Vortex Magazine's online presence has included the Bar Pilots' original song "Road Song" as a featured audio pick. Written and sung by band bassist, Vince Adame, collaborating the arrangement band mate Rob Wessels, Road Song is a dark, driving look into the heavy weight of depression and the willfulness to break its chains. Reminiscent of Deep Purple MkI with the bridge owing a debt to 38 Special, The Bar Pilots are deftly channeling their 70s and 80s rock influences through a punk aesthetic in a way that cuts through the haze of the fog machine and today's over-produced short-lived radio offerings.

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So, BP Flite Crew. We're excited to fill you in before anybody else about all the cool swag we'll have at our merch table on Thursday, March 16 at the Geoff Tate show at Rock Hard PDX (tix still available, ya know). From Bar Pilots t-shirts and tanks to BP Betty stickers and Barred Crow windshield decals. Collector's pin-backed buttons to embroidered Barred Crow black trucker hats. And of course, Bar Pilots Emergency Chutes as seen below. Why so much merch? Just getting ready for the live shows down the road because we're preparing to record our full length record in the next few months. Remember: every time you come around, you always lift us up.

Right now there's uncertainty swirling all around us. Our great nation is divided over our direction forward. Some folks are pumped up, some are reeling. How do we come together? Well, here's a suggestion from The Bar Pilots: Go celebrate Thanksgiving with your family. Think about why we give thanks. Leave politics out of your conversations with your in-laws. Hug and kiss when you're done then kick those a-holes out the front door. Because on Friday you're spending the evening with your pals and besties at The Heavy Metal Brewing Co giving thanks for the awesome power of pizza, beer and rock 'n roll. Aw, hell yes. What election results? Yeah, me too neither. This is an evening of guitar, bass and drums, serving up a heaping helping of crunch, gonk and bombast, the soundtrack for your good times and bad decisions. Let's just make America rock. One night at a time.