Free show on Thursday

The Eastlake Zoo Tavern occasionally puts on free Thursday shows-- we've been meaning to do one of these for a while, and ubik.s finally on a Zoo Tavern bill.  These shows are notoriously awesome, we have a good lineup for the night, and it's been a while since we did a free one, so this is a can't-miss.  Free shows are cool like that: you always get more out of them than what you put in.

Thursday, February 24
Zoo Tavern
w/ Throne of Bone
& Future Kill
Free - 8:00

Summoning Flames

It looks like ubik.s in need of a new bass cabinet... because (has this ever happened to you?) our Ampeg 8x10 actually burst into flames.  We were playing a show on Christmas, and, as Joel plugged in and checked his sound for the set, we went through the classic stages of Speaker 'Splody:

• Um, what's that smell?
• Did you guys turn on a fog machine?
• Hey-- it's coming from your speakers!
• Holy shit!  Fire!

Then we hauled a box the size of a refrigerator outside, removed  the speaker, and pulled out hunks of flaming insulation.

What's strange about this is the Ampeg 8x10 is one of the most common bass cabinets in the world: these things are everywhere.  They're heavy as hell, but they practically live forever-- these suckers get passed from bassist to bassist and sold and resold so often it's a wonder Ampeg still makes them.  You'd think the world would be at the Cabinet Saturation Point by now.

Since none of ubik.s amps are super-powerful (no crazy 1000 Watt, circuit-blowing, speaker melting monsters), our ability to make speaker cabinets into incendiary devices is probably based on spooky supernatural powers. 

ubik.s going to Burning Man

Reportedly, there's a dearth of live music at Burning Man... so ubik.s working on fixing the problem. We're assembling a camp of bands and like-minded revelers to caravan down to the desert with us in August, because the gospel of variety needs to be spread, and it seems like the Burners are in desperate need of a camp that  bumps something other than dub-step.

A meeting for this illustrious project will be held at The Highline on Saturday, February 12th, at 2:00PM, so you can grab some lunch and a drink.  We'll all hunker down and work out the whos, hows, whys, and wherefores of the caravan and the camp: we need bands to come and friends to participate, so come on down-- this one's going to be an adventure.