A Fond Farewell

All of my pre-reminiscing for the past couple weeks and the lack of updates for the past week probably has tipped you all off to the sad truth: we have reached the end of the Robot Roadkill Tour 2008.

It has been such a great trip chocked full of amazing memories and great people that none of us will be forgetting any time soon. The tour has only made us all stronger and more cohesive as a band and we'll be riding this momentum into the studio where we'll be recording our first full-length album with producer John Feldmann.

We'll be continuing to keep you posted on our goings-on from here on out - either on this blog or back to the regular MySpace page. Thanks for following us across the country - we hope you've had as much fun as we have. It wouldn't have been the same without all of you fans.

I'll let TJ send us off. Until next tour...

Last Show with JoCo

As I write this, we've already left Josephine Collective behind in their hometown of Kansas City. It was a long drive for us as we watched them diminish in the rear view mirror on our way to Wichita. We blasted the WE ARE THE AIR through the van's speakers all the way there to try to fill the void. It only made us more bummed to not have them with us for the last three shows.

It's amazing how quickly you grow close to people when you're around them every day for six weeks. You learn the little quirks of everyone's personality. You start to just expect them to be around all the time. It's only a few week pause before we're back together again for The Roxy show on September 6th. Let's hope we can survive apart until then.

Damon left the tour earlier than everyone else for his brother's wedding. This left an opening on guitar for the final show. Christian rose to the occasion. Check him out playing the last song at the final show in Evansville, IN. Look out for TJ at the end, as well.

Get Crunk'd!

We just spent all day driving through the country from Rochester, NY to Evansville, IN. We passed through 5 states on our trek and now we're spending the morning and early afternoon doing our laundry, which was a long time coming.

While we take care of our linens, please enjoy this video:

Damon's Last Day

The first event to signal the end of the tour has just happened: Damon had to leave early to head down to Cancun, Mexico for his brother's wedding. It was sad to see him leave but even sadder to realize what his departure means for the rest of us...

The tour really is coming to an end.

We only have one more date left with the remaining members of Josephine Collective - Saturday, August 9th in Evansville, IN. After that, we're off on our own for the final three shows as we make our long trek back to California.

Even though the Robot Roadkill Tour 2008 is nearing its finale, the fun is just beginning. You haven't seen the last of AMP and JoCo together...

Feeling Inspired

Inspiration comes from everywhere. And, usually in the most unusual of places from the most unlikely of things. We meet so many people while out on the road and so many of them are ridiculously entertaining and unique characters that it's not surprising that songs would come out of this experience. Here's a glimpse at the songwriting process after having a brief conversation with a police officer in Philly. (Don't worry, it was a friendly conversation in a coffee shop. No one was breaking any laws - as far as we know.)

I Love This Town!

New York City.

The Knitting Factory.

Saturday night.

Main Stage.

It really doesn't get much better than this.

We've truly come clear across the country. LA to NYC. Hollywood to The Big Apple. West coast to East coast. It can be easy to lose sight of just how huge of a milestone this really is when you're so busy traveling from city to city, town to town, venue to venue, Subway to Subway for weeks on end. But, this really is something big. A moment that when you look back upon you'll see how so many things changed from that point on. Having never once played one show in NYC, with no opening act to bring in a crowd, and through amazing word-of-mouth, AMP rocked the house to a huge group of fans - most of whom knew all the lyrics to every single song.

We also came to a sad realization that we only have five more shows on this tour with Josephine Collective. It became the first time that really signaled the end to Robot Roadkill 2008 and all of us felt a pang of sadness for the first time. It's not even over yet but I know that I will miss it all as soon as we get back. Once you get settled into the routine of touring - the engineering feat of loading and unloading the entire trailer at every venue, setting up the merch booth and somehow getting the one working lamp to light up, getting a quick look at the neighborhood, the show itself, and everything in between - and seeing the same people every moment of every day, it just consumes you. It becomes your entire life. You no longer think of time as sectioned off into days and hours so much as cities and highway mile markers and exit signs. Of bathroom breaks and gas fill-ups and Green Teas. The thought of all of that ending soon and needing to readjust to a normal life seems almost daunting. But as all things come to an end, so must this tour. And we're all so much the wiser for it.


We love New York and we can't wait to come back. Here's to the last 2 weeks of tour:




P.S. Check back VERY SOON for the Lansing show footage. You won't be disappointed. Also - thanks to all the well-wishes and home remedies everyone gave us for our affliction with the black death. I can't say that everyone is yet healed; however, we've all taken a turn for the better (for the most part) and I think we're going to survive this bout of plague after all!

Quick Little Cover

With a little downtime before the show, Jason and Damon jammed outside The Ottobar in Baltimore, MD. It ended up sounding a little more like something else. Something rather similar. That's when Martin called it. Check out their quick little jam:

DANNY'S BIRTHDAY!!

Okay, so I'm about a week late (8 days late, actually now that we're on Eastern time). Sorry, Danny. But hey, better late than never right!?!?



For everyone who didn't already know, Danny celebrated his birthday last Saturday!!! We're so happy he's with us and that he made it through another year of life. To celebrate, his wife Shay come out to Chicago to surprise him.



HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY, DANNY!