thinking of the people i’ve met on this musical journey we call life. Shoutout prince!? there was matt from portland, laena from LA, jason from vegas, chris from mansons backyard, jason II, and Jason III, Manny, Shane, it’s been an incredible ride big up to bizmark and the pharcyde.
so many friends so little time.
whats next!? have a lot of songs but not enough tape. would love to keep touring but at this point it might be way more of a vanity project. im content to just stay here late at night listening to spotify. seeing prince cover bands in vegas. eating lots of good food. writing songs. playing on my orange amp. KOOL.
im probably just content to spend lots of time pushing all insecurities and anxiety as far away as possible and just relaxing at disneyland.
been experimenting a lot with a brand new sound for a new lineup and everything. a little more distortion felix or hum than say ska-p. but I still have that DOD for ska-p overdrive punk sounds. cool. should be good when we start playing gigs again after a long studio break hopefully in the next few months. got the swollen pickle 2 and the analog man ts-9 tube screamer plus cheapo delay and late 70s yellow overdrive. its been sounding pretty good.its not done yet, have a few surprises.
sold my twin amp to master the last record so next stop is a new amp. im thinking old, loud, and fucked up. maybe a fender or sumtin.
southern california rock n' roll recorded analog with razors edge distortion and patented hard-hitting thump rhythm...tour for life...releases: BOYS GOT A FUTURE LP (Hegemony Records 3-1-11) GIVES YOU HELL SINGLE (Hegemony Records 3-30-10) MY TWO BROOKES LP (Hegemony Records 3-3-09) SEX FOR SAFETY EP (Hegemony Records 2007)
my favorite supremes song ever. who hasn't felt this way before? always wanted to do a cover of it. got the chance this time around during the boys got a future sessions at mannys. gorgeous video by Jasmine Daghighian and her goddesses who did the song justice shot at the smell.
another full-length with Manny! BOYS GOT A FUTURE. meant for this to be more of a telling of my life but turned into a record of drugs, whores, and sleaze. with a a few love songs thrown in. its got some of the best guitar on any of the records. taking on the hard job of following-up the gives you hell video R.Capria did a masterful job.
damn. fredo from the beastie boys was off tour and we went to manny's and did this in 2 takes live. i always heard that all american rejects song as i was driving around and liked the lyrics. i could really relate to thinking about a girl that way. thought the music deserved to have a bit more balls. carmelo lopez did the song justice with his pervilicious video starring the lovely sammie rhodes.
above are the first few tracks off our 2009 Hegemony release "My Two Brookes". me, jonathan from hella and jason from moonrats hunkered down in mannys for a few days and blasted this one out. turned out kinda kool. Even cooler is the cover art you see designed by Seripop which is montreal's Aids Wolf, thx chloe!
we were just young punks for the sex for safety ep a billion years ago, it was an insane rhythm section, my heros jason from rollins band and chris from saccharine trust. the music that kept me alive. manny hit the button and it was just pure youth, i didnt know what i was doing, raw as fuck, but total honesty
you could buy the last record my two brookes from our label Hegemony Records or if you wanna' be crazy WetanDry put out a nifty version in the UK. But truth be told nobody ever was much concerned about money when we hit mannys big red tape button, just wanted a few bucks to get to the next show or whatevers. or if you really wanna be crazy hit that little buy it now and buy one of my copies, i think my fender twin needs new tubes
