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FASTBALL THE WAY SERIES
We're returning to the live stage on Friday, October 23rd, when we will perform in the North East parking lot as part of the H-E-B Center Tailgate Series just outside of Austin! That's right, we're doing a drive-in show! Doors open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 8:00pm. Watch it in its entirety to find out more about making of our latest record, 'The Help Machine': Pick up tickets here:Īnd finally for those of you who missed it, we’ve uploaded the Zoom ‘Fastball in Conversation with Producer Steve Berlin’ that we did recently. Right outside the gates to ACL Live!, it will be a limited outdoor, patio-style seating with distancing enforced. We have new merch! Check out our online store to find two new hoodies and a facemask, just in time for Christmas! Purchase now and they will ship in mid-December: Īnd we want to let you know that Miles will be playing a solo show this Saturday, November 14th on the Terrace at W Austin. Featuring songs from our career as well as our recent album, 'The Help Machine', it will be be a chance for people all over the world to tune in together and watch Fastball perform. The entire 12 song set that we performed at 3TEN will debut via our Facebook and Youtube pages on Thursday, Dec. The online concert will be hosted by Jason Sudeikis and feature an incredible lineup of music (Foo Fighters, Camila Cabello, Blake Shelton, etc). Two of the songs will be featured this Saturday, November 14th at 7pm Central Time for Thundergong!, a benefit concert for Steps of Faith, raising funds for amputees in need. We’re excited for you to see and hear it.
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It was the first time the band had gotten together since March and it was so great to play music again. We filmed and recorded a performance recently at 3TEN in our hometown of Austin, TX. Here's a little video trailer of the making of it. So please check out the page and join us, will you? The first offering is a blistering new single called 'Chump Change' that Tony wrote. Any money made will help with future recordings, which we hope to continue to offer on our Patreon campaign.
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It's exciting to be releasing music to you shortly after recording it and right now this feels like the right thing to do and we hope you agree and join us. And for the first time in our career, we recorded a selection of cover songs, which will be part of this, and we think you'll be pleasantly surprised by some of the choices.Īnd we took a lot of video footage thru out the recording process, which we'll be sharing with you. Steve Berlin, who produced our last album (The Help Machine), produced some of the songs, and we produced some of the songs ourselves. The new music is some of the best music we've ever made and it won’t be released anywhere else. We will post a brand new song every month, along with an accompanying demo or previously unreleased recording from our archives. We’re honored to leave our little mark on a place that gave us a home in Austin when we were getting started, as it did and continues to do for countless others.We recorded some new songs this summer and wanted to try releasing them in a different way than we have been, so we've decided to launch a Patreon campaign.
FASTBALL THE WAY FULL
“From knowing ‘The Way’ as a huge hit when I was a teenager, to our Monday residency at the Hole, to now cut this song for the 45th anniversary feels very full circle. “The Hole in the Wall gave us our start, as it did so many legendary artists over the last four decades,” Harmeier says. The rendition represents a return to the formative years for the Moonpies, who held down a weekly Monday-night residency at the Hole in the Wall for three years. It’s all tied together by Zach Moulton’s dreamy pedal steel and singer Mike Harmeier’s upper-register vocal delivery. The Moonpies stay mainly faithful to the original - there’s no two-stepping transformation of “The Way” here - but they do increase the tempo to give the loping modern-rock song a more urgent vibe.
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In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Hole in the Wall, the Austin bar in which they got their start, the Texas-based road warriors recorded a breezy version of the 1998 hit “The Way” by Fastball, the alt-rock trio who also launched a career out of the long-running dive bar located near the University of Texas. Alt-rock and country music may seem like strange bedfellows, but in the hands of Mike and the Moonpies they go together like chili and cornbread.