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November 18, 2008 - Tuesday

2009 "MARTINI HERO" TOUR - NEW DATES ADDED!

Richard Cheese tours America on his 2009 "Martini Hero" tour:

12/31 Anaheim - House Of Blues Disneyland (New Year's Eve!)
1/31 San Diego - House Of Blues
3/21 Orlando - Plaza Theatre
4/15 Washington DC - Nine-Thirty Club
4/18 New York - Webster Hall
5/9 Portland - Dante's
5/16 Seattle - El Corazon

plus:
Houston, Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago, Honolulu, SF, LA, and Las Vegas!
and maybe:
Denver, Reno, Tucson, New Orleans, Myrtle Beach, Palm Springs, Dallas, Kansas City, London, and Australia!

Visit www.richardcheese.com
and make sure we have your EMAIL ADDRESS so you can receive advance ticket on-sale info!

Thanks for your support of Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine!

 

RC

 

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October 13, 2008 - Monday

Richard Cheese Farewell Tour Dates

Richard Cheese is playing one last round of shows before he retires his Lounge Against The Machine band in 2009.  Don't miss RC's last few concerts with his swingin' Lounge Against The Machine jazz trio!

New dates just added:

SACRAMENTO 10/18 at HARLOW'S
SAN FRANCISCO 10/25 at BIMBO'S (almost soldout!)
ANAHEIM NEW YEAR'S EVE 12/31 at HOUSE OF BLUES
SAN DIEGO 1/31 at HOUSE OF BLUES

Also scheduled in 2009:

Los Angeles (March 2009)
Orlando (March 2009)
New York City (April 2009)
Washington DC (April 2009)
Phoenix (May 2009)
Houston (May 2009)
Portland (June 2009)
Seattle (June 2009)
Australia (June 2009)
Honolulu (July 2009)
Las Vegas (July 2009)
London (July 2009)
Toronto (August 2009)
Chicago (September 2009)
Palm Springs (September 2009)


Complete show info & tickets available at www.richardcheese.com 


Join RC's FaceBook page to receive new tour date updates!


Thanks for spreading the cheese!


RC


3 NEW RICHARD CHEESE CDs
COMING IN 2009!

VIVA LA VODKA 2008
LAVAPALOOZA 2009  
O.K. BARTENDER 2009

RICHARD CHEESE'S NEXT 3 CDs
WILL  NOT  BE RELEASED IN STORES
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC UNTIL
WE'VE SOLD 2,000 PRE-ORDERS!
ONLY MEMBERS OF THE
RICHARD CHEESE
SUPERFAN FUNCLUB
CAN ORDER THE CDs.

CLICK HERE FOR INFO!

 
 

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October 6, 2008 - Monday

LOUNGE THE VOTE
Category: Music

Dear American Citizen:

In most states, today is the deadline for voter registration.  Take 3 minutes and register to vote TODAY.

Please visit loungethevote.com to register, and let's lounge the vote.

If you've ALREADY registered to vote, then take those 3 minutes and visit shop.richardcheese.com and buy a bunch of my Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine CDs and T-Shirts, because the economic crisis is really messing with our merchandise sales and I'm going broke and running out of credit cards and I can't pay the recording studio bills for our 3 new albums because I already owe my musicians a lot of money and good bongo players are super expensive and tuxedo dry cleaning isn't free and I sure got charged a lot more than I expected at that "Gentleman's Club" and now I can't even afford the server bandwidth to finish typing thi




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September 20, 2008 - Saturday

Cheese Update

Dear Richard Cheese Fans--

BIG NEWS BELOW.

I'd like to thank you for your generous support of my band, my shows, and my music.  I appreciate all of your kind emails, comments, and posts on MySpace, Facebook, and richardcheese.com.  I personally read every email message sent to lounge@richardcheese.com, and I am grateful to you for believing in the cheese.


Can you please do me a favor?  Register to vote and make your voice heard this election year.  Register NOW at loungethevote.com

 

5  Important Richard Cheese Updates:

 

1)  We have 3 all-new CDs coming out in the next few months:  VIVA LA VODKA, LAVAPALOOZA, and O.K.BARTENDER.  Visit members.richardcheese.com to join our FREE fanclub and pre-order the new albums.  ONLY MY FANS CAN BUY THESE CDs, they will NOT be available in stores or on iTunes!

 

2)  Listen to Richard Cheese and Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson as they make fun of the Clooney-Pitt Vegas hit "Ocean's 11."  Hear the hilarious commentary at rifftrax.com !

 

3)  Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine are headlining House Of Blues Anaheim on 12/31 New Year's Eve!  EXCLUSIVE VIP ADVANCE TICKETS are available TODAY for Richard Cheese fans ONLY.  Visit richardcheese.com for SECRET link and password.  Swing in the new year with RC&LATM!   We're also playing October 18 in Sacramento and October 25 in San Francisco.

 

4)  Our all-new CHEESE SHOP is now open for customers in EVERY NATION!  Visit shop.richardcheese.com and check out our new T-shirts, posters, ties, PERSONALIZED GREETING CARDS, and other cool stuff.

 

5)  You can hear YOUR NAME SUNG on my next CD "Viva La Vodka!"  Complete details are at members.richardcheese.com.  This offer expires on September 22; don't miss this chance to be a part of cheese history!

 

6)  I can't count.

 

Again, thank you for listening to our music and lounging against the machine.

 

Keep swingin',


RC

 

P.S.  You can hire Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine to perform at your company holiday party, at your wedding, or in your living room!  All info is at the SHOWS+BOOKING page at richardcheese.com.

 

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August 22, 2008 - Friday

GET YOUR NAME PRINTED IN THE CREDITS OF RICHARD CHEESE’S NEXT NEW ALBUMS!
Category: Music


GET YOUR NAME PRINTED IN THE CREDITS OF RICHARD CHEESE'S NEXT NEW ALBUMS!

complete info at http://members.richardcheese.com


THE RICHARD CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB
" PLATINUM "
MEMBERSHIP
OFFER DETAILS:

Your name will be printed in the credits of my next 3 new CDs!  Impress your friends!  Wow your family!  Freak out that chick you've been stalking!

YOU ALSO GET:
- ALL THREE NEW RICHARD CHEESE CDs ("VIVA LA VODKA," "LAVAPALOOZA," AND "OK BARTENDER") SENT TO YOU BEFORE THEY'RE RELEASED!
- MEMBERSHIP-ONLY EXCLUSIVE AUTOGRAPHED 8x10 CONCERT PHOTO, PLUS THREE OTHER 8X10s!
- MEMBERSHIP-ONLY STICKERS!
- A RICHARD CHEESE T-SHIRT!
- A PLACE IN RICHARD CHEESE'S MYSPACE "TOP FRIENDS"!
- MEMBERSHIP-ONLY SECRET MERCHANDISE DISCOUNTS AND CONCERT OFFERS!
- A SIGNED AND NUMBERED PLATINUM CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB MEMBERSHIP CARD!


ALL THIS FOR JUST $189!

 

THIS PRICE WILL INCREASE BY $10 EVERY MONTH, SO ORDER TODAY!!!!

 

MAKES A GREAT SURPRISE GIFT!

"That's right, honey!  I got Richard Cheese to print your name in his new CD!  Now how about it?"

 

complete info at members.richardcheese.com


WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
Your money will help Richard Cheese pay for the recording costs for his albums.  Richard Cheese is planning to release several new albums in 2008 and 2009, but he NEEDS YOUR HELP to fund these recordings.  Putting out a new CD involves a great deal of expense:  studio time, musician fees, tracking sessions, mixing, publishing royalties, packaging design, publicity, promotion, marketing, and other production, manufacturing, and distribution costs.  Richard's previous CDs cost from $50,000 to $80,000 EACH!  Richard Cheese is not bankrolled by a big corporate record label; Richard was dropped by those labels, and he is now an independent artist making his own music----and paying for it out of his own pocket.  And, since Richard doesn't write his own songs, a significant portion of his CD sales revenue goes toward paying royalties to other artists.  So, Richard really doesn't turn a profit on his CDs during the first five to seven years of release.  That's why we're asking our fans for financial support so Richard can afford to make more music and release new albums for his cherished fans like you.  By making a contribution, you can personally help Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine fund these CDs and deliver more great lounge albums.  So, if you've been a fan of Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine for a long time, and if you think Richard's music makes the world a better place, and if you want more albums, then please join the "RICHARD CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB," and keep the cheese alive!


complete info at members.richardcheese.com

Thanks for your support!

RC

www.richardcheese.com

 

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August 20, 2008 - Wednesday

HEAR YOUR NAME SUNG BY RICHARD CHEESE ON HIS NEW CD!
Category: Music

HEAR YOUR NAME SUNG BY RICHARD CHEESE ON HIS NEW "VIVA LA VODKA" ALBUM!

complete info at http://members.richardcheese.com 

THE RICHARD CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB
" LOUNGESTAR "
MEMBERSHIP
OFFER DETAILS:

► YOU CAN GET YOUR NAME SUNG BY RICHARD CHEESE IN ONE OF HIS SONGS ON HIS NEXT ALBUM "VIVA LA VODKA"!
► RICHARD WILL SING YOUR NAME AS PART OF A SPECIAL SONG HE IS INCLUDING ON THE ALBUM.

THE SONG WILL INCLUDE RICHARD SINGING A LIST OF NAMES OF HIS FANS, INCLUDING YOURS!
► ONLY A FEW SLOTS ARE AVAILABLE! BE A PART OF CHEESE HISTORY!


YOU ALSO GET:
► ALL THREE NEW RICHARD CHEESE CDs ("VIVA LA VODKA," "LAVAPALOOZA," AND "OK BARTENDER") SENT TO YOU BEFORE THEY'RE RELEASED!
► MEMBERSHIP-ONLY EXCLUSIVE AUTOGRAPHED 8x10 CONCERT PHOTO, PLUS THREE OTHER 8X10s!
► MEMBERSHIP-ONLY STICKERS!
► A RICHARD CHEESE T-SHIRT!
► A SIGNED SET LIST FROM A 2008/2009 RICHARD CHEESE CONCERT!
► A PLACE IN RICHARD CHEESE'S MYSPACE "TOP FRIENDS"!
► MEMBERSHIP-ONLY SECRET MERCHANDISE DISCOUNTS AND CONCERT OFFERS!
► YOUR NAME AND PHOTOGRAPH FEATURED ON THE RICHARDCHEESE.
COM CREDITS PAGE AS A "LOUNGESTAR" MEMBER!
► A SIGNED AND NUMBERED PLATINUM CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB MEMBERSHIP CARD!
LOUNGESTAR / YOUR-NAME-SUNG OFFER IS JUST $488!

MAKES A GREAT SURPRISE GIFT!

"That's right, honey! I got Richard Cheese to sing your name on his new CD! Now how about some sex?"


complete info at http://members.richardcheese.com 


WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
Your money will help Richard Cheese pay for the recording costs for his albums. Richard Cheese is planning to release several new albums in 2008 and 2009, but he NEEDS YOUR HELP to fund these recordings.

Putting out a new CD involves a great deal of expense: studio time, musician fees, tracking sessions, mixing, publishing royalties, packaging design, publicity, promotion, marketing, and other production, manufacturing, and distribution costs.
Richard's previous CDs cost from $50,000 to $80,000 EACH!
Richard Cheese is not bankrolled by a big corporate record label; Richard was dropped by those labels, and he is now an independent artist making his own music----and paying for it out of his own pocket.

And, since Richard doesn't write his own songs, a significant portion of his CD sales revenue goes toward paying royalties to other artists. So, Richard really doesn't turn a profit on his CDs during the first five to seven years of release. That's why we're asking our fans for financial support so Richard can afford to make more music and release new albums for his cherished fans like you. By making a contribution, you can personally help Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine fund these CDs and deliver more great lounge albums.
So, if you've been a fan of Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine for a long time, and if you think Richard's music makes the world a better place, and if you want more albums, then please join the "RICHARD CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB," and keep the cheese alive!

 

Thanks for your support!

RC
lounge@richardcheese.com

complete info at http://members.richardcheese.com 

 

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August 6, 2008 - Wednesday

New CDs, Vegas 8/29+31, SF 10/25, and Facebook
Category: Music

COMING SOON...

3 NEW CDs FROM RICHARD CHEESE.

"VIVA LA VODKA"

"LAVAPALOOZA"

"O.K. BARTENDER"


RICHARD CHEESE'S NEXT 3 CDs WILL *NOT* BE RELEASED
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN STORES OR ON ITUNES
UNTIL 2009. ONLY RICHARD CHEESE FANCLUB MEMBERS
CAN GET THE CDs SOONER.



PRE-ORDER ALL 3 CDs NOW FOR ONE LOW-PRICE!

SPECIAL OFFER:
Would you like your name printed inside the CD credits?
Would you like to hear your name sung by Richard Cheese on the CD?
Would you like Richard Cheese to personally call to wish your friend happy birthday?
Would you like an autographed RC poster, 8x10 photo, or CD?


Please visit richardcheese.com for complete details.



JUST ANNOUNCED:

Richard Cheese returns to Bimbo's San Francisco Saturday October 25!
Tickets on sale today!

Tickets now on sale for RC's big Labor Day Weekend shows in Las Vegas
at the Hard Rock Hotel, Friday August 29 and Sunday August 31!
THESE SHOWS WILL SELL OUT!

Please visit www.richardcheese.com for tickets and info!



All proceeds benefit Richard Cheese, because he has a big bar tab to pay off!

Thanks for your support.


RC
lounge@richardcheese.com



NOW ON FACEBOOK!
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June 19, 2008 - Thursday

Thank you Boston!
Current mood: Swankified
Category: Swankified Music

Wow, what a fabulous show at the Paradise in Boston on Wednesday night!

Thanks to all of the incredibly nice people who came to the show, enjoyed the music, and touched my ass when I went into the audience.  You guys were one of the best and most appreciative crowds we've ever had at a show; you made us feel like the Celtics!

I'd especially like to say thanks to the super-hot chicks who danced on stage during the performance.  Call me!  Each of you!!

And of course, we'll never forget the people who came dressed as cows, tigers, and/or horny asian girls in orange-pink dresses.  Call me, Kat!

Some other highlights, in case you missed the show (or if you were/are too drunk to recall what happened):

1)  The Hall & Oates Medley

Actually, that's the only highlight we need.  That was AMAZING!!!!

Thank you again to my wonderful fans in the NorthEast for your fantastic support.  I and my Lounge Against The Machine band truly appreciate your generosity, your kindness, and your nudity out on the street after the show.

If you have photos from Wednesday night, please email small jpeg files to lounge@richardcheese.com .

Keep swingin'!

Next stops:  New York City this Saturday night June 21 at Webster Hall, and Washington DC on Wednesday June 25!  United We Lounge!

 

RC

 

 

 

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May 14, 2008 - Wednesday

Pre-Order New CDs! New Concert Tour Dates! And more!

NEW TOUR DATES JUST ANNOUNCED!  SEE BELOW!


Would you like to pre-order the next new RICHARD CHEESE & LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE CD?


Would you like to hear YOUR NAME SUNG by Richard Cheese on his next album?


Would you like Richard Cheese to personally call your friend on his/her birthday?


Please visit
www.richardcheese.com for CD Pre-Order info, new tour dates, and all-new exclusive merchandise offers.



Thanks for spreading the cheese!



RICHARD CHEESE
2008 LOUNGE THE VOTE TOUR:


5/31 SAN FRANCISCO at BIMBO'S
6/7 PHOENIX at CELEBRITY THEATRE
6/18 BOSTON at THE PARADISE
6/21 NEW YORK at WEBSTER HALL
6/25 WASHINGTON DC at 930 CLUB (ALL AGES SHOW!)
7/12 CHICAGO at HOUSE OF BLUES
8/2 SAN DIEGO at HOUSE OF BLUES
8/29 LAS VEGAS at HARD ROCK HOTEL
8/31 LAS VEGAS at HARD ROCK HOTEL



As a reward for reading this, here is a link to our secret CD sale page:


http://www.richardcheese.com/rsupersale.html

 

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May 9, 2008 - Friday

3 All-New CDs!
Category: Music

 JOIN THE OFFICIAL
RICHARD CHEESE SUPERFAN FUNCLUB!

RICHARD CHEESE'S NEXT 3 NEW CDs WILL NOT BE RELEASED
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN STORES OR ON ITUNES
UNTIL 2009.

ONLY MEMBERS CAN
GET THE CDs SOONER.

..TR>
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WE HOPE TO SHIP THE FIRST CD "BACK IN BLACK TIE"
TO MEMBERS BY OCTOBER 2008, BUT WE NEED
AT LEAST 1,000 PRE-ORDERS FIRST.

 IT DEPENDS ON YOU!

SO, GET YOUR FRIENDS TO
PRE-ORDER TODAY!

THE MORE MEMBERS WE GET NOW, THE
SOONER YOU'LL GET TO ENJOY THESE
NEW CDs FROM RICHARD CHEESE!

http://members.richardcheese.com

1   2  3
MEMBERSHIPS
TO CHOOSE FROM!

get all 3 CDs for one low price!


get your name printed in the CD credits!


hear YOUR NAME SUNG by richard cheese on the album!

 


COMPLETE INFO AT:



http://members.richardcheese.com





Thank you for spreading the cheese.



RC

 

 

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JOIN NOW AND YOU'LL GET ALL 3 NEW CDs FOR ONE LOW PRICE!

BACK IN BLACK TIE ALBUM - An all-new collection of swankified hits!

LAVAPALOOZA ALBUM - Tiki versions of rock and rap songs!

O.K. BARTENDER ALBUM - Tomorrow's standards today!

BACK IN BLACK TIE
FALL 2008
LAVAPALOOZA
WINTER 2008
O.K. BARTENDER
SUMMER 2009

 

April 18, 2008 - Friday

Thanks

Thanks to all of my very nice fans for your kind and supportive emails.  I truly appreciate your believing in the cheese!

Best,

RC

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March 4, 2008 - Tuesday

Director Zack Snyder Loves RICHARD CHEESE!
Current mood: thankful
Category: Music

HEY KIDS!

CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING ARTICLE ABOUT RC & LATM
FROM MTV.COM, WRITTEN BY DIRECTOR ZACK SNYDER!


'Watchmen' Director Zack Snyder Reaches For A Slice Of Cheese
MTV News guest columnist has music on the brain as
he wraps shooting the hugely anticipated superhero flick.

--Zack Snyder, guest columnist, mtv.com, January 30, 2008
(see complete article at:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580555/story.jhtml )

Zack Snyder is the acclaimed director of "300" and "Dawn of the Dead."  His forthcoming "Watchmen" project, adapted from the long-worshipped graphic novel, is one of the most highly anticipated superhero projects in years.  Snyder is also an occasional guest columnist for MTV.com.

"The Irony of Cheese"

I just realized that quite a bit of time had gone by since I last ranted about anything on MTVNews.com, so I thought I better get to it.

At the moment, I'm in the final weeks of shooting "Watchmen," in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Since "Watchmen" is a dissection of the superhero genre and forces it to take a long, hard look into the pop-culture mirror, it only makes sense that it's where my head is at these days.  With that in mind, I started thinking about music and whether there were any parallels that could be drawn.  Enter Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine.  Although tonally they are vastly different in many ways, the film and the Cheese-y music share an in-your-face look at the world, calling bullshit on pop culture in an unapologetic way.

For the unfamiliar, Richard Cheese (also known as Dick Cheese) is a Los Angeles singer and comedian.  He and his cover band, Lounge Against the Machine — which features Gordon Brie, Frank Feta and Bobby Ricotta — have spent the last 10 years satirizing the pop songs that assault our ears day in and day out, every time we turn on our radios.  Don't get me wrong, I have my own musical guilty pleasures (don't think for a second I'm going to divulge them here), but it never ceases to amaze me the range of songs that can race to the top of the charts and stay there indefinitely, some offering almost nothing of substance, while others are bound to be future classics.  Richard Cheese seems to have a similar fascination with both the good and the bad that fill the airwaves.  He refuses to lie down and accept the pageantry, attitude, emotion, chords, alliteration and sometimes sheer absurdity of today's music at face value.  Covering everything from Nirvana's "Rape Me" to 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" to the "Three's Company" theme song, he chooses to engage songs by recording hilarious and, in my opinion, genius lounge-style renditions.

I've been a fan of Richard Cheese for a long time, so naturally he's in my mental Rolodex when I started thinking about music for my movies.  When I was looking for tracks for the "Dawn of the Dead" soundtrack, it was important to me that the music reinforce the film's underlying desire to break conventions and not be limited by the expectations placed on the film because of its roots in the genre world.  Too often I think studios and filmmakers have a preconceived notion of what audiences' expectations will be based on a film's genre.  I believe this approach often sets a

Zack Snyder at MTV.com!

course that funnels many projects down a familiar pathway with comfortable choices and safe decisions.  I'll be the first to admit that sometimes this actually works, creating cinematic "comfort food" that delivers and satisfies.  But more often than not, it leaves me as a viewer dissatisfied, wanting more and wishing I didn't know what was waiting for me around every corner.  That is why I like creating projects that are self-aware.  In my opinion, the trick is being self-aware without becoming self-conscious, having an awareness of a project's roots, but not being stifled by the typical genre pre-conceptions.  I always say it was important to me while making "Dawn of the Dead" to "have fun with," but not "make fun of," the zombie and horror genres.

Which brings me back to Richard Cheese.  When I was cutting the scene in "Dawn of the Dead" where we find our survivors passing the time while trapped in the mall together, I immediately thought of Richard Cheese and his cover of the Disturbed song "Down With the Sickness."  Don't get me wrong; I knew the typical song choice for that moment could have easily been the original version of the song.  Ripe with all its testosterone-driven badass attitude and pounding drums, the original would have suited a montage of our characters that portrayed them as defiantly shrugging off the surrounding dangers.  But, in this particular instance, I think it would have been the wrong message.  There is an obvious symbolic lyrical "illness" tie-in, but more importantly, I was depending on the irony found in the lounge rendition of the song to play through.  So, I dropped it into the cut, stepped back and let it play.  There was something ironic as I watched the characters, in the dire situation they were, passing the time ever so casually in the face of a zombie apocalypse.  Exposing these very alive people as strangely similar to the mindless creatures surrounding the mall, the song helped to reinforce the tone of the moment.  It was the perfect fit.  Even in the face of a potentially world-ending plague, they are still drawn to the mundane.

In many ways, this is what Richard Cheese is all about:  Peeling away the tough, polished exterior of a song dressed in its most aggressive riff or eardrum-rattling bass and exposing it to its core.  He has the ability to look in the pop-culture mirror and see both the good and the bad and, without discriminating, have fun dissecting both.  After all, what's not to like about a swanky lounge version of Slayer's "War Ensemble"?

Then again, that's just my opinion.  Check him out yourself ... www.richardcheese.com

-Zack

 

RC says:   HOLY SHIT!  THANKS ZACK!

 

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February 12, 2008 - Tuesday

HAVE YOU BOUGHT DICK’S CDs? OR ARE YOU STEALING FROM HIM?
Current mood: angry
Category: Music

A MESSAGE FROM RICHARD CHEESE'S MANAGER JACK MONTEREY....

Do you support Richard Cheese...or do you steal from him?

Illegal downloading and file sharing is a serious problem these days, and unauthorized internet distribution like this really hurts Richard Cheese and your other favorite artists.

Richard, his band, his crew, and many other hard-working professional people spend lots of time, energy, and money making our CDs. We're not a big record company with lots of money; Richard takes money out of his own pocket to fund his CDs.

So, when you trade MP3s or give away burned CDRs, that means fewer people will go out and buy our albums. Giving away our music for free does NOT result in more CD sales for us; it just takes money away from our band, and makes it impossible to stay in business. That's not fair or cool.

Is it okay to sneak into a movie theater without paying, as long as you tell other people how great the movie was? Of course not.

We would like to respectfully ask our fans to resist the temptation to copy and share Richard's songs. Otherwise, Richard won't be able to recoup his investments, and that means he won't be able to afford to record any more albums in the future. This is the real and serious consequence of music piracy and illegal downloading.

Yes, the internet can be a source of great exposure, and we do appreciate people spreading the Cheese. But stealing is NOT an acceptable way to promote our music. Hey, I have a better idea...just TELL your friends about Richard Cheese, let them LISTEN to one of your CDs, but then tell them to please GO BUY THEIR OWN CD.

There are real costs associated with recording, manufacturing, and distribution, and we have to sell as many CDs as possible just to break even. We don't want a huge profit; we aren't in this business to get rich. We just want to earn enough money to continue making more new albums for you to enjoy.

We do what we do because we love the idea, we love the music, but most of all, we love the fans who "get it" and support us with their loyalty and honesty. So, please keep supporting us by respecting our hard work, and by making sure you aren't participating in or enabling the crime of stealing music. Otherwise, I'll come after you with a bayonet.

Both I and Richard sincerely appreciate your understanding, cooperation, and help. We truly hope you enjoy our albums, and we also hope you will tell all your friends about Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. Thank you for believing in the Cheese.

Best,

Jack Monterey, Executive Producer
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine
www.richardcheese.com


STEALING MUSIC IS A CRIME. DON'T BE A DICK.

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February 9, 2008 - Saturday

2008 "Lounge The Vote" Tour Dates!
Current mood: productive

We will soon be announcing some new spring/summer/fall show dates for our 2008 "LOUNGE THE VOTE" tour!

 

Some of the cities are listed at www.richardcheese.com

If you want to buy advance tickets to these shows, you MUST be on our official email fanclub list.

To sign up, go to
www.richardcheese.com

WE CANNOT SIGN YOU UP ON MYSPACE; PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO ME.

To sign up, go to
www.richardcheese.com

See you soon!

Thanks,
RC

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January 27, 2008 - Sunday

Thank you Las Vegas!
Current mood: grateful

Thanks to everyone who came to our show on Saturday night at The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas!  Seriously, THANKS!  You guys were a GREAT audience!

We filmed a bunch of fabulous footage for our RICHARD CHEESE CONCERT MOVIE, and we are grateful to everyone who made the trip and supported us!

I will announce more details about our movie soon.

Until then, VIVA LAS QUESO!

Best,

RC

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