David Shaw: News

"Beautiful Escape: Songs of The Posies Revisited" is a new release from Burning Sky Records which features David Shaw & The Round Trip covering a version of The Posies' "I Guess You're Right." The DSRT track has already been getting airplay in the United States as well as Spain. Grab your copy for only $8.00 (includes shipping) by sending payment via www.PayPal.com to roundtrip@earthlink.net.

Big News from David Shaw & The Round Trip
We have some big news for everyone but especially for our supporters in NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES (read on):

First: Music from David Shaw's disc "Walkin' on a Wire" is being used on an MTV show called "Meet or Delete." The episode containing David Shaw songs is due to air on MTV on December 5th and then slide into rotation on MTVU beginning on December 6th. The episode will also appear on MTV International. Set your DVRs folks and listen for bits of Shaw's music in an episode that features two guys (one from Australia and one from Nevada) and two girls (one from New York and one from Wisconsin) who temporarily switch lives.

Second: The next David Shaw & The Round Trip show will be at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York on Sunday, October 14th as the band opens for national recording artists Rhino Bucket. DSRT will take the stage at 8:30 p.m. and advance discount tickets are available for only $10 by contacting roundtrip@earthlink.net for information. Rhino Bucket features ex-AC/DC drummer Simon Wright and ex-KIX guitarist Brian Forsythe. It should be a great show and to top it off, David Shaw & The Round Trip will be debuting new music. Be there!!

Third: David Shaw & The Round Trip are headed to LOS ANGELES for two shows over Veteran's Day Weekend. Here's the schedule:

Friday, Nov. 9th - Paladino's (Tarzana) - 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 11th - The Whisky A-GoGo (Hollywood) - 10:00 p.m. (all ages and no school/work the next day!)

The band needs to sell advance tickets for the Whisky show. If you're planning to be there, please purchase advance tickets from the band. They're discounted at $10 each and can be gotten by sending $10 per ticket (no charge for shipping) via www.paypal.com to roundtrip@earthlink.net. If you do not have a PayPal account, setting one up is free, safe and easy! Other options might be available if need be so please contact roundtrip@earthlink.net for info.

WE NEED THE SUPPORT FROM ALL OUR LOS ANGELES FRIENDS! PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS AND COME ON OUT TO THE SHOWS! WE CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY FOR YOU ALL! HELP US PACK THESE PLACES!

Fourth: Remember, new 2007 shirts and tank tops are available. Please go to www.roundtripmusic.com and click "buy" for information.

For more David Shaw & The Round Trip news and information go to www.roundtripmusic.com or www.myspace.com/roundtripmusic.

The David Shaw & The Round Trip tour finishes tonight at Zakk's Coffeehouse in Murfreesboro, NC. You can watch the show live online at www.myspace.com/zakkscoffeehouse.

Also, check out our tour blogs at www.myspace.com/roundtripmusic to get all the latest on the DSRT exploits on the road.

It was quite a week for David Shaw & The Round Trip. Your votes really helped raise national awareness about the band and we could not be more appreciative. Thank you to everyone who took the time to cast a vote for us. It really does mean an awful lot.

Here's what happened:

We did not win the contest to play the Rocklahoma main stage on Sunday. But we did come in third which is darn good! A big push was then made to land us a spot on the side stage at the festival. At first we were shut out of that opportunity but then lots of voices of support began to be raised - this was support from friends, fans and strangers from all over the country who discovered us because of this competition. Suddenly, the festival organizers started reconsidering their plans and they began trying to find ways to get us on the bill.

But politics, delays and the cost of travel interfered and though we were finally offered a slot last Wednesday (June 11th), it was too late to pull it together and get to Oklahoma to play on Friday. We tried to get it all figured out but it was not to be. Jpot Music graciously said they would sell our CDs to our new fans in their side stage tent.

In the meantime, now we gear up for a busy summer and fall. We will embark on an east coast tour on or around August 18th. Dates are still being finalized but shows in Philadelphia and Virginia are already posted and dates reaching as far south as Miami should be unveiled soon.

In addition, we hope and expect to be playing a series of shows in the Los Angeles area over Veterans Day weekend in November. Details will be announced when they become available.

As for our local New York fans, please come out and have a drink with us next Saturday, July 21st at the Vintage Lounge in Levittown. Let's raise a toast to your support and celebrate the fact that this band was offered the Rocklahoma spot despite being unable to make the last minute trip.

We will also serve as the opening act for the legendary White Lion (you know, the band that wrote "Wait" and "When The Children Cry"). That will be at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale on Wednesday, July 25th. Discount advance tickets are available from band members or by writing to roundtrip@earthlink.net. Please come on out and show your support for David Shaw & The Round Trip.

Thanks to all of you who voted for David Shaw & The Round Trip in the www.jpotmusic.com competition to win the main stage spot at the Rocklahoma festival. Your support means a lot.

We finished fifth out of all the entries which is very respectable. We have now entered the competition to win the Sunday main stage spot. We need to rally you one more time as well as all your friends and family and really push us over the top. Even if we don’t win, a strong voter turnout can land us on one of the side stages. So your vote absolutely counts.

The contest is open for voting beginning on Wednesday June 27th and closes on July 6th. If you registered to vote last time, then just log in, click ‘view contests’ then click ‘vote’ and click on the “Rocklahoma Sunday main stage” contest. Scroll through the entries below the rules and you’ll find three songs from us this time. Please vote ‘10’ for all three. Just click ‘10’ then ‘submit vote’ and you’re done. It’s just that easy!

If you didn’t register and vote last time, please make a difference this time out. Even if you don’t really know us, know you’re helping out some good guys and a damn good band in the pursuit of a dream opportunity. Just go to www.jpotmusic.com and click ‘member registration’, fill out the form, get your verification email and then log in and follow the directions above. It takes no more than five minutes.

Please ask your friends, co-workers, family, significant others and all passersby on the streets to vote as well. Fifth was nice but now let’s push the band to first place and win this thing. We want nothing more than to rock Rocklahoma! It would mean the world to us.

We know we bug you with these notices - maybe too often. But this is a real important opportunity and we can’t do any of this without the support of you guys! So thanks for being patient with us and please vote for David Shaw & The Round Trip.

(and by the way…)

We’re playing Jersey this Friday night at 9:30 p.m.
Axis Lounge
316 19th street
Carlstadt, NJ 07072

Hope to see some of you there!

David Shaw & The Round Trip is competing to win a spot on the main stage at this summer’s “Rocklahoma” festival which is a three-day gigantic show featuring about 30 famous hard rock bands from Poison to Ratt to Warrant to Twisted Sister. We need your votes to help us win. Even if you don’t know us, help a bunch of good guys out and vote. It’s free to register and vote and easy to do. Here are the steps.

Go to www.jpotmusic.com
1. register by clicking on “member registration”
2. activate your account using the activation email sent to you
3. login
4. click on view contests (2nd link from the left on the top row of main
menu in the green area)
5. click on "Vote"
6. click on the contest called “Rocklahoma main stage: Saturday, July
14”
7. you will see the rules and below it a list of all the Rocklahoma
contest entries. David Shaw and the Round Trip are on the third
page of entries.
8. rate the band from 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent). Obviously we need all
the 10’s we can get. Then click “Submit vote” and that’s it!

Please, please, please take a minute to register and vote. This is a huge opportunity for us and we need all the help we can get.

Behind The Veil, a web magazine out of Greece, has just posted an interview with David Shaw. Check it out by going to http://members.lycos.co.uk/behindtheveil/ (click "interviews" and click "David Shaw")

Saturday, May 12th at Fuzzy's was a particularly fun night for both, members of David Shaw & The Round Trip and fans in attendance. Guitarist Steve Cone was visiting from Arizona. Cone played all guitar tracks on "Walkin' on a Wire" and co-produced the CD with David Shaw. He joined the band on stage for renditions of "Welcome Home," "Keep Up With You" and "Under Your Skin."

In addition, the band was joined on stage during a jam by Paul from No Drama, Cone, Marc Fox, ex-Down With The Blonde drummer Erik Fehrenbach and Mark (ex-Pistol Dawn bassist). Besides a jam on the David Shaw song "Tinkerbell", rockin' versions of ZZ Top's "Tush" and Cheap Trick's "Surrender" were performed.

The night was a great success and the band hopes for a repeat of the good times when they play Fuzzy's again on August 11th.

Come by the new Myspace page of Shotgun Annie, the hair metal band that featured David Shaw as well as guitarist George Giannoulis in the late 80s and early 90s. Take a walk down rock and roll memory lane at www.myspace.com/shotgunannierocks

Here's a link to another great review of "Walkin' on a Wire."

http://www.ballbusterhardmusic.com/hard_announcements/metal_to_the_bone/03-2007.html#david_shaw

And if you can read Italian, check this one out from Slamrocks.
http://www.slamrocks.com/review.htm

Go to www.grande-rock.com and click on CD reviews. Scroll down to find a very favorable review of David Shaw's "Walkin' on a Wire."

David Shaw's CD "Walkin' on a Wire" has been reviewed at www.metalreviews.com. Go to the site, click "search" and type in David Shaw for instant access to the review.

David Shaw is on YouTube! Go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=david%20shaw%20crazy%20donkey&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0 and watch live clips from Shaw's recent show at The Crazy Donkey in Long Island, NY. Clips are also available at www.myspace.com/roundtripmusic. Check in and become a "friend"

David Shaw will be interviewed live on Thirsty Thursdays: The Rock Show" on Netrock101. Don't miss it on January 11th at 9 p.m. EST. Tune in by going to
http://stations.loudcity.com/89/listen.html or http://netrock101.servebeer.com:7020/ (click "listen" and tune in) or go to www.myspace.com/netrock101.

All fans and friends are encouraged to support David Shaw and the band as they open for legendary rockers Bang Tango and House of Lords at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY on Sunday, January 21 (8:00 p.m. showtime). Advance tickets are available for $10 via PayPal. Go to www.paypal.com and send $10 per ticket to roundtrip@earthlink.net. Include your address and your tickets will be rushed to you. Tickets are also available through band members and will be available at the January 18th show at Don Hill's.

Thanks to your votes, David Shaw's song "Keep Up With You" won Round 1 in the Diskfaktory Rock Song Contest.

The song is now up against stiffer competition in Round 2 and your votes could propel David Shaw to the finals.

Please go here: http://www.sizzlefizzle.com/contest_main.asp?rTabSlct=1&rContestId=1563 and cast your vote.

If you didn't register and vote in Round 1, you can do so for Round 2. Registration is free and voting is easy.

Round 2 voting ends on Friday afternoon, so please take a moment and vote today.

Thanks for your continued support. It means a lot!

David Shaw's song "Keep Up With You" has been entered into the Diskfaktory Rock Song Competition and your votes will determine the winner!

It's easy! Just go to the following link (David Shaw's song is competing in "Match 4"), register for free, and vote for "Keep Up With You."

http://www.sizzlefizzle.com/contest_main.asp?rTabSlct=1&rContestId=1563

Votes for this quarterfinal round must be in by Christmas Day (December 25th) so take a minute and vote today!

Thanks for your continued support.

To all friends and fans,

Have a safe and happy holiday season and a fantastic New Year's. Get ready to rock in 2007 with David Shaw!

Metal to Infinity, an online magazing out of Belgium, has posted a brand new interview with David Shaw. Check it out at: http://metaltoinfinity.00freehost.com/InterviewDAVIDSHAW.html

Get out and support David Shaw as he and his band start rocking the New York area in 2007! Check out the calendar page for upcoming dates. More will be added as they're scheduled.