timpanis and other instruments.

Also thanks to Chris Hansen and George Borsay for recording help, and to Nathan for mixing the thing.

Enjoy.

Ahhh . . . finally done with finals. Finished up my last one about an hour ago.

Last week we played Blacksburg, at Attitudes again. Man. Talk about a crazy night. We had many friends with us. During our set our friends were surrounding the stage, walking onto the stage, jumping off the stage, singing into Nathan's mic', screaming, laughing, yelling . . . all sorts of emotions were going on. Personally I couldn't tell what was happening the entire time; everything was so loud and the lights were disorienting. I felt like I had lost my mind.

Also, thanks to Tokyo and Phillip Uster for being awesome bands. It was seriously a sweet lineup.

After the show, our manager worked a second hotel room into the deal. And I cannot believe we didn't get kicked out. Especially considering that we were basically screaming until around 4 in the morning, and there were parents and small children in the rooms across from us (it was parent weekend at VA Tech). Thanks to the Holiday Inn staff for being AWESOME and turning a deaf ear to our noise. And thanks to Pizza Hut for not calling the cops after Jim* nunchucked your window and Tom knocked over the construction fence. Our bad.

So yeah, Christmas . . . Shapiro is taking a break over the holidays from playing shows. We all need a break. Instead of playing shows, we are going to focusing our attention on getting new material together. We have a ton of new ideas and just need time to hash them out.

We are also going to be revamping our websites, so stay tuned for that. A completely new look to go with a completely new Shapiro.

Happy Holidays, everyone. Check back soon. Because if any more crazy times go down, I will use this blog website to recount them to you.

Peace.


*Names have been changed to protect the guilty.