I was at a stop light today on my way to a remote recording gig when this strange old lady was crossing the street. She looked me right in the eye and saluted me like she was in the military. She looked kind of strange and the salute was odd as well. But that wasn’t the most intruiging part about her, it was her CRASH HELMET. I couldn’t get my camera out of my pocket fast enough to get a face shot but I did manage to catch this pic.
I was taking cortazone pills for tennis elbow and they just tear your stomach up. My stomach got so acidy (is that a word?) that I was ready to barf. I started hiccuping very badly while on stage playing the drums.
The brilliant bar tender told me he had a drink that would solve the hiccups. I chugged this miracle drink and it made the hiccups and stomach acid 10x worse. I was so sick on stage, violenty hiccuping and nearly barfing every hiccup. I ran to 7-11 on the next break and bought about 5 packs of tums. I ate them ALL during the last set and it didn’t do anything. I hiccuped every 6 seconds until about 6am.
I figured I had hiccuped over 6000 times that night. I’ve never taken cortazone pills again.
I ran across an old metal band I recorded years ago through myspace. They’re in the midst of hammering out a record deal and they’re in need of a drummer. Looks like I’m going to do some drum tracks for them here. When they do the real album they say I’ll do the tracks wherever they record (LA or somewhere). Sounds like a lot of fun.
If it goes well I could see doing some touring. I hated the last tour I was on but that was a little different. I hope I get along with these guys.
Yesterday my friend and I went to see In Flames, Trivium, Devil Driver and Zao. My friend had met a very cool guy from Devil Driver and they got us free tix. The show was moved from Saltair to this place I’d never been to called Club Ice.
We stood outside in the cold for an hour after the doors were supposed to open. Then the venue was so small for the crowd it was about the worst fire code violation I’ve ever seen. There must have been 5000 people in a place that would hold 1000.
The whole venue is layed out terribly for watching a live band. You couldn’t see anything unless you got about 20 feet from the stage. I got that close and was nearly crushed by the pressure of thousands of people pushing. I’ve been fighting off a rib injrury and the pressure made it worse. I acutally stopped using the muscles in my legs and the pressure from the people around me kept me in the same position. Then I got thrown into the mosh pit. I’m too old for that stupid shit. Aren’t people there to see the frigging bands?
The sound was absolutely horrid. The low end was feeding back and the first band Zao was terrible.
Though we were there for free and had a friend in the 2nd band, my buddy and I decided just to leave. It was that bad.
Tonight my pal Matt and I will be hooking up with our new friends Devil Driver at a metal extravaganza. The headliner is In Flames. Devil Driver, Trivium, Zao and one other band will be there to. Gonna be fun!
Hopefully our DD friends will get us back stage.