Updates

Wow, I have not been using this blog much.

Here are some updates:

- We are going to play at Celebrate Recovery on a Friday night, most likely in February. It's not a set date yet, but it will happen. See www.kbchome.org for information about Celebrate Recovery and the church where it meets. By the way, it's my home church and we recently changed our name to Wellspring (from Kensington Baptist Church).

- We've been doing some writing and some praying about the future. One of the cool things that came out of prayer is the idea of forming a supportive community of musicians by holding jam parties. If you are interested in helping put one of these parties together, write me.

Blessings,
Andrew

Hi everybody

Wow, exciting.

Name Suggestions

A friend called today to suggest a name for our band: Spring Loaded. I like it! I'll tuck it away for some other use, maybe an albumn name.

That reminds me, here's the list of suggestions we received:

Spring Loaded
Standing Still
Still Standing
Parking is Free
Free Parking
Parallel Parking
Spike (named after the snake that was donated to the Wintonbury Coffeehouse the first night we played out)
What's their name again?
WHO cares
Fast fingers
Beyond the box
God laughs
Just passing through
Ps. 150
Joyful noyz
Whatever happened to the Oregon slug?
De-evolution (a DEVO tribute)
ok, that's it for now..
No smoking
Muffy and the Platitudes
Nonsense
Easy listening
Shades of clear
Citizens for Boysenberry Jam (so that we can say that Paul Simon is a fan)
Spirit Explosion
Sympathetic Strings
Harmony on Fire
Yeshua's Rhythm
Nobody's Pink
Bad Baby Names
Banana Seat Racers
Andrew and the Banana Seat Racers
Francis Marion and the Swamp Foxes
Please remain calm and move in an orderly fashion to the nearest exit
Please remain calm (so the MC would say, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain calm.")
A Rhythm of Sorts
Andrew and the X (a reference to the manner of Saint Andrew's martyrdom)
The Andrew Springman Band
The Andrew Springman Group
The Billy Andrews Band
The Yokefellows
Andrew and the Yokefellows
The Tarbubbles
Andrew and the Tarbubbles
Andrew and the Ice Packs
Andrew and the Dead White Men
Welsh Funk Revival
Sparkle

My Father Visits This Site

My father visited this site last night. He told me that he visited. No more. He's very polite that way.

When I asked him about this blog he said that he was pretty sure that he wasn't interested in blogs before and now he's sure :) "It's like reading what people write on the bathroom wall." He's exactly right. Guilty as charged. I've even replied in letters to the editor to things written on the bathroom walls at Wesleyan University. (The Argus archives don't go back that far, so I can't show you).

Blogger and Thumbnails

The blog is now a feed from blogger.com. Now all the band members can post their wisdom and minutiae.

The pics page is also vastly improved. It might even be up to par now. Check out the thumbnails and the links to larger pics! Can I patent that? Single-click thumbnail enlarging. I'll make millions! [<-- Sarcasm]

I also started work on a personal page.

Easter Tuesday

Confession: I made a bit of a mess by posting that 6/12 gig before it was certain. Sorry!

Response: That's OK, we still love you, John.

Double Confession with a Plot Twist: I can't take it anymore. I've got to come clean. It was really me, Andrew. Sorry!

Site History:

* Had a report that the images weren't showing up. Could it be that they were all upper case filenames? Changed them all to lowercase.
* Added internal link in pics page
* Added namesake pictures [and later removed them -Andrew]

Day after Easter

Site History:

* yokefellows.net email addresses weren't working. Replaced them with a yahoo address for the time being.
* moped about email addresses
* fixed the email addresses with help from George C. Huntington III
* greatly rejoiced
* cancelled 6/12 gig
* added email image
* added links to Calvary and Jacob's Well gigs
* added internal anchors on gallery page

Easter

Site History:

* Compressed the images on the pics page...maybe a little too much. Jaggy city! [since corrected -Andrew]
* Added a new image to the gigs page