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New briefs; 06/16/04 07:01 PM:

Well, we lied about the regular updates.  Maybe we won't lie now; who knows.  But the good news is that "The Will to Strike" is now available from Second Nature Recordings for a ridiculously low price, given that it is three-hours of music across two CDs.  Check it out in our discography, or order it from Second Nature Recordings' Blue Collar Disto store right-the-hell-now.

The following briefs were from September 26, 2003:

Holy mother of God, an update!  Kill Creek is alive and well, and preparing for two releases in the coming year-or-so.  Stay tuned; regular updates are starting again -- Weekly?  Monthly?  We haven't decided yet.  But the end of Kill Creek is in sight, and we are going to out out with some kind of regularity.

The following briefs were from March 24, 2002:

Many of you have asked why we made no mention of Scott's new baby on the site.  Here is the mention.  Scott had a lil' baby boy in September, and everyone is healthy and happy, and Scott couldn't be more proud.  But he doesn't like to mix family and business!

We are heading back into full production for our new record, and are putting a stop to shows.  We are playing a 15-minute set at the Kansas City Music Awards on April 12th, at which we will do a full ensemble, one-time-only live performance of Divorcee with Jazz legend Tommy Johnson and featuring Nathan Ellis and Julie Shields.  This will be a thing of beauty.  Our last show for 2002 will be in mid-May when Casket Lottery returns from tour.

If we had time, we would post the few "best of 2001" accolades that Colors of Home pulled in.  But, as many of you know, we rarely update anymore, so that might be a long time coming.  You can still see some initial reviews here.

The following briefs were from August 05, 2001:

Reviews are in.  Read what people have to say about Colors of Home here.

The Colors of Home page has been updated!  Lyrics have been posted, and info about the performers has been posted.

Colors of Home can now be mail ordered from Second Nature.  Street release date for the normal release is only a few weeks away!

 The following briefs were from April 29, 2001:

It is here!  Colors of Home is finally ready for public consumption.  Record release show is slated for the Bottleneck in Lawrence for May 11, 2001, and will be the first opportunity for the kids to get their hands on one.  This show will be a blast, but we aren't going to announce the bill.  Show up, and see what happens.

Check your e-mail for special offers to longstanding friends with any mailorder purchase of Colors of Home from Second Nature Recordings.

Long Story Short, our 12-song retrospective is, and always will be, available for free.  We will keep these in print for as long as we are active.  Check the link for information on how to get something for nothin'.

 The following briefs were from January, 2001:

Welcome to the new millennium.  Colors of Home has taken a few bumpy detours, but we expect to have it ready for human hands within a few months.  Rumors are abound that it will only be another 6 months before a second album or E.P.  

New show at the Bottleneck in Lawrence in late February.  Perhaps the 24th?

Long Story Short is now available to anyone willing to make an effort to get it.  It turned out to be so handy to have a sampler of our material that we ordered up another trunk-full, and we are willing to get it out to you if it doesn't take much energy to do so.  All we request is a handwritten note of 20 words or more telling us something that will make us smile.  Send it with four stamps and an address label  with your address on it (big enough for the postal service to read, and SELF-ADHESIVE) and it will be delivered once the Post Office forwards your letters from our P.O. Box.  That seems to take anywhere from three days to a month.  One per envelope.  The P.O. Box is:

Kill Creek
P.O.box 1771
Lawrence, KS 66044

DO NOT FORGET THE STAMPS, NOTE, AND PRE-ADDRESSED, STICKY LABEL!

 The following briefs were from August, 2000:

Want the long story short?  Want Kill Creek Cliff's Notes?  The free Long Story Short is in at the SecondNatureRecordings' offices.  And what good is "free" unless it costs you?  Well, to snag a copy, order anything from SecondNatureRecordings, or show up at the showcase below.  Don't bother asking for one before the show unless you are shopping SecondNature....

Meet in the middle?  We are playing an awesome showcase at El Torreon in Kansas City, MO on August 25th.  Featuring six SecondNatureRecordings bands (including Casket Lottery, Euclid, Waxwing, Higher Burning Fire, Small Brown Bike, and Rocky Votolato), this all-ages show starts shortly after 5:00....  Long Story Short will debut as a free gift at the show for all attending.  Click here for details.

The following briefs are from July, 2000:

Kiss Army?  No.  But Kill Creek is definitely looking for folks who are willing to help us get the word out.  Around here, we call people that hang around waiting for any new mp3 or graphic or news update the Kill Creek Bottom Feeders (creek metaphor, y'dig?).  It seems that there are plenty of you who want to know everything there is to know, and plenty of you who have small mentions of us on your websites or whatever.  Some of you work for record stores, radio stations, and other places where converting other kids to fellow-bottom-feeders would be only limited by the band's ability to win the hearts and minds of new listeners.

Well, if you'll trap them, we'll send you the bait.  Go (go back if you've been there) to the REGISTRAR, and sign up.  You'll find a drop box that will help you submit your willingness to help, and the level of involvement you'd be able to dedicate.  It won't be hard, it will put you on a first name basis with us, and perhaps get you advanced copies of our promo stuff.  Do it.  Join.  BELONG.

Long Story Short:  Check out our soon-to-be available teaser for the ever-delayed Colors of Home.  Stealing several cuts from each of our major releases, this is the beginner's guide to the catalog, and the veteran's peek at the new era.  Check out Long Story Short in the discography.  Sound files will be available soon.

 Reflectorland has closed.  We played the final Reflector show with a bit of a sadness; make sure to look up their final work, "Where Has All the Melody Gone."  Our set-list can be seen here.

No shows are firmly in place, although all signs point to an August 25th show at the El Torreon in Kansas City, MO with our Secondnature label-mates as a big showcase of Dan Askew's dedication to music he loves.  Dates will be posted here as they come up.

The following briefs are from June, 2000:

The Hurricane show went very well; we saw folks from Chicago, St. Louis, and Oklahoma City!  Thanks for coming out.  The set-list from that show can be seen here.

Preparation for the big Reflector sendoff continues.  Our surprise CD, "Long Story Short" will not be available, but may be available before too long.  This is another specialty CD, although it will be virtually free if it happens.  It would be a promotional item for Colors of Home, on which three songs from Colors of Home will be followed by 10 songs from our previous records.  E-mail us with any questions or suggestions.  This was conceptualized as a way for new fans to get their hands on old material and vice versa.  See you at the show!

The following briefs are from May, 2000:

Two shows have been announced:  

•     Friday, June 16th, The Hurricane, KCMO

•     Saturday, July 1st, The Bottleneck, Lawrence

This July 1st show is a farewell show to Lawrence's Reflector.  For a peek at the flyer, click here.

The following briefs are from February, 2000:

The strangely overlooked Stretch section of the Listening Room has been updated with sparse notes and lyrics.  Sorry about the six-year-wait.

It is our understanding that St. Valentine's Garage is out-of-print.  A few copies are still around, here and there, but it has disappeared from the online CD shops and is unavailable at record stores.  If anyone knows where there might be a few thousand sitting around, please let us know.  People keep writing us as if we might have some.  Collectively, the band members may have a total of ten.

New demo recordings have been posted in the demo section of the Listening Room

All copies of both Millennium records are sold.  It is all chance at this point!  They have been mailed and received.  Enjoy!

The following briefs are from December 12, 1999:

Game (almost) over.  We sent out an e-mail announcing the retirement of our old database of e-mails, and the race began: since the availability of A Night Before Rock Bottom, and  Old Skool Dropouts had not been made public, the attention drawn to the site by our prompt for folks to re-enlist in the Creek Army drew attention to our recent decision to empty our vaults for the millennium.  The reserve list reached capacity within 8 hours.  BUT, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't attempt to reserve a copy.  Knowing our fans, most will balk when they realize that they have to pay.  The release date for both is 12/31/1999, and we will know shortly after that date who is sincere: their checks won't bounce.  Be next in line so that we can serve YOU if someone doesn't claim theirs.  Just click on the links for the respective records and send in the automated reserve e-mail.

The following briefs are from December 8, 1999:

Very frightening news indeed.  Two new limited edition Kill Creek records are being made available by request from our website for a holiday release.  One is a very nice live recording of the 1996 show before our fateful tour of Canada called "A Night Before Rock Bottom."  The other is a collection of tracks that our closest friends and most remote fans have been asking about for years: a cleaned up, re-mastered collection of various releases that never made it to CD, or that were released on obscure compilations.  It also features a Pat Grassy original piece of art that is destined to leave a legacy to which we could never measure up, we call it Old Skool Dropouts. 

The news is final.  Dan Askew, shooting straight enough to knock an Egyptian Airliner out of the air from 2500 miles away, will be releasing our VERY proud Colors of Home on his label second.nature.recordings, gorgeously packaged by Sean Ingram.  While what we normally say is just a bunch of shit, this will really happen, and it be the beautiful realization of more than a decade of the friendships of Scott, Ron, and Pat, brought to new musical life by Matt Gilhousen, Rick Gray, and the spiritual and creative guidance of Ed Rose, Dave Allman, Bruce Zimmerman and Steve Balcom.  Our teeth are chattering.

The following briefs are from October19, 1999:

Gadzooks are we ever happy to announce that things are finally starting to happen.  The Whimsy project was shit-canned, and we are forging an alliance with a new straight-shooting fellah that has put out some of the finest (and finest packaged) albums from the region over the past few years.  It is a load off of our backs, and a nice inspiration to work with "the right people."  As soon as we get word that they are ready, we will pass on the info.  The working title for this incarnation is "Colors of Home" and will be an 11-song departure on the paths we were forging with "six by two," "with you around," and "chromosome" on "Proving Winter Cruel."  Stay tuned.

Dear Diary has a new ripple; the damn thing has been claimed, and we have pulled the personal information at the Diarette's request.  Look to the newest link, the eulogy for "Sweeks the Mouse," and more detail about the removal of the original diary.

The following briefs are from September, 1999:

Whimsy looks to be a whole new baby, with several songs being added and many being lost in the process.  As this evolves, we will update you here.

We are terribly sorry.  No news is, uh, no news, and we really don't have much news to spread.  The surprise news is that our good friends at Mowdown Music don't have their shit goin' on, so it isn't clear whether we will be releasing our "fan-record" with them or not.  Since the thing has been through the heavy-handed concept and art development, we may have to shop our glut  of out-takes, never-before-released-nor-performed songs, and "fan favorites" that we never released (like "Flood," "Cowhead," etc.) to some other enterprising sort.  Much of our cassette-only releases will be reprised, and the thing will be an annoying look at what we didn't think was good enough for you to hear.  Please keep in mind that our REAL album is still being recorded, so when you hear the outdated, total crap record that might be the Mowdown release, forgive us, and wait patiently.  If you want input about what goes on the damn thing, e-mail Pat.  It's his baby, now.  Give a prayer for Mowdown.

New stuff has been added in the Devolution section.  Thanks to Brad Miller and Mykel Board for pointing out the declines of the times.

Who are we to be on time?  Release dates for all of our records have been pushed back because Scott is a lame, crippled, wanna-be, and hasn't been able to sing a lick on any of the new songs.  Meanwhile, we've almost finished a track for an Elvis Costello tribute album ("Beyond Belief"), and have been invited to participate in a Truck Stop Love tribute album in which we will perform "You Don't Have to Try".  Ancient Kill Creek vault-goodie "My Best Friends" is featured prominently in a new movie soundtrack, and Pat managed to get a short story about our touring trials into a full-length book about different band's touring experiences.  Those are the short and stinkies: we are also switching servers, so most of our forms won't be working....

Our "Dawn of Suck" section has become a repository for strange want-ads and the result of poorly executed advertising-communication skills.  Check out our two new submissions, "The Pig Farm", and "Dick Enough for All", both sent by strangers to suck@killcreek.com.

Look for stealth Kill Creek shows in late December, early January. 

The following briefs are from February, 1999:

Our Dear Diary section was about the funniest damn thing we've introduced to the entire world.   Other people are generally funnier than we could ever be, but only when they are trying their damndest to be serious.  On that note, we'd like to introduce the latest thing we've come up with from the "found art" vaults.  And there is a chance that this could be just as funny:  "Dawn of Suck".

Before you can start a band, you need to find like-minded people to join you in your musical quest.  If you are a total loser with horrific ideas about music, you need to find two, three, even four total idiots just like yourself.  One would hope that complete morons would be hanging out together, safely away from those of us with good taste, but the truth is, sometimes musical nimrods are alone and isolated in their bedrooms, waiting to be discovered by, uhhh, the bedroom scouts.

When that doesn't work, a poor schluck can put up flyers, or pay for an add in a trade magazine.  That is the moment in which we get to peer into his or her soul, and see the locus of inspiration for some of the worst bands that haven't even had time to form.

Please; laugh with them.  And if you have a submission: for God's sake, send it to us.   Keep track at our wonderful new project that we call "Dawn of Suck."

The following "briefs" are from late September, 1998:

We are finally in the "doomsday" stage of the new record.  We will have a clear-cut vision of what it is going to be like in November.   For a short synopsis of what it might look like, check out our new Whimsy link in our "Listening Room" section.  Ideas for cover art are being accepted!  We have a few people picked out, and a few good ideas, but sometimes our listeners are better at what we do than we are.

We have been on a few compilations recently, notably the Coolidge 50 compilation, and the Atmosphere Only Gets you So Far compilation.  Our thanks go out to Jack Coolidge and the folks at No Karma records.