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Day 2: THE shirt
I know what you are thinking…
“What? A shirt? What’s this business?”
Our original idea for Day 2 was to joke about our favorite outfit we’ve seen Sam in. (Yes, we are very aware these posts sound like high school yearbooks. That’s why we love them.) So while in the trust tree, we discovered something. Something that we BOTH agree on. Wholeheartedly. Without reservation. And in fact, we both thought of it separately, and then we both kind of said it at the same time and were like YES…
Our favorite outfit is the exact same…THE shirt.
OG Sam fans (like early 2009) know of the shirt. The shirt is magical. It has powers which we do not comprehend, nor do we try. The shirt… well.. you just need to see it. In action.
(On a separate note, we also determined that it is really hot when musicians talk or gesture to the sound guys. Yep. LiLi edit: it’s up there with a guy smoking while playing pool. Don’t ask me why…it just is.)
Beware of the awesomeness radiating from the stripes.
LiLi and I experienced the full on power of the shirt in person the Summer of 2009, in Dallas, at the Marcus & Bobby show. Sam, like us, was just there to watch, so he was sans blazer. AND wearing the shirt.
I didn’t get any pictures with the shirt since I wasn’t quite besties with Sam yet. But I did get to hug it. And it was soft. And smelled like sunshine.
And I had this realization… I think we like Casual Sam the best. Kinda like the way Ken has multiple outfits for multiple moods & events– Sam has his dressed up concert look and then his casual v-neck-tee-with-slip-on-vans-rugged-jeans-type thing going on.
Which, don’t get us wrong here people. We love Fancy Sam. A LOT. But in the end, we are beer drinking, sports watching, chicks who dig a man in a tee shirt and jeans tearing it up on stage. Especially if that tee is striped. With a hoodie. And smells like rainbows.
What about you all? Do you have a preferred look or outfit? Don’t be shy….lay it on us.
And of course, be sure to check in tomorrow for Day 3 of our OMG-The-Sam-Bradley-Band-Starts-The-Minor-Tour-This-Week-Post-A-Polooza…where we actually, I dunno, talk about the music? Crazy notion, huh?
where we suffer blogger’s remorse….and then get over it quickly
Over the course of the past year– whoa– wait– hold the phone. We’ve been doing this a YEAR??? Holy Blogging Batman!
Anyhoo, over the past year Amber and I have managed to blog and tweet some amazeballs things that have garnered quite the reaction. Some peeps got our humor, while a lot some haven’t. To be truthful, there’s always that moment of “what-the-hell-am-I-about-to-post” moment right before we hit “publish”.
I mean, remember these posts:
Where we discuss Sam’s eff me eyes.
Talking about c-blocking and sausage fests.
Admitting that Sam looks to be having some nipple fun.
How about when we photoshopped ourselves and Sam and The Men being BFFs all over LA?
Or we admit how drunk we were that one time. Or this one OTHER time– which is also the time we told Marcus we ran a p0rn site.
Or when we speculated that Sam was searching for a “sugar momma”?
And there’s the time that we totally 1st hand-embarrassed ourselves in the name of Christmas.
Yeah. We word and blog vom. Hard. And most of the time it makes us laugh cause we know that we mean it all in good fun and are just trying to give a lighter point of view for the fans of these guys. But sometimes, well, sometimes someone comes along and tries to make us feel bad for it…..and then we do. We get all Serious Sam.
And then we see tweets like THIS from Sam in our timeline:
And we realize that we shouldn’t feel bad for our nipple references and jokes about short pants. These guys seem to have a sense of humor so it’s all good in the hood, yeah??
Now– have you entered our We Blame Brooke Fraser Contest?? Well, why the H not?? Come join us in all the fun!
Tuesday’s Giveaway….er….on Wednesday
Sooooo….yeah….Amber and I were fail. Again. See, the thing is that we both work full time at real jobs cause for some reason no one pays us to blog. And we need money for stuff like food. And water. And Sam Bradley Brooke Fraser tickets that are selling for more than 3 times their face value. Basically we need someone to pay us to write this hot mess awesomeness, so if someone could be making that happen we would love you forevs.
Until then, you all have to put up with our crazy schedules and not being able to post on time. Or to make sense of the posts when we do get to writing them. It seems that last weeks giveaway was so amazeballs that it confused a lot of peeps and we got some crazy emails and questions about it and how to enter. In the end we realized that it was all our faults that we didn’t splain ourselves better. I feel like the Genie when he realizes that Aladdin tricked him into getting them out of the cave. You know what I mean?? Anyone?? Bueller?
Take a mo and reminisce with me:
So yeah, we messed it up. It’s not fun admitting that but I know you all will forgive us (cause you are fab like that) and join us in our NEW giveaway this week, aka the We Make Amends Double the Fun Giveaway!
That being said, without further ado…..what’s up for grabby this week???
A retro Sam Bradley AND THE MEN signed poster ALONG WITH the keychain album from last week!
Cause in the end, we didn’t think it was fair to give the keychain album away when there was so much confusion about it…..so we decided to add it to the prize for this week. Fun, yeah???
Now, you might be thinking to yourself, a “retro” Sam Bradley and The Men poster??? How does that work?? Well, let me tell ya. The Sam Bradley and The Men are no longer– now they are known as The Sam Bradley Band. Stay with me here people. Not only has there been a name change but there has also been a Men change too. (HOLLA Dave– tipping one out for you again!) There is a new sheriff in town member of the band! So, as you can plainly see, this poster we are giving away is retro. Obviously.
So how do you win this piece of history (and the keychain album)?? Easy. Just leave us a comment with the name of the NEW band member and we will draw a winner from the correct answers. Don’t ask Amber who it is though– cause she doesn’t remember– at all.
You have until Monday night at 11:59pm (Central Time) to enter. Then we will do our very, VERY best to tell our jobs to eff off to draw and post a winner by Tuesday morning.
We’re taking this show on the road!
This past Wednesday, Sam announced, via his twitter account, that he will be preforming FOUR shows in LA this coming June and July. And guess who has two thumbs and will be there? THIS GIRL! And Amber. So, I guess that makes it four thumbs? Huh. Well, whatevs, point is….we’re taking this show on the road!
The four shows will all be at the Hotel Cafe on the following dates:
June 22nd buy tickets
June 29th buy tickets
July 6th buy tickets
July 13th buy tickets
We have plans to be at the June 29th show and we anticipate a supa good time (DUH), since we had a blast the last time we saw Sam (with The Men). I mean, check out the happiness:
How can we NOT replicate all this joy in LA? I don’t know whether The Men will be accompanying Mr. Bradley on this particular trip, BUT if they are, well, we have gone ahead and put together a little tour guide for them. I mean, we aren’t LA natives at all, so obviously we are qualified to point out the hot spots. And since we are super nice, we will even offer to personally escort them to our “Must See” sights.
First, Malibu.
You can’t go to LA and not go to the beach. So here we are, laughing it up in front of Amber and I’s rented beach house.
Next on our LA tour of fun:
In-n-Out Burger
All that frolicking in the sand will work up an appetite, so where else would we go but the ol’ In-n-Out?!
After we scarf down our Animal Style burgs we continue the festivities with a trip to:
The Santa Monica Pier
Where we will all try our hand at the Flying Trapeze classes they got going there. Of course, we will also ride the rides, play all the arcade games (6th grade Skee-ball champ, right here, yo!) and overload on some churros from the Churro Man.
After all of that, we will need a place to wind it all down. And what better place than:
The Waffle House!
I mean, if you want to get all technical and stuff, there actually isn’t a Waffle House in LA. Or all of California. But that is neither here nor there, yanno? We can make it happen.
Look how fun it would be to end the night, er, day there:
So there you have it! A spoiler alert glimpse into Amber and I’s LA Vacashe of Fun!
Will you be going to see any of Sam’s show’s in LA? Let us know! We would LOVE to meet some California peeps! And maybe actually go to an In-n-Out Burger after the show. I mean anything can happen people– anything.
More vids for your viewing pleasure!
Sam and The Men ended their tour this past Saturday in Vancouver with two shows. One was an instore performance and the other was later that night (supporting Justin Nozuka) at the Commodore. Naturally, I trolled the ol’ interwebs searching for some vids for you guys. This time I hit gold as I came across not only some gorgeous video of the guys at the Commodore but also of their instore performance at Neptoon Records! Check them out below:
See Sam and The Men at the Commodore after the jump…..
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