The San Francisco Giants are the 2010 World Series champs! Who would've thought, I was hoping they'd make the wild card after the All Star break. I love it! How's everyone doing out there? Tomorrow is the Mid Term election. Go out and vote. It makes a difference.

Melotia just finished a new recording. It will be available on a date TBA after the new year. The four songs were recorded at Mid City Sound in North Hollywood, CA by Jeff Hannan. It was mastered at Lurssen Mastering by Rueben Cohen. We plan to release a video for the song "We Are The Chosen" early in 2011. Be on the lookout for that and shows! That's right I said shows ... hopefully we'll be playing again after the New Year. We haven't played a gig since Sept. 28th 2009.

Clark Skelton

How's everyone doing out there? Has everyone been watching the Olympics? The US is kicking some ass! Congrats to all the athletes who are representing their countries and winning medals. Melotia is still hammering out this new recording. We were getting it done fast until the power's at be halted our progress. Drums, bass, and guitar's are done. We still need to finish vocals, followed by back up vocals and then we can start on the next recording. No shows are booked at the moment but keep your eye out for the next show as soon as the recording is finished. Can't wait to play again! In other news Melotia is going to start working with MissNomers Music Services. She will be shopping our songs to various film, tv, video games, etc.

Clear your calender for Thursday Feb 25th 8;30pm! Kingdom of Excess www.myspace.com/kingdomofexcess will be playing a show in Glendale, CA with Blonde Jovi (Sara's band) Here's the details: Labrie's formerly the Scene 806 E. Colorado Blvd. See you there! We'll then be heading to Los Alamitos Feb 27th to record 7 new tracks for the new album titled "Welcome to My Head". Also the new website is finished www.kingdomofexcess.com check it out! Stay tuned for the new songs.....

Clark Skelton

Welcome and thank you for visiting. How's everyone's night, week, month, year going? Please don't be shy if you feel like sharing any thoughts. Since this is only the second blog and we're already near the end of 2009, I'll treat this as a year in review blog. Don't worry I'll keep it brief because I know how busy everyone is. Right now I'm watching the Monday night football game and typing at the same time. The game has been tevo'd and I'm fast forwarding through the commercials. It's the best way to watch a game. My Niners are beating up on the poor Cardinals, " love it ". Okay let's get down to business. I spent some time this weekend posting on craigslist.com, and corkin.com promoting the website. Here are the links:

http://www.corkin.com/search/search.cfm?userid=93137
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/muc/1507314780.html
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/lss/1507285565.html

Music is always busy, which is a good thing. So far this year it's the same routine with a couple of new things on the horizon. Melotia is in writing mode again. We go into the studio Jan 2010. We'll be recording three new songs and then shopping them to various contacts. I'd like to get them placed in some MMA fights, commercials, etc. I can see a fighter coming out of the tunnel to a Melotia song and then annihilating his opponent! We'll be resuming shows again in 2010, so if you want to hear us in your city please drop me a line and I'll get our booking agent on it ASAP. Our singer Ryan David has been releasing his solo material this past month with more songs coming in the new year as well. I'm very pleased to be a part of it. You can hear his music at www.ryandavid.com. Also I've been recording drum tracks with another project called Kingdom of Excess (www.myspace.com/kingdomofexcess). I'm having a blast playing with my good friends Steve Brundage and CP (aka Christian Pederson). It's sleazy, bluesy and full of surprises. On another note my gabba Sara Skelton is recording with her band The Knight Riders. I went down to their recording session this past weekend and it sounds great! Be on the look out for this bunch. They're the only band I know who play iPhone scrabble with each other while they're in the same room. Haha ... love you guys and gal :) ... Well I'm getting pretty tired so I'm going to end this blog for now. Feel free to blog me back about anything. Really, anything if you want to. "Shameless self promotion" ... please don't forget all my current recordings are for sale through this website. Just click on credits.

What song is this? "You should've been gone. Knowing how I made you feel" ... Here's a hint ... He's from Northern CA. If you google you're disqualified. Free prize to whoever has the correct answer.

Clark Skelton