This Thursday (March 4) Eric will be playing a show in Huntington and then on Beckley on Friday night (March 5). So it’s a world tour of West Virginia, basically.
This Thursday (March 4) Eric will be playing a show in Huntington and then on Beckley on Friday night (March 5). So it’s a world tour of West Virginia, basically.
This Thursday (March 4) Eric will be playing a show in Huntington and then on Beckley on Friday night (March 5). So it’s a world tour of West Virginia, basically.
By the authority vested in me from that game of paper, rock, scissors, I declare this week “Eric Peters Week” in all of West Virginia and here at www.SDSmith.net.
I plan to post a video each day this week as a clever enticement to your ears and heart. I hope you will come to either concert. Eric is a grand fellow and puts on a wonderful show.
Today: A song for his boys called “I’ll Go With You.” Live in Beckley, WV in 2009.
OK, I have given you enough of a break from talking about Eric Peters.
So, Eric came to town and a great time was had by me and my family and friends and everyone was very complementary of him after the concert. Great reviews from the (pretty good-sized) crowd.
One thing people kept saying (especially in my family) was how much Eric reminded them of me. Also, we really do have a lot in common. The disconcerting thing about this truth is that it reveals my oft-expressed admiration for EP as your basic prideful, self-love. Dang it.
But, honestly…Fact: I have nothing like the talent of Eric Peters. He is a unique bird. Plus I’m taller and, I assume, much better at lawndarts.
Here’s a video my brother (Will) shot and my other brother Daryl (Josiah) put on the “internets.”
Eric introduced this song by making a very clever joke about the connection between 80’s music and vermin and things that kill vermin (Ratt, Poisen, Anthrax, etc.). Then he talked about discovering the music of a different era, the music his parents loved. The Turtles, the Beatles, etc.
All I can say to that is a huge “ditto.” (How predictable, right?)
It’s a catchy EP tune from the Beckley, WV concert called, “Little by Little.” You can find it on the record Miracle of Forgetting. (My favorite EP album? May be.)
If you are a local (southern West Virginia), come out and support one of your own. LeeAnn Sharp is a very gifted woman, and you will be delighted to hear her live.
It’s been a while since I have gotten to hear her and I am really looking forward to it. Bring a friend, or twenty.
There’s plenty of seating, the concert is FREE (no tickets needed), and it will be like ice-cream cake for your ears.
LeeAnn Sharp
LeeAnn’s favorite quotation about music?
“Quiet music should be played Loud.” –Linford Detweiler
Also, that Eric guy. But I think I’ve mentioned him a few times before.
1. Tell ten friends and two enemies about the event with the mouth area of your face.
2. Send nine interested and interesting people an e-mail about it. Feel free to quote me out of context.
3. Invite your Facebook friends via our Facebook Event page. –For those of you who don’t know what Facebook is, just make a book of pictures of your face and then send it to your friends. It’s kind of like that.
4. Play up the local angle with the opening act –because local singer-songwriter LeeAnn Sharp is amazing! And way prettier than Eric. And maybe taller.
5. Put up a bunch of these posters (attached, also available on www.coalbiter.com). Put some up next to wanted posters because man, those are hard to ignore. Plus I like to have all my posters in the same area.
6. Visit www.coalbiter.com and find out about this Eric Peters fellow and listen to some of his music. He is not bad if I do say so about himself.
7. Rent a Sky-writing bi-plane and go to work over a heavily populated area of southern West Virginia (may be challenging).
8. Blog about it on your website. So your mom will see it.
9. Take a poster to the football game and hold it up during field goals. The poster says “Eric Peters Concert 12.4.09 Beckley…John 3:16.” Or maybe it just says “I wish our team didn’t stink.” Either way.
10. Two words: spraypaint underpasses.
