Monday, Nov. 10th: 3 Announcements

1. I am proud to announce that Todd Walthall (Galgo Music Group, Inc.) is my new manager. I'm looking forward to working with him as well as the rest of GMG. They are in my top friends also, so feel free to add them.

2. I will be releasing a 6 or 7 song EP in January 2009 that I will have on my tour in Feb/March. I don't know all the songs that will be on this release. I do know that I will for sure be re-recording Dreamers and Get Out for this release. I don't think there will be that many re-recorded songs on the release, besides those two. Another song I know for sure that I will be putting on there is Queen of the World which can be found on youtube. All others will be 100% completely new.

3. Along with the preparation of recording this EP I'll be recording a good amount of new demos of the revised/new versions of old songs and recording new ones as well. Here are some songs I will be recording , some or most will be full band. I plan to release a few of the demos online on purevolume once I decide whats going on the EP

1. Dreamers
2. I Believe
3. Queen of the World
4. New Jersey
5. Georgia
6. Fire and Adrienne
7. All She Needs
8. Still With You
9. Seattle
10. Little Sleep
11. Ghost Town
12. Happy
13. Its not like the City (blues song)
14. Baby Hold On
15. Hurricane

Currently playing : WWF: No Mercy

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Want City.Like.Drive to tour to your area??

Hello all,
City Like Drive will be on tour a lot of 2009 , I want to come where you are , If you would like the tour to come to _________ (venue and city) please add a comment below and let me know.

PS Please be reasonable, if you live in a town or city that doesn't have shows or a venue, please list the one that you go to :)

*House shows, I get messages about this a lot, so if you would like to host a house/garage/whatev show, let me know (please reply in this blog, its so much easier to keep track of information if its at one spot.)

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This is Why I Didn’t Vote for Obama or McCain.

Obama
-Supports the Patriot Act(s) (there are two)
-Supports war in Afghanistan and will keep a military base in Iraq, but will eventually cut back on the troops in Iraq and ship them to Afghanistan.


-Mostly all of his plans (mainly Health Care) will call for major government spending. He never during his 1+year in campaigning explained specifically what spending cuts he would make, what programs he would cut to fund these new programs.


-His tax plan for the middle class is somewhat unclear but is semi good. However I don't believe people making $250,000 a year are middle class. I think that people making $90,000 and under are.


McCain
-Supports both Patriot Acts of 2001 and 2006 as Obama did.


-Supports keeping both "Wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan going.


-His tax/economic plan is out of touch. Trickle Down/Regan Economics are long past their age. It doesn't work in todays economy. Big business don't need a lot of money to keep their programs going. The workers need more money because that is who spends the money in the real-world economy. You can't sell products to people that don't have the money to pay for it.



Also for those saying these things about either candidate.


Obama is a socialist.

-No he isn't. If you want to get really technical about the "spread the wealth" comment and call his tax plan socialistic, then what in the world do you call any taxation system the US ever had. Its a socialistic idea from the beginning.



McCain might die soon
We will all die, we don't know when. Why let age matter? I know a guy that is 93 and is in way better health than 60 year olds I know.



Obama is black thats why I am / am not voting for him
Are you really that shallow and narrow minded of a person? Thats completely ignorant to only vote or not vote for a person because of race.



Sarah Palin doesn't have experience
Compare her time spent in politics with PRESIDENTIAL candidate Barack Obama. She's VP and has been involved with Government by hodling office in politics since 1996. Obama has been holding Government office in politics since 1997. So thats for you to judge. Just the facts. Although personally I believe both are qualified.



Obama is a muslim!
Slap yourself in the face. No he isn't.

BUT if he was, who cares? This is AMERICA right?


Thats why I don't support either, I voted for Chuck Baldwin, the only disagreement I truly have with him is ..ion. I don't believe that abortion is a right that the Federal Government should decide on. I believe that the decision should be at the State Government level. I know everyone has their personal reasons for being in favor or against abortion.



Regardless of who you support/voted for, I'm very happy you voted.



All I ask is that you join me in supporting Barack Obama that will be sworn into office in January 2009

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This is where I’m Touring in Feb/Mar 2009 (TX, OK, LA, AR Help/Read)

**UPDATE**
Feb 20th Tulsa OK *Booked*
Feb 21st Dallas TX area
Feb 22nd Houston TX area
*Feb 23rd-26th Visiting my Great Grandparents in Donna TX *
Feb 27th San Antonio TX
Feb 28th Austin TX
March 1st Dallas TX / Shreveport LA / Little Rock AR area
March 2nd Fayetteville AR area


I just decided this tonight. I will start booking it soon. If you live in the area that this map shows, you should reply and tell me some venues in your area (be sure you list where you live/where the venues are you are telling me about) Also if theres any local bands in those areas I should try to get on the show. I was planning on doing a strict east coast tour at that time period. But my reason for the change of plans is because my Grandparents are in the 80s so I figured I'd go see them again (and tour on the way and back). Because they aren't getting any younger :)


PS * MY DAD WILL BE COMING WITH ME ON THIS TOUR AND PLAYING PERCUSSION!

Now get to telling me what areas/venues to come to :)  (only the area that is circle)

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United Kingdom Tour??

I have had the idea to do this for a good couple of months. I don't have any booking contacts there right now, and I also don't have anything in motion to make this happen/possible at the current moment. But for when the time does come, I'd like your ideas of where you want me to come play, regardless of size of venue. I'd rather go and play for you and hang out with you at your favorite spot to hear music.

So if you live in the UK, let me know where to tour when I do.
Which I will aim for happening in 2009.

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Just my advice.

If you are in a relationship, enjoy it. It most likely won't last forever. Even if you are in love with each other. Life is a crazy , surprising , thing that can take you through loops and back to the place you started or somewhere far off. You will most likely love again, but just not love each other.

If you're in High School enjoy that, trust me. You will miss it, even if you hate it. You really do learn who your best friends are after you graduate. Don't be scared to have fun and bend a few rules, I'm glad I did. (I graduated in 2005).

If you're in College, take your future more serious than I am/ever did. Stay in it if you took out huge loans, even if it sucks. Trust me. You don't want to be stuck with a huge loan without anything to show.

If you have something to say to someone, you might as well tell them. Because most of the times whats killing you is what you're keeping inside.

If your parents , grandparents, friends, tell you they love you, don't be scared to tell them back (I still am terrible at this, but I'm working on it)

Get to know your Parents, Grandparents, Aunts , Uncles, anyone you can. One day when more time passes you'll wish you connected more. Trust me on this.

Don't be scared to be open minded and question things regardless of what you believe or believe in or think currently.

Don't be scared to do something that makes you feel alive. But don't forget to be happy and comfortable at times.

If your friends are dancing, you should dance too. The best way to live a leveled life is to humiliate yourself in front of people.

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theSUN & theMOON

Hello Sir/Mam/You,

After seeing the movie Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist I got the idea to do a release like a mixtape. There would be a potential of 12 songs per cd that was ordered, and I would personally burn, and create the cover/art and all for a small price. I decided to hold that idea off for awhile. So I decided what is better than free stuff right? So I had over 40 unreleased home demos and other songs of that sort.

So that is where this release comes into play, called theSUN & theMOON. The concept is very basic. Goes as follow (sort of like a mixtape?)

-theSUN:  Consists of Happy/Lovey/Skipping down the sidewalk/Positve songs. (has 27 songs)

-theMOON: Consists of Sad/Thinking/Deep(er?)/Laying in your bed kind of songs. (has 26 songs)

Theres a little bit of everything involved in some of these recordings, even some beat boxing on a few.

or click here for theSUN ( www.virb.com/citylikedrive ) or for theMOON ( www.virb.com/citylikedrivethemoon )

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The sad thing is..

With the world today is that most people aren't informed enough to know that technology is so great right now (has been for over 30 years now)
Currently technology has the power (if granted) to make these possiblities , realities.

-No one would ever live in starvation.
-Everyone could have a good home and living condition (a car, nice house, pool, etc..)
-Everyone could have food
-No one would have to literally work to make their lives better
-Schools and hospitals all over the world to go to for free
-Medicine free.
-Crime Rates would drop drastically (Money is the reason for most crimes)
-Everyone could be truely free.

The two things keeping this from happening is money and uniformed people.

Money controls you, debt enslaves you.
If we used the techonolgy to free the people and give everyone, not just the wealthy or people barely making it (money-wise) a free, great life, we could focus on restoring nature, and stop using oil and such.

We have the technology but we don't use it to the fullest because of the market, people needing to make money because of scarcity.

This isn't something that I just thought of off the top of my head, I have conversed about subjects as this with others, then I came across The Venues Project and Zeitgeist-addendum, which made me glad that I wasn't the only one that knew of this.


If money and greed wasn't there, we would be better off. But some like the idea of money because they feel it gives them power. Selfish.

I'd love your thoughts on this.

Also if you want to take some time to open your mind and educate yourself some more, I highly, Highly,  suggest that you check out the documentary (watch it for free streaming online) and the website

Zeitgeist-Addendum (documentary) - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

The Venus Project- http://www.thevenusproject.com 

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Interview with Greene Prarie Press

Greene Prarie Press Interview with Scott Phares of City Like Drive by Carmen Ensinger (will be in the September 17th Issue)

Tell me a little about your band. Who is in it, where are they from,  and when were you formed.
The current members of the band are Clint Kesinger and myself Scott Phares. City Like Drive started out as just myself as a solo artist in September of 2006. I started the solo thing because the full band thing wasn't working, lack of members and drive from others. I was in a band prior to CLD called Abistarline with my friend Dave Pettie, which I am hoping will join CLD on Drums now that I am building it back up to a full band. In August of this year I asked Clint Kesinger, which I had known for a long time to join the band on guitar and we began writing and such.

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About the song "Help Me Up"

As I am sure many of you have had the unfortunate experience of losing someone you love to death, but that will be a part of all of our lives one day, which is something I find to be crazy, to think I won't exsist and still wear these sweet skull pj's and play music and such. But this song I wrote about my Grandma Helen, which she is the single most inspiration in my life and my music, she's the reason I even started or wanted to play and perform. I used to spend a lot of time with her before she passed away, she used to babysit me all the time, which was always fun.

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