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Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 - NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH CRAZY JOE! CD's NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!

NEWS FLASH!
Folks, your New Year's Eve plans have just been settled. You're going to ring in 2009 with style at the now-famous ENON VFW POST #8437! Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws are your featured act, starting the festivities at 9:00 p.m. SHARP. Let's see, who else could be on the bill...why, none other than Latvian weirdos Tyrd Fyrgysyn and the MasterXploders! Tickets are now available...click here for the full scoop!

We are similarly pleased to announce that Crazy Joe CD's are now available for direct purchase online! CD's, t-shirts, pink cheerleading shorts...could there be a better Christmas present for that special Crazy Joe fan (or inmate) in your life? Check out our updated online store! In the meantime...

All the best,
Edmund Sinnicky, OSRC Press Manager


Thursday, October 30, 2008 - DON'T FORGET -- CRAZY JOE SATURDAY NIGHT!

NEWS FLASH!
Hello, ladies and gentlemen!  Don’t forget about Saturday night…Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws have a great show planned for you down at Peach’s in beautiful Yellow Springs, Ohio and I do hope you’ll be there for all the excitement, which starts at 9:00 p.m. SHARP.

Now I would like to bring something critically important to your attention, something truly embarrassing and for which we offer a sincere apology.  We have discovered that, inexplicably, we’ve misspelled our favorite Latvian surf guitarist’s name from the very beginning.  We found out just this week when we had to retrieve him from the Latvian Embassy and it is hypothesized that there was a translation problem between the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.  Please allow me to introduce the man and his true identity, spelled correctly for the very first time for all the world to take note…featured this Saturday night with a special performance…TYRD FYRGYSYN and his dynamic new group, the MasterXploders!  For heaven’s sake, don’t miss out on this one.

All the best,
Edmund Sinnicky, OSRC Press Manager


Thursday, October 23, 2008 - BIG HALLOWEEN WEEKEND COMING UP!

NEWS FLASH!
Ladies and gentlemen...we are pleased to announce that your old friends Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws will be appearing in concert at Peach's Grill Saturday November 1st for a BIG Halloween Showcase and costume party! They'll get things going with music starting at 9:00 p.m. SHARP and continuing through the costume judging contest at midnight. They're tickled to death to be playing at Peach's again after more than a full year's absence.

However, we also have a much more ominous piece of news...we are flat-out terrified to announce the return of TERD FERGUSON with his new band the MASTER EXPLODERS for an intermediate set of Latvian surf mayhem!!! This is not a drill...this is the real deal. Mr. Ferguson refuses to comment on his whereabouts the last twelve months and what he did to the Latvian Polka All-Stars (all he will say, in broken English, is "I bunched 'em"), nor will he divulge any secrets about their musical plan of attack for the evening. To the faithful constituents of the Crazy Joe Mailing List...what matters is that this is an event that you DO NOT want to miss, if for no other reason than morbid curiosity.

With cordial regards,
Edmund J. Sinnicky, Esquire, OSRC Press Manager


Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - UPCOMING EVENTS!

NEWS FLASH!
Crazy Joe has made it back in one piece from Senigallia, Italy, where he played the Summer Jamboree with Deke Dickerson and the Eccofonics this past weekend! The show was a resounding success, with decidedly better weather than the Eccofonics' trip to Haines, Alaska last month (but equally nice folks). Now it's time to get down to the business of upcoming shows.

The Mad River Outlaws' command performance at the Enon VFW last month was such a triumph they've booked the hall for NEW YEAR'S EVE! That's right, you can ring in 2009 with STYLE in beautiful Enon, Ohio! Advance tickets will be available soon; keep it tuned right here, but by all means plan on making the scene.

Also coming up are shows in downtown Urbana (Ohio) Saturday, September 6th at the Simon Kenton Chili Cooking Contest from 2-5 p.m. (details TBA); Dayton and Springfield Oktoberfests on Saturday October 4th (5:00-7:00 p.m. in Dayton, 8:00-10:00 p.m. in Springfield); and Peach's Grill in Yellow Springs on Saturday night, November 1st. Just click here and you can be kept fully up to date! In the meantime...

Faithfully yours,
Edmund Sinnicky, OSRC Press Manager


Monday, July 14, 2008 - SPECIAL SHOW 7/19! CRAZY JOE AND MRO'S AT ENON VFW!

NEWS FLASH!
Alrighty gang, here's what's happening: Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws are playing their first hometown gig in many years at one of the coolest venues in the entire area...the Enon VFW, Post #8437! Make no mistake...this place is the best-kept secret in town. Starting the event is an 8:00 p.m. show, to which kids get in free with their parents, followed by an 11:00 p.m. show for the nite-owls. If you'd like to hang around all night, you don't have to pay twice to see both shows. Best of all, the place has a great stage, cool lighting, and the best, cheapest bar around! How could you lose? We think it's a magnificent way to fully introduce the newly re-formed Mad River Outlaws, and we welcome you to join us.

We know this news update isn't of much interest to the majority of folks who live far away from the magical village of Enon, Ohio...but we're so pleased to be playing such an amazingly cool place, we had to tell everyone.

Always delightfully yours,
Edmund Sinnicky, OSRC Press Manager


Thursday, June 12, 2008 - MUSIC DOWNLOADS NOW AVAILABLE!

NEWS FLASH!
The King of Nerd-A-Billy is now available for purchase in mp3 format from the online store! Buy the whole album for just $9.99 or individual songs for 99 cents each! Sweatin' Bullets Over You and Chopped Slammed & Twangin' will be available soon. You can still purchase CD's from ATOM Records, of course.

In other breaking news, we are pleased to announce the TRIUMPHANT REFORMATION of the MAD RIVER OUTLAWS! Featuring original co-founding member and bassist extraordinaire "Hep Cat" Matt Duffey on electric bass as well as the proud addition of the amazing Tom "Dr. T." Salvatierra on Wurlitzer Electric Piano and the illustrious Ryan Fyffe on drums, this is truly an all-star lineup...and it's a BIG sound, to be sure. TWO SHOWS ANNOUNCED!!!

Yellow Springs Street Fair, Saturday, June 14th., Bryan Center, 4:00 p.m. FREE SHOW!

Enon VFW, Saturday, July 19th. TWO SHOWS! 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm.

Keep it tuned right here for more news updates!

Sincerely yours,
Edmund Sinnicky, Press Manager


Friday, April 25, 2008 - NEW WEBSITE AND ONLINE STORE!

NEWS FLASH!
We are pleased to announce the NEW online home of "Crazy" Joe Tritschler, www.CrazyJoe.org! This is your one-stop site for news, shows, biographical info, and even online shopping through our new online store! The site is brand-new and we'll be updating it daily, so check these pages often! Don't hesitate to contact our fearless webmistress if you have any questions or comments about the new website.

Sincerely Yours,
Ed Sinnicky, Press Manager


Thursday, April 10, 2008 - CRAZY JOE IS CHICO DEL MES IN STAYCHICK MAGAZINE!

NEWS FLASH!
In what is by far the most prestigious honor of "Crazy" Joe Tritschler's entire career, he has been voted CHICO DEL MES by the readers of StayChick Magazine for the month of April! This is no joke! Click on the link and read all about how he beat their own "Wild Evel" by a terrifying margin of 11-7! What's next? We can only speculate, folks...and the possibilities are pretty terrifying.

In other news, Crazy Joe is headed for Vegas this weekend for the 11th annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender to play with the Deke Dickerson Power Trio! Featuring the illustrious Christopher "Sugarballs" Sprague and our pal "Crazy" Joe Tritschler, this band will use every conceivable combination of instrumentation to literally blow people's minds with their TNT-like dynamic power! Crazy Joe will also be playing his own set the following night in Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival - Vegas Edition. Let's hope our boy makes it home from all this excitiment in one piece.

Sincerely Yours,
Ed Sinnicky, Press Manager


Monday, March 10, 2008 - CRAZY JOE IS HEADED FOR SPAIN!

NEWS FLASH! This week we are excited to report that our man "Crazy" Joe Tritschler is headed to the Iberian Peninsula for a two-week tour of Spain and Portugal with Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics! Along with X-treme guitar and drum wizard Christopher "Sugarballs" Sprague, the three of them have formed the ultimate rockabilly power trio and will be harnessing its awesome power with each and every instrumental combination. For more information and specific tour dates, visit www.DekeDickerson.com!

Don't forget to pick up the March 2008 issue of Guitar Player Magazine for a three-page article on our boy starting on page 44! Available at your local newsstand or internationally at retailers such as Barnes & Noble!

Sincerely yours,
Ed Sinnicky, Press Manager


Monday, February 11, 2008 - CRAZY JOE IN THE NEW ISSUE OF GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE!

NEWS FLASH! We are pleased to announce that the brand-new issue of Guitar Player Magazine features a three-page article on our very own nerd-a-billy pal, "Crazy" Joe Tritschler! In the article, appearing in the March 2008 issue and featuring two rather large pictures, Joe elaborates on such subjects as recording techniques, amplifier construction, string gauges, and Rigs of Death! Go get yourself a copy at your local newsstand, or visit international retailers such as Barnes & Noble! !

Sincerely yours,
Ed Sinnicky, Press Manager


Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - CRAZY JOE IS IN VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE!

Hey folks...quick news update to let you know that our boy "Crazy" Joe Tritschler has made it into the pages of Vintage Guitar Magazine! Check out the January 2008 issue, available on the newsstands right now, at retailers such as Barnes & Noble! Of course, the ironic part of this whole thing is that Crazy Joe doesn't own a single vintage guitar - his guitar, built by Dayton's own Casey Simmons, is brand new! Regardless, go get yourself a copy and enjoy the article.

Sincerely yours,
Ed Sinnicky, Press Manager

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