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2013 CD - Up the Ante - Initial Feedback
I got to listen to the new CD today! I love it, best yet! / Top notch boys! / Best yet! / I LOVE Up the Ante! / Got it, listened to it, loved it! A lot of fun! / All sorts of awesome! / IT IS AWESOME!!!! / The CD is awesome!!! / Love the new CD guys... job well done! / I love the extra instruments and the way they came through so clear! / Captain Patch's voice- I love how he can sound so different from song to son- mean and nasty to sweet and smooth as silk. / ROTFLOL! / LikeLikeLike!! / Sounds fantastic! / two very enthusiastic thumbs up! / just got it, and so far what I've heard I LOVE! / Up the Ante = Awesome / Amazing, funny and fresh! / This Kicks ass!! / I just want to keep playing it over and over again, well done guys! / Love 'Leaving of Liverpool'! I've heard other versions and yours is the best! / This CD is appropriately titled and really shows all the talent and versatility of the Musical Blades! / There is no song that I dislike on the entire CD. I like everyone of them! / It's nice to know the Blades can hit everyone with the "Lightning in a Bottle" that is this CD! / One word: Damn! / This is by far the best singing pirate CD I've ever listened to / You blew me away with your arrangements, vocals and mixing! / I've fallen in love with you guys all over again / New CD Kicks Ass! / Being playing it since Tuesday, can't stop. Great Job / If only I could blare Up the Ante through the whole office and have an epic dance party... / Rowdy is a freaking epic driving song, and South Australia makes me teary / Standing ovation, Blades!! I love Up the Ante!! / Ren Faire Song is AMAZING!
-Facebook comments

PiratePalooza was AWESOME!!! / You guys ROCKED :) Can't wait for more!! / It was amazing! / The best concert I have been to in years / It was freakin awesome! / twas outstanding good sirs! / Was a fantastic show Thank you so much / An awesome show guys!!! Loved the ending with everyone on stage singing together! / You guys were AMAZING as always! Loved the show. Can't wait to see you all perform again / WOW!! EPICALLY AMAZING TIME with Musical Blades
- Various e-mails/Public forum comments on PiratePalooza KC

"Loved you guys sooo much. had so much fun... yalls rock the big stage!" / "last night was tons of fun!!! yay!!! its soooo awesome to see my boys up there on stage moving up from good ol reni days!" / "The show was awesome. I had so much fun. And Whiskey in the Jar totally rocked!" / "It was a great night guys thank you .... you all rock!!!!" / "Last night was more than amazing" / "It was an amazing show. I had one of the best times I've ever had at one of your shows." / "That was hands down the BEST concert I've ever been to! You guys kicked ass and took names!" / "You were UTTERLY FANTASTIC tonight!!!" /  "Apocolyptically awesome concert"
- Various facebook comments about VooDoo Lounge show

"Your group does a great job of treating nonsensical songs with a fun, casual nature while giving the more profound songs the respect they deserve"
- email Joe Blackburn

"I love the Musical Blades. I caught two of your shows at the KCRF
yesterday and was awestruck."
-Fan Club Member

I've been a fan of the Blades in the first time I saw them in Wichita. I travel to
KC to see them several times a year and have every album.
-Brent Jockers

One of, if not the best pirate bands! The Blades have a following that packs the house everywhere they appear. Not your typical Pirate band by any means!
-Brownville Renaissance Festival and Pirate Cruise

"I got to actually see the Musical Blades here at the OKRF in Muskogee, OK for the first time ever..." "...We were lucky to have them even if it was only the first two weekends of our five weekend festival. We even got to preview one of the new songs, fabulous, you can't help but sing it out loud. They were so good we bought two CDs the first time we heard them..."
-Pyracy.com