August 25, 2009 - Tuesday

Hey Everyone,

Things have been busy, hectic, and out of control as usual.  We've been hopping all over the country and the state of California lately but so everyone knows, we're officially back in business and playing LA again. There have been a few reports of people thinking that we are still out on tour but those stories are lies.  Liars should be impaled with stakes that have been dipped in au jus sauce.

We've got some sick shows coming up with our homies The Shakers, The Mulhollands, Red Circle Underground, Automatique, Sucker for Pumps, The Naked, The Napoleon Complex, Pine and Battery, and a lot more. Check out all of their music if you like the good stuff.  Remember, just because you have never heard of a band or they are "local" or "indie," doesn't mean that they won't rock you so hard that you have to change your underwear. 

Don't be scurred, the album is coming soon.  We're working as hard as we can to make it a speedy delivery.  We've got a ton of cool shows coming up at places like the Garter, Boardner's, O'Brien's, Skinny's, and a bunch of other places soon.  Keep checking back and don't forget to keep an eye on FatCityReprise.net for more Other News and links.

If you're super-bored:

Scopes Trial

Kent State Massacre

Japanese American Internment

French Revolution

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise

July 24, 2009 - Friday

Hey Forkers!

We're here, we're safe, we're eatin good, and the weather's beautiful.

Thanks to everyone who made our Philly, New York City, Atlantic City, and Ohio shows such great times and huge successes. It was great to see so many old friends and catch up while playing some music at so many great venues we've been lucky enough to call home over the years.

As much as we miss everyone, it feels good to be back in LA and back to work. We've got an album to release, shows to play, new cities in California to spread to, and new merch to debut over the next few months and we'll be right back on the road again supporting "Pirate Radio" in YOUR town. This tour is going to be huge and we can't wait to meet all the people we haven't played for yet. When the dates are confirmed, we'll put them up asap.

Don't forget to keep an eye on the website for new content and news articles. We've got a few Ask Fat City's under our belts and a new video blog. It's all rolling toward you.

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise

Currently Reading "Mother Night: A Novel" by Kurt Vonnegut

July 4, 2009 - Saturday

Hey Everyone,

Since we've been home, not only have we been eating like pigs but we've been playing some really cool shows. Thanks to everyone down at Penn's Landing for hooking up the Taste of Philadelphia show and thanks to Rich and Jo from Bluebond for getting us on their awesome outside show on Passyunk and South.

A special thanks to TJ, Live Nation, and Mike Lowe for setting up the show at the Borgata. It was a blast, we walked off stage and right onto the tables to clean the joint out. Thanks to Rich and Jodie from the roulette tables for all the luck. Of course, a huge thanks to everyone who came out to see us at all the shows we've played since we've been back.

We don't know if you've noticed but we put a bunch of shows up on the MySpace and have plenty more coming. We're going to get those dates out to you guys as soon as we can. In the meantime, we'll be found in line waiting for water ice and soft pretzels.

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise
Currently Listening To "American Gangster" by Jay-Z

May 4, 2009 - Monday

Hey Gang,

Things have been going great, we're here with a brief update. Last couple shows were awesome, thanks to everyone who came out to the House of Blues and the Venice Whaler, thanks to Chris and Jaclyn at Can of Jam for booking us, thanks to Transit Earth and Purple Melon for playing with us at the Whaler, thanks to Kevin for giving us the night, and thanks to everyone else we neglected to mention.

In other news, Vivas did some music for a skateboard video featuring our homie Sammy Baptista with a bunch of footage shot by our super homie Amrit, A-1, The Sauce. Proof is a new skateboard video from Paul Rodriguez and Nigel K. Alexander featuring Sam Baptista, Torey Pudwill, Darrell Stanton, Chaz Ortiz, Justin Shulte, Terrel Robinson, Carlos Zarazua, Nate Principato, Josh Grossuth, Keelan Dadd, Stevie Perez, and Paul Rodriguez. It has a MySpace and a Facebook and is hot as shit. Some of us went to the premier and the video is sick so please do check that out.

Also, Amrit's boys over at JusLiv and SK8Mafia hooked us up with some dope shit. Both of these companies have slamming apparel and Sk8Mafia makes decks and wheels too. They're based out of San Diego and have all kinds of cool stuff on their websites, which are linked below.

Finally, we're at the Viper Room at midnight on Thursday and it is FREE for anyone on our guest list to get in that night, just message us your name and let us know how many people you're coming with. It's going to be a great night, don't miss out.

Don't forget to check out our new website, it has all kinds of cool links on it, This Day in History, weekly Poll, In Other News, and our first episode of Ask Fat City Reprise, keep your eyes open for the follow up.

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise

Proof Video Facebook

Proof's MySpace

SK8Mafia's Website

JusLiv's website

April 13, 2009 - Monday

Hey Forkers,

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Viper Room last night, it was a packed house. Thanks to Chelsea for hooking it up and to Matticus and Rich for manning the helm of the best sound on the Strip. Thanks to everyone who came out and made the night fantastic. We also played the Knitting Factory on Friday night and O'Brien's in Santa Monica on Saturday night. It was a fun three-peat and we're back at it tonight.

Funny enough, our boy Thomas Ian Nicholas from Rookie of the Year and American Pie is playing with his band at the Viper tonight. We played with him before at our home away from home, The Bitter End in NYC, and will be sharing the stage with him again tomorrow as we return to the Viper Room stage. Unlimited free guest list, message us. We go on at midnight.

And don't forget to check out this day in history on fatcityreprise.net!

TONIGHT
VIPER ROOM
MIDNIGHT
FREE FOR GUEST LIST
FUNKY BUTTLOVING

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise

:: THIS JUST IN :: THIS JUST IN :: THIS JUST IN :: THIS JUST IN

Harry Kalas passed away today. The voice of the Philadelphia Phillies has boomed into our homes since 1971. We'll miss you Harry. We will always be waiting for your sweet baritone voice to come pouring out of the television announcing that the ball is "way outta here." At least Harry the K got to go out doing what he loved. The game just won't be the same. Things happen sometimes that make you feel like you're a litle older, like you grew up a little. We'll say it again, we'll miss ya Harry. We'll leave you guys with two of his most memorable quotes.

"65,000 plus on their feet here at Veterans Stadium. The Tugger needs one more...Swing and a miss! Yes, he struck him out! Yes, they did it! The Phillies are world champions! World champions of baseball! It's pandemonium at Veterans Stadium! All of the fans are on their feet. This city has come together behind a baseball team!...Phillies are world champions! This city knows it! This city loves it!"

"One strike away; nothing-and-two, the count to Hinske. Fans on the their feet; rally towels are being waved. Brad Lidge stretches. The 0-2 pitch � swing and a miss, struck him out! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball! Brad Lidge does it again, and stays perfect for the 2008 season! 48-for-48 in save opportunities, and watch the city celebrate! Don't let the 48-hour wait diminish the euphoria of this moment, and the celebration. And it has been 28 years since the Phillies have enjoyed a World Championship; 25 years in this city with a team that has enjoyed a World Championship, and the fans are ready to celebrate. What a night!"

May the Angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs greet you
at your arrival and lead you into the holy city, the new and eternal Jerusalem.


Currently Watching:
Rookie Of The Year

April 6, 2009 - Monday

Current mood: Socialist

Hey Everyone,

We are just waking up from our hangovers to tell you how we got them.

You see, a while back we got down and dirty and made some lemon cello out of the fresh lemons our friend Jules was trying to get rid of. She has a lemon tree and it dumped a whole mess of lemons onto her. As Italians, lemonade was out of the question. When life gives Italians lemons, they make cello.

We zested lemons and oranges, let them sit in grain alcohol for six weeks, added simple syrup, filtered, and three weeks after that we were sipping on some fine cello. The orange cello that we made is extra good and unavailable at stores as far as we know.

Here's the pics, they don't taste as good as the cello but they're nice :)

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise


Lemon Cello, Day One. The Lemons and Oranges are zested and hit the grain alcohol













Lemon Cello, Day Forty-Two. Straining the liquor and adding simple syrup



















Lemon Cello, Day Fifty-Six. Filter again and bottle












Lemon Cello, Day Sixty-Three. We drink














Currently Reading "Behold A Pale Horse" by William Cooper

March 29, 2009 - Sunday

Hey Everyone,

There was a really crazy protest on Hollywood and Highland the other day and we happened to catch a few photos while we were there. The whole point of the march was to encourage President Obama to pull the troops out of all of their active occupational territories and end all war that the government is actively pursuing throughout the globe. The idea was that there is no difference between two nations or two men that cannot be resolved in non-violent compromising and discourse.

The massive amount of people gathered on Hollywood and Vine and marched down Hollywood Blvd until Cahuenga, where they turned towards Sunset Blvd to walk past the CNN building. After CNN, they turned back to Hollywood and paused in front of the Chinese Theater at Hollywood and Highland to have a symbolic die-in. While playing bomb noises out of giant speakers, everyone fell to the floor and pretended to be dead. The marchers also carried coffins with Afghani, Iraqi, Palestinian, and American flags on them. This was all to bring the visual of death into the safe streets of Los Angeles. In countries where war is physically going on, thousands of dead people in public places and coffins are common.

After the die-in, the protesters arose with cries of "stop the wars," which they chanted until they reached the Armed Forces Recruitment Center on Hollywood and La Brea. Once they got there, they gave a few more speeches and dropped the coffins off at the door of the Recruitment Center, which they called "the war machine."

Here's our pictures, it was really an amazing thing to see we wish that everyone could have been there. We tried to only include the images that convey the energy and feelings that surrounded the day.

Your Boys,

Fat City Reprise



People beginning to gather at Hollywood and Vine







Marching down Hollywood Blvd










The die-in begins, Hollywood and Highland








Marching Again







Dropping off the coffins at the Armed Recruitment Center, Hollywood and La Brea
















Currently Listening To "The Battle Of Los Angeles" by Rage Against the Machine

April 1, 2009 - Wednesday

Hey Everyone,

Wow have we been busy. We're taking a few weeks off from the House of Blues residency this month to play some new spots around LA. We'll be at the Bordello on April 2nd and at the Viper Room on April 12th. The Viper show is free if you message us your name so we can put it on the guest list.

We've also got two awesome gigs at awesome O'Brien's coming up, one on April 11th and one on May 29th. The April 11th show will also feature our good friends Sucker For Pumps and the May 29th show will feature the lovely Audra Mae and the most rockin Automatique. We love it down there in Santa Monica, we hope to see everyone at the show.

We've also been snaking our way through the Hermosa Beach Guitar Center Battle of the Bands. We are playing the finals round on April 19th at Club 705 on Hermosa Beach. We would love to see everyone's smiling faces there.

We'll also be at Les Deux on May 25th and back at House of Blues with our friends Cityzen on April 30th, lots of shows all over the place as usual. We're also still working as hard as we can to get that second album out to you and start our tour so we can do our big loop from LA to Philly and back again. We're going to hit Colorado, Nebraska, Chicago, Indiana, Ohio, New York City, DC, Baltimore, New Orleans, Austin, and Philly with a few more places still on the hopefully list.

In other news, we became bonafied today when we were added to the great Wikipedia.org. Now when you type in Fat City Reprise the article will come up. We're also on the Twitter at http://twitter.com/FatCityReprise so you can see what we're doing at all times. FatCityReprise.net also just recently added a This Day in History section as well as a weekly poll so be sure to check that out too. Lots of new stuff and plenty more to come.

Can't Stop, Won't Stop,
Fat City Reprise



Currently Listening To "You're My Lover Now" by The Teeth

February 25, 2009 - Wednesday

Hey Everyone,

We played the Roxy on Sunset Blvd. on Monday, thanks to our awesome friends the Automatic Music Explosion. It was Jodie's birthday and we had the pleasure of sharing the stage with them for the evening. It was an awesome night, we had a ball. Thanks to everyone who came out to support and once again, Happy Birthday Jodie.
There are some pics from the night on flickr taken by AME's friend R. We'll get more up soon.
Viper Room this Wednesday! Holla at your boys, five bucks to get in :)

Fat City Reprise

February 18, 2009 - Wednesday

It's been an incredible string of blurry days and endless nights since we rang in the New Year. We're going to present the last month to you in television format, that is we're going to leave out the boring stuff like when we go to the bathroom and focus on the highlights.

The House of Blues has been dick poppins the last few weeks. Thanks to Chris and Jaclyn at Can of Jam again for everything. We spent one Thursday shooting the shit with Mike White.



Mike played Spawn in the Spawn movie, Mike Tyson in HBO's Tyson, and was a crime boss in the Dark Knight. If you want to see some really funny stuff, go to YouTube and watch the Black Dynamite red van trailer. You'll notice that the girl on the left side of the photograph is really bothered by the fact that we're taking a picture.

We also got to catch up with our friend T. K. Carter. We met T.K. at a bar in Hollywood and bought him a drink. He came out to the House of Blues to catch a set.



T. K. has been in NYPD Blue, Good Times, The Thing, Different World, The Jeffersons, Ski Patrol, and Punky Brewster. We recognized him from The Corner. We don't know if you've ever seen that show but it's about heroin addicts in Baltimore and it's amazing. We'll be chilling with TK a lot in the future.

Speaking of new friends, we met South Philly's own Dom Irerra outside the House of Blues while walking to get the car. Dom is from 7th and Tasker and we told him we were South Philly guys, we exchanged numbers and he came to a show. Dom got us into his show at the Laugh Factory where he performed with Dane Cook. It was an awesome night and Dom is an absolute gentleman. From moment one, he was all class.



You might remember Dom from the Big Lebowski, Seinfeld, or Dr. Katz. His stand-up is hysterical and he did this awesome bit about Wildwood, New Jersey and no one in the room knew what Wildwood was but up in the balcony we were pissing ourselves. We'll be hanging with Dom when he gets back from tour.

We got to go to the Guitar Center Drum-Off at the Music Box, thanks to Rita and Chelsea for hooking that up. We got to sip on freebie beers while Chad Smith, Taylor Hawkins, and Nicko McBrain were floating around. We got to talk to a lot of people that night, it was really awesome. Here's another shot of us this time with Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden.



We know this blog is all pictures right now and its like the same picture with different people in the middle but we told you, this is television style. No filming sleep, bathroom, or eating. We only do plot centric scenes. We only have 22 mins after commercials. Let's keep this rolling people.

Once again we attended the Grammy's, this year we didn't have the RV so it was much easier to get around. We were lucky enough to be styled by the guys at Elmer Ave. Check out our swingin Elmer Ave jackets.



The list of performers was ridiculous and crazy long. Highlights for us include but are not limited to: Al Green, U2, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, and Buddy Guy. Our super homie Don Cello, Larry Gold, was conducting the string section he arranged when Justin Timberlake took the stage. If you were wondering why Justin sounded so good, it's because Larry threatened to beat him up and down Broad Street if he cracked any notes.

Let's not forget Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl did a version of "I Saw Her Standing There" as if someone asked us what our musical wet dream would be. You never saw four grown men reduced from boisterous to silent so fast. We sat and stared holes in Paul McCartney as he watched Little Wayne, Kanye, TI, and Jay-Z do "Swagger Like Us." Watching Paul watch that performance go on while Dave Grohl played along with them on the drums was almost better than watching them actually play.

We got to meet The Mars Volta, Philadelphia soul legend Bunny Sigler, and Dweezil Zappa (you rocked in the fucking Running Man). We were also blessed enough to run into our homeboy Dice Raw at the concession stand. It's always good to see your friends, especially when you're 3,000 miles away from most of them.

The afterparty was crazy. There was a 60's love theme and all of these performers doing absolutely mind bending things. The headlining act for the afterparty was Morris Day and the Time. That's right, from Purple Rain, of Jungle Love. Jesse Johnson, Jimmy Jam, and Jerome were there too. They ripped up an amazing set, complete with a hair combing in the mirror and a Frank Pedano dancing on stage. It was a thrill to see them in such a small crowd. Frank met Evander Holyfield and we pricked Paris Hilton as she walked by. For those of you who don't know, pricking someone refers to saying someones name in a long and exaggerated fashion and then saying the word prick as that person turns around to wave hello.

All in all it's been a crazy month since we last blogged and more crazy things are to come. It's hard to keep up with everything but we're working as fast as we can to bring you more video blogs, Pirate Radio, and some live videos too. We miss everyone back East and in the Midwest and we promise we'll see you guys soon. Write us a message or a comment and we'll hit you back:)

Your Boys,
Fat City Reprise

MAD LOVE AND SHOUT OUTS TO:
Automatic Music Explosion, Club Dynamite, C Lee, Uranium Productions, SkateSauce.com, Damaged Goods, Elmer Ave, Can of Jam, Rad Brad Lee, Rita and Chelsea, O'Brien's Pub, Giant State, Nicolina Royale, the Roxy, Les Deux, House of Blues, Black Cherry Bombshells, all of the soldiers overseas and at home, SOUTH PHILLY, Hills B-Squad, the Gregster, Bobbie Tots, D Lee, A-1, Mike Ro, Governor Schwarzenegger, the state of California, the letter P, the number 4, and viewers like you.


ANNND...we did the theme song for this comic book that our best friends in the world that we don't live with are working on and writing for DC. They are on our tops friends, after you read the blog, can you hook it up? :) If you have a minute please copy and paste the text after this sentence to an e-mail to harveyballots@hotmail.com

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January 12, 2009 - Monday

Hey Everyone,

Sorry it's been a while since we've gotten in touch, things have been their usual level of crazy around here the last few weeks. We'll try and break it down as best we can.

We played Les Deux twice in December. For those of you who have never been there, Les Deux is a Hollywood club where we've run into Tom Morello, The Hills (A-Squad and B- Squad), Kurupt, the Pickup Artist, Jason Mraz, and Johnny Depp. Yeah we said it, Depp was there and Morello is still stalking us. They were great shows, big thanks to Tuesdae, Ryan and Les Deux. We had an awesome time and can't wait to play there again.

Thursdays at the House of Blues are back in full swing thanks to Chris and Jaclyn of Jam, thank you guys so much, you're rock and roll stars. Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support.

We played a show at the Good Hurt the day after New Year's, that was really fun too. It was good to be back in the bar we played the very first LA show in. We had a wonderful time there as well and it was extremely nice to meet everyone.

We rang in the New Year in full Hollywood fashion on the top of a mountain at a mansion party in Beverly Hills. It was crazy. There was a swimming pool that had one wall facing the sheer face of a cliff so it looked as if it kept going into infinity. Pictures ensued.















All in all, it was a crazy party. There was a Michael Jackson 's Beat It style dance-off in the middle of the room. That's entertainment.

We're comin out swinging in the 09, new album, new videos, new everything. Kickin in doors wavin the four fours, enough new content to blow your mind for oh nine.

ALSO, we just got our songs up on iTunes, you can find the banner to buy the album there on the left side of our page or you can just search us at the iTunes store. Catch you Thursdays at the House of Blues!!

Your boys,

Fat City Reprise