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 Hope you are all having a great time tonight, please don't kill anyone. It's been mucho fun bantering back and forth with you all, thanks for your time and attention. Here are some lists (I love me my lists) to round up what the hell I remember of 2004.
Favorite Movies of 2004:
Still haven't seen alot of the serious Oscar contenders yet...
(in no order)
The Incredibles
Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events
Open Water
Super Size Me
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Anchorman
Hero
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Fahrenheit 9/11
Least Favorite Movies:
Van Helsing
White Chicks (Ok - not my fault, someone VERY CLOSE to me recommended it, and against my will watched it, and it was every bit as dreadful as I thought it would be)
Favorite Music:
Elliott Smith / From a Basement on a Hill
Rufus Wainwright / Want Two
Slipnot / Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses
Mark Lanegan Band / Bubblegum
.. and stuff not released this year that I listened to alot:
Rufus Wainwright / Want One
Genesis / The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Who / Live at the Isle of Wight Festival
Nick Drake / Pink Moon
Jeff Buckley / Grace
The Nightmare Before Christmas / Soundtrack
Favorite Television:
The Office / BBC America
The Apprentice / NBC
Ghost Hunters / SciFi
World Poker Tour / Travel
Ali G / HBO
American Idol / Fox
Peep Show / BBC America
Favorite People:
Jon Stewart
Tina Fey
David Cross
The Ghost Hunter Guys
Defamer guy
Goldenfiddle guy
Biggest Disappointment:
4 more years
Most Awesome Train Wrecks:
Ashlee Simpson exposing the limits of her "talent" on SNL
Jessica Simpson's soul crushing live shrieking at the 2004 VMA's
Tara Reid's tit
Favorite Moments:
Singing with the guys for the first time at the Camp Freddy show (doing the Who covers at the NASCAR race gig)
Going to the Hallowed Haunting Grounds Halloween display in Los Angeles.
Playing "Night One" for the first time at the Panic Channel Key Club show (12/02/04).
After a year, finally winning Brian Manson's monthly No Limit Hold 'Em Poker tournament.
Riss and I having a perfect day at Disneyland for our anniversary.
Vegas weekend with Riss and Dave for Celebrity Poker Showdown/ tattoos.
Shit I Seriously Could Have Done Without:
Getting my phone turned off 4 times this year
Having my house robbed
Lil' Jon
Paris Hilton
I'll Miss You:
Andie Cotton
Now on to the future:
Looking Forward To In 2005:
Touring with The Panic Channel (dying to get over to England especially)
Releasing our record
Finishing work on and recording "Project P"
Playing in the World Series of Poker (well, maybe 2006)
Batman Begins
Learning how to Scuba Dive
King Kong
New music from the Foos, QueensOTSA, and Audioslave
Not getting my phone cut off
U.S. getting out of Iraq
More people getting along with eachother and seeing the similarities we share
Less Paris Hilton
feel free to post your 2004 year in the comments...
Ok, I have missed a bunch of questions lately, so I rounded a few up to field, Dave-style.
1. Have you seen "Mayor of the Sunset Strip"? Curious what your thoughts are since Rodney is in your backyard there.
Mike C. (FLA)
No, haven't seen it, is it good? I see that guy every once in a while like at a Denny's or something in L.A. Back when the Skycycle record came out, he played our cover of "God Only Knows" on the radio, one of the only times we got played in town.
2. Can't wait to hear more songs. Any plans to post additional files to the TPC site? Also, will you guys actually make some production videos prior to signing? Obviously, an expensive thing.
Mike
We're going to post files sporadically, we are building a site that will be a giant archive of live stuff, candid stuff, and outtakes. The way you can have a band site is one of two directions, the "flash experience" that is set up to hype just the upcoming release with a few pics, videos, and content bits, then there is the giant web archive that accumulates the story over time, and you can get lost in. The latter is the type of site we are making. Until the release of the record though, we won't be putting too many full versions of songs up because we don't want the surprise to be missing when you hear the CD. We are archiving everything we do as well as we can, and after the release we can put up alot of stuff we are holding on to. Bloody Mary was a crazy bit of happenstance.
Mark Racco is a buddy of Dave's and a talented director who offered to bring some cameras down to the Key Club show. We were excited to have some "real" coverage of the The Panic Channel. About two weeks after the show, he said that he had cut up a full video for us from the footage. The only problem was the audio from the club's board mix was really bad, so Dave came up with the idea of getting Gummo to mix one song form our record and use that as the audio for his video. Once we saw a rough cut of it, we were speechless. We had just played a show, and done some recording, and all of a sudden it was there, crystallized. Mark, Louie (who managed the shoot), and the editor, Jamie did a great job, and we are very fortunate to have such talented people who wanted to chip in and add their talents to our band at this early stage.
As for the question if we are doing production videos prior to the record - We have some business to do with a label to see how the record will come out, and hopefully they will let us do a video. With the way the record business is these days, you never know. No matter what, though, we will do whatever we have to to make the best videos we can, and we're not bothered by waiting to see if we have help with that or not. Personally, I believe some of the best videos ever are the low budget, really creative ones, ones powered by a great idea. I am super over the big budget, high grade film stock, over lit, models-in-slow motion video. The only video I have been excited about in the last 5 years is Queens of the Stone Age's "Go With The Flow" which might possibly be the best video ever.
3. Was curious what book it was you gave your gf about the Freemasons?
Karess
"Ruled by Secrecy" by Jim Mars
4. Are you thinking of having a song that is purely instrumental with no vocals? I have a feeling you guys will give birth to something like that. Sometimes the instrumentals alone speak for themselves and no vocals are needed.
mortisha8
Yes, I have been thinking of one lately. Nothing for this record, but if we do "Project P" there is a section at the end that I think would only be suited by a completely beautiful, aggressive, self-indulgent Rock instrumental. I personally love when a band takes just the music seriously as music and can bust it out as it's own piece. Also, the company that I am keeping musically, I believe, warrants it. Rock these days is way too safe and worried about each song being single sounding, and single sized. (Except for Green Day - kudos to them for "Idiot")...As a listener, I love to hear a band go off and do something fucking huge and arrogant and bloated and spectacular. Hey, I love drum solos, you know what I am saying?
In the big picture, why worry about selling big- Rap is the only thing that does these days anyway. Better to bust out with the GRANDNESS! That is what Rock does that no other genre can touch, the power and the majesty ...to shrink from that with the talent in this band would be a sin. So at some point, yes, I see some instrumentals in the Channel's future.
Sitting in the mixing room at Scream in Los Angeles. Been here before, we mixed "Last Girl on Earth" for the Skycycle record here. Nice place. It's raining angrily outside, really potent for Los Angeles. Everytime I think "Damn it's really raining hard", I snap back and think of the Indian ocean Tsunami and have to stop for a second and take it all in again. Unbelievable. So horribly sad.
Gummo is mixing 6 songs (Bloody Mary is basically done), he's got "Go On", and "Half Hearted" done, and now he's on to "Ashes". It's 8:40, looks like we'll be here pretty late. It goes like this: he brings up a song on ProTools, then puts together a mix, which entails sorting all the parts out, setting up the automation that moves the faders up and down, and applying whatever effects he needs. He spends about an hour and a half getting a mix, then I come in and listen, make notes, he tweaks it, we agree on it, then he "prints" it and we move on. A full mixing session at the end of a record is more like a day per song, but this is only for rough mixes so we will do all 6 in one day.
It gets boring waiting around, so I went home and got my acoustic so I could write in the pool table room. I spent all night working on the new "Project P" song last night. Went to bed at 8:30am this morning. Woke up at 1:30pm and felt like shit. Still lagging a bit, but last night's session was worth it. I am in a kind of undiscovered country with my project right now, there is a lot of "business" to do with tying up the "plot", so the song I am working on ("N2") is unlike anything I have ever written, by far. It's really difficult. There is so much that needs to happen that I am finding it necessary to write it like a theatre piece, instead of a traditional song. Even "Night One" which is really long and "part-y" still has traditional song structure holding it together. Not this new one. I am having to write it piece by piece, play it over and over and over and over and tape it each time. I have had to throw out the idea of a chorus or any repeating parts, and hopefully it will be sonically interesting enough not to loose the listener. As I am writing this, I am also thinking that a label won't ever let me/us ever put this out. I can hope that everything will be fine, it will be a band thing and will be released, but I am starting to have my doubts.
ok, have to go, "Ashes" is up...
"Sarah lights candles, bright lives threatened by the wind"
Last day of tracking on the album until February. I thought Gummo and I were working tomorrow, but he called me at 12 noon and asked when I could come over, so enough of that relaxipating shit, time to sing! I only had 2 clear things on my list - wanted to re-sing the verses to "Unholy Ghost" because they were some of the first leads I had sung, and over time, they sounded low on energy compared to some of the other tunes, and the chorus harmony on Half Hearted. It started raining on the way over to Gummo's house, and as you know I love it when it rains in Los Angeles, so the mood was right on for singing. We spent an hour or so talking about the record, and plans for next year, and after I warmed up for a bit, we got to work. Left there around 8:30pm, and all we have left is one day to rough mix the songs tomorrow. Dave and Chris are away for the holidays, so I am going over to the mixing studio tomorrow (not sure if Perk can make it or not), to keep an eye on things. These aren't final mixes, but they will hold us until we go back into the studio in February to finish up tracking the record. Presumably, the tracking is done on these first 7. I am really interested to hear how all the songs sound with all the harmony parts Dave and I laid on them last week.
Started thinking about record titles, going with the eponymous thing, etc. I have some ideas. Dunno if I like the "1st album named after the band" thing. It's good for when there are a collection of albums and you know which one was the first one easily, but also sacrifices the possibility of giving this group of songs their own name and identity.
No plans for New Year's. If cash was not an issue, Riss and I would get on a plane to Vegas to ring in 2005. I love to be out there for New Year's. It's insane, and that's a good thing. Done the Vegas New Year's thing twice. Good times. If we can't pull it off though, I'll live. I am singing with Camp Freddy for a show they have on Jan. 5th anyway, so I will be out there soon enough.
Ok, Riss' brother Rudy gave me a DVD of "Clash of the Titans", so we're gonna go RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
Cya.
Plastic bags for plastic friends.
Back home in Los Angeles. Really good to be back. Saw "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". Liked it, as I am predisposed to, being a Wes Anderson film, but that said, it's not my favorite one, either. Totally worth seeing, though. Also saw "Meet the Fockers" - was pretty funny, Dustin Hoffman stole the whole movie, easily. RESPEK. And just finished watched "Dawn of the Dead" - now this movie kicks ass. Horror movies usually have a 97% suck possibilitiy, but this one was just about perfect - scary, quick, believable and well acted.
Saw that someone has already done the complete tablature version of our song "Bloody Mary" and posted it here. Really unbelievable. Well done.
I had some inspiration while down in the OC for Christmas, so I scribbled in my sketchbook, and when we were driving around going to movies, I typed ideas into my phone so I wouldn't forget them. All "Project P" stuff. Got alot done, actually. It was cool being away from a guitar, it forced me to work only on the words, and the outline of the ideas, as opposed to singing them through and potentially getting hung up on the sound of the song. I look forward to getting these new lyrics into the next song. I am very impatient to finish this thing, but I know that that won't help get it done. the ideas will come when they want, the songs will come when they want, the best I can do is to keep open and available. I am trying to get it not "COMPLETE" complete, just finished in the sense that I can play the whole thing on acoustic from beginning to end, from there it is ready to add, subtract, re-write, whatever, but I don't want to get into the whole "edit" process until the "create" process has run its initial course.
Have been listening a lot to the last two David Cross (from Mr. Show) records, "Shut up you fucking baby", and "It's not funny". He is the funniest guy on the planet for me at the moment.
 Just finished working on the Panic Channel "Christmas Present" ... those of you on our mailing list will find out what it is today.
Went to see Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" tonight. Really good. Very strange, oddly committed to being dark, not in a Tim Burton kind of way, dark in an "everyone is going to die" kind of way. Ultimately, a work of art from the production designer... the sets, and the atmosphere of the film were beautiful. Also loved the soundtrack, Thomas Newman is one of my favorites. A crazy mix of instrumentation, and a wonderful mood overall. Got home and bought that sucker, listening to it now.
The bookshelf. Finished reading "Ghost" by Katherine Ramsland, a "first hand account" into the world of ghost hunting and the paranormal. Sucked. Nothing much ever really happens. Not recommended. All I got from that one is an appetite to visit Savannah Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jerome, Arizona. Someday.
Started reading "The Changing Light at Sandover" a 560 page epic poem trilogy by James Merrill. It's an extremely fascinating, if pretty daunting work. He and his companion used the Ouija Board for years, and he merged the messages they received with his poetry to make a unique fable. Past lives, the rules of the afterworld, the interaction with the alive and their spirit guides or "patrons", the relationship between the two; its by no means an easy read but it's pretty intriguing so far.
Heading out to the OC tomorrow to spend Christmas with Larissa's family. We exchanged presents today, she got me some cool ghost hunter jerseys, a book on a real life exorcist, and a year pass to Disneyland, I got her a book on the freemasons and a black U2 iPod. It's not that she likes U2 so much as she REALLY likes black.
Worked on Project P last night, have taken a new path through this project. Since my computer was stolen with all my demos of the songs (still had copies on the iPod, thank God) I am demo-ing them all out again, and also have songs that I hadn't recorded yet to do. It's weird just jumping in and working on the project which is now nearing the ending (I think), I am missing the context this way. The plan is now to demo the whole thing out (7 songs) and then I can see where it is standing before writing any more. Since my protools skills are pretty much ass, this will take a few weeks. I have the 1st song (C&S) done and am moving on to song 2 (SWthb).
We have some really good Panic Channel news to hit you with in the new year, still too early to bust out with now, but it's exciting stuff.
I like the idea of the online family sending sound files of a lyric or chant to add to a song someday. The way I figure we'd do it, would be that I would make an mp3 of a line, and you could hook up a microphone and record yourself, but would need a walkman or iPod or something to be listening to my original, you'd sing along, and record just your voice with the computer, then send us the mp3. Have to work on that one. At the moment there aren't any songs that need any parts like that, but I will let you all know when one pops up. It might just be a "P" thing. I can see some possibilities there. It's a cool idea, an online, international gang vocal choir.
Well, this is Christmas Eve, and while we have a perfectly kick-ass Charlie Brown tree, and the presents are exchanged, it didn't happen this year. The feeling. The old Chirstmas spirit just never came. Didn't go to a single Christmas party, was kind of a crappy friend and didn't give out hardly any presents, and didn't watch all the Christmas special usual suspects (Rudolph, Santa, Charlie, etc.). I guess that kind of sums it up. When you do all that stuff, the ol' yule vibe just gets you. Well this year, no yule, no noel, just some presents. I'll live. Also not going out to Colorado to hang with my folks doesn't help. My Mom is like the Christmas Terminator, the house, the food, the vibe, you can't help it. After ten minutes in her house, you fart holly sprigs. I miss it out there right now.
word for today:
acrolith
\Ac"ro*lith\, n. [L. acrolthus, Gr. 'akroli`qos with the ends made of stone; 'a`kros extreme + li`qos stone.] (Arch. & Sculp.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. --Elmes.
No internet for 12 days, 3708 new emails. Nice. Mostly junk mail.
Man, I forget how tied up my whole existence is with this machine. It
was actually nice not being on a computer for a while, though. The
first couple days were touch-and-go, I was pretty twitchy. Reminds me
that I have a tendancy to overdo almost anything I do, and that you can
use the computer as too much of an escape from "real" life.
One to grow on ...(cue sensitive piano theme).
Here's what else has been happening...
Panic News: Spent 3 days in the studio with Gummo (Brian Virtue) adding "icing" to the record tracks. Dave laid some guitars (Beefier chorus guitar on "Half Hearted" and twiddly bits at the end of "Outsider") as well as his vocal harmonies on "Loophole" and "Ashes". I put harmonies on "Ashes", "Outsider" and "Go On". I started to on "Half Hearted" but got all frustrated and pissed off and left that for another day. thought it was best to go work on the tricky part at home, then bring it in all sussed out, instead of trial and error-ing it to death. We got alot of good work done. At the start of recording the record I was into having a relatively raw sounding record, to showcase how we sound as a band, and not "tarting" things up to much with the harmonies and icing, but as things have progressed, we have been adding more and more to the songs. To tell the truth, it's just really fun coming up with harmonies and ear candy parts, and it's better to have them in there, then to not put them in at all. We can always omit elements in mixing, but it's better to have all that stuff in there to use if we want to. We will break for the holiday, then I go back in and finish up any singing there is to be done.
Got my haircut today and they were playing the best music, this one song came on and I loved it and asked who it was - it was The Secret Machines - I need to track that one down.
Finally found the Lindsay Lohan lipsynching video. Enjoy. Hey, she may be lipsycnching but what a fantastic song!!!
And speaking of LipSynching...
Here is this weeks “Saturday Night Live Lip Synch report” (where Steve self-righteously armchair polices the state of “live” performance on SNL):
Destiny’s Child edition: Beyonce and those other two chicks did their thing on the Robert DeNiro hosted show last Saturday, looked like each girl sang only their individual verse vocal live, while the other two did taped backups, and it sounded like the choruses were all taped. So a big “Fuck You!” To Destiny’s Child. You are great singers, and should sing your shit live, there wasn’t even any heavy dancing to blame your lip-synching on. We know you can pull it off live, why not just do it.
Ok, more later, I am going to make up for all this damn missing Internet-ness in my life... hope you are all well, thanks so much for the kind vibes you sent out. Riss and I are off to See Lemony Snicket now.
Been a while since I’ve posted, actually, it’s been a while since I have done anything on the internet, got my phone/DSL cut off. Good times.
In my internet-free time, I have had to entertain myself with working on songs, reading, and my continuing journey into Halo 2. Luckily, the band got back into rehearsal mode last week, so I was crazy busy working on our new songs. We had the most productive week for songwriting yet, we played 4 days last week and have almost 4 new songs. Monday we started playing a jam I have been working on in drop D (tuning the lowest string on the guitar down a whole step to D), one that I wasn’t sure was a “Project P” song or not. As we played it, it went really well and as I sang some lyrics that I had knocking around in my head it became clear that it probably will be a part of “P”. As usual, the title I am keeping under wraps, but the initials are “ER”.
Tuesday began with Dave in a really excited creative mode. He was full of energy and had a new jam for us. Chris and Perk locked it right up and I got a melody right away, in about a half hour we had what looked to be a whole new song. This one is good and fast, and short time wise. We have a fair amount of 5-6 minute songs, so this one which is about 2 and a half minutes is a good thing. At the moment it’s called “Not what you said you’d be”.
Wednesday I came to rehearsal really pumped about how things had been going. At night, I do my normal routine of downloading all the sound files we record, then cut them up into mp3’s, and listen. (usually with my DSL on, I upload the songs to my iDisk for the guys to hear, but…) The two songs from this week were really different, and I was really into seeing what else new we could come up with this week. As a songwriter, I find that there are hot and cool periods, not just a steady output, and that the only thing that can put a limit on how much happens in a hot period is you. Keep searching, keep trying. Also, I have found that when I am writing a song and I think it is the shit, often I start playing something completely new, and find that that second idea ends up being the stronger one.
So we begin on Wednesday playing “Not what you said you’d be”, and tweaking the arrangement. After a while, Dave asked Chris if he had any fresh jams he had for us. Chris played a mid tempo sixteenth note thing that was full of potential. Dave worked with some dissonant open string ideas, Stephen gave it a spacious tom part, and I found a minor scale melody that led …somewhere. We got a chorus part based on the same chords, and there you go, it looked like another song was happening. This one I particularly like. There is a sense of drama and storytelling that speaks to what I like best about rock. Also, “ER” is part of another piece, “NWYSYB” is a “single-idea” type song, so this one would be especially fun to work on, from a songwriting point of view. We played it a couple times and I taped it. At home I got really inspired and came up with the lyrics and a way to finish the bridge out to the end of the song.
We spent almost all day playing the new song, it’s called “Start of Darkness”. This one I seem more excited about than anyone else. We tweaked it all day, after a point where I thought it was great, but that’s how a band works. This is a truly collaborative band, so we will tweak as long as we need to until all 4 guys are satisfied. I think we spent too much time on it, and should have walked away, it’s not good to over focus on a song, after a certain point, nothing will help but time away and a fresh perspective. I have high hopes for this one though. We finished the week opening up a tune that we played as an instrumental to open our first show, “Punish Me”. This one has been our only “troubled child”. I haven’t found a path through the music, which is good, that means something to me. See, no matter how good the music is, full of energy or power, or drama or whatever, if I can’t find a meaning in it for myself, or as character saying something from within the song, then I can’t do it. I can come up with melodies and lyrics for days, but I can’t stand there and perform it unless it is tied to me in some way. We jammed “Punish Me” with a new take on the vocal melody, something more dark, less major-scale, and it seemed to open up. With a little work, it looks as though this one will come out of the garage, too. All together, it was a fantastic week for the band creatively, it was so nice not having a show, or studio time to be focusing on, my favorite time with the band is when we are coming up with new songs.
We arrived to sound check at the Key Club around 3pm. All the Key Club guys were great helping us get our scene together, and I was blown away by how good the monitors were onstage, I am not so used to hearing myself that clearly, it was nice. Doheny had a whole multimedia experience to set up, so there were people all over the place buzzing about. Internally, we were mulling over the set list right up until the last second. Dave came up with the idea to play “Night One” from Project P for the show. At first I thought he was crazy, seeing as even if we do play this (P) as a band project, it’s months away from being able to be worked on because we have to finish the record first. Not to mention that “Night One” is 8 minutes long, with a bunch of different parts, and even if we did get it happening, the chances of owning it seemed slim. His reasoning was that I have been very inspired by working on this music and that we should strike where the iron is hot. He turned out to be 100% right. We concentrated on Night One during our rehearsals Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is really an enjoyable jam to play, many dynamics. As the show got nearer, it was still up in the air if we should play it or not, and even though it sounded good, I was into shelving it till the next gig, but Dave was adamant.
We played it at sound check and it sounded tight enough, so we decided to keep it in. We all went our separate ways, and reconvened at 9pm a the club. Rolling Stone came down and wanted to take some pictures and do a quick interview that might appear in the magazine’s random notes section. Afterwards, we caught a little of Doheny’s show (Billy did a great job with video elements shown by a bunch of tv’s strewn across the stage), then I got into pre-show mode. This can be different depending on the show, I tend not to like to be around people before I play. The underground backstage area of the Key Club was getting pretty crowded with people, and I realized I couldn’t get my “space” on, so I took a walk down Sunset, found a quiet space, and warmed up my voice and found my Zen. I warm up religiously before shows and (usually) rehearsals, and find that it’s not just good to have the chords all ready for singing, but the repetitive rhythmic breathing required to warm up ends up being very calming, too. I finished my alone time about 10:15 – with an ART of 10:20, I headed back to the club.
Donovan introduced us, and we played. Everyone in the band was in a great mood, and we were really stoked to hit the stage. Dave was wearing a fuzzy leopard print cowboy hat, Perkins had a Zappa shirt on, Chris had a Black Sabbath shirt, and I was wearing the top part of this year’s Halloween costume, a skeleton torso. The set was: Go On, Unholy Ghost, The Loophole, She Won’t Last, Outsider, Bloody Mary, Half Hearted, Ashes and Night One.
First off, the stage at the Key Club rocks. It’s really nice and spacious and Dave had room to cruise, and when I wasn’t married to the mic, I got to take a look around, too. You can see the crowd really good and clear, and the lighting setup is amazing. The whole show passed by like it was an instant, I guess that’s a good thing: “Time flies…”. At sound check, I met a guy named Lyn who had come all the way from Atlanta, Georgia to see the show, and I could see him in the crowd on Dave’s side – gave him a shout out, the least I could do.
Perkins was up on a drum riser, I like that, it was cool to see him at eye level, and with the Christmas lights on his chrome kit, when the house lights were down, he looked like a king on his throne. Dave was on fire, he played really Zen and obviously knows how to work a big stage, all “kid in a candy store” style.
Then it was time to play Night One. As soon as Dave played the opening part (I call it the “theme”), I knew we were going to be fine. The song just came out like it wanted to be played right then and there. The verses are kind of Pink Floyd and dreamy, then the B section is like a dentist’s drill. Couldn’t be more fun to play. I was really impressed at how well Chris and Stephen held it all together, because for the rhythm section, it’s simply a TON of parts, looking back at the tape at their performances, you’d never know that we started jamming the song only 3 days before.
After the show we chilled a bit in the backstage bomb shelter, then headed out to the after thing in the “plush” room. It was a tad psycho in there, but the vibe from the people was great. From there, a bunch of us walked to the Rainbow and had some Italian food (Riss and I rocked the pepperoni & pineapple pizza). At one point, they were playing Audioslave, and in walks Tom Morello. Good times.
Rantz couldn’t make it to the show, but when I got home and checked my mail, he had sent me an illustration he had been working on of the main character from “Project P” – the one that Night One is about. That was the cherry on the sundae for me, finishing playing this new song, then coming home and seeing that.
Thanks to Larissa Friend, Billy Morrison, Phil Hutson, Mark Vangool, Dan Cleary, Pucchi, Sean for doing sound, Sean S from Suicide Girls, the great people at the Key Club, the 6767’s, Lyn for coming out from Atlanta, my Cupertino friends, and everyone else who came out and brought the cans of food. I hope you had as much fun as I did on Thursday.
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