Hey, Squeaky!

I was at the grand opening of the 2nd Street Bakery and some guy came up to me and goes, "Hey! Squeaky!". This is always a good greeting, as far as I'm concerned, so I stopped and talked to the guy. Turned out he was one of the architects involved in redoing the 2nd St. building. But he also used to live behind Everyman Sound Company, where Squeaky practiced for like 8 years. He said he got to know our songs pretty well from hearing them every week (they must have sounded like shit... all muffled and bass-heavy), and even liked us! I wish I had known this guy when GPD came and gave us a ticket for playing too loudly (those guys were jackasses).
Anyway, it was gratifying to talk to this dude. He had every reason to hate Squeaky (who would want to hear low-frequency thuds and drony guitars late Tuesday nights...) , and instead he thought we were a good band.
Other than that, you should know the history of the rock sign.
h/sq

Seven is Four.

todd campisi. glenn barovich. david sherman. danny welsh. david sherman. breakup. david sherman. danny welsh. This is how I chart the course of the band - who is/was the drummer.
Squeaky reunited at the baby shower of David Sherman, drummer #3 and #5 and #6. He has again become our ex-drummer (and our always friend). He announced his exit from the band on 7.31.06. We are saddened, but we understand. We managed to get a set of recordings of all of our new songs prior to David's exit. They will serve as demos for our next real recording, which will happen soon.
Which leads me to this - Danny Welsh, drummer #4, is now drummer #7. He's rejoined us, older and more muscular. He's done a lot of living since we played with him, and it's cool to get reacquainted with him. His future in Gainesville is unknown, but while he's here, we're going to hopefully a lot of shows and do some real recording at Karl's house.
That's what I know right now. h/sq

New KickAss Photos

Thanks to Virginia Williams, we have some really great recent photos of Squeaky in action. I stumbled across her flickr site, and was shocked to see some of the best rock photos of our career. See the photos here. These are from our show at CommonGrounds on July 21 with Averkiou and Beat Buttons. Virginia posted photos of Averkiou, too - they are here.
Thanks, Virginia, for making us look blurry and rocking.
H/SQ

Family Friendly

Squeaky is not a band that does well outside. There's something about trapping all those vibrating air molecules trapped inside a building that really works for our brand of music. Put a band outside, it's an instant frisbee festival - nobody paying attention to the music, just "hanging out". So we've hardly ever done it. A couple of Alachua Music Harvests, that's it. But I'll tell you, we had a blast playing at a pool party this past weekend.
Chicken Luv threw a huge pool/barbq party to celebrate Chicken's retirement from Midas, and they invited Squeaky to play. The Ones to Blame played too, and it was just a perfect mix. The best was seeing kids running around and playing air guitar to the bands.
So there was the unlikely scene of Squeaky playing in swimsuits and flipflops. Pictures must exist. I'll post them later.
Rob McGregor commented that it was cool to see Squeaky play quietly, without curse words, but still sound like Squeaky. It was certainly fun.
H/Sq