The Genuine Imitations Blog

Gi's not Fuckin DEAD

2011-10-12T18:08:00.000-07:00

We have just been recordin and album just played a cool show "personality crisis" at Shea stadium

We have just been mostly recording new album will be awesome

- Gi Dave

2011-10-12T18:07:00.000-07:00

Take you out to Dinner Music Video !!!

2011-08-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hncy-_VLcGs

check it out at the link above !

New Video for White Guilt our song !

2011-04-10T21:03:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uLJrV2kNw&feature=related

Cake shop show !

2011-01-15T21:43:00.001-08:00

haven't posted on here in a Awhile ! but any way we look at this great cake shop flyer !

we are also playing goodbye blue Monday this Thursday !

- Dave

Download Pink Floyyd Dark Side of the Moon

2010-08-08T17:00:00.001-07:00

Our new album Download Pink Floyyd Dark Side of the Moon was just released and you can order a cd or digital download online using the paypal button on the right!

Tour Stories 6

2010-01-19T14:20:00.000-08:00

01/08/2010
- Chloe’s Coffee
244 Main Street
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
Our first show was awesome it was in the Burbs of DC the town Gaithersburg was kind of similar to where me and Harry grew up. Just instead of it being the northern suburbs of NYC this was of DC. Any way we played a great show and sold a bunch a stuff. Plus the guys who ran the place where really really awesome.

01/09/2010
- Charm City Art Space
1729 Maryland Ave
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
:http://www.ccspace.org/index.php?action=booking
So I feel like we have been meaning to play Charm City Art Space for like 5 years and it finally happened. It was an awesome show the dude Garret is a cool guy too and his band is awesome. Our friends Steven Fink who lives in Baltimore came out and brought croton Rez Matt Van Assent. Any way we spent the day at Red Emma’s and after the show went to Paper moon Cafe with them that place is sweat good show !

I put Crackers on Harry while he slept in the car it realy pissed him off lol

01/10/2010
7 Day Weekend
1313 grove street
Greensboro, North Carolina 27403
So I didn’t know this would become the best show of the tour and that’s saying a lot because the first two shows of the tour where awesome. This show was just filled to the brim with people and it was dark and they where drunk. The places address was 1313 which I guess actually turned out to be good luck for us this was a great show.

01/11/2010
- Firestorm Cafe & Books ( A worker-owned community event space)
48 Commerce Street
Ashville, North Carolina 28801
:On the bill One Tough Cookie (local), Malcolm Rollick.
So I was really pumped about this place because it was a worker owned collective and as a place it didn’t disappoint the food was awesome. And it was a really cool place. They had a beehive collective thing just like at this activist organization PUSH's office. Malcolm was actually in Dufus and went to Suny Purchase where we also went ! One Tough Cookie was real good too
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01/11/2010
Cobra House
Ashville NC

We played a Secound show this day we rushed from Firestorm to a house party and killed it , it was realy fun ! We met a band there who we found out we where also playing with in Savana

01/12/2010 08:00 PM -
Wonder Root Community Arts Center! w/ Chu Feng
[982 MEMORIAL DR SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
:http://www.wonderroot.org/ for info
Wonder root is a great place ! Its a community Art venue, and some of the art was displayed up on the walls. The show was awesome it was put together by one of our fans named Drew whose own band was pretty awesome , we really liked the song about being in a band with an ego manic Harry says he can relate.......

01/13/2010
Poney Pen
650 e 36th st
Savana, Georgia
So we had been to Savana once before but last time we where only there for like 4 hours. This time we realy got to Check the city out, Its a beatiful place. Pony Pen was a crusty house, the crustys where actually realy nice. So where the fans of Attica Basement.Attica Basement is a great band as well, We went to this nature perserve near the beach and wonderd into this forest that looked liek a jungle

01/14/2010
Soapbox Laundro Lounge
255 North. Front St.
Wilmington, North Carolina 28401

This was our frist shitty show. But every other show on the tour had been so sweat it din't realy matter.We went to South of the boarder earler this day and that was realy realy awesome. They had this super man video game i sweat i haven't played in like 15 years that i love.

2009-10-22T22:25:00.000-07:00

Show this thursday At Goodbye blue monday

2009-08-22T22:16:00.000-07:00

The Genuine Imitations summer tour 2009

2009-07-17T00:38:00.001-07:00

June 27th
Tuscan Cafe
War wick New York
Soooo we had kevin from the impossible buildings fill in and I forgot that you can't teach some one sngs 2 weeks before a show and expect them to remeber them so half the crowed walked away to our out of tune opening number (they where the kind of high school punks who are probably all about bands being professional and having big amps so it was alright but the people who stayed i think dug the rest of our set

June 28th
We played a Litary Magazines Magazine Release show it was pretty awesome
There where skits and Comedians and this awesome band fat worm era. It was a great night and we got paid wel good times !

June 29th

We had a show in Montrail Qubec today but the morning of the 27th i actually got a message canceling it the reason givin because they where unsure whether we wold make it over the board this is my secound bad experience with french Canadians

June 30st
TRanzac
Toronto Candia
A club full of Weirdos a small crowed could hae been worse
here are some general Candida pictures

June 31at
Marecelos Bar and Grill Missugna
Not worth talking about

July 1st
Basement 414
Lansing Michagan

This place was awesome the crowd loved us we played witha great band Edible intentions, we stayed at a cool house called the Good Times gang house and we stayed up all night playing beach boys songs and watching pete and pete , funny enough the only pcture i have is a cat of theres that fell asleep on my sleeping bag (i was on the floor)

July 2
Kitch in Clevland
some stories shall stay untold !

July 3rd
Labyrinth Coffe
James Town NY
Apparntly lucy from I love lucy was from here and its a big deal apprntly also she was a prostitute before finding fame, a guy we knew frm Lansing happened to be playing here the same night we saw Omish people ! and we sold a ton of stuff fun show it looked like europe kinda

July 6th
Cafe Mez
Rochester New York
A guy from the band Dufas was at this show !
The bands we played with where sweat it was generally a sweat show a nice end to the tour in cals home towm !

WRSU radio play

2009-07-13T13:58:00.000-07:00

Gi is being Blogged About on Endless Possiblities Which keeps track of songs Played on WRSU a New Brunswick Radio Station Check it out !

http://epmusic.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/play-list-6309-5-8pm/

Also I found this on the Band Bardo Ponds Website its a list of the Culture shock we played AHHHHHH memories !
http://www.threelobed.com/bardo/messageboard/message/10534/

Show at the Cake shop, recording ! tour almost completly booked !

2009-06-13T20:21:00.000-07:00

We still need a show in Western PA or EAtern Ohio on the 3rd of july
and a show in Ottawa the 29th of June
But the rest of the tour is up on our myspace !

www.myspace.com/genuineimitations

We are also going to start recording our new album darkside of the mooon thanks you'll !

2009-05-03T17:18:00.000-07:00

I never much into playin my own venue wes pac but this show should be neet

The Genuine Imitations May 1st at the Silent Barn !

2009-04-15T20:17:00.000-07:00

THIS FRIDAY

2009-04-07T01:05:00.000-07:00

We are playing at Suny Purchase's Day of dissent put on by there lefty group push we will play close to 11pm or midnight.

Gi dave(me) am also speaking at it at 4pm the date is April 10th The show in in the student Center
Harry (our bass player) will also be playing with another band that night

Dave

Blogs With Gi Tour Stuff !

2009-03-31T12:51:00.000-07:00

We are being Talked about on Two Blogs One is

http://riverbedvideos.blogspot.com/2009/02/genuine-imitations.html
by Gustavo’s from Circus Circus
he posted a Video of us playing at wayward in Gainsville ! Go to Gustavo's blog to see us playing Right wing girl and J Edgar hoover !

http://www.blogger.com/profile/00264256852611885045

the other is from our show in orlando posted on Kick Bright Zine Blog
http://www.kickbrightzine.com/shows/012109.html

South For the Winter Tour January 2009 !

2009-03-30T00:56:00.001-07:00

January 3rd
1619 House Willmington NJ
This was a sweat house show, our first day of the show was great !

January 4th
The Triple Richmond VA
The
show wasn't as good as the one in new jersey but we got played the most
on tour. We stayed with Baptist who is a former Westchester music
maker. They lived at the end of the grave yard and they where really
nice and awesome ! we watched a ton of movies including Hook, I hart
huckabees, super Mario brothers the list goes on. One of the other
bands had there band broken into it made us paranoid . Baptist brought
us to this awesome place that’s what these pictures are mostly

January 6th
Reverb
Greenville South Carolina
The
girl putting on the show was a electronic noise music maker um the guy
don we stayed with secretly hated her I was a little scared of don,
will was in love with him. Met a girl who was from Greenville and went
to purchase ! small world every one there really liked us and we sold a
bunch a stuff. Greenville was kinda bouwa a little like white plains
kinda not relay

January 7th
The interstate estate
Atlanta Georgia
The guy goose who set us up with the show was an awesome guy !
We
met him at the food not bombs in little 5 points a lot people at this
sweat house show we played. Saw a girl there who lived at the house we
played at Atlanta in the summer we where making good tracks

January 8th
Sluggos
Pensacola FL
So
it was sweat to get vegan food. We went to the beach it was beautiful !
we played with this great band called lousey proletariat ! they where
probably the best band we played with all tour and they where in High
school they kind of had this deer hoof but weirder vibe they let us
stay with them and we got to know them kind of well good stop ! the
next day we went to the end of the line café and the vegan food was
even better man vegan food and beaches THIS BOY IS A HAPPY BOMB !

GO GATORS !
January 9th
The Way Ward Council
Gainesville FL
So
apparently the gators just won the championship here Gators shirts
where every where this college town was very college-y The Way Ward
council was a really sweat diy space venue ! it actually looked a lot
like Wes Pac. Will hung out the window yelling go gatros at people and
getting cursed at I stole a go gators sign from a coffee shop and
showed a punk girl threw a window and she smiled . The guy gustevo who
booked us was realy nice and his band circus circus was sweat

January 10th
Orlando FL
So we played two shows in one day today
First a house show with really awesome bands and hip swingin youngsters
Then
cal stayed there and me and will played with Bar with teeney punks both
shows every one loved us litarly at the house show we got 1000 comments
and at the bar every one was dancing in both places I got hit on… not
that that matters. I talked to this one girl who lived out the house
for a long time about community she was having the same problems I had
she was saying community was to her something wider it was actually
every one in the geographic area not just a group a friends it was neat
how some one all the way in Orlando delt with the same kinda bullshit I
did what a wonderful place ! fuck Mickey mouse !

January 11th
Solid Sound Studio
Pompano beach Orlando
We went swimming today and it was January 11th
That’s pretty much all I have to say we also played to a realy big crowd
Cal met her friend sam blum who is really cool we stayed with her grand parents
it was tropical weather nutzo yo !

January 12th
the worm hole
Savana GA
just a littie dive bar just kinda played it to have a littie gas money for the way back people liked us though

January 13th
Bodogia Art Gallery
Wilmington NC
So
this place was over the top it was a wine bar the show wasn't good but
some people liked us but considering how good every other show was
that’s not that bad it was a winder bar this is cal and will looking
boushwa

Tour To austin 2008

2009-03-25T20:01:00.000-07:00

July 9th
Dayton Dirt Collective
Dayton OH
We got up at 6am and I drove for 12 hours , I had driven so long that after 10 hours i felt dizzy and had to stop the car for an hourWhen we finally got to the show the place was awesomeWe played a great show to a great crowed some kid called me a genius (never hurts the ego )
We stayed with a really nice girl named Nicole

July 10th
Swing State
Lake Villa IL
We got up at drove another 8 hours to Lake villa IL by then I was starting to feel physically sick
The show was to a bunch of emo kids and we all thought we sucked but when I talked to people they really liked us

July 11th
The day old Basement
Macomb IL
We drove another 8 hours since we where stuck in Traffic in chicago to Macomb
when we finally got there The show was awesome !
Apparently Macomb is a college town with nothing around it so its a huge party place and what we where playing was a party /diy show
Our set was awesome and we sold a bunch a stuff just hanging out at the party after was way fun

July 12th
Gay dudes Mansion
Blooming IN
We drove another tough 6 hours and this was threw heavy Rain Fall the whole way lighting bolts you could see where close
When we got there though Rob was real nice his band mouth breather was awesome and it may have been one of the best shows of the whole tour
Every one was dancing and the basement was packed, Bloomington IN is a cool college town too

July 13th
Day off

July 14th
Day off

July 15th
The WAy out Club
St Louis Missouri
This show was alright some people there told us they had heard us on myspace and liked us

July 16th
The Replay Lounge
Lawrence Kansas
We snuck into a public cool with water slides and had a great time !
The show was cool too

July 17th
The Stone Pony
Tulsa Oklahoma

WE played a crappy bar show but every one in the bar really liked us
Harry and Bo stayed in a punk squat that was so dirty i decided to sleep in the car

July 18th
the Carolton Arts plaza
CArrolton (outside Dallas and fortworth) TX

considering we rocked pretty well a large space full of
Kids, after we hung at Pablo's the dude who booked us who is pretty awesome his in a good band called rockets to Ethiopia

July 19th
The Bright House
Lubbobk TX

we played an outside Yard Sail and we rocked it , Had a cool political conversation with one of the people who lived in the house
Every one who lived there was really cool really fun good show worth going out of the way

July 20th
Momos
Austin TX
This place sucked but the dude Dave who worked there and we stayed with was awesome

July 21st
Scoot Inn
Austin

Went to this awesome huge Spring and went swimming with Dave
Dave almost hooked us up with an awesome show to some punks in a record shop but instead we just played the shitty show at the scoot, I feel like next time we go to Austin though we laid some good ground work for then

July 22
Art-mophere
Layette Louisiana

the crowed wasn't punk or indie so I was nervous if they would like us
but all my stereo types where squashed when they where really into us
Some one called me mic jagger (funny !)

July 23rd
No show

July 24th
Spillage House for wayward Youth
Athens GA

This house space was awesome !
We spent the day in Atlana GA
Which is a pretty cool city its 5 points district was cool but expensive
The people at the actual show where really awesome too
We had a lot of fun hanging out with them it was one of those perfect days
we also kicked ass when we played the band had really come together !

July 25th
Ramkins
Richmond VA

We thought no one would be at this show so we where happily surprised to see a really good crowd !
we had bizarre experience outside when a guy came up to us and said
want to join the nazi party
to which i said
why
and he said
cuz its cool
to which I said
no thanks I like democracy
to which he said
alright
want to buy a knife
(he pulled out a huge knife)
I said no thanks
and then he said no problem
any way the show was really good and i think we blew people away !

July 26th
Fight Club
Washington DC

This party was really cool a pool skate ramps and stuff and we played with our friends in Aaron Maine and buffalo Eskimo the guy timon in Seth and the swan set us up
I thought we played completely terrible i thought we sucked but then
6 people I kid you not told me how much they liked us
so we couldn't of been that bad !

2007 Secound Gi Tour To LA

2009-03-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

StartFragment --> June 21st - pittsberg pa
- howlers cafe-
no one liked us here

June 22-sandusky Ohio
- the under ground-
We went to the underground were we played the year before. They loved us like they did the year before we loved playing there

June 23rd South bend Indiana
. this crazy guy outside the show talked about how every car in the parking lot had there tired slashed, we thought it was a threat.
it was scary, we played the show and some people liked us some didn't get us

we drove a town over and played a second show this day. It went alright every one seemed to like us.

June 24th -Morris Illinois
-xo underground-
this place was part art gallery part tea shirt place part venue
we played to a real small crowd but they all really liked us

June 25th – Iowa city- Iowa
Xoelopede Zine library
Iowa city is beautiful its like heaven every girl there is beautiful. Me and will were aw struck we had never seen so many beautiful girls in one place apparently in on the road kerouc says the same thing ! The guy who booked us was named Lewis he was so awesome he said to us "me and my grandma my dad and me would be sitting around smoking a joint, I would be arguing anarchy my grandma socialism and my dad aliens (his dad believed aliens controlled the us government0
We played a good show here to maybe only 15 kids though, but so what !

June 26th –Lawrence- Kansas
Replay lounge
We got here I threw up we played a show and got paid the best we did all tour then we were off it was a good show too every one liked us in the top ten from the tour we high tails it to Denver that night

June 28th - Denver- Colorado
3 kings tavern
Boulder is a nice town. We played to one of my favorite audiences and it was one person. I wish I could go back to boulder right now. Some one heckled me for the first and last time I offered to make out with him he didn't take me up on it . the guy working there loved the minute men we talked about it for awhile.

July 30th Reno Nevada
Under ground lounge
We played a show here to absolutely no one worst show so far.

July 1st – Yuba Ca-
Heavy daze cds
We got to Yuba and found a park to sleep in exhausted from sleeping the van. we ended up skate boarding at a free skate park there and going swimming in the pool the place was like paradise. The people who owned heavy daze were real cool and we played the parking lot outside the place to like 80 people it was one of our best shows we sold a lot of albums !

July 3rd - San Francisco Ca
-El richens-
We played a show with a great surf band and a cool twee popey band and the band that booked us was cool. Every one really dug our music it was a good show. Because ! Every one here really liked us

July 5th Long beach Ca- x gallery-
We played an Art gallery here it was alright

July 6th California -Ventura
We played two shows today they both sucked
Ventura Ca sucks so dose were ever our other show was i forget

July 7th San Pedro Ca
This was the best show of our whole tour. We played at a coffee shop and before we played found a guy at a gas station who drummed for mike watt of the minute men ! in another one of his bands the missing men he came to the show and brought all his friends and they all really liked us. Every one in san perdo new mike watt or George Hurley it was an amazing place ! The dude liked us so much they invited us to play a bigger show at this party it was great we sold a lot albums and had a great time san perdo was every thing we thought it would be ! we love you san Pedro

July 10th Albercuqie New Mexico
hung out with a real cool dude, the show sucked though

July 11th Odessa Texas - Einstein's
We got lost some were in the middle of Nowhere in Texas. We saw two road runners ! we finally got to the show as it was ending were we played to a ton a kids who liked us and bought stuff good show !

July 12. Amarillo Texas -EDC house-
We played a a punk squat here nice dudes

July 13th Fort Worth Texas – 1919 hemphsile
A real cool dude Named Pablo booked us here, he was a gi fan from my space. His band was sweet and this was a real fun cool show in a real cool venue. The town of fort worth is so much like white plains !

July 14th Houston TX – super happy fun land-
This place was really awesome the dudes who run it were really cool. All the other bands we played with here were realy good.We played a great show and After most of the bands slept over it was like tour sleep over camp !

July 16th - New Orleans – Louisiana – st rochs tavern -
Burbon street is LAME
Also we played here kind of sucked

July 17th Chattanooga Tennessee
The show we played here was really cool the girl we stayed with melody had a name after a kind of music. She was cool so was the show !

The First Gi Tour 2006

2009-03-25T19:58:00.000-07:00

june 16th --akron ohio --orange street ---- drove 7 hours almost din't play the show played kinda lame emoish looking place but they liked our music stayed at a hotel that smelled like poop

june 17th-- Pittsberg PA----Grafeild art works--- I want to move to pittsberg people there are arty but not dicks and its like willamsberg if it wasn't gentrfyed and people where friendly. Garfeild art works was a good show.The guy who owns the place was asome guy who brought the term industrial goth to pittsburg great venue great city

june 18---Sandusky OH---The underground--- Jägermeister Jägermeister Jägermeister, we snuck into the pittsburg zoo for free this day, then fled from a show in ken(hope the venue owener is dowin ok and bar tender),then ended in sandusky where people are asome and they realy liked our music and there jagermeister underground great venue

june 19th ----kalmazoo michagan--- never go here its fuckin lame

june 20th ---Howl michagan--howl opra house--- this people where asome and this place was asome a real life punk communie right out of that 80s movie subrbia with flea i will miss these kids they rocked it was like peter pan there but in a great way.i still miss they place and there kitties i hope we stop by again there one day the show as good too

june 21st --Chicago IL-- the beat kitchen-- the guy cris was cool got some records at rekless records show well its a city

june 22 ---Wonder lake IL----EWL house--- my banter on stage with a drunk dude is why i love my life and this band geat venue every one liked us in a dudes bassment drove 14 hours directley after it

Show This Friday At the Yippie Museum !

2009-03-22T22:56:00.000-07:00

Old Band New Blog

2009-03-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

Howdy New Friends old Friends Lovers and former lovers, We are an old band with our origins way back as far as 2002. We have been shit kicken around Westchester county new york for most of that time but more recently and with some really cool musical innovations around suny purchase more recently we been shit kickin around New York City and most of America playing 4 tours around this country from Yuba City California to Sandusky Ohio. Where hoping to move to New York City and Start a Venue there I run a little Venue for the teeniers and beyond in Westchester (sigh it’s a living or more accurately not one). Any who this is my intro Blog for All ya’ll cats who have never known us. We are heavily influences by our hero’s the minute men both in out look an music but we hope our tunes go beyond are punk funk 4 mothers and fathers and we bring yeah something a bit different (just a bit now don’t get to crazy child!)

- Gi (clubbertruckin) Dave