Milo's Trip
Milo's Trip: Ferndale-Based 'Old Empire' to Perform at the Loving Touch
Join MC Frank Woodman on Aug. 23 as he showcases local bands like this curious smorgasbord-pop quintet based in Ferndale.
Gabe Dodson talks about how life - real life - is lived in the moments leading up to and after those perceived "momentous moments" everybody's waiting for. It's best to just let things happen as they will; it's going to work out. That's what he had to do with his band, Old Empire, once he'd gotten it started. The songs that formed their first record, 2008's Queen City Quandaries, were born out of a half-finished novel the Ferndale-based singer/songwriter was struggling through back in 2007. Up until then, the Santa Cruz-born Dodson considered himself just a back-up guy, adding guitar or bass to various bands and unable, as he self-depricatingly puts it, to "carry a tune in a bucket." Somehow, his initial idea for the novel, a darkly-…
