Bands Battling

Lessons learned:

1. Hagerstown is frickin' far away!


2. Verizon phone service does not work in the town of Hagerstown, which renders the GPS assistance from VZNavigator totally useless.


3. Hagerstown is hot as s**t! (and I mean literally hot...sweat causing my dollars not to work in the Coke machine hot. ew.)


4. We like air conditioning (a lot)


5. We really enjoyed talking to Blue Sky Traffic who were backing The Pham who, as a group, were totally awesome performers.


6. We also enjoyed the musical stylings of Dimestore Profit whose drummer Pat should, without a doubt, beg borrow and steal enough to get a set of DW's...and who frickin' thrilled me to pieces with their cover of a Darkness song.


7. Apparently Chad Taylor's dad attends musical events in Hagerstown with his other son's band and is incredibly nice...and helped me load my drums on the stage- which is totally awesome!


8. Apparently gays like Niel Diamond (or so we heard in an alley-way discussion we wished we'd missed)


9. We don't know anybody in Hagerstown.

Also - whenever anyone tells you to show up somewhere at 9am, you know, invariably, that you're gonna have to Hurry Up & WAIT!...but wait, we already learned that lesson!

Here's us waiting...



And waiting some more...



..and well, you get the idea. Oh..one last thought - Hagerstown has the most swank McDonald's the world has ever known...complete with several flat-screen TV's, wi-fi, and a glass waterfall fixture. Now OGO takes a little tiny vacation while various OGO's venture out of town. We'll be back end of August with some not-to-be-missed shows!

Now on iTunes

I know any idiot can get their CD on iTunes...and yet, still, there's something awesome about seeing your very own CD on there!



Our CD finally materialized there tonight. Now get on over there and buy it!

Holy crap Adams Morgan is a swarming madhouse between 9 and bars-close-o-clock! We want to thank the DC Roller Girls for having us out to play their bout after-party! We enjoyed the plentiful mountains of waffle fries, the company, and the great energy brought by all. The only question remains why did my microphone smell so bad? Is it stored inside the carcass of some dead animal? Ick! Still-it was another thoroughly enjoyable show. Next week: BMX Battle of the Bands thing. Will OGO win this battle? The more ominous question: will OGO go bankrupt at the Hagerstown Prime Outlets after our set?

Sheffield & Firehouse Grill

So Wednesday evening we headed back over to Sheffield to help out a studio recording class. Basically the deal is you agree to go and let them do whatever the class is for, and then you can get a copy of the result. That's the exchange. We had some amazing pop-song/opera-style freestyling antics from Kristen (which Selena definitely caught on her camera phone and she should send to me immediately upon reading this). We had some King of the Hill theme song jamming from Eva on the bass. We got some drum and bass tracks down for Deserve, so hopefully that will turn into something we can eventually share with you. (Of course, we all know the reason I'm writing this at all is to get a pic in here of me with my tiny tiny drums. Ha.)

Then last night was a fun-filled evening with Sematic at Firehouse Grill. They'd asked us to come and play with them before they filmed their own show for an upcoming music video, and were then extremely friendly to us. Thanks guys! You're awesome. Apparently I always enjoy bands with siblings in them. Maybe b/c my first band in high school (that played actual songs instead of never-ending jams) had a set of brothers in it. James from Rome in a Day was there with a surprise acoustic set before we got started, and was awesome as well. Back in the old-school OGO days, we used to cover No One Knows (Queens of the Stoneage), and it was interesting to hear an acoustic guitar rendition of said song. Apparently James has a large GUITAR HERO repertoire! Yay Guitar Hero!

Also special thanks to Claire for hanging out with us pre-show whilst Tawni downed her taco salad, and to Jaime, Lindsey, & Anya for hanging out and rocking out with us during the show.

Roller Derby

...so roller derby is kinda wild. What a unique sport. What a unique place to play. The memories of middle school come flooding back when you see those sweet, sweet light fixtures on the walls. I personally only frequented roller rinks for a short window of time when they decided to allow roller blades. Something about the regular skate wheel setup leaves me flat on my face the second I try to move, but the in-line setup is ok.

Much thanks to the sound guy who managed to balance out the acoustics of such an odd setting. And of course, much thanks to the Charm City Roller Girls for having us out. We particularly enjoyed talking to the mascot for the Night Terrors. Sweet top hat and cane! The crowd was intense. I can't believe that many people are willing to risk their finger tips and other extremities sitting right up to the edge of the match. Crazy. Totally crazy.

All in all, good fun! This coming week we hit up a slightly different kind of roller girls event, the DC roller girls after party at Asylum. The party starts at 10pm on Saturday night. We'll be there with bells (since we probably can't play with wheels) on. There's no cover, but it's a 21+ event. Also this week, we'll be opening for Sematic at the Firehouse Grille in Virginia on Friday night. This one is also 21+, and has a $5 cover. We don't get down into VA and DC quite as often as we're out around MD, so if you're down in those lower spots, make sure you get out to see us.

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Oh what a masterpiece of craptitude OGO Goes to Canada (EH!) was going to be! But my computer hates me. It won't save with my clever sound editing. It won't work with my slick widget on our page***. Whatever - time to give you some clips anyway - so here are the even more craptastic video clips from our Canada trip. You can watch them on the multimedia page by selecting them from the little drop-down.

I would also like to note that while there were many many more clips of great hilarity, I cannot bring myself to prove we are even more inappropriate as a band than you could possibly imagine - so here's the mostly acceptable stuff.

*** my somewhat edited version is on our MySpace. It still wouldn't let me incorporate my totally brilliant audio edits, however, so just hum some of our songs to yourself while you watch it.

Video footage....ARGH!@*(#&

OK- swear the video footage from Toronzo is coming soon. I spent about 2 hours clipping it together today...only to have frickin' MS MovieMaker tell me it cannot save my movie file - and not give me any reasons. So once MovieMaker and I resolve our differences, it'll be up. I don't really wanna reveal anything about the trip 'til then though, mmkay?