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A Halo Called Fred Brushwood has not eaten. Brushwood starts to hallucinate when denied food. I see ALL of you, with your beady eyes upon me. Watching me type, just WAITING for me to slip up. Well, do your worst. By this time, I will have eaten: A Halo Called Fred (and I bet we go on first, so
come early!) Saturday August 28th We celebrate Jeff Scavone, he of Magic Mountain, Powerbunny Records and zine, formally of Bionic Rhoda, who will be moving to Boston. Come say goodbye, or at least “who the hell are YOU?” And we have a present for YOU-- A new MP3: “Mr. Hooper”, from the classic Halo album Chester’s Dozen!!!!! A lament for the late and possibly forgotten “Sesame Street” character. Digitally remastered (such as we can) off the dam cassette and onto your hard drive. Be the first (besides me) to burn it to CD! Just go here. and listen away! okay bye now.
A Halo Called Fred Hi!! Hello??? Hi, it's Halo! Um. Wanna come out and play? On Thursday! At Harvest Moon, that neat brew pub
place on George Street in At least everyone says it is. Ha ha ha ha. It's um at 9 o'clock and um we'll be back by midnight,
promise! We're just Laa laa laaa laa laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 'kay? Thanks!!!!!!!!! A Halo Called Fred, A Halo Called Fred Dear CIA Email Watchdog: This is to inform you that the person whose email you are intercepting has a huge crush on you. They want you...badly. I also heard from the neighbor across the street that they are great in the sack. Take advantage of this job perk. May the force be with you. Dear Email Getter: This is to inform you of some cool crap that could be happening in your life. The mission, should you choose to accept it is to attend the following shows, find the man with the mole on his nose and squeeze his butt. Your meeting points are as follows: Wednesday, July 14th 10 PM Saturday, July 17th 1 PM Thursday, July 29th 9 PM Sincerely, Crazy Head Wilson.
A Halo Called Fred I'm disoriented from moving. Geverend and his wife both are sick like unto a dog. Not all of us are traditionally employed. And you don't look so great yourself. So break away! Come see A Halo Called Fred play
live. It will make you happy, a SHOW this SATURDAY June 12 The earliest we would play is about 10:15 pm. Now write that down. And go thee to members.aol.com/ahcf for recordings, samples and nonsense. Fun stuff also at www.MP3.com/ahalocalledfred All you out of state people are getting this email because my copy of Excel with the mailing list blew up. No edits till I figure that one out. bye now
A Halo Called Fred HALO MAKE A RARE AND SUDDEN NON-BAR NJ APPEARANCE!!! The New Palace Performing Arts Center This is an ALL AGES show with five other area bands
we've never heard of but who may be friends of yours. HALO AT MP3.COM Yep, more free MP3 song samples off our new CD
from the website that'll play anybody! Real Audio previews too.
And a whole bunch of goofball commentary about the Halo. See it
now at Halo was actually interviewed last week by the Star-Ledger for an article on the MP3 site, but so far no see. DR. DEMENTO UPDATE This will be the third week in a row the Halo is
played on the legendary radio show! The most reliable Real Audio radio we've found
is at WXRG FM both are at 11pm EST Sunday. As always, we recommend www.drdemento.com for all your demented needs. We're off to practice what may be our last practice before I move to an apartment we where we can't have band practice anymore. Like you’ll notice the difference. Lastly, go to members.aol.com/ahcf if you've never
been. Okay, bye
A Halo Called Fred VOTE FOR THE HALO! go to: The Deal: FM106.3, a central Jersey alternative rock station, plays "Local Licks" every night at 8pm. You can vote for our tune, "Mexican Love Song or Love Song For (insert your name here)" as your favorite at the web address above. If you make us #1, we bask in glory, play live on the air, they give us stuff, and we dream sweet dreams of all of you who voted. We'll keep you posted. They also provide a Real Audio sample in case you want to justify your effort. "Mexican Love Song" is available
on our cassette, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
You can get info at the FredSite: Halo Live: Sat 5/29 The Palace, 12 Maiden St. Bound Brook, NJ We Love You All,
Newsletter Radio Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We're A Halo Called Fred. We love you all. Geverend Dee here. I managed to weasel the writing of the Gazette away from Brushwood this time around. Feel free to skim through my excessive wordiness and read the words in all capitals to get the real content buried inside. Next time around it'll be back to Brushwood's short and to the point cynical commentaries of life. IMPORTANT NEWS ITEM #1 ON THE WEEKEND OF MAY 8th - 9th: In what may be the second most important radio event of all time, The DR. DEMENTO show will be playing "DIG:" from our new CD. For those who live in New Jersey, it's SUNDAY MAY 9th from 6 - 8 AM on 105.5 WDHA, so get yer tired butt outa bed and listen!! For other areas I found a list of stations at http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/stations.html. or you can stop living way back in the mid Nineties, and listen on the web at http://www.krellan.com/demento. and after you hear it, you can request more of our stuff at http://www.clamhead.com/drdrequest.html and read our name on the set list at http://www.drdemento.com/1999.htm and then continue to surf the web until you lose all sensation in your extremities. Then maybe you can listen to our music to soothe the migraine you got from hours of sitting in that position. IMPORTANT NEWS ITEM #2 Our very own GEVEREND DEE, may now also be referred to as THE RIGHT REVEREND GEVEREND. This newly ordained man of the cloth is now available to legally perform weddings. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. If you are planning to get married, and want to do so at a Halo show, or are just looking for someone to perform the ceremony, feel free to contact us at ahcf@brushwoodart.com. Schedule permitting, we'll try to work something out. Thank you. The Right Reverend Geverend Dee World Halo News Now Music music music! The Halo wants to be the band you don't even think about listening to. It just happens, like grease on stove. And then it sticks to your hand and you start to kind of like the stale smell. Soon you're sharing your sticky hand with friends, family and pets. WE ARE that sticky hand. Guaranteed smell!! Begin sniffing at How does FREE MP3s smell to you? TWO complete, unedited tracks from the new Halo CD are now playing the FredSite website: "Zoom Zebbatab" and "Dig". For those not up-to-date techno geeks, MP3s are downloadable files of about 3 MB each, near CD quality sound files you can play on your computer. Check out winamp.com (for Windows) or macamp.com (for Macintosh) to see how you can play them. Try out the songs for yourself, pass them around, trade them with friends, flip them at the curb. Also some nice streaming Real Audio tracks for your sampling pleasure. We may put different ones up later, including rare unreleased and live tracks, and previews of newly remastered old stuff. Yes, classic Halo will definitely get re-released on CD in either this or the next century. Did someone mention videos? Big plans, big plans in the works. And the great thing is, we've barely left the house. Pass the Schlitz, Bubba!
Quick News We are officially the most famous band in the Princeton area this week. Pick up a copy of Tempo, a free weekly paper put out by the Princeton Packet, and you'll find an awesome cover story by Dan Shearer on us. And great photos. Or check it out on line while you can at http://www.pacpub.com/new/enter/3-17-99/halo.html And don't forget the Arlene's Grocery show on April 2 in NYC. March 8, 1999 And now, a word from Geverend Dee. Dig: There's this new CD by "A Halo Called Fred" and it's called "Necessity is the Motherfucker of Invention", and it's been unofficially available for sale since Tuesday. Critics have been calling it the greatest album ever recorded for the past 28 years, and it's only been out since Tuesday. I didn't even get a copy until Friday. Not that it wasn't worth it. I'm just busy, OK? Leave me alone. What do you want, my blood? So the idea is we're not playing "A Halo Called Fred" on this album, like we usually do. We're playing "A Halo Called Fred" playing Frank Zappa giving a concert in the park naked or something. The album does not feature Jean Claude van Damme on banjo I'd tell you how much it costs and how to get it and stuff, but Brushwood usually puts that in the little blurb at the bottom. -Geverend Okay, Brushwood Thicket Farmer here Yes, our new album is here. A Ludicrous Recording. On Powerbunny 4x4 Records. It’s in several NJ stores and soon to be in NY and maybe elsewhere. You can mail order it below. Get it at our shows. Or just bump into us. We have 2 CD release parties. In NJ: 234 Somerset St. New Brunswick, NJ in NY: 95 Stanton St. New York City My favorite response to our last Gazette, from a guy who used to sing in our hometown of New Brunswick: Lord Brushwood, Thou hath spaketh wonders! Thine abilities for
propounding upon the profundities of the infinite dwelling place
of the Creative Forces is beyond astounding. Thou hast certainly
attained the talent of verbage. Go now and conquer the Isle of
Staten, and may the gods bless thy journey with rich buckets of
Southamton Ale and numerous virgin wenches from the southern borders
of Syria. And may their breasts be as mellons in the palms of thy
hands! Alan Horvath YE OLDE NEWSLETTER And thus doth the Halo trudge on. Yea, tho they have lost a good comrade and bass player to the dread forces of Salt, they give up not -- a new bass player is found, and they name him Tiny, for he is not... and yet he is. Into the dark field of the unknown do our musicians flee, into the thick demon-filled forests of Staten Island. There, they fight the good fight, long after the hour of the witches, playing into the sunless night till the moon doth nearly vanishes ... and yea, tho they seek comrades that they might NOT FIGHT ALONE, the journey to the Forbidden Lands fills the lowly traveler with fear, and also indifference. The Island of Staten is rarely traveled by outsiders, for they are not always welcomed with open arms. Yet we call to YOU, brave warriors, to help the righteous Halo in their hour of dire need, to see the gig BEYOND the hour MIDNIGHT at the evil evil evil and evil again "GOTHIC BAR" on the evening of SATURDAY, January 30th, mourning of Sunday. No less than TWO battles will be fought with guitars and tupperware against the forces of utter darkness. Go thee to the Isle of Staten, past the dark towers
of Manhattan to the 2030th dwelling of Richmond Terrace Prepare thyself thus by visiting the mystic realm of http://members.aol.com/ahcf This shall be the last show before the spell of the Compact Disk is completed, and so it is written that the Halo known as Fred will attain a power not known before on this or any other Earth. ..next month is all you have left... Go back now, to your pathetic small existences... Lord Brushwood |
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2000-2006 A new millenium arrives. Most computers fail to explode. 2 songs are released with Tiny. Halo coasts on old glories, sits around watching TV and surfing the internet. Videos mysteriously appear, as the legend grows. 1999 The long awaited CD is released, and .00001% of the world rejoices!! Tiny brings his bass to the Halo, and tries to make it Y2K complient. Well, he tries... Grunge is like so over, but being played on Dr. Demento is cool. 1998 A long and torturous home recording process results in the year-end completion of our first actual CD. Along the way we become dissatisfied with our day jobs, but we still don't quit to go on a cross country tour. Except for Jim Bob who takes his bass to Salt Lake City, leaving Halo with totally different band arguments. 1997 Starbucks forces New Brunswick coffee houses into the bunker. Halo open several shows in NY with John S Hall / King Missile, and begin recording an album that doesn't see the light of day for over a year. 1996 Brushwood buys a computer and takes over the newsletter. The Halo web site makes its official debut. Sgt Pepper becomes the best selling tape yet. Some of Halo get real jobs. And even get married. (not to each other) 1995 The Gazette is started by Jim Bob on a tiny b/w Mac SE. Sgt. Pepper is recorded. Gerrymiah T. Bullfrog joins the Halo full-time. The manager is dumped, even as Halo makes a bit of money... or at least breaks even. The band is 3 years old. Goo. |