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RC GETTING TWO NEW ROOKIES
McCARTNEY BIRTHDAY COVERS SHOW THIS SATURDAY
NEW ALBUM UP & ABOUT, LAST NEW MP3 UP ONLINE
ADAM ON COVER OF NIGHT & DAY/STREET
LINEUP CHANGE #(lost count)
Substitution shocker. We're getting a completely new rhythm section. We love Nasr and Kevin but are pretty sure that, like every change, the band will just keep getting better as a result. This is the longest any lineup has been together (almost two years) so none of us are thrilled about the actual split. They've both done a million things to help make this band great and the new record should assure everyone what great musicians they are. No hating or scandalous details, just feeling that a change will help Rookie Card. You'll still be able to see them doing great things around town with The Ex-Friends (www.mattcurreri.com) and Marie Haddad (www.mariehaddad.com). Bad timing? Of course. When's a good time? Never. The show must go on...
SO PLEASE WELCOME.....
Our new bassist is Pete Bayard http://www.rookiecardthemovie.com/peteb.html . Pete auditioned for us the last time we were looking for a bassist. He played and sang great but didn't seem to have much presence, which is hard to convey at an audition with three strangers. We stayed friends and Adam recommended him to our friends Inigo (http://www.inigomusic.com), who he promptly joined because Adam's aunt's stepbrother, Mandy Pitinkin played Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride. The next time we saw him, he was dressed as a Ramone and was jumping all over the place. Then, he asked us to play his wedding and made Kevin sing "In The Navy". It was a devious trick to make us fall in love with him. Someday we'll forgive him. In the meantime, you can see his 6 foot plus frame provide some balance for Dylan on the Rookie Card stage starting this weekend.
DRUMMER WANTED
Established alt-country/indiepop band. Vocals & a sense of humor score points. Wilco, Weezer, Replacements, GBV, Costello, Old 97's, White Stripes, Big Star. http://www.rookiecardthemovie.com
ROOKIES COVER McCARTNEY AS 64th BIRTHDAY PRESENT
June 17 2006 at Dizzy's http://www.dizzyssandiego.com 7:30
744 Seventh Ave, downtown San Diego ALL AGES
**THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT! GET THERE EARLY!**
Pete's first show as a Rookie plus special mystery guest drummer and Joanie Mendenhall on piano. An all star birthday tribute to Paul McCartney the day before his 64th birthday. Local acts do a couple of Paul songs both fab & Wingy. The Wild Truth, The Shambles, The Truckee Brothers, Dave Humphries, Steph Johnson, Peter Bolland, Anna Troy, Victoria Robertson, Transfer, Get Back Loretta, Gregory Page, Joey Harris & us. Whoa. Our songs are a tightly held secret, of course. Early ideas included "Say Say Say" with Ron Fountenberry (Soft.Lightes) and Costello/McCartney's "Veronica" but we came up with something even better...
WHAT'S ON SECOND?: THE NEW ALBUM
Available at MTheory, Lou's Records, Spin Records and soon to be online. If you can't wait, MTheory will do mail order if you send them a money order. E-mail labeldaddy@mtheoryrecords.com for info. Our Myspace.com album preview ends this week with the final track, "Motor City...Earn Your Angst", a song so epic that we had to upload it lo-fi because the file was too big. Also, be sure to get your last listen to the Angela Correa/Rookie Card duet "I Wish I Missed You" which will be up for a few more days: http://www.myspace.com/rookiecard
SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE NIGHT & DAY SUPERMODELS
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060608/news_lz1w08street.html
Adam on the cover with quotes on almost every page. Very cool last photo ever published of the Adam, Dylan, Kevin & Nasr lineup.
RIP
Moment of silence.
Oh yeah, life goes on...
Sincerely,
Rookie Card
Adam, Dylan, Pete and crash boom bang (know anyone?)
It's been almost a year since we've added anything to our webpage. Yes, Myspace really is replacing keeping websites current. We still keep you updated with regular e-mails so be sure to sign up for our mailing list by emailing us at rookie@rookiecardthemovie.com !
Recently, we did a telethon to raise money for ourselves that got a lot of attention (see the Myspace blog for highlights), opened up for ABC at the House of Blues by doing covers for letters A through M and became the first band to ever play with the Spreckles Organ in Balboa Park (cool pics in the Myspace blog). The big news, of course, is that the new album is out. It'll be available at local record shops and online very soon. We just need to catch our breath after getting the cd's the DAY OF OUR ALBUM RELEASE thanks to lots of procrastination on our part. It came out amazing. We really want to hear what you think so pick it up!
Rookie Card's long awaited second record, What's On Second? has managed to surpass the band's San Diego Music Award winning debut, Near Mint. Preview tracks got over 5000 plays on the band's website and reviews are already praising the record as the band's best work by far. The album's twelve tracks include a slew of new instant classics plus two re-recorded versions of early demos, including the ultra-catchy "Green Glo" which is still one of the highest ranking songs of all-time on GarageBand.com. Once again, the band combines a ton of musical influences with country stompers, singalong pop nuggets, 50's style prom themes, and epic rockers that fade into organ lullabies.
Producer Mike Kamoo once again makes it all sound great together, even with a wide variety of guest stars like Joanie Mendenhall on Wurlitzer, Unsteady's John Roy on saxophone, Kite Flying Society's Kelly Duley on piano and Johnny Eager Band's Doug Camphuis on harmonica. Sarcasm and self-deprication rules on songs railing on namedropping, cellphones, possessive breakups and fake country rockstars but the album also includes the dark piano tune "U Put The C" and a tear jerkin' boy/girl duet with songstress Angela Correa. Per usual, pop culture references run throughout the album (Ferris Bueller, Price Is Right, Elliott Smith, Flashdance) and even the album's artwork and secret bonus track are some of the most memorable in recent years.
A ton has happened last year....
2005 was pretty much a year off for Rookie Card but that didn't stop the Verso, Static Halo, The Marie Haddad Trio, Rookie Ricardo and Blasphemous Guitars from doing a lot. At the end of last year, we predicted we would put out our second record, do a full west coast tour, play a month's residency at an art gallery, make t-shirts and write cool new songs. We did NONE of these things other than finish five great new songs (which Ryan Adams did in the last 15 minutes).
WHAT HAPPENED!?
9 San Diego club shows
6 Sets at 3 Candy Shoppe shows
4 Parties
2 LA shows
2 Shows dressed as old men doing Weezer songs
1 Wedding
1 Street fair
1 Night spent playing 3 different Adams Avenue clubs
1 Wife impregnated
HIGHLIGHTS
Opening for the MC5 and Dramarama.
1000+ Myspace friends.
More nice reviews on Fufkin.com, BloodyRedBaron.com, Coverville.com and San Diego Troubadour.
The Padres not picking our theme song but performing it live on their pregame show (download it on our homepage).
Hearing our music on Hillcrest Cityfest and Mindtrix compilations and Longboard TV.
4th straight appearance on Fox Rox's Christmas Disaster TV special.
3rd straight San Diego Music Award nomination.
ROOKIE CARD'S FAVORITE MUSIC OF 2005
OUR FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2004
06.23.05
ROOKIE CARD VIDEO ON FOX ROX HOMEPAGE!!
Video of our "holiday medley" from last December's Fox Rox Christmas Disaster TV show is now up on their homepage at http://www.fox6.com/foxrox/weekly/default.aspx . Just scroll down and it's on the far right hand side. To see our 2003 Fox Rox appearance and other Rookie videos, check our SOUNDS page.
No shows for awhile, kids. That's what people need when they go four years without a break. Not the end of the band. There's a great second album already written and lots more fun to be had. I'm sure there will be plenty we won't be able to turn down during this little hiatus and we're still playin LA on March 31st. For now, we're passing on a cool SXSW slot and the west coast tour is off until Summer (thanks for the advice and help on that). Until then, come say "goodbye for now".....
ONE MORE GEEZER SHOW!
Saturday March 5th 9pm
FOR THE RECORD 2 (bands doing whole albums)
Hard Rock Cafe, 909 Prospect St. in La Jolla
ROOKIE CARD as GEEZER (http://www.singleclick.com/gallery/Geezer) Weezer's blue debut done as old men
PURE PRIEST (members of Pure Milk & Vamp doing Judas Priest's "British Steel")
Didn't Adam plug into a Judas Priest guitar the last time Rookie Card played at the Hard Rock Cafe? Come see us do the Geezer thing again, hopefully not for the last time. Knowing us, we'll probably do something a little different, won't we?
CANDY SHOPPE DVD
Our friend Dana surprised us by doing a full-on double disc dvd of the entire night from our first Candy Shoppe show. That's 2 Rookie Card sets, 2 Marie Haddad sets, way cool candy artwork and he threw Rabbi Gimbel's Jews Explosion highlights on there too. Good stuff, including unreleased tunes "Namedrop Here, Namedrop There", "Good Riddance", "What's On Second?" and "Motorcity/Earn Your Angst" plus two improvized songs and us doing Iggy & Kate's "Candy" with Marie. Only $15, available at MTheory and...MTheory.
THE NEW PADRES THEMESONG
http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/sd/fan_forum/rock_padres_winner.jsp
and the winner is......Joe Satriani! No wait, he's much more contemporary. The winner is Gary Hoey, a well known guitarist who's already written a themesong for the Padres. How did he top the last one? He yelled "Go Padres!" 22 times in a row. Think I'm lying?
Thanks again to everyone for everything. Now please be quiet while we try to take a nap (i'll give it 3 weeks TOPS).
Repeat to fade,
Rookie Card
*PLEASE* VOTE FOR ROOKIE CARD!! prettypleasewithPadresontop
http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/sd/fan_forum/rock_padres_vote.jsp
Could more people have forwarded us the info for the 2005 Padres themesong contest? Probably not. San Diego City Beat reported that we had the inside track with our name but we wrote one damn catchy song just to be safe. There's over 100 entries you can listen to on the website and a lot of them were recorded on VERY professional equipment. Ours was recorded on a laptop with a microphone built into it (just like "Happy Endings" on "Near Mint"). The judges will only hear five finalists and one of them will be the "fan favorite", decided by a popular vote at padres.com. We need your support! The winner gets $5000, free studio time to record the winning tune, a ton of stadium airplay, throwing out the first pitch and all kinds of other cool stuff. You can vote as often as you want, which isn't really fair, so let's play dirty! You helped us get a shiny award with your mass voting skills, so PLEASE take a few seconds to apply that same technology to let us go down in baseball history!
Here's a few things we forgot to add to the site in the past couple of months......
!!!!!!!!2004!!!!!!!!
What the hell happened?!
We finally put out our first album.
We lost two bass players.
We upgraded with Mr Kevin Gossett.
We were on the cover of San Diego Music Matters Magazine.
We hung out with the San Diego Chicken.
YOU voted us right into a San Diego Music Award.
CMJ Monthly raved about our rookie cards.
We played our 100th show (we forgot to count, it was playing the Music Awards)
MTV2 kept showing an ad locally plugging our El Vez show.
We opened up for Calexico, Bow Wow Wow, General Public, the Violent Femmes and a band in San Francisco that played the windchimes....EARNESTLY.
We played an art gallery, a candy shoppe, a rainy stadium parking lot, a high school, a college radio reunion, a sidewalk, an awards show, an arena football game, Balboa Park's Organ Pavillion, two tv shows, a few benefits, two nearly empty record stores, two radio shows, two street fairs, Los Angeles, Merced, and San Francisco.
We laughed at some people who take themselves way too seriously....twice.
We were overexposed (again, thank god).
????????2005?????????
Album #2: What's On Second?
FULL West Coast tour
Art gallery residency shows
T-shirts (finally)
Cool new songs
http://www.rookiecardthemovie.com/rawkshows.html
Cover Me Badd presents The Blasphemous Guitars (6 string Depeche rock)
San Diego Jewish Journal article (click)
San Diego City Beat feature (click)
BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ
In November, in honor of being accused of wishing we were the White Stripes in San Diego CityBeat, we all donned red, white and black and Adam closed our Alibi show by doing a couple of Jack/Meg tunes with the Viewmasters' drummer, T-Bone. The author of the review showed up and said "How can you say you don't want to be the White Stripes when you're dressed as them?!" Um... Dylan recorded the conversation on his phone. Maybe we'll put it on the next album. Meanwhile, we got our first national album review in genius baseball/rock zine Chinmusic! You can read the whole review at http://www.rookiecardthemovie.com/chinmusic.html but here's probably the best sentence EVER written about us: "Even with all the quirky bits and between-song dot racing, the tunes here more than bring the goods, forcing you to listen without a hint of joke-band prejudice."
11.24.04
SD MUSIC MATTERS MAGAZINE COVER MYSTERY REVEALED
*TINY* SHOW AT CANDY SHOPPE (2nd show added!)
PRIVATE ACOUSTIC SHOW FOR THE OLD 97'S
SECRETS OF NEAR MINT REVEALED (track by track)
OUR FIRST BAD REVIEW
2800 HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DROP A PIN...AND HEAR IT!
SUPER INTIMATE ACOUSTIC SHOW! RSVP *NOW*!!!!
Friday December 3rd at the North Park Vaudeville & Candy Shoppe 7:30pm & 10pm
2031 El Cajon Blvd in North Park
THE ROOKIE CARD SIDEWALK PLAYERS
plus MARIE HADDAD
We recently played outside of 4th & B for folks leaving the Old 97's show. The band's producer liked us so much that he and our friend Daye cajoled us into playing a song just for Rhett and the boys. So we did "Honey" (arguably a 97's tribute) and they loved it! We had so much fun that we wanted to find somewhere special to use our 4 inch toy amps again. We're actually renting out this supercool little theater just for the occasion. It only holds 35 people (and a ton of great oldschool candy) and since it's already almost sold out, we added a second show at 10pm. Just like Vegas! Tickets are only $8.00 and it will sell out so be sure to contact us for tickets ASAP! Opening up is our good friend Marie Haddad who is probably the best piano playing singer on earth but you already knew that.
10 RIDICULOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED THIS MONTH
1. We drove to SF to play one show at the Independent. When we finished our 2nd to last song, no one clapped so Adam got a tad sarcastic. The next band's singer got really into playing the windchimes, which explained why no one clapped. Josh Fixx was awesome. Adam managed to lose the first half of his planner's phone/address contacts, so if your last name starts with A-K...
2. We drove all the way back just so Adam Shaw from Secret Apollo could sing Air Supply with us. Check out the video.
3. We played a lunchtime show to 2800 Granite Hills High School students, all of whom were afraid to clap even though they gobbled up 250 rookie cards in record time. Adam read a myspace message from a student who told us we shouldn't bother coming. When no one was looking, a whole bunch of them told us they really liked us. Shhh! Lee took some VERY cool pictures:
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4. We got our first bad record review in San Diego City Beat from a local writer whose wedding Adam went to. He said we want to be the White Stripes. Check it out. They're doing a feature story on us next month. Teehee.
5. We got our first national press in CMJ's New Music Magazine. We haven't seen it yet but they apparently loved the rookie cards we sent them. They probably thought the cd sounded like the White Stripes.
6. We played a private party at the Limbo Arts gallery in Hillcrest. It's an incredible space, complete with a custom built black & red checkered stage, great lights and lots of space to project stuff (Kevin DREW a 16mm Rookiefilm and people projected drawings and messages on an overhead projector). We'll be doing a really cool series of shows there next year. Stay tuned!
7. Pop Bang Radio put us on their homepage and are raving about us again. Thanks Jay!
8. We were interviewed for the San Diego Jewish Journal and did a photoshoot at the Hall of Champions. Look for it in the December issue at a bagelshop near you.
9. We got asked to perform on a new TV show that's like American Idol for bands. We're taping it at Brick By Brick on December 4th. More info soon.
10. Most importantly, we are on the cover of the current issue of SD Music Matters with the one and only San Diego Chicken. He was at the KCR Reunion we played and was nice enough to come to the photoshoot on less than 24 hours notice. We talked about it in the interview, which we'll post soon. In the meantime, there's more poultry pictures at and you can read Adam's Near Mint track by track commentary that was originally supposed to go with their album review. Much thanks to Jen, Greg and Dryw.
from today's San Diego Union Tribune....
"But the glitches were nothing compared to the unexpected moments, specifically when Rookie Card took the stage to accept its Best Pop Group award, when frontman Adam Gimbel poked fun at a local critic."
We didn't do a thing. YOU did all of the hard work, going to the website and voting for us. We got to do the easy part: getting up in front of 1000 people and talking about how "Ben" Leighton from the San Diego Reader told us last year that he'd make sure we won if we slept with him (moral: don't believe anything you read in the Reader because they're a bunch of liars). The worst music publication in town is never taken to task, so we looked like heroes for pointing and laughing. Folks, this is the greatest thing to ever happen to us and we have no one to thank but YOU. Since this category was a popularity contest, it proves that we are lucky enough to have a ton of cool friends to feed our egos and we love you for it!
We were whisked offstage for two separate television interviews and spent all night getting congrats from all of our friends and family. AJ Croce won the Best Pop Album category we were also nominated for (Adam: Whatever. He was overrated when we were in Bar Mitzvah class too. Just kidding....). We wrapped up the night rocking the afterparty for almost two hours, including a few tunes with nominated guest singers....
Biz Markie's "You Got What I Need" w/Cliff Mixtable & Optimus Rhyme from Bad Credit
RC's "Green Glo" w/Bart from the Shambles
Stones' "Dead Flowers" w/Mario & Steve from the Dragons
Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock" w/Kenny from the Dragons on guitar
Beatless' "Back In The USSR" w/Mark from Rockola/Four Eyes
Costello's "Radio Radio" w/Sven from the Gandhi Method
Replacements' "Alex Chilton" w/Peat & Cady from Truckee Brothers plus Sean from the 7th Day Buskers
We had a blast on the road and this homecoming couldn't have been a better ending. Thanks to everyone who housed the band and came to see us in Merced, SF & LA. Nasr will have a tour diary up shortly. Congrats to all of our friends who were nominated and/or took home a bit of wood and bronze. Thanks again to our vote riggin' posse. You guys rule!
Not Lame has given the album its first review and it's ridiculously flattering. Thanks, Bruce! Here it is. For more reviews, check out our links page.
All of the nominees were announced yesterday and we got nominated TWICE (Best
Pop Artist and Best Pop Album). Having Near Mint get nominated just three weeks after its release is a little mind boggling for us. A ton of deserving friends of
ours got nominated too, including Static Halo, who we're "competing against" for Best Pop Album. Congrats to everybody! Unlike last year, we're nominated in a category open to public voting (Best Pop Artist). It's a straight up popularity contest, so we need your help! No matter where you live, you can go to the website and vote for us. PLEASE?! It'll only take a few seconds: http://sdmusicawards.com/Winners.shtml The other good news is that we'll be performing at the Humphrey's
afterparty! Now there's a new reason to be happy an awards show is over! Unlike last year's karaoke show we did for the Awards that was plagued by last minute cancellations, everyone will be already be there, so we should have quite a few cool guest singers at the ceremony's afterparty. Thanks to EVERYONE who helped us get noticed & nominated!
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