4th Bear?

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!

So, after a completely screwed up two weeks...the 3 Bears enter the practice space to see what collective memory they have left. Takes about an hour, but we manage to kick major butt on three new tunes: Vitamin R, Evenflow and Crawling in the Dark. Raging and on a mission from the night before to get out as soon as possible, we will entertain (unfortunately only) 2 auditions Monday night to help get us there.

Fast Forward to Monday night...

Auditions good...choice made.



Welcome Joel Storm to the group! We hope anyway...

Wrong side of the stage...

Did you ever notice how many beautiful, exciting young women are attached to boring guys? What's up with that?

The 3 Bears reunited last night and started off the evening at the Jazz Festival in Corporate Woods. Upon arrival we made a bee line toward the only beer vendor, (Budweiser pooey) and ordered the first of many Beach Bum Blondes... We actually did like the brew, and the running joke of course upon ordering was, "We'll take 3 more blondes please..." Doesn't really take too much to make people in OP grin especially when you attach sexual innuendo. So the vendors (men) each laughed, as well as the other customers. All in good (sexually degrading to women) fun.

Fast forward (back at the Plah-zaaa). We ended up at Odowd's. Pretty good band of older guys like us. They played similar music, and of course because we are musicians - we made friends quickly. Check them out at http://www.teacherzpet.net/

So, oh yeah the women and men thing. Here it is guys. You have a wonderful woman with you that obviously wants to dance, and you stand there like roosters stuck in cement. Yes, all well and good to work out 25 hours everyday and look intimidating to the other testosterone laden morons...but c'mon now. We specifically saw at least 10 women attached to rocks with testicles. Ladies, do yourselves all a favor and just go out with each other, and leave the fun, dancing and after hours parties to the professionals like us.

More later...

"Bear" Naked...

No post today...EXCEPT for the fact we are trying out lead vocalists on Monday night. And, 2 of them are of the female persuasion. One of them sent us a pic. We are thinking she just may be right for the job...

Final Night on the Island

We were lucky enough to spend some quality time with our great new friends Jon and Kathleen... We all shared a big plate of oysters and walked the moonlit beach. We are returning probably sooner than later to Fernandina Beach (hopefully by late Summer). But, for now the 2 Bears have hit the air and are back in KC ready to rock with Bear #3. More later...

Wow! A new hat for Scotty!

We have made a ton of new friends down here, each of them telling us how much they want us to move to "the island." One of our newest partners in crime is Jon DeWitt (banjo player extraordinaire). Jon has been playing the music circuit for as long as Aaron and I and most recently played with Uncle Kracker. Not sure if he is the most generous person or was the most intoxicated, but he did give me his hat. I had to promise to pass it on someday to a worthy individual that takes a liking to it.

2 Bears in JAX

First post to the blog: Who really needs music when you can soak up the sun and and taste the angry Atlantic 1000 miles from home. Speaking of which, the picture to the left represents a historical moment...Aaron's first few seconds (at least 1/5 immersed) in the ocean off of the right coast of our great country. A. being a "Cali Boy" had never felt the body of water that separates "us" from Europe between his toes. And so, subsequently we overly celebrate another check in his "list of life" at the beach bar and grill.

More to come...