DATELINE: October 09, 2005

The Scholars and I will next thrill you on Thursday, October 13th at our first appearance at Greenville Avenue's swinging nightspot The Cavern. Also on the bill are our friends Consolvo and Doug Burr. 

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DATELINE: September 19, 2005

DATELINE: September 12, 2005

Next show is at Double Wide with our friends Shanghai 5 and DJ Nitwit. Should be a great one!

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Also, feel free to visit me at myspace.com/peterschmidt

DATELINE: August 21, 2005

Rich and I will be playing a very special show this coming Friday, August 26 at Bend Studio (5014 McKinney Avenue). If you're up for hearing some music in a non-rock club atmosphere then this is the show for you. Bend Studio is a yoga studio by day and an acoustic music venue by night. We'll being doing this show sans rhythm section but as long as I've Rich there with me I'll be fine. 

It's a little more expensive to see a show at Bend Studio but you get to hear music with other folks who are really ready to listen. I like bars as much as the next person (well, maybe not quite as much) but it can really be a pain when I can't hear the band I came to see because of clinging bottles and yammering drunks. 

So let's consider this an experiment. Maybe we do it once and you find out that you'd rather hear the clanging bottles and yammering drunks. Maybe you are the yammering drunk (in which case I believe that you can bring your own stuff - best call 214.841.9642 for details though). Maybe once you can hear clearly what I'm on about in my lyrics you'll decide that you can no longer in good conscience support what I'm doing. But don't you really owe it to yourself to find out?

Show starts at 8pm, doors open at 7pm (great for you folks that have kids - you can get home early enough not to pay the sitter overtime. It's even great for those of you who want kids - more time to get busy before your boyfriend passes out drunk.) My friend Marc Solomon opens, Rich and I are in the middle and the super talented Salim Nourallah headlines. The room only holds around 80 people so get there early for this intimate evening. You can order tickets in advance at the Bend Studio website. 

Hope to see you there!

peter

DATELINE: July, 2005

DATELINE: June, 2005

New shows listed. More soon!

DATELINE: March, 2005

LIVE: Peter Schmidt and his Gentlemen Scholars

Me and the full band go on our first tour this weekend.

Dallas and Austin will feature prominently in this tour. More info on the shows page.

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NEW WEBSITE

After owning the domain for www.peterschmidt.us for the past couple of years I've finally decided to get this damn thing up and running. From here on out, until the moment I die (and maybe for a little while after that), www.peterschmidt.us will be the place that I'm putting information on all my musical doings. I don't care if I join The Grambling University Tiger Marching Band, from here on out this is where you'll find out about it.

Since, for the first time ever, I'm not operating under the sheild of a band name it makes sense to have the domain name be my name. I can't pretend that I'm not a little upset at the guys who already own peterschmidt.com & .net, both of which have been taken for as long as I can remember.

At any rate, the basic site is up and running but I hope to add a lot more content over the coming weeks. Right now you can find demo versions of some of the songs that will later show up on my next album in the MP3s section and some unreleased tracks from some of my former bands in the Other Projects section. The point is, that when it is done, the website will get you hot, wet or whatever it is when you get excited.

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WORK CONTINUES ON NEW ALBUM

If you've been following my music for any length of time you've probably noticed that everything I do takes longer than I say it will. Well my latest album is no exception but completion is nearing and when its done it will make you pee.

The album is being recorded out at the Echo Lab with engineer Matt Barnhart and so far it has been a blast. The core band is made up of myself on guitar and vocals, Rich Martin on piano, organ and assorted other odds and ends, James Driscoll on bass and Matt Kellum on drums and percussion.

All the basic tracks are finished as well as most overdubs and strings were recorded this past Monday, February 7. And I must say that the strings session went very well indeed with Dave Willingham engineering the sessions in place of an ailing Matt Barnhart. Here's a couple of pics of our valiant string section.


(L to R) Brandi Berry, Jocelyn Hund (Violins), Yura Nakajima (Viola), Eric D. Smith (Cello).