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Isaac Priestley
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World Racketeering Squad latest live music videos: Trophy's 11/27, Green Muse 11/29
Here are the last of the videos from November's open mic live sets! Our show at Conan's Pizza on Monday 11/26 had some sync issues we're still working out, but here are Tuesday's and Thursday's shows:
Trophy's 11/27/07
Green Muse 11/29/07
Enjoy!
If you want to …
Summing up November and two gig announcements!
Hey everyone,
Got some more updates on what's been going on with World Racketeering Squad. I've been filling out my pedal set lately to give me a lot more control on our songs. Got a CryBaby, a Maxon OD808, Big Muff Pi, and an Ibanez CS-9 stereo chorus. I've …
New soul song: "When I'm next 2 U"
Today I was flipping through channels on TV, and passed something that was playing music. I heard a tune that was played as a secondary, incidental melody in something, and my brain started twisting it around and turning it into something different.
I went to the …
WRS Logo shirt!
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Got the first World Racketeering …
World Racketeering Squad newsletter Dec 11 2007
Hey Racketeers!
Well, no sooner did we send out our December letter than more news sprang up!
World Racketeering Squad will be playing at the Carousel Lounge not once but twice in December.
Tuesday, December 18th, we're once again opening for bluesqueezebox. We go …
WRS in the Austin Chronicle
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NovemberNov 11 Sunday 07
World Racketeering Squad live at Trophy's, Green Muse Cafe
Fellow Racketeers!
World Racketeering Squad rocked the house late in the night at Trophy's on Tuesday, and here is the video:
We'll be back at Trophy's next Tuesday, November 13. We're going to make our very best effort to go on between 10pm and 11pm, the gods …
NovemberNov 4 Sunday 07
World Racketeering Squad live at Green Muse, 11/1/07
World Racketeering Squad live at Haunted Housewarming X
World Racketeering Squad live at Haunted Housewarming X in Austin, TX, on October 27, 2007. Founding Racketeer Reed Oliver was celebrating the tenth anniversary of his traditional Halloween bash, so the band played our first long set of songs--13 songs, a little over an …
World Racketeering Squad live at Green Muse 10/11/07
Here's the video of one of our first sets at the Green Muse Cafe here in Austin, TX. This was the first performance we've recorded on video, and also the first time we took the keyboard to an open mic.
New rock opera demo, "Omega and the Just-In-Times"
This week we started working on a new crazy idea for a set of songs about Omega and the Just-In-Times, a "quantum band" who appear whenever there is enough demand. We've got two songs about them in progress so far:
"Omega and the Just-In-Times"
And "Omega in Love …
New YouTube channel for World Racketeering Squad live videos, demos
We've been getting into video recording our performances and demos lately so I've created a new channel on YouTube to feature World Racketeering Squad specifically and organize all our videos:
http://www.youtube.com/worldracketeer
We'll have a playlist grouping each …
NovemberNov 1 Thursday 07
Joss Whedon, Eliza Dushku announce new series, "Dollhouse"
Didn't see this coming:
Echo (Eliza Dushku) [is] a young woman who is literally everybody's fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language--even muscle memory--for different …