Hank Wood

Yes sir!

2011-09-07T23:17:00.002-07:00

it's that time of year, y'all! yep. time i updated something around here. of course, finally getting internet access where i live might have helped a bit.

i know, my website is just a blank page. probably 'cause i didn't pay for hosting this year. or last year. (i am taking care of that by the way, i do sincerely apologise anthony)

so where have i been the last year? basicaly i have been hiding under a rock. but its a nice rock, right by a river with a great view and wonderful fishing.

and i still wear black socks.

back soon. as in before next year.

back soon?

2010-09-02T16:51:00.002-07:00

anyone who has followed this blog in years past knows that when i say i will be back soon that means either right away or in a month or so. well, this time it took a year. but man what a year it was! i am now back in my hometown of galena missouri, working as an indentured servant to my parents on the farm i grew up on before moving to montana 13 years ago. (yes, that means i live in my parents basement. and im 37years old. but im not gay((not that i think that is bad, because i dont)). at least, i dont think i am, but ive never kissed johnny depp, so maybe i am.)
the band i was in the last 5 years(Premonition) imploded, or exploded, depending on how you look at it, though some of them have carried on as a new band called Eclipse. i wish them the best of luck. turns out their first night playing in public was also my first night playing in public here, and as they say the show must go on. except now im playing lead guitar, which means im in need of a lot of prayer! back soon.....

i'm back!

2009-07-29T16:31:00.002-07:00

thanks to everyone for their letters, calls and emails, it's amazing the amount of encouragement i have received. i would have posted sooner, but figured it best to wait until i had some sober time behind me. six months later i am still clean, i rejoined the band a couple weeks ago, and things are going well. unfortunately i did end up getting divorced, but still get to spend time with hunter. he's been helping me sandblast parts for the mustang, and helped me get out from underneath my fourwheeler last week when he and i were out riding by the old train tunnels in the mountains here and i rolled it sideways down a bank. just normal for me. anyways, again thank you to all, i even got letters in rehab from people i didn't even know, who asked the rest of the band members where i was. that was just amazing! back soon....

Rehab

2009-02-08T09:44:00.001-07:00

I will be at the Rimrock Rehab facility until the 23^rd of February.
Hope to talk to every one then.

The Band?

2008-10-17T17:16:00.002-07:00

well, yes premonition was going to end, but now we are going to carry on for another year. alot went on the last few months, yes, no, maybe, to loosely quote phil collen from def leppard, life is full of difficult bastards, why not stick with the one's you know? or in my case, why not stick with the one's who put up with me being the worst guitarist that ever got paid to play?

i will get to more questions this weekend, and feel free to ask more, but to answer the question about leather pants? no, i have never worn them, but i have worn my wife's, which makes her very unhappy when i do.

but they fit so good!

15 From The Woodpile #3

2008-07-14T12:34:00.000-07:00

the second week of june uncle bill flew up and added some new mandolin parts to the 15FTW album, as well as going through the songs with me on other production issues. it is sounding much more like an album now, just got to get my bass parts down right. we decided we liked how his mandolin recorded in the vocal booth, so for 2 days straight we chatted with each other through headphones. him seated in the corner of the claustrophobic 3' by 3' foam padded vocal booth, and me relaxing at my partially finished recording desk.

here are some pics form that week:

the vocal booth

smokey bear

uncle bill, and bmmw, whose ibanez guitar i borrowed for one of the songs

mandolins don't float so well with those "f" holes in the face............

i like my shirt in this one

uncle bill sitting in the corner

bmmw listening in to us recording, with unkie howards gibson overseeing things behind her.

and this would be daryl the photographer, trying to keep up with the blistering lead uncle bill is layin' down!

makes sense!

2008-07-07T07:11:00.000-07:00

I just read an article on the dangers of heavy drinking....
Scared the shit out of me.
So that's it!
After today, no more reading.

*excerpt from an email sent to me

up next: photo's from the recording thrash with uncle bill. which will answer a couple of the questions i have had in the recent past about particular guitar and recording gear.

the band

2008-06-27T15:54:00.003-07:00

this weekend i get to go camping for the first time this year, the downside to being in a good band is you end up booked all summer with only a few weekends off. the link above is to the posters from last weekend when we played with black oak arkansas at a motorcycle rally. below is a few photo's, the bottom one has john, one of the sound and light guys in it. it was really fun playing a good stage with great sound guys, most of the people we end up dealing with are jerks who think they know everything there is to know. which would be fine if they were able to back it up. just normal. also, i took my digital recorder to the show and recorded 2 and 1/2 hours, so i will finally have some good quality songs to load on the website!

abandoned? nah.

2008-06-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

it's been a very hecktic last year, that's for sure. and unfortunately, the blogging has suffered. But, things are finally slowing down so that i can get back online. last week, uncle bill flew up to redo some mandolin parts on the 15 From the Woodpile album so that is coming along nicely. and Premonition has been busy, last weekend we played a motorcycle rally with Black Oak Arkansas. and about a month ago i hit 2 deer and rolled my jeep liberty, which sucked because i really liked that thing oh well. this first picture is a drawing one of my friends drew on the board of the wreck.

i've also been coaching hunter's little league baseball team, here are a couple pictures from that:

more pictures from the recording session later.

And, a happy belated birthday to Anita in denmark! hope you had alot of fun!

i know, it's been awhile.

2008-01-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

all is well, finally getting everything set up in the basement to get back to recording, and i have some pictures to post as soon as i get permission to use them. more later, including some interesting things i've learned after becoming a step-dad to an 8 year old who i can only outsmart when 8 pm rolls around and he has to go to bed.

new updates? oh yeah.

2007-11-19T21:04:00.000-07:00

unfortunately i haven't decided where to start yet. such a busy summer, so many stories. and so many photos. way too much proof of all i did wrong.

except for that barmaid who offered me a hamburger and so much more...................................

i declined. (the burger AND the so much more)

I'm MARRIED!

so see, i can do SOME things right!

more to come, Happy Thanksgiving................

first,

2007-10-09T07:59:00.000-07:00

i will answer a few emails i have received this summer:

are you dead?

nope

where did you go?

been busy, keep reading.

you used to be entertaining.

i still am, just haven't been good at writing about it.

the reason i've not been writing much this summer? several, most importantly though, i got MARRIED! which was first figured out by anita, who lives way over in denmark!

i also bought a bigger house, with a full basement for all the recording stuff to be set up and used properly instead of having my living room at the old house used as a recoding studio. which, of course, meant that my bedroom was also the living room. not exactly appealing to the ladies, you see?

so, first came love, then came a bigger house, then came marriage, but in no way is there going to be coming a baby carriage.

luckily, misti agree's with this, as she already has one little boy, (named hunter) and has figured out that she now has to raise me also, so she figures 2 bratty boys in the house is enough without adding to it. and the only time i can outsmart hunter is when i make him go to bed at 8. but life is still great, and now with much more room to work on my old cars and do the music thing. i even figured out how to keep misti happy with all my old cars . i bought her one too! it's also the first gm product i've owned with intent to fix up and keep, it's a '61 bel air 2 door sedan.

so as you see, i had plenty of reasons to be away from the computer(including having the internet disconnected for over a month while i moved) and i will get back to posting more, as things are finally settling down. and by settling down, i mean working all day, going to hunter's various sports activities every night, being gone all weekend with the band........................

dead? nah,

2007-08-31T15:59:00.000-07:00

just super busy and neglecting everyone! and it wasn't until this week that the broadband internet got hooked up at my new house, of which i have still not brought the computer over and hooked up. it's been a busy summer, and will only be busier, as misti has moved to town now and is trying to keep me out of trouble. which has worked for the most part. i got some more of the booklet done for the 15FTW album, just need to get back to the music, as that is the funnest part anyways.

last night we set up for playing tonight at the eagle's club, but didn't get to do a soundcheck as there was some event going on. we are all looking forward to playing there again, it's been a couple months i think since we did last, been playing everywhere else, and we play a wedding saturday night way out by the missouri river, in prime lewis and clark country. and no, i was not the one who tore the eye of the needle monument down. i'm too lazy to mess with rock formations. anyways, as i had some time since we couldn't do a sound check last night, i wandered down the street where i was yelled at by colie, the guy who's place i took in the premonition band, to come play bass with him and some other guys i know who were playing out i front of wick's guitar store. so of course, i was more than happy to sit down and prove to the fairly large crowd that i had no business playing any type of instrument in public. or private, for that matter. it all went well, actually, until someone requested a neil diamond song, of which i had never played before. for some reason, after taking a break, i wasn't asked to play anymore..............

geez

2007-07-10T12:34:00.000-07:00

a whole month since i last entertained you people! sorry about that, been a little busy, but finally got the internet working at home again so i can load pictures and such, so i will be back soon with an update!

15FTW update!

2007-06-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

though it has been a while since i took time to post, i havn't screwed off the WHOLE time. just most of it. last weekend i went camping and fishing with the chickipoo and her kid, (and all my friends who decided to just drop by), and the weekend before that me and misti went to virginia city, an old west town in the mountains of southwest montana. those were the only weekends i had off until the end of august from the band, so i figured i better do it right.

but i also worked on the 15FTW album, as i had promised! while it started out to be 15 songs by my 2 uncles and myself from one recording session, it has evolved into 3 cd's worth of material from multiple sessions.

there will be the album with 13 or so songs that will be released to the general public by Knah Records and available to order from CDBABY.com and here, a second album of outtakes, as in the songs that didn't make the original album for family and friends who want it, (and pretty much anyone else who really wants one), and a third cd from the last recording session with all the chatting in between songs to give to the family, as this was the last recordings from my uncle howard before he died. pretty much all the songs will be on either the released album or the outtakes cd. so as it stands after the last couple weeks, the third cd is done, the second is mostly done, just have to finish all the tracks being considered for the album, then put those not used on the outtakes cd. so see, i got alot done!

also, here is the picture to be used on the album cover, there will be additional text and graphics added for the final cover.

this is a picture from '75 or '76 of my dad and his 4 brothers. i'd have a contest to see who could figure out which was my dad, but so far everyone has picked my uncle chet on the left. sitting on the bike next to him in the dorky hat is my dad, sitting in front is my uncle bill, standing in the back is my uncle hoss, and on the right is uncle howard.

here is a picture from last fall of bill and howard playing with some of bill's friends, they are on the left.

and finally, a couple pics while working on the album last night.

though you can't see the front of my shirt in this picture, i hoped unki in heaven wasn't offended by me wearing a pink floyd shirt while editing the music he was so proud to play on his old gibson. and though our styles of music may have been different for the most part, the firm belief in gibson guitars has done well for both of us!

all those notes are the edit times and actions for just 1 song!

and since this is an album update, i guess there is no better time to give up one last nugget of media to the public. the first 2 links have been posted here before, the first is the only full length finished song to be made public so far (used at unki's funeral) and the second is the bluegrass breakfast movie clip. the third is a partial song snippet that i think is one of the funniest moments in the whole recording process. well, except for when everyone in the room was debating whether i would look good in a dress or not. (and they all voted yes, in case you were wondering) so, check out the links, the last will load the fastest, and for everything else you will just have to wait until the album is finished! you will need apple's quicktime7 to view the video clip. (it's a free download)

I am a pilgrim

Breakfast of bluegrass

oops!

last weekend

2007-05-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

got an update coming about playing last weekend inluding photo's, a short video, and the story of me totally hosing up a skynyrd song. good thing most of them guys are dead, or they would be looking to kick my nuggets. more info on the 15FTW album coming too.

it's come down to this

2007-05-14T20:06:00.000-07:00

i said something tonight i thought i would never say. " after last weekend, i may end up playing my fender this friday." though i had an idea i might mention this someday, i never thought it would be so soon. there are 2 things any long time readers of this blog may recall, (both of you)(well, one, now that unk died. and i do miss you, ya country lovin' doink) those 2 things? mr brians wicks is a stallion guitar builder, and fenders suck. i have no hate for any one or anything in this world, but i really do not like fender guitar necks. they are fat and round, and i have these little carny-midget hands that fit so much better on a skinny gibson neck than any fender i've picked up. in fact, my favorite saying is that a fender guitar is a waste of perfectly good fire wood. even funnier is the fact that one of my friends from college, who i remember as a les paul and nothing but peavey 5150 and crate tube amp lover, switched to the fender dark side, and just today, mentioned something about that in this post. (here is his myspace page)

anyways, the reason for this rant: to answer a question emailed to me recently about what guitars i use, to announce that i would actually play my fender strat now that the above mentioned guitar builder reshaped the neck into something besides a fence post with strings on it, and to whine and cry about having really good stuff, set up professionally, and yet i still manage to break them without even trying. some days you just have to be good.

to answer the question, the guitars i use 99.9 percent of the time are Epiphone
G400 SG's made from korina mahogany wood. i have 2 of them set up exactly the same, the only way i can tell them apart is the serial numbers, and even that i would have to look up to see which one i bought first, though one does have a different sticker on it right now. gibson only made a korina sg one year, they look funny, and are very hard to find, so my only choice was to go with the supposed "gibson authorized" epiphone g4oo. as they are now, the only thing left of the original guitars are the wood bodies, all the electronics, wiring, volume/tone pots, and tuners have all been changed out to what i found i liked from trial and error during the first 2 years i played with premonition. gotoh tuners, the pickups are gibson's: '57 classics in the neck position, and '57 burst buckers in the bridge position. the whining and crying part of this post, and the reason i said i may play my fender this friday night, is that BOTH the sg's are at brians being worked on. one seems to have caught a cold and the intonation is out on one string for some reason. and the other, well, i think it's mad at me. it's the one i bought second, and is the one i had all the custom work done to first, so it was my primary guitar the first 2 years in the band. then while experimenting with different pickups on the bridge of the first guitar, that's when i i tried the burst bucker and decided i like it alot better than '57 classic plus that was in the second one i had been using up until then, so i switched which one i primarily used. and i think that made it mad, as i've had constant problems with it since. if we were playing a laid back gig, i just grabbed whichever guitar case was close without even looking to see which one it was, but if it was a more rock gig i wanted the one with the burst bucker, as the other hadn't been changed to that yet. so first, the selector switch died, then a few weeks later a volume pot died. and these had already been updated to gibson hardware. next, it suddenly became very susceptable to changes in humidity, which would make the b string fret out on the first fret. then, the bridge pickup developed a short inside it, so that had to be changed. and now, it's back to the humidity causing it to fret out again, which is why it's back at brians. so i don't know, maybe it's time to build a third one just like the other 2, so that i won't have to fall back on the fender.

now, about the fender. i've hated that thing for years. it's one of the early "american standard" models that i bought new in 97 or 98, before they all came with humbuckers at the bridge. so i put a seymor duncan hotrail in the single coil spot, and i do like the sound of it. there is a really big tone difference switching from the fender lace's at the neck and middle postion to that hot rail, which is nice to have that diversity, i just hated the "feel" of how the thing played. so it has only been played live once, and that was for a birthday party that it was requested just becasue of the way it looks. it's a realy deep blue/purple, and when i first bought it i had a polished aluminum diamondplate pick guard cut for it. (not that i was the first to do this, but it wasn't until the last couple years before this became popular) so in general it was a sweet looking, sweet sounding guitar, that i totally hated playing. in fact, last year when the guys that run the drag strip here in town wanted me to record the star spangled banner "jimi hendrix style" for them to use before each race, i tried using it since that is what he played, but that only lasted one take before going back to the sg. now though, my perspective of the guitar has changed drastically. and no, my fingers didn't grow longer, that stallion guitar builder i mentioned reshaped the neck into something that has a very good feel to it. so while i still don't like the way the control knobs are so close to the strings, and the string height of the body is taller where i plant my little pinkie occasionally, it is now a very playable guitar.

but i'd still rather play my sg's, so my whole point of this epic tale is that i really hope he gets one of my korina baby's feeling better by friday!

ok, i'm back.

2007-05-07T07:30:00.000-07:00

not that i actually left, but it felt like it for a couple weeks. between actually having to spend 40 hours a week at work, (what's up with that?) and headaches from my allergies being annoying, i have not done much of anything. but i managed to get most of my bass parts figured out for the rest of the songs on the 15FTW album, (here is a related video clip to check out of my uncle howard) and got the camper and fourwheelers ready for the summer.

we played last weekend way out on the montana prairie, and while being the most scenic in terms of women who didn't resemble farm animals, it was also the worst night i've had to play with a headache so far. my only goal during the set was to not puke behind the amps. (mainly because the bass and guitar amps on my side of the stage are both mine. and i didn't have the energy to walk to carl's side) in between sets, i went straight to the jeep and took a nap until time to go back on. the owners were great, and had really good food there that we all enjoyed. unfortunately i was only able to enjoy mine for about 10 minutes before it departed and left me with only a memory, but man what a memory.......

anyways, i will get my site updated this week, we are booked almost every weekend of june and july, with several dates during the week too.

update

2007-04-18T18:29:00.000-07:00

update coming soon, thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, and in the meantime check out the new comment to one of my previous posts: Legacy

normal?

2007-04-04T18:21:00.000-07:00

last week was fun. i had the flu for 3 days, then played both friday and saturday night. there is nothing on the history, discovery and national geographic channels that i have not seen. i don't know how many channels i get, but those are the only ones i watch.

we play again this weekend, and i know, i need to get the schedule updated on my website as several of you whined to me about. last week i had forgot about playing completely until carl told me we were setting up and doing sound check that night. oops. it's a good thing i never plan anything more than about 2 hours in advance, and it's also a good thing that everyone knows that my memory sucks and so they remind me constantly of what i'm supposed to do next.

i did finally manage to get all my recording and mastering equipment set up and working again so that i can get back to finishing the bluegrass album. playing through the demo mix's i have to practice to proved that i had forgot how to play half of them. the problem now is that i don't have unk to call to tell me what to play, so i will have to rely on my uncle bill, who plays mandolin on the album, and some of uncle howards friends he played with to get everything sounding right. there is also a post uncle howard was working on before he passed away about playing at the blugrass festival in winfield kansas last fall that my uncle bill is going to finish as he was there also, so that will be up soon.

i'll be back later to answer some questions.

more randomness

2007-03-20T07:11:00.000-07:00

these first pictures are from my sister april's
wedding reception at the college of the ozarks,
november, 2006

wedding cake, YUM!

my sister april and my mum

my dad's brothers and sisters
(from the left)
aunt jane, my dad henry, aunt annabelle,
aunt francis, uncle howard, and uncle bill.

uncle allen and uncle chet had already
passed away previous to this photo,
and uncle howard passed away soon after.
way too soon after.

my mom's sister darlene
(hippie cousin's mom)

mom's sister annie, my nephew zach,
annie's husband j.r., and my dad

i don't know which of my cousin's kid this is,
but she sure is cute!

april and her new husband noel

noel, april, nephew's zach and charlie,
and their mom pam, my brother's wife.

my brother les, me, noel, april, my mom and dad

my mom and dad on the right started this whole mess
of kids and grandkids.

after the reception, we all went to my parents house
and did some playing and recording together.
this picture is my uncle bill on the left, and toddler's dad
bob on the right playing bass.

bob and my uncle howard

me pretending i know how to record stuff

my pop's

me trying to play a puke-a-lele

a very rare sight, me playing an acoustic guitar.

another very rare sight, uncle howard playing
something BESIDES an acoustic guitar

i'm not sure what song he's trying to play, i'm just glad
i picked the orange ukelele as that yellow one would have
totally clashed with my shirt.
and being the style icon that i am, we just can't have a clash!

the birthday bash

2007-03-14T18:13:00.000-07:00

today is rangersis's birthday and a couple days ago was my youngest nephew zach's, so happy birthday to everyone else having one! and since anita from denmark (go check out her website, link is to the right) asked when my birthday is, it is april 9th. (i'll be 34, but don't tell anyone.)

legacy

2007-03-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

these 2 articles are from the college of the ozark's alumni news letter. and yes, i did graduate, in 4 years, and my major was not leisure activities. this first one mentions arthur cahill, who was on the board of elders for the school, and i worked for him doing landscaping and outdoor maintenace almost every evening for the four years i was in college. he was a great guy, always a gentleman and he had a twisted sense of humor like i do. he passed away a few years ago, and would have been 100 this year. he was born on the 7th day of the 7th month of the 7th year. remind me to tell you the story about catching a little bird in a sack at his house and letting it go in the theatre at the college during a play. (click the articles to zoom and read them if you like)

this next article is about one of my favorite teachers. she tried to get me to change my major to business since i took so many classes with her and was actually good at them. another fond memory i have from her class involves sitting next to one of my friends, and during one of her lectures i look over and he is sniffing one of the pockets in his wallet, then wants me to take a sniff. so i did. the pocket was empty, but had a very distinct smell, of which i won't reveal what it was, but he can if he likes, as i recently got back in touch with him after 12 years! his name is gregg, and he was the only influence other than my uncle's in me wanting to play guitar, as he is very good and actually played in the pep band for the college sports teams. which is basically unheard of in a pep band . anyways, he lives in texas and playes for the band legacy.

we also worked in the same department for the college, and have many fond memories of that too. well, some are not so fond, but are definitely classics! remind me to tell you some of those stories some day too. just don't believe anything he says i did, as i'm sure his memory is incorrect as i would NEVER do the stuff he says i did. i swear!
well, it's off to diner and practice a bit before heading out to the eagle's to play tonight. we learned some new songs this week, so it should be a fun night. have a great weekend everyone!

i promise!

2007-03-07T18:21:00.000-07:00

that i will post tomorrow, i have a bunch of random pictures waiting to go up, but right now i am off to band practice, as we are playing this weekend also, i just didn't get the dates put up on my website.

nice!

2007-02-27T18:15:00.000-07:00

here's some pictures that mysteriously look like a nickelback, 3 days grace and breaking benjamin concert that didn't allow cameras in last sunday night. and i don't know how they got on here, either. i was just going to make a post about how great the concert was, and they just magically appeared! misti really enjoyed the full pat down body search. but the guy rubbing her up was much cuter than the one that rubbed me up. oh well.........

here we go again.

2007-02-19T12:07:00.000-07:00

alright, things are back to as normal as they get around here. and for those who might have received an email or text message with a picture attached last week, i apologize, and rest assured that i promise i will not be posting any pictures of my privates (or any part thereof) on this fine blog.

i did finally update my website on where and when we are playing next, and i must say last weekend was one of the best and most fun weekends that premonition has had. we didn't have to play whiney country half the night and the people were really into dancing. tonight we have to go load all our equipment, then i get the rest of the week off to go snowboard and relax from this horendous lifestyle that i lead. some days it takes all the energy i have just to be me.

anyways, rangersis and her new husband, who i have yet to make up a sufficiently demeaning nickname for yet, and his sister have all invaded my homestead, forcing me and holly dog to grab the beer, nacho cheese dip, and a couple dvds and retreat to the fifth wheel camper while they take up residence in my domestic domocile. and, very special thanks to my misti for always being there for me. ( you know what you did, don't make me admit in front of everyone that you cleaned my house while i slept all day after playing guitar all night) luckily the camper is well stocked with necessities, and i hooked up the cable tv, so life is good. unless the furnace quits.

also, thank you everyone for your kind thoughts on my uncle howard, and i'm quite amazed at how many people downloaded the song, it was over 100 the last time i checked!

unkie howie

2007-02-05T07:15:00.000-07:00

2 weeks ago today, my uncle howard, known on this blog as the kansas heckler "unk", passed away after a decade long battle with cancer. he will be greatly missed by his family, and all his friends that he played music with over the past 30 years.

he and my uncle bill were always playing guitar together from the time i can remember, and were a great influence in me wanting to learn to play as a kid. of course, they were quick to give up on me amounting to much, as i wanted an electric guitar, and in their opinion if it plugged in it wasn't an instrument. (a feeling shared by my father, as these are his brothers) fortunately for me, they softened in their old age, and would at least occasionally talk to me about music after i started playing full time with premonition. of course, it was always in some dark alley or while fishing out in the middle of nowhere, as their bluegrass reputation was on the line. out of these back woods chat sessions, though, came the idea for the bluegrass/old country album we have been working on since july of last year. and while i still have a few bass and rythm guitar parts to finish recording, luckily all of howard's were done, and the mixing had begun on several tracks, one of which he really liked, so it was played at the cemetary for his funeral. it was the first time any of the songs had been played in public, and went over really well, so here it is for anyone who wants to download and listen to one of the songs that will be on the album.

I am a Pilgrim Download Song
howard wood- guitar (lead and rhythm) and vocals
william (bill) wood-mandolin
hank wood- bass and rhythm guitar

for the rest of the songs, you'll just have to wait until the album is done, and yes, it will still be finished, as planned. there is also a post howard was working on from when he went to the bluegrass festival in winfield kansas last fall, i will see if uncle bill wants to add anything to it since he was there also, before i post it.

so that is where i have been the last 2 weeks. in other news, carl actually updated the Premonition Live website! and i will get our schedule updated on my site this week also.

the mumbler and the seat hog

2007-01-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

no, it's not a new band, or a children's book. it was merely two of the people i always end up sitting next to on airplanes. but they are not the worst kind to sit next to. that would be princess pooter sitting there airing out her colon and pretending nothing is wrong when everyone around her starts coughing and wheezing. must have been a pretty good book she was reading.............

update coming later, been out of town for awhile.

DISCLAIMER:

2007-01-16T17:52:00.000-07:00

if you happen to be the parents of a girl who might perhaps be dating a contributor to this site, AND you have no desire to see /believe your daughter kissing other girls in the joyous moments following the ringing in of the new year while attending a most excellent performance by a not so famous band in the vast prairie we call central montana, DO NOT PROCEDE ANY FURTHER!

you have been warned.

i'm not kidding, go away now if you don't want to see this!

and if you've ever wondered what our band looks like after a few too many cocktails, here is your answer:

here it is:

2007-01-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

my favorite myspace comment so far: "I am afraid of catching the "hiv" just from being on your myspace page you dirty creep."

pictures, you say?

if slash (from guns-n-roses) parents were tiny tim and a circus midget from missouri, and he had pretty much no musical ability at all, he would have looked like this:

at least buckethead had the sense to cover his face when playing out in public, maybe i should get a good nixon mask.

ok, i will have to get the rest of the photo's up later, right now it's off to practice. because i need to.

from my email

2007-01-08T07:20:00.000-07:00

Are you still alive?

yes, although i don't know how. update with pictures later today. and yes, i know i'm behind on updating my website.

Did your dog really hump the neighbor lady's leg again?

no, holly would never do that. i humped her leg.

elvis is dead

2006-12-27T18:01:00.000-07:00

hopefully everyone had a great christmas, because i sure did. and if you didn't get a christmas card from me, don't feel left out. i didn't send anyone a card. i didn't want to show favoritism, so i neglected EVERYONE! at work today i had to go do a "random" drug test with some of the other guys in the shop. and by random, i mean: we've only had three tests so far, and i'm the only one that has to go to all three. are they implying something? because, i don't need a test to know i take drugs.

as a follow-up to my answer on a previous question concerning dating, i will say things have been looking up, here is a picture of the lucky chic:
i'd tell you her name, but things have not progressed so far as to need to know each other's names yet. but i'm hopefull it will make it to the next level!

here ya go:

1 Are you sure you didn't mean "UN" lucky chic? hehe

well, there is that. i've seen me naked, and i MIGHT have a few issues to deal with.......

2: knowing Hank, he dated them both at the same time, and they just both found out.

i've never made one chic happy, why would i want two women pissed at me at the same time?

3. Carl looks a little gay.

how about i give him your address?

4. Wow, a Marshall and actual twin guitars?

yep.

5. I've seen Hank play both of those at the same time. He's a rock star. Would you like his autograph?

umm, is this a paternity case?

6. Since your profile says you are in fasion, are cut-off jeans really out of style, and how do you keep from getting pills on sweaters?

unless you are daisy duke, and i know you are not, do not EVER wear cut-off jeans! and pills on sweaters? they make electric shavers just for this, they are slow, not much faster than using a regular razor. just make sure you turn your sweaters inside out when you wash them.

7. Feel free.

i do.

8. How did you get access to my home-video collection?

maybe you should ask your girlfriend this question?

9. How many songs does it take to play for a whole night, and do you play them more than once?

i'm not sure how many songs we play, probably close to 200. and if someone hot asks, yes we play them more than once.

10. How come you never capitalise anything?

i'm male, and i'm lazy.

any more questions?

cleanliness is next to ...............

2006-12-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

see what soap and water (and a suit) can do for the 'ol hankmeister?

(the female companions will remain unnamed to protect the not-so-innocent!)

update's

2006-12-14T07:30:00.000-07:00

ok, i switched to the new blogger software, so any conributors to my blog's will have to update when you log in. other than that, it's been a pretty quiet week so far, but it's about to get busy for the weekend. which is a good thing. it keeps me busy and entertains my multiple personalities, because nothing good comes from me being bored. that i have learned the hard way. anyway, i will be back later to answer the questions i didn't get to last week.

i know.

2006-12-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

yes, i've read the emails, what's up, how was your trip, when are you going to post again, this place is getting boring, did your dog really hump the neighbor lady again..........

all of which are very good questions. and i guess i better get to answering some of them as snowboarding season starts in 2 days, which will significantly cut into my few weekend moments to play on the 'net and post romantic interludes and confess my dirty deeds from the previous week. i'm not sure if i had a point there or not.

anyways, i'll be back later today to answer all the above questions plus any in the comments that i have not got to yet. right now, i'm off to find some hazelnut coffee.

here we go:

the trip was long and boring, luckily i had plenty of dvd's to watch as i drove down the interstsate, and yes, i know that is dangerous/illegal, but really, it's the least of my many bad habit's. i started watching season one of the hbo show six feet under, and i think i am totally in love with the brenda character. the rest of the show is great, too. just a few more episodes left in season one, then i'm off to season two.

i did take some pictures while in missouri, unfortunately not any at my sister's wedding. mainly because i was 2 hours late getting there. but, i promise i will get some photo's and post them just for you anita!

we played at the festival of tree's last weekend, and it was definitely the biggest crowd we have ever ran off. we started with over 400 people, and within an hour there was about 50. but it was late when we started playing. oh well. i did get to try out my new amp, it's a hughes and kettner, don't remember the model at the moment, but i liked it, just need more time to get it dialed in. from playing it that night i think i will be using it out on the road instead of lugging my marshall and all the rack stuff it needs to get a semi-clean sound. unless, of course, we are playing something outdoors where we can play all rock, then i will bring it and the 4x12 cab as it has the sweetest overdrive tone.

and let's see, someone asked how the dating scene was going, and i must say it has pretty much sucked lately. the random encounters with new people have been great, but the actual "date's" have pretty much all been bad, bad, bad. and with the office christmas party coming up next week, it looks like once again i will be ordering a chic from whores-R-us to accompany me. which reminds me, i better get my order in soon, the best one's always sell out fast.

alright, enough for now, i will be back later with more answers to YOUR questions!

12/7/06

Since today is Pearl Harbor Day, I just wanted to say thanks to all who have fought and died for our great country. The first picture is from the day after the attack when the USS Arizona was still burning, with over 1100 guys still trapped inside her. Due to being forced into a defensive mode in case the Japanese tried to invade the island, no resources (man power) could be spared from the war effort to rescue the men from inside the ship, and up until christmas day from inside the ship loud bangs could be heard from the guys hitting the steel walls with wrenches, to let people know they were still alive, unfortunately they were never to be saved. This picture is one that I have framed in my office, and I tell them thanks for their sacrifice every day. Of course, this way of thinking has also brought ME lots of pain and suffering, as in the not so recent past I often decided to go out and party for those guys in honor of them, which always ended up in way too much booze and painkillers, but luckily now I have decided maybe they would appreciate my living a decent, healthy, american lifestyle even more. So, I raise my cup of coffee in a salute to the guys in our armed forces, past present and future!

i'm back

2006-11-30T07:12:00.000-07:00

since i had lots of time to think while i was driving home from missouri i have plenty of demented ideas to write about, but for now, check out this article. what is wrong with these people?

checking out!

2006-11-18T20:18:00.000-07:00

i'm heading to the big MO, more later this week. and no, i will not be playing with the guys this coming weekend at the bar-19 as i will be spending the week with my parents and attending my sisters wedding. i guess she's not a lesbian after all.

just normal

2006-11-13T07:13:00.000-07:00

we played in havre this weekend, and it all went about as good as usual. i got chased by skank and pissed the cops off. aparently they traded their sense of humor for a gun and badge. oops. but it wasn't all bad, i got to go out with a girl for about 5 hours, that way when the skank cornered me i could say i would really like too, but my girlfriend wouldn't like that. thanks tia! and i have an hour of video to edit, but not tonight. i have one of the 15ftw songs to record my bass part on and mix before i get disowned by my uncles. and yes, i know i have about 3 posts waiting for me to go back and finish. eventually. next week i'm heading to missouri for my sisters wedding reception, and this time i'm taking my own computer so i can get my internet fix while i am there. once again, MORE LATER!

okay, i finished the post on my guitar gear, scroll down or click here.

eat this!

2006-11-08T17:53:00.000-07:00

here is undeniable proof positive that i have a brain and it's the RIGHT size. can't prove it works though...........

i was in billings having allergy testing done for the third time in 7 years, and man i hate needles. especially when there are trays stacked up full of them in nice, neat little rows. with my name on them. at least the nurse that stabbed me repeatedly was hot looking and pretended not to enjoy shoving all those needles into my hide. (hi jean!) when the doctor was looking at the ct scan, she said well, your sinuses are clear of any infections, oh, and nice earrings!

even though i turned out to be allergic to dogs now, i still think i will wait until holly dog dies from old age to bury her next to my young son, rowdy hound. man i miss that childish, immature, bratty little whine bag beagle. while visiting his grave this past summer, holly just sat down right next to the marker, i didn't make her sit there. i bought the spot right next to his so that they can be buried together. and i really need to get the headstones done. the little bones i just had made up to mark the spots for now.

(more to come later)

once again,

2006-10-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

i guess i lied. i never finished my other post. currently, i am in the lobby of the hotel, using their computer since the wireless in the room is down. and this thing doesn't have a card reader, so you will have to wait until i get home tomorrow night for all the pictures i took last night and today. we are playing for a halloween party tonight, i'm going to go as joe dirt. kinda fits, as hank wood and joe dirt both sound pretty low to me. the only difference, is he got a hot blonde in the end, so where's mine? one thing i had last night that he didn't: the hot barmaid's brought me cheese balls while we were playing. and i have no idea why my guitar neck and white pick i was using turned orange. must be because of halloween. i thought about dressing up as a decent upstanding citizen, but realised i didn't have the right skills to pull that off. it's been fun so far, but right now, it's time to hit some coffee and head back to the hotel room to practice the new song we learned today while we were bored. and time to change into a "great white" t shirt from '86. i just hope the club doesn't burn down.

ok, here's some pictures, the video i will load later.

mmmmm, cheese balls.......

the guy sitting down is colie hamilton. he filled in for mike on bass this weekend, and is the original guitarist that i replaced. and by replaced i mean i stand on the stage in the spot he used, because this guy is 100 times better than me on guitar. and he can listen to a song and in about 2 minutes have every part figured out on the guitar, even all the lead stuff. a very amazing individual. and that weird look on carls face behind him? the next picture will explain.

yep, carl squeezed out a butt bomb compliments of the kfc buffet, and that's colie with his head hanging out the window trying not to puke. it laid waste to the air on the whole floor we were on. i ran out of the room as fast as i could and it still made my eyes water. and by water i mean i was sobbing/crying uncontrollably.

check it, carl can play left handed too!

this is the song by tom petty that colie sat in the car and figured out while me and carl did a bombing run on the buffet at kfc.

watching king kong before heading out to the club

even in black and white she's a pretty hot looking chic, too bad she's old and probably dead by now

isn't he cute!

2006-10-26T17:59:00.000-07:00

i swear, the rest of my house is clean. unfortunately my living room looks like a tour bus exploded in it. since i remembered being asked several times what gear i use and not posting about it yet, here it is. also, unfortunately, this picture will have to suffice until later tonight, as right now i have to stuff it all back in the road cases and pack a suitcase as we are heading north in the morning, near the canadian border, to play this weekend. if you zoom the picture in you can see that i now have my second SG back from mr guitar wizard himself, brian wicks, a custom guitar builder here in town. they are both exactly the same, which means i don't have to carry my fender strat as a back up any more. (man i hate that thing) so i'm pleased to have helen and hannah back together again, just in time for a road trip.

back later

ok, here is a list of what i use.

(2) epiphone g400 sg's, made from korina hardwood. they only made them for a couple years, and the only thing harder to find is one of the original gibson's made from korina, which they only built for one year. and they look way worse than the epiphones like mine built 10 years later. the gibson's look like plywood. anyway's, the body is the only original pieces left on my guitars. the pickups, volume and tone pots, wiring and tuners have all been changed out to gibson stuff. the only difference between the two are that helen(the first one i bought) has a '57classic burst bucker bridge pickup, and hannah has a '57 classic+ on the bridge. both have standard '57 classics on the neck.

my amp is a marshall jcm2000 dsl 401, all tube. it's 40 watts total, and sounds reallly killer through the 4x12 cabinet. while it has great overdrive tones, getting a really clean sound out of it is nearly impossible. especially when using guitars like mine with humbucker pickups. (i will be switching to a hughes and vettner amp in the next few weeks for live stuff so that i can leave the marshall set up at home full time)

my pedal board has a boss inline tuner, morley volume/wah pedal, and channel changer for my amp.

the rack case has a furman power conditioner, behringer noise gate/compressor/expander, a behringer dual 15 band equalizer, a digitech s100 effects unit, and a patch bay keeping it all together.

and what order is it all used in? good question, i'll see if i can remember.

guitar>tuner>volume/wah>patchbay>noisegate/compressor/expander>first 15 band eq>patchbay>amp>through preamp>effects loop send>patchbay>second 15 band eq>effects unit>patchbay>effects loop return>poweramp>internal speaker or 4x12 cabinet. i think that's how it goes.......

back in the swing

2006-10-24T12:14:00.000-07:00

well, we proved when we were at the eagle's club a week ago that it is possible to play so bad that drunk people and underage kids will come up and ask what's going on. we all switched instruments, and played a song that didn't sound too bad. no one really noticed until we had switched after each song for about 3 in a row. our drummer played guitar for the first time ever. (don't tell him, but i turned his amp off when he wasn't looking) but he did have all the killer moves down, jumping around like a lead player. then mike played lead while i played bass and carl drummed, which wasn't too bad. the last switch was me playing lead, carl playing bass, and mike playing drums. that's when the complaining started. it's a good thing we switched back to our normal places after that, as i was next up to sing or play drums. neither of which would have been even mildly entertaining.

this last weekend we had off, so i decided it was time to clean the homestead a bit. shampoo the carpets, drag out the dead hookers piled up in the basement, get everything ready for winter outside, since, as of today, it is only 46 days until the local ski hill opens. and i plan on being there when it does. also, i learned a few things. one is that i'm glad i got my chemical problems worked out without having to go to a lock up rehab facility. i went to visit one of my friends who is currently finishing up his 28 day vacation there, and it's not a fun place to be. but it was great to see him doing well again. the other thing i learned is this: if you are going out on a first date with a chic who has 2 very protective older brothers, and they ask you what your intentions are with their little sister, DO NOT say "before or after i dismember her body?"

2006-10-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

Jaqueline Khury cooking I

i never wanted to be an inanimate object before, but now i want to be a cake. check out her other videos on youtube.

friday's answers

2006-10-13T07:43:00.000-07:00

tonight we play at the eagle's club, it's only been 2 weeks since we last played, yet it seems like forever and a day when we are playing well and having fun. i've been playing bass at home alot while working on the 15FTW stuff, 13 more songs to go. i also spent one night doing some sample recording with a guy who i will talk more about later when the details are more solid. a little different style of country than i've been playing bass on, but i picked it up pretty quick.

i get alot of email questions from people who don't want to post them in the comments because they think i may not want to answer it in public. personally, i don't care what you post in the comments. but, my mother does occasionally read this blog, and the VERY FEW comments i have deleted were not necessarily that bad to me, i just didn't want to listen to my mother complain about them. so basically, feel free to ask or write about whatever you want in the comments. one of three things will most likely happen. i will answer it here, i will send you an email, or, i might ignore/delete it. but i know i have not deleted more than maybe three in the year and a half i've done this, and i can't think of a single question asked here on the blog that i didn't answer eventually.

the privately emailed questions? now that's a different subject. i have been asked alot of uncanny things. and while most were not offensive, they happened to be about the few things that i will not talk about here on this blog. like the guy who found my website searching for tucker max stuff who is convinced that i must have just as many good stories about the "relationships" i've been in, no matter how "brief", due to my supposed lifestyle and being the only single guy in a rock band. while this may be true, it's one of those things i don't feel the need to write about. i've done alot of stupid AND hilarious things in my life, most end up being written here, just not THOSE stories.

this next partial email (to protect the um, innocent. you know who you are, naughty girl!) was from yesterday.

Thanks for the email. I'll add you into my address book. I get some pretty disgusting emails that I would love to send your way.

i realise that i present myself as somewhat of a male pig who does whatever he wants whenever he wants, which is pretty much true. (although i think i am MUCH more handsome than any pig i've seen) the thing that makes me different from the rest of the human swine family is that i don't do whatever i want, whenever i want, no matter who it hurts. i've never intenionally hurt anyone, and most of my time i spend helping my friends. so yeah, when i get a chance to do something i really want to do, i do it! that's the stuff that usually ends up on this blog. with pictures. and police records to prove it. and the lindsey lohan thing? as the email above offers, i'm all for looking at disgusting things. once. i was just tired of deleting emails that said LOOK! when i wrote that. i saw it one time, that was enough. and to whoever asked me for a link to it, no. i'm sure pedoogle.com (google for pedophiles) will be glad to help you out.

so on to some questions:

You don't want kids, yet you named your motorcycle "Baby"? And, I hear you got your ears pierced!

--the motorcycle was named that by my roommate (rogers) in college. he didn't have a girlfriend when he first bought it, so he figured it was his "babe". as to what he might have been doing with it out in the parking lot on those dark lonely nights, i have no idea. but i did have thorough blood tests done for any potential std's when i got it from him a few years ago. and i've never actually said i didn't want kids, i've just never been in a hurry to have them. i've made it this far in life without growing up, and i'm pretty sure having kids would require me to do just that. and earrings? yes. both ears. but don't tell my mum. she doesn't know yet, and right now i'm actually considered one of her good kids as she is still mad at my sister. so don't ruin my once a decade respite from being constantly reminded that i wasn't raised to act like this by telling her.

Have you heard of double knots?

--yes, but i have not been checked out by the safety officer on those yet, so i'm not allowed to use them for fear of hurting myself and others.

Nothing to do with this post, but you sound like you can be a nice and intelligent and person. So why don’t you get your head out of your ass, slow down on drinking , quit taking the pills that make you fell good temporarily and stop talking about woman like thay are trash and start living before your DEAD. “good luck”

--very good advice, indeed! though i've not said much about it here, that is in fact what i've been working on the last 8 months. and things are going quite well. i have been spending lots of quality time with a very good drug and alcohol counselor, who does happen to read this blog to check up on me, so every one say "hi karen"! i do get a little nervous every time we chat that she goes through a whole legal size notepad like she's writing a thesis on the effects of our declining civilization brought about by my mere existence on this mortal coil we call earth. i think it's just a coincidence.

How is the Mustang doing, and how about sharing that Lindsey Lohan link?

--it's doing good, nothing but the throttle and gear shifter work, but luckily there are no vehicle inspections in montana. and the link? see above.

a friend said...

I also know Hank, and he really does have a great sense of humor. I don't think Hank has a mean bone in his body. He may be strange at times (ha ha) but he has a big heart. Also being a female I have never been offended by anything he has said. Thanks Hank for all the smiles and laughs!

--that's what i do best!

here's my question: who the heck is jay farrar?

randomness

2006-10-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

i'm not sure if that is a word, but it describes me pretty well. here are some photo's from the last two weeks to entertain you while i'm busy doing more recording tonight.

this shows my number and class i raced in at the drag strip. the class "f/u" stands for ford unibody, of course. the run started out with a nice burnout. then the 'rustang ran out of gas half way down the track. just normal.

the rest of the photo's are from a cpr class i took with crazy carl and the 8th annual bob ward golf classic that was played in near snow conditions. check out the wadders that the top female player of the tournament was wearing.

slacker 2

2006-10-04T07:29:00.000-07:00

not to be confused with stacker 2. i have a few things going on, mainly deep in recording bass parts and doing mixes, and while i had a good write up ready to post this morning, i will wait until later this week. right now, i would just like to send my condolences to some of the readers of this blog (you know who you are) and to one of my band mates, who lost a family member this week. as such, premonition WILL NOT be playing this weekend as scheduled.

i know, i'm a slacker

2006-09-22T18:45:00.000-07:00

not much going on lately, but it's fixing to get busy in the next few weeks and not let up until after new year's. i finally got started this week recording my bass parts on the 15FTW bluegrass album with my 2 uncles, howard and bill, and sent the first song mix this morning to them for scrutiny, only fourteen more songs to go.

i also got the clutch back in the mustang last week, and promptly got jacked up by the boys in blue for expired tags. and i didn't have my driver's license with me. i had washed my wallet, so it was laying with everything else that came out of it on my kitchen table drying out. just normal.

anyway, i have a post from earlier in the week i need to finish, a few questions to answer, and everyone, please quit sending me link's to lindsey lohan's ugly beat up looking vagina. nasty!

me and holly

2006-09-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

holly dog and i just watched the memorial service for steve irwin.

if you didn't, you should have........................................

crikey, defective shoes, and a lying ouija board.

2006-09-06T00:43:00.000-07:00

even when things are slow around here, i still can't have a plain old normal day. i woke up late, as usual, took my mandatory 30 minute shower, then tried on 3 sets of clothes before remembering i woke up late in the first place, and went with a hoodie, jeans and tennis shoes. as much as i hate wearing sweat shirts and slouching around, sometimes the OCD gives in. but alas, vacationing mental disorders didn't last long. by noon, my new tennis shoes had come untied about 3,428 times, only the right shoe, mind you, and now i have to return them for being defective. i hate tying my shoes, it taxes my mental capacity. if breathing wasn't handled subconsciously, i'd have been dead long ago.

and speaking of death, it's quite ironic steve irwin died from an animal with a pointy tail as it's only defense. and it wasn't even provoked. oops? i always liked watching croc files, and with all the close calls where i thought he was going to bite it, i guess it's no suprise it finally happened, but i know i'll miss his theatrics.

what else? oh, the lying ouija board. normally, you ask a question, and it responds with a yes, no, or spells out your answer. or it does nothing at all. but that's a different story. anyways, i asked the ouija girl if i could trade my soul to the devil for outstanding lead guitar playing ability, and she laughed at me. then the room went dark, and the hot looking ouija girl morphed into tori spelling. i mean, morphed into the devil himself. and he was laughing also. seemed like the thing to do, i guess. after he picked himself up from rolling around on the floor laughing, he scooped up his pitchfork, put his hand on my shoulder, and in a not so straight face, said "look man, i'm a very powerful fallen angel. i command legions of demons, i have ozzy on speed dial, in fact i tell your mom all the nasty things you do in her dreams at night. the stuff you did last weekend? yeah, she knows. yet with all my worldly powers, teaching you to play guitar is outta my league. i can't do miracles hank, sorry. gotta go, but don't worry, i'll catch up to you in the end. no pun intended." and with that, he morphed back into tori spelling and i ran out of the confessional booth.

bluegrass

2006-08-30T07:35:00.000-07:00

anyone ever hear of winfield ks and the walnut valley acoustic music festival?? third week of september every year. about any kind of music a person would want to hear. bluegrass is the main type of music played there.i will take my camper on the 6th and come home on the 17th. my brother will get there on the 9th,and we will play music till the cows come home.. some day i would like to get hank to come down to the festival. maybe he could learn a few hot bluegrass licks. he may be sorry he put my name on this site so i could post this stuff. any way, i will take lots of pictures so he can see what he has missed.

unk

2006-08-29T06:11:00.000-07:00

i see a wee bit of drama has been going on around here this last week while i've been busy dying from allergies. we played both nights this last weekend, and now we have a month off, which is great as i still have not recorded my bass parts on the bluegrass stuff. but a long weekend is coming up, my digital recording mixer is here and hooked up, so i promise i will start laying them down this week.

other than that, not much has been going on other than work and the band, the rest of the time i've spent trying every new allergy medication that came out this summer.

so on to some questions:

do you ever work or do u just play. you been home to MO for 2 weeks and then back to MT for a week and now fishing. wish i had your life.

-i'm happy, but i DO wish i had the life everyone thinks i have.

By the way, what is the motorcycle in the background of the Mustang pictures?

-it is an '84 honda vf1000f interceptor (named "baby")

The bluegrass stuff sounds fun, have you played on any other recordings?

-just some original stuff that still isn't finished.

I am going to read your stuff cause it makes me laugh. I like that...I don't think I'm gonna hug no hookers though. Eww.

-i know, there is no question in there, i just like hookers.

Did you figure out why God doesn't like you yet?

-i'm pretty sure it has to do with my life style. or maybe just my lack of style.

Who is the "anonymous" person above me?

-don't know, they were "anonymous".

Hmmm..looks like by the previous comments you had a "personal assistant" Why'd you give up a good thing?

-i have a weiner, it's not like i'm bright or even moderately swift. and no, i don't know who wrote that, so don't ask.

You got what you deserved.

-i usually do.

you can listen to 40 minutes of crap and still put down my bluegrass????? unk

-i was watching her stolen home porno movie at the time, i promise not to make fun of bluegrass anymore as long as you promise not to make any home porno movies.

Why would you be listening to a PH CD?
I'm taking off from work and going on the road with Dino a little bit, starting tonight!

- see previous answer, and have fun out with dino, just quit taking photo's of everyone's pedal board's. that's a freaky little foot fetish you have there anthony.

Pseudo Anonymous said...
So what DO you look for in a girl?
(thanks for linking to us on your site)

-ME! (and you are welcome)

paris hilton sucks, and so does kraft easy mac.

2006-08-22T18:25:00.000-07:00

i just listened to paris' new album, (39 minutes and 55 seconds of my life i can never get back) and just as forgetable is kraft easy mac. they are both quik, easy, and disgusting. i'm all for dance/techno pop music if it gets the one i'm with hot and bothered, but holy $@#!, a super size viagra slurpy couldn't get me in the mood while listening to that vomit. she said it makes her cry when she hears it, and i know why.

and easy mac? i never thought i would say this since macaroni and cheese is my favorite thing in the whole world, but that stuff is just gross. i took one bite, put the bowl on the floor for my dog to eat, and she went in the living room and puked in one of my flowers. and she only smelled it. i'm the one standing here, tasting ass, listening to her puke in the next room.

uh oh..............

7:17pm

2006-08-16T19:20:00.000-07:00

coffee, laundry, dishes, cleaning up dog puke, listening to lenny kravitz, and the worst part, i'm the one having to do all the above! what happened to the personal assistant i asked for? i should be out partying with prostitutes, but noooo, god is a woman and she doesn't like me one bit.

i wonder why.............

ok, 10:51pm update: if you must wash an ink pen with your laundry, make sure you do it with the dark, solid colors, NOT with you whites. any one want some polka dot shirts?

henry's turtle

2006-08-14T19:01:00.000-07:00

just to show what a 222
will do to a big snapper

a sunday quikie.

2006-08-13T10:40:00.000-07:00

not that kind of quikie, get your mind out of the gutter. and yes, i know i should be at church right now. as it is, i have to be at the drag strip to open the beer garden in about, oh, 8 minutes ago. hence the quikie. yesterday at the strip was fun, unfortuantely us playing got rained out. which sucked. last year all three of the big outdoor shows we were going to do got cancelled due to weather, while all the little informal outdoor stuff always goes off fine. we played friday night to a bunch of artsy types, which was fun, but when it came time to set up last night, in front of a bunch of rowdy race drivers and drunk spectators, rain rain rain. just normal, have a great day, i gotta go!

what a night!

2006-08-05T18:08:00.000-07:00

yes, i know i said we had the weekend off, but apparently i was wrong. as usual. so we played at the eagle's club last night, and we had to do it without mic'ing everything up to have a good mix going out on the main speakers since we didn't have our mixer board back from being repaired. after setting up, we ended up with a good sound anyways, which is suprising since the front stage at the eagle's club has terrible acoustics. and even more suprising, we played for a large group of democrats here for some convention. i mean, them being democrats wasn't what was suprising. or the fact that it was mostly young attractive women. and that they could dance well. with each other.

for one thing, they were dressed somewhat conservatively, unlike the majority of the local flora and fauna. even dressed as such, when activelly dancing you still saw the occasional bare midriff or a nice slice of butt-crack. now here is the part that was suprising: i never saw one tattoo the whole night on a chic's pelvis, or hanging out of her crack. here in central montana, when a baby is born and it's a girl, it's like she can't be released to go home until they throw some ink around her waist.

now pay attention ladies, this is good advice, based on my own expert research as the only single member in a rock band, so i've had more than my share of specimens to evaluate:

That prancing unicorn you have tattoo'd on your hip that looks pretty sweet at 18?

At age 40, after having a couple kids, IT LOOKS LIKE A MELTED SNOWCONE!

and i have one more bit of advice that pains me severely to ask you not to do this. and not because i don't want to see you do this, it just makes it hard for me, and the other guys in the band, to keep playing without messing up or just completely stopping the music, and applauding:

if you are going to dance the jitterbug and let the guy flip you upside down in the air, AND you are wearing a short skirt, PLEASE WEAR UNDERWEAR!

i'm back.

2006-08-01T06:36:00.000-07:00

and i actually feel great for the first time in years. nothing like a week of fishing everynight and camping away from phones and people to get things in perspective again. so what's next? well, we have a few weekends off from playing, which is good, as we still don't have our equipment back from carvin that we burned up at the relay for life, but it should be here in plenty of time for the lewistown raceway show on the 12th. and, i need to finish building the deck and do the landscaping around the pool i put in my already small back yard. the mustang still needs a new clutch, and the snow plow is still on my four wheeler, which means i have not been riding in the mountains yet this summer.

but life is grand and i'm really looking forward to working on the blugrass/country album i recorded with my two uncles in missouri, uncle howard and uncle bill. i recorded uncle howard playing and singing out on the carport at my parents on a calm night, the sound is great and i have a few seconds of crickets chirping to use in there somewhere. uncle bill came over the following weekend and sat in the living room with headphones on and did his parts. i kicked all the kids out of the house, which worked pretty good, except pop's and toddler found the basement door wasn't locked and snuck in for the last few songs. i'm going to add me playing bass, and maybe a little rythm guitar in a few spots, and maybe a few appearances from the rest of the premonition live band to give it that "modern rock" feel. just kidding about the "modern rock" thing, but i bet unk just spit coffee all over his monitor when he read that. anyways, the first mix of just them sounds great so it should have a great feel to it when we are done. which, as far as finished and released goes, that would probably be sometime in early '07, but fear not. i'm sure i will make a few tracks available through here, and i had to promise unk and unk (and my dad) i would send them the first final mix copies.

so as you can see, i have plenty to do, and i actually WANT to do all of it. i must be feeling half way tough enough to do it all, it's early in the morning, i'm drinking coffee, and listening to the new york dolls. sheesh.

i promise to catch up on the emails i'm behind on and maybe answer a few questions in the next few days.

goin' fishin

2006-07-25T06:35:00.000-07:00

as i said earlier, friday night was long. but it was nothing compared to saturday night. it was 102° when we were setting up for a sound check that afternoon, and it wasn't much cooler when we went on at 7. but we didn't have to play in the sun for very long, as the main amp overheated during the 3rd song so we had to stop. so while we were waiting for it to cool, several people got on stage to make some announcements, and one of them nocked a stand over, which fell and hit the microphone on my speaker cabinet, which sent a very loud signal to the mixer board that was hot from sitting in the sun all afternoon, and proceded to overload it and melt a circuit board in it. after trying unsuccessfully to get the mixer and power amp to reset, we ended up changing the mixer AND the power amps, and finally had it working again at 1am. so we did an hour set and let the other acts get up and do their's, finally getting home about 8 in the morning. but it was fun, and i have some interesting photo's from through out the night that i will post later, as i decided to go camping at the lake this week. if anyone needs me, you'll have to come get me as luckily there is no cell service in the mountains. which is just too bad..........

morning

2006-07-21T12:11:00.000-07:00

last night was a VERY long night, and tonight will be even longer, but it's for a good cause, and we play on a big outdoor stage instead of the cramped little corner stages in most of the dive bars we usually end up in. it's the relay for life event here in lewistown and we are the main band, so we will be there from 7 tonight until 6 tomorrow morning. we don't have to play the whole time as there are a few other acts that will come up to give us a break, but i'm sure they will all go home by midnight or 2am leaving us to finish, but i have lots of coffee and pizza ordered, so that should get us through. and i'm sure i will get thrown in the dunk tank as i did last year. after they announced i was getting in the tank it was amazing how many people lined up to dunk me.

maybe i should have bought better friends.

or at least treated them better.

anyway, i've slept about 5 hours, downloaded and switched web browsers to firefox, which i would definitly recomend everyone doing, and now it's the crack of noon and time to take the camper out to the fair grounds then haul all our equipment out for set up and a sound check. so, everyone have a good weekend, and i will leave you with some photo's from memorial day weekend when rangersis was here, and there are 3 new song videos loaded over on hankwood.com for you to check out. as usual, they are large files, require quicktime 7, and take 15 minutes to download if you are on dial up, but for once you can actually hear my rhythm part, which proves that occasionally they do let me plug my amp in.

2006-07-20T01:19:00.000-07:00

hey hank
just trying to see if i can remember how to do this. if it works, look out.

(it works, just let me get my safety glasses on.) Edit By Hankwood

you can try them, but i don't think glasses will be enough

nice

2006-07-17T21:02:00.000-07:00

i finally made it back home to montana last night, and now i need a few days off to recuperate from my vacation. it was fun and nice to see everyone there, and of course, i have plenty of things (and people) to royally make fun of, but right now, i need a nap before going to work tomorrow. more later this week.

This isnt safe

2006-07-02T00:43:00.000-07:00

Its 2am im somewhere in south dakota driving and typing this post because im bored and looking at porn on this tiny screen makes my eyes hurt.

allergies still suck

2006-06-26T18:10:00.000-07:00

so obviously, i lied. i didn't fix my site, nor did i catch up on the email's i'm behind on. other than playing on friday and saturday night and working the beer garden at the drag strip on saturday and sunday afternoon, i didn't do much of anything except wander around like a walking snot zombie. which doesn't appear to be much of a turn on to women. imagine that.

this weekend i'm leaving to go home to missouri for the 4th and to see my brother who has been celebate in kuwait for the last year. i plan on celebrating the 4th by blowing stuff up, and he thinks he needs to spend time with his wife. whatever, but anyways i will try to fix my site before i leave and give an update on something more interesting than my superhuman bronchial activities. right now, it's time for more benadryl, coffee, and a nap.

allergies suck

2006-06-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

so every morning for the last month i've woke up to a screaming headache, aching eyes, and record setting eye boogers, you know, the ones where you touch the blob blocking your entire vision in one eye, and it stretches out about 2 inches before it breaks in half. yeah, welcome to my life. hopefully all the cottonwood trees will quit blooming soon, otherwise i'm gonna have to go live in a bubble some where in antarctica where there are no plants and foods to be allergic to. eskimos survive by eating snow, don't they?

tonight we play at the eagle's club, hopefully i'll feel somewhat alive by then, otherwise it'll be a long night. and since i'll be all wired on coffee and redbull by 2am and can't sleep for another 2 hours, i promise to fix my website issues and send the 12 emails i'm behind on. and tomorrow i'm supposed to go help at the first drag race of the year here in lewistown, which should be fun on about four hours of sleep. and of course, as i insist on only the best for myself, i get to work in the beer garden, which is the funnest job out there. i donated my keg refrigerator and co2 tap to them since what they had been using was quite scary looking, even after a few beers. and since i no longer feel the need to dispose of as much beer as possible my self it should actually be alot more fun watching everyone else act like idiots instead of being one myself with them. i'm all for beer and drugs, it just didn't work well for me. and while i realize that someone has to drink that beer because it can't throw it's self up, i'm content being an innocent bystander now.

not that i feel any better by staying chemically clean since i'm allergic to everthing and sick all the time from that, but at least my friends like me more now. so all in all, life is good, except for these dang eye boogers......

new server

2006-06-21T18:10:00.000-07:00

on monday hankwood.com switched to a new server with lots more storage and bandwidth, and as some of you noticed and emailed me, something is screwy today with the navigation buttons. i checked, and while i still think you guys are nuts, in this case you were not just seeing things, the mouseovers on the buttons are wrong and the nascar photo set on the gcr&g page doesn't load right. everything else is fine (so far), i'll get it checked out later tonight, first i have to go set up and do a sound check.

Father's Day

2006-06-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

since it is a special day, did you notice i went the extra mile and pushed shift to capitalize the post title? unfortunately that's all the excess energy i had for today since i didn't go to bed until 7 am and it is now 11:20 am, i've already been up for an hour, and i still do not understand how anyone gets up, drinks coffee and does anything willingly. but i'm working on it.

anyways, outside it's a beautiful father's day here in montana, i'm listening to fall out boy as loud as my computer speakers will go, and yes mom, i know i should be at church right now, but at least i took my vitamins with that first cup of coffee. so happy father's day to my pop's and all the other fathers (biological or otherwise), uncles, dominant lesbians, and whom so ever it applies to. which isn't me, as far as i know, unless goldfish and 2 dogs count.

last night we played in havre, which was a really long day for me, as i woke up yesterday morning with an allergy headache, and about one second later i realized i was going to puke it was so bad, which i proceeded to do, on my bed. but luckily i missed my pillow and my lindsey lohan blow up doll. i mean, my dog holly. so then i rolled around for the next four hours trying to go back to sleep since reality totally blew, literally, (and after i summoned all my available strength to change the blankets), until finally falling asleep for about 10 minutes when carl called saying it was the crack 'o noon and time to hit the road to havre. great. and the guys kept being mean to me on the trip up there by talking about all kinds of gross things when they knew i was only one more slimy green booger story away from puking on the floormat, and they really got mad when i fell asleep, so what if it was my truck we were in, and that i was driving. those guys can be real cruel some times, but so far they've not kicked me out of the band even though i'm still the nations worst guitar player (except for cc deville, and that's only because i'm better looking than him) to ever get payed to play. so luckily for me, carl, jerry and mike are all excellent players, and if i can hang a rhythm out there that they can figure out what song it is, they take care of the rest and all i have to do is stand there and look like the hot guitar player that i am. and something else they can take care of is a food buffet. i used to make fun of my cousin bigin, the tug boat captain, by calling him the buffet bomber from the amount of devastation he could bring upon a buffet line, but after those three guys did just one straffing run on the buffet at kfc in havre, holy crap, there was even naw marks on the ladles. i'm talking total anhilation. the girl behind the counter looked at the buffet after they went through and said "holy cow, we need more of everything! they ate ALL the chicken!" and, we couldn't leave until they brought out more chicken! i ate pretty much nothing trying not to puke still, and they more than made up for me. of course, since i was sick i didn't make too much fun of one of the other band members who was having a "certain" medical problem that i promised him i wouldn't talk about here on the 'ol blog, so don't worry jerry, i won't tell any one, i got you're back on this.

so thanks to all the fun people out in havre, especially the chic's that kept coming up saying how cute i am, since, as any of the three people who read this blog know, i'm a shy, reserved, very low self-esteemed person. so positive reinforcement on my dashing good looks, impeccable taste in clothing, great sense of humor and stallion like performance in the sack is always greatly appreciated.

and to andi, the hottest looking collision tech ever, who's favorite food also happens to be macaroni and cheese, may i buy you a house? (as long as i get to live in it with you)

the rustang lives!

2006-06-15T18:25:00.000-07:00

the photo's suck since i took them with my cell phone instead of my camera, but after i tint the windows and get the band logo on the back window we will do a photo shoot doing something cool with it.

it has small falcon hubcaps since i didn't like the original mustang ones, and i left the chrome cross bar with the running pony on it out of the grill since i think it looks better without it.

so april left this last weekend, and this coming weekend we are playing in havre, a whirlwind trip leaving saturday morning, setting up, sound check, a quick dinner, playing until 1 am, tearing down, loading all our junk, and getting home about 6 sunday morning, all without sleeping. but as usual, it will be great fun. i just want some time off as i have 4 phone numbers on my fridge of girls i said i would go out with when i get time. hopefully some time before i'm old. and before i need viagra.

and now i'll answer a few questions:

Do you always play from the left side of the stage, or do you guys trade places some?
--i'm always on the same side, and we don't really wander around on the stage much since we would get all tangled up in the cords. i would like to use my wireless more as it is nice to walk around unrestricted. you know, like going commando.

hey hank, what ever happened to the ford pick up ??
--the bed and front clip are sand blasted and sitting in my garage waiting for this fall when i hopefully have time to work on it.

where did you learn to do body work?
--i worked at a chassis shop after college building race cars and the guy who owned it did body work on show cars, so he explained a few things and the rest i learned on my own

Did you go to the doctor to get rid of the cooties yet?
--i had some penicillin epi pens in the fridge from my last groupie party, so i used those.

Dude, like, did you kill some brain cells recently or what? The last few posts you've misspelled a bunch of words. Very unlike you.
--well, it is allergy season again, and after a cortizone shot in my butt i'm finally starting to feel better. and maybe i should fire the monkey that does my spell checking.

I live in San Diego, is Becky hot looking? And, what does the sticker by the volume knobs on your guitar say?
--yes, becky is hot looking. and her biker husband likes it that way. the sticker says "caution, rider may bail at any time"

Is premonition like a hoagie sandwich?
--sort of, except that you have heartburn before you eat it, not after.

becky said...
(i bet you don't even remember when my birthday is! and asking your sister is cheating...)
--you're right, i don't remember when it it is. but i do remember who put peanut butter under your mustang door handle.

that's enough for now, we are loading the band equipment up tonight so i gotta go. have a great evening.

great news!

2006-06-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

AP Associated Press

Updated: 4:17 p.m. MT June 7, 2006
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Billy Ray Cyrus wants his mullet back.

if that's not good news, i don't know what is. and no, i will not be shaving the top of my head to help him further his cause. with any luck he will grow his mullet nice and long. as in, long enough for some cake eating, crack snacking bayou betty lesbian tug boat wrangler (no offense, bigin) to wrap around his neck and strangle him to death like piano wire.

on a brighter note, rangersis and i just got back from yellowstone national park and i have the pictures to prove it. there are 21 photo's in all, so if you are on a dial up connection, you have plenty of time to go make coffee, do some laundry, mow the lawn, and maybe even write a dissertation to complete your masters degree in lifetime leasure sports, all the while waiting for everything to download.

anyways, enjoy the photos, and feel free to save any you like. if you want the high res file for printing on a larger format, email me and i will send it to you. and if you happen to make millions selling my pictures, at least have the courtesy to send a thank you card to: hank wood, c/o yellowstone clinic, psych ward 1, billings montana.

and, i promise to post pictures of the mustang soon now that it is painted, as well as answer some of the questions that have been asked. if you have any more, post them in the comments section.

here we go:

shouldn't she be looking at the road?

snowstorm on beartooth pass

april at mammoth hot springs

island in yellowstone lake

checking to see if the flash works

the grand canyon of yellowstone

i have no clue why i took this picture

Roy G Biv

girl's don't poop, but buffalo sure do!

there's one in every woodpile

april's shoulder and an elk in velvet

clubhouse at undisclosed frisbee golf course

sorry april, you have to throw it from where it landed

billy, the undisclosed course pro

me chucking one through a tree

april stuck behind the same tree

nesting eagle picture

april's nesting eagle picture (mine was better)

the historic fairweather inn at virginia city

april's haunted hotel room

the ghost in the mirror told me to "get a haircut"

and the sun set as we rolled back into lewistown

ick!

2006-06-02T18:31:00.000-07:00

i got kissed by my sister.

in public.

in front of a camera.

and now i have cooties.

Memorial Day

2006-05-29T10:44:00.000-07:00

it finally quit raining here in the great state of montana (for the moment) and i am slowly starting to feel human again. at least, as much as i ever did. i got all the chrome, trim, and emblems back on the mustang late sunday night a week ago, and woke up on monday with the flu. and i still have it a week later. just normal. luckily, my recently unemployed little sister came to visit on wednesday and has been babysitting me ever since. she insists she is a writer so it is normal to be unemployed, but what do i know. i'm just an immature, penis packing, 33 year old weekend fret scrubber. not exactly prime material for scholarly debate upon the quasi-direct meaning of gainful employment as a means of furthering one's direct place in modern societies hierarchal advancement of hoarding greenbacks leading to post retirement bliss based on healthy, sustainable, lifelong practices. screw that, i'm spending my retirement on a hot young russian chic to keep me company throughout my twilight years. and by twilight years i mean my late 30's.

anyways, as i mentioned it is Memorial Day, a day to remeber those who have passed on that we miss, and i guess those that we don't miss so much as well. also, it is graduation weekend for most high schools in this country, so congradulations to:

crystal wood
emily jahrling
alexandra curbow
matthew mulligan
faron steele
kyle whitcraft

if you didn't send me an announcement, i didn't send you any money. tough, warn your siblings, and think things through next time.

i'm tired

2006-05-16T07:42:00.000-07:00

i've spent every night for almost a month now working on the mustang, here are a couple pictures from last week.

since these were taken it has had three coats of primer, block sanded between each layer, and i painted it sunday night. i didn't like the way the paint layed out, so tonight i will sand and shoot it again. body work is such fun. actually it sucks, and i would much rather be working on the perfect female body. of course, chasing my last girlfriend with an air sander might by why she left.....

1 whole year!

2006-05-03T18:28:00.000-07:00

my website has been online for a year today, and i must say it has been all i hoped for and much more. it's been a lot of fun, i've met some great people, and so far no lawsuits have come my way over any of the content. life is good.

this weekend is an off weekend for playing but i will be busy working on the band car, most of the body work is done and it is starting to look like a mustang again.

have a great day, and a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of this site in the last year!

warrant sucks, and so does cc deville

2006-04-25T08:45:00.000-07:00

i remember listening to warrant in middle school, thinking how some day it would be great to make out and hold hands with a hot chic while listening to their powerful love ballads.
today, 20 years later, i "borrowed" one of their cd's and i almost threw up in my mouth a little bit just trying to listen to it.
like that time i made out with this ugly chic after one of our shows, then she got excited, and it turned out to be a good looking guy instead.
it was that bad. warrant, that is.
that last part was just a test to see if you were paying attention, as i would NEVER make out with an ugly chic!

of course, since i am quite often approached by not so "hot" women, i sometimes forget what i need to do to appear suave and debonair when the hot ones do approach me. as in this weekend. in the past year there have been maybe 15 different decent looking women come up to the stage and say that i'm cute. to which i always reply, thank you, but i'm guessing you already have a boyfriend. and so far, the only ones who said they did not have a boyfriend were already married. great! this last weekend, at a wedding we were playing, a very good looking woman comes up on stage, in front of everyone else, and tells me i'm cute. so i say thank you, jerry asks how much i payed here to say that, and she leaves with her friend before i think to ask anything about her.

if anyone knows a hot chic in billings, montana that thinks i'm cute, send me her name and phone number and i promise i will "take care" of you!

since i was so depressed on sunday for throwing another missed chic encounter on the enormous pile of previous lost chances, i took holly dog out into the fresh snow and played with the camera for awhile. at least i have some nice pictures to remember the hot chic with light brown curly hair, beautiful smile, nice full lips,

oh wait, that's just holly dog.

i just got up

2006-04-22T12:54:00.000-07:00

i've been up half an hour and i have to be at another sound check for a private party in 10 minutes. i will get the emails sent i'm behind on before playing tonight as well as answer a few questions. my question is, how do normal people get up, drink coffee, and have a great day? i hate coffee, but i'm trying.

Pork Chops and Premonition!

2006-04-18T07:15:00.000-07:00

playing in havre was fun. the crowd was small, but where else can you get great rock and roll and a side of pork chops? i have some video from saturday night that i will get edited and posted over on my site. nothing too exciting went on, hotels, restaurants, chicks with lots of tattoos, and me trying to play a song while suffering from brain frost. just normal.

i made some updates on my site last night, as well as adding the apparel link to the hookers site.

check out the first released song from The Panic Channel

and to becky- you don't scare me! (well, maybe a little). and you may be smarter than me academically, but i live in a concrete bunker in nowhere montana, while YOU live in san diego, waiting for one little beer belch to set off the rose canyon fault and dump your narrow little ### into the pacific! would you like a life raft for your birthday? (because i DO care, you know)

hookers need love too

2006-04-11T20:12:00.000-07:00

i worked on the hookers site tonight, click above to check it out. no, it's not finished, and no, there will be no porn. but it WILL be entertaining. and educational.

in other news, i would like to say happy birthday to the first love of my life, who shall remain unnamed, as she totally broke my heart by refusing my advances and offers of timeless love from the first day of kindergarden until 5th grade when i finally gave up on her. you know who you are, and i hope you enjoy the life of domestic marital incarceration that you chose over me. i might have made up a few of the words in that last sentence. happy birthday anyway.

meatball pizza

2006-04-10T18:34:00.000-07:00

i did a test at the link above, and apparently i am a:

Meatball Pizza

Unusual and uncompromising.
You're usually the first to discover a new trend.
You appreciate a good meal and good company.
You're an interesting blend of traditional and modern.

i found it while checking the significance of my birthday, since the only famous happening on that date was general lee surrendering to general grant, signaling the end of the american civil war. oh well.

Your Birthdate: April 9

You are a born idealist, with more pet causes than you can count.
You prefer be around others, both when working and while relaxing.
Generous and giving, you believe you can change the world one person at a time.
You're open minded and tolerant. People feel like they can tell you anything.

Your strength: Your go-with-the-flow flexibility

Your weakness: Your flair for the over dramatic

Your power color: Pine green

Your power symbol: Circle

Your power month: September

it could be worse, at least i have the ability to be flexibly dramatic in a pine green circle in september. whatever that means. anyways, in case you noticed the posts have been a lot less entertaining around here lately, it probably has something to do with the fact that it's been over a month since i drank beer and did stupid stuff worthy of passing on to both of the faithful readers of this here blog. but all is good now, my house, even my closets, are clean and organized, and we are playing every weekend the rest of this month, which should keep me plenty occupied. well, that and i still faithfully support my not-for-profit organization, equal rights for hookers. because you know, hookers need love too, as well as: health insurance, dental, 401k plan, weekly blood screenings, etc. i have not finished the hookersneedlovetoo.com site yet, but soon it will be up with shirts and stickers available. of course, all proceeds will go to me to fund more research on hookers.

sweet.

been a little busy

2006-04-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

this last week was long, but it was fun. we played three nights and i started working on the band's promo car, a 65 mustang. it should be done within the next month and i will post some pictures along the way. coming up is our only weekend off this month so hopefully i will get the body work done then. i also got a couple of applications for new lesbian roadies, i will let you know how the interviews go.

poetry and so much more

2006-03-24T18:02:00.000-07:00

while contemplating taking a nap this afternoon before we play at the eagle's club tonight, i was stricken with an acute dose of mind numbing genious-ness:

today i write poetry
tomorrow i'll look up prose
i thought that i had caught haiku
but it was just a runny nose

sir robb's-alot shot some video of people dancing in the street last friday, here is the link. if you can name two of the people in it, i will tell you if you are right.

disclaimer: no animals were hurt during today's post, but there may be misspellings, mis-use, and even made up words used throughout.

and to the person wanting pictures of my nipples, NO!

st patrick's day photo's

2006-03-22T18:21:00.000-07:00

my stuff in roadcases getting ready to go setup

setting everything up, my truck is to the right and carl's is to the left

close up at some point during the night (first time i ever played wearing a coat)

kids from jerry's 5th grade class wanting his autograph

and here is the newspaper article:

St. Patty’s Day party draws huge crowd to Main Street

by ANNETTE HAYDEN
News-Argus Staff Writer

A renewed celebration of all things green got Lewistown dancing a collective jig Friday.

The first ever “Green-feet Fun Night” hosted by the Lewistown Area Chamber of Commerce featured free food, live music and a bonfire in the middle of Main Street, sparking hundreds to gather in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

“Spirits were high,” said Connie Fry, Chamber executive director. “Lots of people were wearing green and everyone seemed to be having a really good time.”

Though created as a community appreciation night, as the luck of the Irish would have it, the Main Street event also drew visitors to Lewistown.

The Green-feet Fun Night bonfire, provided by Don Bost, kept the crowd warm throughout the evening. Some visitors even cooked French bread and potatoes over the fire.
“It was the most awesome and delightful way to celebrate my heritage,” said Jean L. Urs, a dual resident of Coffee Creek and Great Falls. “My husband (Daniel J. Urs) and I are from Coffee Creek and I work at the mental health center in Great Falls.

I have a good friend who has an antique space at the Emporium and she called to tell me the Garden Café was having Irish music during the day and there would be a bonfire that night. It sounded like fun so we made a special trip just for the event.

“I was so impressed with the whole presentation,” she said. “The bonfire was fabulous. The band was so clear and wonderful, if I closed my eyes they could have been Alabama or Lone Star. Then someone said we should get something to eat, because the Chamber was had donated the food. A little later I ate delicious polish dog. I was totally blown away by the whole thing and the people in Lewistown, well they were great!”

Urs added that she has told everyone at work in Great Falls what a wonderful time she had at the Green-feet Fun Night.

While guests danced and warmed by the fire, Chamber board members Alan Aldrich, Jayme Durbin, Trace Sweeney, Jeff Whitcraft, Joe Eckhardt, Don Bost and Brandon Cowen cooked up 589 polish sausages and hot dogs. Connie Fry, Chamber Office Manager Deb Bowser, and gotta have it! owner Cindie Evans dished out the fixings and soda pop. Not a drop of food was left over.

“There was a really diversified group gathered around the bonfire and eating,” Fry said. “It was heartwarming to see people really enjoying the food and music. Some even brought French bread and potatoes to cook on the fire.

“Some of the kids were so timid,” Fry added. “They would come up and ask so shyly, ‘Can I have a hot dog?’ When we said, ‘Of course you can! Have two or three,’ their eyes lit up so big. It was so gratifying and made me think how we can kind of take for granted putting a meal on the table.”

The town party started at 5 p.m. with Don Bost lighting the bonfire and Premonition performing live on a raised stage provided by Duane Ferdinand of the Big Spring Creek Society of Bluegrass and Folk Music.

“The four band-members of Premonition donated their time for the community,” said Fry. “They played from 5 to 8:30 p.m. and it was cold away from the fire. Bill, from the Glacier was concerned about the people working the event and he delivered hot coffee.” After the band finished and the crowd dispersed, event coordinators spent close to an hour tearing down the bonfire and stage, and cleaning up.

“We didn’t have a lot of time to plan this year’s Green-feet Fun Night after we got the idea,” said Fry. “But it was so well received, we hope to make it bigger and better next year.” Those plans include adding to the menu, having a parade and possibly a St. Patrick’s Day run.

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they didn't get who started the bonfire right. i know, because i took a picture of who did:

it was jeff whitcraft, from the Judith Shadows Golf Course.

edit: they did print pictures of us on a seperate page with other photo's from that night.

amazing

2006-03-16T18:04:00.000-07:00

just when i thought nascar had ran out of obscure things to conive me and my redneck friends out of our money with, check this out. of course, rednecks (like me) always have hotdogs in the freezer and little or no money in the bank, so does this mean that hotdogs are worth more than inflation-prone paper money?

the band photoshoot was fun last night, tonight we have practice and tomorrow night we are supposed to play outside for st patrick's day, i sure hope they have the stage heaters they promised. (it's supposed to be a high of 41° tomorrow)

i also took a test to see how "green" i live my life, here is the results:

HERE ARE YOUR FOOTPRINT RESULTS:

CATEGORY GLOBAL ACRES
FOOD 4
MOBILITY 2.5
SHELTER 19.5
GOODS/SERVICES 15.1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 41

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24
GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXISTS 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL ACRES PER
PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 9.2 PLANETS.

-it's a good thing scientists' claim to have found a tenth planet in our solar system, looks like we are going to need it.

on a brighter note, here is one of the reasons i love snowboarding:

happy birthday rangersis!

2006-03-15T18:12:00.000-07:00

i will post an update soon, i've been a little "busy" lately. tonight is a photo shoot and band practice, should be fun.

and happy birthday to tara and my little nephew zach!

a great day for the wood family

2006-03-08T07:28:00.000-07:00

while perusing the great expanse we call the internet this morning, i found two things of profound importance in establishing the unknown history behind the symbols on the wood family crest: (1) quadraped humans discovered and (2) hairy lobsters discovered. this would explain why that although my mothers side of the family can be traced back to coming over from wales, my fathers side seems to have never been anywhere but arkansas. we assumed in our family lineage search that the wood clan had always been mouth-breathing, upright-walking, non-crustacean type, normal human beings. oops.

a few questions:

hey hank i bought me a new amp, and a mike. does that mean there is hope for me or am i out of luck?? unk

-you can actually PLAY guitar unk, i'm the one that needs all the luck i can get

When are you going to tell us about the guitar gear you use, like you promised weeks ago?

-i did take some pictures of what i use live, i will get them posted soon.

why do i have to be a 'user' to have my name on here if i leave a comment?
Anthony says "NO!"

-well anthony, if you click "other" when it says choose an identity, you can enter whatever name you would like without being a member or "being" anonymous. (and quit making messages pop up on my computer or i will block all administrator access!)

Thanks Hank for the nice posting of my Uncle Dean. I know that he really enjoyed playing with the band and hanging out with all of you! Kristy

-i certainly enjoyed playing with him, and i think of him alot when we play the songs he liked to play, as well as the songs he hated to play but did because i liked them.

this week: nothing much going on, hopefully do some more body work on my old ford and maybe another day of snowboarding. i shot some video while riding the back chairlift at showdown last weekend, here is a short clip, i have more if i get ambitious and put it all together.

a quick note

2006-03-03T16:53:00.000-07:00

if you ever wanted a popup camper, here is your chance to buy a raffle ticket to win one and help a little girl named kate. the camper is being restored by one of the guys from apachepopups.net, the website i check everyday to keep up with some really great people and get ideas for restoring my own apache popup that i have.

since several people have asked if i have a myspace account, i didn't, but i do now. the blog entries will just be a mirror of this one since i already have my own site. but if your want your own "spot" on the internet, it seems to work pretty good.

this is an off weekend, so tomorrow i am going to the mountains to stay in a cabin and do some snowboarding. have a great weekend everyone. (and go buy some raffle tickets!)

tonight

2006-03-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

i will try to get an update posted since i will be home tonight, and to my friend amanda soper, rest in peace. she passed away today from complications of diabetes at the old age of 24.

learned something new

2006-02-24T16:42:00.000-07:00

it never ceases to amaze me what a person can end up learning just from surfing the internet. yesterday, the lady that i was getting a massage from was telling me about the band her son from great falls is in (never say never), so today i decided to check out some of the songs they have on the web. it was not exactly my style of music, but they played very well so i can appreciate that, and i started clicking links to other unknown bands and ended up reading about this chick that is "polyamorous". not knowing what that meant, i had to check it out. after reading alot of articles, i came across a video. it's not safe for work, old people, young people, or my mother. there is no full nudity, although plenty is implied by actions, and it has to be the most hilarious video i have watched on the net so far. so if you want to learn about a lifestyle your guidance counselor probably never told you about, click here. (one of the guys in the video looks like robbie gordon, the nascar driver)

in other not so noteworthy news, tonight we will be playing at the eagle's club, and it would appear that my relationship status has once again returned to "single".

when i get home from playing at 3am i promise to catch up on some emails i'm behind on, and then promptly sleep until the crack of noon. and by the way, to everyone who calls me at 8am just to see how the gig went, i think my dog will accidently eat the phone cord while i am out tonight and i probably won't realise and fix it until noon tommorrow.

have a great weekend everyone

balmy weather here

2006-02-16T17:59:00.000-07:00

it's a nice brisk -9°F right now, so yes unk, i would love to fly to kansas and play with you guys this weekend. unfortunately, i have to play both nights this weekend myself, which means we have to do set up and sound check tonight. and it's supposed to get down to -27° tonight, so i'm sure it will be even colder by 7:00 when we start tonight. and on top of that, i sprained the knuckle on my index finger i hold the pick with last week, so i've had it taped up in hopes it will heal enoough to make it through this weekend and next.

and in another strange coincidence, i've noticed that as the temperature has dropped this winter, so has the amount of women that show up and flash us while we are playing. i'm no scientist, but i'm guessing it's because it's easier to flip up a tank top than it is 3 turtle neck sweaters? maybe i should apply for government funding to study this phenomenon.

anyways, have fun in wichita unk, tell everyone hi for me, and out of curiosity, do women flash bluegrass guitar players too?

ho hum

2006-02-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

just when i thought nothing could make messy nae fall asleep any faster than a diet coke and chloroform cocktail, i went and did this:

i actually MADE dinner for her, broccoli-cauliflower-cheese soup, croissant rolls, baked asparagus with butter and parmesan cheese sauce, and she falls asleep on the couch 30 minutes after finishing.

oh well, just normal for the not-even-semi-famous rock-star/draftsman life style i have chosen as my own. (sorry mom)

(and while i do have an emily post book, 1969 edition, i didn't have time to consult it to make sure i had properly placed the silverware. sorry!)

apparently,

2006-02-14T06:54:00.000-07:00

i forgot to stress to my dad the importance of why the new toy i gave him is called a "snowmobile".

but then again,

when the only known picture of his three children together is a fuzzy shot of us sneeking through the woods by a river like hillbilly sasquatch's, it all kinda makes sense.....

snowing again

2006-02-10T18:23:00.000-07:00

not much new going on, staying busy at work, and practicing with the band. we do have one new song written, but not recorded yet. carl was gone on vacation this week, so we practiced without him. and since i only do a few leads, i had the guy who does all my guitar work, brian wicks, come over and be the lead player for the evening. i've had several people ask about the gear i use, and i'm waiting until brian gets his web site up so i can link to it since he has done a lot of custom work to my guitars the last few months. so as soon as his site is ready i will get everyone current on the junk i use on stage. we still have mike larsen playing with us on bass, though we have not made any decisions as to what to do on a permanent basis. i myself have started leaning to play bass also so that if need be we could play as a three piece band, but we plan on having a permanent bass player. i also played around on the drums this week while i was getting everything set up for practice, and it's a sure thing i'll never make a living as a drummer. i can't play guitar and tap my foot at the same time, much less do four different things at once on a drum kit.

right now, i'm off to bob ward's suprise birthday party (i hope he's not reading this yet), so everyone have a great weekend.

abstract art?

2006-01-31T17:47:00.000-07:00

actually, it's just my crappy digital camera. i've had it six months and i still have not read the book on how to shoot pictures in the dark. (thanks anthony, for taking the photo's) this was from last friday night, i went snowboarding during the day then came home, went to dinner and played at the eagle's club until 2:00 am. i was a little tired, but at least i didn't break anything snowboarding.

and don't worry anthony, since i've wrecked getting off of the chair lift so many times i lost count, i won't tell anyone that you fell off the lift right after getting on it.

oops.

Sweet Night!

2006-01-21T02:41:00.000-07:00

just got home from playing at the Eagle's, and wow, what a fun night. lots of chics dancing together, sure makes it hard to play sometimes. so now i'm home, jacked up on coffee, listening to toto's greatest hits, and playing on the internet again. i shot about an hour and a half of video, which i will try to go through tomorrow and post a song or two. this time i recorded mostly rock songs, since before i always seem to end up with all the slow stuff. we played all of dean's favorite songs, and some were hard to get through thinking of how he played the lines different from mike who is filling in on a semi permanent basis. not that mike played anything wrong, it's just that dean had a different style of playing that really changed the sound of some of the songs.

anyway, i will go now and try to get to some email's i'm behind on and maybe write some more in the premonition live diary. i still have my '05 review in cue, i just have not been in the mood to finish it yet, knowing how the year ended, but i will get to it soon.

be good

coming up

2006-01-20T20:28:00.000-07:00

i'm sitting here petting holly dog, drinking coffee, playing on the internet, listening to rick springfield and getting ready to go play at the eagle's club in about 30 minutes. all is well, hope it is good for everyone else, too.

ps, happy birthday to my aunt annabelle!

just normal

2006-01-16T07:11:00.000-07:00

it's a new year, i got myself to quit eating painkillers all day every day, and now this comes out:

Painkillers may cut risk of ovarian cancer. By Anthony J. Brown, MD
1 hour, 29 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Regular use of common painkillers is associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer, according to the results of a recent population-based study.

now, because i'm a quitter, my ovaries are going to fall out. great.

BECKY SCOTT IS A BIKER CHIC!

2006-01-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

i sure never thought i would have to write those words in the same sentence. click the link above, or here and check out the pictures. i'm not sure what the story is behind the name "lola goetz", and i don't think i want to know. besides photos of the 1992 Galena High School valedictorian CLAD IN LEATHER, there are a lot of other nice photos around san diego.

it's been a busy week but tonight i will be home and i promise to email and call everyone i'm behind on.

here is a picture from my snowboarding trip. after a hard day riding snow, nothing beats snuggling with messy nae after she has had one of my "magic" mixed drinks, diet coke and chloroform. (don't tell her i posted this photo)

pay attention, this is good advice!

2006-01-10T17:31:00.000-07:00

experts say you should learn something new everyday. this is what i learned on saturday: if you come home and your girlfriend is doing a taebo workout in your living room, do not say "yeah, i noticed you put a few pounds on during the holidays". because while taebo may not have improved her waistline any, it sure improved her aim!

actually, it was the rearview mirror post on my '40 ford truck i'm working on, but the girlfriend story sounded better. and no, she did not gain a few pounds, i made that up to.

Deano Beano

2006-01-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

Dean passed away yesterday, 1/6/06. There is a tribute page for him on my website, please click the deano beano link above to visit it. Maybe tomorrow i will finish the year in review post i had for today. since i know how the year ends now, i will have to make some changes to it. be good, all.

check it!

2006-01-04T18:04:00.000-07:00

we got monday afternoon off from work, so i did a test fit of the new bed i built for my '40 ford. this is the first time it has had a bed on it in 15 years. now i have to take everything apart so it can be sandblasted on friday.

playing at the Eagle's Club last weekend was a blast. mike, the guy filling in on bass for dean, did a great job. unfortunately, there has been no improvement in dean's condition, and we all miss playing with him.

this weekend is looking to be relaxing for a change, no plans or gigs, so i will post more then and answer some questions i have not got to yet.

i need a nap

2005-12-30T17:20:00.000-07:00

i just got home today from a two day snowboarding trip, and i don't think i have a single muscle that doesn't hurt. no bad wrecks and i'm not in a body cast, but it became painfully apparent that i've gained a few pounds and have been skipping out on the daily work outs. but definitely a good week. santa was good to me, i spent the whole day monday working on the bed for my '40 ford truck, which i have not worked on for over 10 years, then the first snowboarding trip of the season, and the band is playing tonight and tomorrow night. sorry to everyone i didn't call or send a card to, but i will catch up to you sooner or later. happy holidays everyone.

oh yea, i have video of 3 songs loaded on my website and i have a couple more hours of video to go through with dean playing with us. at this point the doctors give him very little chance of recovering, so our thought and prayers are with you dean, rest well.

Hank Wood

Yes sir!

back soon?

i'm back!

Rehab

The Band?

15 From The Woodpile #3

makes sense!

the band

abandoned? nah.

i know, it's been awhile.

new updates? oh yeah.

first,

dead? nah,

geez

15FTW update!

last weekend

it's come down to this

ok, i'm back.

update

normal?

more randomness

the birthday bash

legacy

i promise!

nice!

here we go again.

unkie howie

the mumbler and the seat hog

DISCLAIMER:

here it is:

from my email

elvis is dead

cleanliness is next to ...............

update's

i know.

i'm back

checking out!

just normal

eat this!

once again,

back in the swing

friday's answers

randomness

slacker 2

i know, i'm a slacker

me and holly

crikey, defective shoes, and a lying ouija board.

bluegrass

paris hilton sucks, and so does kraft easy mac.

7:17pm

henry's turtle

a sunday quikie.

what a night!

i'm back.

goin' fishin

morning

nice

This isnt safe

allergies still suck

allergies suck

new server

Father's Day

the rustang lives!

great news!

ick!

Memorial Day

i'm tired

1 whole year!

warrant sucks, and so does cc deville

i just got up

Pork Chops and Premonition!

hookers need love too

meatball pizza

been a little busy

poetry and so much more

st patrick's day photo's

amazing

happy birthday rangersis!

more questions, and more good advice