Benco and Celebrity Concerts present Dolson w/ Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s at Circus in Columbus on March 4, 2010. Advanced Tickets for this event are $12 and are available online here. Tickets are $14 at the door.

WZIP and EJ Thomas Hall present Dolson w/ Lovedrug for the Stage Door Concert Series on Saturday, March 6, at 9:00pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public and are available here. Tickets are available to U of A Students for $5.00 with a valid student ID at the EJ Thomas ticket booth and the Student Center Info Desk.

Request Dolson on WZIP 88.1 FM at 330.972.8888.

Well, besides being absolutely delicious, we will all be in Canton this Thursday @ 2pm.

WHBC 94.1 FM in Canton has just announced the exclusive appearance of Green River Ordinance @ Canton Chipotle on Dressler road.

This quote is from Mix 94.1’s website www.mix941.com

You’ve heard the song “Come On” by GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE on Mix 94.1
and now you have a chance to meet them as well!

Green River Ordinance will be in Canton on Thursday, February 18th for a private acoustic
concert for lucky Mix 94.1 listeners.

Mix 94.1 and Chipotle of Belden Village have arranged for this special performance provided for lucky listeners.
At 2:00pm the first 50 people will be granted access to the show, as well as receiving great specials from Chipotle.

Chipotle is located at:
5097 Dressler Rd NW
Canton, OH 44718

Dolson will be there as well to help promote the show, and we’ve heard rumors that the “special” is a 99 cent burrito. Come on out and hang with us and Green River Ordinance, and get yourself a $0.99 Chipotle Burrito.

-Andy

Valentine’s Day is 2 days away, and you’re probably thinking. “Oh, no, not again. There’s just not enough time to get him / her the perfect gift.”

But before you resign yourself to sleeping in the doghouse, we’ve got the perfect solution for you. This Valentine’s Day get your loved one tickets to Dolson @ Musica with Green River Ordinance. There’s no better way to tell him / her that you love him / her.

(watch the video at this link if it doesn’t embed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRQ29roAAZw )

Presale tickets are available at Ticketmaster or avoid those nasty fees by ordering direct from us using Paypal.

-Dolson

So our last show in Ohio was the Album Release show on November 13, 2009. While it’s convenient to have Ticketmaster handle the tickets for such an event, I was more than troubled by the fact that so many of our fans would have to pay exhorbent amounts in fees.

(sidenote: exhorbent is not actually a word. please don’t use it. Neither is “alot” “Irregardless” or even “alright” alright? )

My solution to this obstacle was to offer a FEE FREE option to our fans by selling tickets through PayPal at no charge to them. Quickly after I realized my mistake. While PayPal is inexpensive to use, it isn’t free, and we ended up paying $0.60 per ticket that we sold through PayPal. This wasn’t a huge problem, but in the long term we could very easily go broke selling tickets to our own shows.

I thought to myself, “What can we do to fix this conundrum? If we start charging exhorbent (there’s that word again) fees ourselves to cover our costs, aren’t we no better an option than ticketmaster? Should we just give up, and offer no solution to our fans outside of the $4-$6 sur charges. No, we can’t give up so easily.” It was then that the inner math nerd in me decided to make an appearance.

I think many of you would be thoroughly surprised to know that before my endeavors into the great business of music, it was my initial plan to go into the field of Mechanical Engineering, and that I actually enjoyed math class all through school, so I put my good old Algebra Skills to the test. You see kids, there is a reason for learning all that boring Algebra. So here goes nothin . . .

Paypal charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. For a $10.

If we charge only $10 to use paypal. then we only get $9.41 per transaction and still owe the venue $10, thus fronting $.59 per ticket.

We want to charge the least amount possible to cover the transaction fee, and offer the cheapest option for purchasing tickets to our fans.

At first look, one might mistakenly take 2.9% of $10 at $0.29 add $0.30 and charge $10.59 per ticket, but this would be mistaken since the 2.9% is a percentage of the final price, and 2.9% of $10.59 is approximately $0.31. At this price you would lose $0.02 per transaction, and again slowly put yourself out of business. This is where the algebra becomes useful.

Let x= the final price of the ticket through paypal

Let y= the cost of the ticket

The cost of the ticket = $10

Paypal transaction fee = 2.9% + $0.30

x – (.029x + .30) = $10

x is approximately 10.61

So what we must conclude from this, besides myself being a total nerd, is that from now on we will charge a $0.61 transaction fee on ticket sales through our site, but we feel that it still accomplishes our goal of saving you as much $$ as possible and no longer letting the exhorbent fee monster get the best of us.

And remember kids, stay in school, cause you never know when that boring math class might come in handy.

Sincerely,

Andy

P.S. If you want to purchase tickets for our show at Musica on February 18, with Green River Ordinance, we urge you to pre-order your tickets, and save yourself some money, so CLICK HERE for a safe, easy, and by far the cheapest way to pre-order your tickets.

P.P.S. To clear up any confusion. We owe $10 per ticket to the venue whether they are sold through paypal, ticketmaster, or for cash. Fronting $.59 per ticket adds up quick, and that’s money lost that we never see. If we don’t charge the $.61 per ticket then it makes more sense for us to point you to ticketmaster, which will cost you 5 to 6 times as much in fees.

Presale tickets have ended for this show!

Tickets will be available at the door tonight. Doors open at 7:30, and the show will start at 8pm.

See you there!

Thanks to Zac’s mom’s Jeep we made it to NYC and back with no problems. It was quite possibly the most relaxing trip we’ve had. Zac, Cushman, and I left bright and early with plans to see the city before the show.

We arrived in Manhattan around 4:30pm and drove in circles looking for Ground Zero. I love my Garmin, but sometimes it’s just a pain. We gave up pretty quickly and headed for Arlene’s to load in.

The show was great. Arlene’s has amazing sound. We got to meet up with our buddy Bryan from Indie On The Move. You should check out his site btw. It’s a great resource for Indie Bands that are touring, as well as for venues looking for bands.

After the show we ventured a few blocks north to catch Kate Tucker playing a free show at 11th St Bar.

Though we had made plans to catch the city in the morning, we ended up sleeping in, grabbed some delicious bagel sandwiches from “Bagel Works” and headed back to Akron.

We’ve posted some new pictures from the trip. Check them out here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andydolson/sets/72157623302696470/

I just got word from my friend David that our song was used in a Promotional Video for an independent documentary called “Driven on Reels”. The documentary is about 4 film school graduates and their trip from Orlando to L.A. following their dreams of working in show business. The new trailer is up at the the Driven On Reels site, as well as on YouTube. And yes, the song on the promo is from a backlog of demos from summer of 2006. Check it out.

-Andy

It was definitely an interesting night in Pittsburgh at the Smiling Moose.

Starting with what has become a tour tradition of stopping 10 miles out of town to fix something on the station wagon. Last night the muffler of the old 95 toyota corolla wasn’t doin so hot. We tried to tie it up before we left, but with little luck we decided we could make it to Pittsburgh and back as is. Boy were we wrong.

Cushman, JCK, and I were driving the toyota while Zac followed behind with his wife. I get a call a few miles outside of Akron that my tailpipe is definitely sparking and dragging on the ground. I pull over when the grinding noise becomes too loud to ignore. We tried a coat hanger at first. It only took 5 minutes and we patted ourselves on the back for our genius repair. We made it all of 500 when the familiar sound of 15 year old metal sparking and grinding along the asphalt road pierced through the night.

This time we found an old bungie. I layed down on the wet asphalt, and wedged my hand between the tire and wheel well while Cushman held up the muffler with his foot. 3 good wraps around the tailpipe and tie-rod later we were off again, but wait. . .I left my lights on without the engine running. The battery was dead.

Thankfully we had 2 cars and were able to jump the toyota relatively quickly after unpacking the trunk in search of jumper cables. Off again we go.

About an hour later, just West of the WV, OH border I get a call from Zac again, warning me that the muffler is hanging on like a 6 years olds loose front tooth. Just a few more pulls and the muffler fairy would be paying us a visit. 2 Miles down the road we started to hear it again. That 15 year old muffler skipping across the pavement like a stone on water, and then it happened. It broke loose! Hanging by the coat hanger alone, we dragged that muffler down the highway like a can behind a newly weds limo.

Pulling over one more time, we made the split decision to go ahead and cut the hanger, and well. . .we plead the fifth as to what happened next.

With no muffler and an hour left to drive, it was surprising how little of a difference the noise of the engine was. It turns out that the rusted holes may have actually amplified the sound of the engine rather than muffle anything at all.

We made the rest of the trip without a hitch (well actually, considering the content of this post i may want to clarify that the hitch actually stayed with the car).

The gig was a blast. We met some cool bands, some of whom enjoyed giving us a hard time for our total un-punk rockness. But we had a good time, and would like to thank Atlas for having us out.

I uploaded some photos from the show last night. Just go to http://dolsonmusic.com/photo to view the slideshow

-Andy

We’re looking forward to playing NYC again this Tuesday night for the No Pulp Music night. Come on out if you’re in town. It’s gonna be a great show.