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The show at the Naval Base was a great success! The band played in top form (even though I had one or two brainfarts on stage) and all the people there seemed to enjoy us a lot. It was good to play in front of a crowd of people aside from our friends. This isn't meant as an insult to our friends and fans who come to all our shows, simply that its good to get out to people who've never heard us before and to spread the word to new people. Our next show is in Naperville on the 24th, hope to see some of you out there!

Half of PWS went to court today to try and solve the matter of the drunken neighbor signing a complaint. Well ladies and gentlemen, we learned an important lesson today. If you're going to sign a complaint, make sure you're not too drunk to remember the court date. The guy never showed up, therefore the case was dismissed and no charges are being brought against us. Remember kids, don't drink and leave your house for any reason whatsoever. It just leads to trouble. As a matter of fact, don't talk while drunk either, that's pretty bad too.

Alright, for those of you interested in going to our show at the Navy Base on March 10th, here's what you have to do:

To get to GREAT LAKES: Off of Hwy 41 or I-94 go EAST on Hwy 137(Buckley road); stay on it until you see the sign to the MAIN GATE of Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Pass the Recruit Training Command gates on Buckley. Near the end of Buckley Road, go under the overpass which will curve around left and up to Sheridan Road. Get in the right lane and turn right on Sheridan Road at the signal. Stay in the right lane; you will turn right at the very next signal which is the MAIN GATE for the base.

Getting on the base and to the right building (From the base entrance) As you go toward the main gate each car driver must pull into a parking lot immediately before the guard house; walk to the security building to obtain a "Visitor's Pass". Tell the guard you are here to attend The Gathering at the chapel. You must present your driver's license, car registration, and proof of insurance on the car. Once you obtain your pass, ask the guard to direct you to Building 3 and Bluejackets Memorial Chapel which (the east part of the building. Park behind the building in the parking lot and nearest the chapel.

Well, hope to see all of you there! It should be a really fun time!

Hey all! We just got done with a really good weekend of shows. First was our Friday show at Zion Benton, which was pretty fun. We got to open for Escape from Earth, who are an amazing band and just really awesome people. If anybody hasn't seem them live or even heard them yet, go find some way to do it, because they rock. Then stick around after the show and talk to them, because they're just really cool people.

Next up came our Saturday night show at Rinkside Sports. At first I was a little worried because I'd been sick all weekend, and I had a hoarse throat. The Pressmen opened and did a great job, even though they had some sound problems. When we first started my voice was a little raw. However, as the show went on, my voice gradually improved. If you missed this show...well, you missed what was, in my personal opinion, our best performance to date.

Come to March's First Friday! Even though we're not playing, it's still going to be a good show. Also, we'll be selling our demos there as well! After that, our next show is on March 10th at the Navy Base. It's a little hard to get in, but if you're interested, look them up and contact them to find out how to get in. I'll try and get information for all of you by the end of the week!

I updated the shows section to reflect us not playing at this upcoming First Friday. The reason for this is because we decided to take a break ourselves and also give our fans a break as well. As some of you might remember, before we started writing our new songs and after Jesse left the band, people started to get kind of bored with us playing the same songs every show.

I've burned our first MP3 and posted it on the internet! "Fake" has become the first real PWS song ever to be turned into mp3 format. I had to debate between posting up that song, or posting up "Disillusioned", and finally ended up deciding on "Fake". Right now I'm also considering the idea of turning "Ban Mtv" into an mp3 and posting it on the web as well. For now, I'm not sure how to add mp3's to my site, but if you're interested in hearing it, go visit our Lycos Listeningroom page at Lycos Listening Room

Help to bring PWS onto the top 40 charts of Lycos! Also, start checking Farmclub.com; I submitted a page to them too, and am hoping to see it on there soon!

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01/29/01

Good news to report! All recording is done for the Penguins with Shotguns demo! All that has to be done is mastering, and the master cd should be complete by Sunday. The track listing and order is: Disillusioned, Fake, Ban Mtv, and March of the Penguin. I'd like to very heartily thank Rex Carroll for recording and producing us, and for being so cool! If there are any bands out there interested in recording, you can contact Rex by going to his website, which is www.rexcarroll.com. He was very cool, down to earth, knew exactly what he was doing, and thanks to his dedication and our determination, we got everything done a lot quicker then I had first thought.

On a side note, we had quite an interesting experience before recording got started. when we first got there, Rex decided that Miguel needed new drum heads for the best sound, so we headed out to Music Center up in Kenosha, Wi. We were about halfway there, when Miguel's car ran out of gas and we had to pull off to the side of Russell Rd. About half an hour later Steve and Matt came back with enough gas to get us to the gas station.

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01/24/01

Ladies and gentlemen, Penguins with Shotguns will be hosting a performance, but its not the kind many of you may be thinking of. Unlike our enjoyable and music-related performances we usually give, this performance is taking place in court on March 5th. A neighbor to the AGAPE Christian Fellowship building has filed a complaint against us for being too loud, and now we have to appear in court. Hopefully things will turn out for the best and no fines will be brought against us, mainly because we have witnesses to prove our innocence and disprove false claims this guy has made. I'll keep you all posted on how this turns out. Wish us luck!

Also, just a reminder to you all, PWS is going in the studio to start recording our 4 song demo THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND! We held practice today to get ready for it (in fact, our practice is what got us in trouble with the neighbor). Hopefully all will go well, and we'll be in and out of the studio quickly and end up with a fine sounding demo!

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01/11/01

It's official: the weekend of January 27th and 28th, Penguins with Shotguns is going into the studio to record our first demo. Tentatively, we're going to record 4 songs, but if we have time we might do more. The track listing is looking to be (in no particular order) Disillusioned, Ban Mtv, Fake, and March of the Penguin. After recording, we're hoping to have the cd completed and ready for copying and distribution by early to mid-March. A more specific date will be known after we've got all the songs recorded.

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01/09/01

Right now, the band has agreed on the weekend of January 27 & 28 for recording. We'll be going to work and record with Rex all weekend long and probably won't see the light of day for a good portion of that weekend. However, right now that weekend is planned just to record guitars, bass, and drums. Vocal tracks will be laid down the following weekend (and hopefully won't take as long to do). Keep your fingers crossed, and hope all goes well!

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01/08/01

Although no date has been set yet, last night our bassist, Matt Burke, went in to have a talk with someone who's willing record us, so we can finally put out a professional 2 or 3 song demo. As soon as I hear any dates or any more info, I'll post them up on the site, so keep your eyes peeled!

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01/07/01

First, I'd like to start off by saying that this will be the new home for the Penguins with Shotguns website, and I'll try and update as frequently as possible (most of my life is spent on the computer, so that shouldn't be a problem).

Next, this has been one of the band's busiest weekends. We started it off on Friday with our monthly show at First Friday. This month we played with Escape from Earth and Knuckleduster, both of which are exceptional bands. This was also probably one of our best First Friday performances to date, and the crowd reaction to our new songs was really great.

On Saturday we played our first show outside of the church, at Rinkside Sports. I'd like to thank everyone who showed up, and I'd also like to thank Rinkside for inviting us and making it, in my opinion, probably our best performance yet! The sound system was great, lots of room to move around, and the rest of the band was performing at their best. The only speedbump was a power failure at the beginning of our second song of the evening, "Pokemon Waltz". We played it off really well though and started our typical prize throwouts early on. Within 10 min., the Rinkside crew had fixed the problem, and we continued on with no further incidents.

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