2005-01-24 17:32:24
Win some SmokeySmoke crap!! Dig BMX has a rad subscription offer going on right now and random subscribers will receive a Smoke and Smoke CD or t-shirt. No Shit. Anyway, the subscription is cheaper than normal, and you also get a free Dig t-shirt and the Etnies Forward DVD...
More BMX related news... There's a Smoke+Smoke video on the latest Props DVD, The Best BMX of 2004! That shit is tight! If you ride BMX and don't know what the fuck Props is, then i don't know what to tell you. Check out their website for more info: propsvisual.comalso, word has it that there'll be a Smoke and Smoke song on the upcoming issue (props #55, i think).
Not a whole lot of new stuff has happened the past couple months. We finished our west coast tour last November, came home and have been chillin. Thanks again to Les Savy Fav for bringing us along. HENZIG emailed me some pics from our show in San Diego, CA. Check the pictures area to the left . . .We might be playing a show in Seattle sometime in February. Spencer is gonna be around recording with his other band, Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death.
some new downloads...
2004-11-04 16:38:14
well, i managed to kinda-sorta crawl out of my hole this morning after a few treats appeared in my inbox...
1. A NEW quicktime video shot by Syd, and edited by Oriana, has been posted. Check the Quicktime MOV section below. It's a bunch of rad footage from our East Coast tour last September.
2. An older quicktime video from last summer that I kind of forgot about until the new video reminded me of its existence. It's Dan and Spencer riding BMX bikes at the college in Port angeles. Again, check the Quicktime section...
3. In the Downloads section you'll find a lovely desktop background for your computing enjoyment. Artwork by the infamous Mister LeDoux. Oh, it's also the current website cover...4. "Strike Lightning Strike" MP3 recorded live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
SMOKESMOKESMOKE WEST COAST TOUR
2004-10-29 15:26:12
Our full-length, Love Suffers Long (I think that's what it's called), will be released this coming Tuesday... November 2nd to be exact. So, go vote and then buy the CD from your favorite record store.SmokeySmoke-Smoke is going on tour again... with Les Savy Fav again... It's gonna be rad, but short and sweet. Here are the dates we're playing:
Nov 8 - Seattle, WA :: Neumos
Nov 10 - Portland, OR :: Meows Meows
Nov 12 - San Francisco, CA :: Slim's
Nov 13 - Los Angeles, CA :: Knitting Factory
Nov 14 - San Diego, CA :: Casbah
We *might* be playing a show in Port Angeles, but that hasn't been figured out.
Dan's bike is currently featured on the Hoffman Bikes website in the news section... check it out.
SMOKE AND SMOKE EAST COAST TOUR
2004-08-09 13:50:30
LES SAVY FAV :: DETACHMENT KIT :: SMOKE AND SMOKE
Tue Sep 7 New York, NY :: Irving Plaza
Wed Sep 8 Cambridge, MA :: The Middle East
Thu Sep 9 Washington, DC :: Black Cat
Fri Sep 10 Pittsburgh, PA :: Rex Theater
Sat Sep 11 Columbus, OH :: Little Brothers
Sun Sep 12 Chicago, IL :: Bottom Lounge
Tue Sep 14 Nashville, TN :: The End
Wed Sep 15 Atlanta, GA :: The Earl
Thu Sep 16 Carrboro, NC :: Cat's Cradle
tour. album.
2004-07-08 15:57:18
SMOKE AND SMOKE NW
FRIDAY JULY 16 :: ANACORTES, WASHINGTON
9:00pm at the Watertown Pub with Mouseheart Factor
Part of What the Heck Fest
SATURDAY JULY 17 :: BALLARD, WASHINGTON
at Sunset Tavern with The Marked Men and Stab Master Arson
The merch groms have reported that there might be t-shirts for sale at one or both of these events.
THE ALBUM IS DONE
All the songs for the upcoming album have been recorded, mixed, and handed in for mastering. Six songs were recorded by Smoke and Smoke in the Smoke and Smoke Practice Spot... Three songs were recorded by Matt Remine and Smoke and Smoke at The Ranch in Port Angeles. All mixing was done at The Ranch by Matt Remine and Smoke and Smoke.
It will be released sometime early Fall 2004 on the Frenchkiss label.
JULY 02, 2004 at the Crocodile
2004-06-30 20:59:30
shit. i screwed up. i just sent a message to the SMOKE+SMOKE email list and i typed the wrong date for our show at the Crocodile...
proper info:
SMOKE AND SMOKE
RUBY DOE
HELL PROMISE
at the Crocodile - Seattle, WA
JULY 02, 2004 / Friday
thanks.
1 beard missing
2004-05-24 15:56:31
Smokey Smoke is down with Hoffman Bikes.
One of the songs from the upcoming album will be featured on Mat Hoffman's CFB episode 11 sometime in mid june on ESPN2.
fuckin rad.
12 awesome new pictures were added to the site today... They were taken by Tina at our Chop Suey and Crazy Fish shows.
fuckin rad.
Some video from our Chop Suey show has been added - you'll find it down below in the Quicktime section. Thanks to Josh Ayala for shooting that shit, documenting the worst show ever.
fuckin rad.
May 14 - Seattle, Washington
2004-05-12 12:16:43
Friday, May 14th at Neumos - Seattle, Washington.
Doors open at like 6:00 or something like that, and we're playing first of four bands at like 6:30 or some shit like that. nice. So skip dinner and show up early, I guess.
Minus The Bear
The Vells
We Ragazzi
Smoke And Smoke
May 15th at Dantes - Portland, Oregon
Smoke and Smoke is unable to make it to that show. Sorry.
The final three songs for the album are almost done. Mike and I got the bass and drum tracks down last week... now they just need the beautiful vocal stylings of Spencer.
The show two weeks ago in Port Angeles at the Crazy Fish ruled! Apologies to the Crazy Fish peeps about the hundreds of Smoke and Smoke stickers everywhere.
April 30 - Port Angeles
2004-04-28 11:59:44
Friday April 30, 2004Port Angeles, Washington
at Crazy Fish (1st street downtown)
We'll be playing with a couple other local peninsula bands. The few times I've been to Crazy Fish there has been polka or jazz groups playing, so I don't know what the fuck to expect. Should be rad.
** Main Dwayne le Rain
** SMOKE AND SMOKE
** boy meets world
thanks. free smoke and smoke stickers if you show up.
Chop Suey, March 11
2004-03-10 12:37:04
Smoke and Smoke will be playing a live concert at the Chop Suey music venue on March 11th (thursday night). Chop Suey is located in Seattle - home of bowling's greatest, The Manute Bowlers. Y'all should come check it out. Brand new pictures from our Port Angeles show were added earlier this week. They're the black and white ones over there on the left, and they were graciously donated by Olympic Peninsula's All-Time Flag Football Champ, Greg Deboer. MP3s and Quicktime videos from that show will be added to the site sometime this month.
DON'T BE A DICK
2004-02-17 13:46:45
smokeysmoke will be playing our first show on feb. 21 in scenic Port Angeles Washington. If you would like to come, and can handle not being a total dickhead,
smokesmoke will also be playing February 27th in Ballard Washington at the Sunset Tavern and March 11th in Seattle Washington at the Chop Suey as part of what might be considered a "metal" show. ruling it!
Safe as Smokey Smoke
2004-01-23 17:04:16
A) dec 2003: Six (6) songs recorded by Smoke and Smoke at the Smoke & Smoke Practice Spot.
B) jan 2004: Six (6) songs mixed by Smoke and Smoke and Matt Remine.
C) Seven (7) new pictures (to your left) added to the site / recording and shit.
D) Two (2) new videos (down below) added to the site / recording and shit.
E) SMOKE AND SMOKE HAVE A VAN (pics coming soon).
F) One (1) new front page design by Sean Donnell.
G) One (1) webcam is suckin' it!
H) Two (2) MP3s going online real soon.
I) Shit.
quip quip
2003-12-03 12:11:12
crap, it's been a while since the last update. but a lot of stuff has been happening. the smoke and smoke practice spot was finished several months ago... i don't remember when exactly... and we've been working on a ton of new songs and shit.
spencer and spencer rehearsal space
spencer made it over to port angeles a couple weeks ago and got to check out the practice spot for the first time. he said he thought it looked bigger on the website than in real life... it was super awesome having him out here.
anyway, this friday spencer is gonna be hangin in port angeles for a few weeks while we record the new/first album.
recording
the next few weeks we're gonna be recording a bunch of songs and hopefully have it released sometime early spring 2004. it hasn't been decided yet who is gonna release it... anyway, the songs are gonna be recorded at the smoke and smoke practice spot by all of us in the smokeySmoke. several test recording have already happened and the shit is sounding t i g h t ! or something.
mp3
MP3s will probably/hopefully be posted online sometime in the couple weeks.
tour
an early spring tour is starting to be planned... no serious details just yet. if shit goes well, it'll coincide with the upcoming release. ha ha, i see that happening.
later, d
practice spot of confusion
the straightener
2003-09-16 15:25:07
nice - the webcam is back! after many hours of hair pulling and teeth grinding, the shit is working (knock on wood) just fine. too bad it was busted when all the action was going down . . . and of course when nothing is goin' on it works again...
special thanks to pixelsurgeon for the link.
the space that kneads your face
2003-09-15 21:23:53
the network card for the webcam computer has been messed up for the past few days... i've been trying to fix the problem, but haven't really figured it out yet. any wi-fi geeks out there?
2003-09-10 14:21:57
holy crap... last night (phase 2.1) kicked serious ass. the huge 16' x 8' wall received it's second layer of sheetrock and was hoisted into place. the two side walls got framed, got their external layers of sheetrock, and were lifted ever so gently to their appropriate settings.
twelve new pics from last night's efforts have been posted (over to the left, dude), and a new quicktime vr has been added - illustrating the completion of this phase.
phase 2.2 will commence sometime late afternoon, probably around 4:00 pacific if ya wanna catch it on the bitchin-radical webcam.
-dan
who gives a fuck about phase 2?
2003-09-09 15:14:29
YES... Phase 2 (TWO! ... TWO! ... TWO!) of the Practice Spot was launched last Sunday (Sept 07, 2003). The first wall was framed up with one layer of sheetrock added. Since this wall is gonna be about six inches away from the main garage wall, it had to be built flat on the floor so we can pile on the external layers of sheetrock. I explain this because a few emailed me to say that making a floor with sheetrock is not a wise idea... ha ha ha.
Phase 2 will continue sometime this afternoon (Tuesday, Sept 09) - The first wall will get a second layer of sheetrock and then will be lifted into place. How we think we'll manage to lift a 16' X 8' wall layered with heavy-ass materials, i dunno. But i do know that it'll be done with great speed... cuz we're fast, and speedy, and shit... like a rabbit, to the max! After that the plan is to get at least the rest of the walls framed up and ready for sheetrockin' like dokken.
New on the site:
* a fuckin webCam! Yes, this is the gonna be the hottest multimedia extravaganza to ever hit the webernet! Celebrate with your friends in front of your browser, down a few Mountain Dews (or nice, hot cups of tea), and watch while we all make glorious internet history.
* Current cover art was done by our old pal, Matthew Schuster.
* New pictures have been added from last Sunday's work.
* Quicktime VRs have been added to the site, documenting (rad 360-style) the amazing world of practice spot construction. And yes, a couple of em are really crappy... i know i know
Last: Wanna thank TED for helping us with this shit. I think we'd be seriously fucked otherwise. If you wanna personally thank TED, you can do so using the contact page. I think it'll make him feel special if you do.
// "It's kind of like a punk rock This Old House , or Trading Spaces , or whatever."
- from chefmenteur.org
// "Yeah, I know. Hopefully the music will be better than the name."
- from rawk.org
// "best....site....ever...."
- from allnightmovers.com
Thanks - dan
wig out at
2003-08-29 16:18:44
phase 2 of the practice spot has been postponed again till next weekend, which is probably good cuz i have lots of repairs to make on some of my drums.
the smoke and smoke practice spot is being built inside my garage. phase 1 was framing and sheetrocking new walls inside 60% of the garage (photos on the left), mostly cuz the existing walls are so fucked up and full of holes... the new walls are double-layered.
phase 2, the most important of the phases, will be building an actual room inside the garage, taking up aprox 50% of the space. this room will have 2 layers of sheet rock on the inside and outside walls. if necessary, we will add more layers if neighbors get pissed or the cops show up...
Adding Creativity To Your Work Place: A Lesson from Smokin’ Smoke
2003-08-29 15:47:38
One of the cool things about working with computers, as I do, is the amazing number of creative people you come across in your day. Just about everybody on my floor has a squeeze ball or a meditation toy or thick soled shoes to show their allegiance to the "mind", not just the "grind." Admittedly, I used to have a tough time with some of the ways people chose to express themselves, but ever since I took a creativity seminar, I’ve learned to grit my teeth and grin, because creativity in the work place is a vital part of innovation! Studies have shown that creative people are important in fields such as banking, human resources, and even other fields. So we try to nurture an environment that lets our "creatives" shine. For instance, granola bars are supplied free of charge. Instead of letting the creativity leak out by going to wasteful lunches, we have granola gatherings in the break room. Recently we hashed out a problem with the printer, which saved many person-hours. (How’d we do it? Turn it off, then turn it back on again! Creative!)
So when I heard Dan, one of our team members, having a fifteen minute personal conversation about his new band, Smokin’ Smoke, I didn’t just send him to the Xerox room with a hundred page tabbed report like in the bad old days. Instead I called him on the carpet and asked him, "How can we leverage your knowledge capital? How can Smokin’ Smoke be an asset to this corporation?" I followed Dan out to the ciggy porch (another not-so-groovy nod to creativity) and instead of giving orders, I listened.
Turns out Smokin’ Smoke is a little like a just-in-time management team. Dan and Mike had worked together before but they had gone on to other projects like the Dirty Knives and Enemy Mime. When it came time for them to work together again, they needed a catalyst, which they found in the singer, Spencer, who was formerly in the Murder City Devils and had worked with Mike on a project called Dead Low Tide. (Hey, don’t blame me if it sounds crazy!! I thought band names went over the top with Frankie Go To Hollywood, but I guess that’s why they call it creativity!). A catalyst, in the workplace, is someone who does not really perform a function for the team but who talks to the other people and makes sure they are on the same page and on point with the timeline and reports back up the structure. Having a catalyst made it possible for Dan and Mike to repurpose their skill sets to the task of delighting the customer, with the value-add of Spencer's own skills and experience! Kind of like Mick Jagger!
Well, my favorite bands are Smashmouth and Sugar Ray, but I can tell without even hearing them that Smokin’ Smoke are just as creative as those two, they’ve got MTV clothes and moves, plus they have the advantage of having a small team that can adjust to contingencies on an as-needed basis. If they can leverage that strength/flexibility, I predict a big summer hit!
I learned a lot about creativity from Smokin’ Smoke. And I’d like to think Smokin’ Smoke learned a little about creativity from me. Because, you see, I’m a catalyst too. So grab a granola, and create (but pass the soy milk, please)!
-david rhoden