Praise the Lord...

...and pass the ammunition!

American Bubble is finally available to download at our website!

See the preceding post for everyone we need to thank... don't wanna re-type it. You know who you are and we appreciate it.

Happy Independence Day!

American Bubble Mixed and Mastered

So, it's been nearly a year since our last post and not-so-shockingly, that's how long it took for us to finish American Bubble. The members of Free Rob G haven't been in the same room since about the same time, but we're all excited about releasing this album. We still need to get some artwork done and get www.freerobg.com back up and running, but we hope to have it out before August.

Here is the final track listing...

1. Don't Stop
2. Silver & Gold
3. American Bubble
4. Sunrise (f. Rymz Well)
5. Devil Woman
6. aMuse
7. Iron Lion Zion (f. Rymz Well)
   
8. Dirty Daniel
9. Daytripper
10. City Lights
11. Seventy Seven

In case you don't remember Rymz Well from our shows, check out his Myspace page.

Also, I've got to take this opportunity to thank some others who contributed to this album as well:

• Nicolas Zagorin from Ardent Audio Productions for all his hard work recording the instrumentals, and mixing and mastering the tracks (of course, having to deal with all of our varying opinions on the songs).
• Daunish Aboobaker for engineering the vocals, providing his studio to us for free, and for nearly killing me with his cats. Recording in Seattle is awesome. Oh, and he sang on the last lines on Don't Stop.
  
• Will Nelson for flying up to Seattle to help with the vocals and for his harmonies... I'd list the songs, but he sang on a bunch of them and you'll just have to wait for the liner notes to know which ones exactly.
• Jessica Devin for her harmonies on Dirty Daniel and Seventy Seven.

It's been a long trip, but the music is finally done. Once we get the acoutrements all ready, we'll share it with y'all.

Ardent Riffs and Dingly Solos: A Photo Essay

So, I'm currently in the control room at Ardent Audio watching as Bert and Gary lay down the bass and guitar for Daytripper. When this is done, we get to eat some delicious greasy spoon diner food and spend the rest of the afternoon adding all sorts of fun bells and whistles. Literal bells and whistles.

Nick manning the mixer
Pacifico bottle resized to show magnitude of disaster

Immediately prior to recording this Gary was in the studio talking to Nick, our sound engineer. Gary wanted to know if the main recording studio command console/mixer was the single most expensive piece of equipment in the room. This question is made more poignant by the fact that Gary spilled a beer on it yesterday which brought on about a half hour of frantic, heart-pounding cleaning, button wiping, and function testing. Luckily, we've avoided any major debacles today and have been quite productive.

Bert manning the bass
I swear, I have an identical picture of Bert from when we recorded at Pike

Gary in his room
The lighting is, by Gary's terms, 'sexytime' lighting

James manning his chair
James slept for 12 hours and yet, was still sleepy the whole day

Recording at Ardent Audio Productions

So, we're nearing the end of Free Rob G , but we're going out with a bang. No, not a show, but an album, tentatively titled American Bubble. We've recorded drum tracks and plan on recording guitar and bass (and probably some other fun stuff like keyboard and percussion) next weekend. We've been recording at Ardent Audio Productions in Torrance with Nick Zagorin as our engineer.

Then, I get to go up to Seattle in July and record vocals for a week with Daunish at his studio. Then Will Nelson is gonna come and help with some production and harmonies.

We all have a lot of ideas, so plan on hearing some of our tracks as you've never heard them before.

Oh, and Gary's excited too... about... something... couldn't quite make it out.
drspliffer: super sokted about recorind next weekend

Grant & Green Show and Pirate Cat Radio

So, we'll be kicking off our Northern California tour a small acoustic set and interview on Pirate Cat Radio (89.7 FM) at about 5 PM on March 22.

Then we'll be heading over to the Grant & Green, where we'll be playing from 11 pm until they kick us out, so be prepared to hear a bunch of covers in addition to your old favorites and some new songs we've been working on. Tell your friends, because this is going to be a wild party. Expect Bert to spill gin and tonics and beer all over himself and his amp, Gary to probably fall off the stage at some point in the night and James to be barely visible on Grant & Green's tiny stage.
The show is free, the drinks are cheap, and the music is rocking.

March 22 - 11 PM
Grant & Green Pub
1371 Grant Ave. (@ Green)
San Francisco, CA 94133

Come, drink, be merry, and rock!

NorCal Tour and Promised Brewco Songs

So, it seems like it's been a long time since you've heard from us, but I promise we've been busy working hard on worthwhile pursuits, like getting Obama the nomination, applying to law school, and starting our side project Dücks With Güns (on Rock Band).

However, you'll be happy to hear that we will be playing some shows again soon. We're in the midst of booking an end of March Northern California tour so all of you northerners that have been missing us for the last 2 years get an opportunity to see us again. We will be playing in San Francisco, Chico, Sacramento, Vacaville, and perhaps Tahoe so be sure to come out and represent your city. So, keep the weekends of March 21-23 and March 28-30 open!

Also, as promised we do have some recordings of our last show (Nov.10th at Brewco). You can listen to them on our media page or right here.

Dirty Daniel (f. Chalice Serrano)



Seventy Seven (f. Chalice Serrano)

Nov. 10th Brewco Show

So, we played a show at Westwood Brewing Company on the 10th and I think the hangovers of both band and audience testify to the fun that we had. We also got a good recording of both audio and video (thanks to the people below), so be looking for that media whenever Yaniv and Patrick get it to us (July 2018). Since there are a bunch of people that helped make this show happen, I'm going to take a cue from the Internet and put it in a list format, since apparently that is how humans process information now.

The Top 9 People(s) That We Want To Thank

1. Chalice Serrano for having a really good voice, putting on a hell of a show, being a lot of fun, and learning so quickly to make fun of everyone in Free Rob G
2. The Brothers Landau for playing an awesome set (as usual), for mocking the "Hey There Delilah" song (even though some members of Free Rob G might not agree with me), showing us that this IS how you do it, for being a band that our guitarist's girlfriend actually likes
3. Patrick for recording us, putting up with constant demands from each of us to turn our channels up, not complaining that I roofied every beer I bought for you, taking my request to play porn on your computer seriously, and being there the whole 10 damn hours of it
4. Yaniv and Edaan and other Israelis whose names I don't recall for videotaping us, making sure to linger the cameras in the crotchal region, and getting us an edit as quickly as possible (July 2018)... here is Yaniv's response "Omer Dagan was shooting with the other cam. The other Israelis were just there in case of an Arab attack. Edaan was checking for beards at the front, Ziv was making innapropriate comments at women, and Gal was simply there to account for the Israeli quota of curly hairs, body odor, and gold jewelry. Between the four of us I'm pretty sure we had the Holy Land represented to a tee. Thanks for the gratitude. Hopefully we won't have to bomb your country."
5. Kristina Bigdeli for taking still photographs (which you can see here), providing scintillating conversation, and showing up earlier than everyone
6. Rachel Fore making me have a show when she was in town (see what I did there?) and being born in November and again for when she chanted "Free Rob G" at the UCLA Battle of the Bands a long time ago
7. Tamber for coming to the show, having a birthday in November, not hitting anyone, and especially for not calling me white
   
8. Everyone that showed up randomly at the show, especially the large group of Asians that came up the back stairs looking befuddled and then ended up staying and having a good time (well, it looked like they did anyway)
   
9. Anyone that walked to the show, drove 400 miles to get to the show and were forced to sit at Brewco all day while we set up, those who didn't hook up with the girl that they wanted to at the show, and those of you that spent all Sunday nursing a hangover

It was a hell of a lot of fun to play for you and we hope you enjoyed it.

For those of you that didn't make it here's some more of what you missed: