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If this is your first time here...Welcome! You are demonstrating that you are a cutting edge music lover in search of the good stuff that is often a bit under the radar. We hope you spend some time on our site, stream some audio, buy some CDs, send us an email..etc...hang out a bit. AND..most importantly we need you to go tell all the cool people you know that you've found a new band worthy of their attention. NEWS 
RP's BLOG It's been awhile. But yes, we are still very much alive. In fact, we just finished playing one of best gigs ever - for over 1000 very happy people at Terrapin Brewery's 8th Anniversary Party in Athens. Terrapin has been a part of our lives for a long time (well..i guess for 8 years). It felt great playing outside for all those smiling dancing (drinking) folks. The band continues to amaze me becoming tighter and tighter - and now we find ourselves in a new comfort zone with our brand spanking new keyboardist Blair Price. We are very much hunkered down in the studio working on finishing touches to next album. Yes...this process is very slow going, but we believe the end result will be worth the wait. John Roberts returns as producer and is once again cracking the whip to get us to where we need to be. The future looks good. We'll be doing some acoustic shows soon, and expect to participate in some big events. I suspect a CD release party will happen someday, as will a return to Jim Roe's Music Room at Carillon. We are open to book shows through the summer, but at this point are highly selective as to which venues we want to play. If anyone out there has a venue you'd like to see us play, let us know! JUST IN: JANGO M returns to THE FIVE SPOT JULY 1st! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS SHOW!!!!! An exciting concept that I expect to come to life in the next few weeks is a regularly schedule Jango Monkey webcast. There is a lot to be said for this. We will likely be using ustream.tv to broadcast. What you get is a pretty decent video experience, with stellar audio, plus a chat room enabling you to talk to the band, and to other viewers during the show. Lets face it, lots of people just don't go out enough to support live music the way it deserves to be supported. Reasons people don't go out: "too tired", "venue too far", "gas too expensive", "beer too expensive", "that venue just has crap on tap", "room too smokey", "room not smokey enough", "room too loud to have a conversation", "sound is muddy and I can't understand the vocals" " I dont want to drink and drive"...you get the idea - there are actually some pretty good reasons to not go out! So imagine, sitting down in front of your high quality computer screen, opening your favorite beverage, adjusting your speakers to the volume of your preference, and watching some high quality spontaneously improvised music. Part of the fun of going out of course is connecting with friends - in this virtual world, you will see who comes into the "room" and who goes, and you can talk to them all you want - they can "hear" you, regardless of how loud you want to experience the music. Anyway - dont get me wrong - there is nothing like the thrill of real honest live music in a great venue - and we all need to keep getting out as much as possible to support that - but this is a pretty cool next best thing. And its a work in progress. Right now I am leaning towards a weekly 1 hour tv show..."Jango Monkeys Second Set" - Thursdays at 9 pm eastern time. We joke about the fact that the band tends to play better 2nd sets - cuz obviously we are warmed up and have found our comfort zone by that point. I have suggested to the band that we just start every gig with "Second Set"....uh...well. you get the idea. This webcast will be that set we hope. MUSIC IS THE BEST! As always, we thank you for your support of JANGO MONKEY and music in general! Let us hear from you. Please check out facebook presence and Be OUR FRIEND, our fan, etc! You can find facebook pages for me Rob Platner, for Eric Martin, and we have a Jango Monkey "group" page as well as a fan page. Join'm all! Hope to see ya soon! Rob 4/29/10 
Archival news and assorted hopes and dreams: Please be sure to sign up for our mailing list so that you’ll be IN THE LOOP on upcoming shows, special promo events and free stuff. People on our list will always get special treatment! We might buy you a beer, or even let you carry our equipment :) . Jango Monkey needs to show YOU that we are WORTHY. Soon, we’re going to be asking you to get off the couch and come see us (again). We totally understand how comfortable the couch can be, but will try very hard to give you a list of really really good reasons why spending an evening with us, may actually be more rewarding than the couch. (But before you leave, you might want to check those secret couch places for the $2.87 in change that awaits you). We’ve got lots of new original songs, and there are some extremely cool covers we’re gonna be whipping out. If you folks have anything special you’d like us to play, let us know and we’ll see what we can do. We are very email friendly people so send us some email, and we promise to respond.
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