TSH bloggin

WHO ARE WE AND WHAT IS THIS?!

We are The Shaky Hands, a Portland, OR based band on Kill Rock Stars trying to avoid genre labels and just churn out good rock music. We think we’re doing pretty good so far, but chances are, if you’ve found your way here, you think so too.

The Shaky Hands lineup has shifted and changed over the past five years, but currently we’re locked in steady with Nick Delfs on vocals/guitar, Mayhaw Hoons on bass, Jeff Lehman on guitar, and Jake Morris on drums. You can find information on us in a variety of places. Wikipedia? Myspace? Facebook? But all of these social networking sites are a bit scattered, limiting, and downright impersonal.

So look at this! A real blog. We are finally giving this whole Internet thing a go. With about a billion social networking options out there, it’s hard to know where to start. We could make a profile on every one of ‘em, but who really wants to be checking those things constantly? We have had a Myspace page for years, but the hits are dwindling. It seems like people are migrating away from Myspace to Facebook and personally I don’t really care for Facebook. You can’t blog on it, the music player kinda sucks, and honestly I still can’t figure out how to navigate it – it is not “new user” friendly. None of the newer social network sites feel personal to me. That’s why I started this. If you and I are going to have some sort of online connection I want it to be personal – an actual connection – and I don’t wanna try to fit that connection int0 140 characters (take that, Twitter).

So I figured I would start this blog off by giving away some cool stuff. First off is a song from the never released 4 track recordings that The Shaky Hands did way back in 2004. These tracks feature the original band, consisting of Nick, Colin and Paul playing live to subsequent-member-Jeff’s 4 track in the basement of a house on Skidmore ST (affectionately known in our circle as “The Skidmore House”).

Click HERE to download the song Little Word from those recordings.

Secondly, here is a video of us playing The Sleepless at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. The audio is blown to bits, but I think it sounds kinda tough.

We’ve got a new album on the way and tons of news. It will all be posted here first. Come on back so we can get personal

Mayhaw/TSH