Sound Check Are You There God? It’s Me, Tennis Pro
posted by on March 27 at 12:43 PM
Seattle three piece pop-rock sentinels Tennis Pro are releasing their third album this Saturday at King Cobra. The album is entitled Are You There God? It’s Me, Tennis Pro. Ice Age Cobra, the Whore Moans, and Bad Love Sessions are also on the bill.
The album was recorded at local studio The House of Breaking Glass and mixed by Greg Williamson (Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk). Tennis Pro is: Sean Lowry (drums), David Drury (guitar, vocals), and Philip Peterson (bass/vocals). Produced by Phil Peterson.
A Line Out exclusive listen to the song “Kimberly” - is here.
Phil Peterson also plays with Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and has been sitting in with Nada Surf. He’s a busy man, who appreciates breakdancing. We spoke:
How was the recording?
Phil: Lots of Sparks filled nights for about a year.
How does this record differ from the first two?
Better songs, more fun in the production, also Greg Williamson from Sunny Day Real Estate mixed it, AND will be mixing sound at our CD release show at King Cobra.
I love the title. I wouldn’t take you all to be Judy Blume fans.
We’re huge Judy Blume fans. It all pretty much comes back to Judy. Actually, we had tons of problems getting these CD’s printed. Duplicators kept rejecting the order because of the artwork we wanted printed on the CD’s.
Nudity?
Kind of. The image in question was from a pencil drawing entitled “Nice Rack (for Two Kinds of Hunters),” which juxtaposes a deer with antlers above the image of a woman pulling up her shirt. The artist, Dawn Cerny, is currently showing at the Henry Art gallery with her collection “We’re All Going to Die (Except for You).” We really scrambled to get the CD’s printed in time.
The thing is, a CD already looks like a boob. CD duplicators print boobs every day, all day long. So the fact that those duplicators wouldn’t print a boob on another boob just makes them look like hypocrites.
That is ludicrous. What kind of backwoods Focus on the Family duplicators were they sending it to? Why any business would refuse someone's money to print their work - especially in this economic climate - just because the art isn't to their taste is completely beyond me.
In fact, if they could supply a list of the offending duplicators so the rest of us would know where our dollars aren't wanted, that would be great.
I love that last paragraph, though.
I have a good mind not to go to King Cobra shows after last weeks run in with the mother fuckers that call themselves "security".
Example... before last call was even yelled i went to the bar and ordered a drink, turn around from the bar with drink and hand to come face to face with uber security woman on steroids, who informs me to drink my drink. after a baffled look on my part she informs me shes going to turn around and when she comes back in a few seconds, i better be done and out the door. not only does she looks like she wants to kick my ass for have the nerve to be drinking at a bar, her equally Neanderthal looking co-hort also informs me to drink up before i get tossed.
So her i am having a good ol' time at a bar getting the stare down from two meat heads on a power trip about to kick my ass for not drinking fast enough, before last call and at 1:10am. fun times! thanks king cobra for being the lamest bar on the hill. good job
after i got tossed there were groups of customers all a little baffled at their similar experience, standing out side, wondering why did they hire such a power hungry staff so willing to flex their muscle over making money. bad busy, bad bar.
I have a good mind not to go to King Cobra shows after last weeks run in with the mother fuckers that call themselves "security".
Example... before last call was even yelled i went to the bar and ordered a drink, turn around from the bar with drink and hand to come face to face with uber security woman on steroids, who informs me to drink my drink. after a baffled look on my part she informs me shes going to turn around and when she comes back in a few seconds, i better be done and out the door. not only does she looks like she wants to kick my ass for have the nerve to be drinking at a bar, her equally Neanderthal looking co-hort also informs me to drink up before i get tossed.
So her i am having a good ol' time at a bar getting the stare down from two meat heads on a power trip about to kick my ass for not drinking fast enough, before last call and at 1:10am. fun times! thanks king cobra for being the lamest bar on the hill. good job
after i got tossed there were groups of customers all a little baffled at their similar experience, standing out side, wondering why did they hire such a power hungry staff so willing to flex their muscle over making money. bad busy, bad bar.
Comments Closed
In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).