How you gonna ball?
Thu-Sun night, a blur, a blast, lots of stress, lost all my cash.
Actually I'll back track. Jimmy Reject, a buddy of mine, and a dude who's left me some seriously theraputic LJ comments took his own life last week. It was shocking. The Dimestore Haloes are one of my all time favorite Boston bands and most definately my fav from the 90's scene. This guy was a sweetheart and I was proud of what I wrote for/about him. It's on my myspace, maybe I'll post it here in a different entry. Anyway, that had me really shaken up to say the least.
Thu-Fri, drank tons at the Red Hat and saw some people I hadn't seen in a while. Made me miss my crazy times in college a little bit, but hey, the next two nights made up for that.
Sat, band rehearsal followed by Riverboat Gamblers/X/Rollins band. Steve came by and we did a lil' pre-gaming and it was a cool time. I was feeling very ok by the time I got to the show. I almost felt bad getting in for free, fuckin $20 to get in! The Gamblers ruled and it was great seeing Ian again. It was also cool talking with the band about Jimmy and The Haloes. I know he woulda been blushing having us cool cats talking about him backstage @ Avalon with Henry Rollins 5 feet away. Speaking of that fucker, I met him. What an intense dude. I wasn't sure if he was gonna strangle me or hug me, it was cool though.
Billy Zoom's a good egg as well. We chatted about his previous bands and how he lived in Beacon Hill for a few years. He's not the born again Christian people say he is. But he's all cool with the Jesus I guess.
I really hope The Gamblers make it. They should.
After the show I got to meet Exene and she's a doll. She's just so nice and was asking about my crummy lil' bandino, prolly cause Alanah mentioned it haha. I was soooooooo blasted at this point. Jesus Christ. And then we chatted about D Generation and how we both knew Danny Sage.
Fast forward to next Sunday afternoon, Polly from Crimson Sweet tell me her and Danny were chatting about my band a few days prior. That felt pretty cool I suppose haha.
Sunday night was the show @ The Abbey. Lots of fun, some B.S., but that's to be expected at this juncture. Every band sounded great and partying at my place was the highlight. It's really cool to get to know a guy you look up to so much. Ricky told me I was an inspiration to him lately and he wants nothing more than to help out my band. Possibly doing some mixing on the album. We watched my D Gen/Hanoi Rocks footage on a Vh-S and it was hilarious. The footage I have is from the night he met his wife. Then he called Sami and told him he loved him while we watched the Hanoi songs.
It was pretty fucking surreal. I mean, this might seem like a lot of name dropping but I could give a fuck less. I don't care about anything but the fact that I had a great time this weekend and got to meet and hang out with rad people, especially the guitarist from my favorite band of all time, who wrote what is probably my all time favorite song. Not too bad. I dunno, the guy is awesome and it's one of the coolest feelings in the world to know one of your musical idols loves what you're doing. He made some really good points about me too. I am way too serious about my band sometimes and he let me know. He told me to relax and I told him how much I do for the band and how much I got invested in this thing. But he understood my perspective because he once was in a band with someone just like me he said. His name is Jesse Malin. That kinda blew my mind. But regardless, I needed to hear his point of view.
So I'll be seeing both Ricky and Jesse play and Howie Pyro DJ Sept14th @ The Continental. Carrie and I are on the guestlist and I'm sure it's gonna be another fucking surreal night. Life is funny and the 17 year old in me is still in awe of everything that's been happening lately.
Actually I'll back track. Jimmy Reject, a buddy of mine, and a dude who's left me some seriously theraputic LJ comments took his own life last week. It was shocking. The Dimestore Haloes are one of my all time favorite Boston bands and most definately my fav from the 90's scene. This guy was a sweetheart and I was proud of what I wrote for/about him. It's on my myspace, maybe I'll post it here in a different entry. Anyway, that had me really shaken up to say the least.
Thu-Fri, drank tons at the Red Hat and saw some people I hadn't seen in a while. Made me miss my crazy times in college a little bit, but hey, the next two nights made up for that.
Sat, band rehearsal followed by Riverboat Gamblers/X/Rollins band. Steve came by and we did a lil' pre-gaming and it was a cool time. I was feeling very ok by the time I got to the show. I almost felt bad getting in for free, fuckin $20 to get in! The Gamblers ruled and it was great seeing Ian again. It was also cool talking with the band about Jimmy and The Haloes. I know he woulda been blushing having us cool cats talking about him backstage @ Avalon with Henry Rollins 5 feet away. Speaking of that fucker, I met him. What an intense dude. I wasn't sure if he was gonna strangle me or hug me, it was cool though.
Billy Zoom's a good egg as well. We chatted about his previous bands and how he lived in Beacon Hill for a few years. He's not the born again Christian people say he is. But he's all cool with the Jesus I guess.
I really hope The Gamblers make it. They should.
After the show I got to meet Exene and she's a doll. She's just so nice and was asking about my crummy lil' bandino, prolly cause Alanah mentioned it haha. I was soooooooo blasted at this point. Jesus Christ. And then we chatted about D Generation and how we both knew Danny Sage.
Fast forward to next Sunday afternoon, Polly from Crimson Sweet tell me her and Danny were chatting about my band a few days prior. That felt pretty cool I suppose haha.
Sunday night was the show @ The Abbey. Lots of fun, some B.S., but that's to be expected at this juncture. Every band sounded great and partying at my place was the highlight. It's really cool to get to know a guy you look up to so much. Ricky told me I was an inspiration to him lately and he wants nothing more than to help out my band. Possibly doing some mixing on the album. We watched my D Gen/Hanoi Rocks footage on a Vh-S and it was hilarious. The footage I have is from the night he met his wife. Then he called Sami and told him he loved him while we watched the Hanoi songs.
It was pretty fucking surreal. I mean, this might seem like a lot of name dropping but I could give a fuck less. I don't care about anything but the fact that I had a great time this weekend and got to meet and hang out with rad people, especially the guitarist from my favorite band of all time, who wrote what is probably my all time favorite song. Not too bad. I dunno, the guy is awesome and it's one of the coolest feelings in the world to know one of your musical idols loves what you're doing. He made some really good points about me too. I am way too serious about my band sometimes and he let me know. He told me to relax and I told him how much I do for the band and how much I got invested in this thing. But he understood my perspective because he once was in a band with someone just like me he said. His name is Jesse Malin. That kinda blew my mind. But regardless, I needed to hear his point of view.
So I'll be seeing both Ricky and Jesse play and Howie Pyro DJ Sept14th @ The Continental. Carrie and I are on the guestlist and I'm sure it's gonna be another fucking surreal night. Life is funny and the 17 year old in me is still in awe of everything that's been happening lately.