Monday, October 18, 2010

"So, how are you doing?"

An interesting question to be asked so often...  Always a well-intended gesture, in reality it's such a loaded question, and unless you are the type of person that is honestly able to answer it every time when asked, you have to keep coming up with canned responses that get the question-asker to reconsider- for just a second, the implications of asking such a question in the first place (Such as "I hate myself and I wanna die", a favorite of the late Kurt Cobain). Not to sound petulant or anything, but it's a really hard question to answer with any consistency or accuracy ...

So, for those of you out there that want to know how we're doing, here's a live version of our song "Cloudsplitter", recorded on our recent tour of the Western states...  Also, please visit this blog with regularity so the next time you see one of us at a show you can just buy us a drink and we can talk about this blog...

Cloudsplitter (live) by Big Light

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Happy birthday, Percy Boyd

Back in the infamous summer of 2009, we hit the road with Nathan Moore and had a truly amazing time driving around the west together singing songs and passing around a ukulele. We narrowly survived a flash-flood in Moab, penned and filmed the You Tube hit One Beautiful Girl on the way to Bobolink V, which we narrowly survived in general. The Dun Four were born... Friendships were solidified. These days, we continue to plot and plan (we're lookin' in your direction, Las Tortugas and Cafe Du Nord!) and see Nathan more than we see our own families. Anyways, always a consumate friend and mentor, we salute you Nathan!

In honor of Percy, here's the long-awaited and unrealeased B-side to the hit song One Bautiful Girl :

Man-Ya-Na (The Dun Four) by Big Light

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Hello, welcome to Umphrey's McGee tour

Warming up for an established international touring act is like... shit, we're not sure what to compare it to here, and this actually begs for a good analogy...

Anyway... Three gigs in the bag (AZ, UT, & NV) and three to go (OR, WA, MT this week), we're happy to report that things are going pretty well. Since Umphrey's McGee has a tour bus, we pretty much have the run of the dressing rooms at each venue... We're also are happy to say that heckling has been minimal and that we have gotten off stage on-time at each show. Joel Cummins has been sitting in on keys and his fuck-ups have been minimal, for sure.

We'll share this story from Arizona: The other night in Flagstaff, although the crowd's reaction to our set was encouraging and we played pretty well, we encountered this one guy after the show at the merch table... Apparently this dude's friend had purchased for him (as a gift) one of our CD's thinking that it was an Umphrey's album. After receiving the album from his buddy and realizing that this wasn't an UM album, but instead a record by the opening act that he hated (us), this dude came to the merch table, told Jeremy he thought we sucked, and then asked for either the money back (something we did't want to do) or for it to be exchanged for a Umphrey's disc (something we didn't have the power do).

Well, had the encounter happened with a different band member, perhaps this guy might have actually gotten his money back. Luckily for the band, he approached Jeremy- who promptly let the New Jersey in his blood rip, demanding to know how on earth someone could firstly tell an artist that he thought his band sucked and then secondly ask for money back on A CD HE DIDN'T EVEN PAY FOR, effectively robbing us of our fucking gas money! Anyway, the guy walked away, Big Light CD still in hand, contemplating why on earth he didn't ask one of the little dudes for the refund instead...

Monday, October 4, 2010

Thank god for places like this...



We made a stop at Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe, UT last week... This place is amazing. Mystic Mike, our host, has been putting up traveling bands on their days off for years... He cooks you dinner, gives you a place sleep, lets you soak in the amazing hot springs, tosses you some gas $$... And oh yeah, he also films a cool video of you playing- in this case our esteemed manager is operating Camera #1.. Thank you, Mystic Mike!!!! We love you, dude...

Wookin' back...