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June 19, 1994

ok, i'm running out of amusing introductions taking advantage of the hipness and cliche' factor of this being an electronic newsletter, so this month you just get this boring description instead of a real interesting meaty intro that makes your mouth water (except you vegetarians, of course).

*IN THIS ISSUE*

the *UPCOMING GIG* hotline
summary of gigs you probably *missed* (sob)
personal dirt about the band
new music bulletin
closing statement

the *UPCOMING GIG* hotline

this issue is again surrounding some upcoming gigs that we want, nay *need*, you all to show up to. without you, we'll end up being tossed in jail after the santa cruz PD decides that we actually aren't playing "music" and instead are just begging for money downtown.

without further ado, here are those *two* exciting upcoming gigs...

** gig #1 **

who..: eden retread & UTI
when.: saturday, july 2nd, 9pm
cost.: 3 buckaroonies.
age..: gotta show that 21+ id for this one
where: the brookdale lodge, 11570 highway 9, brookdale

we will play approximately 2 hours, followed by about the same length by UTI.

** gig #2 **

who..: eden retread
when.: wednesday, july 6th, 8pm - 11pm
cost.: FREE
age..: all ages
where: the front street pub, 603 front street, santa cruz

directions:

** FROM SAN JOSE (or north of there)
1) get to HWY 17 southbound to santa cruz
2) take the HWY-1 exit once you reach santa cruz (the right one, left is the ocean street exit).
3) take a left at the first stop light onto river street (right is highway 9)
4) stay on river street through two stop lights, continue straight through stop sign, passing the wells fargo and theater
5) take a right at the next light (soquel)
6) take the next left onto front street. the front street pub is right there on the corner on the left

** FROM APTOS (or south of there)
1) get to HWY 1 north
2) stay on it until it loops around and merges with 17
3) follow from (2) above

summary of gigs you probably *missed* (sob)

ok, so in reality, we only had one gig since you last heard from us. most of the time has been spent with glenn (drummer) and myself (bassboy-jon) moving into a new house, me going on a 3week tour around europe, rob returning home to hawaii for 2weeks, and continued work on the new tape. oh yeah, so about that gig you missed...

we played a graduation party a couple of days after my return from europe, and happily played quite well, including an improv song which came off quite well (in most people's opinions even, not just *ours*..). we knew we were on a roll when the cops got called at 10pm and made us shut down. at that point, everyone got sent up the hill to the other blowout grad party, leaving us to track down drivers of various vehicles which decided it was a good game to play "park the band's cars into the driveway". :}

personal dirt about the band

ok, my last newsletter's comment about rob's hair growing into the shape of elvis seems to have phased no one, so i'm going to have to create something a little *shocking* to wake you people up.

sean was seen crooning julio iglesias songs on a late-night tv spanish channel, surrounding by topless dancers (male and female). we couldn't tell what was going on since none of us spoke spanish, unfortunately. we did find a couple of suspicious tassels sticking out of his clothing for a few days, though.

glenn seems to have settled full into his ghoti, bringing up the somewhat stable-ghoti in the band percentage to 50%. the world is next; it is our oyster and we are it's crackers.

rob's taken to refusing to play gigs unless he gets a full 3-pounds of fish meat on ice to sit in before the gig. luckily, through intensive therapy we were able to trick him (hypnosis does wonders) into thinking this is actually happening. good thing, since the cost of such fish would certainly break our bank.

and me, i've been a perfect angel.

new music bulletin

we have changed our mind about releasing just 3 of the new 8 recordings and are now instead working on finishing up the other songs as well so we can use just about all of them on the next tape. as always, cd's are available from us directly (esp at shows) as well as the following record store locations for $5:

closing statement

this is the part of the newsletter where we tell you something so deep and meaningful that it makes your face scrunch up in confusion and your office-mate thinks you're having some sort of seizure. we've been informed by our lawyers that this practice is not reccommended for liability reasons, so henceforth, we will have closing comments with the confusion and excitement of limp lettuce. as an example, the end of this is exactly the same as the end of the last newsletter.

if you know of anyone who wishes to be added to the eden retread online mailing list, please have them mail me (jonl@hal.com) and i'll take care of 'em right away. (no, i *don't* mean kill them and dispose of the body).

for those of you with WWW access, make sure to check out our home page. the url is: http://klinzhai.iuma.com/eden-retread/index.html and it contains all sorts of goodies, which i'll leave for you to discover on your own...
ta ta,
--jon, for the rest of the boyz in za band