John Clinebell News for March 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am writing to let you know that I have a few great pieces of news to share with you this week!

1. SHOW IN SAN DIEGO ON FRIDAY NIGHT
2. SHOW IN LOS ANGELES ON SATURDAY NIGHT
3. PRE-RELEASE OF STOMPING GROUNDS
4. FIRST SINGLE: A NEW VERSION OF "NUMBER"
5. I WON THE CHEVY SONGWRITING COMPETITION!*

SHOW IN SAN DIEGO ON FRIDAY NIGHT
I'm taking a trip down to SD this Friday to play a gig with a new friend of mine, fellow songwriter Dave Boodakian! Come join us for crazy original sets from madly skilled SoCal performers. Here's the details, straight from Dave's MySpace page:
March 14 2008 at Mueller College
Across the Street
4601 Park Blvd, San Diego, California 92109
Cost : $8

Quoting Dave: "This show will feature three other artists who I personally picked out to play with me! John Clinebell, Martin Storrow and a mystery set from a special San Diego Music Award winner and local legend... check their profiles out on my top friends!"

Dave's Myspace page can be found at: http://www.myspace.com/davebooda
Hope you can make it!

SHOW IN LOS ANGELES ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Oh yeah, and after you have a blast down in San Diego with us definitely head over to the west side for acoustic sets from Dave, Phillip Boone and myself from 7-10PM at The Talking Stick the next evening. We'll be rotating half hour sets, so there'll be plenty of variety, and trust me both of these guys are stellar; I wouldn't have planned a whole evening of music with them if they weren't! And the only thing better than the music will be the venue; The Talking Stick is the perfect chill little singer/songwriter venue on the west side. You'll be able to purchase great drinks and watch an intimate performance in a comfy atmosphere you'll be going back to whenever you're in the neighborhood and need to relax with your laptop or book. Plus they're awesome that they support local talent as they are with this evening!!

March 15 2008 at The Talking Stick
1630 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, California 90405
Cost: FREE

I'll be handing out free stickers and other goods at both gigs, and performing BRAND NEW SONGS; THAT'S RIGHT THEY'RE SO GOOD THEY DESERVE (AND JUSTIFY THE USE OF) ALL CAPS.

Phillip Boone (WHO ALSO DESERVES ALL CAPS) can be found at http://www.myspace.com/philipboone

3. PRE-RELEASE OF STOMPING GROUNDS
More information for you on the new and MUCH improved Stomping Grounds... There are gonna be eleven tracks, that includes a new bonus track, and a remixed "Number." Haha, get it? Number. LIke it's a musical number and the song is also called "Number." I bet you're thinking "Gee, John, I didn't think I was getting a top-notch comedy show in this music update, but I am sure better off for it!" ***

***Rest assured that one thing you will not be getting in the re-release is more "comedy."

In case you'd like to pre-order the CD (which is launching very soon) or pick up a sweet tee shirt right now with the album cover on it for a modest price: http://store.spgentertainment.com/store.html

4. FIRST SINGLE: A NEW VERSION OF "NUMBER"
I could tell you a long hilarious (truly!) story of how this happened, but suffice it to say that "Number" is the first true single on the re-release of Stomping Grounds. The guys over at Uncle Plum took what John Wolf and I created and gave it a really sick treatment. If you go to http://myspace.com/spgentertainment and listen to it on their page, you'll see what I mean! That version is gonna be included on the re-release, so you're actually able to pre-order it now. :)

*5. I WON THE CHEVY SONGWRITING COMPETITION!
In a maddening series of plot twists and turns, the race to the winner of the 2008 Chevrolet Songwriter Search came down to................ A 50-WAY TIE FOR FIRST PLACE!!! Haha, that's right, in the end 50 songs ended up with a 52% record in the head-to-head player. So I haven't heard from Chevy yet, but I eagerly await my $500 prize, and hopefully a place on their sweet industry promotional CD. In case you didn't hear the tune during the contest, you can find it here: http://singersongwriter.musicnation.com/ The song is called "Go For Broke"

That's all, I'm gonna go get Lost in the webisode I missed from last week. Let me know how you're all doing; hopefully great :)

Cheers,
-John

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http://thedailyinjustice.blogspot.com

Tom Chambers Sucks, Apparently...

My sister's husband's sister (that's a mouthful) went to a Phoenix Suns game last night and saw Tom Chambers. I was forwarded this message from her after they went. Apparently, Tom Chambers sucks!

"OK. So after the game we went over to the parking garage where the players come out, hoping to get some pictures or waves or something. Most of them had really dark tint and had their windows rolled up, but Nash rolled his down a little and gave a wave. Raja waved too. Couldn't get any good pictures of that, though. So anyway, after all the players left we walked back around the outside of the arena to head to the car, and as we are walking by the paseo we see TC inside the arena, standing behind those big, glass windows. We had one picture left on our camera, so we figured we'd use it on TC, since he was just standing there shooting the shit with Steinke and two girls. Chris walked up to the window, smiling, showing him the camera and asking him if he could get a picture. Tom Chambers just got this completely disgusted look on his face and looked totally annoyed. He said something about the glass window messing with the flash, and Chris just said how we just have one picture left to waste. Then TC goes, "Alright, waste it then", really rudely. He was just a total dick, rolling his eyes and shit. It was Chris's first Suns game ever, and he was just excited to see TC because he USED to like him. What an asshole."