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Hey beautiful (yes, I’m talking to you)! Just wanted to...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:56:08 -0800

Hey beautiful (yes, I’m talking to you)!

Just wanted to write a quick blog saying thank you to everyone who is waiting it out with us. It’s taken us a long time to write this record, but I assure you, it’s going to be worth the wait. We’re sitting on about 30 songs now, 10-12 of which will make up our best record to date! I don’t plan on stopping the writing until we’re out of the studio. Hell, I plan on writing continuously, I’ve learned that the more I do it, the better the songs get. You’d think I’d run out of content… I haven’t yet! So until I do, it’s writing, writing, writing! Thinking about whipping up another acoustic Christmas song for you. Whatcha think? Have you heard this one I did in 2008?

Again, thank you for sticking with us. This Prov has many years of life left in it, we’re still very much a band, and honestly I don’t think we’ve been more excited to make a record than we are now. Hang in there, and have a wonderful holiday! OXOXOXOX,

-Dan

YOU, ME AN ACOUSTIC AND A TREE! Please…PLEASE, join me...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:33:00 -0800

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YOU, ME AN ACOUSTIC AND A TREE!

Please…PLEASE, join me this Thursday as I play a handful of Christmas songs among a few This Prov tunes!

I’ll be doing the set through a site called Stage It. There are limited tickets available so don’t miss out. It may seem weird to pay for an online performance, but I’ve done one of these before and the thing I really love about it is the intimacy. It gives me a chance to really interact and chat with everyone. It feels special.

But the thing that really makes this special - all proceeds will benefit Charity Water. This is a great organization that works to provide clean drinking water to people in developing countries. If Christmas is about giving, than this is a pretty sweet way to do so!

Check it out, buy a ticket, and I’ll see you there,

-Dan

Dec 15th @ 4 PM PST
Benefiting Charity Water
BUY TICKETS HERE - $8

90% of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are of children under five years old. Many of these diseases are preventable. The UN predicts that one tenth of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply and sanitation. - charitywater.org/whywater/

andyhorst: fueledbyramen: This Providence: Australia 2011...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:55:43 -0800

andyhorst:

fueledbyramen:

This Providence: Australia 2011 (Part 1)

This Providence’s trip to Australia for the Counter Revolution tour with Panic! At The Disco, All Time Low, Yellowcard, Story Of The Year and others. Visit ThisProvidence.com for more!

Fair dinkum!

Fat-loo.

So...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:54:32 -0800

I haven’t posted a reg-blog in a while. Honestly, I’ve been going through some shit. And...

Photo

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:25:40 -0800

Don’t laugh. This is serious rock ‘n roll stuff,...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:33:08 -0800

Don’t laugh. This is serious rock ‘n roll stuff, folks!

http://johnvicory.com/

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:47:40 -0800

http://johnvicory.com/

These are so bad ass! fueledbyramen: This Providence in...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:07:26 -0700

These are so bad ass!

fueledbyramen:

This Providence in Australia

Here are some photos of This Providence on Australia on the Counter Revolution that Andy Horst sent in - click HERE to follow him for more of his photos!

AP Horst Photo

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:19:48 -0700

AP Horst Photo

Epic Charlie photo, courtesy of Andy Horst!

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:52:20 -0700

Epic Charlie photo, courtesy of Andy Horst!

fueledbyramen: This Providence: Update from Dan Young Dan Young...

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:50:27 -0700

fueledbyramen:

This Providence: Update from Dan Young

Dan Young from This Providence checks in with a video update about what the band has been up to and how work on their new album is going.

fueledbyramen: from Dan Fuckin’ Young of This...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:55:21 -0700

fueledbyramen:

from Dan Fuckin’ Young of This Providence:

About 2 weeks ago I became a home-owner. Yep, the mrs and I bought our first house! It’s moments like this when I think about how strange and beautiful life has been for me.

I was in a hurry to get started. I surprised my parents with my coming existence in the first year of their marriage and soon after I was born they bought their first house. I’m told it was a shit-box then, but Dad never stopped banging a hammer on the thing. He was constantly (and slowly) fixing it and adding to it. He likes to do that stuff…me, not as much. By the time I was 16, when we moved to the states, it was an charming and inviting little home. I loved that place so much. In “Chasing The Wind” I even wrote of the pink-painted treehouse sitting in the fork of a weeping willow in our backyard. It was home.

Now, 10 years after leaving that house, I finally have my own home! It’s really exciting, but it too is a little fixer-upper. I imagine my situation must be similar to my parents (minus the kids). Since the day we got the keys I have been slaving away dismantling and reassembling the kitchen, laundry and bathroom. I’m so sore right now, but I can’t wait till it’s done and we move in and I can punch a hole in the wall if I get really excited and I won’t have to pay anyone anything! I could just leave the hole and store treats in it!

Oh and I want a veggie patch. George Harrison was a gardener and he said it helped with his song writing, I like that idea. I’m going to be a gardener too! Ok, that’s all I got right now. Thanks. Cheers. Bye.

Dan

P.S. Here’s a picture of Andy flexing and my dad carefully inspecting our work (he’s an excessive perfectionist).

andyhorst: I remember the days I played inferior cymbals. Play...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:05:27 -0700

andyhorst:

I remember the days I played inferior cymbals. Play Meinl. They’re superior.

www.meinlcymbals.com

Wow! Who took this awesome photo? I did. I’m the bomb. Remember when it was so gnarly and radical to be “the bomb”? Me neither. I’m the bomb.com (that’s what’s cool to say nowadays (no it’s not)).

San Diego Video Update #2!

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:48:36 -0700

San Diego Video Update #2!

fueledbyramen: This Providence: San Diego 1 This Providence...

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:57:14 -0800

fueledbyramen:

This Providence: San Diego 1

This Providence work on some new songs before celebrating Taco Wednesday in San Diego, California! Visit thisprovidence.com for more!

Told you we had fun!

What matters?

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:21:40 -0800

Hello,Recently we spent 10 days at a friends place in San Diego writing new music, it was grand....

fueledbyramen: from Andy Horst of This Providence: I know… this...

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:35:14 -0800

fueledbyramen:

from Andy Horst of This Providence:

I know… this picture needs some sort of explanation. The band and I just got home from spending a couple weeks locked up in a house near San Diego writing and demoing songs. We turned a very generous friend’s house into a mini recording studio. In short, it was awesome.

Now to explain this photo. If at first glance you thought that this looks like dirty underwear taped to a floor tom, well then you were right. There’s no absolutes when you’re recording… especially if you’re recording music yourself. At the end of the day you do you what you gotta do to get the best sound. Now for a song we were working on that day, I wanted to imitate the sound of a orchestral timpani drum. After some experimenting I found that taping my dirty underwear to my drum seemed like the best option. Is this scientific you ask? No… but after drinking a pot and half of coffee and going a little bit stir crazy… then yes. Dirty underwear + floor tom = timpani.

It was coffee, I swear!

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:42:42 -0800

It was coffee, I swear!

fueledbyramen: from Dan Young of This Providence: Hey everyone....

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:01:05 -0800

fueledbyramen:

from Dan Young of This Providence:

Hey everyone. What’s going on? I’ve been working hard recently, and by that I mean, working hard on my work ethic. In a moment of inspiration, a few months earlier, I mentioned in a blog that I had fallen head-over-heels for the morning calm. And while I still feel that way, another side of me relishes in staying up late watching TV on Hulu. It’s a battle, but I’m learning how to be a grown up…slowly…sort-of.

Aside from tackling my sleeping habits, I’ve also been developing a deeper understanding for the craft of song-writing. Currently I am working on songs for the next record which will be our 4th full-length and I still feel like such an amateur. This time round I’m learning just how much work it really takes to write a song. A good song, that is. When you’re young you walk into song-writing like it’s this lofty, magical sort of art that seems to be a whole lot of luck. And I do still believe half of it is chance, or providence, or whatever you choose to call it, but the other half is a whole lot of hard work, and patience. Mostly, I’ve had to be patient with myself. I’m not a quick learner, or reader, so I’ve had to invest a lot of time purely into learning and researching the craft of writing.

Next week we’re all headed to San Diego to take over a friends house near the beach and work through a bunch of the songs we have written so far. It’s going to be a great trip and I think we’ll walk away from it with the framework for the next record. I’m so excited!

In other news, I just bought some new jeans from eBay for my first time. Thank the good Lord, they fit like a dream! The kind of dream that you wish you had more of.

Thanks for reading,
Dan

P.S. If you’re interested in writing songs I have been reading the following books, I suggest you do the same:

The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield
This book is written from the perspective of an author, but is relevant to all writers and artists. It’s a REALLY easy read and has drastically changed my perspective on my profession.

The Song Writers Idea Book by Sheila Davis
This book is just as much an examination of song-writing as it is an “idea” book. Really helpful, I read this one while writing “Who Are You Now?”

Tunesmith by Jimmy Webb
Written by the world-class song writer, Jimmy Webb who is the only artist to have ever received Grammy awards for music, lyrics and orchestration. I’m about a quarter of the way into this one and only wish I’d read it sooner. This is by far the most in-depth look at song-writing I’ve read.

fueledbyramen: Check out the great deals in The Fueled By Ramen...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:13:18 -0800

fueledbyramen:

Check out the great deals in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore! ‘This Hoodie’ is 15% off until the end of the day February 13th! Remember all orders placed by the end of the day February 13th will receive a Valentine e-card from the band.