Life of a Rock Star
First off, happy New Year to all of our friends! We hope you didn’t stay up too late New Year’s Eve and that Santa was good to everyone this Christmas. He seems to know who’s naughty and who’s nice after all. I’m personally not sure how he obtains all this information and have come to question his ethics and practices, but that’s just me. Or, it could be that he doesn’t really exist… naw!
As for VOTA, we have to say we’re excited to turn the page on 2008 and move into a new year. Lots to look forward to this year with the February release of our debut record on INO Records called (who would have thought) VOTA, our first radio single ‘Hard To Believe’ climbing the Christian music charts (22 this week on CHR — be sure to request it!), and a spring tour with our friends newsboys, DecembeRadio, and Bread of Stone. Shows for that tour are still being booked, so check our tour page often as we’ll update the dates as soon as they’re confirmed. We do know that the ticket price will be a CHEAP and MEASLY $10 — can you imagine? Ten bucks to see the show of your life? Well, possibly not the show of your life, but easily worth $10. Hope to see everyone at one of those shows!
On the personal side of goings on for the band, I’ve been home with my son River playing with toys, eating food, and trying to get to the gym more than twice a week while my wife Lindsay works as the bread-winner of our household selling expensive perfume to rich women. Scott is recently engaged to the wonderful Riki Topp and is planning a May marriage (you are all welcome and I’m sure Scott will be glad to have you stay at his house while you are visiting). Plans for the wedding are running smoothly. Word on the street is that Scott will be hiring VOTA to perform at the reception sans drummer, so be sure not to miss it. Young Riley-san has been busy socializing and playing dates with his band Staggerford in places like South Dakota and the famous Knickerbockers with our friends Remedy Drive. Bryan has been washing windows (actually pays quite well believe it or not), spending time with his children and wife, and today he took his kids to the water park in Omaha for an afternoon of surf and slides at the glorious Holiday Inn. Yes, as you’ve always imagined it, life as a rock star is unbelievably exciting. Signing autographs all day, cashing checks, basking in the light of our own goodness… But that’s enough comedy for one journal entry. I was quite humbled yesterday as while I was at my old farmhouse fixing the plumbing with a wrench, the child of the family living there said to me, “You’re a rock star aren’t you?” Well, not if you look at my 1990 4-door Pontiac car or the toilet that I happen to be fixing. Rock stardom is severely unimpressive. That, dear friends, is the lesson of the day.
