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State of the Six Address: Happy Valentine's Day, Bitches! 
BROOKLYN, NY, Feb. 14 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine:Hello! Happy Valentine's Day from Dick Valentine! LOL! I love getting to say that every year! Honestly, what could be radder than a Valentine's blessing from Dick Valentine! I'm the fly-ass pimp from the Rubber Rocket video!!!! You know from that video that I know all about love! My hopes for you on this day are twofold. If you are in love, I hope you love your lover lovingly. If you are not in love, then I hope you stay at home and listen to our records!!! LOL!!! We'll be there for you, no doubt about it!!!! LOL!!!!! Speaking of our records, we are in the midst of recording our seventh studio album right now. Say it with me now....ELECTRIC SIX IS MAKING A SEVENTH RECORD.....WOOOOOOOOO!!! I have to say it is turning into a very positive and happy record. I'm really happy about it. A month ago, I had no idea what the record would sound like. It's a huge relief to know now what it sounds like. And for the first time since the second record, it looks like we will have a cover song on a record. It's a song we've talked about doing for a while now and we are finally doing it. It's a wonderful time to be in Electric Six. What else? Well, besides the fact that Tait Nucleus? is looking more and more like Gene Hackman every day, we are about to travel to Canada for the first time in a while. Canada is second only to North Korea in terms of degree of difficulty for bands to enter. Wish us luck! Oh yeah, we didn't do a Frequently Asked Questions this year because every year we do, people we know always think we are passive-agressively making fun of them on our website and they stop talking to us. Let me assure you that we are cowards, evil cowards, and we only make fun of people we've never met. The last thing we want is for the fragile egos of our paranoid friends to be shattered because we weren't ripping on them in the first place. So, that's the update. Everything is moving along splendidly. We are receiving such wonderful emails these days. It's really wonderful. The outreach. Your thoughts. Your musings. The contact. It's what keeps us going.
Round Records 'Haiti Project' Charity Compilation Now Available for Download
BIRMINGHAM, UK, NEWARK, NJ, Jan. 26 -- Round Records, Electric Six's UK home for the past couple of years, today is announcing that the Haiti Project is available for download. All proceeds from this compilation will be donated to relief efforts for Haiti in this extraordinary time of need. Electric Six is featured on this compilation in the form of "The Newark Airport Boogie" which is off our latest release KILL. Eureka Machines, with whom we recently toured the UK, have also contributed a track to the project. For more info, visit roundrecords.co.uk and you will be directed to the appropriate link to download 'The Haiti Project'. Go ahead and go there right now, mister!
Dick Valentine is back and Red Eye's got him
Tune into Fox News LATE Thursday night/early Friday Morning at 3AM Eastern for Dick Valentine's latest appearance on Red Eye. His first three appearances on this panel talk/comedy show have been among the best television he's ever done in our humble opinion, so this is a must see.UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict, this appearance will be postponed a few days. Dick Valentine's next Red Eye appearance will be the wee hours of next Monday night/Tuesday morning, Jan. 25/26 nether region.
Canada? Canadone!
Guess what? After 15 long years (or 3, give or take), Electric Six is happy to announce its return to our great neighbor to the North for an extended run of dates in March of 2010. We'll also be hitting select American cities as part of the same tour...check to the right for a list. There will likely be another two or three shows added to the itinerary shortly, so if you don't see your town and you think it should be visited by Electric Six on this tour, close your eyes, spin around at least 42 times, blink, and look again. Repeat as needed until you get the desired result.Oh, and for the record, that is NOT a misprint, Calgary. Electric Six will play not once but twice in your town. Why, you ask? It's either that Broken City cannot possibly contain just one Electric Six show, or certain band members are hoping to run into Lanny McDonald in order to garner some facial hair grooming tips. One of those for sure...
American Troubador to Go All British and Shit
CASPER, WY, Nov. 18 -- Dick Valentine is pleased to announce that he will be performing his one-man solo acoustic version of himself once again at the Blue Cat in Stockport, UK on Thursday, Dec. 10. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. a couple of hours before his band Electric Six (whose site you are currently visiting) plays a gig at the Academy in nearby Manchester.This will be Valentine's third performance at the Blue Cat. Valentine will be UNREHEARSED and NERVOUS AS HELL, which makes him extremely vulnerable and compliant to riduculous demands. Come see the American Troubador in England one more time. Double down on Valentine. You might have a real good time.
Detroit E6 fans can get All In for St. Andrew's show
See the link below for details as to how all Detroit E6 fans can purchase advance tickets without paying any associated fees, courtesy of our friends at Live Nation.All In
KILL is out!
Today is release day for the new E6 record in the US, entitled "KILL."Please join us in celebrating this auspicious occasion by exchanging some of your hard earned money for a copy at your local record exchange and/or gigantic chain store.
Follow the KILL tour
Getting with the full 21st century program, Electric Six is excited to present all kinds of ways you can follow them, interact with them, touch them...via your internet connection.MySpace Also note that you can follow the tour via the opening bands. You can find Gay Blades at the following: Gay Blades Gay Blades Twitter Find Millions of Brazilians in the following places: Millions of Brazilians Millions of Brazilians Twitter All the bands will be doing interesting things on these sites including guest list giveaways, inside information on their respective states of mental health, etc. Of course you need to get some of that.
Check out the KILL Tour Mixtape!
The KILL Tour Mixtape features songs, remixes and mash-ups from all three bands on the tour... Electric Six, Gay Blades and Millions Of Brazilians. You can play it here or download a high quality MP3 by clicking "download" on the player below.THE KILL TOUR MIXTAPE... hosted by BOOZY HOLE. 1. Body Shot (Electric Six) 2. Mean Muses (The Gay Blades) 3. Vermont (Millions of Brazilians) 4. Future is in the Future [Midnight Juggernauts Remix] (Electric Six) 5. O-Shot Mash [featuring Electric Six and Morris Day & The Time] (The Gay Blades) 6. Sex Mash [featuring Electric Six and Van Halen] (Millions of Brazilians)
Dick Valentine to Make Third Appearance on Red Eye Tonight
BROOKLYN, Oct. 9 -- Dick Valentine will be going for the hat trick of appearances on Fox News' late night chat show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld later tonight, airing at 3 a.m. EST. The Red Eye team is helping Electric Six get the word out about our upcoming release of our sixth record, "KILL" which will come out on Oct. 20. and this is something we appreciate very much3 a.m. in the hazy hours between Friday night and Saturday is the perfect time slot for the rabid E6 fan to have his or her maximum focus. So after a night of hijinx and shenanigans with your stupid friends, sit back, relax and let the television do the thinking for you. It will be so much easier.....
Body Shot video and Electric Six comes to Rock Band
Enjoy our latest video, this one for the song "Body Shot" taken from the forthcoming album entitled "Kill," to be released by Metropolis on October 20.Electric Six "Body Shot" (2009) - NSFW 18+ from Another Reybee Productions, Inc. on Vimeo. Also, in response to more requests that we can possibly count, Electric Six is excited to announce that a 3 pack of songs spanning the band's career will be released for the popular ROCK BAND videogame on October 6. The tracks are "Gay Bar," "Dance Epidemic," and "I Don't Like You."
American Troubador Concert Series to Hit Philadelphia
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 -- Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine today announces his first, and most likely only American Troubador solo acoustic show for 2009, is to take place in the modern day gomorrah known as Philadelphia, PA on Sept. 19 at the Jefferson Square Music Festival.The festival takes place at the corner of 4th and Washington. As of now, it is unclear what time Valentine's set will start, but that information will be given as soon as it becomes available. Valentine will be performing Electric Six songs in a solo acoustic format and will most likely even be featuring a couple numbers from the band's upcoming release entitled KILL, which comes out on Oct. 20. If you like Electric Six and you like slow, intimate times....come to the festival and feel Dick Valentine. UPDATE: Dick Valentine will be performing around 8 p.m.
E6 to board boats, play music
Attention, residents of the Northeast region of the United States: Electric Six will be performing a series of shows next week in your area, including TWO shows taking place on boats, one in New York and the other in Boston. Trust us, you've never truly seen Electric Six unless you've seen them on water.
Links to the relevant websites for all four shows on this brief late summer run are listed to the right.
State of the Six Address: Chickenfoot is the Hardest Foot of Them All
BROOKLYN, June 12 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine:Hello everybody. We've needed an update for a while, but I am of the mind that you don't force things like that. You bring it when it's time to bring it. Yes, we've been recording and I suppose that's newsworthy. Our sixth album will be finished soon and it will be released in October. It sounds wonderful and I fully intend for this to be the first Electric Six album that sees each and every song being included in our live set when we tour this fall. Because you see, I am getting older and I have very little patience for bullshit. Which brings me to the main reason for updating our news section. You may be aware that Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith have formed a band called Chickenfoot. Perhaps, like me, you became aware of this when you were watching television. And like Kevin Costner in JFK, I was just a regular person without any real stake in the matter when I heard the news. Like Kevin Costner, I began to lose sleep at night because there were too many questions. And a voice in my head told me to dig a little deeper and discover the truth. From the beginning, the questions led to more questions. Why on earth do you team the world's greatest guitar player and the world's greatest drummer with the world's luckiest bass player???? It seems to me the obvious move in this situation was to get Tony Danza on bass guitar. What is going on here???????? I read the wikipedia entry and that got me nowhere. Just a bunch of predictable drivel about them loving rock and blues and being good buddies who like to jam. This still does not help me sleep. Why is Michael Anthony in the band when Tony Danza is available????? I had to go back to the basics. I looked at the components of other supergroups....Oysterhead, Damn Yankees, Asia, Girls Aloud....in each case they either had Les Claypool, Jack Blades, that swedish-looking guy or no bass player at all. THIS APPROACH GOT ME NOWHERE. I was becoming frustrated. I was not sleeping or holding down solid food. Questions led to more questions and then only to dead ends. I was considering packing it in and going to Cabo Wabo for a month to drink my face off and forget the whole thing. And then, just like that...it hit me square in the face. Cabo Wabo. Sammy Hagar. It had something to do with Sammy Hagar!!!! The Van Halen connection. That's what this was all about. It was about Sammy Hagar going around Tony Danza to help out his friend from Van Halen and hopefully get him some money again. My god, it was right in front of me all along!!! How could I have forgotten about Sammy Hagar!!! How blind I was!!! Sammy Hagar is in Chickenfoot too!!!! He's the reason Michael Anthony is the bass player instead of Tony Danza!!!!! I furiously began to write down my discovery, pausing only to eat Alka Seltzer tablets directly from the package. I took great care to save my work every 30 seconds and back it up on hard drives and microfiche. When completed, I sent one draft to Russia, put one in the freezer, and swallowed the other five. I had one foot out my front door when the phone rang. I wish I could tell you that I never answered the phone...that I kept on going out the front door. Because if I had, I'd still believe that Michael Anthony was in Chickenfoot instead of Tony Danza because of Sammy Hagar. And life would go on and everything would make sense, and I'd be no worse for any of it. But I didn't. I answered the phone. And because I answered the phone I know some things now I wish I didn't know. I know that sometimes, bad things happen to good people and no one can stop it...ever. I know that Joe Satriani is a strange man. I know that I don't have much time before they find me and I have to keep moving. And most of all...I know that the Chickenfoot...is the hardest foot of them all. (to be continued)
BREAKING NEWS: Electric Six Gets a Star on the Wall at First Avenue in Minneapolis!
MINNEAPOLIS, April 7 -- Today, The Electric Six was memorialized forever (or until they are deemed shitty and irrelevant enough to paint over) with a coveted star on the outside wall of Minneapolis' legendary music venue First Avenue and Seventh Street Entry. The band, upon seeing the star, became visibly emotional and could be heard expressing their gratitude and awe over the honour. "Fuck", said Tait Nucleus. "Shit," said The Colonel. "About fucking time," remarked Johnny Nashinal. "I'm gonna eat the riiiiiideeeer," said Smorgasbord.Longtime First Avenue liason Conrad Sverkerson was there to greet the band upon arrival and point out the freshly painted star. "We painted over Skinny Puppy," said Sverkerson. "We know you guys wanted us to paint over the BoDeans, but there would have been problems." Across the street at the Target Center, Canadian rockers Nickelback were getting ready to play their own show, but they took time out of their soundcheck to congratulate Electric Six. "I'm the guy from Nickelback," remarked Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger when told of the Electric Six honor across the street. "Hell yeaaaaaah, dude! I'm the guy from Nickelback!" Electric Six is humbled by the gesture by First Avenue and would like to state for the record that there is no finer venue in the world to play.
Dick Valentine to appear again on Fox News' "Red Eye" on Tuesday Morning
It's EARLY Tuesday morning...as in 3 AM early...but if you can't make it up that late/early, set your DVR for Fox News' "Red Eye with Greg Gutfield," which will feature an appearance by our own Dick Valentine. If you missed Dick's appearance on this show in December, you'll want to be sure to catch this one. "Red Eye" is a panel show in which the guests offer humorous takes on current events, as well as an interview segment with Dick.
April/May US Tour announced
Electric Six is thrilled to announce its upcoming tour of the United States in April and May. This one is sticking mostly to the Eastern half of the country, but we'll be back out West again this Fall. Joining us on this run will be Bang Camaro on dates between April 2 and April 16 and Living Things from April 17 until May 9.A handful of additional dates will be announced shortly for this tour, so keep checking back for further details.
Steeler Nation
PITTSBURGH, TAMPA, Feb. 1 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine:Steeler Nation.
Frequently Asked Questions 2009!!!!
BROOKLYN, JAN. 10 -- You've emailed us. You've myspaced us. You've asked the tough questions. And today....we've compiled them all from the last 365 days and given you the sassiest answers yet. It's the answers to the most frequently asked questions Electric Six must answer because we answer questions with answers. Ready?? Here goes.Q. I am a music reviewer and I have just been given the responsibility of reviewing the new Electric Six album. I think Electric Six is a joke. Do you have any idea how my review should read? A. Sure! Try this sure-fire template! It's worked dozens of times for people just like you: Electric Six -- New Album Aging Detroit pranksters determined to tell the same tired joke over and over again, even though it was never funny in the first place You can imagine my surprise when I was told that Electric Six had a new record coming out. After all, their 2003 debut "Fire" should have been the only thing they were permitted to release and then they should have been taken out to a field and put out of their misery. Then imagine how surprised I was when I found out that they've had four albums come out since "Fire"! How?? More importantly, why??? Every song on this new album is just a watered-down version of their 15-minute-of-fame novelty hit "Gay Bar". Lead singer Dick Valentine sounds like a tired, bitter sideshow freak trying to be a third-rate Tom Jones. He spits out his inane, stupid lyrics with an idiotic bravado and he exudes an undeserved confidence that he clearly wouldn't have if he truly understood what a joke I think he is. The rest of the band compliment Valentine's total lack of imagination. Every guitar riff on this new album is a watered-down homage to the repetitive twang of 2003 novelty hit "Gay Bar". Occasionally keyboardist Tait Nucleus chimes in with bleeps and blops designed to dupe the odd listener into thinking that these guys are capable of doing something interesting or intelligent, but no self-respecting music lover will ever take the bait. It's fine when the Killers, the Kills or LCD Soundsystem do it. It's not when Electric Six does it. If there's any saving grace about this new Electric Six album, it is that it makes the listener profoundly grateful he is not in Electric Six. There's no way the people in this band are happier than I am. They think they are funny, but the joke is on them in the form of my review. I know about music. I know what's funny. And I'm going to call them on it. Somehow, some day, this review and others like it will put an end to Electric Six. Too much is at stake. What? No....mom...can it wait? I'm writing a music review....what? NO! I told you, I'll mow the lawn when I'm done with this....Jesus Christ, mom...I gotta finish this review and stop this band....mom, you know nothing about how important music is...I didn't get into knowing about music so I could mow your fucking lawn....Jesus, mom...and shut my fucking door on your way back upstairs.... Q. Dick Valentine, you are the MAN! You buy the drugs at the gay bar! LOL! You are rad, dude. Here are my digits: 555-555-5555. Hit me up sometime, bro. It would be rad to talk to you on the phone!!! Don't front on me, bro....give me a call, okay? A. Rest assured, Dick Valentine has your number and is going over his talking points at this very minute. A noted perfectionist, Valentine will not make the phone call to you until he is absolutely sure he knows what he is going to say. He owes you that. Q. Hey guys, I see you are playing a show in my town soon. You guys are my favorite band. Unfortunately, I don't have any money. I wanna come to your show so bad my dick hurts, but I can't because I am not good at the whole making money thing. Could you let me into your show for free?? A. We got this one a lot this year. We certainly understand people are hurting because of the economy. But here's an exercise you can do to best understand our response to this (or lack thereof). Close your eyes. Now, picture how things would be for us if word got out that all you had to do was email us and ask to get in for free and then you get in for free. Concentrate. Can you picture it?? Can you see how things would be for us??? Good. Q. Hey guys. I am a filmmaker and I want to go on the road with you guys and film your tour and do a documentary about life behind the scenes with Electric Six. I promise to make you guys look good and you will barely notice me. Whaddya say? A. No amount of creative editing or flattering narrative will make us look good as long as our souls are as bankrupt as they currently are. We can put on the best face we have....and the camera will inevitably see through us. Our hearts beating now only out of habit...only because they still can. And no amount of generous documentation can mask that. Plus we don't want an extra person in our van for 5 weeks. Q. You named your 2005 album "Switzerland" because you've never been there before and you hoped that by doing so, you'd get a chance to play there. Four long years later, the dream is becoming a reality. How do you feel about finally going to Switzerland? A. Rad. Stoked. And let this be an inspiration to all bands and musicians out there. If you name your album after a country, you will be invited to play there someday. So, for example if you live in Mexico or Cuba and you name your album "The United States of America", rest assured you will be receiving a first class ticket to Los Angeles in due time. Q.Now that Bush is leaving office, will you still play Rock and Roll Evacuation? A. Nothing changes. Bush is eternal. Bush is all around you. You think that's air you're breathing right now? You think the water in the ocean is merely hydrogen and oxygen? You are a fool. There is Bush in all things. Bush is moving through all of us. You can feel Bush when you stare into the internet's eye. You can feel Bush in the low end of one of Smorgasbord's bass solos. Bush is forever. Bush is the alpha and the omega. George W. Bush....is love. The kind of love you want to have a beer with. The kind of love that would pull over to help you if you were broken down on the side of the road. The kind of love that holds the stars in place and keeps the polar ice caps from melting. So it doesn't matter if Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is president. Rock and Roll Evacuation will be about Bush until the end of time. It is worth noting that a correctly spelled "Barack Obama" registers as a misspelling when spellchecked. A correctly spelled "Mitt Romney" does not. Something to think about in 2012....
State of the Six Address: A Big Sloppy Thank You to ALL
CROOKLYN, Dec. 18 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine:Hey you! I want to thank you for coming to one of our shows in the last two months. We've been energized by your enthusiasm and we can't wait to go out and do it again in the spring. In Madrid, you made us feel like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Wings of Desire. In Spartanburg, you made us feel like a bunch of good ole boys. In the four nations of the British Isles, you made us feel like ambassadors of karate and friendship for everyone. In Detroit, you made us feel like we belong again. Honestly, we've never felt this good about being in Electric Six. We're gonna do another record now. Happy Holidays. Love from us to you.
New viral game featuring "Formula 409"
Sponsored by UK-based King of Shaves, welcome to "King of Air Guitar." Scroll through until you see the album cover for "Flashy" and you'll hear the hopefully now familiar strains of "Formula 409."
www.kingofairguitar.com
Brief Update to Tour News
DETROIT, Oct. 14 -- Electric Six regrets to announce today that due to circumstances beyond their control, our friends The Golden Dogs are unable to join Local H and us for any of the scheduled tour dates. This does not change the fact that we believe The Golden Dogs are the best live band we've ever seen.If you are in a band in any of the towns we are scheduled to visit, you may be doing the math and realizing that there are some open support slots available now. The decision for any bands that may be added to bills will be made by local venues and local promoters only. Neither Electric Six nor our booking agent, The Agency Group, will be involved in deciding who fills the vacant slots. If you were planning on coming to these shows just to see the Golden Dogs, rest assured, you may want to come anyway. Don't take it from us. Take it from lead dog Dave Azzolini, who just yesterday went to the top of the CN Tower in his hometown of Toronto and shouted these words to the citizens below: "If you were planning on coming to see us at any point in the next five weeks, the best way to honour our absence is to go to the show anyway!"
Electric Six to Release 'Flashy' on Round Records in UK and Europe
DETROIT, BIRMINGHAM, UK, Sept. 10 -- Electric Six is very happy to announce that we've signed with Round Records for the United Kingdom and Europe. This means that the band's forthcoming record, "Flashy," will be in all major (and minor) record stores for our overseas fans to enjoy and purchase. You can visit Round at www.myspace.com/roundrecordsuk
New video for "Formula 409" is up
Please check the MySpace page for details and viewing.
Electric Six to tour with Local H, Golden Dogs
We're excited to announce that the itinerary for the upcoming "Hittin' The Walls and Workin' The Middle" tour around the impending release of E6's fifth album, 'Flashy' is announced (see the right hand side of this page for details). We're even more excited to let you know that we'll be sharing stages across America with Chicago's Local H and Canada's Golden Dogs. We've been fortunate enough to play with both of these fine bands before, but never in such an extended fashion. It should make for a fantastic night of music, so we look forward to seeing everyone out this fall.* The Chicago date at the Double Door will not feature Local H. The DeKalb date will not feature the Golden Dogs. Otherwise, all tour dates will include both bands.
Electric Six Announces the Release of its Fifth Album, "Flashy"
DETROIT, July 18 -- Electric Six, in conjunction with Metropolis Records, is proud to announce the North American release of our fifth record entitled "Flashy", for October 21. Releases in other territories will follow."Flashy" was recorded by our very own The Colonel at his Hamtramck Sound Machine studio. The tracklisting for "Flashy" is as follows: 1. Gay Bar Part Two 2. Formula 409 3. We Were Witchy Witchy White Women 4. Dirty Ball 5. Lovers Beware 6. Your Heat is Rising 7. Face Cuts 8. Heavy Woman 9. Flashy Man 10. Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart 11. Graphic Desginer 12. Transatlantic Flight 13. Making Progress A music video was filmed for "Formula 409" recently in Detroit. The band will take to the road in support of this new record in the United States in October and November, and will head to the UK, Ireland and Spain in December.
Retirement by 40??? Electricsix.com Has 5 Hot Tips To Make It Happen
The economy is tanking. The price of oil is skyrocketing. Unemployment is on the rise. What are you going to do? One route is to blame President Bush and congress, blame Countrywide Financial and Enron, blame China. Another idea is to get a third job.Or maybe, just maybe, you want to deal with it by retiring while you are still young and laugh at everyone else from the deck of your brand new yacht while you guzzle champagne and fuck expensive prostitutes!!!! Sound far-fetched?? Not as much as you'd think! Chase away your fears and worries. A lavish retirement may be headed your way sooner than you think if you follow these five simple tips brought to you by electricsix.com 1) By low, sell high Real estate is a tried and true method of procuring quick wealth. No doubt you've heard talk of a mortgage crisis and the housing bubble bursting. Our advice? Ignore all that. Buy a house for not a lot of money, put a new coat of paint on it and then sell it for twice what you paid for it. You've just doubled your money!!!! That was easy! 2)Diversify, diversify, diversify The market has been volatile of late, but don't worry about any of that. Many young investors make the mistake of putting their money in stocks that aren't oil companies. We recommend strongly that you put your money in stocks that ARE oil companies. And when it comes to oil companies, the more the merrier. Diversify your oil portfolio. Don't just buy stock in ExxonMobil when you can also buy stock in ConocoPhillips, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell and the House of Saud. A diverse oil portfolio makes sure that you make more money while the money makes more money. 3) Find that Canadian 5-dollar bill you saved because you thought it was funny that it had hockey players on it Remember that Canadian 5-dollar bill you kept because you thought it was funny that they put hockey players on their money? At today's exchange rate, that Canadian 5-dollar bill is worth 67,000 US dollars. Find that thing. 4) Steal David Beckham's identity If you have a free afternoon, go to Los Angeles and rummage through David Beckham's garbage until you find a few of his credit card statements and computer passwords. Then get a hold of an encryption scrambler and an electromagnetic pulse that momentarily shuts down the power grid. Granted, these items are not cheap, but if looked upon as an investment, the return will be massive. Go back home after the EMP blast and enter the keycodes and Fibonnaci sequences into the internet and within minutes you can make David Beckham's money start working for you. 5) Just say "No!" This might be the simplest tip of all, and also the most important. People in your life want money and payments from you all the time. By saying "no", your will notice your bank account begin to say "yes". You want me to get the next round of drinks?? No...how about YOU get it! You want me to pay for that gas I just pumped into my car? No...how about you stick it all the way up with a red hot ass poker!!!! You want me to pay my credit card statement??? No....let's not and say we did!!! By saying no to every potential payment life throws at you, your money supply never gets depleted. At times, others will react poorly to your financial strategy but the important thing is to ask yourself what is most important. Do you remain focused on the goal or do you let whining ninnies and greedy money-grubbing twits distract you from the endgame? Like anything in life, you have a choice. We believe if you choose to say no and hold the line every time, your golden years will be upon you sooner than you think. Call the harbormaster....tell him he's gonna have to make room for one more yacht!!!!
Electric Six to headline Laura Rock Benefit Show on May 23 in Pontiac
Electric Six is a touring machine, as many readers will know. We play a lot of shows in a given year, and 2008 is no exception. However, we won't play a more important show than the one scheduled for Friday, May 23 at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, Michigan. That's because this particular show is a benefit for a good friend of the band, Laura Rock, who's in a tough position and is in need of all of our support at this time.Laura's a long standing supporter and friend of the Detroit music scene, and she's recently had some critical health issues arise, and along with that comes the associated astronomical costs. So, to at least try to make a dent in that, E6 is part of the best lineup Detroit area music fans will see all year, with all proceeds from the show being donated to Laura and her family. The lineup for this show is truly a who's who of what's going on in Detroit music. In addition to E6, the show will feature performances from The Meatmen (Lansing/Touch and Go Hardcore legends, fronted by original king funnyman Tesco Vee), SSM (Detroit supergroup featuring members of the Hentchmen, Sights, and Cyril Lords), Johnny Headband (well-loved Detroit eclectics featuring E6's own Smorgasbord, performing under his stage name "Keith Thompson"), Carjack (Detroit Electronic robo-rock) and Deastro (Detroit two man electronic insanity). All of this, for the recession-friendly price of $15. So, for anyone (and they are legion) who knows Laura or for anyone who's looking for the best night of music they'll hear in 2008, this is a can't miss show. Doors are at 6:30, and we anticipate this will be a VERY busy show, so make sure to get there early.
State of the Six Address: Summer Starts for Us in April This Year
BROOKLYN, Apr. 9 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine: Aloha. I write a short blurb to inform one and all alike that the Extermination of the USA, UK, and Spain is complete. Electric Six is proud of Electric Six and Electric Six would like to take this time to congratulate deyself.We continue to work on our fifth album and we work with the understanding that we are going to release this record in October 2008 on Metropolis Records. This next record was meant to be shorter, more concise. It is not turning out that way. Also, we are intending to take a sizeable break from playing shows for a few months. We haven't had a good long break since 2004, so we are cashing in that chip right now and it feels good, Jack. I can't speak for what my bandmates will do with their time, but I have recently discovered Las Vegas. I had never been there before last month (our show last year at the Beauty Bar doesn't count) and now I want to move there forever. I intend to fly there twice a month, by myself, hanging out for days on end, by myself....in Vegas. This is how I'm going to spend my time off. I always wondered what I'd do when I take time off from the band. The answer: I'm going to Vegas by myself. A lot. A big thanks to everyone who saw us Exterminate this year. We certainly appreciate your business. Enjoy your summer and we'll see you in the fall.
Two American Troubador Shows, Two Time Zones
DETROIT, March 24 -- A quick announcement to be announced. We announce that Dick Valentine will be playing two American Troubador solo acoustic shows next week -- one in Detroit, MI, one in Portland, OR.On Sunday, March 30 he will perform at the Belmont Bar in Hamtramck (10215 Jos Campau between Holbrook and Caniff). On Saturday, April 5 he will be performing at The Towne Lounge in Portland, OR (714 SW 20th Pl). The American Troubador concert series is designed to strip down the Electric Six experience its basest, most acoustic level. Dick Valentine behaves erratically without the security blanket of his bandmates and if you are lucky you might witness a complete and utter meltdown by this living legend on either of these nights. It's always an incredible experience to watch your music heroes succumb to their paranoia, so roll the dice and come on out!
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