Rusty News

Rustbucket would like to thank everyone for coming out to "the 6 house" Saturday night and watching us jam out. It was a great showing and a fun time! Perhaps our best show yet!
We seeped a few new originals into the set, like "Walking the Dog" and "Which Way To Go," and they turned out great!
Next weekend we have off after gigging every weekend in January. It'll be a nice break to reflect on life and the state of the world in general. I'm actually thinking of writing a novel during this precious time off. Perhaps I will do some meditation in order to achieve some revelation. I don't know. But, most likely, I will just sit on my ass and watch television.
Ya, that's more like it. I'll try to get a practice or two in there, too.
Two minutes to go and the Celtics are down 7 to Orlando. Not good news, peeps! We'll see if they can pull it off.
Later I'm gonna go see 61-year-old Stallone jacked up on steroids running through the woods and murdering a massive amount of "bad guys." That's right. It's Rambo time, mofos! He's back and more violent than ever!
Then later, I will watch "Rambone" and compare the two with an in-depth analysis/ report.
But I doubt anyone cares.
Is anyone still reading this crap?
See you in February!

-The Drummer

New musings in the Rustbucket

So the Pats beat the Chargers and will return to the the Super Bowl once again to try and complete their perfect season! Oh, how exciting it is!
This was the big news of the weekend.
But yet there was even bigger news as Rustbucket played two shows last weekend. Of course, we didn't receive as much press coverage as the history-making Patriots, but we won't blame the media for their patriotic slant. Their just missing the real story here.
And once again we'd like to thank everyone who came out to see us.
Saturday night was special as we pulled out the acoustic set at Frankie D's in Kingston. Dan and I hopped on the guitars while Hugh strummed his mandolin and we all got intimate with each other.
It was splendidly well, indeed, and we'll be sure to bust it out again real soon. So stay tuned!

On another note, our practice pad has again moved, but this time to what seems a permanent location.
After playing in my friend's freezing cold basement at their duplex, the three of us determined that the spot wouldn't work as well as we thought it would, especially considering we like to play loud and late.
So, finally, we sucked it up and rented ourselves our own rehearsal space in Brockton.
This place is gonna be great, I tell you! We can play as loud and as late as we want.
There's cable tv, so we can bring in some couches, too, and lay out. The room's plenty big for the three of us and we're all real excited to have long, productive practice sessions like we did when we first started out.
So that's some wicked good shit, people! And that's about all I got for now. Keep reading and hopefully we'll see you at "the 6 house" this Saturday night!!

-Matt

Rustbucket news, sore throats and cops...

Last Friday, Rustbucket was back at "The 6 House" in South Boston, playing to a large crowd of fans, friends and stragglers. Like always, we'd like to thank everyone for coming out and dancing to our music. We tried to get in as much music as possible, as we always do, into our 4-hour time span, almost playing until 2 am.

This Friday, come check us out back at "14 Union" in Plymouth.

On another note, Rustbucket has a new practice pad. Thanks to our friends David, Andy, Stephan and The Argonaut, we are now practicing closer to home in Quincy, across the street from a Buddhist monastery and, worse, below the neighbors of this duplex. Needless to say, we'll see how long we last. We tend to make a lot of noise.

That's all I got for now, boys and girls. My creative energies aren't really blooming tonight. I have a sore throat from smoking too many cigarettes and generally living a life that keeps my immune system battle-ready, so I'm drinking a cup of green tea with some milk. And I'd like to consume some more vitamin C but we're out of orange juice. Total bummer, dudes.

Also, I knocked out the power in my apartment after turning on a light in my kitchen that continuously blows out a fuse. So we tried to fix it with the breakers, but this time it didn't work.
So we called our landlord.
Our landlord's a cop. Nice guy. But he's got one of those "cop knocks," meaning three loud, ear-piercing knocks that makes you feel guilty of something even if all you're doing is reading a book. You hear the knock and you think you're reading something illegal, so you want to hide the book immediately or light it on fire to dispose of the evidence.
Turns out you're not doing anything guilty and are just another victim of the "cop knock," a systematic approach to cops invading high school parties and drug dealers' apartments.
Anyways, turns out that the breakers didn't work because the light where the wiring is fucked had the switch in the on position. Thus, when we were trying to turn on the breakers again, the switch that would knock out the power simply would knock it out again immediately. Electricity 101, people.

There ya go. Problem fixed. And now I'm done with my tea and will probably make another one.

Till next time. Stay tuned.

-Matthew Drum Drum

Songwriting

Original Rustbucket songs to keep an eye out for:

Stages
Catchin' a Glimpse
Walking the Dog
The Hero
Fire by Night, Smoke by Day
Biggity Hoo Ho (working title)
The Window
Turning Leaf
Beggars of Leon
Which Way
River Wild
Hugh's New Doo (working)

Also, dear friends, fans and fiends you should expect at least 4 of these 12 delicious diddies out on an EP by early March.

As always, we appreciate you coming out to our shows and supporting us. Thanks for listening.