Thank you!

Thank you to all that attended the show on July 2nd. It was a blast and we will be doing it again soon.

The El Cajon Grand at it's new 3,000 sq. ft. Location. Venue includes:
The bands are shown on all 8 big screen tv's, Free Shuttle ride home on Friday and Saturday nights (Driver works on tips)
pool tables, 8 big screen tv's, seating patio area for smoking, horseshoe pits and much more! Now located at 351 W. Main St., El Cajon, CA 92020
619.444.0949 See You There!!!

The New Grand in El Cajon

Be sure and come to see us July 2nd at The New Grand in El Cajon. The place is amazing! They have outdoor seating on a patio with a horseshoe pit and a free shuttle to get you home.

New Show/New Songs

So new songs including Coming Undone by Korn, Mr. Brownstone by GnR, Immigrant Song by Zep, Bad Co by Bad Co, Free for All by Nugent, Anthem by Rush, and Round & Round by Aerosmith. Should be fun!

Next gig has been booked!

We will be performing live at The El Cajon Grand on Friday July 2nd at 9pm. We are adding about 10 more songs to our set list so come on out and see us.

More gigs

Well it looks like we will be doing more shows. The guys have all committed to moving forward with this project and it's going to be a lot of fun!

Great Show!

3:30 AM-Just got home & am trying to unwind in the jacuzzi with a great cigar. Thanks to all our family & friends for all your support. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way-I'm deaf now.

Time's Up!

Only a few more hours to listen to the songs a few hundred more times, do my breathing exercices, practice my screams, drink my warm tea & honey, perfect my autograph skills, etc, etc, etc. See you all tonight!

What a blast!

I can't begin to tell how much fun this has been for me to reunite with this great group of men. We were like brothers 30 years ago and we are again. It has been a pleasure to work with these fine musicians. We are going to rock the hell out of Spring Valley Saturday night!

BLACKOUT!

Scorpions Blackout from our last practice-3/20/10.
http://www.archive.org/details/Blackout_798

Local Props

A shoutout to Ryan from B's Keg in El Cajon-one of the many local outlets that are advertising the show.

Rush Excerpt

Ok-So here's an excerpt of our impromptu playing yesterday of Temples of Syrinx by Rush. This was the song I auditioned for Steve with when we first met. I got neutered yesterday before practice so I could sing this.
http://www.archive.org/details/TemplesOfSyrinxExcerpt

One Week From Tonight!

Great practice today. One week & counting til the big show. A nice exclamation point on a really great three months. Thanks guys!

Our 1st Group Autograph

For our buddy Dave Coy back in Iowa (his idea). Do you have any idea what a $17 shirt is worth when signed by all of us??? $17.

Shirts Are In!!!

Green Manalishi

Less than two weeks & counting til the big show. Here's Green Manalishi by Priest sung by Jim from last Saturday, with my Halford imitation thrown in at the end.
http://www.archive.org/details/GreenManalishi

A Vocal from the elusive Frank!

Yes friends-an actual recording of a vocal by Frank DOES actually exist! Here's Rock & Roll Suzie from last Saturday, a Pat Travers tune.
http://www.archive.org/details/RockRollSuzie

Stoney Dunlap 1962-2008

Ever since we decided to do this I've been looking for my old friend Stoney (Jack) Dunlap, who came to many of our shows back in the day & was a big fan, cuz I knew he'd love to attend. I've been able to find little hints of his whereabouts but never able to fully track him down.

Today, unfortunately, I did. Rest In Peace my friend & God bless.

http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/Inside/2008/jack-dunlap-memoriam.html

ACDC

Here's the two ACDC tunes together. Dirty Deeds from early January & Whole Lotta Rosie from last Saturday 3/6/10.
http://www.archive.org/details/DirtyDeeds_542
http://www.archive.org/details/WholeLottaRosie_26

New Stuff

Here's a couple from yesterday's practice-Full version of Enter Sandman by Metallica and Rock & Roll by Led Zepp.
http://www.archive.org/details/EnterSandman
http://www.archive.org/details/RockRoll_642

Any Orders???

Straight from the studios of Patton Brothers Design.

Reader Shout-Out

The Steamroller is in motion! We're in tomorrow's 3/4/10 Reader. Please pick up a copy. The online link is:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/mar/03/blurt2/

Off The Cuff

So I'll be honest-As a Christian I have some conflicts in posting this audio and wouldn't play it in concert. However-in the interest of posting some audio that is totally raw & off the cuff, here is ACDC's Highway to Hell, played spontaneously during our 1/30/10 practice. We have never played this before so this is without any practice whatsoever, now or 30 years ago, as you can tell by the hectic ending. However, pretty good for no practice!

As a disclaimer-THIS IS FOR ROCK & ROLL PURPOSES ONLY & HAS NO RELATION TO THE SINGER'S ACTUAL BELIEFS.

http://www.archive.org/details/HighwayToHell

Just wanted to give a shout-out to all my Santana High School friends from last night & those that couldn't make it as well. Looking forward to seeing all of you next month at the show-get your shots!!!

Feb 26th Practice

So we missed Jim last night (with his UGLY flu situation) but had a productive practice anyway, sans the bottom end. One month to go exactly, and we are fine tuning & just about ready. We could honestly do a show right now, but with another month we will be awesome (well at least in our minds).

We all wish Jim a speedy recovery & look forward to next Saturday with our rhythm section & UFO vocals intact.

http://www.archive.org/details/SandmanSnippet
http://www.archive.org/details/RosieSnippet

So Steve was out of town last weekend so Jim & I just got together to work on background vocals. Here's a small sample of a couple of our new songs we started working on during our last practice a couple weeks ago.

Original Scene of the Crime(s)

Anyone that knew us 30 years ago-look familiar?? Complete with outdoor urinal (at least on Friday & Saturday nights).

The lyrics to 40 songs is a lot to remember when I can barely remember last week. I'm just sayin.

PARANOID!!!

(but how do we end the song????)

http://www.archive.org/details/Paranoid_460

http://www.archive.org/details/OverTheMountain

Frank had to leave early on Saturday so here's Ozzy's Over The Mountain without rhythm/backing guitar-Only lead guitar, drums, bass, & vocals. RAW BABY!!!!!!

So we have decided to scrap Bad Girlfriend by Theory of a Deadman. Great song but not our style. In it's place I'm excited to add Enter Sandman by Metallica, as well as Whole Lotta Rosie by ACDC, a couple more Priest tunes, a MSG (if you don't know don't worry about it) tune, & another UFO tune sung by our UFO specialist Jim, WITH ME ON KEYBOARDS!

Should be an interesting time between midnight & 1:30 AM!!!!!!!

So we just got good news & bad news about the 3/27 show. The good news is that we get 25% of the bar tab so a special shout-out to all our alcoholic friends-PLEASE ATTEND!! The bad news (for us) is that instead of playing 9-12 as planned we have to play 9-1:30 to get paid. So we're adding a few songs.

http://www.archive.org/details/SweetChildOMine_273

OK-So this is an extremely hard song to sing & play, and if I was in my right mind (never accused of being in my right mind) I wouldn't post this til it was perfect. But in the interest of logging our progress between our 1st practice & the show in March, here is Sweet Child O Mine by Guns n Roses, from our 2/7/10 practice, complete with a missed step-down at the end & our discussion & correction. KEEP IN MIND-TINY DICTATION RECORDER.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePrisoner2

So I'm excited that Jim & I are getting together with his acoustic guitar in a couple of weeks when Steve is out of town to nail down our lead & background harmonies. Maybe I'll post some "Unplugged" sessions. In the meantime, here's a better version of The Prisoner by Iron Maiden from our 2/6/10 practice.

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/sanctuary

Here's our new Reader listing.

http://www.archive.org/details/LightsOut_327
Here's Jim vying for my job with Lights Out by UFO from our 1/30/10 practice.

Pics from our 1/30/10 practice

Thanks to Jim's friend Cheryl for coming out & taking the pics!

Pics from our 1/30/10 practice

Thanks to Jim's friend Cheryl for coming out & taking the pics!

http://www.archive.org/details/LoveRemovalMachine2

After another week of practice, here's a better version of Love Removal Machine at the proper speed. (1/30/10)

http://www.archive.org/details/LilDevil

Here's Lil Devil by The Cult from our 1/30/10 practice

http://www.archive.org/details/DayOfTheEagle

Here's a blues number from our 1/30/10 practice-Day of The Eagle by Robin Trower

30 years ago & now. Taking pics for the flyers & getting ready for the show.

http://www.archive.org/details/NeonKnights

Practice & pictures for the flyers tomorrow. In the meantime-Neon Knights by Black Sabbath.

http://www.archive.org/details/ReallyGotMe

OK, one more, only cuz it has a good Eruption intro, and interesting screams, grunts, & sounds in the break. You Really Got Me.

http://www.archive.org/details/IdesOfMarchwrathchild

Metalheads Only!!! Ides of March & Wrathchild by Iron Maiden-2/23/10 practice. Sorry bout the feedback-still working on the practice positioning & sound.

http://www.archive.org/details/BlackoutPartial

Here's a snippet from Blackout-1/23/10 Practice

http://www.archive.org/details/AtomicPunk

One more from our 1/23/10 practice, our 4th-Atomic Punk by Van Halen. Sounded perfect live but for some reason the recorder picked up too much guitar flange. Hey-this isn't a perfect science man!

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePrisoner

For you hardcore metalheads, here's The Prisoner by Iron Maiden from our 1/23/10 practice.

http://www.archive.org/details/LoveRemovalMachine
OK-Rumor is that our fans (both of them) are hungry for some more nasty practice audio. Can't imagine why, but here you go-Love Removal Machine by The Cult from our 1/23/10 practice (needs to be sped up but you get the idea).

Week 4

Had our 4th practice today and we are sounding better and better every time we meet.

http://www.archive.org/details/TooHot

OK-One more. This time it's Too Hot to Handle sung by Jim, complete with his terrible British accent introduction, while I get a throat massage.

http://www.archive.org/details/HellBent_285

Here's some more nasty audio from the 1/17/10 practice-"Hell Bent for Leather" by Priest with a couple "Bloodstone" snippets (which we decided to learn & add to the set that day) thrown in.

http://www.archive.org/details/EruptionPartial2_148

More of Steve from 1/17/10 with Eruption partials

http://www.archive.org/details/EruptionPartial1

Here's Steve farting around with parts of Eruption by Van Halen, without any practice.

http://archive.org/details/AintTalkinBoutLove

OK-Here's some more raw audio-this time from after the ugly Charger loss on Sunday (so there's an excuse). Ain't Talkin Bout Love anyone?

http://www.archive.org/details/DirtyDeeds_542

OK-So here my friends from only our second practice on 1/9/10 is the first completely raw, unmixed, unedited, audio-recorded with a small dictation device. Enjoy Dirty Deeds by AC/DC

1/9/10 Practice-Screaming in Jim's ear, as if the music volume isn't loud enough.

1/9/10 Practice-Either Jim is going for a high note or is just tired of watching my ridiculous moves.

1/9/10 Practice-Frank & Steve pounding it out.

1/9/10 Practice-Black was the color of the day. Songs much tighter than last week-lookin good!

1/9/10 Practice. When we asked Frank to start dressing a bit sexier it didn't go well.

Here's our ghetto practice space for the next couple of months.

We need more names. Please sign up here.

All Family & Friends-We are attempting to book a Feb show at one of the local clubs (Second Wind?) and need you to post your name & number of guests (under comments) if you plan on attending the show.

Thanks,

Sanctuary

My fingers are on the mend.

Had a great time jammin' with the guys again. My fingers blistered up for the 1st time in years. Must have been the friction from playing the Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath tunes. Kick ass bass guitar in their songs.

Blisters, ringing ears, sore backs & throats, but we made it through four hours. First practice in almost 30 years. A week of recovery and personal practice and then round 2. At least 4 of us got to go home and rest-Jim had to go play 4 more hours with his country band-BRUTAL!

OK-So 1st Sanctuary practice today FINALLY! Playing songs from our early 80's rock era, but trying to talk the guys into a couple of surprises-One current song "Bad Girlfriend" by Theory of a Deadman and best of all-a hard rock thrashing of a classic 80's ballad. More details soon, here & on Facebook.