By dscott on 5/21/2008 9:54 AM

The Flobots absolutely killed it last night on Carson Daly. Check it out for yourself:

There isn't a more deserving band from the 303 right now to have this opportunity. I'm so proud that these individuals are representing Denver, and leaving it all on the stage in the process.

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By dscott on 4/1/2008 1:08 AM

I am honored.  Thanks Jedi - my hat’s off to you brother!
D.SCOTT

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Jedibongo's Council: D. Scott

By dscott on 12/3/2007 1:18 AM

36 Hours of Keystone absolutely ROCKED!

The folks at The Green Light were great and the energy in the room was hoppin'!  It was a PACKED house: there were lines to get into the room all night long.  Poor Fink was sick as a dawg, but he kicked ass behind the kit and lit up the room with some killer beats, and a thumpin' drum and bass solo with Dave - who was slappin' the shit out of his bass that night.  All the while, Wayne and Kyle were in command of the crowd and making them jump.  And me, well, I just did my thing on the guitar and laid down some smooth lines.

What a fun night that was - mountain gigs rule!  We'd like to thank the folks at The Green Light in Keystone, CO for their hospitality and professionalism.  We'd also like to give mad ups to SoBe Beverages and Tim "Taco Laredo" Alexander - whose support has been incredible.  Grab yourself a SoBe folks - it's a great beverage, and there are some great people behind it!

Check out the pics of the show in our Photo Album!  It was a fun night.

D.SCOTT

By dscott on 12/2/2007 1:49 AM

Welcome to our website!

We're proud to launch www.theflashmob.net - the official website of The Flash Mob! Here you can get upcoming show listings, read the latest news of the band, subscribe to newsletters, text alerts and Podcasts, sign up to receive free tickets by email or snail mail. read bios and blogs of the band members, listen to and download our demo tracks, browse photo albums, add articles to our Wiki, and sign our Guestbook! There's a ton to do here, and we're just getting started - so check it out and let us know what you think!

A little background on how www.theflashmob.net came to be:

So if you didn't know already, my day job used to be as a web prgrammer. About three years ago, I got completely burned out on programming because my employer at the time demanded that I produce the output of three people. Case in point: when I told them "thanks, but no thanks" at the end when I left them, they replaced me with three contractors from Ciber - one of the leading outsourcing houses in the USA. Thankfully, I was offered a build and release management job with the company that I had previously worked for - so no more programming for me, unless it's on my own terms.

That was a bit of a tangent, but with that being said, I am SO STOKED to say that we have "officially" launched our website, www.theflashmob.net! For a while, we had a one-page "placeholder site" up that had the latest news announcements and show listings, and it also had our MySpace player embedded into the page so that it played our studio track. It was totally lacking in useful functionality though (or any functionality, for that matter), and we needed to replace it as soon as we could. Being the web programmer of the bunch, I took on that responsibility - but as I have experienced in the past, creating a website from scratch is not a trivial task, by any stretch of the imagination.

In my previous band, Ultrachronic, I put together the entire website from scratch. For content management, I piecemealed together a whole bunch of disparate elements: a thrid-party blog script, a third-party RSS newsfeed aggregation script, a mailing list utility coded from scratch, a photo gallery coded from scratch, and other elements that I needed to get into the source code to modify. It was a ton of work, and when we decided to form The Flash Mob, I was dreading having to create another website. Not only that, but I was also dreading being the only one who had the knowledge to maintain and add content to that bitch. It was freaking complicated, and unnecessarily so.

I started looking at packaged solutions - mainly, content managment systems (CMS) that had standardized and intuitive interfaces for adding, configuring, and managing content areas within a website. Being a guy that's always worked in a Microsoft-based development house - and being that I'm very familiar with the Microsoft platform - I wanted a solution that could be configured to sit on top of a Microsoft server environment. A buddy of mine that I went to college with had suggested a free, open-source CMS called "DotNetNuke", so I did my research and checked it out.

As with any packaged solution, it took some time for me to get the CMS installed and "get my hands dirty" with it - so to speak. Also, being that I'm used to building web applications from scratch, there was about two weeks of learning the system and some new "metaphors" to learn with the user interface. Once I got the hang of it though, it was incredibly easy to add functionality to the site and manage the content. The one hangup I had in the beginning was in "skinning" the site: things just didn't seem to fit correctly, and writing code that was cross-browser compatable fast became a pain in the arse. So, I did a bit of looking around and a simple, free skin was available from Ventrian Systems that turned out to be a perfect foundation to build the content upon. The key was to get something there so that we could building the content, and then, if we want to change the skin, enhance it, or write a new one from scratch in the future, we can - and the content will remain unharmed, free to use whenever, wherever.

One of the best aspects of basing the site upon a CMS is that almost all the code is already written. You can add and delete content areas with ease, and complex snap-in "modules" such as a photo gallery, a blog, an announcement page or even an online store (for example) can be installed and up and running within minutes. With ultrachronic.com, I had to spend days writing the code, testing it, bug-fixing it, and tweaking it to get similar functionality. Even better than that, the standardized user interface allows the other guys in the band and other site admins to add their own content. In fact, Dave has already jumped in and edited his own Bio entry, and has taken ownership of the Wiki page. Can I get a "Halleluja!" people?

Anyways, that more or less summarizes the brain-damage that went into creating ultrachronic.com, and the complete lack of brain-damage that went into creating theflashmob.net. I for one am very proud of the work that has been done in so little time, and am looking forward to what this website can become for us, our fans, and whomever needs it to get the 411 on The Flash Mob. We hope that you and the rest of our visitors are happy with it, but if you have any feedback, suggestions, questions or comments on the website, please let us know. We're always striving to improve and be the best that we can be in any capacity, so let us know what your thoughts are. And we would be completely remiss if we didn't thank you for stopping by and supporting us. We wouldn't be half the band we are today if we didn't have the support of our fans, friends, and family! So thank you, very much, for being a part of this experience with us.

By dscott on 9/18/2007 7:25 PM

Hey everyone!

It's been a little while since I've written any updates about Ultrachronic, and for good reason. We've been undergoing a "reconstructive phase" of sorts since parting ways with Brendon in July. Well, here's the update, in a sort of "choose your own adventure" kind of format:

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Short Version
(Because I'm verbose and life is too short to read all the way through my messages)

Kyle, Dave and I have joined up with Boondok Saints alumni Matt Fink (drums/vocals) and Wayne Alden (vocals/guitar) in a new project called The Flash Mob. We're very stoked about this new project and we think that fans of both Ultrachronic and Boondok Saints will dig our new material.

Visit our website at www.theflashmob.net and sign up for news and updates by entering your email address in the box at the bottom of the page and clicking "Go". We'll let you know of all the haps as they occur.

Click here to add us to your friends on MySpace (if you have a MySpace profile). You will be prompted to sign in first, and afterward you will be sent to the "Add Friend" confirmation page. This will get your MySpace profile on the list for event invites and updates.

We hope to see you soon!
D.SCOTT 

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Long Version
(Because you actually tolerate reading my long, rambling messages - however unlikely that is)

As I said before in the news section of www.ultrachronic.com, parting ways with Brendon was mutual, amicable, and on good terms with all parties. As they say, all good things must come to an end, and such is the case here. It was time for Dave, Kyle and me to go in one direction creatively, and Brendon in another - and you can actually hear that trend happening in the last few songs that we wrote as Ultrachronic. In the two years we spent together, we've had some great times with Brendon, and we will miss playing with him. We wish B all the best in his endeavors ahead - whether it be with another project like Ultrachronic, or something else completely. We will be cheering our brother on for life.

While Ultrachronic was in full swing, we have met some great people and have worked with some awesome bands - whether it be as a headliner, an opening act, or just plain friends and fans supporting each other. We met up with the mighty DJ KAAOS while he was spinning as part of Boondok Saints - one of our favorite bands to play with. For six years, the Boondok crew won the hearts of many in Colorado and regionally, and had built an incredible following. We became good friends with several of the fellas Boondok Saints, which led to KAAOS spinning with Ultrachronic on a part-time basis and in several shows.

Well, in May of this year, Boondok Saints played their last show together to a packed house at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, CO. It was an awesome event that was full of energy, but was bittersweet because it was the last show of one of the best bands in Colorado. Ultrachronic has always loved and respected Boondok both as a band and as brothers, and we were sorry that they decided to call it quits. But then again as they say, all good things must come to an end.

So in July, Ultrachronic was in need of a new drummer, and it was just natural for us to ask Matt Fink (drums/vocals) and Wayne Alden (vocals/guitar) of Boondok Saints if they would like to start jamming with us and see where we could go. Suffice it to say, it was a perfect fit. The first jam, we wrote one song - the next jam, we wrote another. We discovered an incredible chemistry playing together, and that we have so much more capability than what Ultrachronic had before - with dual guitars, three-part harmonies, and a shit-ton of creative energy (pardon the expression).

The result combines what we think are some of the best aspects of both bands - not "Ultrachronic" in flavor, not "Boondok Saints" in flavor, but rather, a synergistic hybrid of both. It quickly became evident that the band needed an identity all of it's own. So we thought it over for a few weeks and chose The Flash Mob.

Q: So what the hell is a "flash mob" anyway?

A: From Wikipedia: "A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse. News media and commentators have often misused the term 'flash mob' to refer to nearly any form of public gathering."

While we don't literally fit that definition, we admire the concept. The Flash Mob is: Kyle Ingram on vocals, Wayne Alden on vocals and guitar, Matt Fink on vocals and drums, D. Scott Morris on guitar, and Dave Crotser on bass. We're very optimistic about this new project, and we hope that we can bring the best of Boondok Saints and Ultrachronic together in a hybrid of musical styles that fans of both bands will dig.

The Flash Mob is planning on making our debut in October or November of 2007, so stay tuned for news and updates. For updates via email, visit www.theflashmob.net, enter your email address at the bottom of the page, and click "Go". For updates on your MySpace profile (if you have one), Click here to add us to your friends. You will be prompted to sign in first, and afterward you will be directed to the "Add Friend" confirmation page. This will get your MySpace profile on the list for event invites and updates.

So of course, this begs the question, "What happens with Ultrachronic?" The truth is, we really don't a definitive answer to that right now because we're keeping things as fluid as possible. We're taking some of the last few tunes we wrote as Ultrachronic with us onward in The Flash Mob, and we may even play some old Ultrachronic favorites as covers from time to time. Perhaps this could be best looked at as a "restructuring and rebranding" of Ultrachronic, but then again, the bulk of Ultrachronic's repertoire will be put to rest - not indefinitely, but maybe "in hibernation". Unlike Boondok, Ultrachronic hasn't had any kind of "final show" or has made any announcement as such, so it doesn't make sense to use to say that it's done. As far as we're concerned, Ultrachronic is just kickin' it poolside for now.

Learn more at www.theflashmob.net or on MySpace at www.myspace.com/theflashmobrocks.

We hope to see you soon!
D.SCOTT