Two Headed Musician - Thursday Nights @ The Good Bar Ventura

EVERY THURSDAY Bruce Kimmell and Rick O. Shay of Shades of Day perform their version of classic and modern covers. Come out to the Good Bar for drinks and fun and The Two Headed Musician will provide the soundtrack.

SPECIAL TICKET GIVEAWAY TONIGHT (7/28/11)!
If you want FREE tickets to the Citrus Classic Balloon Festival on Saturday (Shades of Day will be performing at the "After Glow" at 9PM) Rick will have tickets to give away to anyone who needs them. Just come out to the Good Bar tonight and ask for the FREE tickets. Supplies are limited, first come first serve!

The Good Bar
533 E. Main Street
Ventura, California

ALSO CHECK OUT THE TWO HEADED MUSICIAN YOU TUBE PAGE!

Rick O Shay

VIDEO BLOG: Shades of Day live acoustic on 97.5 KRUZ SB - A Simple Question

B Willing James, Camp O'Neill and Rick O Shay at KRUZ studios in Santa Barbara on the What's New show with Matt Stone and Goerge Pendergrast. 3/6/11

Rick O Shay

Friends in the 805... Shades of Day Live on KRUZ 97.5 Santa Barbara TONITE at 6PM

Friends in the 805... Tune in to the What's New Radio Show tonite at 6 pm on KRUZ@97.5! Playin live and talkin jive.

What's New Radio Show is George Pendergast of Dishwalla and Matt Stone hosting 2 hours of local, regional and national bands. They dig into some of SB's local music history; interview some local and national artists, in studio performances, who’s playing where, and more.

What's New Radio Show on Facebook

Rick O Shay

Blue Agave Upstairs Show - WEDNESDAY MARCH 9

Rick O Shay

Bruce Rick and Sam

Bruce, Rick and Sam playing their version of classic tunes as you get more and more excited (read inebriated) and end up on the dance floor getting your groove on.

That's what we like to see!

Our motto is: "one for the bar, one for the jar, tip jar that is"*

EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT @ The GOOD BAR



*motto scheduled to change.

Rick O Shay

20% OFF SALE at our website and a new review of Take All Night! Check it out!

For the month of December all merch at shadesofday.net is 20% off using the promo code SHADESOFDAY. Get yourself or that special someone in your life a t-shirt or the new CD. It's all avalable at 20% off!

Also, a new review of Take All Night by madeliaette. Read the review on its original site, or check it out below.

"The guys offer you another taste of their usual mix of soft rock, country rock, and true rock in an album with eye pictures as effective artwork.

One flashing light – opens into a melodic clash and tinkle before Brendan kicks in with the vox, gains bounce in the chorus, lingers in the mind as a typical semi-rock SOD treasure.

Sexual pretender – the shortest track gives you rocking beats and Brendan’s clear voice offering up another mind-catching gem that I first heard as a free download some time back. You’ll soon be singing along to this one.

Love parade – this one is one of my two personal favs from the new album. Gentler start with whisper-effect backing. Interesting lyrics to ponder and singalong with.

Everything to everyone – this track almost made it to a fav, starting as a pleasing little tune topped with Brendan’s softer vocal side and leading into a tuneful chorus. You can just imagine Richard bopping away on his drums in the background and Matt swinging away on guitar.

Sidewalk sun – rocky guitar beats intro this song that leads into a boppy country-rock track held on track by Richard’s regular thud-beats til it fades away.

Hollow man – a bouncy intro brings out another facet of Brendan’s vox. You can’t help but bop along to the longest track on the album.

Fear – a kaleidoscopic start, country styled, a long fade out, yet another tuneful display from the guys.

Business side – twisty guitar intro, lots more sway than rock if Richard didn’t thump us out a beat to head-bop to, brings out Brendan’s multiple vocal talent well.

Waiting for a train – my other personal fav opens with some ace drumming from Richard and Brendan’s voice then covers a country-style track well backed by the guys.

Life is amazing – a gentler song ends the album, slower but just as ear-demanding. Drift along on the music and forget it is the last track til it ends calmly on a distant fade out…

…and then you realize it’s time to play the album again!"

Rick O Shay

Camp O'Neill's got a new custom MacDougall guitar! Take a peek...

It was like a scene out of the movie Dazed and Confused. Local artisan Thomas MacDougall rolls up to the barn with a car loaded with custom made amps and guitars. Not necessarily your typical Sunday. However, one of these guitars was made especially for Camp O'Neill. It was the grand unveiling for a guitar Camp had been dreaming about for quite a while. And it couldn't have come at a better time. Some of you may remember that all of Camp's equipment was stolen months back. Since then there has an outpouring of support in the form of loaned amps and guitars, a custom made Willing guitar and now this. Take a peak at the photo below and a little video made on the scene.

Many thanks go out to Thomas and the MacDougall family for taking the time to come up to our neck of the woods and hang with us.

Rick O Shay

Shades of Day on Jango Airplay

The band is now on Jango. Jango is an online radio station that plays music based on the bands you like (think Pandora meets Facebook). I started my own Shades of Day radio station and got: Wilco "I'm The Man Who Loves You", Toad The Wet Sprocket "Stories I Tell", U2 "With Or Without You", Better Than Ezra "At The Stars", Collective Soul "The World I Know", Counting Crowes "Perfect Blue Bindings", Third Eye Blind "Graduate", Keith Urban...

What songs will you discover? Check it out here. Oh, and be sure to become a fan of Shades of Day while you are there ;-)

Rick O Shay

The Santa Barbara Independent's Review of TAKE ALL NIGHT is now online!

By Michelle Drown

Read the article from the Independent's Website here

"Years ago, the West Beach Festival hosted Shades of Day, an Ojai-based band whose infectious mix of rock, pop, and deep grooves nearly stole the show from their main-stage counterparts. Most recently, though, the band released its sophomore album, Take All Night, a 10-song CD that delivers a healthy sampling of the band’s musical interests. The root of the record is classic rock, but the guys keep things interesting by bending the genre to include strains of pop and dancehall. “One Flashing Light” and “Waiting on a Train” are bright, radio-ready songs, while “Sidewalk Sun” gives a nod to The Black Crowes-style hard rock. Other standouts include the catchy “Hollow Man” and “Life Is Amazing,” which highlights frontman B. Willing James’s rich tenor. It’s a solid attempt by a group that definitely deserves to be seen live, and one we think proudly represents the staying power of good old rock ’n’ roll."

Rick O Shay

Listen to TAKE ALL NIGHT! Check out the free stream at Bandcamp.

For a limited time we are streaming Take All Night for free at Bandcamp. Click here to check out the full album.

ENJOY!

Rick O Shay

Take All Night Now Available at Buffalo Records

Buffalo Records is that great record store you love to spend hours in. A load of records from your favorite bands as well as DVDs, CDs, magazines and maybe even some cassettes. It's an audiophile's dream land. Shades of Day's Take All Night is now added to that roster and while we are not in record format (yet), we are still proud to be selling in store.

You can visit Buffalo Records at 92 S. Laurel Street in Ventura (map). Also, online at buffalorecords.org

Rick O Shay

Take All Night Now Available at Salzer's in Ventura

It is official! You can now get your copy of Take All Night at Salzer's in Ventura.

Located at 5777 Valentine Road, Salzer's is a legendary music store in Ventura County. Go pick up your copy of the album and browse their huge selection of CDs, movies, tshirts and more!

Visit Salzer's Records online for more information about this amazing record store.

Rick O Shay

New SHADES OF DAY single - SIDEWALK SUN - Download it NOW!

SIDEWALK SUN is about those moments of doubt that either define you or defeat you. While you can find occasional treasures by keeping your head down, you'll ultimately find more of yourself by looking up, too.

Sign up for our fanclub you will get the song for FREE!

Rick

B Willing, Bruce and Roger talking up Rey Fresco's Freak Fest

Last week in Ventura after the obligatory Corrales run, I met up with Roger and Bruce at the Ventura Theater to game plan for the show next Friday the 29th.  Thank the good Lord for Steve Jobs.  Dude makes it easy for musicians to direct, shoot and edit movies.  Yep.  Took me an entire day to edit and post to youtube, where it promptly got squished and shifted off axis.  Awesome.  Switching to Vimeo.  I may look back when I'm old on the day my filmmaking career both began and ended.  Off topic.  The point is...

We had a good hang, plotting some real action for the show.  Costumes, jams, shenanigans..  I read somewhere there's gonna be a laser show at this thing.  Get right out of town.

It's been a few years since I really got pumped up for Halloween.  I'm gonna really live up the dead thing this year.  We're cooking up a rowdy show, and will be rolling out new Shades merch...

Check out the video here.

B Willing James

Jason Frazier makes a harmonica sound so good

Shades of Day performing the Little Feat song Willin' with special guest Jason Frasier on the harmonica.

Rick O Shay

I'm pissed at Fark today...how dare they claim the drums as a

Today on Fark music was this little blurb: "The Drums claim to have written their "best song ever." Aw, it's cute when a band you've never heard of that named themselves after a useless musical device makes bold statements [Fail]"

Yeah well, Fark FAILS for making such an idiotic statement.

Rick O Shay

Easy Rider and Shades of Day have somethings in common...

I just saw Easy Rider for the first time last night and man...what a movie. The soundtrack alone was awesome. Two of the songs are regular covers we like to play when we have one of those long bar gigs. "The Weight" and "Don't Bogart Me" (although we play the Little Feat version "Don't Bogart That Joint").

Now, where I can score one of those Captain America jackets?!

Rick O Shay

Bad Ball Joint

Bad ball joint leaves Brendan, Kara and M.D. in a pickle after taking a break from mixing the new record.

Kara updates us...

Rick Shay