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Happy Anniversay Gomers!

Wow, has it really been seven years since we started our Gomer family? Time flies when you are having fun! Our official anniversary is May 8, but I wanted to get the party started now! And what a party!

We have the new Third Day CD we can be listening to now, three months before it even hits the stores! (Just go to the online store at ThirdDay.com, pre-order, and you can listen now! When you do, you will also get bonus track that you can't get anywhere else called "Shake".) We have a brand new ThirdDay.com, with all kinds of fun new things to do!

And a brand new online community at Gomertopia! (Read about it here.) If you like Facebook, MySpace, or any of those other online communities, or even if you've never ventured into anything like that, you've got to come check out the new Gomertopia! This is a place for you to have your very own webspace and to get together with other Gomer friends. Sign up today and let's get this Gomer anniversary party going on Gomertopia!

The other exciting thing is that presale tickets for Third Day's big Music Builds Tour, with Switchfoot, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and Jars of Clay go on sale to WIRED members the day after our Gomer anniversary, May 9th, at 10 AM locally (locally meaning at 10 AM in whatever time zone the city of the show is). You'll need to be a member of Third Day's fan club to get in on that presale. You can get more information here: www.ThirdDayWired.com

So with all this going on, let's put on our Gomer shirts and orange party hats and celebrate! Woo hoo!!! Orange cake anyone?

Happy 7th Anniversary Gomers!!!

Come On Home, Gomers!

I told you all about the new Gomertopia before it was opened. The time is here to come join! We have a lot of your friends and fellow Gomers on there already! So come join at www.ThirdDay.com/Gomer ! We're waiting for you! (Even if you don't consider yourself a "Gomer", come join us anyway! We'd love to have you!)

Brand Spankin' New ThirdDay.com!

The Third Day website has been re-vamped with lots of fun features! There are even coloring pages you can print out for the kids, and a library for cool Third Day scrapbooks, and lots of new things you can put on your computer and your webspaces. Plus, you can now pre-order Third Day's new CD Revelation! And as soon as you order, you can start listening to it! (Once again, instant gratification!) And we have a bunch of cool new things in the online store. There's more, but I'll let you find it all for yourself!!! Dig in!

Weekly Sneak Peaks of the New CD!!!

This is so cool! It's a sneak peak of Third Day's new CD Revelation! You get to hear one new song each week! And the best part is that you can put this widget onto your websites! You can put this on any webspace you call your own, like MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Friendster, Blogger, and more! If you have MySpace, click the MySpace button. Anyplace else, click the Grab It button. Then just follow the instructions and share Third Day's new CD with your world!!!

Don't forget to click the "Watch" tab to see a new video of Third Day!

A Note from Jars of Clay about the Music Builds Tour

Hey all –

Just taking a quick break from the studio (we’ve begun recording a new album this week!) to tell you about some exciting developments in the Jars World.

We’re looking forward to this late summer and the opportunity we have to join the Music Builds Tour! We got to know the guys in Third Day and Switchfoot during our travels and know that they care deeply about making a difference beyond their music, and this makes it all the more interesting to be on the tour. We’re partnering with Habitat for Humanity on the entire run and we’re excited to see how it inspires us along with all those that come out to the shows. You might even see some of our Blood:Water folks out and about too!

Also to mention, the incredible pedal steel player Robert Randolph will be playing as well. It’s going to make for a ridiculous night of music so come early (we’re kicking off the show), enjoy the evening, and say hello :) Look for some live performances of the new music we’re working on too!

Good times,

Stephen

Third Day Tour News from Switchfoot's Chad Butler

This is posted on Switchfoot's site by Chad Butler, SF drummer. It was reposted on these boards by Susie. (Thanks girl!) It gives us great insight into the upcoming Third Day Music Builds Tour!

Greetings comrades!

As a band we have held firm to the idea that music can bring us together to accomplish much more than a show. Ideology, race, genre: we put these distinctions aside to play music for everyone.

So with that in mind we are proud to announce our involvement in one of the most diverse lineups we've ever been a part of. We dreamed up the The Music Builds Tour along with a few friends of ours whose main commonality is a dream to see this world change for the better. Different bands, different backgrounds, one goal: A traveling festival to raise money and awareness for Habitat for Humanity.

We have always been very intentional about our touring. We've played in specific places where we feel like the songs belong, playing shows with diverse artists and for diverse audiences. This last year has been really exciting for us to do even more with our tours by partnering with organizations like Habitat for Humanity and To Write Love on Her Arms. The response from you guys who have been with us for so long has been overwhelming. By supporting the "Appetite for Construction" tour you guys raised over $100K for Habitat and more importantly got involved in your local communities donating your time long after the show was over. The current "Up in Arms" tour has been deeply meaningful, part of a larger conversation offering hope to those dealing with depression and addiction.

This is a new model for touring that we are really excited about, it is so much bigger than the music itself. This is about seeing the world change. In keeping with that dream, the "Music Builds Tour" is a traveling festival that will benefit Habitat for Humanity, an amazing organization providing homes to needy families around the globe.

When we tour, we try to bring a truly diverse collection of music to your ears night after night (from Mute Math to Lifehouse to Eisley to Copeland to Anberlin to The Honorary Title etc...). This tour is no different- The other bands on the festival bill will be Jars of Clay, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, and Third Day with many more names to be announced. Wait till you see who is on the side stage! All kinds of bands and artists that care about helping people. The diversity of the lineup is a big goal of ours- it's exciting to bring such diverse musicians and music fans together for such a worthy cause.

We all know first hand the powerful impact that a night of music can have, how much more so when the emphasis is put on doing something lasting for people in our own communities. Thanks for partnering with us in the mutual effort to bring people together to do just that.

We think very highly of the people who listen to our music. We are grateful for the open minded audience who have embraced our songs and allowed us to push the boundaries of where the music can go. We invite you to put differences in musical taste aside and focus on our commonalities: we all want to see this world change for the better. We hope that you'll come with us on this next part of the journey and get involved in something much bigger than ourselves.

The Columbus Photo Album is Fixed!

Good ol' Typepad techs! They fixed the Columbus photo album so that all the photos are now in order. So if you want to go look at it in the way it was supposed to be viewed, it's right over there to the left. (Right to the left?)

Nothing to do with Third Day or Gomers But . . .

This is hilarious!

Your Art, Your Revelation, on the new ThirdDay.com

Salvation Mountain is a real place. Located north of Calipatria, California, it has been entered to the congressional record as a national treasure. Leonard Knight created Salvation Mountain as a large public art project designed to send the message that "God Loves Everyone."

Third Day drew inspiration from Salvation Mountain to create the album cover for their new album, Revelation. The cover is an artistic interpretation of Knight's creation composed of the song titles of  the album to send our own message of God's love to the world.

Now here's where you come in.

Using Third Day's music as your inspiration, create your own piece of art, your own revelation. It can be anything from a short story inspired by a song, a music video, a short film, a painting, or a cartoon. Anything! We'll post your art on the Revelation page of the new Third Day website to share with the larger Third Day community.

Send your submissions to tdrevelations@gmail.com to be considered for placement on the website.

All video or audio samples must be uploaded to YouTube and link sent. Please: Do not send raw audio or video content.

We'd like to have some entries before the website goes up on April 23, which means we need them soon! Be the first to get your work displayed on the website!

Another behind the scenes tour

This one isn't so much "behind" the scenes, but maybe before the scene. The Palace Theater in Albany, NY, is beautiful!

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Show's over. Time for some Ranger's baseball.

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Mr. and Mama Gomer, enjoying the show.

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Call my name

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Woo hoo!

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Third Day warming up with Call My Name! Gates open soon!

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The awesome new banner that Steph made!

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The stage, from behind the chain link fence.

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So this is how crazy . . . I mean dedicated some of us are. It's almost one. The show starts at five. But we love Third Day!

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We are at the Rangers' Ballpark in Arlington, Texas!

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Almost there. Stopping for fuel. ;-)

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More wildflowers. (of course you might be seeing this one first.).

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Texas wildflowers on the way to Arlington.

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We are on the way to Arlington from Houston, and I thought I'd just sort of blog about the day as we go along. And I'm doing this on my phone, so forgive errors and brevity. This is Jacquie aka jacs on the boards. She is taking the 4.5 hour trip with us.