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Song writing sessions with John outside the studio on a beautiful day like today are worth living for. #coldbeerconversation

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The musical evolution of @coldbeerbroads by @PhillyMixtape "...a fun, quirky and sexy (but safe-for-work) film about having a reverential fixation on a classic, unattainable crush." Check out our full #interview and read our story here: http://bit.ly/PhillyMixtape_interview (Visit link in our bio)

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Get the music out! #coldbeerbroads #coldbeerconvo

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Here’s to FRIDAY May your weekends be filled with lots of music, good company, and very cold beer & broads. Cheers 🍻@ColdBeerBroads Check out our latest music video "Jennifer Aniston (Why Are You Married?" if you haven't. The link is in our bio - thanks to our 18k viewers already!!

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Tambourine Thursday. #studiotime #coldbeerinmyhand #thursdaynight

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"Most guys in NYC...will spend their free cash on Ferrari's, jets and mistresses. Music is my mistress. And the band puts the flesh on her bones." Thank you Burning Angel for some good ole conversation. To read the full interview check it out here: http://bit.ly/burningangel_interview (link in bio)

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The truth about how songs originate, from the POV of #HilaryClinton & #DonaldTrump -- the link is in our bio! http://bit.ly/wheresongscomefrom_partII

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Dancing our way into the weekend with “Jennifer Aniston (Why Are You Married?)” on the loud speakers! At 18K views so far! #TGIF #ColdBeerBroads #JenniferAniston The link is in our bio!

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Celebrating #cincodemayo with @coldbeerbroads & our #5strings Sit back, relax, and have a listen to our music video "Jennifer Aniston (Why Are You Married)" click the link in our bio for a listen

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Mixing is way more art and soul than science. We don’t really know what we’re doing. We’ve all been faking it for 40 years. We do it because we love music. It’s what gets me going every day. It’s the love of music first. -Eddie Kramer

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Mondays at work. @coldbeerbroads Watch our latest music video on @vevo (Link is in our bio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2tXm9jlUA

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Dear Jennifer: congratulations on your gorgeous @people cover! The members of Cold Beer & Broads – ask plaintively WHY ARE YOU MARRIED? You were out there in the world, free for so many years – you gave us hope! Hope that we might someday stumble into you in a checkout line somewhere (you do your own shopping, right? at least for handbags and shoes?). Hope that we might be seated near you in a restaurant. But now, you are off the market. Well, we love you still and wish you all the happiness marriage can bring. But you’ve really left a big hole in our worlds. So big that we’ve RELEASED our song for you called: JENNIFER ANISTON (WHY ARE YOU MARRIED?) We hope you enjoy. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2tXm9jlUA The link is in our bio.

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‘This man is a real record man and I would be happy to work with him.’ So, we started representing Death Row [the label] Check out our latest interview with @phillymixtape! The link is in our bio: http://bit.ly/PhillyMixtape_interview

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Live acoustic set. Can Wednesday nights always be this way? #coldbeerbroads #suitandtie #acoustic #musicalevolution

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There’s a website doing a feature about our new song and music video, JENNIFER ANISTON (WHY ARE YOU MARRIED?). If you’ve not yet seen the video, check it out after you read this.

The people running this site asked us about our worst eating experience while on tour. Well, as Cold Beer & Broads, we’ve only just finished our first EP, so we’re a few songs short of being able to tour. But the question got some of the guys thinking, and the best “worst meal” story didn’t come from the road, but rather from right here in our hometown of New York City. 

What follows was told to me by our guitarist Mike DoCampo, and it all took place in the early 1980’s in what was then called Hell’s Kitchen – back when it still was THE legendary Hell’s Kitchen, instead of the pussified version that the fancy realtors now prefer to call “Clinton”. As if we’ve not had quite enough of things named “Clinton” . . .

I was early for a rehearsal. I park at a McDonald’s on 8th Avenue somewhere in the high 30’s or low 40’s. It’s freezing cold. I go into the joint with my lefty 1958 Strat – worth a king’s ransom. No way was I leaving that baby in the car. I get my grub. I sit in a corner – windows to both sides of me (arguably not smart positioning for a guy of Sicilian ancestry). It’s a really bad neighborhood, so I had my exit plan in my head even before I sat down to eat.

After I sit, I look around and the place is basically empty – people at three tables only. One table has a couple of big, burly guys at it – looked like construction workers. I start eating. I eat for awhile. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I glimpse two guys walking into the restaurant, serpentine-like, clinging to the walls. Like a dumbass, I think to myself, “They are going to rob this place. I am going to sit here and watch them go to the counter and rob the joint.” Then I shift my eyes from the counter and scan the restaurant, and I realize that all the other customers are gone. It really hits me, “FUCK, they are going to rob ME.”

So, one of these guys is blocking the door, and his stoned-out, junkie-looking partner approaches my table – which has me sitting catty-corner and trapped. “Fuck him,” I say to myself, “He ain't getting my guitar, no fucking way.” It’s rare and, frankly, irreplaceable and I decide nobody’s getting it without a fight to someone’s death – preferably not my own.

In an instant, I’ve devised my escape plan and put it in motion. I jump up on my table ready to wield the guitar (in its case) like an axe while kicking the scumbag junkie with the pointy toes of my lizard-skin cowboy boots. But before I could blink, the burly diners have reappeared out of nowhere. AND THEY’RE ARMED. I assumed they were undercover cops but really I have no idea – maybe they’re just guys who carry, you know? (How I sometimes miss the New York City of the good old days.)

Anyway, next thing I know, the junkie’s head has been smashed into my plate of Chicken McNuggets, and there’s a cannon of a 357 Magnum jammed into his ear. The guy I think is a cop is yelling, “Go ahead and move and give me an excuse to blow your fucking head off.” I see that the other perp is up against a wall being searched.

Then they’re just LET GO. Freed. “What the fuck?” I’m thinking, and I’m also thinking I need to get the hell out. But first I buy the “cops” dinner (their trays ended up all over the floor), and I thank them profusely. I finish what’s left of my McNuggets – the ones without any hair in them. Then I head to my car. As I’m walking, I realize that the perps had waited for me to come out. I had just enough time to run and reach the car before they were on me – well, almost on me. I got to the driver’s side door and it was so cold the door was somehow frozen shut. Goddamn Buick Regal. Now they’re just about on top of me. I’m able to slide my Strat over the hood of the car with me following it. Somehow the passenger side door comes unlocked. I get in and I relock the doors and start the car as these assholes are trying to smash my windows with their fists. Whoever those jokers are in the McDonalds could give a shit. Still eating the food I bought them. Fuckers. But I got the car started and backed out, crushing one guy’s foot in the process.

I hope it was the junkie-looking guy, but who knows.

That was my worst eating experience tied to anything music. Now go watch our video please!

Link to the video for JENNIFER ANISTON (WHY ARE YOU MARRIED?):

http://bit.ly/CBB-JenniferAniston-OfficialVideo  

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Music is my mistress. // our studio setup before laying down some new material. Want to see the biggest Jennifer Aniston fan out of us all? Check out our latest music video "Jennifer Aniston (Why Are You Married?)" in our bio