Gauntlet News

Shadows Fall Update

By jason

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner has posted the following blog at the band's MySpace page:

"Hey all,

Just a little note to catch everyone up to date on what's going on over here in NY. For the last two weeks I've been pretty busy outside of the band doing some private lessons and doing clinics in NYC and NJ. I gave a clinic at the world renowned Drummer's Collective on April 25th and it went great, even Late Night with Conan O'Brien drummer (and friend) Max Weinberg and his son Jay were in attendance. The next week I headed off to NJ to start work with drum transcriber extraordinaire Joe Bergamini, on the first Shadows Fall drum book, hopefully due out in October.

As of late, the Shads are prepping to go to LA on Sunday to shoot a video for the song 'In Effigy' off our upcoming Fallout From The War CD, in stores June 13th!!! So I'm assuming we're in for long days, and even longer nites while out in the city of Angels!!! Paul (Romanko - bass), Matt ( Bachand - guitar) and I also have just finished up some new photos and videos for Tama/Ibanez which you will probably see in magazines over the next few months, as well as online: www.tama.com, www.ibanez.com.

Lastly, I'm also going to be doing some clinics in the Northeast with one of my favorite Metal bass players Dave Ellefson, formerly of MEGADETH. These clinics will be fun and laid-back, but full-on metal mayhem nonetheless!!! Here's the info:

Tuesday, May 23rd, 6PM
Daddy's Boston, MA
165 Mass Ave.
617-247-0909
$10 tix on sale now at all Daddy's locations - seating is limited

Wednesday, May 24th, 6PM
Daddy's Nashua, NH
293 Daniel Webster Highway
603-888-1160
$10 tix on sale now at all Daddy's locations - seating is limited

WAAF will be on hand from 4PM-6PM; http://www.daddys.com

So that's about it for now...still working on that new album for next year, and we're coming up with some really interesting stuff. See you out there."