Guitars, Pranks, Lonely Statues, Ghosts, and TOW JAM!

Hi fellow rockers! This past weekend we had the privilege of heading out to Bartow, FL to play at "The Venue". It's a relatively new place in Bartow run by some of the nicest people on the Planet. Just down the street the local Bartownians* were partying it up at the "Tow Jam" main street festival. Most of us in ABL come from towns much smaller than Orlando so was a familiar sort of fun. During the show this amazing photo was taken...

I'm not sure if this was our aura's or if we were possessed by ghosts. In either case it's pretty bad ass, but I don't think it's quite as bad ass as these two bad asses that were nice enough to pick up some of our bad ass shirts...

In hind sight we should have declined the request to sign their shirts since we are practically incapable of taking ourselves seriously in such a situation. We are in fact too bad ass to take ourselves seriously*. The "Dude/Sweet" reference was lost on them which made us feel old. Sigh. Anyway, while conducting other Bartow adventures we came across this guy...

What makes this guy even cooler is we encountered his lost twin brother in downtown Deland last fall at the Deland Music Festival and were lucky enough to have taken a picture with him then!

These guys are 100 miles apart; one to the north of Orlando and one to the south. They really need to be united so they can stand in an eternal "crash and burn" gesture. If you are unaware of the significance of this gesture you may just need to COME TO OUR HOUSE OF BLUES SHOW NEXT SATURDAY (JUNE 30th) AND ASK US WHAT IT MEANS!!!

WABAM! Just in case you haven't seen enough of this poster already... We are so excited for the show! I (Tim) on the other hand am a little excited in a different way because ABL is creeping closer and closer to 1,500 likes on Facebook, and if we hit 1,500 by the 30th I have to shave my beard or alter it to a ridiculous form. This will be very hard for me as I have had my beard for over 6 years. If we release a video of the shaving process -which we will likely have to do in a legitimate barber shop- do not judge me if I cry like a little girl. Until that video, or until the next blog absurdity...

Thanks for reading,

Tim Cook-Berry

A Brilliant Lie's lead guitarist  / piracy accountant

*That makes just as much sense as 'Bostonians' or 'Los Angelinos'.

*I just wanted to type "bad ass" one more time.

Fact of the week:  Did you know that every member of A Brilliant Lie is at least 5'10". Collectively this probably makes us the tallest band in Orlando, though this is just speculation because we have no empirical evidence/data to prove such a claim other than this picture of us...