Northern Virginia's most entertaining DEFUNCT cover band.

January 8, 2009

Happy Divorce!

Bored? It's pretty obvious, seeing as how you're visiting the site of a band that's been gone for almost a year. Alas, happy reading: RE: Installing a new Husband Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, in the flower particularly and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as · Romance 95 · Personal Attention 6.0 and then installed undesirable programs such as · NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? Signed, Desperate. DEAR DESPERATE, First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta. Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.) In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7. Good Luck! Tech Support

October 16, 2008

HALLOWEEN REUNION SHOW ANNOUNCED!

That's right people! We've been booked as the headlining act at Party DC's Monster Bash at Front Page in Arlington. Here's the scoop: "Fright Night" Halloween Bash Friday, October 31 8:00PM - 2:00AM @ Front Page - Arlington Ladies Free b4 9PM $300 Cash for Best Costume & More! We go on around 10. DJ Trick will also be spinnin some tunes when we aren't trippin over guitar chords and bouncin on top of kick drums. DO IT!

August 20, 2008

thank ya. gratzi. gracias. boggle. chinese food.

We wanted to take a break from STILL being hungdrunkover to thank everyone that who came out Saturday to our lil "we haven't even been broken up long enough to reunite" reunion show. Twas a blast to be back on stage for the first time in over a year and a half with ThatLineup. Plus it's always a great time when Kris is getting his life threatened by old guys who hang out in bars all day and have ZERO tolerance for sound check! HA! We also wanted to thank our sp-sp-SPACIAL rockstar guests Junkfood Essex, ThatMattyandKara, KleptoFern, CheapJim, and ViciousJohnny (who, by the way, single-handedly fixed our annoying kick-drum mic problem!). And of COURSE we can't forget MouthTheWordsToMeKukor, aka ThatGodfather. A few peeps are already posting pics, some of which will show up in our myspace tagged shiznit. Hopefully they'll get those over to us so we can toss em up here. Plus, we'll have the handy-tandy pics work of Mr. Burns in hand pretty soon. We'll keep ya posted. Until next time...

August 6, 2008

REUNION SHOW!!!

Did we st-st-st-stutter? Read on (words compliments of Big Mike): It is on like donkey kong baby, ONE NIGHT ONLY (Or afternoon only)!!!!! THATGUY is back for a reunion show to raise money for something dear and near to their hearts, BOOBIES!!! you know TAT-TA's, Melons, Jugs, Baby feeders, the Milk factories, Globes from the heavens, Chesticles. Those things that every man is looking at when he says "he's just trying to read your shirt"... Ok seriously, Bungalow Billiards is raising money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. It is a great fundraiser to help out women who suffer from the worst desease for men (ask Ronald Regan, oh, too soon?)... Many lovely ladies will be doing a CAR WASH in their BIKINIS out side of Bungalow Billiards in Cascades, VA... At or around 2pm, Northern Va's most entertaining (and slightly defunct) cover band is playing a ONE TIME ONLY reunion show!!! Come on out, the only cover charge is donations.... At 9pm the beloved HELLENBACK is playing to round out the night!!!! Cost: DONATIONS!!! BRING IT!!!

July 8, 2008

Shamrock videos FINALLY posted!

Dan Here. I wanted to let everyone know that I finally got around to posting all of our videos from our last and final show. We've got a lot of guest singers (4, maybe 5?) and the quality isn't too bad for a handicam recording. Kris did all of the cropping and editing, and I'm super thankful for all of the time he spent on it. If you go to check out the videos, make sure to reply to this and drop Kris a line to say "thanks for giving me something to do, because I have no life and watch videos on YouTube all day". He loves that! Seriously, check 'em all out here: www.youtube.com/ThatGuyBand Cheers B!tches! Dan

April 14, 2008	pics comin soon...
Yea yea, we don't have any pics from our last shows. Yadda-yadda, blah-blah...WE'RE WORKIN ON IT ALREADY! Check back soon. 'Til then... Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?

April 1, 2008

congrats to mike!!

just wanted to embarrass our boy real quick... so apparently the guys in Liquid A have enough bad taste to hire him on as their swingin 5 stringer! *cricket cricket* bassist! i meant, bassist! DUH!!! so be sure to check em out. they play just about every place you can imagine besides your mom's bedroom (bet they've rocked it enough as it is!). and be sure to strike up a conversation with mike mid-song. he LOVES that! www.myspace.com/liquida1

March 27, 2008

our new band!!!

Not really...but this craigslist ad is f()cking BRILLIANT!!! Ok, here is the deal. I’m starting a psychedelic/post-rock/post-hardcore/electronica/ambient/shoegazer/hip hop/reggae/funk/indie band. A serious band. Requirements: DRUMMER: Can’t hear sh!t; hardcore alcoholic; IQ well under 100; Huge forearms; have broken up every other band you’ve been in by sleeping with bandmates girlfriends and sisters; really bad tattoos. RHYTHM GUITARIST: Shorter than lead guitarist; inferiority complex; extremely sensitive; must have a strange collection of something (doesn’t matter what as long as its weird); secretly listens to crappy girl pop music; must threaten to quit band whenever you disagree with anything the others want to do; you will not tour without bringing your broke girlfriend who eats all of our food and always has really stupid ideas for the band. BASSIST: At least 6’5; sweet beard; totally oblivious to everything going on around you; can play the bass competently but have absolutely no understanding of music theory or even how to read music; must play annoying slap bass while everyone else is trying to tune; secretly hates the band’s music. LEAD GUITARIST: God complex; veto every interesting and cool part written by bassist and rhythm guitar; must play annoying c0ck rock solos while everyone else is tuning; VOCALIST: No facial hair; ambiguously g@y; even more sensitive than the rhythm guitar player; must NEVER carry any equipment whatsoever; must give meaningless and sometimes offensive political speeches between songs at shows; must be late for everything. KEYS: must be asian; cool dance moves; plays lots of video games; wears glasses; really skinny. General Requirements: - At least one of you must be a black guy that wears ripped jeans and nirvana t-shirts - All must be able to get along with ego maniacal reclusive overweight sweaty band manager (me) - Must be able to tour (one of you must have a winnebego, or a trust fund that we can use to purchase one) - As a group you must be able to create a large number of inside jokes so that you are constantly speaking to each other in code that nobody else understands and that pisses everybody off Alright, lets do this! Please respond by April 10 4:15pm. Too bad we’re all old and washed up! :(

March 17, 2008

as of 3/17/2008...

Give a sh*t where we are? Ok, drop your pants and commence dumpage! As it stands today... Dan is running sound all over the area. He won’t fall asleep at the soundboard and he actually knows what "comb filtering" is. Hire him. Mike is handling bass duties for Liquid A and also has a killer original project going with one-time TG drummer Matty Davis. Find them and listen. Kris is planning to release a book of poetry in the summer. He’s also working on a full-length solo cd with Dan co-producing. No, it’s not just drums! Kelly sings in some other band that constantly sells out the State Theatre and Ram’s Head. Oh, what’s their name??!?! THE LEGWARMERS! Fern is officially the new bassist for the Maryland-based coverband KleptoRadio. Great guys, great band, so don’t be stupid and miss them. Todd is jammin his big heart out with our good friend Jim in their band Cheap Date. Go see them. You won’t be able to stop singing! Ray is working on his CPA so he can do your taxes while he chokes your ass out in a parking lot. Seriously, he trains Brazilian Jujitsu, so make the lil Cambodian smile or you’re time is done! Joe has long since moved to sunny CA after departing from TG. He doesn’t get back here as often as we’d like. Change that! Jimmy is currently shopping for Mexican sheep p0rn distribution deals. You can find profiles for all of the TG members as well as their current bands/projects in our top friends list. Stay on top of them before they come and get on top of you!

March 16, 2008

THANK YOU! GRACIAS! GRAZIE! MERCI MERCI!!!

WOW!!! What a day a Shamrockfest was!!! The weather was perfect, the bands flippin RAWKED, the sloppy drunken b!tches were even hotter in head-to-toe green, and on top of all that, there was this surreal sense of nostalgia as it was to be our very last ThatGuy show. What more could we ask for??? Pics with our arms around Tommy Lee’s schl0ng? Hm, come to think of it, if anyone got any sort of said pic, please forward!!! Over the past 4 ½ years there have been COUNTLESS mishaps and unforgettable moments the day of a show (DC Divas, Blackbear Tavern, the soundboard Nazi at Finn’s, etc, etc), so what would a farewell gig be without just one more?? Well here’s one for ya: what does a band do when no one, and I mean NO ONE, knows how to point us to the VIP load-in area??? Here’s a few classic quotes compliments of the security staff: "You can park here and haul your stuff through the crowd." "The name of your band, ’band’, isn’t on our list." "You need to be on the other side of the bridge guys where the other DJs are." And of course we can NEVER forget… "We’re having bands today??!?!?!" After FINALLY finding people that were doing the jobs they were paid to do, we got on with our day and rocked out the only way we know how…MAKE IT A F()CKIN PARTY!!! If you were there, you know what went down (a HUGE thanks goes out to ALL of our guest performers!). If you missed our set, SHAME ON YOU!! But don’t worry, we have TONS of pics as well as video that we’ll be posting soon. In the meantime, here’s the last set we’ll ever play in its entirety (have we actually ever shared a setlist before??!?!): Just a Girl - No Doubt - current lineup Misery Business – Paramore - current lineup Big Casino - Jimmy Eat World - current lineup Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns ’n Roses - current lineup Face Down - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - current lineup No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age - current lineup Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey - with Jim from Cheap Date on vocals Back in Black - AC/DC - with Jim from Cheap Date on vocals Crazy Bitch – Buck Cherry - with Jim from Cheap Date on vocals Bleed It Out - Link Park - with Schwartzy on vocals Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on bass 99 Red Balloons - Gold Finger - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on vocals Take On Me - Reel Big Fish - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on guitar What I Got - Sublime - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on guitar Lose Yourself – Eminem - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on guitar Sober - Tool - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on vocals Dammit - Blink 182 - with ThatGuy/Liquid A Mike on vocals So in closing, thanks again not only to everyone who came out on Saturday to bid us a final farewell, but more importantly to those who’ve supported us since our inception in 2003. Booking agents, club owners/managers, fellow bands, crazy drunken frat boys and stupid hot hoochie mamas…we couldn’t have done ANY of this without you! All of our love, appreciation, teabags, and then some!!! Until we meet again… `ThatGuy PS: Stay tuned for updates on what everyone is up to. Lots goin on already, so we should have the first round up before you know it. Word.