Last weekend we loaded all of the equipment and some generators and headed into the mountains! It was a big camping trip of a bunch of friends in memory of our good friend Scoot that passed away a couple of years ago. It turned out better than I had thought. Brian pulled up his 25 foot trailer that worked perfect as a stage. It just fit everyone on there and had a table top which worked perfect to fit some turn tables. We had a great jam both Friday night and Saturday night. We had some of our talented family and friends with us to help keep the music going. The Drunken Masters performed some Hip-hop one of the nights. And both nights either DJ Richard Mixin or Scoots Brother Troy were keeping us going with some great music on the turn tables!

After playing our set for a minute, I realized that I had to put the mic stand on the ground and extend it up onto the stage because it was bouncing around too much when we really got jamming and was too hard to sing into. With it off the trailer, it worked perfect and we had some good jams.
Whenever we weren't on stage, I ran the sound board. I really enjoyed myself using some of the new equipment that the band had bought recently, and it was nice for once to be on the other end of the system!

KHP live on Cable T.V.!! If you live in Salt Lake City or the surrounding areas and have Comcast Cable service. You need to check out KHP live on Comcast OnDemand! There are 5 or 6 songs on there that were recorded at Club Vegas in Salt Lake City on June 5th 2009. The whole show is up from now until October, so go and check them out and tell all of your friends to watch it. If you have never seen KHP play live, check it out, you will be surprised at how much we have progressed as a band in the last year. The Video features KHP's newest song "Volar Alto" and for the first time ever recorded, the infamous "The Allegend of Billy Blaine"!! After you check them out, come back here and leave a comment on this blog to let us know what you think of it! To make it easy for you, here is how you find us on Comcast

1. Click OnDemand, or go to Channel 1
2. Sroll to the 2nd page and click the "Music" tab.
3. Scroll down and click the "Bandwagon Live" tab
4. In the list of bands you will find KHP. Watch them all and Enjoy!!

I appologize to anyone that tried to check out the website in the last few days. There was a mishap with paypal that shut down the site for a few days. We are back up and running strong again.. There have been some exciting things happening with the band since the beginning of the year. One of the most important being that we are really making some progress on recording the album. In the past 3 weeks, I have been in the studio atleast 3 times a week to try and get some songs down for you guys.. We will be releasing songs online as they are finished until the complete album is ready. It looks like a tie right now between "Divide These Feelings" and "My Son" to be the first song to be released. Keep an eye out because it should be happening in the next week or two.

Also, we have been working hard to build an awesome sounding PA system. We will be playing some outdoor shows this summer and we want them to sound awesome. keep an eye out for some of those upcoming shows!

Speaking of upcoming shows: We will be playing at Club Vegas in SLC on April 16th and we could really use your support. The show is set up as a kind of contest for bands to be able to play weekend shows. The more tickets we sell and the more people show up, the better chance we have to play on a Friday or Saturday night at Club Vegas.. And that is what we all want right?

 Ok fans, we really need your help on this one! For those of you who attended the battle of the bands in June, you know how this works and how much fun it is. For anyone who doesn't know, this is the final round of the battle. We won the first round which qualified us to play in the finals, and this is where we need your help. Whoever sells the most tickets gets to headline the show!!! So I am asking everyone that is a fan of KHP, even if you can't attend for some reason, please help us by buying a ticket! But for everyone that can go, rest up your lungs, and practice you whistle, because the final judging is based on the crowd. They will call out band names at the end of the show and you scream and yell when they call the name of the band you want to win! Pretty simple huh, and you can see how important it is that we have all of the KHP supporters there for this one!! So contact me @ kristianheald@gmail.com to purchase tickets. I will mail them or deliver them to you somehow so that you don't have to worry about picking them up!

One of the reasons that this show is so important for us to win is because, as you all know we are working on recording our first album right now. When the album is finished, we will have to send it in to be pressed so that you all have a nice CD. We want to get it printed just as soon as we can, but it is expensive to make it happen. The prize money from the battle would cover half of the cost of printing the CD's so it would help us a lot to win the battle!

Just to update you all on the recording process. We have recently ran into a little speed bump in the road. One of the very important pieces of equipment has ran into some problems. There was a short in one of the switches that has made it un-usable. Fortunately it is under warranty and will be returned to the manufacturer to be repaired.. The only problem is that without that equipment, we are set back at least 2 weeks in the recording process. So what we plan to do is hit the studio double time when the equipment is fixed. Hopefully we can make up for lost time and still make the album on time!

Finally, Success!!!
We have been trying to record for 2 months now. With lack of equipment and old drums, we were running into problems. Last week we finally got the final piece, a new head for the snare drum. We started recording on Monday and recorded more last night. I really do have to say that I am shocked at how well it sounds. The drums sound incredible and mixes nicely with the guitar.. All we need now is Bass and Vocals on this track and it will be finished! A FINISHED SONG! That will be great, I can't wait to share it with you all and see what you think.. So it looks like we are now back on track to having the album finished by spring! We will be working hard through the holiday vacation to get as much recorded as we can. It is so exciting to have it all coming together!
    
Also, Check out the Store page, I have added a print to order Merchandise store that you can order whatever color, size, or style of shirt that you want. It has a cool new KHP design that is made from some artwork of Dan Bergevin! So go and be the first to buy one. I would love to see some people wearing them at our next show!         

Come and check out this show on Sunday. After talking with a local comedian and Friend at our last show at Liquid Joe’s, we decided that we would give a show together a shot and see how it goes. So I talked to the guys at Monk’s and they are cool with us having a comedy bit. So, you will now have a bit of a variety show. We will be playing 2 sets; we will play for about half an hour, We will give the stage to Kevin G for half an hour, and then we will finish off the night with another set. We will only be a few songs short of playing all of our music, so if there are any songs that you haven’t heard in a while, then I suggest that you come to Monk’s and have a good time with us because there is a good chance that we will play your favorite song! Music and Comedy, This will be a great show!

Great news friends!! Just this last weekend, I met with Local SLC Artist Dan Bergevin to talk about some creative help for the band. We talked for a couple of hours about some possibilities and direction that we might want to go to help promote the band. Now I have been a big fan of the DB artwork for quite a few years. In fact, I have a great ink piece hanging on the wall in my computer room. I was very happy to learn that he is a fan of KHP, and that he is actually just as honored to have us use his artwork as we are honored to have his involvement. He actually even drew up a really cool logo of our name just before we met up.

After looking through pages and pages of his really cool ink drawings, I was trying to decide what kind of designs I would like to use. We came up with some really good ideas together for some future projects. But the coolest part of the evening was that after we finished all of our discussion, he handed me a few of his notebooks full of art and told me that I could “Scan and use whatever I want”!!! WOW!! That is awesome. So right now I have my hands full with some really great artwork that I will be able to use for all kinds of things: T-shirts, Flyers, CD Art, Stickers, etc. The possibilities are pretty much endless! I can’t wait to show you all the trippy designs I will be using! But, to hold you over until then, here is the design that he drew up for us in about an hour! I Love It!

Well, I am not going to let you go as long as last time without a blog post. Things have been pretty overwhelming lately. When you combine having 2 jobs, a family, and being a serious musician, things tend to get a little busy. So I am going to make a conscious effort to let you all into my life a little more through these blogs.

We got everything ready to start recording the album, and to follow suit, we had one more problem. The kick drum just isn’t sounding right and needs a new drum head. With the holidays being tight, none of us can spare the $50 to buy a new one and start recording again! So we will wait until after the holidays and maybe we can chip together.. If any of you want to help us out, there is a Donations tab on the Free Music section of the site. We would appreciate any help that anyone can give us.

The year is growing awfully close to an end and I want to invite you all to our last show of the year at Monk’s House of Jazz on Sunday the 14th of December. If we don’t see you there, then we want to wish you a happy holiday season. I know that the economy is bad and a lot of people don’t have money. Believe me, I am one of them. But pull in close those people around you and spend some time. A time like this is perfect to reflect on the relationships of the people around you. In hard times like these, you will find out who are the genuine friends. When the gatherings are not about giving gifts, we are forced to once again understand the basis of our friendships. So to all of my great friends out there, your friendship is a gift and I hope that you can say the same for me.

Ok everyone, we need your help on this. There are some prizes on the line here and the voting is all based on Audience applause. So get your friends, your family, your lovers and buy some tickets. The most tickets sold also gives us the best spot in the lineup. The show is on Sunday January 18th at the Avalon Theater (an all ages venue) and tickets are $10 and are available NOW! Just send an email to kristianheald@gmail.com and I will find a way to get the tickets to you! We will have some new music ready for that show and we will be putting on a great show. Also, I have been playing with a site called Twitter, so if you are a member or want to be, I update it daily talking about things going on in my life and in the band. Look me up, my user name is khpkristian

We have a brand new song that I have been waiting to blog about because I wanted people to have the surprise of hearing it. The words alone don’t do this song much justice. So I am mostly blogging it for those that have heard it. The story behind this song comes from seeing so many bands make up a false persona with lyrics about their own personal experience of supposed pain and suffering. If you keep up with my blog I have mentioned these people in a previous blog and I called their style “Morbid Johnny Cash”. I have always joked about the lyrics of these bands. As long as they mention certain things in their songs they will be popular. Here is my list of content you need to make a MJC song: Old dirty bars, Whiskey, Cigarettes, The Devil, Murder, Texas, Women, and anything mentioning personal pain and suffering. The name of the song is a morph of the words “Alleged Legend” which came from a conversation that my brother and I had about the song (Thanks Jake). And the name Billy Blaine you ask? Well, maybe some day you will run in to him and you can see for yourself..

The Allegend Of Billy Blaine

Billy Blaine walked from the bar
With a whiskey in his hand
Climbed on the stage, blew out his smoke
As he joined the rest of the band
His voice was deep, his guitar was sweet
Told his story with a chord
About a drunken Dad and a Junkie Mom
An only child I thank the lord
He spoke of a Texas town
Where he met the Devil in a dirty bar
And the Devil said son now for your soul
You’ll be a f***ing star

Billy wore a leather vest
Tattoos down to his hands
He said they came from prison
Where he did time when he killed a man
His worn out boots stomped a thousand hearts
And walked a million miles
All the women that he left satisfied
Weak knee’d and full of smiles
But when I talked with Billy after the show
He just didn’t act the same
He asked if I could keep a secret
And said “My name’s not Billy Blaine”

He was born in sunny Beverly Hills
Under the name of William Boone
Just a spoiled and lonely rich kid
Growing tired of that silver spoon
Now there was no deal with the Devil
He still was waiting for his big break
He never did that time in prison
Everything about this man was fake
So if you’re in a bar, and you hear a man
Sing of suffering and pain
Before you buy his story, remember
The Allegend of Billy Blaine