Please join us Friday night at Club Cafe!

This weekend, we made two fabulous appearances in Pittsburgh, Pa.  On Friday night, we played at Howler’s Coyote Cafe, where a fantastic night was enjoyed by all, thanks to Paul Luc, Delicious Pastries, Jo (Howler’s booking manager), and a great array of friends and fans taking in the evening.  Perhaps someone else would like to elaborate on the show, because I’d like to call your attention to something else.

Last summer, our friend-but-we-didn’t-know-him-at-the-time-of-writing Drew Cucuzza, wrote a  article in Pittsburgh Dish about GN,S.  He said ““A gorgeous, melodic album with songs that immediately draw you in; a kind of “just right” sound-production that most bands go their whole career without achieving… What they sound like is Good Night, States and they deserve to have other bands compared to them.”  To be honest, I want to cry when I read those words, because that’s what we’re trying to do here.

Well, on Saturday morning, our friend Jeff Baron (thanks, Jeff!) hosted us at the Saturday Light Brigade for a live acoustic on-air set.  Hopefully an audio version and pics/video will be coming to you soon.   Our host, Larry Berger, was a joy to speak to and be interviewed by.  At one point in the conversation, he paused, and tried to explain who he thought we sounded like…and he was stumped (in a good way).  He said that Good Night, States sounded like Good Night, States and that was the highest compliment an artist could hope to have.

It’s true, Larry - it’s a high compliment, and we appreciate it.  Thank you for having us, and thank you for listening.

Friends, we’re gearing up to make more songs that sound like Good Night, States.  Songs of hope in the midst of fear, joy in the midst of despair, and change-for-the-good in the midst of change-for-what-seems-like-bad.  Hope you’ll join us for the ride.

Dan here.  Did you know my wife and I are pregnant?  Pretty cool.   We call it the bump, because we don’t know the gender.

As we get closer to the due date (March 8), we begin going to the doctor once a week, and today was our first in our series of once-a-week appointments from here on out.  At every appointment, the doctor uses a Doppler (a microphone that you put on the bump and it plays the sound of the heartbeat audibly as well as shows us the heart rate).  Today, the doctor asked if i would like to operate the Doppler, which i happily did!

As you may or may not know, the baby’s heartbeat is super-fast at the beginning of pregnancy (over 200 BPM - normal adult resting heart rate is something like 65 BPM, I think) and slows as the pregnancy goes on.

You will all be pleased to know that our bump’s BPM was 146 today, meaning that my son or daughter is poised to take my spot in Good Night, States, particularly with respect to playing “Killer of The One” or “The Only Thing” (both clock in at 144 BPM).

Friends -

This has gone on long enough.

At our First Night (New Year’s Eve in Downtown Pittsburgh) show with Ben Hardt, Steve asked from on stage if someone would make a Wikipedia page about Good Night, States.  You see, it is considered bad form to make one’s own page, yet someone not bad form to ask one’s listeners to make said page.  It’s like wearing white after Labor Day - don’t ask me, I don’t make the rules.

Some valiant soul attempted, but only to have his/her article soon deleted.  Wikipedia says that the subject of Good Night, States’ importance was not asserted.

Seriously, is that how Wikipedia views this group and its listeners, friends?

Someone - end this now - assert yourselves and show Wikipedia that we and you are indeed real.