I’m heading out to Los Angeles right now, there’s a sense of balance when I fly, everyone around you is in motion, it makes me feel at home and at ease, while the guy next to me is white knuckling the seat in front of me from anxiety about flying, I happily sit next to him feverishly pecking away at the keyboard, half smiling and half squinting from the glare. The plane coasts along blue sky and occasional bumpy air, while I contemplate my next few weeks which will be a mix of work and recharging my head.
We had gone on a week tour through the south in places we haven’t or usually don’t play but with Bamboozle thrown right in the middle to break up all the “y’all” and ”git er done” commentary from truckstop locals. I had been growing my moustache in anticipation for cinco de moustache (may 5th for those who don’t celebrate) I had grown myself a fine stalker stache, occasionally I’d forget I was channeling Ron Jeremy on face and I’d catch my relection in a window or a car mirror and literally I’d stop and laugh at how sketchy I looked. Mind you…buddy looked like a gay cop, jr looked like a gay biker, roger looked shady, and chris had a junior high school kid moutache. So in the level of moustache zen I probally was in the dead middle of who’s looks like a douche. Bamboozle came and we dressed like cops, throwing donuts out and generally not dressed in enough neon clothes to fit in with the throngs of day glow hats, head bands, shorts, nylon jackets, sweatbands and shoe laces stretching across the parking lot. My brain tells me I feel cooler than I look, with the dunkin donuts guy as my moustache twin and dressed like NYPD.
I say that instead of the dude from the band before us throwing his drums to the crowd as some sort of “event” he should have donated them to the local school or boys club or state corrections. But who the fuck am I to say, right? Right.
So I had been spinning the new record a bunch since I just got the test presses for the vinyl, without going into a complete off shoot, the vinyl sound is amazing. But I’ve been listening to GNV/FLA, spinning 180 mil vinyl and the record sound good. The bonus 7 inch of demos sounds good too as does the acoustic 7 inch. Don’t know about those you are saying to yourself…you will soon.
I played the record for a few friends like jack and joe and the dudes from the swellers plus by now ben from punknews and jason tate from absolutepunk should have them in there hands as does kerrang over in the UK. I’m antsy to hear feedback.
I did an email interview with KVAK from Czech, It is only in the Czech language but in the section “download” people can download the original english version too.
Check it out here:
http://kvakpunkrock.cz/rozhovory/?ktera=51
Paper and plastick news coming soon, new signings, release dates, and some interesting turn of events.
By the way, now that I am able to send pics from my iphone directly to flick expect more frequent pictures…
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