We've been gone for a year. It's not your fault; you're great fans, you just weren't fulfilling our (admittedly) insatiable needs. Just kidding. Or am I?!?!?

Given our new hectic rehearsal and gig schedule, I can't promise we'll be here every week for you, but we'll send you feet pics if you ask; something to keep you warm and horny when you can't hear our voices.

But we finally got a chance to record a new episode and our aim was clear; to tell you - our adoring and fanatically loyal fans - about what we've been cooking up for this last year, and here it is.

We now have a Taylor Swift tribute band.

Okay, now that the laughter has died down, I'm serious. Like, no joke.

After a gig sometime in the summer of 2024, Mike, Nick, and I (Jase) were chilling in the Taco Bell parking lot (shout out to Taco Bell) at 2 in the morning and Nick randomly brought up an idea. He said, "What if we made a Taylor Swift tribute band?" Neither I nor Mike thought he was serious, but we had just left a gig at a bar that was set to have a Taylor Swift night the following evening. They had a life-size cardboard cutout of her and, let's face it; she was (and continues to be) the biggest thing in the world. Nick mentioned his wife's sister had a female singer friend, and within a couple weeks, we had our first rehearsal with a small handful of easy-ish songs.

Things didn't quite go as smoothly or quickly as we had hoped. We initially aimed for a debut in February of this year (2025), but we weren't anywhere close to ready. We're all perfectionists in our own way in this band and our aim with this tribute act, much like our aim with our 1990's band, was to recreate the album experience as much as possible.

Mike needed to create a ton of new sounds for his guitar incorporating both acoustic and electric sounds, Nick needed to find a way to incorporate his electronic drums in with his acoustic drums to cover the more dancy-electronic sounds, and while I continue to play bass, I also picked up my keyboard again and had to create a multitude of piano, synth, and synth bass sounds.

It took around a year from our first rehearsal to our first "mini" gig with 20-some songs, but a couple months later we up to nearly 30 songs, and in two weeks, we'll be playing our third "real" gig as Starbucks Lovers (a cheeky band name taken from her song Blank Space where it sounds like she's saying "Got a lot of Starbucks lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane..." see socials links below) at Gleason's in Peekskill with almost 35 songs spanning her entire career, including two from her newest album; performed with near-album accuracy with performance notes taken from tour footage, including several of Taylor's costume changes (although, she'll be changing backstage, so you have to get in real good with her if you want to see that. I'm a goddamn brilliant musician and in her band and I don't even get to see that, so good luck...

So yeah, we've been busy. Join us in this episode as we talk about the journey we've all been on throughout this process. Unfortunately, the singer for Starbucks Lovers was not available to join us, but we promise we'll have her on in a future episode.

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Thanks to everyone who's come out to support us and the venues we play. We always have a blast playing for you guys - you give us so much love and our only aim is to take you back to the 90's. We love all of you and love interacting with y'all. We're happy to take pics, sign autographs, do body shots (whatever that is), or anything else!

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