Thanks to everyone for coming out to Cicero’s for our summer-ending show. We thought it went really well. These days we’re playing around with 6 or 8 tunes for the next record & thinking about a CD release party for Selected Short Works, which just came in & looks great. We’d like to send it out to community radio stations & maybe some record labels so if anyone wants to help with that do drop me a line. I hope you’re all doig well.
Best, -Joe Eisenbraun

Please welcome Aaron Story playing drums: welcome, sir, back from the (almost) dead. We’re serious about this band thing & we need a drummer so please sell your motorcycle.
Please welcome Karl Eggers on guitars, keys, banjos etc: We will love you in proportion to the frequency with which you play that Black Sabbath line.

New songs we’re considering for the next record include:

• Coy Looks & White Lies
• Pedal Steel
• The Other Marriage Song (that’s a working title)
• Carrying Sorrow
• Left Right Left (we’ve rearranged this oldie but goodie from Essays In Pop)

Selected Short Works is off getting printed & we’d like to book a release show. Please send signed blank cheques for pre-order. More soon. I promise. Maybe.
-Joe

There is much news: new songs, new bandmates, upcoming shows …

February comes & goes. The old record is in our pocket: we’re working on cover art & mastering. Another record is being written. We’ve been booking shows to play acoustic without a drummer. I’m frustrated about the drummer thing.

We need help. We need a drummer, & someone local to do graphic design work for flyers. I used tape & some old photos at Office Max to make flyers for the March Way Out Club show. It’s not pretty but it’ll do the trick.

Then my car broke down on the way home. So a drummer, a GDesigner & a car. Thanks for listening.
-Joe

After many moons of searching, The Geiger Counter is at last joined by a trusty bass fellow. That means it’s time to book some shows … right after we cut another record. We did those 13 tracks in June & we’re doing 6 more this week & hoping to have it mixed by February. Then the best 10 or 12 of the 19 will be a record. If anyone were interested in financially underwriting the next disc, we would be more than willing to think on it.

A more casual way of helping out: we’ll be working 12 hour days Sat-Wed so if anyone would be willing to bring us cookies or make us lunch, that would be really nice. Or if anyone wanted to drop by for a spot of tea & hear what we’re doing, it’d be fun to have folks around.

Best,
-Joe

Hello friends, fans, and strangers who read random blogs. If you have been keeping up with us you will know that since the departure of Robert and bassist Tyler, Eisenbraun & the Geiger Counter has had to make some changes, hence the temporary hiatus from any public appearances. As for Joe, he is feeling great and maintaining a balanced, healthy lifestyle. But enough about him, lets introduce the two new members of the group.

Drummer Nathan Larson hails from St. Louis, MO and has been making noise of some sort or another from most of his life. If you get a chance, and you should, check out his solo project Anhten Yaw on myspace. http://www.myspace.com/anhtenyaw

Then there is me, Ben. My contributions to the band include backing up Joe’s incendiary guitar playing utilizing various guitars, keyboards, and banjos.

The only piece missing is a bass player. So if you or someone you love has an interest in becoming the next geiger counter drop us a line.

Last order of business is the new album. Still untitled, this will be the third release from Eisenbraun & the Geiger Counter. Several new songs are still being put together and we are all excited to get these new songs out to the public. The tracks include

• To See You Again
• Didn’t Know that I Know
• The Day I Married Her
• Soft Rock Radio
• History
• The Cold of Winter
• Two Things
• The A.C. Song
• Today I’m Gonna Miss You
• 1 + 1 is 2

In the meantime, we would love to play your house party.
Thanks to all.
Joe, Nate, Ben

You may have noticed the band is on temporary hiatus as everything shifts: Robert is headed to Chicago for school, we’re still working on Untitled Record #3 & we’ve got two possible new band folk to play with. I’m hopeful that in 6 or 8 weeks we’ll all have a solid set down, including bunches of numbers from the as-yet-untitled record #3. Robert will take his computer to school & as I consider the necessary investment for the studio to replace it, I’m also thinking about a switch to Mac.

In the meantime I’ll play your house show if you like.

Best,
-Joe