June 1999

Ham is currently in negotiations with Troma and a theatre in Peoria to hold a special showing of "Terror Firmer". Ham with play before the movie, then you'll get to see a special screening of Troma's latest and greatest movie, "Terror Firmer". Hopefully if things work out we'll do this in Peoria and the next night in Champaign at another awesome theatre!! This should be great fun!! It appears that this will happen in October, I know it's a ways away, but it will be perfect as a pre-Halloween party. So be there!, when it happens.

The first week of June, MP3.com made "Aquaman" it's featured Alternative song and it's featured Power Pop song. One day we had over 700 downloads for all of our songs, and nearly 600 of them were for "Aquaman" alone. We are getting exposure that we would never get any other way from MP3.com and I recommend to any band!! In fact, a magazine from Japan in going to put a CD sampler with "Aquaman" on it in their next issue, and a radio station from Germany is going to start playing our songs as soon as they get the CD I've sent them. Ham is worldwide baby!!

JUNE 4th was the CD re-Release of The Orange Album. Things went swimmingly at the Meeting House, a new venue in the basement of the First Church of the Bretheren at 4714 N. Sheridan.
Citizen 66 opened up the night with an awesome set that included their own version of the Ham classic "Crazy Addy", in fact they did it so well, they can have the damn thing.
Next up was 1209 Towanda with their own brand of geek/polka/ska rock. They featured a new guitar player and they just rocked, I mean come on, they have an accordian.
Corey Dixon and The Zvooks took the stage next. They were brilliant, they are such great musicians, everyone was dancing their asses off, it was hard to take the stage after those guys were through.
Then we took the stage, we danced like monkeys, jumped around alot like little kids, sang out of key like Eve 6 and 3rd Eye Blind, and then we all fell down. "Ashes, Ashes we all fall down"

5 New Ham songs available for download at MP3.com/ham Now you can download "California", "Gamma Ray Girl", "Radio", "Aquaman", and "Denise is a Lush" in MP3 format. You can also purchase, for a limited time, a Digital Audio Music Cd of these songs. What do you get on this CD? You'll get the 5 songs in audio format, so you can listen on your regular stereo, you'll get the songs in MP3 format to listen to on your pc and you'll get WINAMP to play your MP3's on all on this one awesome CD. It's only 5.99 plus shipping. This is the only way you can purchase the Gamma Ray Girl ep. For right now we are not going to make it available for sale anyway else, not even at our shows. So go to MP3.com and buy the Gamma Ray Girl ep, or else!!.