The Official Blog Of The Glam Slam Big Haired Bad Boys Out Of Omaha, NE, 3D In Your Face

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Whatever It Takes, This Is My Path

Hello Rockstars.  Welcome to Hair In The Air, The Official Blog of 3D In Your Face.  First of all I would like to thank each and everyone of you for reading this blog.  Last week over 300 people visited this blog and I can't thank you enough.  This week is our last week of freedom.  Tentatively starting on the first Thursday of March, 3D In Your Face will begin recording for our new album.  This will be the follow up to the "Midnight Devils" record that was released in Dec. of 2013.  Can you believe it's been that long.  The songs are there and it's finally time to get them put down on tape.  So one last blow out weekend of fun before it's time to work.  This Friday, Feb. 26th we will be throwing another Glow Party at The 21st Saloon, hosted by Joey Neon and sponsored by Neon Energy Drinks.  There will be black lights, glow bracelets, and maybe even some neon paint.  As many of you know we tend to go on very little sleep day in and day out.  Almost everybody drinks something for energy during the day and why not make it a healthy drink that will stimulate you naturally.  (I like the way that sounds).  Neon Energy Drink is the healthier alternative to any other energy drink and now you can try it for yourself.  Saturday the full band will be held up in rehearsals in anticipation of the upcoming studio session.  If you are willing to make the road trip our acoustic band The Midnight Devils will be performing a full set at Willard's Bar in Steinhauer, NE.  This will be our last full acoustic show of our debut tour that started back in Sept.  Things will pick up again at the end of March for The Midnight Devils but for now we are focused %100 on 3D In Your Face and the new album.  If you can't make the road trip don't forget to tune into my radio show HAIR IN THE AIR, on Saturday night at 10 PM CST on 101.9 The Keg.

We are finally on the home stretch and not a minute to soon.  It was about this time back in September, one week until we stepped into the studio that Dax left the group.  There's a ton of work to be done but the ground work is ready to go.  I've written this blog before so I don't want to repeat myself.  Our amazing sound man Troy Way will be at the helm producing this record again.  We have 11 tracks ready to go and I'm about to throw everything I have at this project.  One thing that keeps popping up in my mind is "History".  I think this can be said about almost every album ever written, the songs become a time capsule.  If I look back at the songs from "Midnight Devils" I realize I wrote those lyrics about a very uncertain time in my life.  I was broke, fresh from the rehab center, still a new member in 3D In Your Face.  My life was unstable and I chronicled it in the song lyrics.  Songs like "Generation Durt" and "Bleed Betty Bleed" were wrote in a friends basement at 4 AM.  Things were bleak but being in this band gave me hope.  "Sleeping In Omaha" is almost a completely true song about couch surfing with our then drummer Playboy.  We used to crash at our lighting guys house in North Omaha and things got very intense with that many personalities all under one roof.  I look back at those songs and have only good memories and I hope they bring good memories to others.

So what's changed?  Well it's been almost three years.  I still feel very uncertain but I at least have a path to tred upon.  We are moving towards the light at the end of the tunnel.  Once again the songs on this album have all drawn inspiration from everything that has happened to us in the last three years.  The people, the places, the shows, the fights, the good times.  My goal has been to capture the whole adventure and put it into a song so it can be remembered forever.  When I look at it from the other side, it's not just my adventure or the bands adventure.  Every person that is connected to this band has been on an adventure of their own.  I want you to be able to listen to these songs and have the same great memories I have about this time in or lives.  We are all going through this together and I can't tell you how much that means to me.  Amazing people have been coming in and out of our lives,  supporting us, following us from town to town, standing up for us, and encouraging us to carry on.  When I listen to these songs I will never forget the faces looking back at me.  I will never forget the shitty bars or giant arenas.  It's almost as if we are explorers on a quest for something.  I'm not yet quite sure what we are all looking for but I know every minute has been worth it.  This album is as much for us as it is for you.  Right now I believe my places is to be a defiante out-spoken believer in true raw, emoitional, dirty Rock N Roll.  Whatever it takes I believe this is my path.

Always Loud
Forever Proud

Sam Spade

Thursday, February 18, 2016

A Cryptic Premonition.

Hello everybody and welcome to HAIR IN THE AIR, The Official Blog of 3D In Your Face.  As a good buddy of my always says "Big doin's goin' on this weekend".  I am so extremely excited to let you know about what we got in store for you starting on Friday.  We are back in action, live, uncut, and definitely uncensored this Friday, Feb 19th at The 21st Saloon.  The VIP Table is still available for reservation for this show and I don't want you to miss out on all the fun.  Saturday Feb. 20th is going to be huge.  First of all we start off with album rehearsals and now I can tell you if everything goes as planned we are slated to hit the studio in two weeks to cut the follow up to "The Midnight Devils" Album.  Speaking of The Devils, our acoustic project also called The Midnight Devils will be making a huge special guest appearance this Saturday at The Ralston Arena.  We will be opening The Omaha Roller Girls bout and we will also be playing at halftime.  After the debauchery on four wheels is over we move the party to Sneaky Pete's Saloon in Omaha.  The Midnight Devils will be doing a full extended set for our debut at Sneaky Pete's and we need your help.  We want to make a big impression on this bar so we are asking all of The 3D In Your Face Army to come out and show us some love.  This is going to be a close intimate Rock N Roll party with loads of singing and wild shenanigans.  If you can't make any of this weekends festivities please tune in to my radio show HAIR IN THE AIR, Saturday night at 10 PM CST on 101.9 The Keg.  It's the heartbreak's edition of the show.
Photos by Geraldography

I'm not going to say to much about this but the faithful readers will get this "Lost In The Volume", a premonition of things to come.  Last weekend I had the great privilege of seeing one of the bands that started it all for me.  I remember listening to this band when I was around 10 years old and loosing my mind, not knowing at the time I would actually get to meet these heroes of mine.  This band and their music has impacted me personally almost more than any other band besides KISS.  I was there a mere 5 feet away from one of the biggest bands in the history of the world and yet it felt as if they were playing for me.  I was surrounded by 20,000 people and yet I felt like I was all alone.  I was moved spiritually by the music and at the time I felt as if that was the closest to heaven I had come.  Maybe that sounds silly but I don't care.  This entire musical adventure we are all on revolves around moments of pure and utter joy, nothing else.  For that brief moment nothing else matters.  Your troubles and worries are gone, there's no drama, there's no tension, and there is no suffering.  "Lost" doesn't even begin to describe it.  I was welling up with  tears by the sheer volume and the songs that the band were playing.
Photos by Geraldography

On Sunday, Feb 14th I saw AC/DC live and I'm not sure I have ever seen a band perform better.  It was a concert that I will never forget.  It was one of those Rock N Roll moments that hangs with you and that you strive to attain again.  The songs themselves made me proud to have followed this path, they brought back great memories of my younger years, and most of all they were played to perfection.  Very rarely do you get to go see a show and know every word to every song and I think with a band like AC/DC, it didn't really matter what they played.  It doesn't matter that I was hoping they'd play this song or that song, even though I've heard "Highway To Hell" a million times I've never heard it played like that.  The air was so heavy with energy that it made me shudder.  The band and the crowd seemed to mold together and for a brief two hour moment we were locked in a celebration of life and of Rock N Roll.  I can begin to express my gratitude and my appreciation.  There aren't enough words.  Maybe someday when this all come back around.........................

Always Loud
Forever Proud

Love
Sam Spade

Thursday, February 4, 2016

That's How It Goes Playing In A Band

New Blog.  What's up?  Welcome to HAIR IN THE AIR, The Official blog of 3D In Your Face.  Gearing up and going mental.  Get ready to shake those winter blues away.  If you are reading this in the Midwest USA then you know how much of that powder white is laying on the ground.  The winter weather makes everything a little more difficult but not impossible.  This Friday, Feb. 5th we are melting the ice and heating up your snow pants with our Friday Night Rock N Roll Residency at The 21st Saloon. New sets, a few new songs, and tons of hot sticky action.  Saturday the band will be at rehearsals working on the new material for our new album.  If you are still looking for some fun in the proverbial Rock N Roll sun you can take a little road trip with Sniper and I to Dow City, IA for an acoustic Midnight Devils performance at Cheers Bar and Grill around 10 PM.  My goal is to be the bartender for at least 10 minutes at Cheers.  Sam Spade becomes Sam Malone.  Count it.  Also my radio show HAIR IN THE AIR will be on at 10 PM CST on 101.9 The Keg.  No excuses to not go out.  You've been cooped up inside watching reruns for the last three days.

Sorry to keep you all waiting for a blog.  I have been pretty quite lately.  We have been playing a ton of shows and that is great to keep my mind occupied.  The band is getting to that point that I dread more than anything else.  In the very near future we are headed into the studio to craft another album.  I realize I have been talking about this now since Sept. but with the advent of our Rocklahoma birth n the horizon we want to have something tangible to tour on this summer.  Not to mention we have been sitting on some of these songs for over a year now.  For as much as love being a musician and crafting songs I hate the studio.  We aren't even there yet and the stress is already eating at all of us.  I feel the last album "Midnight Devils" was a great representation of where we were at the time.  I wasn't happy with all the parts but I don't think anyone ever is.  I'm proud as hell of that record and the work we as a band did together.  With this next record looming on the horizon and the big festival/tour season right around the corner, we have something to prove to ourselves and to the world.  We have to capture that sound and that energy that makes us an exciting live band.  We have to collectively as 4 individuals get on the same page and the same mindset in order to put out the best quality work.  After all this one of the reasons we sacrifice so much.  Making records is a tough business but those records are our history.

Now while I say this I know I can't stress to much about the future.  There is nothing I can control there.  There is a positive note and that is the point that we must lean on in all of these tough matters.  The band is doing better than it ever has.  We are successfully navigating our careers in the path we want to be taking.  We are playing to more and more fans and doing it on our own terms.  At the end of the day I still do fully and whole-heartedly believe in Rock N Roll and I still get the chance to prove that every night.  We are being booked for more shows.  We are making connections with some amazing people all over the world.  It's really quite the give and take kind of relationship.  But I almost guarantee that if I look back through my journals and old blogs I said the same thing this time last year.  "That's how it goes playing in a band".  That's the dynamic and I guess you can say that's what keeps it interesting.  I've never played in a band that was perfect, never fought, or never had it's hard breaks.  It's that bands that rise up over the adversity that become great.  It's the bands that keep pounding the open pavement when everything around them is saying "Just stop it'd be so much easier".  Well I'm not stopping and I'm not giving up.  If anything I'm coming at you harder and I'm going to do it my way.

Always Loud
Forever Proud

Sam Spade