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blacky
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posted August 17, 2002 21:08
    
The NothingFace tour was pretty good, basically the tour was almost sold out, at least the east cost was - personally I had a good time, perhaps a little too much drinking at one point. Man, drinking a whole bottle of sake at once on the tour bus was way to much, that’s what Mike Amstadt (our soundman) and I did after a diner in a Japanese restaurant in Hollywood. Remembering lots of funny things, let see... Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron were the two from Soundgarden who were closest to us, often taking rides in our tour bus, running away from the rest of their band, I suppose! Of Faith No More, Jim Martin and Billy Gould hung out with us most. That didn’t mean that we did not talk to the others, just simply that they were the ones that drank beers from our cooler and could understand our bad jokes. That was also a very grueling tour, if I remember correctly we had something like 12 days non-stop, one day off and 8 or 10 more in a row, something like that, which is pretty hard in terms of being consistent. The challenge was there, having to headline with two very good opening acts. The crowed was usually quite mixed, metal heads, not-so metal, wanna-be grunge, not-sure-what-I-like-best-but-this-is-good-enough-for-me types, and finally a few punk rock dudes. I can’t recall exactly which city, but after the first three weeks Faith No More had their tour support pulled, then a week or so later, they had a number one in England, and came back for the third part of the tour in the North Central and North East. So basically for the entire South and West Coast gigs, only Soundgarden, and sometimes a local band, were the supporting act. In Seattle of course Soundgarden were headlining, but we took over for the next gig in Vancouver, BC, where we headlined the show, and obviously it wasn’t very successful. Who remembers Voivod there, specially after the announcer for the show presented the headliner after Soundgarden finished their set as, “And Now we present you Soundgarden.” You should have seen the reaction backstage, Chris Cornell had to go back on stage announcing “Sorry but we just played, and now it’s Voivod”. That was very funny at the time. I remember Away and I, in a certain town had to alert Chris cause his wife (manager) was coming for a surprise visit and he was in a room with a group of girls, that was very odd and very funny. We basically bugged him for weeks after that. He became such a gentleman… The day Faith No More came back was probably one of the best days of the tour, and also the best performance I’ve ever seen them do. They were full of energy and the music was very tight, they were so happy to be back on the road, we ran out of beer that night - twice I think - we ran out of everything else as well. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the day we had to cross the border for the Vancouver gig, we had to clean everything, vacuum the entire the buses, flush the toilets and garbage holes. Between the two bands we had to leave: bags of dope, 12 or 15 knifes and 3 guns, 2 of which were fake, the third one was actually owned by one of the bus drivers (who always have baseball bats, crow bars and a gun [optional]). We cleared custom no problem and were back the next day in Seattle for a short break before going on a 35 hrs ride from Seattle to Minneapolis. One interesting fact about the bus drivers - on three occasions our bus drivers were Vietnam War Vets which made it for a really interesting long drive story telling. These guys were all such sweet people and very streetwise as well, nobody ever messed with the bus drivers. We never ran into problem stopping in truck stops, it is very funny but rock band are always well respected among truckers, I’m not sure why, perhaps because we mean a good time or something. In Albuquerque one of our roadies, R., had his birthday that day and for some reason the tour manager of Soundgarden and some other crew members thought it would be funny -since R. was not very successful with the girls, to hire a prostitute for him and rented him a room with a video camera in it which filmed the whole thing. We were forced to watch it the next day. R. didn’t think it was that funny and us neither – it was like a bad page out of the Tommy Lee Handbook for rock stars. But he swallowed the pill and laughed in order to secure a job with Susan Silver, which in turn lead to a gig with Alice in Chains who she also managed. R. later married the stage manager of one of the Lollapalooza tours and now lives some where close to LA. He got in touch with me in 1993 and he brought me backstage during Alice in Chains sound check. Lollapalooza would have been a fun gig to be playing in back then! I can’t really remember much else, if I something comes to mind I will let you know guys. I do also have some videos… I know, I already said that I would post some stuff, and I will, just need to find some time.
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Marginal
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posted September 17, 2002 09:14
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Originally posted by Ynys Trebes:
Aaaaaaaaaaaah... merci Jean-Yves!!!Je me sens comme Passe-Montagne qui écoute Grand-Mère raconter une histoire  Encore!!! Encore!!! (Sorry guys, Quebecers inside joke)
lol ! moi aussi ... ( kesse que que grand-mere fesait ben a passe montagne pour qu'il l'aime de meme ! ah j'comprend ... yavait pas de grand pere ... la vieille fallait qu'a pogne son smile kek part hein ? ) Vraiment cool Blacky que tu partages ces moments la . btw , anyone knows if Blacky has some projects ? I don't even know if he's still in the music business =/
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