BAND NAME CHANGE!!!

Tue Apr 28th, 2009 7:45 AM

I'm back in Vancouver and ready to get on with this year! We're playing our first show of 2009 at Falconetti's East Side Grill right here in East Vancouver Canada! The winter blues are over and the roughneck blues are gone! Finished a hitch on a rig near Dawson Creek BC, (not Dawson City Yukon or Dawson's Creek the TV show) March 19th. Hitched into town and bussed it down to Vancouver. Got on the bus in the snow and woke up in the rain, nothing sounded sweeter.

But first, on the music front, BIG NEWS: WE ARE CHANGING THE NAME OF THE BAND!!! I have decided that the Hard Drinkers name is not helping our career. I still think it is a rocking kick-butt name but I feel it is not allowing us to get out of the bar band scene. We've applied at music festivals year after year but can't seem to break in. I think it's the name. So the name is now: (drum rolls please!)........THE PERNELL REICHERT BAND!!! Still as rocking as ever!

I was fortunate enough to get laid off from my rig in time to see Elliot Brood at the Biltmore in Vancouver and Kate Maki at UBC. That was the trigger, the galvanizing factor to change the name. I can't help but think that my career isn't as on fire as theirs due to the name of my band. (There is a high chance their career's are on fire due to the fact they KICK!!!! What a great show Mr. Brood!!! Just what I needed after a crummy winter. Listening to "They take you to town, stomp on your heart and be gone..." in a sweaty, pulsing crowd....amazing. May have got the words wrong but that's how they feel ya dig?)

Anyways! THE PERNELL REICHERT BAND, STRAIGHT OUT OF EAST VAN! COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU! REMEMBER IT!!

Moving on. As mentioned in a previous entry the Black Gold rush is over, at least for now. For years young guys from around the country went out to Alberta to find high paying work in the oil fields. No experience necessary, no skills, no formal training. Hired on with all your limbs and hopefully you still have them when you finally quit. Every spring everyone gets laid off and swears they'll never be back. Freeze up comes a few months later, they look in their wallets and see they've spent all their money on a drunken summer. Then it's back to the darkness that is the Alberta Oil Fields.

But this winter was different. In October/November when the waves of workers headed back to reclaim what they feel was theirs: NO DICE BABIES! Closed up, dried up, no work, no jobs, only the highly experienced and the lucky. I was lucky to get the work I did. Lot's of guys running out of dough and racking up their credit. Then the credit runs out so they need advances. Then they get work and pay off half of what they owe! Then they get laid off again. It's a never ending spiral going down down down.....

Highlight of the winter? A British Petroleum (BP) big-wig saying the "low price of gas is what's killing us", as though the oil companies are barely scraping by. Those poor people.

But now I'm back and we're back at it....listen for The Pernell Reichert Band on the airwaves, look for us in the record stores, watch for us online. Show's coming up, come out and get down!

	Listen Merch Contact Pernell BAND NAME CHANGE!!! Tue Apr 28th, 2009 7:45 AM I'm back in Vancouver and ready to get on with this year! We're playing our first show of 2009 at Falconetti's East Side Grill right here in East Vancouver Canada! The winter blues are over and the roughneck blues are gone! Finished a hitch on a rig near Dawson Creek BC, (not Dawson City Yukon or Dawson's Creek the TV show) March 19th. Hitched into town and bussed it down to Vancouver. Got on the bus in the snow and woke up in the rain, nothing sounded sweeter. But first, on the music front, BIG NEWS: WE ARE CHANGING THE NAME OF THE BAND!!! I have decided that the Hard Drinkers name is not helping our career. I still think it is a rocking kick-butt name but I feel it is not allowing us to get out of the bar band scene. We've applied at music festivals year after year but can't seem to break in. I think it's the name. So the name is now: (drum rolls please!)........THE PERNELL REICHERT BAND!!! Still as rocking as ever! I was fortunate enough to get laid off from my rig in time to see Elliot Brood at the Biltmore in Vancouver and Kate Maki at UBC. That was the trigger, the galvanizing factor to change the name. I can't help but think that my career isn't as on fire as theirs due to the name of my band. (There is a high chance their career's are on fire due to the fact they KICK!!!! What a great show Mr. Brood!!! Just what I needed after a crummy winter. Listening to "They take you to town, stomp on your heart and be gone..." in a sweaty, pulsing crowd....amazing. May have got the words wrong but that's how they feel ya dig?) Anyways! THE PERNELL REICHERT BAND, STRAIGHT OUT OF EAST VAN! COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU! REMEMBER IT!! Moving on. As mentioned in a previous entry the Black Gold rush is over, at least for now. For years young guys from around the country went out to Alberta to find high paying work in the oil fields. No experience necessary, no skills, no formal training. Hired on with all your limbs and hopefully you still have them when you finally quit. Every spring everyone gets laid off and swears they'll never be back. Freeze up comes a few months later, they look in their wallets and see they've spent all their money on a drunken summer. Then it's back to the darkness that is the Alberta Oil Fields. But this winter was different. In October/November when the waves of workers headed back to reclaim what they feel was theirs: NO DICE BABIES! Closed up, dried up, no work, no jobs, only the highly experienced and the lucky. I was lucky to get the work I did. Lot's of guys running out of dough and racking up their credit. Then the credit runs out so they need advances. Then they get work and pay off half of what they owe! Then they get laid off again. It's a never ending spiral going down down down..... Highlight of the winter? A British Petroleum (BP) big-wig saying the "low price of gas is what's killing us", as though the oil companies are barely scraping by. Those poor people. But now I'm back and we're back at it....listen for The Pernell Reichert Band on the airwaves, look for us in the record stores, watch for us online. Show's coming up, come out and get down! Home \| About \| Shows \| Pics \| Press Kit \| In The Media \| Buy Merch \| Links \| Contact Copyright © 2009,2010,2011,2012 Pernell Reichert \| Design by Mike Mallett