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Just imagine taking your date home to this bed with some mood lighting behind the frosted headboard. With the touch of a finger you spin the wine glass within reach and smile to the thought of how rock solid your bed is.
go ahead, see for yourself.
I met Mike Patton in San Francisco. Duane (of USSA) is a bandmate of his in the band, Tomahawk. Anyway, I was inspired to catch up on what he's done since FNM and I've absolutely fallen in love with his "Peepshow" project. It features everyone from Massive Attack, to Norah Jones, to Kool Keith. First album I've bought in some time and doing a good job of turning me back into an avid listener. Highly recommended.
The tour, on my sliding scale for tours, was an A-. While the touring market is still suspect in a lot of places, Jared has managed to keep in touch not only with his fans but also reel in a lot of younger fans in the process. Chemlab is still somewhat of a deal – I didn’t realize he’d opened for White Zombie and GWAR (as well as Nine Inch Nails.) And it was that metal contingent in the audience that separated this from all of the dying genre industrial tours of the past few years. So there were people at most of the shows. The Los Angeles show was like a time machine. There were people having sex up against the stage, and bloody noses in the pit. It was like 1977. There were a lot of highlights to the tour. Unfortunately, my low point came after I had already arrived back in Chicago. The tour van was broken into in New Jersey. They only took 2 things – a $1400 camera that belonged to a friend of ours and my _entire_ audio rack. Everything I have bought up to this point for live sound is gone as well as 6 racks spaces of Presonus endorsement gear. I should have had it insured. That’s about all I can say. In reality, it’s more of a pain in the ass than a financial loss. All told, I lost maybe $6-700 worth of gear . . . I just despise people who steal.
Not sure if anyone actually followed the tour but we lost USSA about 3 weeks in. Duane had a herniated groin that required surgery. It was a pretty big down – those guys were/are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met in this industry. All told, I made a lot of new friends, saw a lot of old ones, didn’t lose my ass, got a well deserved break, made a couple bucks, and furthered my career. So that’s that.
Catherine and I are closing on our condo this morning. It feels crazy. I’m nervous – like little girl first day of Kindergarten nervous. I can’t wait to never, ever, move again. To never hand wash dishes again. To never visit a Laundromat or walk downstairs to do laundry again. We didn’t want the world out of this deal, just our half. And that seems to be what we’re in for. Very exciting.
Work wise – I’m doing a little something for the Biography Channel at the moment. Getting ready to buckle down on this 64k album, doing an iScintilla ep over the next couple months. I’ve started working on some Scanalyzer loops, I’m going to work on a couple things with Jared, and who knows what else. The Atomica record is pretty much done, just some here and there tweaks. I’d like to get the live band up and running again – the Chicago version. We need to simplify the process to the point that Lauren and I can just show up to practice and do a show with a weeks notice. Nothing fancy, nothing dramatic, just music.
