Thanks to our lovely organizer/travel agent (for our Frozen In The Sun Cruise in Jan 11′!!), Debbi Sturch, for catching us in this segment from the CBS Sunday Morning show yesterday!! She said she did a double take and even took a pic to verify it was us playing live. Apparently, CBS was taping for this segment about the Austin music industry event, South By Southwest, and since Eric and the Adams were there performing this past March for it, we ended up in the segment performing here and there. VERY COOL!!!!! Check it out above:).

~Eric

Just got back from an awesome press conference at Dilly Deli in Tulsa, OK! This group, OCCJ (stands for Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice) asked me and a bunch of other Oklahoma based musicians to take part in a video campaign to reach more folks about their mission to stand up against bigotry, racism, and hate. Such an amazing cause and group, that I had to be a part!!! I even performed my song, “We Are The Same” that you can see in this video ad done by Eric and the Adams videographer (he did our music video for “Every Move” with photographer, Jeremy Charles). Check it out and thanks for watching!:

Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice from Kelly Kerr on Vimeo.

SO excited for this big news!!:)

I have been itching to put out another disc and with the new material I have been working on, thought it would be good to also revisit some of my older tunes. SO I am selling my older CD’s for just $5 (plus tax and shipping) each!
I will sign them and if I still have them in stock, it is yours:).

I have also been taking piano lessons using my older songs as tools to learn the piano. By the middle of the Fall, I will have enough songs to put on a full length disc! I decided to release this before the holidays and it will feature just myself playing the piano and singing. I am super pumped to do this and I am calling it, “OUT WITH THE OLD”. It will be songs picked by myself (and you! Email me your requests at erichiman@gmail.com) and the cover of the disc is above (that is also my doggie, Duncan,ha). The pic was taken by photographer, Kelly Kerr, design help by Angel Adams, and thanks to Brad G. for selling me this piano cheap,ha.

I am also bringing back my Free Cover Mondays promotion where I give away a song every Monday on my free Mp3 page. You can get them if you just sign up on the front page of the site for the newsletter! There might even be some left on their from previous Free Cover Mondays of other months.:).

Okay, time to go get my new water heater (broke this Sunday) and now I realize just what a amazing thing hot water is.

Have a great week and thanks for following me on my blog:)

~Eric

Here are the two posters for the show!

Should be a fun time!!! SEE YOU ALL SOON!

~Eric

BOOK YOUR ERIC AND THE ADAMS: FROZEN IN THE SUN CRUISE BEFORE THE RATE GOES UP!:)

As you can see from the picture above, we have partnered up with the lovely Debbi Sturch at Firstworld Travel to bring you (drumroll, Angel)….

ERIC AND THE ADAMS “FROZEN IN THE SUN” OFFICIAL CRUISE TO THE MEXICAN RIVIERA JAN. 30th-FEB. 6th 2011!!!!!

We are so excited to announce this since most of us are stuck in our houses due to sleet and snow this past year. YUCK!

So…..image this…..Seven months from now (Jan. 30th-Feb. 6th 2011), you are on a cruise leaving LA (roundtrip) and heading to Cabo, MX, Mazatlan, MX, and Puerto Vallarta, MX. You and your friend are looking out at the Pacific Ocean, having cocktails, and listening to one of three scheduled shows from yours truly, Eric and the Adams!

That is right! We are playing three shows during this 7 day cruise, meeting and greeting with everyone, and have some surprises for you up our sleeves…I mean, T-shirts. We will be on the Carnival Splendor (pic below), a beautiful ship that even has mini-golf (I haven’t played in a while!). Debbi Sturch, our wonderful band travel agent based in San Diego, has worked out all the details to make this fun, full of entertainment, and of course, affordable. Check it out:
ERIC AND THE ADAMS “FROZEN IN THE SUN” OFFICIAL CRUISE!
DATES: January 30 – February 6, 2011
SHIP: Carnival Splendor

http://www.carnival.com/cms/fun/ships/carnival_splendor/default.aspx?shipCode=SL

PLACE: Round Trip from Los Angeles
ITINERARY: Los Angeles, CA – Cabo San Lucas, MX – Mazatlan, MX – Puerto Vallarta, MX – Los Angeles, CA

SPECIAL INCLUSIONS FOR OUR GROUP ONLY!:
“Eric and the Adams FROZEN IN THE SUN Cruise” t-shirt
Hosted Cocktail Party with Eric and the Adams
3 Special performances with Eric and the Adams
Bon Voyage Champagne and Chocolates
And much more…!

PRICES:
Interior Cabins from $493.79/per person
We also have Ocean View and Balcony Cabins reserved for our group.

Deposit: $250.00/per person due upon booking
Remaining balance will be divided into two payments
Final Payment due by November 1, 2010

TO BOOK THIS CRUISE CONTACT:
Debbi Sturch at Firstworld Travel at 619-274-1477 or through her email at: vacationdiva@gmail.com.

We have a limited number of cabins available at these prices so book soon so you don’t miss the boat!:) Please reserve early to ensure these rates! Cabin fares are based on double occupancy (2 people per cabin). All fares include port charges, gov’t fees and taxes, trip insurance, and special extras for our group.

“Cruisin’ with Eric and the Adams” is an exclusive arrangement with:
Firstworld Travel and Cruises
7443 Mission Gorge Rd
San Diego, CA 92120
cst# 2006995

Here is the video below:) Thanks for watching!~Eric

Just checking back in this site. About to make some adjustments to it and take it in a bit of a different direction! While it is being worked on, you can check out my band’s website for gig info, blog updates, and new videos at:

www.ericandtheadams.com

Last year, I walked away with Best Male Vocalist and Artist of the Year at the Absolute Best of Tulsa Awards! THIS YEAR, not only am I up for the same two awards, but ERIC AND THE ADAMS is up for BAND OF THE YEAR and BEST POP/ROCK BAND! We are so excited and would really appreciate if you took 3 minutes to head over to:

http://www.flyfi.com/contest/tulsa09/tulsa09/vote/

and vote for us in those four categories. It is easy and really only takes a minute or two. Thank you for helping us with this:)

We just performed at Tulsa Pride this year and WHAT AN AMAZING time it was! We built sets, made shirts,..well, you can see this all for yourself and how we did it in this wrap-up video below:

Our Lady Gaga show is coming up in Tulsa and I swear, I have never learned so much of one’s material since the days I was learning to play every song of Ani DiFranco’s I could get my hands on and perform. This show is going to be even more work that our Tulsa Pride show so I am expecting a sold-out show for this night at Majestic on July 2nd! Many surprises (how can there not be? its GAGA!)! Here is the poster for the night:

And finally, A BIG! BIG! BIG! congrats to my traveling buddy, Levi Kreis, for winning his first Tony Award last night on CBS’s presentation of The Tony Awards last night! He rocked it playing piano with Sean Hayes and the rest of his Broadway nominated musical, Million Dollar Quartet!! Here is a pic of us two weeks ago after his show. Brought my family and they all fell in love with him (notice his Eric and the Adams shirt:)!

That’s all for now and will be back with another update sooN!

~Eric

We will be headlining Tulsa Pride this year and I will be building a set for this show (!!) with Jimmy, and some friends of ours today. Have some big stuff in store for the night. Here is the poster:)

The band will be performing this coming month for Pride events in: Albuquerque (June 10th at the SOCH!), Oklahoma City (June 25th-Pride Block Party at The Boom!), and St. Louis Pride (June 27th). I will be appearing solo acoustic at Las Cruces for an event (with my good friend and talented songwriter, Namoli Brennet!) on June 18th and again with her at Tucson Pride’s H20 event on the 19th. I will also be performing at Emerald Coast Pride in Panama City Beach on June 26th! If you are around these next two weeks, I will also be headed through Louisville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York City solo acoustic (check the tour page. Also joined by Andy Moore on a few dates!!!).

July 2nd will also be a big day for this little band of ours because it is our first show where we perform an entire set of another musician’s songs. This show is titled: Eric and the Adams goes GAGA! We will perform the hits of GAGA with some big stage and musical surprises. DEFINITELY not the show to miss. One Night Only. Check out the poster we made for it:

See you soon and have a great summer!:)
~Eric

Also, psyched about two other things: the recent Tulsa episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” that I took part in (sweeping, painting, cleaning, pretending to mulch when asked to pretend) will air next Sunday (May 9th) at 7pm Central! AND, psyched to get a tweet back from one of my favorite comedians, Paula Poundstone! I mentioned I was watching one of her old comedy specials and told her she was faaaantastic. She wrote back: paulapoundstone: @RealEric_Himan Thank you, Eric. Love those moments in life when you can connect with someone who you are a fan of:). OK, now on to my review:

So after our gig at the Open Arms Project (read what I wrote about @ www.ericandtheadams.com), I rushed my band (and their gals) out to the door and over to the movies to see a movie I was super excited to see the minute I heard it was being made. I even tried to get one of our songs, “Every Move” onto the soundtrack (maybe for the next installment!:). The movie: the new remake of the 1984 hit, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.

First off, these movies scared the crap out of me as a kid yet there was something that I found fascinating about them. The one that I mainly caught on to was the third “Nightmare” movie, “Dream Warriors” where the villain, Freddy Krueger, uses his victims strengths against them. With the first movie, not the case. Freddy was getting revenge on those that burned and killed him for being a serial child killer. In this new updated version, Freddy is burned and killed by the parents of those kids that he was accused of molesting. Not to be a big spoiler of the movie (if you think this might happen, don’t read anymore and get your butt to the theater so you can read this later and agree with me), but I was kind of disappointed by this story plot. I read reviews and quotes from the people behind the remake saying they wanted Freddy to be more realistic. I think Freddy’s powers were lost in this movie BECAUSE it was made to be too realistic. Dreams are not based on reality and in the movies featuring Robert Englund as Freddy, dreams took you too a different land/place. This movie attempted to piece some of that together and in a few sequences, the update (coming about 26 years later) lends well with technological advances in film (CGI). I wish they did it up even more (ala The Lovely Bones) than go “real”. Jackie Earle Haley was scary at times as Freddy but most of the fright from this movie came in the same way; loud bursts of sound that happen when things jump out of nowhere. It happens a lot and yes, some are predictable, but there were a few the audience (and us) were not ready for.

This movie tries to do double duty of creating a new saga and back story of Freddy while “tracing” scenes from the original to the T. I remember seeing video of Robert Englund talking about how open he was to seeing the new Freddy movie but also talking about how, back then in 1984, there was no CGI and things had to be done organically. I think that way made the films scarier. These days I must be desensitized from CGI ( Shrek, Transformers, The Incredible Hulk) that I found some of the scenes where they focused on using it, boring.

All in all, I was entertained by the film and will maintain my loyalty to the franchise when they come out with another film (SPOILER: after killing Freddy much the same way they did in the earlier films-pulling him out of dream and making him mortal-at the end of the new movie, he reappears as if that didn’t work in the last scene. I hope they explain why that didn’t work in the next one). If you do so choose to see it, your going to jump so don’t hold your popcorn on your lap.

Now, I am working on my computer after making dinner, watching “The Proposal” and realizing I have a TON of emails/things to do tomorrow so have a good week and will be back on soon! OH! and “Julie and Julia” is becoming more of a favorite movie of mine since they show it on HBO nonstop (and I’m getting more obsessed with cooking).
~Eric

Just made this little video from my new original music side project band, GOOD VILLAINS. This is a short video of our first on-air radio performance this past Friday and our first show that took place at The Flytrap in Tulsa, OK opening for Fair To Midland. Fun stuff and you can check out two new songs from us at: www.myspace.com/goodvillains.

Been meaning to blog more. Lots of practices, new songs to learn/write. Will do better, I promise, blog:).
~Eric