Urban Family Dog

A little sample from our recording session the other night to whet your appetites: Dog Bites Horn Session

Who would have thunk it? I just did my usual Google search for “Urban Family Dog” and found out that you can purchase 3-Finger Charlie from Walmart Music Downloads. I wonder if we will see a cent of those transactions?

Now, if they would kindly put our CDs and Tees on display near the cash registers…

We are developing a new UFD Slideshow and it is making it’s debut today with the photos from Matt & Keri’s birthday show. Thanks to Vince Hong for taking the photos, and thanks to everyone who came to the show. You were an awesome audience.

The entire 9-piece Urban Family Dog will be performing at The Gig on Melrose in honor of Keri and Matt’s birthdays, and Matt’s 10th year in UFD. Come on down to check out new material like “Hey Playa” and “Dog Bites”. Please contact your local UFD representative to get the discounted $8 advance tickets. (click the image above to print yourself a reminder)

The Gig Hollywood
7302 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
Saturday February 25th
Birthday Party starts at 9:30 pm
UFD Performs at 10:30 pm
Pre-sale tickets $8, Tickets at door $12

Will you be joining us?

UFD is back in the studio. We had some technical difficulties that led to starting over. Oops.

The recording process is torture. One moment you like what you hear. Elation. The next day you hate it. Dissapointment. This goes on hour-to-hour, day-to-day, until you are finally finished. Once you are done, you finally assign your emotion to each song (or parts of songs). Yesterday was pretty good, though. I think you will like what you hear when we are done. A little bit of growth on our part.

How do you feel when you work on your personal artistic projects??

Is that an optical illusion? There’s nothing like a trip to the Pumpkin Patch to get the creative juices flowing. I recieved an email with a link to that cool optical illusion, and decided to post it to the UFD server. I sent a link to 20 people on October 25th. The count now has a life of it’s own. Check it and see.

I was just playing around with a new UFD slideshow, and I happened upon this photo from the oldest set of images on the UFD server. Halloween 2000 headlining 14 Below with James Marsters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This was the heyday of UFD. James Marsters brought a lot of fans to the UFD shows, and many of his fans still hang with UFD today. This was the only show where Marsters performed in his “Spike” makeup. To see the halloween party photos (Chuck in drag, Keri as jailbird), just page through the slideshow albums to the very end. (click the little icon in the lower left hand corner to see the 5 pages of albums).

Chuck’s mom came by for a visit with Keri, and to hear what Chuck’s new 5-string bass sounds like in the studio. Did I say “new 5-string” and “studio” in the same sentence? Yes. Contrary to recent rumours of UFD’s imminent demise, we are back in the studio recording new material. You’ll have to be patient , though. There is no longer anybody piloting the plane. So who knows when and if we will land some completed, mixed tracks.

Hello all. UFD will experiment with a new website format that will allow for more open communication between the band members and the public at large. So far, only one person has been posting content to the site. With the new setup, others will be able to post content, and enter a dialog with friends and fans.

This setup is provided by Blogger. It is basically a weblog. I haven’t decided if it is best, or if we should be using some sort of BBS. In the meantime, this will be a fun experiment to see if anything happens. We may even set up a few private blogs for individuals in the band who have a lot to say. We are open to suggestions.