We're playing at the Knitting Factory on June 25th to celebrate the release of "A History of Doubt". This show is gonna kill. OZMA, Eastern Conference Champions and The Actual are also on the bill. The Actual are the first band signed to Scott Weiland's label. According to Scott's website, they're a power-trio with four members. That's a POWERFUL trio. So powerful in fact, they need four members to contain the power. Needless to say, I'm impressed. Our meager trio has only three members. MORE impressive is that The Actual are touring with Velvet Revolver all summer. Now, I'm not a big VR fan. But holy fuck, I'd sell a nut to spend a summer on the road with Slash and Duff. Imagine the stories? The hi jinx? The Axl bashing? I believe George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld AND W. Axl Rose should all be brought before the tribunal @ The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.
I'm going to spend 27 seconds searching for the most embarrassing Axl Rose photo I can find....
Ah yes - this one:
But while I'm at it - here's a perfect example of how fame and celebrity can unite anybody:
Photographers are sooooo lazy. "Hey look, two totally disparate famous people. Quick, make them stand next to each other."
I recently downloaded and watched the classic 1988 Guns 'N Roses Live @ The Ritz concert. If you've never seen this show before, stop wasting your time reading this blog and find that shit online. It's so good. This is the classic Guns line up - before they really hit it big. When the audience was still comprised of mostly dudes. This show originally aired on MTV - and I remember being absolutely obsessed with this band after I seeing this as a kid. They don't make bands like this anymore. I have no aspirations to be Axl Rose for instance. I don't want to dance like a snake (or with Mr. Brownstone), sing like a hyena or freak out at any music writer that dare to criticize me. But there was definitely something about a band of five guys that had names like Slash, Duff, Izzy, Axl and Steve - ok, Steve didn't have a good nickname - that was so compelling. Nowadays if your band is made up of dudes with nicknames, you either wear grotesque masks or you're a group of EMCEEs. The English Department would be a weird band if our drummer was called "Ghost Faced Killa". Although, Brett does go by the name "Cosmo". "Ghost Faced Cosmo"? "W. Cosmo Rose"? Hmmm, we'll have to work on that.
I woke up this morning to find that our website was down and our myspace page was no longer a music page. So, I currently hate the Internet. Bless you Blog for still working.
See all you New York area peeps @ The Knitting Factory on June 25th. Axl, if you're out there, get in the ring motherfucker.
Love,
-d
