Musicplus appearance and blog by Ben
On July 18 The Rentals will be appearing on Music Plus TV at 12pm pacific time. It will be a live broadcast which can be viewed at
www.musicplustv.com. Fans/viewers can also directly interact with the host and band while the show is on by asking questions and making comments via AOL Instant Messenger via screen name musicplustv.
The Rentals will be playing every Saturday in July at Spaceland in Silverlake, CA. The Last Little Life EP, which doesn't hit stores until August 14, will be available for purchase at these shows.
That's all I have for you now but check out Ben's blog posted below. - Kyle
"I didn't know a warm up tour meant no AC."
Phew.
Back in LA for the month of July. Last week we went out to explore the middle of the state and venture over to Nevada to get our new set properly warmed up and worked out for the July Spaceland Residency and the big tour in August. It was really exciting to work in the new songs into the set and solidify a real strong song order for the up-coming shows. For those of you who haven't made it out yet, we've changed things up a bit from last year, added some songs from the first two records we didn't play last year and of course we're playing the new songs from the EP. We're still gonna have some more surprises as the tour goes along, so definitely come out, bring your friends, and party down with us.
We also are really pleased to have Shon Sullivan from Goldenboy playing guitar with us on this tour. He's an amazing talent to have with us and we've really been enjoying having Goldenboy open the shows. Come early to see them!
Some of the highlights of the warm up tour included:
Eight of us marching on foot at midnight through what the venue's security guards called "the hood" in Fresno to get to the bars and nightlife after the show. "Ok, everyone look tough… especially you Lauren."
Sara jumping into the audience in Reno to dance with uber-fan Amanda during the guitar solo in "The Cruise."
Presumably inebriated college girl at the front of stage screaming "I wanna dance!!" in the quiet breakdown of "Sweetness and Tenderness" in San Luis Obispo.
Rachel giggling poolside after the Bakersfield show. "But it's an early 11:59"
Meeting Jim, Aurora, Dana and everyone else from Pollstar at the Fresno show.
Pretty much any comment that came out of our bus driver Jimmy's mouth. Too foul to repeat here.
Vegas. All of it.
After unloading the gear from the tour bus back at our rehearsal space Sunday morning, and starting to set up for rehearsals this coming week, Shon comes in and in his famously deadpan yet enthusiastic tone says "Are we gonna rehearse a few songs now? You know, just go over a few things?"
This amazing photo taken at a truckstop by our soundguy Mike:
two other things: a friend was side stage for the last show of the 2006 tour. he's got a good eye and grabbed some cool images. check it:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rockfotomachenand
keep those razors away from your upper lip:
http://www.therentals.com/benscontestuntil next time
ben
