win tickets to either vinyl release shows at the Triple Rock April 4th through Reveille Magazine.
1:20 PM

sorry for lack of updates on the site.
My html editing program is down.

SHOWS:

Saturday March 15th
7th Street Entry
with Lazer Forever and Young Dudes.
everyone who comes gets a free digital download of the new record.
8pm doors. Music at 9pm. 6 bones. 18+


Friday April 4th
Triple Rock Social Club
TWO SHOWS
All ages. 5pm. $6.
with France Has The Bomb, Spiritual Mansions and To Reinvent.
21 plus. 10pm. $5
with The Shackeltons and The Millionth Word.

Saturday April 26th
Hexagon Bar
with American Princes and Togetherness
Free show. Buy drinks for yourself and us.
21 plus. 9pm.

Record news:

The Personalization is now available for download from Goodnight Records for $8.99. Encludes 6 bonus tracks. The 12" 180 gram vinyl will be available April 1st. Place pre orders with Goodnight Records.

see all the posted ads for The Personalization here
1:06 PM

the second of the internet ads for The Personalization is here.
more in the coming weeks.

The Howwastheshow.com podcast played This Isn't French from the new record. You can hear it on the podcast here

April 4th we are playing 2 shows at the Triple Rock in Mpls for the release of The Personalization 12".
All ages at 5pm with Spritual Mansion, Too Reinvent and one more. $6
21 plus show at 10pm with The Shackeltons (PA) and Millionth Word. $5.
1:06 PM

The Personalization ad 1



will be posting a new one every week (give or take)
10:43 AM

Big news:
The Personalization (of class war) digital download with 6 bonus tracks will be available February 28th 2008. We will be playing a released to the international super highway to hell party on Feb 28th at Barfly in Mpls MN. The show is going to be 18+ with guests, time and cost soon to be posted.

The Personalization (of class war) 12" vinyl comes out April 1st 2008.
Watch for huge record release show around that date.
6:21 PM

today I did a little remix or re edit of a song from (Happy) Album called "Cities, Not The People Who Live In Them" or more commonly known as I Live Here Now. You can stream it on our myspace page or download it here

Play is in da club.

Enjoy
8:14 PM

Minneapolis Star Tribune a few weeks ago:

Random mix

When Askeleton releases its next record, "The Personalization," on Brooklyn's Goodnight Records, you'll have a hard time finding it on CD. That's because ringleader Knol Tate has decided CDs "are a dead medium." The plan is to release the album on vinyl and include a code that will allow listeners to download the record in MP3 format along with at least six bonus tracks. He's working out details with his label and talking to distributors about the viability of such a strategy. "It might be career suicide," he says, "but I'm down with career suicide."
12:36 PM

Hey people,
Sorry for no new news and a big ole lack of updates but news is coming my friends. There will be some new members and new music of course. I have randomly put up some songs from the new record up on our myspace page. Streaming of course. We are working out kinks and plans for the new record and hope to have it out by this fall sometimes. Hope to also have another new record follow up that one very soon after.

Look for shows this fall and maybe a solo and or duo show very soon.

Also Bill and my other band call Ela will be hitting the road with our good friends Minus The Bear this fall. Check out their sites for details.

Until next time,
Knol.
1:04 AM

well well well. the new record is almost tracked. The goal is to have everything done by this Sunday April 29th. Just need to re-cut the vocal on a song called This Isn't French and add some lovely ladies vocals to some songs. Still trying to figure out where and with how we are going to mix this beast. Stay tuned.

Also there shall be some shows coming pretty soon.
2:33 PM

MAKING A RECORD:

2/2/07
day one:
we are going into the studio today to start recording the new record. This is day one and Rob is sick with the flu and he has the gear we rented. We got some nice gear. Overheads will sound nice if you care or notice that kinda thing. Hope he feels good enough to come in tomorrow. Today we were just getting sounds, mainly. Though I would love to start some tracking today. With Rob sick not sure how many things will change when we DOES come in. Everything will get more low end, I bet.

Today Billy and I just set up mics and pre amps, move and tune drums ALOT!! Maybe put some shirts or tape on the toms for the dead sounds we are going for for some of the songs.

Been listening to a great comp to get in the mood: 1234- Punk and New Wave 76'-79'. Some great shit we have all heard before and some songs and bands I've never heard of. Wireless Eric?

Getting bass tones will be fun as well. Noah will be going direct as well as a choice of a couple amps. His own, Rob's Eden and the Orange 120 (That thing will growl), among some others.

I'm borrowing a amp from our good pal Steve McPherson for the basic tracking. Some crazy custom class A thing. Going to double most my parts with my ampeg. I'm guess Billy will just use his amazing little amp.

I will write more as the days go one, if you care to read.

We will be tracking a few songs on the cassette 4 track in the basement this next week as well. No GBV but I can get some cool sounds that way. 3 piece basic Askeleton tracking. Billy on drums, Noah P on the bass and your truely on the guitar. Going to dump the tracks in the Pro Tools and over dub more from there. FUN FUN FUN!!!

2/4/07
Day 2 and 3:
It's now 9:30 am Sunday Feb 4th. Rent is due tomorrow.

Day one at the studio went faster than I thought. We tracked the drums and bass for 3 songs!!!! I think it was (these are working titles kids) Swearing, Intertwined and The Politics Of This Party. Steve, Noah and I tracked the basics will Bill did a funny British accent and told us to play better. We thought we would only have sounds by the end of the day so tracking 3 was great. First set up was the "dead" drums sound. Muted the drums some and made some forts for the drums and bass amp. Lot's of ribbon mics around the kit and in the room. I'll try and post some photos of the drums set up if anyone took any.

Per everyone's advice I sat out on some of the tracking so my awful palm muting wouldn't distract Noah and Steve. Bill and his beautiful wife Abby left around 10 to go see Mouth Full Bees. Steve McPherson sowed up about 11 to borrow us an amazing little guitar amp and chatted about music with us since he gets paid to critique it. NP and YAasgar fell asleep on the couch around 1am while I fixed some basic guitars.

Day two at Ice Fac: After planning on meeting at noon I showed up around 12:30 and the newly chipper and bright eyed (after being sick) Rob Skoro showed up around 11 with fun toys in tow. A few bass guitars for Noah to try. A few acoustic guitars for me to try and some midi toys for Rob to try. The drum and bass guys got there around 2 and we started tracking more dead drums sounds while waiting for Billy to get finished playing Sean "Twinkie Jiggles" McPherson to get done playing racket ball. We tracked basics for Skunk Medicine, Basement and maybe another before Bill got there to track the "live" or "open" drum sound tracks. All 5 of us playing but most likely only keeping Noah and Steve's tracks. We tracked Death To St. Paul, Switzerland, which we all new the songs pretty well. Minor Celebrity and Kill we took time going over parts and thinking about the of the songs. Both turned out well. Kill sounds pretty cool.

Joining us at the Askeleton party on day two were as follows: Sean McPherson, Ellen Darth Fitzgerald, Chris (Steve's pal whose last name I never remember), Scotty "Blow Job" Johnson, Emmy Hanson and Eric Fox. We drank 16 beers and started up a fight. Well not really but there were 3 cases of beer in that studio.

Noah, Steve and Sean stayed very late and I went home around 4.

Very tired but feel asleep feeling pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

2/7/07
day 4, 5 and 6:
Sunday went pretty well. Bill, Rob and I made it to the studio about 1pm after a great breakfast. Noah and Sean's cars didn't start after staying the night at the studio. Bill went and jumped Noah's at around 8 am. Anyway, got all of Bill's guitars done and some of mine. All of Bill's guitar parts were recorded in stereo with 2 amps in different rooms with different tones. Most the songs have one amp really effected and one cleaner. Sounds a pretty cool. Rob did some killer keyboard lines and textures but left early to go to work. After Bill went to a super bowl thing his parents s were having I messed around with tones and recorded some of my guitar parts. Bill and I had to DJ that night at the 331 so I left the studio in disarray and we DJ'd our asses off.

Monday we went back to the studio to clean up. That was not fun.
Spent Monday eve back at the punk house getting sounds on the four track in the basement using the gear we rented. Billy on drums to stereo 2 tracks. Bass DI and my guitar in the scary "office"

Tuesday we slept and then got up and tracked "Girls Night' on the four track. did many many many takes to warm Bill up on the drums but once we did it sounded pretty good. I love the idea of having songs on the record with the basics being recorded on four track. I had instant flashbacks to recording my brother and my stuff when we were young and recording stuff for my favorite band when I was young: Amies. Same feel but sounds pretty good. Mixing very expensive gear with that same circa 1988 sound of the four track really makes me feel warm inside.

More later.

2/14/07
Spent the rest of last week doing drums and bass on the 4 track in the basement. Finished "Girls Night", "I Wanna Marry All The Women" and Noah's first (yet to be titled). We also worked out another one that we are going to track drums and keys for at the studio this weekend.

Took this week off from recording. Needed to catch up on some sleep and deal with some personal things. Going back to the studio on Saturday to dump four tracks things into Pro Tools and do some guitar things there. Some drum and bass shit too. Starting work on all the rest overdubs (including my vocals. Yikes) starting Sunday. I do think everything will be tracked by the end of Feb and ready to mix that first week of March and mastered right after for a quick spring release. Oh my.

More later. I'm going to watch Lost.
11:50 AM

We are going into our little Ice Factory studio on Feb 2nd record the 4th Askeleton record. We have about 9 songs worked out and about 4 more that I have demoed by myself. This will be the last recording we do with our good friend and comrade Steve Yasgar. We decided to go ahead and record the songs we have written with Steve to document this first real kinda band Askeleton thing. Steve is a busy busy man and is going on to some bad ass things. Check out one of those things called Be Lonna. Steve of course stays a great friend and we love him. Joining us in the studio will be Rob Skoro of Robert Skoro fame to help produce and play on the recording. We sure love him and are happy as flies on shit to have him with us.

The songs we are planning on recording are as follows (working titles):
Basement
Swearing
The Politics Of This Party
Death To St. Paul
Intertwined
Switzerland
Minor Celebrity
Skunk Medicine
Kill
Girls Night
I Want To Marry All The Women

Maybe a few more.

Most of the songs are worked out as a full band with some still just demos that the 4 of us will record at homes and places not meant for recording. Fun huh? Billy on drums? That is fun.

So to sum up:
Recording soon.
New songs.
Steve going bye bye
Need new drummer!
Love everyone always.

Signed,
Knol
12:54 PM

The show with A Whisper In The Noise and Robert Skoro the other night was great. There will be some photos up on flickr soon. Looking forward to the SD show on Thursday and another show in the Entry on the 30th of December.

Writing Writing. It's what we do.

We are all ok here.
We can play together.
Can you feel the cold air on your neck?
We spotted on the air on your neck.
Oh, what the heck, we left you out.
You were right, we are stuck up
and were brought up to be that way.
We feel sorry for you.

Poor you. Poor, poor you.

We are sick of fake string sounds.
Where did you get the time?
Did you steal some gear from the van?
Is that were you got the fake string sounds?
Oh what the hell, you can have them.
You can keep all the things we gave you.
You can keep our souls, too,
and make music new.

Make music new.
10:38 AM

Added some shows to the shows page. That makes sense, right?

Not a ton to report. Still writing and demoing. Hoping for a spring release but you never know with these things.
3:45 PM

we are all poor people.

Show with A Whisper In The Noise and Robert Skoro (solo) on Dec 1st in the 7th Street Entry. 21plus. $6. Just great.

A show Dec 7th with Kill The Vultures in South Dakota at a college. I have no idea where.
11:50 AM

Today is a waste. Hating music from drinking too much hateraide. Had a bad time - had a good time. At least you had a time.

Killer show this Saturday. Come on down. Shoeshinners just killing it like only a 14 year old can with the party on the new record. The Plastic C's big ole pimpin' and leaving for CMJJJ. Shooters2 like farmer morning gun face. It's all ages and at the t rock. it starts before the time I get up for the day. Money is a thing.
11:42 AM

We have had some big fun over the past few shows. Looking to have some more big fun at the next few shows. Added them to the shows page. Playing 5 new songs in the set. Come enjoy.

Playing a ton of new things at a solo show I have coming up at the Nomad on the West bank here in Mpls.

Knol.
11:27 AM

Over the past week we worked out a few more tunes with the whole band. I uploaded a couple new ones for your Myspace streaming pleasure. Skunk Medicine and The Politics Of This Party. They are about people I would guess. About abuse of some kind as well. Money too. I will keep them up for a few days.

Great show coming up this Saturday at the Turf Club in St. Paul with our good friends Martin Devany, Robert Skoro and the debut of Kelsey Crawford, Jacy McIntosh, BJ Woulett, Justin Burkhardt and our own Billy C new band called Golden Ponies. This show celebrates the upcoming wedding of Billy C to Abby M. It's going to be great. 21+ and 5 bones and starts at 9.

Also we are very happy to be playing a show with our good friends from Santa Rosa California, The Velvet Teen on Oct 4th at the Triple Rock. It's all ages and starts at 5pm. new sensations One For The Team are opening this great show
7:51 PM

that you to everyone that came out early to see us play last night with mates of state and starlight mints at first ave in minneapolis. we had a good time. also had a good time watching our own little billy play a bill of ela solo set in the entry after the show. was awesome.

more shows and some new streaming demos coming. one show added. take it likt a man, man.
12:09 PM

I forgot to say we had a great time at the show with Eddy Burke and The Haves Have It at the Kitty Cay Klub. It was really fun. We played 12 songs. I can't remember if I have ever played a 12 song set. There are some shows added to the show part of this site. COuld be one more added within the week. Stayed tuned.
6:23 PM

Well well well. The Sound Unseen show turned out to be pretty fun. Thanks to you.

Some shows are on the show page. You should check em out. really, do it.

I am somehow, slowly turning into a light bulb. Thought I should let you know.

Knol
1:08 PM