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. 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. 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. Most of all, thank you for continuing to bring us along for the journey.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. Thank you for continuing to make the music that YOU want to hear. So Miles, Tony and Joey, thank you for leaving us where you started. Most importantly, as evidenced on stage, they continue to enjoy themselves doing it. They have consistently produced 90s-era pop-rock records with deceptively complex chord structures and catchy melodies while never sounding repetitive. It is a common tale about bands that have had their time in the spotlight and then changed the essence of their being to elongate that time in the spotlight. In a figurative sense, ‘leaving where they began’ illustrates that Fastball is a band that has stood the test of time and that they have done it while remaining true to themselves. In a true show of pride for their entire catalog, Fastball began and ended the show with songs from their first, often overlooked, album Make Your Mama Proud (released April 1996 via Hollywood Records). In a literal sense, Miles may have been referring to the nights setlist. The standout moment for me was just before the last song of the night when singer/guitarist Miles Zuniga stepped to the mic and said, “We’re going to leave you where we started.” It stood out to me because in that moment, the statement took on both literal and figurative meanings.
Evidenced by the energy coming from both the stage and the audience, this show was not an announcement that Fastball was ‘coming back’, it was proof that they were never gone!
#FASTBALL THE WAY FULL#
The band took the stage at The Saxon Pub in their hometown of Austin, TX shortly after 10PM and proceeded to take the sold out crowd through a full retrospective of their twenty-one year, six studio-album history. Saxon Pub, Austin, TX, Ap– The show was billed as the record-release show for their upcoming album Step Into Light (out May 19th via 33 1/3 records) but it was so much more than that.
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