Theory Of Flight is so excited to announce that we are officially Sponsored by Sennheiser. This is an amazing company and we have been using so many of their amazing products for years.. So to be on this incredible team is a huge high for us. We are also stoked to announce that Theory Of Flight is Sennheiser’s Artist of the month for March! Thanks Sennheiser we will make you proud..

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THE PALAZZO LAS VEGAS

Hey Everyone we are going to be on TV friday night Jan 29th at”The Palazzo Miss USA”event, being filmed in the Exotic Car Showroom. Miss Usa is filming a reality show following the lives of some of the Miss’s on the way to the Miss USA pagent..

Pretty Cool Stuff..

We got invited to be Judges for the Talent Portion and to play for the show

Free, All Ages ..We are going to be playing a 30 min set. 2-4 million viewers..If you are interested in being on TV with us, RSvp message us and we will put you on the list.. Its a dress up event.. Starts at 6 pm

THE EXCOTIC CAR SHOW ROOM FROM LAMBORGHINI

WE LOVE YOU MISS USA….

Pure Nightclub in Ceasar’s Palace

Okay every one here is an update about what we’ve been doing, and we are about to do..  This has been an amazing year and the future is lookin great.. Thanks to all the fans…

THEORY OF FLIGHT CELEBRATES
THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH OPENING
FOR GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ROCK
GROUP TRAIN AT CAESAR PALACE’S
PURE NIGHT CLUB ON DECEMBER 12
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Then we   Head To NYC
To Record With Grammy Winning Producer
Bob Cutarella And Grammy Winning Engineer
Fran Cathcart

The winding-down year of 2009 has proven to be a promising year the band. After charting on MIX’s 94.1FM and winning the Bite of Las Vegas, MIX shows their support again along with AEG Live as Theory of Flight opens for popular, Grammy Awarding winning rock band Train on Saturday, December 12 at popular Vegas hot spot Pure in Caesar’s Palace.

The band then hit New York City’s East Side Sound studios to work with two industry heavy hitters, Grammy winning producer Bob Cutarella (The Police, Elton John, REM, Cyndi Lauper and Ashley Tisdale) and Grammy winning engineer Fran Carthcart (Mariah Carey, Sting, Eric Clapton, Sevendust and Beyoncé) to complete tracks from Within Reach, our debut album, to be released in stores come spring 2010.

Just last month, we were nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award (HMMA) for their track, “Can’t You See” in the Best Rock Category. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Theory of Flight gave a kick off performance at the United Football League’s (UFL) championship game at Sam Boyd Stadium in Vegas.  Click here to see our UFL live performance of “Can’t You See” and “Set The Night on Fire.”

EVENT RECAP:

Pure at Caesar’s Palace
3570 Las Vegas Blvd.
South Las Vegas, NV 89109
Performing W/ Train
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35 and up
21+

Versus Broadcast

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In an upright and locked position

Fresh out of a holding pattern, local rockers Theory of Flight are poised to gain a lot more altitude

Everclear headlined Nov. 7 at Hard Rock Café’s Strip stage, but it wasn’t the most interesting thing to happen there that night. The band that opened for the 15-year-old Portland, Ore. act — local rock sextet Theory of Flight — was. True, there was nothing absolutely groundbreaking about TOF’s tight, well-rehearsed set, even if it was refreshing to see a Vegas-based effort put such unbridled zeal into a performance. But the spirit was there in wide-eyed frontman Beau Hodges’ bellowing mic-clenching and in guitarist Vince Casas’ heroic leads, as well as in the rest of the group’s easy complementing of one another’s impeccably professional stage presences. By set-closer “Like You Do,” with its minimal, thumping mid-song interlude (still it only went a tight, perfectly marketable three-and-a-half minutes), there were hands in the air and converts in the crowd.

Everclear went later, making its own much bigger fan base cozy for a while, but even so, a band in decline can’t easily match the raw appeal of one on the ascent. If the name of this newer band and the title of its just-released album, Within Reach, didn’t make it clear these guys are after something grander than local stages and opening sets, a sweaty post-show interview in the green room did. You know those bands who, when asked about their beginnings, talk about how no one ever expected anything other than to get together and jam and have some fun? Theory of Flight isn’t that band.

“It took us a while,” says primary songwriter Casas, describing the gauntlet of personnel shifts — the hirings, firings, dropouts and happy accidents — TOF endured from its first 2008 incarnation to where it is now. “But once you’ve got something started that’s going well, you keep going. It’s been like, ‘Let’s be selective, take our time, make sure these people are the ones we want.’ [Eventually], everyone fell into place as far as their wants and dreams.”

The now-stable lineup, in addition to Casas and Hodges: Tyler Williams on drums, Stephen Goodrum on rhythm guitar, John Colombo on keys, Joey McMahon on bass. Most of these guys have been friends in some capacity for nearly a decade, but good friendship, sweet as it is, doesn’t necessarily mean good business, as Hodges reminds on the heels of Casas’ brief history.

“Personality is a big part of it,” he says. “We really care about one another. Where one person has a weakness, the others bring a strength … not just from a musical standpoint, but with the inner workings of our business. We’ve self-managed for so long, and now we don’t have to do it anymore. That’s why this is going so well … going really fast, and after less than a year with this current membership. It’s just blowing up.”

You know how twelve-steppers first admit they have a problem and then put their faith in a higher power? Theory of Flight is that band.

The problem, in this case, was limited time, energy and expertise. Even though a thick thread of business savvy and pro-musician precedent runs through the group (Goodrum played a truckload of tour dates over five years with his old band, Sanctus Real, while Vince, Joey and Tyler all have at least some higher business education under their belts), creativity was suffering, they say, from too much time spent with marketing and other entrepreneurial evils. (”Waking up and worrying,” says Hodges. “‘Oh man, I gotta make sure the bulletins are going out on MySpace and the website’s updated’”).

That website, www.theoryofflightmusic.com, is a sleek thing to behold now, thanks to media content manager Michael Gaskell of Vegas-based MG Studio. Clearly organized tabs, bios, merchandise links, a “What’s Said” box of randomized press clips — self-consistency for God’s sake — all make it so. Gaskell, one of several higher powers sought and retained by TOF, was hired around the same time the band signed on with L.A.-based Luck Media & Marketing. Publicist Steve Levesque had been told about the upstarts by UE3 Promotions’ Jennifer Lyneis, who was impressed with this next-big-thing package she’d seen perform. So he caught the first show he could. It was in a church.

“I figured it would be kind of awkward, like those things often are,” says Levesque. “But [Theory of Flight] played it like an arena show. Produced the whole thing themselves … big sound system, lights … I was extremely impressed. After the show, 500 kids and parents lined up at the merchandise table, so I had to wait to talk to them, but that’s what I saw … the talent, drive and openness to go the distance.”

The Lyneis connection also led to an alliance with engineer/producer/mixer Mark Needham (The Killers, Bloc Party, Louis XIV, Stevie Nicks — ah, the rewards of good networking), who ended up mixing Within Reach up to his own slick specs after Casas had finished producing it.

Oh yeah … the final pillar (for now) of TOF’s faith-based gambit for the big time: Manager Micah McFarlane of Encino, Calif.-based Monarch Entertainment Group. This is the guy who saw a show six months ago, had the same reaction as the other pillars and approached the band. Now he’s the guy bent on getting Within Reach in the right national and international hands, getting his clients real radio play beginning in early 2010 and properly conditioning them for a touring lifestyle next year that anyone who’s done it knows can’t be taken lightly.

“Touring can be suicide for a lot of bands,” warns guitarist Goodrum. “There’s more prep than just getting shows … mental, emotional, time with family … until you’ve done it, you don’t know what it costs, and it costs a lot.”

Manager McFarlane echoes the sentiment, but isn’t worried.

“You think they’re tight now, wait ’til you see them after playing for six months straight,” he laughs. “Of course, it all comes down to the songs, and they’re really, really good songwriters. I believe that, I’m behind them, and now I stand on the mountaintop and tell people about them.”

David Surratt, dsurratt@lvcitylife.com

Local Record Label: Blue Beet Records

Original Article: http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2009/11/12/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_32384902.txt

 THANKS EVERYONE FOR JUMPING ON EVERCLEAR’S MYSPACE AND SHOWING THE THEORY OF FLIGHT LOVE!!!!

Everclear has a brand new album out! Don’tt miss a chance to see us play with this great band at The HARD ROCK CAFE on the strip..

We Play @ 9:00 pm

$20 cover at the Door

21 and Up

Hard Rock Cafe Las Vegas
3771 S. Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas, NV. 89109

www.myspace.com/everclear
Thanks Everyone
Theory Of Flight

Rising Las Vegas rock band Theory of Flight is “Within Reach” of stardom and won the opening spot for Everclear’s concert at The Joint. Next weekend, Vince Neil has booked them for his Dr. Feelgood’s Rock Bar & Grill.…

Robin Leach

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Las Vegas’ Theory of Flight

releases “Within Reach”

Theory of Flight performs at Town Square.

Photo: Tom Donoghue/www.donoghuephotography.com

Original Post: http://www.vegasdeluxe.com

Emerging rock band Theory of Flight started building its fan base with hometown shows here at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay, Diablo’s Cantina in the Monte Carlo and the Hard Rock Hotel. Now fans have been so supportive that when the band launched its debut album Within Reach, Theory of Flight decided on a free concert at Town Square.

Our contributing photographer Tom Donoghue was on duty at the concert. Tom told me: “The fans, which grow larger in number, at each concert are solidly behind them. The band is really building a buzz. Their sounds were really refreshing. It was music with feeling and with words that had meaning. I was hooked within three songs, and I went right out and bought Within Reach for my CD player!”

The emerging band has already started gaining recognition in Los Angeles with a Hollywood Music in Media Award. They also have joined with Grammy-nominated L.A. sound engineer and producer Mark Needham, who has worked with The Killers, Fleetwood Mac and Chris Isaak. Mark helped the band mix its 12-track debut album.

Beau Hodges is the lead vocalist, and lead guitarist Vince Casas also serves as songwriter. Band members also include Stephen Godrum on rhythm guitar, Joey McMahon on bass, keyboard player John Columbo and drummer Tyler Williams.

As part of its road to success, Theory of Flight has committed to perform charity work to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network, so we might see them at January’s Miss America Pageant at Planet Hollywood, as the two organizations work with each other in fundraising activities.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

Big Thanks to John Varvatos and crew over at The Hard Rock Hotel for the beautiful threads for our cd release party…… Your new store is amazing!!!  Thanks So much..

October 15, 2009 by Jordan Healy 

Local band Theory of Flight releases debut alubm this Friday

Another Vegas band is on their way to hitting it big, and deservedly so.
Local rockers Theory of Flight have been toiling in the trenches of the Vegas scene for two years and they’ll finally release their debut, full-length album this Friday, with a CD release party at Town Square.

Talking with Beau Hodges (Vocalist) and Joey McMahon (Bassist) from the group, we were able to shed some light on their record, the Vegas scene and the band as a whole.

The Rebel Yell: Your latest album, “Within Reach,” is coming out later this month. Will this be a nation-wide release?

Beau Hodges: Initially it’s going to be released in Vegas on [Oct. 16]. Then we have two people that we’re working with to push it to radio. We’re working on some distribution right now so that hopefully, by late November, we should release it nation-wide.

RY: Did you find it difficult to achieve this level of distribution coming out of the Las Vegas music scene?

BH: Yeah [laughs]. Absolutely, absolutely. The music’s tough here. It’s been good for us though. You know, with anything that’s kind of difficult, you find how to develop and how to grow. It makes you stronger. I think that Vegas has actually kind of helped us to get better, even though it has been difficult.

RY: In what respects do you find the Vegas scene to be difficult?

Joey McMahon: Well, I think a lot of it is because the city is so transient. A lot of the most popular places to play are downtown or on the Strip; popular bars like Wasted Space in the Hard Rock. Places like that where there might be a decent crowd there, but usually, they’re just passing through. They’re on vacation, just spending a weekend in Vegas. We play for a decent crowd, but they all go home the next day. It’s hard to find a good fan base that sticks around and is able to come to shows on a regular basis.

RY: When you first formed the group in 2007, what were some of the initial hardships you had to overcome?

JM: I think a big part for us was getting the right people to be in the group. Our original drummer didn’t work out. It took us about six months to find another guitar player. We had a friend filling in for us. Half of the band is actually the original members, and the other half we’ve sort of acquired on the way. That’s been one of our struggles.

BH: Yeah, I think the most difficult thing in any band is personnel, finding the right people. It’s so much more than just talented people. Talented people can kind of fool themselves because they know they’re good and they’ve done things this way so many times that getting three individuals on the same page can be difficult. Learning how to communicate effectively, appropriately and effectively was a huge thing at the beginning, and now, strong communication and cooperation has brought us closer.

JM: I think what’s helped us is that we sort of all know what our roles are in the band. We recognize who’s who and who’s good at what, maybe who isn’t good at a certain thing. It also helps a lot to have a band leader and Vince [Casas, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter] has been our leader since the beginning. It’s been a good thing for us, for sure.

RY: Would you say that the personnel changes that have occurred in your band have transformed the sound you began with?

BH: I think the thing with the personnel changes is that they’ve been allowing the people that come in to bring life into their instrument. One of the things that we’ve tried really hard to do is to not put a whole lot of stipulations on what we want in our sound and how we go about seeking that specific sound.

Instead, we as individuals go to our instruments – Joey at the bass, Tyler at the drums – to be creating a sound as you’re hearing it. If one of them feels excited about it, or really strongly about it, then we all follow in tune. That’s what’s kind of created the sound. It’s something that really is a collage, individuals all coming together. I think that’s probably what created our unique sound. We’re not trying to do something that’s been done. That’s not music. We’re just trying to create something real for us.

RY: How did the current line-up of the group come together?

JM: Vince and Beau had originally started the project about two and a half years ago. Then they brought me on board, asked me if I was feeling it, if I liked the music, and I did.
And then we went back and forth with a couple of guitar players. We had a drummer and he wasn’t quite working out so we got Tyler. He was from another band in another state. So we called him up and he actually moved down here from Seattle just to be a part of the project.

Then our rhythm guitar player now, Stephen Goodrum, is actually Beau’s brother-in-law. We’ve had a relationship with him for a long time. He’s a good guitar player. Then Beau picked up John Colombo [Keyboardist]. We were kind of transitioning out keyboard player and we knew that John was good at a lot of different things, strings, keys, bass, so we thought he’d be a good fit. It wasn’t like a Craigslist thing you know, a post with “musician needed.” Everybody that’s in the band, we’ve known each other for like ten years, give or take. It’s pretty cool. It’s like just a bunch of friends getting together. It wasn’t just piece work. It was really thought out carefully.

RY: Tell me a little more about your new album, “Within Reach.”

JM: I think one of the things that I’m most proud about concerning the album is that we produced it ourselves. Vince came together with us, we developed the songs and we went into the studio and recorded it ourselves.
We did it in our studio, with our microphones, and all of our equipment and developed something that was ours. Then we took that to people who were really, really excited and who we knew could do a really good job mixing and mastering. That was probably one of the things that I’m most proud of about this album. What we’ve simply been able to accomplish by putting our minds together and go after it.

RY: How long did it take you to write and record the album?

JM: Some it was quick and some of it was a couple of years in the making. A handful of the songs on the album were written by Vince a couple of years before we even got together. In that respect, those songs have been four of five years in the making. There’s a couple on there that happened real fast, right away.
As far as the production goes, how long would you say it took to produce everything Beau, a couple months?

BH: Yeah, once we sat down to really re-produce the EP, to take the material and re-work it, it probably took about three months.
In the music world, it was pretty quick. In the real world, it seemed like it took forever. A lot of these albums, like a U2 album or a Coldplay album, they work on these albums for two years.
Everybody’s anticipating it, so it was relatively quick, but it felt like it took forever. Everything was so hand’s on and everybody was really a part of it. I think this was definitely overall about a year in the making, for the songs that made it to the album.

RY: What kind of touring do you anticipate doing in support of the record?

JM: We’re super jazzed about touring because it’ll put our music in the hands of some people that have never heard us. The manager that we’ve hired is one of the most decorated touring managers in the world. He’s worked with everybody from Prince to Dwight Yoakam. He’s got amazing connections in the touring world and so were super excited.

A couple of different acts, that are touring today, we’re in talks to possibly open up for some of them, but we can’t talk about that yet, which is really hard for me [laughs]. I’m not good with secrets.

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