You are NOT kidding, Arcanetrance!

They've had all kinds of adventures and misadventures since they started touring, back in the summer of 2010. Lots! I tell 'em - hey, if nothing else, you've got more material! You can use this stuff when you're being interviewed!

https://www.facebook.com/ACIDICband/app_178091127385

Or just go to facebook.com/ACIDICband and it's the BandPage. Crazy video they did, and the tracks from the most recent album.

Thanks for asking, 6000eliot! There's more on the main page. For example, since New Year's, they've been posting either brief Soundcloud audio blogs or brief video greetings, or both. So you can hear and see them talking about the band and each other, and there are some brief tastes of new songs, too! You may have to scroll down a little.

There are Peabodys and Emmys, and more.

He's certainly earning some! Michael Isikoff could learn some things. Still waiting for anything meaty from him on the chris christie mess. I don't mind repeating this - that he couldn't investigate his way around the inside of a paper bag unless there was a stained blue dress or a Clinton in there (preferably both). Hope springs eternal, I suppose. But it seems to me he buckles down much harder on stories involving sex and Democrats (also preferably both).

Got it. MOST interesting! That's actually encouraging.

My apologies, but I guess by now, I've seen and heard and watched and read so much that points glaringly toward the general "you Dems (or liberals) fucking SUCK!" that I'm always expecting to behavior displays of snark, smugness, bullying, closed-mindedness, condemnation, a sense of entitlement, and a major holier-than-thou complex. They've built themselves a very toxic reputation in my view. So when one hears someone from the GOP acting like a reasoned, civil grown-up, it's welcome news. Surprising news. And good to hear. I'd almost given up hoping that there'd still be humane, courteous, and far less negative or angry or demeaning individuals in that tribe. If they exist, they're awfully few and far between.

Even the GOPer?

That's surprising. I didn't see it, so I'll take your word for it. But it's hard to believe. Most of what I've seen out of the "r's" has been circling the wagons around the fiend-du-jour and taking his/her side over reason or rising tides of incriminating evidence or suspicion of wrongdoing. They seldom ever concede anything. What they mostly do is sort of wander into the general time zone of conceding, and they use a lot of weasel-wordings like "mistakes were made." Notice in the "mistakes were made" fall-back, that there's NEVER a pronoun in there.

Hey America, HAD ENOUGH YET?????

And thank you Sandra.

Sandra Day O'Connor. Who cares if you finally finally finally at this late date (like a few months ago, as I recall) come around to realizing you made the worst mistake of your career? Yeah, gee thanks. Thanks for forcing the Worst President in American History down our throats, and his two damn wars, both of which he broke our bank 'cause he just HAD to have 'em. We'll never let you forget it.

Thank you! We do. We talk about that frequently.

We have what I call "the ACIDIC Imperative" - something I made up as a motto for them to govern themselves by: "be humble and grateful and charm their socks off!" But the humble and grateful part comes first.

Thanks! I hope this whole board celebrates!

I can't even fully articulate how cool this feels! We've been working SO hard for SO long. The nice thing is that others recognize it. I've heard many times from promoters of various types, agents, bookers, PR people, etc., about how you mostly see bands sitting back and saying "okay, make it happen for us." And they just expect it to be handed to them without their putting in any effort, themselves. Somebody's just supposed to come and wave a magic wand and - POOF! - simply make it happen. It doesn't work that way unless you're that little jerk Justin Bieber in a really fluke-y situation where you're spotted by Usher on Youtube 'cause your mom posted something and all of a sudden - POOF! - you're a star. And even then, how's it all working out for him? He didn't work - I mean REALLY WORK for it. It just sorta fell on him like that weird block of green ice from the sky after a plane's exterior toilet valve popped open by accident. And I'm rock-solid certain he doesn't really appreciate it. 'Cause he has no sense of what it's like to work at it and struggle and put the effort in when nobody cares about you too much - and you've still gotta keep on keepin' on, as the cliche goes.

Well, on the other hand, my boys HAVE worked at it. Very hard. Everything they're achieving now, and every dream they're realizing now, they've worked hard for. Put in long hours, about 70-thousand miles on their little tour van - which, when parked next to one of those big-ass tour buses that the bigger-name bands have, looks almost like a Volkswagen Bug by comparison! I saw a photo one of them took of this scenario, their tour van next to Candlebox's big-ass tour bus, and indeed, it was like Big Mommy and Little Baby. They have enough stories-from-the-road and other wild adventures, just in three years of touring, to write a book! They're quite the troupe of veterans even for boys still this young. The youngest is 21. Everybody else is 23, and the new bass player just turned 24 a couple of months ago. Relatively-speaking, still babies. But their little baby feet have rough soles on them already.

They've really paid their dues. They've put in the time and the effort and the hours-days-weeks-months and the miles, and they've earned this!

Welcome to DU, knightmaar!

Glad you're here! Unfortunately, your point is well-taken. Dammit.