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Dear Comrades,
The curtain is falling. This Saturday, May 24th, at the Berkeley Cafe, the Infantry will be playing it's final show for the foreseeable future.*1 After four years of playing, touring, recording, and shaving Nate's head together, the band is making it's last stand. It's tough to describe in an email the end of something that has meant so much to the six of us, been at the center of our lives.
So, rather than get too serious all at once, a few rumors about why the band is breaking up we'd like to circulate:
1) Chris Serino shreds his guitar too hard. The smoke arising from his "chunky sweet riffs" tm have used up all of our carbon credits under Al Gore's proposed environmental ethics bill.
2) Ladies love Nick Abbate, the bassman. The incessant bra throwing has really taken it's toll on the rest of the members of the band. It's hard to play a serious song when bras are continually thrown. A flung bra during a solo or a chorus is fine, and can be appropriate, but during the verses, it starts to feel, well, demeaning. The bras and phone numbers that pile up near the bass amp can be dangerous and slippery, particularly the bras from expectant and new mothers, and inhibit stage movement.
3) Lawson has a tendency to scratch his inner ear with a pencil *2. See footnote for longer explanation.
4) Dan, the Danimal's side project "Dan's Magic Thunder Drum All Male Revue" has finally made it big in Japan. He will be leaving America for the land of the rising sun. Hai, Danimal-San. Safe travels.
5) Turner will be playing Timpany as part of "Dan's Magic Thunder Drum All Male Revue".
6) Nate finally met Fifty-Cent backstage at a "Dan's Magic Thunder Drum All Male Revue" concert. The two agreed to put aside their differences, and enjoy a concert filled with so many exciting drums, so much magic, and so much thunder. Without the beef with Fifty to drive him, Nate's musical drive dried up.
Allright, now that we've gotten the heavy stuff out of the way...
The band really is breaking up. It's hard to find the right words to say, but will start by saying this; Thank you for the support and friendship over the years. We've put our lives into this, and your help has allowed us to do something we love. Thanks to everyone who came to our shows- who created our shows, from our very first one at a battle of the bands at Pub Hibernian in Downtown Raleigh, up to the present day. Anyone remember the balloon drop? The stuffed animal war? Thank you to everyone who bought an album, played us on the radio, told their friends about us, took the time to encourage us or talk to us after a show. Thank you to all the bands we have played with. Thank you to our friends who have gone above and beyond in helping the band.
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We are playing and recording our final show live this Saturday at the Berkeley Cafe, located at 217 West Martin Street in Raleigh (http://www.
berkeleycafe. net/). The Berkeley is our favorite venue. We'll play almost every song we've ever written together, and release the show as a live album. Jay Cartwright, founder of Eyes to Space and original member of the Infantry will make a guest appearance at the show. The idea is to send ourselves off the right way, in the right spirit, and capture it for posterity. If you know anyone who might want to make it to this show, please forward this to them, give them a call, or post this online- we haven't been as on top of getting the word out as we should have been, and don't want anyone who wants to come to miss the show. If you do come to the show, please help us keep the energy high and do the damn thing right.
There is a sense of pride in all of us for what this band has accomplished, sadness that the band is breaking up, and some fun as fuck memories.Thousands of people have heard our music. It has travelled around the world, and hopefully it will last beyond the lifespan of the band. We are all friends, and while this ends our stint as the Infantry, we will all most likely keep playing music for the rest of our lives. You may hear from some of us soon in other projects.
We began the band with a feeling that brought the band together...hard to pin this down, but a struggle against a type of life that eliminates feeling and brings on numbness. Creating a break from this feeling was part of of our goal. Now the search has to be continued in a different way, not given up.
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Thank you, everyone who LISTENED to our music. The songs held in them everything we could give them, and without listeners they would have, um, been forced to wander the earth; they never would have found homes.
Much Love Comrades- thanks for changing our lives yo.
The Infantry
*1As long as we are all still alive, and able to play, there is a chance we MAY play again sometime in the future.
*2 Lawson gets what could be termed a "deep itch" in his inner ear, and against doctor's orders, he sticks a pencil in it to scratch it...seriously. The repeated scratchings have given him repeated, extremely painful ear infections that could damage his hearing. Oh, but he loves it so. To be fair, he says that he has quit the habit.
*3 Why are we breaking up? We aren't fighting. Sometimes the world, fate, intuition,etc, drives people to different places to chase an itch/ look for purpose. Scratching this itch is an eternal, disruptive problem, but ignoring it is a problem too.
*4 Thank you to Kami. Lee, and Thomas who managed the band over the years.
To Tony for managing our website. To Tom and Linda Abbate for putting up with us, feeding us, worrying about us, taping our shows, and allowing us to use their house as a practice space. To Larry Katzin for putting up our giant billboard, and coming to more shows than just about anyone on record. To the Serinos, for enabling our first tour by lending us money. Thanks to the producers (Steven Heller, Rob Farris, Chris Estes, Evan Lamb, Brennan Watson, Jeff Carrol) who have worked with us, the graphic designers and photographers we've worked with, especially Adam Peele and John Dixon. Thanks to the venues that have hosted us.Thanks to Ed, for offering to let us sleep at his place, the Corner Lounge, which would have been awesome.
the myspace writeup..but IMO best band raleigh has. I love those guys and wish them the best. They will be missed  I know some inside info though and can say I'm not extremely sad as I dont think this is the end
[Edited on May 24, 2008 at 6:00 PM. Reason : asd]  5/24/2008 5:59:28 PM
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