Good Art for Badd Eggs

Man, what a blast! As usual it was a great weekend hanging out with friends, surrounded by baddass cars. Our pals the Road Devils had a great display. It was a garage that had displays inside of it showing the heritage of the club going back decades. A couple of buddies from our Sacremento chapter came out for the show. Always great to see those guys. I’m slated to do the art for their Midnight Mass show in August, can’t wait to get started on it. Unfortunately the show is only about 3 weeks away from the due date on our new baby, so once again I will let another year slip by without attending Midnight Mass. Next year fer sher.

I put up a flickr set of pics of our display and the trophies we made for Autorama Extreme this year. Tim King and Roger Atwood scrounge the parts and make the trophies, and I pinstripe them. Every year there is a trophy for best club display, but you can’t win it two years in a row. Since we won it two years ago, it was time to pull out the stops and go large with our “Tournament of Thrills!” themed display based on the traveling daredevil shows of the 50s and 60s. Naturally, our hard work paid off and we won the Best Club Display again in 2010! I believe we hold the undisputed record for most “Best Club Display” trophies collected in the history of Detroit Autorama Extreme. Justin brought his Hemi-powered Model A. It sounds killer, here’s a little video.

We had table with tshirts and fliers promoting our upcoming show SINS of STEEL (formerly Billetproof, now kicking more ass!). It’s coming up on June 5th, same date, time, and location as Billetproof was. Go to the SINS of STEEL website for more info: www.sinsofsteel.com.

The Lincolns UK proudly release their debut album Hot Blonde Bitches November 14th at the Park Bar in Detroit. Recorded in the summer of 2009 at High Bias Recordings in Detroit by underground scenester Chris Koltay, the album captures the raw energy of The Lincolns UK and harnesses it in a limited edition vinyl EP and a full length CD, together in one package. Listen to preview tracks at myspace.com/thelincolnsukdetroit. Come help us celebrate the release at The Park Bar and support local live rock’n'roll!

Finally this car was starting to come together! Maybe I’ll finish this thing after all! I was going over to Jeffro’s one night a week and putting parts on the engine. But before I stuffed in the drivetrain, I wanted to fix up the hole in the floor. While I was at it, I figured that I might as well do the whole front floorpan because it looked like swiss cheese. From a Tarantulas gig I had met this old guy that did customs in the ghetto down in Detroit. I bought a front clip off of him because my passenger side fender is all crunched up.
“Hundred Twenty Five”, he said.
“Well,” I said “I only need the fender. How much for that?”
“Hundred Twenty Five. You can take the fender, or you can take the whole thing. Up to you. Either way, it’s a Hundred Twenty Five.”
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As the website has grown it has started to sprawl and get downright unmanageable. So I’ve undertaken a redesign to make it roomier, easier to use, easier for me to update, and I’ve expanded the functionality of it, too! Some things may be missing at the moment, like the whole saga of the car, and most of the older posts, but they will be back as soon as I figure out a way to make them work. I hope you like it!

Thanks,

Marc

The last show was great, thanks to everyone that came out and swarmed the Painted Lady! I’m planning to get the band into the studio this summer to record. I have a couple of new posters and shirts done, and I’m working on a comic with writer Rob Worley. It’s kind of a Mad Max meets Escape From New York with aliens and Area 51 conspiracies.