FAO Jase: Drive by truckers

[ifrigginrule]

new album is amazing. they is playing london next month, you going?

[J Esaj PRA]

Of the 30 people to have viewed this thread so far, do you mean me?

Tour noted, along with the huge price for tickets! If I go, it'll be the London show on April 11th - doubt it'll sell out, so I'll play it by ear.

Lots of people are raving about the new album, but I've not heard it yet. It's on my list, but that list is currently very long. Spent about £70 on CDs this week and it only just scratched the surface of the list! Not wasting a fortune on a trip to Scarborough has released some extra funds though, so...

[ifrigginrule]

yeah, ticket prices are terrible, especially when its gonna cost £20 for train tickets and then london beer prices on top of that. you cant beat a good old punk gig, £3 to get in for 5 bands....

if you do decide to go, post a message and we can meet up or sommat....

gone on then, tell us what rubbish you wasted £70 on. i couldve got 30 of the newest screamo 7" for that money mate....

[J Esaj PRA]

At this moment in time, my chances of making the show this evening are close to zero. However, if I have an exceptionally productive afternoon in the office I might just escape before 7pm!



For the record (no pun intended), my purchases were:

Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime II"
(www.myspace.com/queensryche1982 Old school metal, don't expect much but it'd be nice to see how the story ends – it's a concept album.)
Evergrey - "Monday Morning Apocalypse"
(www.myspace.com/evergreyofficial Swedish power metal. Double kick-drum overkill!!)
The Tea Party - "Seven Circles"
(Canadian; power pop meets Led Zep. Think they have recently split.)
Platypus - "Ice Cycles"
(www.myspace.com/tytabor Progressive Rock 'super group'. Tabor, Myung, Sherinian, Morgenstein. Now performing as The Jelly Jam www.myspace.com/thejellyjam)
Jughead - self titled
(Power pop 'super group' with a big Beatles influence. Tabor, Sherinian, Matt/Gregg Bissonette.)
Deadsoul Tribe - self titled
(www.myspace.com/deadsoultribe Genre-crossing Dutch[?] heavy rock. Almost a solo project for former Psychotic Waltz vocalist Devon Graves.)
Riverside - "Second Life Syndrome"
(www.myspace.com/riversidefans Polish progressive metal, along the lines of Porcupine Tree / Pink Floyd.)

As InsideOut Music are such a cool record company, they also threw in a free Riverside CD single (on the original Polish label!) and promos from the bands Ritual (some of the strangest folk/world/progressive/fusion I've ever heard) and Event (noisy electronica/metal blend).

The above list explains my current lack of productivity at work! ;D

New stuff from Pure Reason Revolution and OSI still to come...

[ojiveojive]

Well I don't know whether any of you have heard of or like The Cramps but I've just purchased a double CD of their Zurich show of 21st of April 1986. This has fond? memories for me as it was the first show I did as their road manager, having been flown out to Zurich by their previous road manager, who was a mate and with whom they had fallen out. The show was going brilliantly until Lux Interior climbed up the PA stack and some arsehole on the balcony lamped him in the eye. He half climbed, half fell down the stack to the ground with a split eyebrow pouring blood. He did of course finish the show which also included smashing wine bottles on stage and rolling in them. We spent the night in the cleanest hospital I've ever been in, they stitched his eye, removed the bits of broken wine bottle glass from his torso and kept him in for observation. Ah happy days, that was one of the happiest and most memorable tours I've ever done, they don't make 'em like that anymore

[medibot]

Wow, impressive in a self destructive kind of way ojiveojive

Makes you sound even more cool and interesting in social situations too, the amazing power of the words "when i was on tour...". Or have you not dropped it in as a conversational nugget before?

[ojiveojive]

medibot said:

Or have you not dropped it in as a conversational nugget before?

I tend not to, most of my long term friends know about my former life but I've been off the road since '95 and it isn't really relevent anymore, I only brought up The Cramps (sic) because there seemed to be a modicum of similarity between Jase's list and the band, who were probably one of the most outstanding punk/glam (uh?) bands of all time. Plus I'd just found the double CD on ebay with only a few hours left so I was on a high. Incidentally I became the band's manager in 1989 and we topped the bill at Reading Festival in 1990 for which we were paid the princely sum of £35,000 +VAT , not bad for an hour's work ;D.

[medibot]

Considering i'm on £5.20 an hour £35,000 + VAT would suit me fine

[ojiveojive]

Well it wasn't all profit, I had to fly the band and their equipment over from LA, rent a bus and a truck, pay the backline and sound crew for a week, put everyone up in a swanky hotel, feed them for the best part of a week and get everyone back home again afterwards

[ifrigginrule]

did you take em to watch moor green?

what other bands did you tour with? all punkers?

[ambersalamander]

wow!

ojive is a rock n roll man

cool

[ojiveojive]

More like a rock n roll w h o r e! I'd go wherever the money was.

As well as The Cramps and Special Beat, who I also managed (some of The Specials and some of The Beat), I toured with Classix Nouveau (who?), The Au Pairs, UB40, U2, Duran Duran, Third World, The Cure, Helen Reddy, Thrashing Doves, Yazoo, Alison Moyet, Depeche Mode, Sting, Bob Dylan, The Kinks, Don McLean, KC & The Sunshine Band, Ian Botham, yes, Ian Botham and countless others that have faded from my badly mistreated memory.

I never took any of them to a football match, after all the septics call it soccer for god's sake.

Why the f u c k is w h o r e a swearword?

[ambersalamander]

apparently i am a Conference South whore.

this time it was dorchester ;D