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Wirepony Review
3 September 2010 | 12:46 pm ( patrick )
Woke up to a new review of Wirepony and our "Right Hook Of Love" record by the Daily Guru blog in Cleveland. Yesterday he reviewed Booker T and The MGs. Today us. Pretty heady company and pretty heady words about the Pony.
Daily Guru review
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Return to San Diego July 16th
9 July 2010 | 12:27 pm ( patrick )
Wirepony returns to Bar Pink in San Diego on Friday, July 16th.
Along with Get Back Loretta at 10pm.
'Hold On To Me' Live Download
9 July 2010 | 10:29 am ( patrick )
So, the stories from the Midwest tour never made it onto the blog, but there were many I'm tellin' you. Delayed flights, new pals, late night eats, dancing bears, long beautiful drives across the the country, my Bowery delusion imagining I was arm in arm with Malachy McCourt and Richard Harris drunk reciting Shakespeare on the corner, a life-changing conversation with Carlos Estrada-Vega, finding myself in the home of the expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart breathing on his work, the three-day drive back from NYC to San Diego, and rediscovering the joy in this light we call music. Well it was another tour out into the wide world full of great moments, music and amazing people. So many things to add to the "old-man" memories.
In honour of it all I just posted an mp3 of 'Hold Onto Me' I sang solo at The Ark in Ann Arbor, birthland of the Stooges, on April 5th. A version sounding like it did on the day it was written. I hope you all enjoy it.
» MP3 Download
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Poetic Insight
9 July 2010 | 10:17 am ( patrick )
When we began planning the release of Right Hook Of Love, I asked my kids to contribute ideas to the packaging (hell, one of 'em is ON the record so why not?). In the end the packaging plan changed and simplified from what I really wanted to do, but art had been created and words written so we made show posters and included this little piece my daughter Emma wrote in the art for the digital download available only on our website.
She re-posted it on her blog this week, and it is so on-the-mark and stunning to me (biased as I am) that I had to share it with all of you. It's a little unsettling how she got to the bones of this record without even mentioning anything about it at all.
» The Prose
» Emma's Blog
Midwest Mid-Tour Note
7 April 2010 | 12:23 pm ( patrick )
We've been out on the road for nearly two weeks now. It's been great to see old friends and to be making new ones at some of our favorite clubs in the country. I'm very grateful to be out here and to have people coming out to support. It's been re affirming.
We began in St Louis and have been running around the Midwest in unexpectedly gorgeous weather. There've been a lot of highlights leading up to last night's return to he Beachland in Cleveland. When I get off the phone and on a computer I'll tell a few tales.
We've got a few more dates left heading on to New York and finishing up this leg at the Living Room on the 12th. If you're in those towns hope you'll come and join us. Thanks to everyone who already has.
Mike Watt spins Wirepony
16 March 2010 | 7:25 pm ( patrick )
Punk rock legend Mike Watt (Minutemen, Stooges) spun the Wirepony track "All My Rockets" from the new album this week on his "The Watt From Pedro Show" podcast while hanging in Medford Oregon with his Missingmen Tom and Raul and tour companions LITE from Japan.
You can here it at twfps.com (march 10 episode) or download on iTunes Podcasts
FM 94/9 City Beat Party
6 March 2010 | 1:39 pm ( patrick )
Wirepony playing SD City Beat & FM 94/9 sponsored show at the Belly Up w/ Maren Parusel & Beaters and guest Jen Grinels. Wirepony at 9pm.
Thursday Mar 11th // 8pm
Belly Up
S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA 92104
$9
Wirepony on FM 94/9
4 March 2010 | 7:26 pm ( patrick )
In San Diego, indie rock radio FM 94/9 debuted a track from the new Wirepony album, Right Hook of Love today. They spun "Some Lightning" around 2pm as the member of the day. Request they play it or another Wirepony track again. Request often! It really helps.
FM 94/9 Contact
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Tel 1(619)570-1949 // 1(760)570-1949
Email
94/9 Website
Twitter id: @FM949sd
FREE Thank You show Feb 26th
21 February 2010 | 4:26 pm ( patrick )
Wirepony is playing a FREE show this Friday at our fave drinking hole for all our San Diego friends to thank you for the support! Also on the bill is the new band from Steve Rodriguez of The Dragons, Red Tiger.
Fri Feb 26th // 10pm
Bar Pink
3829 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
FREE
Wirepony is NBC SoundDiego's Download o' the Week
3 February 2010 | 1:39 pm ( patrick )
photo Andy King
Chris Cantore and crew have chosen Wirepony as the download of the week on NBC's SoundDiego Blog. You can download the title track to the new album for free, and then if you are digging it come back here to download the entire 9-song record.
» SoundDiego Blog
» Download record
Brand New Wirepony Tune Debut
31 January 2010 | 5:21 pm ( patrick )
Video caught by guitar player wiz-kid Aaron on his hidden camera back by the drums. This tune "Willing To Break" is so fresh it isn't even on the new "Right Hook Of Love" record we were releasing and celebrating that night. Raw and complete with shaker solo from Jan 29, 2010.
» View it Here on YouTube
Download New Wirepony Record
26 January 2010 | 6:14 pm ( patrick )
Download the new record in hi quality 320kpbs mp3's complete with cover and liner art. And you set the price for the download at whatever you think it's worth. Just go to Wirepony's music page to get the record.
First review
26 January 2010 | 5:19 pm ( patrick )
We got an early review of the record not out yet from local San Diego blog "Rock N Roll Never Looked So Good". Click here to read
New Record Posted on MySpace
19 January 2010 | 2:49 pm ( patrick )
Happy rainy Tuesday here in Southern California! I get to tell you that the new Wirepony record Right Hook Of Love has been posted ahead of its release on our myspace.com/wirepony page and on our Facebook.
The record features 9 songs recorded live over two days in November out at Chaos Recorders. Pleased that the 9 includes 3 songs co-written with Frank Lee Drennen (Dead Rock West, Exene Cervenka), Kacy Crowley and Christopher Hoffee (Truckee Brothers, Atom Orr).
The record (in CD form) will be available from Summertone Recordings for the first time on January 29th in San Diego at the show with Transfer and Hong Kong at the Casbah on Kettner Blvd. 9 tracks for only $5 at the show. Look forward to seeing you there.
Where is the danger now?
17 January 2010 | 4:19 pm ( patrick )
There used to be a danger in things, in ideas, in passions. Not the Disney-ized danger of our monetary excesses, our travels, our economic downturns, our lawsuits if things go a bit wrong, but the danger to the perpetrators of a single unpopular truth, a challenging thought, a need to know and to speak. A dangerous idea that could challenge the basic reality of the outside world. Pit conviction in an vilified truth against the determined status quo. Conviction that was imperative, faced intense resistance and could even prove fatal.
There was a time when science was dangerous. Galileo tried to speak what we now know to be a simple basic fact. For that he died.
There was a time when being a writer was a death sentence. Frederico Garcia Lorca was murdered by a rising fascist government and his work buried for decades.
Look at the 60's and the civil rights movement and the lives lost for a cause that most of us now know to simply be an obvious truth.
Even a time when rock n roll was a call to arms and revolution. Elvis, John Lennon, MC5, Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols. Striking blows for the young and the denied, the angry, the seemingly powerless, the joy hungry. In the end the revolutionaries were brought down by the very thing they fought. Commerce. Even Lennon, the last casualty of that rock n roll spirit, had left his militant stance behind years before. No, there is no danger left in rock n roll. Hasn't been for decades.
So where is the danger now? Who are the heroes and what truth are they determined to give to us, regardless of the cost to themselves? Unsanitized, unscripted, researched in blood and sweat, conviction in their bones. We won't find them on CD, mp3 or in the movies. I'm sure as hell not that guy. Nothing dangerous here. But YOU might be. That someone who can see clearly beyond what we still have shrouded in mystique, falsehoods and self serving boxes. Who knows the importance to humanity and will stand and speak regardless of the cost. Someone with FAITH. And to me the idea of faith is still the most dangerous thing in our human experience.
So tell me, faith in what?  It's official!
The new Wirepony record, RIGHT HOOK OF LOVE is coming out in a limited pressing at the end of January on Summertone Recordings, our friends out there in Pioneertown, Ca. It is being pressed as we speak and we'll have it in hand at the next gig Jan 29th in San Diego! Recorded live over 2 days in November at Chaos Recorders in Escondido, Ca it has 9 tunes and we're keeping it to 5 bones only (that'd be 5 Bones US$). Better deal than Steve Jobs will give you.
Now, to get back to writing a new tune.
2 January 2010 | 11:45 pm ( patrick )
Happy New Year everyone.
- O, Aaron, Charlie and Patrick.
¡Mi felíz año nuevo!
2 January 2010 | 11:15 pm ( patrick )
Clearing in the throat
this one new year
a cold importance,
but in the off license
we're warming up the blood
and wiping the old tear stains
off of shoulders
Checking how far thin blood can run
down the streets,
across the cheeks,
up the steps
and into the dark
You felt it,
The new year crawling
onto the calendar
Scratching pages
off the opposite direction
to what could have
been seen erected
unimportant,
enforceable change
kicking us now
out of the stall
And it's good
this time,
we've been replaced
by something,
a difference
a year
unexpected
silent
the difference so slight
in a goodbye,
or a first hello.
WIREPONY record in January
28 December 2009 | 9:53 pm ( patrick )
Thought I'd slip you an advance of the artwork for the new Wirepony album, Right Hook Of Love, which we just recorded this last month. Happy and excited to announce that the new record will be in your hands by the end of January.
More news on its way.
Tear me from this shallow breath
6 December 2009 | 11:55 pm ( patrick )
Lord give me some light,
light (light, light)
There is no death, only
flight (flight, flight)
The lies of an end
they whisper
in ears blind
to the kingdom of ancients
Staring into my right eye
where death falls only in my mind my heart
There is no death to this living art
Tear me blind
from this shallow breath
Take me rising
from this hollow death
Lord give me some light,
light (light, light)
There is no death, only
flight (flight, flight)
Lights die slowly
4 December 2009 | 11:03 pm ( patrick )
Lights do die slowly
Not sudden as you might expect
Sparks may ignite on impact
lit with such a fierce fire
on dry thirsty kindling
they create a blast of passion
a furnace of power
exploding from the inside
and as they burn
they die
fading imperceptibly
into the growing darkness
Lights do die slowly
The sparrin'
the jabbin'
the love
the respect
the disparaging words
the distance
the loss.
I'll
miss you when you're gone,
when the lights do die slowly
Good luck
30 November 2009 | 2:53 am ( patrick )
Good luck finding a fire
In your bones
Anything close
to mine
You can move on but never go back
to what was evidence
of compulsion and combustion
to what became heavy enough
to crack
a heart into shards
of visionary glass
like graduating the class
as professor and expert
in what NOT
to do.
Good luck finding a fire
As deep as mine
And a wind as strong
In your failing sails
Cause when we fail
We fail large
A titanic sinking
an epic bout of drinking
just to bury you
out of every sight that suffers
the loss of you
Good luck finding a fire
as bright as mine,
There IS no middle line..
...in between crossed wires
Morning Chaos
21 November 2009 | 11:13 am ( patrick )
Writing. Music. Recording. Inspired. Late nights. The process has become like too many fireflies flitting around you, trying to catch them in a jar before the inspiration fades and disappears. Some mornings, you wake up looking like you were dragged through the outside hedge backwards, upside down and in the clothes you fell asleep in. Well, actually...
Re-birth
15 November 2009 | 11:06 am ( patrick )
The greatest day. A riot. A stomping. A tantrum.
An adult (you) stands alongside a child (you) and smiling silently with hand on the young impulsive shoulder, nods, for perhaps the first time in his young/old life, "go ahead". The child lets out his frustration in a torrent. He swears. He expounds. He yells and demands vindication. A fair hearing. Like he never did in years past. He insists on insisting he is right. This youth with such kind demeanour. Such sweetness in his actions. Such considered behaviour and obedient actions. Well raised care in his deeds. And such boiling frustration. Right under the surface. Viciously reacting to any sense of injustice against him. At being ignored. At having no opinion to challenge. At being controlled. Unallowed to act in or out. Having his truths diminished. His hopes only gently tolerated, yet never encouraged. Never winning the race, but always finishing with proper decorum. Being a good little boy.
But now the feet stomp and scenes are thrown. Violently and impassioned, while the adult simply watches silently. Allowing the young colt to stretch and buck and rediscover its strength. Something new is being born in this chill morning air. An individual.
..Then a pause. A breath. The youthful anger is spent. A realization rises like dawn light...he's done. The moment is past. He knows his own mind and his own worth.
So. What comes next?  I might be a man without a myth
To settle into
But when I'm digging wrong
I'm no different than anyone
Hope is just a frightened stance
To hold onto
Until it finally comes
And I open up to a love
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