2012

Happy New Year!  It's going to be a busy 2012.  We're happy to announce we'll be hitting a lot of cities we haven't played in a while.  Keep an eye out on our tour dates, they will be updated frequently.

Mark Dzier

Where's Mark?  How come I don't see him on stage anymore?

Well, Mark, as everyone knows, got a role in the movie/musical Rock of Ages.  Which, by the way, has a release date, right now, of June 15th, we believe.  Mark will be featured in the movie several times.  He has face time in every "Arsenal" performance throughout the movie.  

While filming he was offered a position as the bass player in the touring musical Rock of Ages.  They were looking for someone that was actually IN the movie and Mark fit the bill to a T.  The money was too good to turn down and Mark, being the whore that he and all of us are, took the position after weeks of us telling him he was crazy to pass that up.  He moved to Tampa, FL where he has wanted to live for quite some time and joined the musical.  

     A few weeks into the tour he realized that it wasn't rock n' roll enough for him and decided to quit.  Playing two to three shows a day just wasn't for him.  He enjoys drinking, fishing, and hanging out on the beach too much to be caught up in that much playing on stage.  "Touring in a broadway musical like that is the furthest thing from a touring rock band than you could imagine" Mark said of his brief experience in the touring musical.  So what's he doing now???  Well, rumor has it that he has gotten back into the adult film business and has shot a few scenes already.  We've also heard that he's possibly jamming with another band.  We don't really know really.  Every time we talk to him we just catch up on personal life stuff and forget to even ask him what else is happening with him.  He's a private guy when he's not performing on camera.  

     We wish that boy well and have since hired Cody Elliot.  He's from Florence, AL and is a natural blonde.  You might recognize him as the baby on the cover of the Nirvana "Nevermind" album.  You might also recognize Cody from a couple of old "COPS" episodes.  He's also been featured on A & E's show Intervention.  Besides how he qualified to be in the band he's also a snappy dresser and was nominated in his high school as "Most likely to not surprise anybody at the 10 year reunion."

     Follow him on twitter @I_HATE_CODY.  As a rule of any new hire in the band he's required to take an unbelievable amount of ribbing.  So he's been the butt of more than a few jokes in our camp.  We hope you'll continue this tradition by giving him a hard time any time you see him.  No one joins our band without some bumps and bruises.

White Trash Christmas

As we gear up for another holiday season we want to remind you that we have a song, White Trash Christmas available for you to throw on your holiday play list.  Quick story on that song.  If you've heard it then you obviously know that it's White Trash Superstar with different lyrics.  What you probably don't know is that White Trash Christmas came first.  We wrote and recorded that song for a kids benefit cd to put out locally around Birmingham around the time we were about to start pre-production on Tragic City Symphony.  We went in and cut that song in a day and rushed it over to the people heading up that organization as soon as it was done being mixed.  Something happen ... we're not sure what happened but the song was never put on the cd and the cd was never released.  Somehow the whole project got scratched.  We ended up just keeping the recording of the song and Jacob went in and made it "White Trash Superstar" by just changing the lyrics and backing some jingle bells out of the mix so we could use it for the new album.  It wasn't til after we released Tragic City Symphony that we went back and released "White Trash Christmas" as a holiday single.  I know that story is riveting.  I hope you sleep better tonight knowing the story behind those songs.

Download the song by clicking HERE

New Years Show Announced

We will be playing in our hometown New Years Eve at Cafe Firenze!  We will be playing with our good friends Ugli Stick.  Tickets are only $10 for over 21 and $20 for under 21.

Zydeco Thanksgiving Eve

We will be playing a special Thanksgiving Eve show at Zydeco tonight with special guests Black River Wine.

Back From Mexico!

We had an amazing time on Shiprocked!  All of the bands, staff and fans were great!  Check out all of the photos on our Facebook page Here.

Thank You Gadsden, AL!

We had a great time at Chestnut Station in Gadsden, we'll see you soon!  Next stop Mexico with Sevendust, Buckcherry, Hinder, Candlebox, Living Color, In This Moment, Broken Teeth, and Queensryche!