Foreplay for swingers

Check out these shirts they really crack me up. I just ordered "Got Wood?" I couldn't resist.

Jammin' in Watertown

One of Crook's old band mates and friend of ours, Joey Belladonna from Anthrax, had come out to the Watertown gig. It was a blast, we pulled him up on stage to sing a few songs with us during sound check. He sounded great, he went from singing Dio to Steve Perry to an Anthrax song which I didn't really know but when we were playing, Grady, Paul's Tech, was out in the audience listening and playing air drums so I was able to follow him through the song.

There are more pictures from the Watertown show on the picture page under Bat III

The Bobbles

Saratoga Streets

Last night Paul, Dave and I went out to a Mexican restaurant for dinner, right in the main street of Saratoga. As we were walking back to our hotel we noticed there were a few street musicians. There was a guy dressed as Elvis playing maracas with an old blues guy on banjo, a bunch of drummers on hand drums, guys playing acoustic guitar and so on. So Dave and I started getting into it so we ask a policeman on a horse what the laws were and he told us a good place to go play. The three of us went back to the hotel and went to the front desk and explained that we wanted to go play in the street, Dave on Sax and me on percussion and if they could loan us a few buckets. The guy at the front desk was cracking up and went into the kitchen of the hotel and came back with all these pots and pans. We ran up to my room with all this stuff and created a kit for me. Paul was funny he was running around my room taking pillows and towels and putting them inside the buckets to balance the sounds, so Dave and I took him on as our Producer/Engineer. Once we had it all together we walked back to the area where we would play. Paul was not only our producer and engineer he also became our camera man. As we were walking down the streets people were looking at us funny because we are carrying all these pots and pans. We finally found just the right spot to play and started setting up. There were a lot of clubs where we set up so there was a lot of walking traffic. Dave was great he just started kicking into all these tunes and I was jammin' on the pots. People were walking by and throwing money to us. At one point all these girls started dancing in the street, it was a blast. Check out the video that Paul captured, titled Saratoga Streets

NYC Set List and New Bobble Heads

We just finished our two shows in NYC, at the Madison Square Garden Theater. What a great reception the NY crowd gave us, with 2 sold out shows. Thanks !
We started off at sound check with Meat introducing the new edition of bobble heads to place on the drum riser. It's hysterical, he made up bobble heads of the whole band that really look like us, of course my bobble head is half naked. I really need to stop mooning people. I'm getting a bad rap. I will take photos of these at the next show and post them so that you can see them.
Both shows really rocked. The set list for Wednesday was:
All Revved Up
If It Ain't Broke
Frying Pan
Life Is A Lemon
Took The Words
Land Of The Pigs
Bad For Good
Anything For Love
Objects In The Rear View Mirror
RnR Dreams
Paradise
2 Out of 3 (Wed. only)
Bat
Encore
Black Betty (Fri only)
Gimme Shelter

I promise to post pictures of the new bobble heads this week. It's worth the look just for the laugh. Check out this video, it is the animal bobble farm Meat had in front of my drums before the new band bobble heads.

Getting Ready

This is what it feels like getting ready the last day at home before going out on the road.

NFL Europa

It was a great day in Frankfurt at the NFL Europa game. We started out sound checking in the afternoon. There were 1,000 cheerleaders, marching bands, pyro crews, camera crews and all sorts of craziness running around. After we sound checked Charlie (Kasim's tech) and I went out front of the venue. It was set up like a huge amusement park. I don't know what it was but there was this big mouse running around gooseing people.

I also met up with the USA Army band (USAREUR) that kicked ass. They actually performed at halftime.

Also as we were in our dressing room "The World's Fastest Golfer," Ogi, came in and was explaining to us how he holds the World Record. He has been on Letterman and all sorts of shows. Ogi was nice enough to let me video this. We went on pre-show and played five songs; Paradise, Lemon, Fryin Pan, Anything For Love, and Bat Out Of Hell. After we played we were invited to a private box at the arena where we had a blast.


There's more pictures from the NFL on the picture page under Bat III