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The first email, sent to the mailing list of Sam and Ian’s former band,
Seismic Sanchez, sometime in December 2004:
Subject: phlight of the feenix THIS WEAK: bluegrass
According to
the law of conservation of energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes form. Seize your
opportunity to see some of the new energy rising from the ashes of Seismic Sanchez when Sam and Ian play this thursday, December
9 at O'Connors Irish Pub in Chestertown (by the Sunoco on High street 7- or 8- whatever is the address).
We've teamed up
with Tim from Astralyte and notable local yokel Ben to form a bluegrass band that'll knock you right out of your tube socks.
The
show starts at 10 or so, and there might be a cover of a buck or two.
ALSO : This show ONLY, you will get the special priveledge
of voting on a name for this new group, so bring a #2/HB pencil and your thinking cap. Email back at this address with
nominal nominations by tuesday night for the chance to see your idea on the ballot.
sam
let me know if you would
like to be put on the mailing list for the new group or taken of the list for the old one
Date: Fri, 17 Dec
2004
Subject: happy festivus from the band : election results
Thanks to everyone who came out and voted at O'Conners
last week. Its time for the unveiling of the new name. we are (if you hadn't guessed) officially the.....................Chester
River Runoff.
We were only able to locate 21 ballots after the gig, with the breakdownbeing something like this:
Crumpton
Banditos 6
Chester River Runoff
5
Lonesome Machete Family 4
New Minority
1
But as we have a great interest in the continuing subversion of grassroots democracy, we voted ourselves. Its
the Runoff, folks. Some favorite suggestions were "Shaved donkeys in the sun", "flatland pickers" (sorry guys, we're
going to write a song for you instead), and "hop down skppers" (what?).
We're right now working on getting a demo CD together,
recorded live in Ben's living room. Contact us for a press kit and give it to your influential friends.
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Prince Theater February 11, opening for Annapolis Bluegrass Coalition
O'Conners - sometime in january.
probably the first thursday after the college kids return from break
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005
Subject: TONIGHT
(Thursday) at O’Conner’s Irish Pub on High Street
Your favorite band in the whole wide world, Chester River
Runoff, is appearing at O'Conners Pub up in the 800 blocks of High Street.
Come have fun.
9:30
$2
We've
got some new music, and the old music is better than the last time you heard it. Ben may even break out his "psychedelic"
duck call. Hold on to your hats, folks.
hope to see you there.
Peace,
sam
don't forget: If it's
yellow, let it mellow.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005
Subject: The Flow: Chester River Runoff update
What's
that peculiar odor?
Chester River Runoff? Or some of the approximately 150 people jammed into O'Conner's Pub last
Thursday?
We had a blast, a million thank yous to everyone who came and enjoyed themselves. You may not believe it,
or want to accept it, but you have two chances to see your favorite band in the whole wide world in the coming month, of which
we will be reminding you over and over. Please continue to leave your rotten fruit at home.
THIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY
5: (OMIGODITMUSTBESOIMPORTANTIFITSINCAPS)
Radcliffe Mill
8pm (we play 1st, so come on out on time)
$3
(all the money goes to breast cancer - fighting, not assisting it)
It's the old wooden mill across from the grain elevator
at the end of high street (850 high street) as you drive towards Rock Hall or the Detention Center (we know anyone who drinks
enough to enjoy our music must be familiar with THAT place). This is a really incredible listening space, a great
sounding room, and there has been a really interesting and diverse series of shows happening there since the springtime.
The
show starts at 8pm sharp, and we play first, so get there early.
We'll be followed by Steel Point Archery Club and the
band that has no name (Rob, KJ, Owen, and Timmy). It will probably end early enough for everyone to hit the bars or
do whatever usually happens on saturday night, so come out and stay for the whole thing. Sam might just wear his invisible
pants instead of only singing about them.
and then, February 11th at 7pm we'll be opening for Annapolis Bluegrass
Coalition
at the Prince Theatre. you'll hear more later and then, March 12, we're playing at the hillside bar in Centreville.
no details available.
peace,
Samuel
official nerd, Chester River Runoff
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005
Subject:
get your bluegrass pill at radcliffe mill
Tomorrow
Saturday, February 5
Radcliffe Mill (850 High Street, old
tall wooden building on the right hand side as you head to Rock Hall/Flatland Road)
8pm
$3 (benefits some breast cancer
society or another)
Show up. We're playing first, followed by two rock bands, Steel Point Archery Club and a
band that to my knowledge has no name.
Date: Wed, Feb 9 2005
Subject: Prince Theatre; dog attends concert
That's
right , a dog is our biggest fan, read it in this weeks Kent News.
There's a preview of this Friday's show at the Prince
Theatre and an article about the band complete with that one promo picture that seems to creep up everywhere. Enjoy.
FRIDAY:
Prince
Theatre
7 PM sharp
$10
We're opening for Annapolis Bluegrass Coalition at the nicest venue in the area, so come on
out and hear us on a decent sound system. While we haven't heard ABC, we figure from their picture that they have a
pretty good idea of how to play bluegrass music. It should be a good show.
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005
Subject:
The Flow: Hillside, Radio Appearances, Fun
Greetings, long neglected mailing list!
Garrison Samuel here with
all the news from lake Crumpton.
First of all, this Saturday March 12, we are playing at Hillside bar and restaurant
in Centerville. This is the red building on the south end of town, right on MD 213 south of the split.
There's no
cover, so come on out and support the scene - its a night show, but I don't know what time. The inimitable Ben Pitre
from Galena is filling in for Ian on bass, making us a majority-bearded band; this may be your only chance to see us in our
most grizzled state yet.
Also, this thursday we will be appearing on Bill Wright's Roadtrippin' radio show on 90.5 WKHS,
listen from 8-10 to hear us take our sophisticated wits on the airwaves.
NEWS:
We're finally getting together a
press kit, so if you know a place that you think Chester River Runoff should play, send us the information and we'll see what
we can do.
samuel
Tentative showdates:
April 9 - Leila Hynson Pavillion, Philip G. Wilmer Park, Chestertown
- Lunchtime matinee
April 17 - Mainstay, Rock Hall - 4pm, FREE
April sometime - CRA extravaganza, CTown Fountain park
Date:
Wed, 13 April 2005
Subject: the flow – we’re back!
We're happy to announce that our free-spirited band
members have returned from their sojourns across the USA and are amped to start bringing y'all the finest in whatever the
heck kind of noise we're making. There is no show this Sunday at the Mainstay in Rock Hall, it has been postponed until
this summer.
Keep an eye out, we have plenty of shows coming up and will be sure to let everyone know as soon as we sort
out all the back paperwork.
Date: Mon, 18 April 2005
Subject: O’Conner’s This Thursday
Spread
the word, Chester River Runoff are back in our old digs again after a lengthy hiatus. We're back with a fresh new attitude,
and stylish seersucker suits in this year's spring colors. Or not. At least ian's a fashion plate.
Come
one, come all - tell everyone you don't like to come out to
O Conners Irish pub
Thursday April 21st
9:30 or so
300
pennies
Date: Fri, 22 April 2005
Subject: EXTRA, EXTRA : Earth Day at Washington College this Saturday
This
just in:
Chester River Runoff have been added to the lineup for Washington College's Earth Day celebration this Saturday
April 23rd in Chestertown, MD. Details are still sketchy at this moment regarding times and other acts. What we
do know is that it runs from 12-4 in Kent Circle on the college campus (in the student center if it rains), and we're not
playing first. Admission is free, so come on out and enjoy yourselves. There will be environmentally-themed booths
and vendors, plus tie dye and food.
This Saturday, Washington College. Be there.
We'll send out another email
when we get the details nailed down.
Directions to Kent Circle: From 213 N in Chestertown, turn left at the light into
the main campus entrance. Park wherever you can (or better yet, ride a bike or walk in the spirit of the occasion).
Kent Circle is the first left once you're on the college campus. The student center (rain location) is in the basement
of the only building on Kent Circle that isn't a dormitory (the cafeteria).
Thanks to everybody who came out
to O'Conners last night, we had a great time, and felt like it was our strongest show yet. We look forward to getting
better and better for you, and to a whole slew of new tunes coming up soon. We neglected to put out our email signup,
so if you know anyone who was there who would like to hear from us, have them drop us a line.
Photographers: There
must be some folks out there with pictures of the runoff lingering on their hard drives, or sitting in drawers. If you
have any good pics from any of our gigs, feel free to email them to us, or tell us about them so I can go scan them.
We'd love to see them, and would like to put them on the website when we get it going. thanks.
peace. enjoy
some earth this day
sam
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005
Subject: the Flow: holy crap, it finally happened – website
time
That's right folks, your favorite band in the whole wide world finally got a website. We don't know a damn
thing about designing a website, but sam got on the Tripod and put something together as well as he could figure it out.
We
want You out there in cyberface to email us, or loan us copies of, any pictures you have of the band, performing, hanging
out, whatever. It's a community effort, brah. Someday we'll even have chesterriverrunoff.com up and running.
maybe. for now you'll have to content yourselves with:
http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.comShows: nothing to report, soon at least. Look for us at O'Conners
soon in May, Andy's later, and elsewhere on the eastern shore ASAP. Talk us up at your favorite spots in baltimore,
DC, newark, and even Crumpton. We hope we'll see you there.
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005
Subject: non band
crass solicitation
Ok you guys out there in runoff-land, this has nothing to do with Chester River Runoff. Be
warned, but read anyway. It could save your life. SIKE!
My housemate Rob Zouck has a band of his own, called
"Hot Rock and the Heat Strokes", who are currently involved in a battle of the bands debacle on the internet. You would
be doing them a great favor by going to the following link and voting for "Hot Rock & the Heat Strokes" as your favorite
band. It's part of some state effort to brainwash the kids into not smoking (we need to keep 'em healthy at least long
enough to send them to Iraq, apparently), but the winner gets studio time and some big (indecent?) exposure gig. So
help them out, he says if I can't scrounge some support he'll never take out the trash again (it's totally his turn - you
reading this, Rob?). Tell your friends to do the same, too.
-Sam
here's the link: http://www.smokingstopshere.com/BattleoftheBandsand of course:
http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.comDate: Wed, 18 May 2005
Subject: the Flow: abnormal psychology,
free show!
Well, your favorite band in the whole wide world had quite an introduction to the world "across the pond",
as they say, when we played our first gig west of the Chesapeake Friday night in Washington, DC. After a handful of
songs on the rooftop of a building in Dupont Circle, a well dressed, middle-aged woman walked in the middle of the band setup,
began screaming incoherently about how "YOU CAN'T DO THIS" and "I CAN'T SLEEP IN THE DAYTIME", and then attempted to knock
our PA Speaker over the side of the roof to the sidewalk 10 stories below. She then produced a can of pepper spray and
started spraying people at random, took the elevator downstairs, and sprayed some more random folks. It was quite exciting.
It's up to you, the fan, to make every gig this memorable.
You can start:
This SUNDAY
when we take on The Mainstay
in Rock Hall, MD. The show starts at 4pm and is free admission, all ages.
You should be there. From 20 west,
turn left at the flashing light in Rock Hall, and the venue is on your left hand side.
http://www.rockhallmd.com/mainstay/sam
http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.comDate: Fri, 27 May 2005
Subject: the Flow: busy Saturday
Many
thanks to those of you who came out to the Mainstay on Sunday, in some ways it was our best show yet.
Your favorite band
in the whole wide world has two shows to announce for the weekend, both on Saturday.
The first is at Radcliffe Mill at
the end of high street heading out to rock hall. We will be kicking off an all day/all night festival at 3:30. We will
be followed by Lou Thomas, Necron, Mountain Beast, New Age Hillbilly, Eyeball Skeleton, Candy Craig, And I Proceed Backwards,
Micah Blue Smalldone, and Plans Plans.
This is the last show ever at the wonderful live music co-op we have all enjoyed
for the last year. The building is going to be renovated and turned into a restaurant and offices, as if Chestertown
needs more of those. If you've never been to a show there, you should come out. It's a really beautiful thing
and its passing will leave a big hole that will be hard to fill. The show is free.
That night, if you're in the
mood for boozing on the waterfront, we'll be playing at P.E. Pruitts in Rock Hall from 8-12. There is no cover for this,
and we hope to unveil some new material for you. So if you need a break from the Mill, or feel like keeping the bluegrass
thing going all night, come out and see us there.
sam
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005
Subject: ANDY’S
this Saturday
That's right, Runheads, we're bringing it all back home this weekend.
Since we first started playing
out these few months ago, people have asked us over and over: "Why don't you guys play at Andy's?" We always had
an excuse ready, involving family feuds, defacement of property, industrial sabotage, bestiality, or something of that ilk.
Good
news on that front (the front of our fictional escapades that is) - Andy's and Chester River Runoff have buried the hatchet,
and we're playing there this Saturday, June 11th. So drop everything and come to the show.
Tell everyone you know
that it's the place to be Saturday night, and the power of positive thinking will make it happen. Or something like
that.
SATURDAY
NIGHT TIME
ANDY'S BAR
Chestertown.
be there to be square
sam
and check out
the website. we've got a couple of new pictures on there from the mainstay show:
http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.comDate: Thu, 23 Jun 2005
Subject: the Flow: Cheap Prescriptions
For
the the first Saturday night of the Summer, that is. For those of you who didn't delete this after reading the title
("Increase your Girth 50%" didn't lead into an opening sentence very well), you should know that The Runoff is playing at
O'Conners Irish Pub on High Street, outside. I know I'll be there, you should be, too. Let that paint dry unsupervised
for once and step outside on a sultry summer evening.
peace outside
sam
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005
Subject:
Hootenany at the Mainstay
That's right, big picking party this weekend at the Mainstay before the fireworks.
Details are sketchy, but as I understand it, all of you folks out there who play fiddles, banjos, zithers, mandolins, sousaphones,
etc, should come out and do some picking Sunday July 3 behind the mainstay.
the festivities start at noon, and run until
whenever. We will be playing a set on the deck at 2pm, and will probably be much more awe inspiring than the ensuing
fireworks.
it's all FREE
We'll then be going into semi-hiding for a while to write some new material, learn a slew
of new traditionals, and sharpen up our sound until we reemerge sometime in August sounding like the Dixie Chicks just hit
a canister of helium.
We also need the time off to hoe some rows. If anybody out there wants to pay top dollar for
thousands of organic pumpkins, give a shout any time of day or night.
sam
and, as always: http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.com ignore the ads.
be angry with the tripod people for
putting in "waterfront luxury condo on the eastern shore" ads on our website. convert that anger into donations to the
Chester River Association.
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005
Subject: the Flow: Attention campers
We've returned
from our summer distractions. The pumpkins are molding in the barn, vacations are finished, the weather is cool enough
to permit lucid thought, and the Runoff are flowing once again towards the river of blue grass. We had a triumphant
return to perfoming last weekend at Bill Wright's Roadtrippin' Ranch party, where we kept everybody dancing and jammed out
into heretofore untouched realms.
Well, this weekend we're going to try and do it again. We'll be in Rock Hall all
day Saturday and we want you to come out to see the mayhem. MAYHEM. It's the Rock Hall fallfest, live music, trinkets
to buy, 10 ounce Budweisers flowing like cans down an inclined plane. We have an acoustic set scheduled behind the Mainstay
in the neighborhood of 1 o'clock, and we'll be playing on the Main Stage at Rt. 20 and Main Street from 3:45-4:45. Then
we pack it in and head over to P.E. Pruitt's, where we'll play from 8 to midnight. Holy cow, what a long day.
YOU WILL come to at least part of it. We've got a couple new originals, some new songs by other people, and a fresh
new attitude geared to today's youth.
Rock City is calling you.
hasta saturday.
Date: Wed, 21
Sep 2005
Subject: don’t believe the hype!
Word on the streets is that we're being advertised as playing an
opening slot at the Prince Theater in Chestertown this Saturday. Well folks, that couldn't be farther from the truth,
so tell every single person you see on the street: "Chester River Runoff are not playing at the Prince Theatre on Saturday.
They are playing a marathon in Rock Hall." Answer quizzical looks with the novelty squirting flower on your
lapel.
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005
Subject: the Flow: is no news really good news?
Chester River Runoff couldn't
tell you, because I always have something asinine to say. So, for the first time in way too long, the webpage has been
tweaked. Nothing drastic, just a few new pictures, and, available online for the first time since I frantically typed
it out on my manual typewriter in a late night-frenzy, the official band bio accompanied by booking information.
http://chesterriverrunoff.tripod.comthere is no www. well, there is, but not in our web address.
you won't find it if you put one in the location bar. please ignore the ads, we will have an ad free chesterriverrunoff.com
online eventually, once we overcome our abject computer ignorance.
We've been doing a lot of private gigs lately, and
have been less than diligent in booking new shows for fall. Have no fear, though, I have a secret plan to get the US
out of Vietnam. I am not a crook.
Anyhow, yes, we will play again, and you will hear about it(at the last minute).
Chestertonians
- come by and buy, saturday morning at the farmers market.
Organic pumpkins for sale, planted by the band, tended by hand.
Cost is whatever I can squeeze out of you.
See you soon.
Sam
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005
Subject: the
Flow: O’Conner’s benefit show this Thursday
Thats right, the Runoff are back in our old stomping grounds
at O'Conner's Irish Pub this Thursday night, November 17th. We've all had celebrity makeovers on the Oprah Winfrey Show,
so come see our latest facial hair stylings. You can come dance if you like, or you can wear OSHA approved ear protection
and turn your back (actually, this would be a great trend to start for all our gigs - protective apparrel - I know somebody
on this list has to own a welder's helmet - sport it with pride!). We don't care, we just want your money, as all proceeds
benefit our
NEWEST BAND MEMBER
a 1987 Chevy 20 Conversion Van named (no name yet, sorry - maybe we'll have a vote on
this just like we did for the band itself).
The unnamed van plays a mean fiddle and dobro, and aspires to help us fulfill
our dreams of playing outside of Kent County for the 5th time, and maybe more! She's got captains chairs, a toilet,
a television, and all the amenities you'd expect from a big fat roadtrip machine designed for retirees - but she needs a little
TLC and money to get tagged, inspected, insured, and on the road. This is where you, the victims of our occasional electronic
hassling,
come in. Spread the word! We'll see you there.
big wet kisses,
sam
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