We Have a Dream !!!!

One night recently the Bass player had a dream after a particularly stressful day of work. This particular dream, like many dreams was somewhat disjointed in parts. The essence of the dream was that the Lava Lords as a band on a whim had purchased 4 lottery tickets and WON THE $220 MILLION DOLLAR POWERBALL!!! Of course there was much discussion on how we would share this fortune, quit our jobs, finance our family futures and have plenty of time to practice!! We would be in a position to BUY any gig we wanted to play. What would our dream gigs be? Should we shoot for Madison Square Garden, Excel Energy Center or some coveted outdoor gigs? Unfortunately, even though we were now millionaires and could buy any gear or gig we wanted, we still had the same talent level that we had before and of course were still a cover band, playing songs written by other bands. But, we were going on tour anyway and now FINALLY even as the old goats that we are we would be able to LIVE THE DREAM of being ROCK STARS on tour on the road.

We all quit our jobs of course, IMMEDIATELY. Lonzo spent his last day at work hysterically formatting the hard drives of every support call he got. Pete karate chopped his way through his last day at work. (of course he spared his buddies Dave and Scott). Kinger rented a limosine to chauffeur him around the metro making his last sales calls ever and had his best week of sales ever, selling stuff that doesn’t even exist. Andy routed a huge amount of brand new inventory to the Salvation Army headquarters.

The band decided to buy two brand new TOUR busses with all the luxury items of course, hired drivers and were going on tour. Of course we had to hire some roadies / managers and other positions from our pool of family members and friends. Naturally all these people got 6 figure salaries for a 3 month road trip. When we were planning our road trip itinerary for our tour we discussed many options including trying to schedule every Legion Hall in Minnesota back to back to back. Another thought was just to show up unannounced at any bar we wanted, buy out the band supposed to play that night and take over the gig. In the dream Kinger had the best idea of all!!!! We would go on tour and ONLY PLAY BARS with the name “Lava Lounge”. We all agreed this was a fantastic idea. So we hit the road. The first stop the “Lava Lounge” in Minneapolis on our way out of town was not actually a bar or night club but a clothing store. We had to load up on “rock star” outfits!!! Of course after the tour we had to make the obligatory appearances with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, David Letterman on The Late Show, Oprah Winfrey, Conan O’Brien, Dr Phil (Dr Phil ????????????)

Lava Lords 2007 Summer Tour

Saturday July 7, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 3037 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
www.lavalounge.com

Saturday July 14, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 461 W Gilman St, Madison, Wisconsin 53703

Saturday July 21, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 859 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois

Saturday July 28 - Lava Lounge - 1307 Auburn Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Saturday August 4, 2007 -Lava Lounge - 507 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Saturday August 11, 2007 - Lava Lounge -204 East Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
www.myspace.com/lavaloungepittsburgh

Saturday August 18, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 57 13th St, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
www.cosmolava.com/details

Saturday August 25, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 1235 North Orange, Orlando, Florida 32804
www.lavaorlando.com

Saturday September 1, 2007 - Lava Lounge - Azle, Texas
www.lavalounge.org

Saturday September 8, 2007 - Club Octane – The Lava Lounge - 321 N Alvarado St, Monterey, CA 93940
http://www.cluboctane.com/lavalounge/

Saturday September 15, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 1533 N La Brea Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90028
www.lavahollywood.com
www.myspace.com/lavalounge

Saturday September 22, 2007 - Lava Lounge - 2226 2nd Ave, Seattle, Washington 98121 http://www.mamas.com/lavalounge.htm

Where have we been ?

Many people have asked where the band has been these last 6 weeks. Apparently there are some people out there who actually READ this blog. We have been going pretty strong with gigs and practices the last five years culminating in our two Fairmont July 2006 gigs. As a band we pretty much agreed to take the month of August and most of September OFF from gigs to concentrate on other aspects of life in the big city. Let’s face reality…we are not all 25 years old, single with nothing to do except practice every night like we could in the past. We took August to concentrate on other things such as starting / finishing remodel projects in our homes and taking family vacations. Pete has been concentrating on getting that next higher degree of Black Belt in Karate. Lonzo has been coaching 2nd / 3rd grade tackle football. Andy and Kinger both have garage / basement / bathroom remodel projects ongoing to attend to. Andy has been diligently recording original tunes with his other band Open Element. Kids are back in school and of course we all have careers we need to give some time to as well. Don’t worry about us folding and throwing in our cards because the passion for playing music is still burning strong in all of us. We are the Lava Lords and you can be sure that over the last 6 weeks the magma has been forming, steam is starting to spew out of the volcano within us and the HOT LAVA is ready to EXPLODE any day now. There is a lot of pent up musical energy in us we need to express. We thought we had three gigs for this FALL etched in stone and just when we were about to announce them the rug got pulled out from underneath us. We guess this is just the business side of music rearing its ugly head. We had arrangements with a booking agent to get us some gigs and he turned out to be nothing but a slime ball so we fired his sorry ass and took this responsibility back “in house”. We are back out beating the streets, knocking on doors and promoting the band ourselves. We think we have some pretty sweet gigs pending that we can’t wait to announce but cannot until they are etched in stone. Please keep checking back for updates. U GUYS ROCK !!!