First off, don’t be alarmed. We are still the same old group of five handsome young men making quasi-fools of ourselves for your entertainment. The only difference this year can be summed up in one word: practice. We have already rehearsed more for this summer than any summer previous and boy do we have exciting new audio delicacies for you. New tunes, new lyrics, new horn parts, new drummers and new equipment (ie. my self-altered dizzy horn).

Here is a list (I like lists, it makes it look like I write more than I do):

1. Franco will still be crooning beautiful melodies but now the band will tastefully accompany him, not hurry up and get on to playing “Mr. Carter.”

2. I will still have my screaming horn parts but this year they will be in tune! (More or less.)

3.The band will refrain from wearing swim trunks and dress shirts on stage. Don’t worry ladies, Nate will still wear his sexy cargo shorts on occasion.

4. We will cut the average time we spend talking to each other about what the next song is by half. This will mean you might get to hear the Alternative Song more often.

The Most Important Thing Of All:

We will have two killer albums for sale all summer long. “False Alarm,” a studio album of great new LST material and a new live album, “Harvest of 2007,″ which has all your old favorites being played in the most recent taxi style. By style I mean fewer wrong notes. Also keep your eyes peeled for an all MP3 album containing nearly every song that Locust street taxi has ever had recorded, it may be available at shows this summer, it may not. If you don’t see it ask.

So come see us this summer, buy a T-shirt, sign up for our mailing list, take a free post card, buy both albums, and enjoy the show. We can’t wait to make music this year and we hope you have as much fun at our shows as we do.

- Mario

I promised some intimate details of LST members’ lives. Well here they are:

Nathan Benjamin Geyer- A western Olympia native Nathan is a man not to be trifled with. His skill with a trombone once fatally wounded a passing triceratops when we decided to play a gig in the Cretaceous Period.

Andrew Chard- Hailing from Spokane, “Chard” is the newest member of the divine LST. He is by far the most effeminate. He is currently looking for a new love in his life so please contact him at LSTBooking@hotmail.com and I will make sure your letters get to him. He tells me that he is looking for a mature woman 35-55 to start a serious relationship.

Francesco Mario Bertucci- Franco, a.k.a. Papa Taxi, once toured Italy as the Pope’s official juggler/ acrobat. Because of his humanitarianism, Europe was able to unify to a single currency. It was originally to be called the “Franco” but someone realized that “euro” made more sense. Finally, in 2007 I let Franco change his middle name to “Mario.” I have been his mentor for many years.

Sam Stockard- This summer is “Medium” Sammy’s return to LST. We hope in a few months he will be Medium-Well.

Mario Antonio Pesacreta-Once, in a desperate bid for my own life I returned to Vulcan in order to save Kirk from transcending into a being of pure energy. I needed him to help me melt the ice caps in the center of 17th century Asia created by the Borg. Being half-panda, half-man had its benifits that day.

Thanks for tuning in. Everything here is one hundred percent true, especially what I said about Andrew Chard.

- Mario