Monday, September 10, 2007

Video Help


I am putting together a video and need video clips and/or audio clips of questions you would like to ask the band. If possible please send a video of yourself asking the question if not just post the questions as a post in the blog.The questions all have to be able to be answered by a yes or no. I would like these to be funny questions and not so serious. Please say your name and also where you are from before you ask the question. Thanks for the help.
Peace
John

Send Video or Audio clips to: john@john-miceli.com

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Fun Stuff

Here is a video of some silly things we kept ourselves amused with this past tour.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Clearwater Florida

Last night was a blast, before the show we were hanging out with Chris Jericho. Chris was the first-ever Undisputed WWE World Champion. He's also held the Intercontinental Championship and tag titles, among others. Paul Crook invited Chris down to the show. Chris had known Paul from Anthrax days, Chris was such a nice guy to hang with. All I heard that night on the bus every time we mentioned his name, were the girls saying "Chris, He's Hot" but then again they never saw me in wrestling tights.

Who also showed up back stage before the show is Yankees own Wade Boggs and his beautiful wife Debbie. Wade was voted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame in 2005. What an amazing guy. In the Meat camp a lot of our crew are die hard Red Sox fans but you had to see their faces when Wade showed up. Wade was a true gentleman, thanking us for our hospitality while he was taking pics and signing anything anyone had asked. When we took this photo he took his World Series ring off and started putting it on my finger. I didn't know what to say so I said I DO.

There are more pictures on the picture page of my website under Bat III

Friday, August 3, 2007

Foreplay for swingers

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

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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

Sunday, July 22, 2007

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