Don't Forget To Bleach Your Toga Sheets

Hello everyone and welcome to HAIR IN THE AIR, The Official Blog of 3D In Your Face.  Sorry for missing last weeks blog it just feels like I run out of time some weeks.  Anyway thank you all for the love and support and for reading this.  I love hearing the grief from you when I miss a week.  It just lets me know that you care.  I also want to thank our Kearney family for the great weekend.  It's always a wild wild time when we come to your great city and I wouldn't have it any other way.  Keep this on the down low but we actually stayed in the hotel that Hot Rod started on fire all those years back.  Ahhhhh the memories.  If those walls could talk.  This week we are back to our home base, The 21st Saloon.  This Friday, March 27th we are throwing a homecoming party and you people are invited.  I know you missed us and believe me we missed you.  Also don't forget that our residency is winding down and you only have 10 more chances to see this show before we leave for the summer.  It's now or never time baby.  Saturday, March 28th we are heading up to Wayne, NE for the the National Rugby Invitational.  The show will be held at Riley's Convention Center and we are the after party band going on around 9:30.  This is a toga party, so just imagine 1,500 college kids in toga's getting their faces shredded off by our Rock N Roll.  Exciting huh?  Well word has come down from the promoter that the 3D In Your Face Army (you) has been invited to the show.  I have 100 free tickets and if you are interested in attending this show I would be more than happy to send you some.  There is only one catch, you must wear a toga to get in.  This is honestly one of the funnest experiences you can ever have and it wont cost you anything.  Email me your mailing address at 3dinyourfaceband@gmail.com and I will get them sent out before Friday.

Printable ticket for Saturday March 28th

On to the party at hand.  Some of you are saying "Spade.  A toga party, in Wayne, NE?  Really?".  I know what you're thinking and let me shed some light on this subject.  Last year I believe I wrote about this great event.  Not only do I absolutely love toga parties for obvious reasons I also love that this is a party now in the hands of the 3D In Your Face Army.  Let me take you back to a mere 5 years ago to Wayne, NE.  I was still a low level guitar tech for the band but the guys had asked me to create an opening band for this particular show.  I grabbed some of my friends in Lincoln and we put together a punk rock cover band called the Lowely Thieves for this one show.  The night before 3D In Your Face played a show in Norfolk, NE and our guitar player at the time showed up late and played an absolutely horrible show.  He left without saying goodbye and when we woke up in the morning on the tour bus he had quit the band entirely.  I was pretty freaked out and so was the rest of the band.  There was no way I was a good enough guitar player to get through even one set of tunes with these guys.  So a call was made and we got word that this dude named Chris Hineline would be driving from Omaha to fill in for the evening, proceed as normal.  Everyone was pretty nervous and we set up all the gear and prepared for the 1,000 plus toga-clad college kids to descend onto Riley's Convention Center expecting a night of Rock N Roll.

Little did I know that that night would be the first time that I met my best friend and song writing partner Sniper.  We have been together ever since through thick and thin.  No matter how crazy life on and off the road gets we always call each other.  I usually don't answer but he still always calls.  That night in Wayne I saw a miracle.  Sniper plugged a Charvel into a tiny PA speaker and shredded for three plus hours.  The crowd never even knew that he was filling in and had never played with us before.  It was electric, it was magical, and most of all it was exactly what this band needed.  I've yet to meet a better musician than this guy.  We clicked instantly and a few months later I got my shot and ended up standing on stage next to him as the bass player.  From Wayne we have traveled all over the United States.  We have had extreme highs and extreme lows.  I don't know where I would be in my musical career if things had turned out differently that night in Wayne.  Toga party or not I'm happy he said yes to that phone call earlier that day.  I saw and heard how a great Rock N Roll band was supposed to be.  We latched on to that feeling and that's what drives us today.  Bigger, better, louder, faster, higher.  It's all about pushing our limits and seeing how far we can take this thing.  Saturday we will be revisiting that holy ground where history was made and I don't know if I can thank Sniper enough for all he has done for me and for the rest of this band.  Sorry for the sappy ending.  Don't forget to bleach your toga sheets.

ALWAYS LOUD
FOREVER PROUD

Sam Spade

How I Regret Not Having Worn A Bikini For The Entire Year I Was Twenty-six

Hello everybody and welcome to HAIR IN THE AIR, The Official Blog of 3D In Your Face.  This will be my final blog as a 29 year old because next week I take the plunge and become a real man.  I am celebrating my 30th birthday next Tuesday on St. Patty's Day.  Leave your old ways behind and it's time to gain the wisdom of the ages.  HAHA.  Sorry about missing last weeks blog.  Due to one of my teeth breaking I was held up in Fremont for a dental visit.  Nothing to be worried about and I am back in rare fighting form.  Today we began the week-long celebration that leads up to my birthday, March 17th.  Don't ask me why it's a week, it just is.  The culmination of this celebration will be Friday, March 13th at The 21st Saloon.  We are throwing you a two-fer this will be a dual St. Patty's Day celebration and my 30th birthday party Omaha style.  Everyone is invited to this event and honstly the best gift you can give me is to be there and smile as we rock your face off.  That being said, if you do want to get me something I will accept all Starbucks gift cards with great appreciation.  Saturday I will be celebrating with my radio family as we crank up Hair In The Air Radio at 10 PM (central) on 101.9 The Keg.  Sunday I will be going under the needle for my very first visible tattoo courtesy of Punx Tattoo and then a big bash in Lincoln with my loved ones.  Let the festivities begin.  Doesn't this just get you in the mood to celebrate?

Generally when we have a birthday in our midst we send out for a very special guest blogger to pen something deep and heartfelt.  Well psssshhh to that.  I don't expect any special treatment.  You reading my blog is the icing on my cake.  I have had this blog on the back of my mind for a while and it finally inspired me to do some writing.  As many of you know we have begun work on a brand new album.  We are about halfway through the writing process and the songs are coming along great.  The one thing, I must confess that I absolutely love about the songs on this record and on The Midnight Devils album is that they were all inspired by true events.   Not to say that everything is the God's Honest truth but every song paints a picture of where we were and what we were doing at that exact moment in time.  I have always stuck to the principle that you must be inspired to create good work.  When you are inspired the work flows from the heart, it's living, it's breathing and it's emotional.  Those emotions are then picked up by the listener and the listener is able to relate them back to their lives.  The entire reason I joined a Rock N Roll band in the first places was because I was touched and moved by music more than anything else I could understand.  The music moved my heart and soul and I wanted to be apart of that more than anything else I could ever think of.  Still to this day when we see people singing our songs back at us it gives me goosebumps.

I have been saying this over and over for the last week.  I would rather go and see 4 guys on stage that can barely play their instruments but that play from the heart than 4 technically proficient musicians that are just going through the motions for a paycheck.  Rock N Roll was never about being perfect in fact it was always quite the opposite.  It's about being unique and different.  It's about shaking things up and living your own life and LIVING LOUD.  It's about the moment and the experience.  It's about the emotion and the heart.  Whenever we are in rehearsals and I just can't get a part that I am working on Sniper just looks at me and goes "Dude feel it.  You're thinking to hard.".  That is what Rock N Roll is to me.  When I was 18 I could barely tune my guitar but you better believe that I had a band that people stopped and watched for the entirety of our 15 minute set.  The songs weren't good but they came from that special places and the people in the audience could feel that energy radiating off of us.  Those are the moments I am most proud of.  Turning 30 doesn't scare me at all.  I think I am more passionate about this than I was at 20.

ALWAYS LOUD
FOREVER PROUD

Sam Spade