shake it like a caveman

SHOOTING HOOPS WITH MR MIYAGI

2011-03-25T22:52:00.008-05:00

the ice has broken.
like that episode of northern exposure.
yep. the winter is over.

2010 end recap
halloween was well ragin, cant really remeber what happend to much but do remember jamming hard to some huey lewis and saw a lot of boobies (you know the bad girl costumes that make most other girls mad but make us happy) all in all a cool holiday. thanksgiving no football or turkey just rock n roll.

i got hired by the captains plumber to play a birthday bash in a trailer park. was great! i set up the lazer lights and whole shit shabang. then with dogs howling i saw a 400 lb lady do interpretive dancing with no shirt on. yikes. ate some little smokies and drank natural light and learned about pharmacutical drug trade till 5am.

The next day i drove thru kentucky virginia and into west virginia. i had once again a awesome night kinda storybook including warsteiner perrier and ears ringing i happily woke up in a starry room surrounded by painitngs and piles clothes and warsteiners looked outside and it had snowed like the tundra, then the smell of a swweet breakfast. wow. like i said before west va rules!

kinda in a state of euphoria i followed a snow plow for about 200 miles and somehow made it back to tennessee. were for the next weeks the high was like 24f i watched films from the criterion collection, ate weird grains, drank green tea, ate chocolate, got a a fake membership to lakeland region wellness center. at night myself and a mr miagi style dude swam and shot some hoops, hit the treadmills, while wearing headbands and jammin to hall and oates, me and miyagi never spoke but i guess we really didnt have to.. for weeks & weeks... and waited.... and waited for the winter to well, get lost. meanwhile, i had a fun show or two in the high east tennesse mts one in particular where i think i drank busch with the guy from motorhead.

back down east & for the 2nd time the van exploded on the coast. leake and peters and myself were cruising hard for the carolina coast rain, fog, stalling engine, no visibility and general terrible weather. after barely making it to the pirate town on time for the show we were greeted by hostess and fireworks puffing j's. and thought it was going to be a super interesting night and..... then somehow we were playing a teen event center every fan was 16. well i guess it was interesting. doors closed paid and everything in the van by 1030. man i could get used to that. like 2 nights in one. nobody barfed or pulled their balls out in public like in the old days but we put a dent in it dad rock style. the next day the van totally exploded on the highway. thanks AAA for saving the day once again. our driver who was an interesting story telller and really was interested in informing us how much leg he gets and dirty weed he can chief and bud light he can drink with some styx jammin in the background. classic. and once again raleigh got its claws into me. had to drop serious cash on transmission. wow. just when i was about to call it quits and go to the airport for a one way to france, one of the mechanics at the garage i guess felt sorry for me and pulled me aside and said "hey man merry christmas" and handed me like a pound of weed from his lunch bag. totally hilarious. so my holiday re-gifting this year was well recieved.

i picked up xd @ the airport and sprinted back to the mtns. new transmission intact. like a buttered bullet. yes!
I somehow survived the holidays. we had a max capacity christmas show and thanks god the floors didnt fall in. this years show was in an old building and you could see the floors move. 10 bands, bad sound, 500 people it was a mess but all in all it made alot of people happy so it was worth it.

thanks god the patty came through hard with a massive indo paint gig. so on christmas day and the next i painted an entire office building slept in the floor of the office call center. it snowed like a foot.

xD and luke dog slipping and sliding thru the mtns met me @ the job site in carolina escaped the snow hit the coast.
where we dialed in what is soon to be "white bread and golden"
we rehearsed and composed the tunes in a sweet old beach house in folly beach sc. chased the sea turtles, played all day every day for most of the week cooked bangin meals and did some wildcatin around. we discovered xd's love for the j geils band soundtrack.. & one memorable show on this run i remember a ragin drunk dude launch into xd's keyboard and crash into the drums beers flyin. next thing i know xd had the dude wrapped up in his mic cable like he had just caught a giant catfish or somethin. xd never missed a beat and followed it up with a sweet chic corea pianotar solo. unbelieveable.

that week we drank beer out of buckets of ice, watched cute girls as we ate over priced and overwieghed hungover salads drank smoothies @ the local natural food stores and had a fantastic time. we had to perform for a new year's bash back in tennessee. and thanks god we found tuxedos and various leather tassle vests @ goodwill to bring in the new year. we were toast but looking sharp. maybe like chet baker only a lot less toasted.

i think we pulled in shaking and probabally drank a beer as some form of alternative to an energy drink. we turned into vampires and drank bad champagne and surely freaked some people out. i think we saw boobies. my amp which for the last month had sounded like a wild marmot was living inside it finally had enough and exploded on new years eve night. perfect timing. we ended the set and somehow had the strength for dance parites and more wildcattin around.

with hopes of finally escaping the snow and ice van exploded again. i had to cancel louisana and mississippi shows.

so patty once again saves the day.

i caught a plane to florida to do a resort run. landing perfectly on time i caught a cab to the rental truck company. luckily this driver only talked about his gout. after 1 hr of waiting on paperwork and payments etc to clear at the rental the first truck i got in wouldnt start. so i head up about two blocks in the second truck and notice that a dog lives in it. the dog is not in the cab but its dogfood was still in the truck and it had been eating the steering wheel. i went to make a left turn and the turn signal handle and windshield wiper controls fell off.. thinking to myself this might be a problem for the next 1000 miles i went back to the rental office. i told everyone there i was going to get david koresch on their facilities unless i got some assistance. within 5 min a sweet rig pulled in and i hopped in it and took off.... wind blowing, bombing prepaidlanes lanes on tolls, eyes swolen from dog hair i followed the coastline. the transport job for the resort group requires i stay in some super sweet condos. fantastic gig but its weird being alone in a beach house which can accomodate 10 raging sunburnt sandy wildcats. so to maximize the experience i just took my clothes off and threw them all over the condo and cooked serious food and made a beautiful mess for one.

on the way up the coast patty hooked up a gig installing wireless networks in south carolina pool houses. thats another story all together

whew. so with the van out of the shop the highway knew & pulled me out of tennessee, i was hauling a 200lb english mastif.
the ace's breeder pals needed coco to be delivered to a breeder in dallas tx. the price was right so me in the van and the manatee/dog made it in one piece to texas. this was the sweetest most chilled dog but smelled like warthog grizzly bear yikes. van was kinda dank for a bit. ok now..

coco happy @ her new home i excitedly jetted south. where now i live in a campground, run the hills, frequent the bibliotech and goodwill, rock back porch bashes, chicken shit bingo, eat alot of salad, read about and making concrete countertops, and experiment with interesting grains from yesteryear and rejoice sxsw is over.

from the looks of it the spring and summer are going to be incredible.
got some new t shirt designs.
TBA dates coming up.
summer 2011 Europe dates will be posted soon.

look for "white bread and golden" with the big band in may. it will put the icing on the cake for your summer boat parties.

other notables:
peter and geo gave birth to lil' wayne chung "harry" peters march 2011.
Q dog and LL had march boy too!!
j smitty just accepted to become a DR. of evolutionary ecology and microbiology. @ohio state university. wow.
sheriff in miami training to work on an international sailing vessel. no comment.
the bishop almost made it thru ski season with only a broken leg.
luke dog found re-discovered his airbrush master of puppets belly shirt.
congrats everybody.

hope everybody made it thru the winter well rested and well woodsheeded sufficiently to bring it in the months to come.
see you soon. dont be shy. hope all your endeavours are rockin..
love
snake

JUST ME AND THE BLANKET I STOLE FROM THE AIRPLANE

2010-09-26T16:42:00.005-05:00

MAY 2010 - SEPT 2010

There is absolutely no possible way to compose into story format the past few months so i have just included some of the ingredients of an unbelievable summer..seriously unbelieveable.

France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy:
highways, carbonation releasing itself from captivity, waves hitting rocks, nostalgi radio, boat motors gurgling, pungent rainbows of gas on water,pungent dairy products, cowbells, crickets, light blue and blonde on blondes, darkness, silk, deserts,desserts, rainstorms, blood, fermented grapes, regular grapes, pressure, and pressure release, sunscreen with sand, wet headphones, smashed airplanes, smashed, smoke, snakes soaked in liquor,snakes on the path, lamb, smoke ringing ears, cotton mouth, sore legs and hands, salty skin, tattoos, sweat in tents, corks exploding, forks and knives hitting plates of duck and roasted potatoes. sweet solace of the nighttime, crossiants and the techniques to procure them,sweat, cinnamon, tigers and foxes, and the hypnotic constant drone.

Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virgina:
autozone, frisbees, green glass, new vans, old vans, paint, smoke, lightbulbs, parking lots, highways, going for the apple, boat motors, air guitar solos, guitar solos, being quiet, flour, fireworks, bbq, tears, tattoos & booze, rice milk, poison ivy, sore legs, sore throats, swampy lakes, rainy sun, ringing ears, running late, then running, motors and transmissions and metals,spiders, supersonic sleeping bags, oil, paint, strings, ductape & giving it all you got.

if you have pics, stories, videos from this summer love to see it all, email me.

THE NEW RECORD IS COMING!!!
see you soon

love
snake

lazer lights, duct tape and a tall boy

2010-05-24T17:47:00.009-05:00

THE NASHVILLE ESCAPE
so i found thru craigslist that i could rent a 10x12 office space in a skyscraper in downtown nashville for pretty cheap... totally weird..needing a change and to stay busy to keep from having a meltdown.. i went for it. and i stayed in this space for like a month and a half slept on an inflateable air mat, got a friend pass to the ymca, cooked on a shittly little electric one burner emmersed in horrible ever humming flurosence. i played a shit load of music in an empty floor of the wachovia bank building.. the winter was well actually the worst ever.. cold as balls and snow dark wind heartbreak. glad that ones over, at lest the first parts.. a few drinks later i am now sure that i dont want to move to nashville..
i did a couple shit shows in town but however i do remember a show that was great where i shared a show with a super hero guy who handed out crackers and cheese to the audience.. and a guy who rapped over a mega shittie cd player the show was in a semi-trailer type bar. the super hereo gave me his shirt which you can see from time to time in the pics its the one with the tapes on it.. my new fav. these guys were fucking awesome.. i also remember eating a bangin hamburger and saw 5,000 cats again. did a show with rev dead eye in a weird taco resturant for 3 people 20$ and 2 millers . but its always a nice treat to see deadeye.. i did a show near nashville in muscle shoals alabama met the chamelion skywaker mega weird sparkle jacket evening, but escaped with everything intack.. yikes yikes. oh yeah had the last of the anti oxidant juice for my birthday totally wild night, woke up in some weird house on the other side of town.. oh yeah and i became mildly obsessed with samples @ the whole foods and running mini triathalons at the y.
all in all nashville is not really for me but in hindsight i did get to drink a beer with the chicago bears QB, hang with the jwolf, get a superhero t-shirt, live in a skyscraper, see the weirdest moustach bash known to man, crush hotdogs on the street with captn steve, participate in shitfaced squaredancing and fistfighting with missionaries who didnt like led zeppelin... all in all not so bad i guess.

BACK ON THE STREETS

so i think by march 2nd week march i was excitedly hauling ass from nashville en route to birmingham
great shows there with taylor hollingsworth who fucking rocks! met up with the left lane cruisers. who by the way are fucking awesome too... bad ass shows in mississip,louisana, texas. perhaps the most intertaining was the missisip show crushing buds till the morning light and saw a purple mohawk drunkpunk karokeeing and fighting with the crowd during the llc set. . , .. on the tour saw a few fights and lots of rediculous people.played ragin st pattys day bash in alexandria la. made it to texas in one piece got ripped in austin on free music industry spillover, rode the bike alot. weather was still really shitty @ that point.. met up with jsmitty. were were attacked by a very agitated spitting biscut eater in a 24 hour resturant, jsmitty basically whipped this guys ass who was agressing the dumfounded biscuit girl and we were the hereoes of the late night booze crew at the establishment.. that night while sleeping in his car someone tried to steal his bike off the rack. he woke up and the dude who was pushing another bike alongside tried to rationalize the move.. unbelieveable balls.
so after 3 or 4 days of this kind of shit. i made way for the desert.. wow..

shakey and unsure of the road ahead i forged along into the land the tumbleweed forgot.. had a little melt down but nothing a nap and a tall boy natty couldnt help.. after days i made it to massive west holy shit texas. played in a great little town near marfa. didnt see the lights but got to take a shower.
trudging onward i made it to las cruces new mexico where i played in a head shop with 3 metal bands and a cool one man band cw awyon.. totally bizarro world.. met some friends who had been to the shows in florida in their taco truck it broke down in new mexico so they reside ther now.. got way too much second hand smoke and drank some orange juice with the coyotes. mega bizarro world..
still heading west made it to tucson.. played with a couple cool bands. audradbauchara organized the show. wow.. definately woke up in a school bus in the desert. shot some bb guns drank wine and kinda was pleasently baffled hypnotized by the whole scenario... fighting hard to not to spend the next few years of my life in this place i kept moving..probabally a good idea..
so trudging thru the mtns and deserts again i found a great campground in austin for like 10$ a nite. some hippies in the desert told me bout htis place and it was true!!. i detoxed it for a bit.. but was kinda bored so gave that up after a few days & i raised hell once again riding the bike all over town, spending way too much time @ the whole foods and going to a bad ass swimming hole. aaahah. its nice to be able to swim in early april!! also got to experience chicken shit bingo.. cant really put it into words but theres some video floating around the cavebone site.. also caught up with my old pal potter. good to see him.. we crushed a few lone stars. yikes.. the overall funding was a little short so i took the resonator to the streets but didnt have much luck it was african american track and field week. saw some great style but definately didnt make any loot.. so since the chicken shit bingo, and the african american track and field convention didnt pan out i had to hustle a little harder.. i got really..X3 really lucky.. wheeew!!
by the skin of my hair i drafted behind big trucks on the interstate and somehow ran out of gas in the parking lot @ next show in monroe la. which was fucking awesome. this place rocks. saw a cool art opening and was abducted by aliens.. definately got some unfinished work to take care of in monroe.. im supposed to try the bbq.
then back to jackson, totally bizarro world place.its kinda in a time warp. i cant really describe it.. cool to see my homies there. the peoples, bailey, and the bolt.. went to a crazy late night blues club which is the modern answer for the now closed subway.. very weird, broken glass, canes, hustlers, canehustlers, mega sketchy streets bottles, dice & great fucking band..i was abducted by vampires. .yikes..
then tuscaloosa alabama.. mmm what happend there.. oh yeah i got some skull pants and partied with the billa. got to say howdy to the ashedog and marley.
then birmingham, which was and is still 2 for 2 on awesomness! woke up in a fantastic europan villa...wow. sorta.. dehydrated and toasty i stumbled upon you know it the whole foods!! the weary souls morning tonic. aahh.
shakily that morning i headed to knoxville and got to hang with the worlds greatest granpa..hit the grocery store and wathced i spy with bill cosby from the 70's. fantastic!

perhaps the craziest night in a while was the macon ga. show. holding tru to its historical reputation. definately maximized the evening.. woke up sweating in the van opened the door and there were 300 empty aluminum cans cans t-shirts and my bike. not really sure how that happend. steadily i mounted my bike to the nearest gas station for supplies which included a vitamin water. urrgh. aaah. lesson learned the hard way. just for a travelers tip: buy beer on sat if you are traveling thru south carolina and georgia on sunday and u have problems. no booze pal, no booze. also got to meet some of the allman brothers crew who were in town from the night before.

mmmmmm...o... oh yeah i completely forgot about the beach trip to charleston sc. which was super duper fun.... sand.sunburnt as shit. well shitfaced and sunburnt. first ocean swim this year!!. soccer. captn stevo, the governer, the bird & logan legal protection.. coconut drinks.. green laser lights on the beach. great cuban sandwich! drunk fat dudes with shirt off who wanted to fight me and tried to steal my glasses.. all alone in semi money saving grocery store nite light applying sunburn lotion in the at 3 am straight from the shelf whew in the isle. aaaaahaah. didnt realize there are a shit load of options for sunburn cream.. definately had a creeper cloudy day. whoa.. my skin peeled and wailed for 2 weeks.

back on the 37615 lake turf i got a great call from the mav who is nyc bound!! should be a sweet adventure. hope to see her soon in the ed sullivan theater. & dont forget your sweater its supposed to be cold in there. and perhaps in a few years if the world proves to be sweet like wine or a choose ur own adventure book with good options, i could be clad with a long beard chopping firewood, enjoying the sweet smells of a moosewood cookbook lunch and some strange 80's music waving from the house..mmmmm. & oh yeah back to this story..

i did a show in my home town filled with familar faces from the basketball courts and driveways buy where we bought a weird bag of somethings from 1993-1996. was a great collection of fucking awesome and shady but awesome characters. and perhaps the weirdest show in a while. in a bbq resturant.

the cinco de mayo bash in tennessee was one for the record books, definately jim morrisoned that one.. yikes!! great pinatas.packed house. mr luke dog saved the day with impeccable timing and passing on the last 5 shots that somehow made it to my stomach and incresingly oxygen deprived brainmass.. we got it all on film which is incredible and at times completely stupid.. the smoke machine and lazers push it way over the rim. and for the fianle the show ended when the cymbal stand fell and perfectly sliced the power cable, no shit.

we played the knoxville show that weekend with victor and got to hang for a minute with the dawn of d., and our stand up material that night was unbelieveable.. there were 6 people there and a teenage gymnastic team. their shaperons reminded them that we are examples of what happens if you dont win that match tommorow! haha. i think they had fun, we made em smile anyway. saw the sambat and uball was a fun night.
the next day i ate a bacon cheese burger with my grandmother @ a resturant i hadnt been to since like 1985. the same sweet people worked there wow.. fucking timeless and fantastic & the burger was surprisingly ok. later that day in springbrook.. i watched robert culp be delightfully drink ouzo on a crystal blue greek island with a girl he knew was good with a knife while singing and holding the apple.. perhaps like a subject from a james joyce story he went for it anyway. and yes this sounds famaliar. bill cosby saved his ass once again. mmmm. . all this while getting to eat some potato casserole and salmon cakes.

then on to friday played for 3 people again at a pizza shop. extermely mega weird.

sprinting out the door launching off that last wooden deck plank with spring into the humid grass forgeting everything in the house. heart pounding i filled a bag with a lazer light duct tape and a tall boy.. hauling as into the unknown ldog and i rolled the vw into town and do remember something about a biker bash and a hair salon, golden pants, knitting & running out of time, beach balls knocking over glasses and landing in weird asian dish replicates and playing in my underwear... a pretty fantastic marathon.. fucking hilarious.. had a great time playing with dusty rhodes on horns keys (snarky puppy), l dog on drums & el hub (man or astroman) on bass.. looks like there could be some dates in the future for the shake it like a caveman big band, these guys are fantastic.. !!!

ACROSS THE POND
so luke dog and i hauled ass to the airport. i got on a plane landed in geneva switzerland. raised hell and rocked it in a village called crissier. met some russian vampires who where very entertaining. saw the black diamond heavies rip it up, and got to have a couple beverages with honkeyfinger. who fucking rocks..
saw a guy tired of the structure fighting the police in the train station i have he real good feeling he got tazed a free coca cola an a one night free accomodation. i also drank beer with the nat on the sidewalks like a punk in geneva.

i got a bus or two and a flight to nantes france. i was pleasently surprised i was able to have a cold beverage with the campbell family in the airport @ 8am in geneva

finally met up with the ju dog @ the airport!!. whent to visit the town where his grandfater grew up, super cool. springtime!!! yes..
on the coast i saw air & hot rats (guys from supergras) might be some video @ the youtube cavebone. drank wine, ate a fantastic salad, played in rennes ate too much steak, woke up, lost my toothbrush, in a mansion put the pieces together. drove fast in small cars. played @ a street fest, and an irish bar, lots of drunk people and sweat,smoke, blood and birthdays,weird liquor, sore hands feet and legs..

wheew,ewwe. then last night came close to the raginest ive seen in a while.. i got a last minute show at a wine bar with a courtyard. wow.. within 3.1 minutes a tranquil wine courtyard turned into an ink stained, dust storm fucking insanity. lone shirts were flying girls were smashing into the drums, boobies, fire yikes... faces smashing into the cymbals most of this just during the sound check.. and thanks to the fanny we were able to catch a little of it on tape.. cavebone youtube.

ON THE HOMEFRONT
so that kinda brings us up to date with stuff.. man i forgot alot of shit. sorry if i left any great tales out. things have just been totally insane lately. it will all come back to me someday.. oh yeah i also bought an 18ft rv!!!!! it wont be on the u.s. streets till mid august. but here at the euro offices were super pumped.

were releasing a split 7' vinyl with slam duncan later in the summer.. ill have more details later on that one.. .

word on the street that the ldog smashed the makia van into 2 deer heading thru the carolina mountains. sadly the deer didnt make and neither did the van.. luckilly ldog and the electric were still able to quietly check their emails have coffee and beer with no delays the next afternoon when they woke up...

and everybody send out some good vibes to our pal ratt. hes on the road to getting everything going again..

captn steve got a passport, sweet! & the governor will be joining me and the ju in paris in a month or so!!!

&

Today I woke up surrounded by shell and driftwood mobiles and tapestrys and sounds of the sun i laid in it, looked at maps, drank beer, laughed, ate, gazed at the moon over the sea with a nostalgi only a pink walmart purchased ipod playing blossom deary or true love could provide.. lets talk sooner this time.
love
snake

WELL..TOMMORROW IS DAY ONE AGAIN

2010-01-25T00:24:00.005-05:00

NOV 23 Rennes, France

crazy foggy night at le sambre. played with the bad ass duo left lane cruiser from fort wayne indiana.. packed into a small cellar bar. the cops definately came. as we ran from a bar brawl and police i was abducted by vampires.. yikes

NOV 27 Guemene Penfao, France

perhaps the coolest show on the whole tour.. great steak. got ripped with the locals and it was kinda scary but very exciting.. i lost my glasses. the floor had so many spilled beverages your feet would not even move when u tried to walk.. this town definately rages professionally!! and all you could hear was broken glass and growling.. drank some crazy homemade apple whiskey & barely escaped teenage vampires.

NOV 28 Messac, France

ate a great baked chicken. in a bizarre rainy little village. noise complaints from neighbors who have shotguns.. made it out alive. yes

NOV 29 Lorient, France

cool bar called le gallion. black diamond heavies show. packed bar lots of st omer brews and a couple skinny gallettes. got kinda ripped and tried the jumprope trick and no one participated pretty funny, lots of weird looks.. somehow late night i was in a taxi buzzing thru the harbor heavily excited the rain had stopped.

NOV 30 Plouermel, France

li-ti sam.. definately one of my favorite spots. kick ass people good food and some yummy 1664. kinda put the breaks on a bit for this one still kinda toasted from sunday..

DEC 1 Rennes, France

jammed @ mondo bizarro with black diamond heavies. lots of sweat ringing eardrums and saw some xtra tight fittin shake it like a caveman t-shirts from the sunday show on the coast! got drunk with boogie and listened to records all night long

DEC 2 Rennes, France

couscous and sweat and ringing ears. rennes finest.

DEC 3 Rennes, France

holy shit. mob scene, like 400 people crammed into an upstairs bar. almost kicked some guy in the stomach, bouncers had to remove this dude. definately glad when this one was finished. painful.. and to top it off the guitar amp exploded. and a gigantic beer hit the merch table pretty hard..

DEC 4 Quebriac, France

played for a children's fundraiser at a local events center. ate some pizza. and after the show the place turned into a 80's disco and was raging.. completely retarted by this point i pulled a phantom dissapearance and slept in the car..

DEC 5 Dinan, France

cafe du theatre ate a kick ass beef burgonone. wow. was great.. bar was ragin.. kick ass show.. and by this point in the week i was completely damaged..somewhow escaped alive. sweat and hot chocolateeers.

DEC 6 Binic, France
the home base for a beautiful evening.. great show, great food! ludo ju pao and the whole possee

DEC 9 ST. Etienne

kick ass show great sound engineer great club owner, great baked chicken and the first snow of the tour! and some professional party animals.

DEC 10 Nice, France

really hungry i played a show with a video being projected on me for a local video art association. cool venue in an enclosed alley in a cave.. finally met rock n roll marion.

DEC 11 Nice, France

another weird cave. ate a really nice chicken and rice dish. drank some good wine and tried a new type of cheese.. lots of vampires..

DEC 12 Borgo san dalmatso, Italy

wow!!! the best show of the tour. the best food ever.. played in a packed little pub and after the show there was like a foot of snow. raged it hard into the nite time. woked up in a beautiful mtn villa and went for a walk just baffled.. you know kinda needed to puke legs sore hands shaking but totally captivated. definately drank alot of water that day.. sirio our host was fantastic!! he had a super cool dog who would bark along with the songs.. this place really fucking rages. i might move there.

DEC 13 Nice

rediculous.

DEC 16 Nice

great packed house show in a 4th floor apartment in the middle of the city.. kick ass people definately best show in nice area..

DEC 18 Toulouse, France

great town. cold as shit outside.. great stage lights and sound. bigtime scenster hipster night with good baked chicken.. mega hot dance party after the show had to dodge that one also. caught up with some homies from the summer ate some duck late night. first time back to toulouse since 2003. walked in the city froze my ass off but was happy..

DEC 19 Bordeaux, France

kinda rediculous. but got to meet the buzz and his secretary which was worth the trip. other than that not to exciting. drove all night to rennes.
big thanks to the ju who fucking rocks and drives like the wind. and to everybody who helped with the shows.

DEC 22
so for the next few days rambled the streets of rennes. ate some steaks and duck. and
ju and i drove to paris stayed in a weird little hotel.. i arrived at the airport got in the wrong line for the flight by the time i waited in the appropriate line for 1 hr saw a lady pass out while everyone just starred at her i ran over to check it out. luckilly by this time the xtra cool airline workers had picked her up. pretty bizarro since my french is really shitty i couldnt really make any sense of it all.. then i get up the counter and had my bag on the scale. was going to have to pay for 2 bags so i just crammed the fuck out of the stuff into one. by this time i smelld like shit my pants were falling off and was toasted.. the airline official ran over and said the flight is closed.. so i couldnt get on the fucking plane. i was yelling fuck you to everyone at that point. but i was diffused by the fact that there was a box just next to the baggage check unattended. there were like 10 machine gun guys. they cleared the whole side of the airport. to find it was only paintings from an old french artist with barret and all.. unbelieveable.. spent 6 hrs in the airport. flew to england. caught a double decker bus froze my ass off avoided drunk bleeding bums. and made it to a mega posh hotel provided by united. i crushed the servi bar and did some long distance phoning i guess i kinda felt entitled and a little like a pissed off teenager. i pulled it off without spending a fucking dime. froze my ass off and got to ride a double decker bus or 2. so i guess its ok.. also got to eat a steak and fly business class back home..

Dec 23 London UK, Washington D.C., Raleee, NC
i guess in the same day or thing resembling a day. crushed booze on the mini flight. with an old flight attendant who really wanted to drink on with me.. ha. but he held off. picked up my smasshed luggage saw a bluegrass band performing in the baggage claim. and i finally got to see the mav at a weird sports bar karokee night n a shopping mall. not really the perfect scenario but cest la vie. crushed toxic and crippled i guess i was glad to be back. spent the whole next day wrestling with fuckers at various banks to cash some euro.. fired up the emma van drove to the snow covered mountains had a beautiful kick ass christmas (which never happens). & its super cool for the first week back to eastern standard time because you can wake up @ like 7am auomatic.

DEC 26 Kingsport, Tennessee

a fucking mess.. like 800 people. i watched a 400 lb bouncer almost kick various friends and family ass and was totally baffled. seriously i definately wanted to transport myself to a far away place..

most of january 2010 raged, wrangled, wrestled, cooked, cried, laughed, slid, froze my ass, danced, and hit the streets of carolina tennessee and virginia. discovered groove shark and the perfect pot-roast, a renewed interest in Boone, nc. did some pushups, fianlly got a new camera!! completely destroyed a borred suit for peters wedding, tried to eat a hot dog, a re-newed interest in long neck budweiser, and warren g's regulators and rode the bike a bit.

JAN 21 Johnson city, TN

jammed with the luke dog and watched a ninja video.. kick ass night!!

JAN 22 Marshall, NC

drank 700 pbrs and had a kick ass time as always in the marshall oasis.

JAN 23 Knoxville, TN

ate a cool chicken sandwich. drank some long nex, played with drunk girls banging on the cymbals and a great trombone player.. drank some more long nex. danced to stevie wonder.

well tommorow is day one again.
renting a rehearsal space in a bank building in downtown nashville tennessee. woodshedding to return to the streets with some hits for that ass. See you then.

love snake..

cd est arrive!

2009-11-22T09:28:00.008-05:00

nov 22

not really sure what happened in the first part of november, however i do remember smoke and red lights and waking up with my ears ringing and my mouth tasting like paint. and a dried up sadness like someone put a vaccuum cleaner in my veins. so im guessing i painted alot during the day and raged it pretty hard in various tennessee carolina locations with the luke dog on drums....

Binic, France nov 22
the plane landed last monday tuesdayish, you know the whole airplane world thing youre not really anywhere anytime till you exit the building. kinda like when your in a casino. the flight was pretty shitty but i did sit next to some cool people who are in a band called rupa & the april fishes and an old proffesor of geology, so at least the company was good.
i landed toasted and with pretty much 30$ in paris. the airport is kinda fucked up and pretty spread out..with no cell phone in tow, i cashed in a couple bucks for enough euro change to make a call to the ju man my partner in crime and driver for this tour to pick me up. a few hours later... and trying not to think about the germ transfer ratios, and other weird plane delirum statistics entering the arrivals @ 6am. yes! finally. sleeping in a weird little airport hotel, thank god..
later n the time period resembeling afternoon we met up with our pals ratel and eme & caught up on adventures from the summer. that night slept in a cool house next to the vietnam resturant.

on wednesday we wandered the streets of menelimontant through dog shit, broken sidewalks and scooters and exciting foods and finally found a parking spot, whew, thanks god for GPS in paris. basically if u have a car without one your fucked. basically if u have a car in paris ur fucked. seriously.
we decided on visiting pere-lachaise which was fantastic. ratel as our guide took us to all the cool black magic dead chicken blood and places in the cemetery they dont print in the tourist guides. and yes we saw jim morrison's grave stone tucked away behind a few other im assuming historically wealthy parisians. it was, not to sound like a fucking hippie, really intense & you can feel something, it actually was kinda sad and made the hairs on my arms stand up. it had been raining a bit and of course its fall now so the leaves on the trees have turned and were surrounding some of the tombs. the sun across the hazy fall day was shining clear amongst the towers of megolomania and broken glass and old moss. ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ (inscriped by his father after his bust was stolen) reads morrison's grave, which translates to "true to his own spirit."
perhaps the most captivating site in the cemetery for me was the monument of victor noir, a journalist shot by a member of the bonapart family in 1870 in a duel.. the statue is a bronze life size tribute of his body , lying horizontal.. he has a fallen top hat and a pretty big bulge in his trousers. it is said that if a woman places a flower on the hat and kisses his face and rubs the rise in his trousers it will bring fertility or even a husband in the next year. so the otherwise totally brown oxidized statue has different coloured spot and smooth spot over his heart,and lips and his bulge in his pants is really polished!! totally crazy. the powers that be have tried over the years to put up a fence around victor but the determined parisian interests have triumphed in preventing it as a mainstay. if u look up the website for the cemetery u can take a virtual tour, however im not sure they list this information...

so later that night in the heart of menelimontant tensions were rising due to the world cup qualifier of algeria vs egypt. everytime a good play or goal was scored the bars which were packed ass to elbow would erupt in excitement. and we definatley knew algeria won the match, it was like a fucking earthquake.

back to the le feline i put on a show for some drunken rockers and very energized rowdy felines, par for the course at la feline. we licked our wounds from the few days in paris and hauled ass, dodging riot control police and speed honking cars filled with raging algerians. aah yes..please beam me to binic by the sea! we picked up another jet lagged australian performer and made it to a sweet seaside overlook by 5am.

nov 20
big stone garage beaujolais noveau bash
this is a great story!!

so back in the summer i recorded a cd in france. shortly after the recording was finished i left to seek my fortunes in the usa.... im still looking.. anyway, i performed a beaujolais nouveau party which happens on the 3rd thursday in november. it is to celebrate the harvest and the arrival of wine made from grapes of the summer. so ironically after the show in a packed garage with race cars from monaco and le mans, the cds arrived directly to the show. i almost cried. the art is fucking kick ass. so my harvest has arrived exactly in time with the grapes of summer. there is a tear of joy in my bloodshot burnt eyeball.. so the cd nouveau est arrive!!!

nov 21
les templier, yviniac la tour
after a rainy drive through the countryside, we reached the les templier, ju and i actually started loading the shit into the wrong bar. the guys from the other club came running over shouting " over here" ha.
so for the next 2 hours we dreamily ate fried camembert, roasted duck, really cool potatoes and beet salad. totally fucking great.. the show was fuelled by the duck. i ripped it up for the next couple hours and had to get ju to turn the lights on because i couldnt play anymore.. fucking really cool nite. yviniac is kick ass real people,who love rock n roll. this is not the last chapter on visits to yviniac!

Another glass of wine, sir?

2009-10-29T16:34:00.005-05:00

holy shit.. the leaves are falling once again as im lakeside here in tennessee.
looking back on how long since the last post todays story will be pretty epic.

chicago 6/5
morseland played with some contry bands, ok music nice western shirts.. we jammed together at the end and tore it up.. the guy in the audience with the backpack really didnt have a bomb and made me so happy when he took out a scrap piece of paper and scribbled "you fucking rock!!"

also sometime while in chicago i did a few songs for a kids tv show in chicago called "chic- a-go go.. we shot it @ the hyde park arts center. it aired with some really funny one man bands, u might be able to see it online, seriously funny shit.. it aired in chicago and in oakland california..

i got ripped im sure and road the trains and went to neighborhood yard sales and saw a frozen street festival did get to see kid congo which was pretty funny... chicago rules!!

tennessee 6/16-20
raged it at some fireworks parties at a sushi bar. ripped it up in knoxville with the lv wood.

charleston sc 6/16-29

tore it up in charleston which was a crazy fucked up adventure, the ace joined me and we partied really hard. i opened for tinsley ellis and tried pre-game to build a crazy sawed in half high hat.. didnt really work.. we actually on the beach saw a wedding with full band a buffet party shit load of tourists and watched lifeguards do cpr on a little boy who i dont think made it out. it was so fucking surreal. it was like the hironemous bach type painting where evey possible emotion and action was happening on folly beach that day within 100 yards of each other.. whew weird..
i saw a girl almost pull the aces clothes off and got out her check book if he would go home with her, .. when it rains.. by the last night of the show i played after the comedy night at a bar which was pretty rediculous.. did hear a great joke about a guy getting a drug test knowing he was going to fail he just put some actual weed in the urine sample pretty funny shit.. aah someitmes im an easy laugh if it envolves weed boobies beer and and or farts.

july 3
asheville opening the show for t-model ford. funny shit,, i played with his drummer a bit who was great. there is a u tube video of t dancing somewhere out there.. i ve met him like 20 times and he still never remembers me. he said " boy you see that girl over there u better put a stamp on it t models in town", and grabbed his dick, classic shit. "jack daniels time mother fuckers"

july 4th
luke dogg and i did a fireworks bash in a club in tennessee outside there was a cover band which was pretty rediculous who im sure was making 15,850 more dollars than we did

july 10
in macon georgia which fucking rocks!!! a smith and his possee always deliver. grilled some burgers and was a little dissapointed the boobie art exibhition was postponed.. rats! theres always the spring time

july 12
played a cool show with the high plane drifters from england and bohannons. cool show weird night and mega shitty bartender aka donnie powers. no people and alot of rain..urg more about this later..

july 17
played in tennesse with lv wood in my home town was a great show!! raise little home town havoc.

i think for the next few weeks i worked my ass off grtting ready for the french adventure.

july 27 paris france

holy shit landed tired as fuck from the airport to the bar, somehow rented a kick drum and played a kick ass show with the hottest rockabilly chics i have ever seen.. pretty crazy. i interviewed with a french media group and it should be online somewhere, im still looking.. its called onpen interviews

july 28-sept 1
i jumped in the car with some rockers who got me 4hrs from paris into brittany where i was playing in rennes, which is a fantastic place and holy shit there is a college there and your eyeballs with fly out of your head, and u will turkey neck and drool..holy shit..

so basically for the next month straight i rode in small cars mini busses trains slept in great places fucked up places outside on the beach u name it i slept there. did about 30 shows bars ,cafes, street markets ,mid evil castles, boats. i worked the brittany region really hard. met some seriously cool people... got to swim some and ate the best food i have ever had.. wow.. i also drank way too much."try this wine drink this its from our vineyard" whew most days by 3pm ripped.. i recorded a record on the 22 of august and still awaiting the release... its called when u smile i see your fangs! i like it alot and the legendary vampire gypsy artist Tonio did the art work and im stoked as shit.... i also discovered how much i like roasted duck!

september 09'
toured pretty hard in the south my first show back in u.s. there were 3 people @ a bar with their backs turned and had to fight to get paid.. wow.. i was fucked up for about a week after returning just getting back in the rhythym. hung a bit with the mav cooked alot and hit alabama tennessee georgia..

october thus far has been pretty cool. i discoverd my love for west virgina which is fucking awesome.. did a great show with the black diamond heavies in asheville which fucking rocked hard!! the only down side was revenge of donnie powers the shittyvibe master back at the bar, yikes probabally my last show at this joint.! once again did the charleston run again partied till 9am, but other than that was quite subdude, the weather was raining like a mother fucker. almost saw a girl fight, ate way to much bbq, urg. also made a raleigh, wilmington run. played in a bowling alley which was top weirdest nights lately. yikes. back to wrightsville beach which is fucking awesome!!

here today just getting caught up on some stuff gearing up for some halloween action. trying to find a smoke machine and lasers and get a spooky setlist together..hungover as shit whew after a night of acting like a pirate. almost got punched last night for making ryan seacrest comments to some dudes in the bar who didnt think i was funny or like my style, ha. or that their girlfriend liked our crew, woah.. i think i thought i was a comedian. my sides hurt today from laughing so hard and maybe drinking a little to much.. back to playing tonight however. hopefully will keep me out of trouble.

encased in the previous dates are crazier sub-stories and steamy details of heartbreak, passion and intoxicated adventures which if i went into it would fill many pages and maybe get me in deep shit.. i hope one day i can remember all this stuff.. until then, i just keep giving it hell the best i know how.... im actually heading back to france in a few weeks, some weird talk of getting sponsored by a division of miller beer in the works.. until nxt time. keep driving on heads up.. see you on the streets

love
snake

reluctantly hauling ass

2009-06-02T23:56:00.005-05:00

notes from a road war torn sharpied up april/may calender read as follows:

fri apr 3
modaddies asheville, rippin show packed with shine and sports coats
and rubber cushions and the l dogg bringin it home. paked show and people were getting tossed out before we even started, due to whiskey bottles falling out of coat pockets.

satt apr 4
roller derby match. asheville civic coleseum. i was the interbout act. i ran through the bleachers and had a blast on my last limb. yep weird exciting and so toast from the earlier days/weeks i think i was in bed before midnte. yes

wed apr 8
the garage winston salem. kick ass crowd and sweet folks. garage kicks ass. great spot for live tv

thursday aprl 9
greensboro, nc pld the weirdest loudest show in a while. in suburb in random white dank smellin recording studio w/ blown speakers and old pianos tight pants and lots of glasses and expensive angular haircuts. .

fri aprl 9th..

sadlacks raleigh. yes fully equipped with the dancin tony, geo,leake, maggie!, buddah ashdog, boyd, mav, mare an j smittie.. first p[atio show there in a while kick ass show. tony set the world push up record! kicked some long necks at the players retreat after show kilt some tall buoy high lifes. great nite!

thu aprl 16
and then i guess we did a knoxvile show. i seem to remember something about rubber snakes and the sambat and coors lights and jager, the cells and the bltvl hottie and about 12,000 cars.

sat april 18

kulture clash charleston sc... i waited and i waited and alot of very very shitty noise bands and 4,000 people in a massive warehouse. never plyed but got paid.. tooo wweird..

monday aprl 20

village tavern sc, surprisingly this bar has the best sound of any bar i play.. no shit.. . worked on the van in the parking lot and watched some cool ella fitzgerald videos from europe and tried sweet tea vodka, pretty good for sweet tea fans and im guessing will put the hammer down along side some bbq or grill action. work great at holiday parties.

oh yeah and upon loading my new mini couch from a thrift store im presumming i lost my wallet never to be seen again. total fucking nightmare... had to cancel dates in fla. big fat mess..

however i was able to make the whole armpit tension semi-lingual dmv laugh their ass of when i got my new liscense pic in a tie, electric bull rider shirt, side show hair and saftey glasses. upon review of the pic the increasingly hot uniformed hair band quaff female officer asked me "are you satisfyed with the proof for your pic?" without a smile i said " i think its fucking awesome" she replied without a smile or eye contact "me too." so now im the proud owner of a driver liscense that looks like the new kenny rodgers mixed with the new carrot top and roy orbison. and fyi they dont sell wallets at the dmv.

i think i painted something or sold some records to regroup some of the losses. and
picked back up. regroup time at the beach

wed apr 29
i hijacked the luke dog to run some sound @ the mill charleston. great burgers, silicone, wild dogs, adderal snorting mid life crisis new divorced sad but very alert man, noise barriers and american honey. i was so tired i think i almost fell out during the show.seriously. kicked it in second wind and partied w the big kahuna and a pirate who told me it was the first time he had actually had fun in a long time! which made the whole night worth it.. the mill rocks.
thurs apr 30

had my first ocean swim of the new year and it was so incredible!!! salty fresh and albino tan. l dog and myself had to tear ourselves away from the sands. i think i cried.

we ran reluctantly hauld ass from the beach back to the mtns just in time to run sound and work the door at a new venue. saw a bar brawl involving a hairy old man neighbor no shirt trying to kick everyones ass he was pacing the streets outside seeming subduded until the load out. as my lights from the van cross his face he was attacking this guy who was trying to be dr phil w him, not a good idea. literaly strangling him in the bushes like he was some sort of rabbit. i laid on the horn and the whole bar came out to save the day.. just epic weird shit, but too tired to even worry. saw a good band called yarn.

may 5th
with the pack A.d . back at the garage in winston salem. pack ad is a great band and i really like the garage.. rainy kinda quiet night. look out for the pack a.d.

may 9th
town pump black mt. nc
clean town pump! due to new owners.. weak show but fun night with rasberry antioxidents. and player piano wheels and 17oo bush lights. the sapp! and the speed square guys.yes
later in black mtn again
made it out to the leaf fest for sun afternoon saw the patty and nolie and wet, tired hippies, cool pedal steel gospel band. lee boys

may 16
baboon lake tn
yep we ended up playing a get out of jail party for a friend of a friend.. moose burgers on a wilderness preserve.. everybody was nice as shit. got hammered with nasa polymer scientists/ booze wolf and made good loot. thanks stu dog for hooking it up. woke up in van in a field a little shakey..

may 21
drips hickory nc

coffee shop with acoustic acts and coffee infuzed 18yr old girls, no shit like 20 of them on a new college outing , who were freaked out/agitated/steamed up . no booze. very bizarre but wholsomely interesting.. rasberry antioxidents later cool band called auld angsyne from ny and the ole one two local rockers. nice dudes with five head entertainment. will definately go back to hickory.

may 22
resturant asheville, nc

good food, very weird. extremely painful night. equipment broken, mega small crowd in a strip mall way out of town. buzzed got some sleep. however the bartemptresses and dinner bachlerotte patrons scored an A+

may 23
smoky mtn foothills, tn
woke up in a field with magic fireflys and potato samosas/ yes. saw the j wolf! and christabel and the jons and a cool beatles chambre orchestra.

may 24
johnson city, tn
lunch at el torpedo with mav. and from a rainy afternoon to one of the best parties we have ever thrown.. 7 bands alot of hot girls, no fights, margaritas, pizzas and no rain!so stoked about the halo patio premire in johnson city tn.. best day in a long timee. great shows from el hub, naked gods and matt bottcher and gary jobe. stoked! and the cops only came once!

may 26
knoxville tn
mountain roads tractors, late as shit to my live radio show in knoxville literally 5 minutes before airtime i sprinted in the studio w vans, magnum p.i. shorts and no shirt, with no time to set up the electric gear, i played acoustic with my balls flying infront of a 60 something crowd and a mega out of tune guitar and kick drum, somehow it was kinda fun. and massively rediculous.

that night a punk rock guy cancelled my show due to broken ribs in a bar brawl , no argument from me. his peace offering was a 24 oz pbr.

may 27

manhattans knoxville, great show and megas hot jump rope girls and zombie movies. yes yes
one of the best wednesdays in a long while!

may 28

the comet cincinatti

mega slow night and my car didnt explode this time.. made it to a great record shop called shake it and randomly met some kick ass friends of friends

may 29
fort wayne in

driving through fields and fields and very cool amish buggies and powerless white houses and windmills. the dead end road on 27 north really is a dead end. you can pass throught the road closed signs and run another 5 miles before you see another one. i made it althe way through last fall when the van was exploding, but this time the road really did stop.. i got out of the van walked down the mud road till i found a lone road grade worker in a gigantic machine resembling a brontasaurs. i got his attention with a few screams and jumping jacks. stoned, surprised and cool as shit he gave me directions to turn into some cornfields to connect back with another servie rd. it was great and i made it out, while listening to john cougar mellancamp, no shit.. ft wayne as cool as ever. club owner took me to henerys the best burger in a long damn time. cool show and left lane cruiser, the brass rail and hillgrass bluebilly kick ass...

also found a peter tosh record for 73 cents and had a great avacado sammie, & got a sweet david grisman grapelli live record..

may 31
made it to chicago. found the warren g straight to german may fest where within 5 minutes i witnessed a weird barfing, found a deck of cards, a wad of windblown cash, a jackdaniels reflective mirror ate a giant pretzel danced to a hurdy gurdy band and drank an extra great HB beer. all next to carnival games. yes

made it to hot dougs home of the greatest hot dog, i tried the buffalo one.

june 2

hangin in chicago, drrinkin the new old recipe for shlitz. yum.. walked a shit load today and checked out the buckminster fuller installation at the chicago museum of contemporary art. kinda inspired me to build a dome or something, but wont fit in the van.
yesterday i walked for like 15 miles just taking random trains and busses made it to the whole foods which can run a close second behind the austin tx one.
later this week im shooting tv for a kids show called chic-a go-go and will be interviewed by a puppet dog named ratso and performing at the hyde park arts center infront of a giant robot. im really stoked!!

yep. wheaew. looks like we got some euro shit on the horizion. going to northern france for a few weeks of shows. im excited like a kid on 6 dr peppers at his birthday party at pizza hut. look for some southern regional shit U.S. to pop up. just added a tinsley ellis date for a charleston run. so looks like well be terrorizing down there june 26-29 cming soon.. see you at the shows and in my dreams..

love
snake

the texadus

2009-03-31T21:40:00.004-05:00

austin tx,
fucking rocks. did a shit load of bike riding. played a great midday party with thomas function dd/mm/yy black diamond heavies and a ripping austin band called cartwright. blues legend t-model ford was perched in a lawn chair like an old cat driniking jack daniels as the hipsters were oblivous to his credentials. we got the afternoon buzzz in the texas sun. the fast folks cyclery provided the high light and high life of the whole journey. i did 1 other sorta non eventful show downtown, load in load out 3 bands no money shit heads u know the story... randomly i was able to stay in a 7th story building over looking the city, drank a shit load of free beer at weird parties for the austin chronicle, psych fest with black angels, and other magazine mixers, and yep crushed alot of lone star tall buoys. in the apartment frank goodness and i caught up on episodes of eastbound and down in between plates of beans and rice. i raised hell and ate great food for the next few days, by this point austin was shitpacked with bigtime music bullshit mixed with good shit but just too much shit. renegade d.i.y.ers like myself have to roll from this scene if they want to eat.

san marcos, tx
where the river runs warm, i did one show with some rockabillies and pbrs, pretty fun but nothing crazy.

denton, tx
a cool college town north of ft. worth/ dallas played with a great band called "or the whale" from the bay in california check em out. great people even had cool pedal steel.

monroe, la
the coda bar rocks hard. great people and owned by a dentist who is married to a dentist, they both had nice teeth. raised some hell in a castle.

jackson ms,
did a low key front room show @ martins witnessed a few drunk altercations ate some great food and chilled with the bolt. changed the oil in my van in the bolts front yard due to the fact it costs 45 fucking dollars these days to change your oil. urrgh

tuscaloosa al,
which was a complete fiasco for various reasons and very rediculous as the jager machine was on full tilt.

nashville, tn
scene fest 09. i was the opener for 5 other indie rock/scened out cool guy bands. later i found out mike mcdonald from doobie fame was in the crowd. i was tired as shit and crippled from my exodus and got the fuck out of there on the rainy tn streets. missed the white falcons this time due to no parking. thanks for the gomer and loose i cooked some late night dinner and watched dazed and confuzed. i had a great afternoon brew and taco with the vanderbilt scholars and sadly i had to leave nvl again across the plateau and one hour into the future.

asheville, nc
on thursday got anihilated and somehow forgot to eat dinner. it so bizarre playing in shit holes every night going and then going to this place. "would u like a towel, shower, chips salsa, couches, unlimited booze, j's. jesus man. everybody there was nice as shit and it makes it hard to go back to the shitty smoked out money wrangling end of the night dumps. all the guys from the ween band were nice as shit and put on a pretty rockin show.

halo jc, tn.
full band w/ sax drums bass fun as shit. rubber cushions started out the night and ripped it up. scored some new insoles for my shoes, and saw the top 3 drunkest people of the whole tour and perhaps ever. the crowd was a little rediculous, probabally top 5 shows of the caveman career, no shit had a blast playing with the full archwood crew and slam d.

wtf no idea, virginia
sat night i headed for the hills of virginia ate a fucking unbelieveable dinner with the ace drank shine and jammed some tunes. watched cow hearding and horses on a mulit kajillion acre ranch over looking the mtns, stars rocking.. yes

on the homefront
checked my long over due mail at the post office, hit some junkyards, loaded up on duct tape and posted some new videos. might even eat some dinner!!!!

see you out there soon, check dates.
snake

an ice cold lonestar please

2009-03-13T17:54:00.003-05:00

well greetings from shitty rain cold austin tx. found a weird university library to check mails ect. been cruising in the van walmart to walmart for a while now. got sick as shit last week. better now lots of vitamins. raging it for the swsx events. last few days in monroe la, which was fun as shit. and the rain clouds followed to dallas to about 10 people. tonight on the main sts of austin. finally broke down and got a fucking gps which makes life much easier!! got a call to open for gene ween next week in avl , nc.. and pumped bout some shit going down for the spring time. not sure the strategy as of yet but will probabally keep burninig it up. east coast/ north midwest. might have one more little florida run coming up i find out in a day or two. keep rockin see you out there soon.. the cooking show is still happening jsut cant do it from the roads. see you in austin. oh yeah and the photo is the beat up archwood studios possee for the closing party at the town pump black mtn,nc.. left to right
lv. woo. the dark warrior. dan-(thanks for the maalox)-electric

love
snake

WINTER IN THE REARVIEW

2009-02-16T13:41:00.013-05:00

alright gang about 30 dates, ran out of time at the library so here goes.

11/27 the halo johnson city tn
cold dreary electric post turkey madness mixd with the anti oxidents and some rythmic destruction/ majic from the dark warrior "slam d".

12/6 the rocket club asheville, nc
cold. opened the show for he one man machine and very tired scott h biram. lots of booze. and a short drive to the home base. another xtrmly weird ashevlle show.

12/26 the emerald lounge asheville, nc
cold bartender. good sound. lots of holiday action... too much holiday action. apperance by steve the ultimate warrior who gave me a hand carved head trauma blues stick, which kicks ass.also nice to see the long lost t-lova. happily met the ace for punk rock vegan time and unnessiarily/randomly toked a j on top floor of the rennisance.

12/27 the halo johnson city tn
big crowd and old faces for the lets get kinky theme show. starring matt bottcher who by the way fucking rocks (like andrew bird). we raged it with lukedawg jsmittie* and the antioxidents.

12/28-1/2 gave it hell in the mtns hit mount rodgers va. blizzard .on the coldest day known t man with the mav. partieed real hard for a few days in the j city at aces plantation who btw is raging so hard his house is going to break in half. whew. mega tired. equally poor. van troubles.. broke out the saw and chopped some pipes off the van which gave a beautiful rmble but quite toxic.

1/2 sassy annes knoxville, tn
slam d and i rocked the shit out of a basically empty bar. starved our ass off got hustled on some loot and got the fuck out.

1/3 halo johnson city tn
joined forces with the ultra talented kym from plain clothes tracy and the rubber cushions who rock.(if n avl go to their store hip rplacements on lexington ave and buy shit). . great show. also got some good recordings coming from the night. lots of shine and tatoos and jump rope.

1/4-14 not really sure. hustled painted and wrangled for some cash im sure, got dunk made some chicken tacos. tried not to freeze to death and gasta rigged my van. mmmm . mmm

1/13 knights pizza johnson city tn
who actually dosnt have pizza anymore. shoveled the van out of the driveway from the snow. white knuckled it like a mother fucker across i-26 massive snow n a wounded dodge ram van. chugging snow ice drifts behind and infront of big rigs. whewww!! definately had a cold one and a great cheesesteak and a howdy to allie upon arrival. duncan and i freaked out fake id college freshmen who looked at us like we were alien life forms. pretty weird and hilarious rockin show.

1/14 springwater nashville, tn
just n time crushed some tacos. ripped it up w craig smith and the jessie possee. met the gomer for some brews and a little ragin. great show!

1/15 the buccaneer memphis tn,
the worst show on the tour by far!!!.. 11 degreees outside. an the music officinadoes inside perhps the same temp. got lost on the way into a industrial wasteland. painful night. was livid.

1/16 308 blues indianola, ms
drove through the delta, met sme kick ass folks from electric mud band. upon arrival to this really cool house in the middle of the delta i saw a lighter explode and a girls hair catch on fire, unbelieveable it was like flames shot from her hands. i thought holy shit "the crossroads". we loaded up headed for the hometown of bb king. had a cool show. nice folks.

1/17 martins lounge, jackson, ms
great show. played with turtle researchers and a band called the gills. you will see these guys on tv in the next year, i promise. cool folks. almost had to kick a some ass on a merchandise theif. across the street stories of a guy wh barfed on the bands t shirts and cds, could be worse i guess.. unbelieveable. hammered. sweat. ears ringing.

1/18 sams lounge, jackson ms
partied with some roller girls and crazy motherfuckers, saw a guy with a gun sticking out of his pants and saw 3 girls (roller girls of course) kick one dudes ass. lots of tatoos and hi-jinx. the bar by the way is connected to a hotel with love tubs and hourly rates. and massive scary accessability to homemade drugs etc.. this show is mega sketchy but always fun. dr. peoples in the house on a few harmonica tunes.

1/22 echo lounge, meridian ms
not much going on this one started @ like 730pm, randy and his crew are awesome! hauled ass to tuscaloosa to catch the black diamond heavies show at egans. who btw smoke.

1/23 egans, tuscaloosa al
kate taylor and band were first act. her band, headed by taylor hollingsworth, had just been touring with the singer/songwriter brighteyes, late show dates etc. lightning bolts sparked from the mics as usual @ egans. i jammed with horn players from the temptions horns and was they were spectacular. ashedog and his gang rip it up. chilled it back in al bought some tires for the van, and actually a new pair of pants. one of the best shows on tour

1/24-25 nashville tn
partied with the gomer. hard. too hard. way too hard. like the summer when you are 15yrs old. lets just say my next day involved a trip to the car wash for the car in which i was a passenger. hands frozen organs rivited.

1/26 springwater nashville, tn
kick ass show. got to hang and crush some enjoyable brews with the nashville stringers. sadly no encounters with the white falcons on this run..who btw can be see on tuesdays at roberts downtown in the big ole nvl.

1/27-28 knoxville tn
detoxed. watched A-team and night rider with my mega bad ass grandfather on the 28th. on the 27 i think i had the most boring birthday of my life. ice storms and hurting internal organs. white knuckle driving in icestorms again across thecumberland plateau.

1/29 halo johnson city tn
little set with slam d . at the halo beer night. packed house!

1/30 greenville, sc
stopped by the crazy 103.3 anitra rock goddess studio did live radio from 6-8 blew our own eardrums out. supposedly got great recording still waiting. hauled it over to the bohemian cafe rocked it the fuckout. the premier of my new sleeveless electric cougar shirt. bad ass show perhaps the best of the past few tours. partied allnight with some art students. saw the police. weird art projects and drank alot of shine and smoked j's like 19 yr old art student. woke up on a baroque type couch with people asking "who is that old guy on our couch" ha. glad to see i have matured alot since my freshman yr in college.

1/31
tin roof charleston, sc
kick ass place. justice . sleevie wonder and te rest of the tin roof rules! good show and met some old homies i used to work at the zoo with. shot alot of pool during the first act. ate a great burger and a cold brew at one of my favorite spots the surfbar in folly beach.. go there. kick ass people and great food.

2/1
village tavern. mt pleasant sc
great sound and very weird superbowl night. everyone in the bar was completely extirpted. greatfun! as i was leaving i saw these guys pulling extension cords from the bar the parking lot in amazement. fog abundant.

2/2 tin roof charleston sc
back to the tin roof with mother/father a good record band with backing from the kings of leon folks. not the only connection to leon. the keys player from the band dates leon russell's daughter and lives in their house. pretty interesting turns out leon is a massive cracker barrell fanatic. th kid was playing his keyboards. ha. nice dudes crammmed i a rental van with a lot of equipment. i finally got my vn fixed!!! shit yeah.

2/3-5 charleston beach time
cold as shit in charleston. randomly got thrown in the back of a cop car in 530pm rush hour traffic. with no reason for the pullover. car got searched and i was the long hair in a van getting jesus searched during rush hour. the only words i said to these motherfuckers was "this is humiliating". after 20 minutes of interrogation i was released with no appology and a form with checkable violations. one box included "contact only" this is the one i got. baffled and shaking and very pissed i got the fuck out of town, prhaps their whole deviant pont to the vometous shakedown. i almost spray stenciled the letters for mt. emma free will holliness church- emma, nc.. that was untl i got the offer from a vodka distiller in florida to advertise for them.. still waitng.. ill keep you posted.

2/6 passtimes pub sarsota fl.
with friendly irish punk rockers cutthroat shamrock. weird night.

2/7 the garage st pete fl.
mega weird night. great soundstage. opened for the worst cover band i have ever seen in my life,ill leave the name out for legal purposes. i literlly saw people in the crowd spitting (with displeasure) @ them. went next door to see local act with close to a 15 piece. horns shitload of drums. extrmely chaotic but kind fun. met some cool kids with a frito lay truck. they say they never get pulled. also another option for van label.

2/8 paddy wagon sarasota fl
one of the best shows of the tour. great hospitality. did a happy hour acoustic gig which is a rarity these days. ucan see the video on shake it like a caveman myspace page comments. thanks meat. night show kicked ass. found out about this band called pelander z may want to chck them out, very interesting.

2/9 siesta key, fl
beach time detox party. siesta key is beautiful! i was the only person there under 80.

2/10 robbie oconnells dayton beach fl.
met up w/ melquist who s touring wit nascar. we ripped it up at the beach and then w/ rev dead eye one man band downtown daytona. fog abundant

2/11 the pourhouse charleston, sc
great last minute show opening for a good blues band called shane pruitt band. i got to play with their keyboarder who was steve miller band original and i think humble pie also. he kicked ass and this was by far one of the hottest shows on the tour. great people! brooks the sound guy makes the room hot as hell! and the live video feeds are fun cause you can talk shit to homies on the internets.

2/12 tin roof charleston, sc
with the rev dead eye. ghosttown. however good quesadilla

2/13 the hummingbird mcon, ga
alas the grand finale. kick ass packed house. bucket of old mill. and yes shake it like a caveman will be featured in southern living magazine this spring under macon music.seriously. detils tba

reflections:
the past winter days i have learned to believe in the chaos factor applying to my dodge ram van. and to keep your mouth shut and try to be as docile as possible when being complety fragmented and destoyed in the scarecrow/jesus pose by police in rush hour traffic for no reason whatsoever. if you look sketchy ride clean! eat avacodos, bannannas, sweet potatos, work some water in from time to time, and shitty vodka can be filtered in a brita to reach the top dog sandards, i have yet to try this, not much of a vodka drinker but i am charmed by this fact which may provide some fun to the reader.

prospects:
feb 23-26 will be recording at the reluctant sherpa headqtrs. pumping out some material for the sxsw texas run. compiling recordings and working on the next episode of blake bakes. asheville, nc

adios for now
safe travels, endurance, happiness and precison in your endeavours.
love
snake

white line fever

2008-11-26T03:01:00.006-05:00

holy shit. well lets just start with the chinese acrobats which were fucking unbelieveable.. we woke 10 am on a monday with 300 2nd graders to see the shang ri la acrobats climb to their potential death spin plates ride bikes balance our nerves smash themselves into jars . fucking awesome..

10/10 9 pm
did gig at the madison co. arts council show up way too early just to kill time crushed alot of brew and ate good pizza. played with cordero and el hub allstars. showed some butt crack i think there is footage. great window theatrical drama. marshall rocks!

10/10 12pm second gig of the night at the halo bar jc tn. crushed it like you would not believe. high on the hog for a week or so.

10/18
grey eagle asheville. fun night got hammered and had a good crowd on hand as the uber cool avillians got a free show.. sported my snoop dog sweat pants for the first time. they looked great with my bull rider shirt and solar shields!

11/08 patrick sullivans knoxville
historic brothel w/ yummy heinekens.

11/22 fuck yeah rager at modaddys drank alot of moonshine and kilt it. lots of debauchery passed out buddies smashing into the bar. great tacos! no signs of redman method man.. although cher and greg allmans offspring was there for the festivities. no arrests, whewww..

holy shit i got a job to run to orlando fla via murrells inlet and drop off some electronics. stayed at some mega posh resorts and just returning today to cold ass shit weather. scored some great new af-1s they are so fucked up i cant even look at them, just wait. very bizarre

holy shit saw,filmed, and interviewed the black diamond heavies for my new cooking show upcoming c-20 aville. they rocked the tar out of this joint in greenville, sc. hottest band ive seen in a while! google BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES

been freezing balls lately,waking up with frozen glasses of water next to my head, perfecting the chicken taco and cabbage rolls and trying to drink higher quality booze. thanks to our old pal slamma and our own curiosity the shine is kicking our ass, but as the night falls we step back into the ring with a blinded black eye from the previous nights epic battle/adventure. thanks goodness they are fruit flavored as we are getting lots of vitamin c and antioxidants.
great stuff happening for dec. and first of the year let you know more as it unfolds.. this plus a shit load of other weird stuff at 3:15 am after about 1300 miles...yeehaw. turkey rager thursday i cancelled all am plans for friday just in case. bring your turkey saturated bellies, and your resparked rebelliousness after you spend a little too much awkward time with your relatives. rock n roll will make you feel better

keep warm sip it dont chug. check for the sly dial.

see yall soon o & o
love snake

boobies and swashbuckling

2008-10-08T16:15:00.003-05:00

welp i guess we last left off with fire juggling, boobies and swashbuckling in the carolina mtns.. which brings us to now rain in the homeland, crosseyed from looking at the really fast lines on the computer which only show up when you film them... oh another note on the bellydancing festival damn good to crush some long over due cold brews with the hot rod!

sept 25 johnson citie tn

bareley made it across the mtn due to the recent gas situation. the old cruiser made it just in tyme to crush some rice and avocado and a couple froths with the ace. on to the hoot which welcomed me with the usual barfed up jagerbomb sticky floor smell.. for some reason i still really like this place.. came out with the shades and rocked it the fuck out. made no money well maybe like 20$.. ha rained a bit i think i was famished and hit the kroger parking lot got some yogurt and a something else weird im sure..

sept 26 knoxville, tn

rolled in to the dirty city just in time to eat a bad ass burger at sassy annes again kick ass people good night and lots of steps and stained glass. after loading out there i hauled ass to across town to the brewery where i played a late night set. up the steps again. hassled by a crack head in the parking lot. avoiding contact with him and the high gravity beers i stumbled through a tiresome set with the worley who im assuming didnt lay off the high gravity beers.. interesting show.. the aforemention crack head later in the evening pulled a gun on the manager of the bar. cops cuffed him and pulled his ass out of there quick.. the music never stopped. ha
tired and over it all i returned to collect the late night cash at sassy annes where everyone was completely shit faced and a hot girl with a rebel flag shirt was trying to fight everyone between the smoke and half empty gin and reluctant settlers of bar tabs. thanks god got out of there made it to the w-marts on the outskirts of town made a sandwich of sorts from random burrito shells and canned soup..

woke up the next morning to find that all the summers shake it like a cavemanning had taken a toll on my front left tire which was going to explode at any minute. definately couldnt make it to nashville on it.. so i scrapped up all the smokey change i could get and hit the tn back roads where i was sure to find a tire barn or daves tire world or freds treads.. well shit yeah i found one. got some used goodyears and talked shit with some cool ex alcoholics who were excited about my rock n roll lifestyle and really sparkly shoes. yep made it out back on the road to nashville.

sept 27 nashville tn
met some homies for a great dinner crushed a few cold brews. made it to the springwater just in time.... packed house.. fuck yeahs. my man craig smith mcd the show and the scissormen opened.. got hammered on about 34 high lifes and 420's smoke filled every surface possible, a 10 foot tall metal head did a great job on the sound as the red sparkles adorned the stage. i broke every string on my guitar, no shit and sweated my balls off and had a kick ass night. nashville always treats me well and this time no different. as i was loading out almost saw a gutter punk bicycle gang kick some ass. partyed with some vanderbilt proffesoras listened to some leadbelly vinyl and after day 3 didnt have to count any sheep. nashville.. encroachment, shitty pop country or not will in my journals still go down as kick ass. i missed the white doves and roberts western world but theres always next time.

sept 27-oct 3 or so
kicked it back to knoxville, sadly but finally sold the old caveman cruiser for two hundred bucks in the mall parking lot. caught a ride with the old guy who bought it. got back into the shuttle and made the way back to the mtn.

oct 3 clemson, sc
had a great well paid university of clemson public radio gig. which was very interesting. alcohol free event so of course i poured booze into a quickie mart cup and left out all the fuck yous and shit yeahs. i did pretty good till the last song or so. the show was on a cool stage infront of these waterfalls, kids playing all around them on their scooters.. finished the gig, definately freaked some people out and crushed beers, and pissed behind cars in the parking lot with the other folks who where rebels.

also in the news
i avoided any fighting as i spent almost all of my new found cash at the atat office. last time i was there i was so pissed i launched a phone book off the balcony of the store and thought i might be banned forever.. luckilly there was a hot girl who was kinda helpful which help sedate any rage i was feeling but seriously what the fuck with the cell phone stuff. yes i will pay you a shit load of money so i can burn my ears off. aaah fuck it. .... so this weekend back to the johnson city hills and kicking it at the lake with the ace raging it at the halo bar. opening a show at the madison co. arts council with cordero and el hub.

halla
love snake

i live in my van. ac by nature

2008-09-24T13:44:00.004-05:00

new material welp been a while and and here goes

aug 22 10 pm ASHEVILLE NC ORANGE PEEL
pulled into sunny asheville tired drunk hungover from somwehere. up the back steps between the swarming yellow jackets who like myself like the sweetness of broken beer bottles. into a bit of a cluster fuck. i had to almost fight with a fake chamber orchestera open mic act for the the performance slot.. thanks god i didnt have to go on first... everybody was nice drank some brews nothing really crazy.
l dog got some good film check it on the myspace. o h yeah i lost www.shakeitlikeacaveman.com i have no money,. ha so this is my web page.

aug 23 8pm BOHEMIAN CAFE greenville sc
always a little early for this show to enjoy the yum yum yuppies and posh food at the bohemian.
hot a shit outside. great show post party with folks.. saw a jonny cash tribute. where the mgmt dropped a stink bomb to get everyone out,, no shit.. crusing in a convertible sweating cool air on my fro. house party with yeungling kegerator. got blind fell of a porch saw the sun and early morning dog walkers almost broke my thumb, woke up. wheeeew. no yengling for a while...

aug 24 - 27
laid low. pbr. bike riding. burritos.
aug 28 Asheville nc
road around drank some coldies for mcconeyhay bday. i didnt know people still love whippits like they used to. they do. got ripped at this brewery and the bday boy lost his shoes. mingled with hopefully not washed up rockers and the blazing sun and scarred arms and green grass frisbees and the immunity of the beer buzz. capped off the evening with go cart track whippit stops.. holy shit.. and the mercury illager.

aug 27 johnson city tn
jammed a raging set with slam duncan.. short unbelieveable set. metallica cut off tshirt. my hands/heart hurt like shit. woke up ears blistered. close contest the blister on my finger. 5 am return to aville, in the makia groove cruiser.

sept. somthing 1/2 bucks pizza johnson city tn

thanks god for the kindenss of the jc crew made enough to hit the street of the atl. damn good cheese steak!

sept 3 ATL Star BAR
cmon guys lets get the line up worked out.. i opened for a guy with a noise machine who screamed the whole time.. and the scenesters rolled in i got sick at my stomach and matching wranglers. sleepy from the free keystone (urgh) went out to the van and slept until time to get paid. the bouncer door guy who looks like cptn. lou albano pounded on the van and woke me and gave me my loot.. this guy is my favorite, and makes me smile.. sleepily i collected my merchandice through the coolness which still reamined. crashed out in the parking lot.. next time through atl i will play for the biker bash across the street. or something

sept 4 Macon ga
a day early. went swimming at lake tokesobee.waves weird sand and mansions across the distance.. felt good as shit.. back into town bar hopped it a bit. somehow during the evening i got a job the next day as a caterer for a bbq company.. whoa.. 7am. cant feel my arms and almost pukeing driving a catering van to a job site of new school construction, with 400 workers. had to wear a hard hat glasses. unbelieveable.. basically this was a puff promo for the city and school board. the news cameras were there, flustered make-uped interviewers late, tried to engage tired, strong tattoed, hungry construction workers, ha. i landed the job as guy to set up the microphones. so im in all the pics and news clips.. i made sure to leave my hard hat and classes on long after it was ok to remove just for the rediculousness of it all.
napped in the afternoon and woke up sweating tired as shit i made it to the club in time for sound check. busted out some t-shirts. fucking unbelievable show!!! packed house!! whoo.. when i was loading out i saw the opening act almost get mugged the agressor was chased down and perhaps got the shit kicked out of him.. fuck yeah macon ga! best show of the tour, maybe ever!

sept 5
savannah ga the jinx
hot tired hungover.. made it to the jinx no parking. kick ass club, kinda slow, lots of tatoos, scary stories of violence in the city got the fuck out of there. slept in a hampton inn parking lot on 17 north to charleston.

sept 6 charleston the tin roof.

nice sand sun and finally the sea. cool crowd for a sunday. good tacos next door.

sept 7 charleston the mill
the usual good food and nice folks and a plethera of booze.. i was joined on stage by a reandom really wasted kid who was blowing the wrong key harmonica in my ear. i didnt give a shit i liked their enthusiasm.

not sure what i did for the next days to come just hit some thrift stores, saw culture reggae, camel promotion night, met some a kick ass artist named ben timpson( goodnight35.com) days passed and slept at the beach and skinned up after dark and hit the park showers.el bano in the neighboring hotel. just when i though i had hit van life paradise.. 4 am BOOM BOOM BOOM! "this is the police open up." i no shirt long hair sunbaked and thanks god not hammered, no shoes, flashlights in my eyes text book scene from an episode of cops "pheonix" and a motherfucker making me leave the island.. thank god for the 24hr harris teeter and the nice folks who work there...

up the coast to raleigh world to chill and gather my thought for a few days, i turned back to the roads of charelston via myrtle beach. ha

monday sept 15th charleston
Holy shit the party dream.. sweat pbr, golden capes, duck tape, camera flashes,sparkling shoes, news paper scene beat reporters. and a girl who gave me a hand made amulet with jesus drinking a pbr. yes this is/ was the shit. the beer buzz, and ass shaking overcomes the tiredness. rock on party dream!

i made my way up the coast to stay with my pirate friends in sneeds ferry.. landed a job repainting a crack house renovation, fully equipped with cans in the window seals punctured and scarred from the flames.. 5 yr old dog shit and all things of unpleasentry. i did my time made it out a live.. chilled out on the water ate some great grilled chicken tacos! fuck yeah!

sept 18th raleigh nc sparkon
the awaited closer for the tour, a big fat flop... no crowd whatsoever. urg painful.
urgh...

sep 20 black mtn nc
holy shiot got a job in a kitchen for a bellydancing firejuggling festival. extremely weird and just was shaking my head with a shitty little grin the whole time, laughin to myself. what is happening?

i guess that gets us pretty much up to date for now. im sure there were other highs and lows but my time is the public library is running thin for now.. thanks to everyone who hooked it on this run. im taking a time out for consturction of a studio in the mtns of the carolina hills. " A-wood studios" fuck yeah.. also working on shit with local tv station. no gas. riding bike. knoxville.nashville this week.

i love you
snake

the breakdown

2008-08-27T11:20:00.002-05:00

heres the makia groove peter irish breakdown.. hope u enjoy

holy shit this was rediculous a.k.a. waterpumpalooza

2008-08-19T12:25:00.002-05:00

welp. im back in our nations capitol. van/wounded tired but not finished
heres the rundown of the adventures from black mtn nc to saugatuck michigan...

monday july 28 10:00 pm
the town pump black mtn nc.. home of pbr and a really cool goat head and a faded george washington pic. we tried really hard to film this on as it was the last night with peter irish/makia groove. we cranked the dust off the smashed light rig and niccotined cancered out stapled dollar bills with sharpie love stories to no avail. cool show & good times for a monday.. had to avoid some coked out fans but nothing to crazy. of course it rained alot.

tue july 29 6:30am
painted the kitchen of a local resturant.. holy shit this was rediculous..

july 30 all day
and for the next few days i pawned. pimped. clawed. recycled and scrambled for some loot to make it to the midwest.. choosing to keep my pride and character/freedom from the jailhouse in tack i didnt deliver any packages or become a "garden boy" for any wealthy cougars in biltmore forest.mmmmm. lately, i have been fucking around with electronics/speakers etc so i repaired an old mic and got a few bucks out of it, and yes on the way to pawn my tire almost blew out.. weirdly enough a blind guy with one arm plugged the tire witch gave me comfort.. i told him i was going to chicago on the weekend and he laughed sorta hysterically, freaked me out beyond all belief i halled ass basically dodging bullets.. crushed some coronas and made my way to tn to hang with the ace..

the pawn
oh yeah our local pawn shop is a skinny beard serious dude behing all music purchaces and we always have the same conversations. i walk in and he vaguely recognizes me and i fire back at him its almost like an old west gunfight. so then i give him fake confidence that the piece of shit im trying to sell him is the best ever. so he takes the item inspects. looks on the computer and always says without lookin you in the eye "sooo how much do you want to get out of thisssss?" and by this point you have to really talk shit. so then the inspection time. and this time i was really hoping he couldnt tell i had just ripped the mic apart and made shitty connections.the mic worked beautifully. like the sound of angels covering my ass for the 1millionth time i cashed out, basically speed walked. running after i hit the parking lot. wheww..whiping sweat from my brow..

friday aug 1 cincinatti oh
crazy drive through the kentucky mtns. visit to berea ky. hit some goodwills and this is when i first noticed the intense howling coming from my van.. oh shit... i stopped in kroger got all the ingredients for avacodo cheese sandwich and definately felt like my space ship landed bizarro world where everyone is affected by coal dust and too many nitrates in the hot dogs.. but it is a beautiful area.. i made it to cinci a few hours early and luckilly found a guitar shop. the howling got even worse. holy shit by the time i got back on the freeway rubber is flying up on the dash and my serpantine belts were being devoured.. i was surrounded by mack trucks and ice deliverys at 65mph when the billy cobham solo under my hood was nearing it peak.. at this point i was decifering the mini printout of mapquest directions and took my exit fumbling straight for the ghetto.. i made it about 2 more miles and thanks jesus i made it to the front door of the venue... wheeeu.. a little freaked out and a little in the ghetto this is when it all started.... got a few pointers and some help from a really nice guy who was curator at cinci art museum.. basically had to quit freaking out because it was 5pm on friday. i drank a few beers ate a quesedilla and convinced myself all is good.. the show was really small but kick ass people got drunk and slept in the van. the highlight of the eve was a great art exhibit in the venue next door called skateable or non skateable. one side of the small ass gallery was packed with scenesters in 80s neon short pants and 3d style glasses crowded around colorful large paintings / seperating the gallery was a make shift chain-link fence encasing sweaty pbred up stoned skaters crashing and launching and dodging on pieces of art turned into skateable ramps.. it was an exciting schoolyard vibe sweaty mess. good shit!

aug 2nd cinci-fort wayne, in.
woke up, too early.. nervous.. rolling the van down a hill to a garage. which dindt open for another hour so i crashed in the van woke in an hr or so and talked to a seasoned car dr. with sweet mustache.. he informed me it could cost a shit load of money, and weirdly enough the car didnt make any noises. he said "yep cant get em to perform when you want em too," and laughed cunningly. he said boy "my advice is dont go over 50 and stop every 30 40 miles." this sounded much better than spending 400 dollars which i only had 138 of....so basically, i spent the backwood cornfield afternoon being passed by horse and buggy amish people. no shit. pretty hilarious heres is the caveman cruiser blasting ac/dc going about 20, didnt get any looks that day...i napped periodically when i felt the van was getting ready to explode. this went on for about 5hrs. thanks jesus i made it to the club. ate burger and crushed a couple cold froths and was temporarilly relieved.. by this point i had figured the problem to be a tensioner for the serpantine belt was bad. so i got a ll the parts via bike and was set to fix it all the next am.... meanwhile.. i had a kick ass show that the hillgrass bluebilly folks put on with a packed house and great people! got hammered slept in the van and woke to start the van surgery. after 5hrs of labor in the advance auto i had finally succeded.. or i thought.. i made it 1 block and the belt exploded.. fuuuucck! after painful investigation we me and (big tony) figured it was the water pump.. shhhhit.. so i managed to get the van back to the club. where then i also decided to change the shit myself. oh god.. by that night i had my van in 1,000 pieces in critical condition in the parking lot. multiple trips to the auto store with the bike and bungeed down parts behind the seat and finally around luckily, i had a power outlet next to the pkng lot and bought a light so i could do more damage after dark but it was enough for that day. bout midnight big tony rolled through the lot on a repo mission for the garage he works for he said " i see your going for it, stick it out youll get it." perfect timing for tony and perfect words for my ears.. not so lucky the owners of the cars he had on his wrecker..

all day monday.. a rainstorm, with a cloud of death like iv never seen before i was almost running for the puritan hills to go live with the amish repenting all the way but i held out and made it through,..tatatadaaah!!! and finally about 8pm fucking touch down i had finally and skeptically repaird the beast and hopefully didnt kill any neighborhood animals due to the fluid loss in the lot... shit.. friends in chicago had been waiting on me for a few days, but couldnt make it monday eve.. i got hammered and blinded to celebrate the tentative victory over the machine.got a little sleep!!! whew holy shit

aug 5 chicago
finaly and still a little shakey and battled oild scarred i made it to chicago.. my friends there were pumped and so was i..... we grilled out, drank goose islands laughed and played guitar hero on the bigscreen until i was crosseyed. funny shit..
i basically had to be pressure washed to remove all the oil to beable to go in the house..

aug 6 11:00pm chicago
got a gig at a bar called the horseshoe. cool place country motif while all the workers were from albania great juxtapositon.. kickass night ended up drinking martinis made by a medicine alchaemist woman gypsy witch , she really knows martinis.. if your there in chicago its called something like the blue stem .. very bizarre. you will get hammerd and leave with no money.. promise. but you will have a good story.

aug 7th 1pm chicago
rode the bike across town to the cubs game at wrigley field.. shit yeah! watched through a hole in the fence and rode down to the lake, at 5pm on thursday afternoon borderline suicide mission on the bike, lots of busses, exhaust, excited clocked out workers on patios metamorphing into 2 beer buzz heroes. kids playing drums on buckets, drunk cubs. vizual paradise......... chicago is a great place!!

aug 8th 10pm

kicked it across town with the stevens fam to morseland. kick ass show kick ass night all around.. drank some german brews at a bizarre beer garten..mmmm.. one of the best nights of the year for the caveman show!!!

aug 9th 11am

brunched it out with friends from california laughed and reconnected with last eves fun, went to a cool top floor house party and ended the night with a great taco from kick ass taqueria where the owner flies out once a month to get ingeredients.

aug 10th 8pm
alittle shakey to saugatuk michigan it was a rich tourist lake side town where i could already feel the cool of the autumn comng in.. good show, good venue and the best burger on the tour.. crushed pbrs and slept barside.....

aug 11 12noon
so this is were the chaos starts barely enough cash to get to tn. and figured the routing to take me to indianapolis.louiville.nashville. my phone had just cashed out which complicated everything 10 fold.. i crashed out in louiville somewhere walmartland. not before having the van stripped down by shit head motherfucker rookie cops outside indianapolis who said my windows in the back cannot be blacked the fuck out. sweet roadside lights flashing like the ones in all our nightmares.. be careful driving in indiana!!!

aug 12 10am somewhere ky.
woke up in walmartville ky in serch of atat so i could get my beg and plea on the phone connection.. luckilly i was hooked up. made it to nashville on fumes... and by 5pm i was playing frisbee golf with some old homies from knoxville, tn.. weird yin yang day. ended with a sigh of relief..

aug 13 11am
by this point i had maybe 4 dollars in change, so i got a bannana some water and had some remaining pbrs from the chicago adventure. by 2pm i was on a speed boat on piercy priest lake listning to biggie smalls and launching off the back of a boat.. holy shit... another kick ass yin yang day... ended up with grande dos equis and a carne asada!!!

aug 14th 11pm nashville

the foo bar east nashville... suicide girls lots of tequila highball shots and im not really sure what the set list was for the evening.. oh shit.good thing i can sitdown and do this shit... wnded up walleyed eating quesadillas back at the tin roof, by the way which has great salsa!

aug 15 knoxville/boone lake tn.
shit yeah woke with enough in my pocket to make it through to asheville nc!!!
visited my grandfateher who makes me laugh my ass off especially when stories of his buddies girlfriends come up.. he is 90...shit yeah..
i almost cry when i start up my old truck which is the old madmax cruiser which is now lonely in his garage.
... on to east tn to where my brother is a sushi chef we hung out talked shit solved each others problems till the sun came up, ran through a corn field made a fire and got blinded as they do in tennessee...

aug 16th boone lake tn
went to a totaly insane wedding where all the brides maidens and bride resembled amy winehouse variations... putting out thier cigarettes as they walked into the church.. the cermony was about 5 minutes total when the two were married there was a huge yahooooo!!! . everyone meandered out to the parking lot to drink cans of beer and smoke one.. it was fucking great!!! then to the after party in the upstairs of a resturant.. of course everyone b lined it for the smoking balcony.. great view of jc mtns. blue ridge. got blinded with old friends, talked with some new ones and witness the greatest groom dance of all time.. holy shit. shirt comes off fucking awesome, pins bride up on pillar,,, redfaced underneath the shouts and intellient lighting. got to get my camera fixed!!!... and even weirder the dj was my middle school art teacher...
aug 17 boone lake tn
by the way boone lake can be like a vortex.. i love it there so much.. (2004 i lived in my brothers back yard for 3 months in a tent. we refer to this as the lost wknd) that would be another story all together... we took the boat out got blind listen to some great jams got newcastles and icecream at a marina, and by 8pm was drinking white lightning and by 9pm asleep...wheeewww.
aug 18 the dirt 5pm nc
holy shit i passed through aville collected the money i had made from the kitchen painting job weeks earlier.. very weird scene a supermodel "assistant" opened the door and i had to remind the guy what work i had done.. but 10-4 touchdown got the loot. hauled ass to the dirt met the mav & got drunk at the federal... whew

if you made it through this novel i hope your eyes are not crossed or you have a headace..

big thanks on this run to wild b. the ace. chuck b. meg & stevens family. once again gomer!!! big tony & all the folks who helped me in fortwayne. the guy who bought all the tequila at the foo bar in nshville (i felt like shit on friday) the lady at the at&t somewhereland ky.. the albanians. fleek & hillgrass bluebilly guys.. the comet nice quesadilla maker and barteners. the car dr. with the weird moustache. . left lane cruiser... the mythical martini lady/snake charmer. ground support phone team and if you bought a cd/ hot undies or tshirt on this run you rock!!!!
love to see some pics... email to blakeburris@hotmail.com

*****also due to the extreme situation which is now hurting the vans health and perhaps mine i have cancelled the montreal upstate ny run for september.. if you know of any one who will post support for this type of touring tell em about shake it like a caveman.. love yall. see u in asheville nc orange peel aug 22. maybe a sneaky show between here and there

snake

shitfaced tired poor one man band

2008-07-28T11:44:00.003-05:00

this review starts in the ole home base

johnson city tn 11:00pm.
fully equipped with high speed trains, and suprisingly for a thursday was packed to capacity. plain clothes tracy opened the show. the cops came, as it was an outside show, busted out the decible meter and told me to turn down. they were actually laughing their ass off i a shitfaced, tired very poor one man band was like a boozed infuzed sweat ball, and their presence was a bit of a laugh for me as well..
thanks to the kevlar family for the hospitality.

on to asheville, nc (too cool for time)
to where i was eating a taco and reading the local art paper and yes, i got a giant picture and a pretty rediculous article and almost choked on my steak taco in delight at the obsurdity.. i played a show that night for an asheville scenster crowd, armed heavily with obscure indi rock t shirts and inpenetratable im oorignally from charlotte/raleigh but ive been to brooklyn once beams. yes, i gave it my all and rocked the shit out of their faces and families. no response except for one drunk girl and a few of my party animal buddies.. & like usual in asheville scene fest the money situation was total bullshit. later in the night almost got ejected due to shaking up beer and spraying it into the air at high speeds..

to saturday night 10:30 pm
asheville, nc pretty much blurry in a unbelieveable structure. steamy encounter in the alley. other than the thing in the alley basically a trainwreck night . somehow i did not barf or throw all of my ductaped equipment into the street in disgust. urrg glad this one is over.

i think for the next few days just chilled went to some great waterfalls cooked steaks on the fire, and shittly enough had to paint a deck to round up a little extra cash..

by friday i was back in knoxville, tn.11:30 pm
home of sassy annes.. great food. and the people who work there are awesome... not a big fan of the night however. we will leave it at that.. oh yeah did get to go to toddys backdoor tavern and hung out in the horseshoe pit. if ure ever in kville and dine on the swine go there and make sure to hit the hot dog buffet.

saturday nite nashville 12:30 am
played a party at bettys grill home of 3,000 cats.. this show was fucking awesome!!! only one bar brawl the seemingly sweet bartender chased a guy out with a baseball bat. shared the bill with the altered statesmen, who also fucking rock and craig smith fucking rocks!!.. the gig was originally scheduled at springwater but was moved due to a hank williams jr video shoot. ha.

monday marshall nc, 1pm
headed out to hot springs nc. where the "lets stop in for a cold one," turned into a terrential down pour both literally and figuratively....8hrs later. saw great spooky haunted bed and breakfast, and covered bridges, weird frogs everywhere. sweet spot filled with river rats and party animals like my ole pal hanlin, who i hope didnt get up shit creek for bringing booze infused childhood friends to the posh bed and breakfast where his girlfriend works. very bizarre, rainsoaked, surreal explosive evening.

wheeew!
then on tue last week 11:00 am
woke up just in time to jump into the makia groove cruiser heading for charleston, sc. i was taging along to video document the tour. shakily we got all our last minute provisions,bannanna, and cheese and emergency tall buoy. also along for the tour was 5 time world juggling champ peter irish (google him!) we were just getting settled in and boom the transmission and the radiator blew. we spent 8 hours in woodruff south carolina. ate a pretty good taco. and failed to make it to the beach and had to cancel the show. we bribed the tow driver to pile all 5 sweaty freaks into his truck and attach a uhal trailer, he drove us all back to asheville listening to classic rock and hoping our driver wasnt going to pass out., what a weird day. we actually have it on film, look for it soon!

wed morganton, nc. 8:00 pm.
pretty bizarre, peter got his head slammed into the wall by the drunkest redneck in the whole planet. and other than the drunkest shitbag in the earth this place loved the makia and peter show

friday marshall, nc 7:00 pm
fundraiser for new arts venue in marshall main street.. played in an old church under jesus in stained glass.. awesome night.. played tunes and ate some knishes. and hung out at peter toshes long lost look alike and saw the biggest computer monitor know to man. definately could have had a youtube pissin match showdown for a while. ha.... woke up in a house!! holy shit a hidden little hilltop oasis, i actually thought i was in switzerland or something. much needed.. thanks to the el hub family for all the hospitality.

sat/sun 3:00 pm
asheville nc, played the street for bellechere, in which asheville becomes alot like dollywood. pretty awful. i worked my ass off on the streets and managed to hustle a litte, my hand are sore today....

gearing up for this next week of action in the midwest lake region. whew.
enjoy

tonight at the town pump!!

love
snake

casual coldies

2008-07-10T01:29:00.003-05:00

welp as the last post was gingerly reviewed i did barely make it out of raleigh nc, in on piece. the huck finn fence job fell through, so i last minuted a place called slims and no shit found a 20 on the way in the bar. ha. had a cool show and made great tips.. that was enough to get me and the cruiser up to boone nc.
by the way i love boone! . had a cool show with smokestack and foothills fury very nice rocking one man band.. we had some technical dificulties, but i ate 37 burritoes and about as many cold ones, had a few intermittent naps. always cool to see eric and the k. the coffee lady. crashed in the van on sidewalk.

i cruised to tn jumped in the coldest lake know to man, got hammered with the ace and ate some steaks thanks, jesus..

i somehow had enough gas to get to nashville. i played a one nighter at the tin roof country star bar and crushed brew with trace adkins tour manager.. i always ride my bike to see the two hot mod rock chicks i think they are caled the white doves, any way bleach blond hair and coverd in tats like 1953 style. they play at the robert's western world on tuesdays. got spoiled as usual by my homie gomer who runs the show.. well come back to nashville later in the story..

wake up feeling shitty ..drive to oxford, ms. i thank jesus got an afternoon gig at the parris baker pub. there were two drunk guys in the bar, i played acoustic for 3 hrs and whew crashed in walmart parking lot by 11pm, hands hurting..

made just enough to get to jackson martins.. played a capacity show with cult legend dax riggs, and new comer john barret bass drum of death (who by the way rocks like a motherfucker) had a great show!

the next day to tuscaloosa ala.. i was running late due to hungeroverness and massive hail rain storms. i was was the first act which was a little shitty but if was ashedogs birthday. decent show but later played harp with silver lion 20/20 and saw the sons of roswell who also rock like a motherfucker. one guy was so drunk he fell into the drums, great band! (i got film of the show on "cavebone"you tube site) somehow during the silver lion show the birthday boy did a jimmy superfly snukka off the amp and ripped his shirt off. pretty rediculous.. and by the way had some great tacos, perhaps the best of this run!!

definately saw the sun come up, went for a wobble bike ride another taco and headed for meridian, ms..

great outside show. lots of nurses and booze wolfs at this show.. witnessed a domestic dispute, and as always randy the owner is cool as shit and made a little cash.
by sunday i was alittle tired, kick back a few casual coldies at martins jackson.

played a punk rock show at sams lounge and after party at a vampire mansion, no shit totally unbelievable, equipped with exotic birds and ancient art and thank god no blood or any spells, had to bail on that one. well talk about this later..
the next day i saw a car catch on fire like in the movies with like 10 foot flames 5 minutes later i watched a guy get busted shoplifting and get chased by the cops. i ate a great steak gyro. i got a brake job, thanks jesus!& bought some vinyl.

i made my depart from jackson to oxford to which i was also running late i got pulled over in the square, people were taking photos of me and of course i casually gave them all the finger..

over the fourth i played a great festival called hill country picnic in potts camp w nmiss allstars,jim dikenson, luther dickenson(black crowes), jimbo mathus, t model ford , alvin yblood heart, partied pretty hard with dr peoples and a cool reporter from the clarksdale paper.. kick ass weekend!!

saw the sun up a few more days, i got to see the jwolf and have a taco party and laughed my balls off while watching this show called trailer park boys!

and this brings us back to last night back in nashville i saw an instore performance of del mcoury band drank some pbrs in grimeys which was awesome! love the sond asheville turnaround. got to see the white doves again, thanks jesus & great sweet potato fries.

gomer got invites to brett michaels after party. last night dokken, skid row, and poision played the collesium. so we go to this rediculous warehouse type place filled with L.A nashville scene people, free booze, i wanted to pull bretts headband off but i restrained crushed brew and talked to people who im sure thought i was as rediculous as i thought they were. good story though..

woke up felt like shit drove 3 hrs and now its 3am eastern at the execuitve caveman offices. tmoro night the home team the halo. wheeeeeu.

big shout to the ace,randy,bolt, gomer,jwolf and dr. peoples and the guy at firestone brakes and tires in jackson, ms whom without this little run would have been alot less exciting.

love yall
snake

solstice rager rodger!

2008-06-20T11:17:00.003-05:00

we left off somewhere in route to chattanooga tn.. we had a afternoon gig at the bessie smith strut. i was running a little late and cross-eyed of course. drove through a massive hail storm on fumes. ha. i arrived to blocked streets and the smell of wet funnel cakes and fried fish. to our dismay the parking nazi and her little dog fucked with us pretty hard and the bar tender made us pay for the parking..wtf..we sprinted to load our shit into the bar, which smelled like raw sewage, usually these are the places you run out of, anyway... we found out we were the 6 oclock"filler" band which really sucked, when you get a call and hear "want to play with 2 rocking bands,show will sell out". yeah sure. and you show and there are 10 fucking bands on the bill and your the first one. very sick feeling in the stomach, which probabally dosnt have any food in it anyway. very pissed to drive 4.5 hours for this.. so we rocked the shit out of the 10 people who were in the bar like they stole from us. shortly after the show there were 30,000 people, no shit all drunk and eating sausages and drinking bud ice and corn dogs in the streets and the bar started to fill..wtf??. we did get to meet left lane cruiser who were cool as shit.. hope to get to jam with them in the future. i was really excited to get the fuck out of there.

which brings us to chapel hill nc, raleigh, greenville,
the raleigh shows were saved by the ever great, one of the best bars in the world sadlacks heroes. the greenville gig, as beautiful as ever still the best steak in the planet& nice bartemptresses. played the banjo with tpton till 5 am and dranks some bud light. finally got to do some lake swimming and perhaps the highlight, got to go on a spooky river boat tour of piedmont nc. my homie joseph is doing fish research at ncsu and we went to pick up these mega cash monitors which calculate fish populations etc. pretty wild you pull up these plastic bowies which connect to a thing which you connect to a computer which tells you everything, pretty amazing.. it was kinda like those spots where scooby doo has the haunted mysteries. fun as shit, broken docks shit loads of turtles, weird bird sounds, like someone could be getting the deep six and bizarre shadows, permission from old black farmers to cross throught pineapple looking corn fields w bugs and snakes, yikes.. anyway highlight of the trip this time. also i got hammered sunday night at my favorite mexican joint that was bursting w/excitement as usual. unlimited modelos, limes avacodo, cilantro, cheese, tacos, no english, shirts with bullriders, fucked up informercials, raging soccer matches, smell of corn oil,,limes.. boobies mmmmm heaven!! and while riding my bike through the trails of ralee i saw two of the biggest fucking scary copper heads about 1 foot from my pedal, the usual gasp and the a scream/shout. in my 31.5 years of raising hell and running the roads never seen copperheads this big. i flashed back to the time i almost bit the dirt on a family vacation to williamsburg va.. but thats a snake story for later..
so on to boone tommorow night to play the solstic rager with another one man band, burritos yum yum. sunday to debauch it a bit with the ace and his golf cart and unlimited supply of weirdness in tennessee, then over to nashville hoping for a cold one at roberts western world!! we got a big show thursday in jackson, ms with cult legend superstar dax riggs, should be pretty exciting. as for today i have to come up with some gas money by reparing a fence, kinda like tom sawyer i guess. wheeew. the van rolls on!!! have a kick ass solstice weekend. yes sometimes i am a fucking hippie. halla

love snake

sad sonoco blues

2008-06-09T00:14:00.003-05:00

a little sunburnt and sweaty with the smell of miller high life on my 3 day in a row t shirt. i guess starting with mike side pocket west aville, nc.. i played to 4 of the drunkest people known to man, and they loved it. by the end of the night it was me and the bartender and a moonshine hauler, no shit.. i loved this place and we're going to do a two man band show in july. im really hoping to get our name on one of those nascar bush beer posters. yeah! so on to thursday got hammered at bottomless brew night in johnson citie tn. woke up a little bewilered and with no money. i went to the local coffee house and played a lunchtime blues set to people who looked at me like i was a complete pile. i made lunch money,and thanks to grocery stores with samples!! and yes the deli workers probabally have my picture posted behind the scales as the guy who makes sandwiches from the weird domed sample treys. anyway i strategically parked the van so i could ride the bike to and fro drunken and ipod cranking..mmmm i love my bike. met a shit load of freaks had great converstaions even a 15 minuter with a gas station attendant, who read from his new play, pretty awesome amongst the gatorade and cigarettes and weird snack cakes which will never go bad.. anyway friday night duncan and i went on at 1am at the hoot. packed and loud. we made cash. finally.. i woke up in the country side near a river with my ears ringing and beautiful mtns.. 30 minutes from town i had to haul ass to make our saturday afternoon gig 3pm. i crushed some h20 nailed down a weird burger and made it just in time.. we had a lovely afternoon played for a shit load of people.kids old folks.hippies.gangstas i was extermely whacked out from the past few days, well actually years, it was an unhibited blast. after the shows were over i was glad to fade into the crowd and crush some brews. by 1am id had my fill and woke up today sweating my balls off in a random apartment complex. yep i bought a fan for the van today. yahoooo. massive show tommorow with black diamond heavies in chattanooga for bessie smith strut. ita about 4 hrs from where i am now. hoping not to have to play sad blues as the sonoco for gas money. ha. check in the next few days got some great video and pics coming. love yall have a great week.
peace
snake

105 or 64?

2008-06-04T16:39:00.005-05:00

aw lawrdy.. im kinda drunk in a public library somewere north carolina.. as i review the past few weeks since posting.. im kinda bewildered.. i guess i left off somewher ein alabama dogtrack land.. had some smoking shows in charleston sc. macon ga and our favorite the bohemian cafe greenville, nc... got to gets some nice beach time in bought a kite in the shape of a killer whale and had no luck whatsoever in flying the mother fucker.. hammered in a n irish bar in savannah w james...i drove throught two massive hail storms got some great new air force one hi tops and a wookie t shirt in athens ga.,(1982) also at the souths largest flea market i obtained a sparkling bull rider outfit, and a dusty rhodes t shirt.. little sweaty for this as of now.. in charleston i got to jam with ex-outkast drummer. i ate a bad ass burger at some surf bar. im macon i slep at the shittiest motel 6 ever known to man.. and after a week of making fires and mini court basketball my shows start back tonight in aville at mikes side pocket should be interesting. i talked to a guy in there today who was 105 and drinking cold brew!! he also has some sweet hair. although he could have been actually 64. who knows. im now typing to the warning that the library will close in 5 minutes. oh yeah last week i played a hippie festival in middle tennesse pretty weird with a great gong on the stage i ran full speed into with a big drum stick.. sweet neess. as soon as the show was over the rain poured down, no shit. then i hauled ass to knoxville where i played in a haunted house opening for a burlesque outfit calle dwhite lightning burlesque pretty interesting.. i woke in a rafting spot where we played the jello wrestling finals last year.. ha. i forget the rest.. i love you
got to haul ass..

love
blake

4th quarter.!!

2008-05-01T00:42:00.003-05:00

welp still on the cell phone subject.. i saw a pal get his cell phone launched across the room, and while he bend over to pick up the pieces he got kicked in the balls like superbowl kickoff. never seen anything like it. as he lay on the ground writhing in pain the very pissed girlfriend squeeled tire and fled the scene.. i just stood in amazement. holy shit. im glad my cellsmash was voluntary
. also last week experienced the effects of the human self control in the casino... thanks goat i only took 20 dollars to this bizarre ex dog track in the middle of nowhere ala.. it stressed me out like a mother fucker after loosing and gaining my fortunes (all on 20 dollars) i had to go outside and sleep in the car..the only safe bet is bud tallboys and popcorn $2.25.
i had a really good one man show sams lounge last night back in jackson ms.. partied with some folks from americorp in minnesota..chilled night had a little jazzbacker and a few good laughs.
today just kinda getting my shit together. back into the flames tommorow, 2 shows.. im stoked to rip it up in the atl, then make it back for a rendevouz w the mav , victor, tdawg, ratt ,w-art & patte and the home office. this is probabally the last post till sunday/ monday after the dirty south 4 comes to a close. dont worry ill have sweet recap post!. tommorow early with electric mud. sweet dog and i join forces to a "ride the bull" night cap it at egans, tuscaloosa.. and finally slam duncan and i rip it on friday night at the star bar w. all girl band the coathangers and cars can be blue.. not sure where we fit into the mix but ready to rock it. looks like i might need to get a really tight striped shirt and some buddy holly glasses, i already got the weird haircut and short pants.
saturday back at the home office i can finally rendevouz w my new resonator guitar i was unable to grapple a few weeks ago. i want to sleep under the stars, make a fire, do a little wrestling w mav and eat a hormone free grass fed way too expensive steak, and a becks beer!. i should be jamming on the streets of the mountain/home office sunday afternoon.. hope to see you in the next few shows..yum. thanks like always for ure continued support

love snake

rebel angainst the handheld

2008-04-27T14:35:00.003-05:00

.... okey dokey greetings from u of a in tuscaloosa al...
holy shit.. wed nite started the shows this week had a rager in oxford ms @ the jubilee. there were about 15 people there and they were all drunk girls who broke glasses and danced during the show and bought a bunch of merch thanks mallory's party animal possee...were planning to to a big show in july...thanks jay lang and oxford.. you rock
thursday was a rager at martins in jackson.. awesome sound and lights and stayed up a little to late.. we usually leave the bar when the cleaning crew is coming in the next am.. great show! thanks rybolt. sound engineer(name?) jason bailey. and ray for joining me with some dirty harp.
friday perhaps the most eventful show of the tour. meridian, ms echo lounge .home of jimi rodgers the singing breakman and peavey, didnt dissapoint.. i joined forces with sweet dog from the dexateens and silver lion 2020 and fat possum fame. never playing a note together, we managed to have a great night we played a sweaty 3.5 hours and luckily were joined by a fiddle player towards the end.. there were a shit load of birthdays and people shook their ass all night long it was packed out the doors, which makes my job much easier... thanks sweet dog and espically randy the owner and sweet barteneder who was my grandmothers age she never missed a beat and was awesome as shit to us., and yes we made it out alive. someone there was filming so im hoping the videos will surface in the weeks to come,, pretty amazing scene..

lots of bike riding yesterday gawking at the frat houses whose front lawns were filled with bud light crushing debutants or "debutramps", i learnt a new word yeaterday ha. there was a really cool reggae band playing on the front steps and definately lookn out of place surrounded white faces with polos and beer coozies labeled from wedding parties. great scene.
last night was a really late kinda sloppy boozed influxed start here in tuscaloosa at the world famous egans home of the party animals. i ran across town to catch sweet dog experience with taylor hollingsworth and the river city tanlines hauled ass back to egans round midnight.. and yes i learned my lesson last time and i avoided the jager machine which is why i can still write today. there were no lightning bolts shooting from the mics either.. in egans your kinda sandwiched in a corner, it was pretty packed and i spilled every drink i got and one complete budweiser filled up my phone,,, it started random dialing during the show and had a mind of its own. i had spent the past week with little or no service, 30 min battles with automated payment systems every few days... and as youve heard me say before i really want to smash my phone... well, as i was leaving the show attacked by xtrmly drunk people.. it almost like that dream you have were your being chased and your legs dont work, but this time is real, pretty sloppy riduculous.anyway back to the phone , i wanted to make some calls to my drunk bretherern who were also surely in some rediculous situation at 3 am and it was impossible, this was the final straw, i launched the beer laiden phone it into the dash of the cave van and then took a hammer to it i contunued to smash the shit out of it. im sure scaring the unknown onlookers who surely thought i had lost it... i actaully filmed it so i can recount and perhaps relish in my destructive behavior.. ill post it soon.... i promised i would donate the phone to help pets to the person who gave it to me, ill try to donate the charger as the rest is little bit crushed into sawdust and in someones front yard in tuscaloosa ala. my phone communication might be a little sparce for a bit.. im not done with the phone yet, just making a fresh start.
been riding the shit out of my bike and stoked about a little afternoon bbq rager at the ashe fest headqutrs today. and might get to catch baseball game throught the left field fenceline,... i got about a week to kill before i join forces with slam duncan finally in atlanta! were playing with a punk rock chick band.. so i ll probabally try to have a few quiet nights.. ha im sure i omitted a few details and interesting events little smokey today.

love you guys see you soon
snake

ha! in 12 bars

2008-04-21T17:32:00.002-05:00

since we last spoke i was drowning in cowboy sorrows in nville tn. i spend a reclusive few days in the mega cash area of franklin with my pal j wolf, well needed rest and a shower!! i left out of nville on friday in the rain to head for clarksdale. thanks jesus for my new i pod!!! anyway i made it through memphis tarffic while i was so hungry my stomach lining was eating itself. i had dreamt earlier in the week of going to the casino and eat at the buffet, well with my 14.50 from nashville i ate a weird but pretty good buffet at the horseshoe casino in tunica. i then proceeded to loose th e remainign 4.40 on the slots but i faked like i was still playing and did manage to get a ice cold heineken out of the deal. so bizarre its in a cotton field delta with weird little hotels and casinos off in the distance.
friday:
i arrived in clarksdale to preform at the juke joint festival a little early and music was already filling the air. clarksdale if you havent been there is only a few blocks in the downtown filled with abandoned buildings and various little dives called jukes. its almost like a movie set. its actually a pretty cool place. you might have heard that morgan freeman owns a place there called ground zero which is a little more tourist trapp style. the venue which i was performing was filled with old white people, and by the time i went on it was late, it sucked bad. there were very drunk hecklers (which later i befriended) i was ready to get the fuck out of there. i roamed the streets and found a cool joint where there was a duo, guitar porch board and a bad ass drummer who was playing a kit with his hands. he taped guitar picks to his fingers and let it rip. i think it was called ak williams or something. they were from dallas tx. i drank a busch brew was tired as shit and crashed out in the cavevan behind the venue.

saturday:
i woke up to t-model for saying its jack daniel tyme thats fo godam sure! 10am, he had a street gig just nex to where i was sleeping. my show wanst till 7 that night so, i ventured on the bike out of the downtown through the ghettos and finally found a grocery store bought some cold beers and some stuff to cook that day. i had to rig a makeshift rack on my bike because i bought alot of cold ones to be on the bike. back in town i made some serious steak tacos and chatted with tourists from every part of the globe. i got to see a bad ass delta one man band called bill abel. he rocks and plays a driftwood guitar. i spent the aftrnoon indulging in booze food and sunshine, saw familiar faces from all the towns in the south east
. by 630 i had a big buzz strapped on the leapord skins and rocked the shit out of this place with no holding back like i had the night before. i made the owners drop the bull shit cover charge because i didnt want to play infront of megag cash blue hairs from arkansas who hate shake it like a caveman. in 10 min the place was capacity and i actually had fun the drunks from th night before came back and we had some interesting banter. i was a borderline idiot and just raised alittl hell, i even closed black the fuck out! of course im sure some folks hated my lack of traditionalism but they had probabally seen enough of that all day, i know i couldnt take anymore. so i was jacked around about the money like usual packed it up and enjoyed the rest of the evening with a 1hr bike ride to a weird barn where cedrick burnside was playing. it was kinda cool to ride through the delta on a full moon, kinda sketchy as im sure the cars passing me were liquored up pretty hard but i made it. i though it was a 5 min ride from down town, ha. so i shuttled my bike back on a tourist bus. late night i got to see another of the highlights of the trip jimbo mathis and knockdown south. rockin!! awesome full moon into a 420 party dude.

sunday 420 man
i woke up behind the venue again and hauled ass as quick as possible. i met some friends in oxford (the velvet ditch) for lunch, jason isabel (ex truckers guy) and i randomly were walking the streets looking really out of place,. i jetted to jackson ms about 2.5 hrs (thanks god for the ipod) i got a call from some people who were having a raging birthday bash wanted me to come by and jam alittle. i went straight from the interstate to another bash ate some great pimento cheese sandwiches , boozed it , almost fell through an againg deck into a swamp while i was playing, luckily not of the electrical shit fell in the water, ha. good time great architecture. then on to martins home of the party animals. by this point i was alittle smoked and opted for a few more booze and redneck madness and some weird brownies, 420 why not? fucking hippies!.. this brings me up to now a little tired looking a little crazy, tonight doing a promo for thursdays show, stole a computer for a minute to tell this ridiculous story. i ll get back w you soon.

ps fuck my verizon wireless shit. in the days to come i am going to smash my phone film it and replay it in slow mo over and over until i feel satisfied. and fuck people who try to hustle the people they get perform at their venue. wheres the guy from walking tall when you need him? check back in a day or so.. come out and spend the check george bush is sending you!

i love you
snake

NASHVILLE SKYLINE.uuuurgh!

2008-04-18T00:00:00.003-05:00

WELP.. first days of the tour have been pretty interesting.. the radio show in knoxville went pretty well. we played with a christan accordian harmonica duo who were on a baptist church tour, and a songwriter filled with very very very painful greif and anguish. we got about 12 min at the end. so we smoked it and completed the yin yang for the show. the weather sucked bad and i hit an old insurance settlement fisherman in the parking lot upon exit, the damage to his car(gangsted out truck actually) was minimal could have fixed it in the lot. the van got a dent which really sucks, cops came etc etc.. the dude is already calling me on the phone.ha! (you think my piece of shit phone service actually allows me to return ure call, dreamin bub, dreamin.) didnt really have the energy to deal with the situation, deemed it completely ridiculous and forgot about it.. might mail the guy a roll of duct tape and a paint pen. that afternoon got some family time in and crushed some heinekens with some local stars.

on to nashville, to where we were supposedly playing with a guy who has a big draw- thus meaning we were going to make decent cash.. not the case.. the drive went well thank god i finally got an ipod. if i heard anymore radio i was going to kick the shit out of it. anyway, i got to the city early enough to take a bike ride and drink a cold brew at the roberts western world cowboy bar. we sound checked w/a guy who had as much shit as captured by robots (if you dont know cbr you should, this guy rocks), so we played in about a 10ft sq space surrounded by shit, literally.. the show started late as there were no pople in the venue, except for the 8 frat guys who really hated duncan and i.. we smoked the shit out this place and actually had a good show. no free drinks and we walked with $25..crying.. duncan hauled ass back to eastern tn to finish a job there, and i then saw a shitty rockabilly band with a mega hot bass blayer. pretty funny scene as these anihilated tourist (perhaps woodshop teachers from ann arbor) stoled the bands beer and left them chineese take out. having about all of it i could stand i rode my bike back to the bar where we played earlier to collect my $12.50. jetted,peeling out and screaming in rage as i left the parking lot i calmly hit the walmarts woke up in the usual sea of cars and bored shopping cart crashing employees, hiding the fact that yes that is actually a stream of piss coming from that sketchy van door parked next to the light pole on the front row next to the grocery entrance.
luckily, i had the brainstorm to play on the streets of nashville. so i thought..
after pondering in lowes hardware for about 1 hr in the pluming section how to build a great kick drum from a bucket i hit the town.. in a matter of minutes i made 1.75, close to what i had made the night before, ha! i was forced out of my location by horse driven carts shitting and cruising tourists around the cowboy areas. saw a very cool dog riding on a horse, no shit. i walked to a new spot and every thirty yards there was a haggard old cowboy playing some songs for what looked like pennies they looked like hell and shit, i felt bad for them, but with the cash for musicians in the area in a seeming drought like state, i would look and feel shitty also. i then just felt compelled to just give it hell ans show my ass a little bit, i found a street corner witha shit load of people around. everybody took my picture, "hey man its a real one man band," "nice gimmick ""what the fuck it that" roared from the crowd of onlookers, i thought to myself what the fuck is wrong with these people? so my earnings for the past 24 hrs would be a whoppin $14.25, . so if you are a street performer dont go to nashville, and if you are a touring act or bar performer.. good luck, cause chances are you aint goint to make the rent in this place.
so duncan is going to stay in the mountains. and the one man band will play out the rest of the shows for april. im sad slam duncan cant make it, but the show goes on.and we will join forces in the days to come to rock the shit out of you.

this weekend should be great as im headed for the juke joint festival in clarksdale ms. hope to be bruising it heavily buzzed on a slot machine in tunica by sunday.. keep yall posted.

ps sometimes the bad ass horses come out of the gates kinda slow. and yes the shake it like a caveman foundation accepts direct deposit.

pss i also forgot the part where i almost got into a bum fight and had to pull a crack head type guy out of my van, who was sneakily telling me how much he appreciated my being a musican to bring world peace, and how were all pals while trying to steal everything in site, i pushed him out of the van door told him to get the fuck out of my space and his wishes for world peace turned into him screaming with all his might and hobbling away..." your a punk ass bitch, your a motherfucker. ha!..... those who laugh last.

see you soon
love
snake

DIRTY SOUTH TOUR STARTS NOW!

2008-04-13T23:28:00.003-05:00

okey dokey
woodshed time is over. new material, no haircuts, slam d has found a really great pair of drum sticks. i decided not to join the 9to 5 regimin/. found a new axe if i can ever catch up with the ups guy. did a few one man band shows. got hammered at sadlacks and others. and buy the way greenville nc is now on my top tens!! so
knoxville.nashville.memphis.clarksdale.jackson.oxford.meridian.tuscaloosa. and all the inbetweens here we come. hope to see you on this run

ps
got anihilated lst night at a boombox concert.. very entertaining!
love
snake

woodsheddin'

2008-03-14T09:07:00.003-05:00

welp woodshed in full swing. im the proud owner of a 10x20 garage unit in our nations capitol and pumped as shit about having a place to practice. lately i have been dodging traffic and playing lap steel, which im hoping to break out real soon. hopefully winter is gone really soon.. we are adding dates daily so check often. we just confirmed july 4.and 5th playing hill country picnic with north mississip. allstars, burnsides etc. so we are pretty pumped about this. the guy snake handler is in a new series of shirts im working on if you are into it contact and well have one right out to you.. slam duncan is on the florida coast dazzling tourists and drunk bikers with his human metronome status. we will converge on knoxville tn's own wdvx radio on april 14. watch out for very drunk fake irish people and the ides this weekend. we love you

snake

thanks greenville!!

2008-02-25T22:41:00.002-05:00

welp... greenville was smoking.. thanks for all the folks who came to be a part of the packed house at the bohemian.. & for showering us with cash and booze. back to the home office which seems to be sort of a ghostly existance as of late with the shitty weather adding to the effect.. counting change for bannannas @ ingles supermkt. and still hooked on the everybody fields who make me cry myface off. ... got a lap steel last week to add to the insanity.. if you see me practicing in my van in the wal-mart parking lot come on in.. this weeks show are in a bowling alley in sylva, nc wich will be nothing short of insanity... and sat night in our home terf of johnson city, tn... we love playing there & seeing all the familiar faces and never ending pitchers of s. nevada.. were amping up the t-shirt line for the spring and were proud to announce the girlie undies will be back!!! the month of march looks like woodshedding.. slam dunc heads for the everglades for some swamp buggie racing and im off to the carolina coastal pirate country to eat steak and look for the perfect sand dollar.... then we hit the spring hard in miss.. !!!!!
european plans underway for later in summer!

love yall

snake

cant get the sand out of my shoes

2008-02-13T15:57:00.004-05:00

welp a whirlwind sand storm tour of charleston complete.
very bizarre opening delivery of a $800 victorian era chair from a friend who deals and delivers antiques.. we loaded the chair amongst the gear and made way to a mega cash estate complete with spooky corridor basement and bizarre english supermodel desk attendant who asked me to leave the chair in a random closet. we got out with our cash and a very bedazzled brain cloud intact.. very weird shit..on to the shows..
our first stop the mill, a cool spot with good eats, up and coming art district.
we played 3 sets and my hands bled as did duncans drums.. pretty interesting punk rock ending. as we stormed out on to the street with chants for more! more! more!. we crushed some brews and slept in a friendly hippie family's driveway who provided us with great local tour info and some yummy samuel adams... sat night as we were still recouping from the friday experience we got a phone call, "where the fuck are you at?" i replied at at an art opening, the voice on the line replied, "your sound check is now!" due to a scheduling mix up we hauled ass across town to sound check at charleston's pour house.. and before you know it we were playing infront of 300+ sold out crowd and opening for tinsely ellis.. leapord skin and slashing drum skins. we melted it down pretty hard.. of course i broke a string 3rd song.. not really knowing what just happened and the crowd roaring with middle aged women tearing at our clothes we packed our shit through the crowd. we were hoping to get to another last minute gig which never happened... on to sunday, at the pour house again, where we opened & sat through the longest blues set ever known to man. whew. ouch. all in all very weird trip, but the ocean was nice and sat nite rocked our sox. this weekend we are dropping the big one on greenville @ the bohemian cafe... come on down..

we love u
snake

the brush prevails

2008-02-01T13:33:00.000-05:00

aaww shit almost finished a massive paint gig.. its kinda weird painting when its snowing outside however the brush has prevailed!!! south carolina mini-tour starts this week in the home office region of asheville nc. @ broadways.. slam duncan has been hidin out in the mtn ranges ice fishing, taking kung fu and looking for the perfect drum sticks and myself dangling from ladders and trying to avoid kickin some ass at the paint store.
we have completed an analogue recording and were pretty excited, we used the shittest mics possible and dubbed over old tapes from the 80's & we love it. and no we didnt use dbx( this reference strictly intended for audio nerds)
.....more music news we got on in charleston for the southern comfort blues bash @ the pour house. and im in the hunt for a lap steel.
oh yeah, and im really excited about this beer bong. were trying our best to put it on my friends home depo account. no luck thus far. this week trizzle and my self have been eating 37cent jiffy cornbread and beans, drinking high life 40ozers and doing the skiffle to some paul wine jones, while huddling around burning pizza boxes. thanks lord it going to be 55 degrees this weekend, i thought we were going to have to go for the gloves with fingers cut out... oh yea also nursing my wii tennis elbow. in national news our good pal rat has hopped a jetliner to the west coast to stir up some business. were really glad when hes back thats when the moustache growin contest resumes. good luck out there rat, we love you.

rock n roll time! see u thursday feb 7 @ boradways asheville, nc..

take care
love
snake

hack hack hoot hoot

2008-01-20T00:22:00.000-05:00

awww frozen here in the carolina mtn/tn. homerange.. this past week i have been scaling mudbogged snowdrift ladders to do the impossible. paint outside in january.. hack..hack.. a little paint in the fro and padding the wallet. we stepped into the boones creek intersanctum today for our first day of the shake it like a caveman two man band recording. 7hrs and 1 tune we drew blood and it smokes like a motherfucker. yep i went to about 30 stores looking for maxell 60 min tapes, not easy in the mtn region. got a few laughs and a 6ixer tall boys, but all in all a successful attempt. i kept moving therefore i did not freeze to the pavement. and last night i pulled a bit of a red neck move and went to my brothers ex-girlfriends house at 4am and plugged the extension cord into an outlet on the side of her house out to the van into a heater where i was snoozing away, parked on the street, nice and toasty, had to haul ass kinda early.

i shiver when is see the falling snow

2008-01-03T11:51:00.001-05:00

thank god we made it through december. like merle haggard says "everything will be alright i know" greetings from our nations capitol... the last few weeks have been pretty weird and glad to get it going again... duncan and i have decided to go into the studios in the weeks to come to bust out a new 2 man band recording to tour on this spring.. i sould be heading for the mtn regions to get a job as a temporary pearl diver and sling some paint till first of februrary when we attack the streets of south carolina and north florida... its been nice to get some record checks when i return to the home office keep em coming so we can eat every little sliver helps... so for jan. check us for local regional stuff. this weekend sushi blues in johnsonciti tn. a few other random spots TBA. check back

love
snake

taildraggers

2007-12-15T14:12:00.001-05:00

on from drunk debutants to the missip. backwoods. rocking shows in jackson ms 2 actually at martins lounge.. sunday night christmas party with one too car bombs.. and for the record never be a guinea pig for "hey many try this new shot!", this will leave you on the pavement. we made a journey out to the echo lounge in meridian, and these folks kick ass, we played with a local 60 yr old horn drum machine duo ebony and ivory.. everyone asked us "heeey maaan want to smoke a hooter." this place was great..on to sams lounge in jackson also a great joint.. the place is a love shack hotel with a great stage... we avoided the love tubs but dished out a heavy dose of rock n roll.. then on to the daves dark horse tavern starkville.. basically we showed up made sense out of a extrememly smoked pa system. played one song and packed our shit and got the fuck out of there.. due to regulations of time nazis and volume barons. lets just say we checked under our tires as we peeled out of the parking lot. now on to clarsksdale ms.. the mythical home of the crossroads.. we had an early gig at the bluesberry cafe.. after our show the owners took us to a hidden juke joint, where upon entry we saw t-model ford.. he was illuminated by the red neon, giving him a really devilish appearance.. he saw duncan and myself walk into the leaky roofed, cinnamon potpouri cented shack and said "hey get up here" pointing at me.. i approached him like i was in a fucking scary dream nightmare. and in his whiskey laiden breath says "hey, who is you?" blake, i responded, he said " do you know who i am?" allowing me no time for a response, "i is t-model ford motherfucker, i want you to play me a song." so this is a real the shit juke joint with pretty intense all black patrons drinking tall beers and jack daniels... im saying to my self, what the fuck? he handed me his peavy razor to test me and i grabbed it & played two songs on his t-model ford taildragger.. the lights flashed from blues review photographers hiding in the corners with their barealy apparent white faces and nice jackets.. as i finished i handed his "taildragger" rig back to him careful not to spill his whiskey.. which was the centerpiece for his droning mantra throught the night" thats fo godam sure , it jack daniels time!? he talked shit to the jolly plump middle age ladies while they booty danced infront of him... he demanded duncan get his drums. t-model and duncan jammed all night, t-model got so drunk duncan saved his ass and kept the women dancin.. we just had a devilish shit eating grin on our faces all night.im not really sure whether we played the devils guitar/rhythm and handed it back to him, but there was something in his grin and sparkkle in his eyes. definately a night i will never forget.
at the end of the night he stood up with his cane, surrounded by heaps of beer cans and numerous jack bottles, like shratnel from his middle age admirers. the roof was almost caving in where he stood and he told us stories of his life.. pretty crazy shit..
he was born in 1924, 27 children "mamma baby, papa maybe" cant read or write, traveled the whole world, didnt start playing music till he was 58, on a guitar "his fifth wife bought him.". he was escorted out by a young white guy who probabally worked for his label or something. got into a shitty 80's conversion van and rolled away.. we woke in a walmarts parking lot toxford surrounded by rats going in for the kill on the christmas season... tonight sushi and fuck you blues... look out tennessee were comin.

peace
snake

shake it like a stumbling debutant

2007-12-07T13:05:00.000-05:00

the shows are in full swing.. greetings from the tuscaloosa underworld. where last night raging full house rocked us hard and so did the jager machine,,, whoo.. the microphones shot lightning bolts into my beard the beer lights flickered.. shaking we made it our alive.. our show in greenville rocked our casbah,, where we subsiquently are doing a radio recording on dec 28th at the bohemian cafe on stone/main... come blow your holiday cash...macon greeted us with open arms and personal coolers onstage filled with nice frosty pbr tallons. also had some of the best hot sauce on my taco at some downtown taco joint.. and pretty darn good taco carne asada.. oh yeah back to last night, probabally the most eventful yet.. we called the set a bit early due to refreshment overdose. saw a really cool art opening and later in the eve mingled with our devils and jumped piles of barf and stumbling debutants. thanks ashe and sweetdog for a fun filled eve. you rock tuscaloosa! onward to the mississippi homefront.

love snake

3 dollars pbr and a taco

2007-11-15T15:43:00.000-05:00

welp made it back from the nyc adventure with no major damages... even got some sweet beach time in. ate a few steaks and watched football.. its weird what you dream for when your in a smokey dive all the time...
back in the mountains of carolina. and yep i think its snowing.grgrrrrrrr
punk rock show tonight at the freds smoke fest.. should be interesting.
and heck yeah laid down some caveman action in the wncw studios in spindale nc.
isothermal community college.. the segment is live on monday nov 19 round noon listen live www.wncw.org
getting geared up for the december shows. trying to pull last minute dates with duncan the mad drummer...
the weekend will be in knoxville tn... sassy annes. i have 3 dollars a pbr and a taco.. we drive on

love snake

libraries and no u turns between 2 & 5 pm

2007-11-01T14:00:00.000-05:00

okedokey.. greetings from midloithina va.. public library and hell yes my wallet grows fatter not with green back but with library cards.. cheers midlothina. and im listening to the everybodyfields and trying not to cry.... looking around at the other email users and sports stat checkers and rush fan site users.. and weird library workers who are used to the smell. and punky cigarette smoke laiden cummunity service teens.. just like every other afternoon and every other town, glad they made it too.

shake it like a caveman played an opening short set to bug eyed non liquored enough nurses, cowboys, zombies, ninjas and vampires. saw a bad ass fiddle player with a great beard. woke in parking lot & counted change for a turkey cigar and a bananna. waitin to rendevouz with the rest of the big city bush crowd.. to scramble through dc madness. aaah then into a fresh frosty cold rolling rock from draught @ the organ... hopefully everybodys sweet tooth still needs some sweetening.

hang in

love

snake

techno sparkle

2007-10-19T01:22:00.002-05:00

greetings from the inner sanctum of the home office in our nations capitol.. aaaw temporarily resting from last weeks adventures which included a temp worker as a gutter cleaner and oneman band in a techno club in south carolina... by the way never played in a techno sparkle bar before but as of sat. now i have.. a near electrocution was avoided and we had a shit kicker evening. duncan the tenn. shreddr joind me on the drums, boyd on harp and patty on moral support.. friday night was pretty darn smoking as well. last night i opened for locale rockers nice short set with freak show video in the hinterland.. gearing up for next weeks events, sure to be filled with chaos... hoping to get my last atlantic swim in afore the summer is over... got some kick ass videos coming from the burlington show due i about a week.. and footage from the sparkle bar... stay tuned... websiteers please gimme a halla.

love snake

holy shit i think im back in the office (tour review)

2007-09-30T21:40:00.000-05:00

welp it is now official i think the caveman machine has pulled back in to the office as of 9pm central time. and i think its time for the long awaited stats and reviews from the pretty massive journey.

aug 15 THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME raleigh nc
double bill with sol driven train nice folks. great vodka drinks.

aug 18th SLIMS raleigh nc
dble bill w crap rock allstars. slims is a very smoky kick ass little rock bar adjacent to a parking garage which my van will barely fit, it always kinda freaks me out, the fact that the car is a nut hair from concrete pilars.. street parking here on out... great spot consumed massive amounts of pbr

aug 20 THE CAVE chapel hill nc
double bill with warshowski. drank some 40 oz of sol in the van while sweating massivly with mav. there were 3 people in the bar as usual and showed my ass infront of the streaming video feed in the cave.

aug 22 POE'S PUB richmond va
kick ass little spot adjacent to river and warehouse district. cool show chiefed in the park with dick butkis and the tight ends. the comedy guitar act.. nice food people and booze... woke up sweating massivly in walmart parking lot w/ mav

aug 23 QUARRY HOUSE TAVERN silver spring, maryland
double bill with playground ediquite full house with tater tots and a few pils urquell brews
nice folks and woke up sweating massively @ rest area w/mav

aug 24 HANKS SALOON brooklyn, ny
perhaps the best show of the tour.. kick ass shit hole bar in brooklyn musilm neighborhood cool crowd massive amounts of booze, PA speakers exploded. afternoon parking was a complete fucking nightmare and had a borderline meltdown. it was so nice to see scantily clad boobie bearing bike riders amongst the eyes only musilm extremists..

aug 25 GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY bushwick/brooklyn ny
right up there with one of the weirdest gigs on the tour.. got to the bar too early so i played soccer in neighbouring ghetto park with 12 yr mexican boys who kicked my ass while talking massive shit. quite fun actually. at the bar we cooked out on the back patio and i played a free show for a transvestie bartender, japaneese tourists a pissed off dc band and the mav she was actually pissed off too., nothing serious. definately ready to get the fuck out of there...

aug 28 CAFE 9 new haven, ct
after recouping on the ct coast. felt a bit recharged. kick ass venue with salty popcorn.. great bar owner bartender double bill with the keys french one man band.. sweet night.. nice science people from yale came to the show bought merch!!

aug 29 THE MOLE'S EYE brattleboro, vt
sadly mav had to return to the bright lights big city from the airport in hartford. caveman cruiser made its way in to the hippy territories of vt. one of the worst shows of the tour. me and the bartender. and two guys playing pool and drinking a couple brews.. enough about that

aug 31 RADIO BEAN & CLUB METRONOME
afternoon gig at the radio bean a little coffee land pretentious for me but that have a great beer called switchback. played solo guitar got a big buzz as the afternoon sun came throught the windows... the metronome different story... great show sandwiched inbetwix bad suit and japh ryder both local favorites im assuming, the place was fucking packed i was wasted and put on a raise hell set and i think my shirt came off , people were line up waiting for cds after the show. got some hi fi video footage to come of the show... i also almost got arrested for pulling copper wire out of the dumster on the street.. the bouncers didnt recognize me and i had to get a manager to let me back in the bar.. woke up in price chopper parking lot.

sept 1 THE BARFLY montreal, qc
it a whole new ballgame up there. afternoon started drinking with girls from nova scotia at one pm. i decide to have a couple beers by 8p i was still boozing.. kick ass show. bar brawl with pool sticks a people getting thrown out the door.. which is very unusual. nobody got hurt and met some great scandinavians. boreal blond beverages make for not such a bad hangover.

sept 2 THE WATERHOLE #9 saranac lake, ny
HOLY SHIT.... yes i had a 3 day hangover after this one. all i remember was broken glass and people yelling i sold my soul to the devil... kick ass debaucherous evening which i payed for throught the week. yes i drank 700 beers and at one point had to fake shots people were buying so i wouldnt puke onstage. i locked my fucking keys in the back of the van had to get a chainsaw and cut the wood panel out, crawl in with pvc piping, so the afternoon was toast...
on the 3rd i did a live show on 103.5 classic rock of the mountain region. pretty fun and drank some booze in the studio. "hi im shake it like a caveman, and when im in the high country i listen to rock 103.5"

sept 5 RADIO MONTREAL 101.5 CIBL montreal, qc
did a great all french radio show live performance acoustic with french translator, rachel. very cool surreal experience. my french sucks so i didnt understand shit... upon my reentery to us borderguard fat inferiority complex fuks destroyed my good time. stripped the van ripped shit out of my wallet intimidated me belittled me and made me sign some fucked documents. made me wait in holding area for 30 min and told me have a nice day you can cross. like it never happened. eat shit motherfuckers. then a marked border patrol car followed me 30 miles to the town of plattsburg until i wheeled into a dunkin donughts and he sped off, his loss i was going to by the fat fuck shit face a doughnut... anyway needless to say i was livid...and totally baffeled.

sept 13 OLIVE RIDLEYS plattsburg, ny
after a week of chilling a some festival going, got back on track at the grand opening of the olive ridleys. a great place great food and perhaps the freshed cold beer from tap of the tour award and it was a samuel adams... short set in the corner. good merch sales.. great people

Sept 14 THE BARKEATER INN keene valley, ny
party benifit drunk hail raiser in a field with a massive fire and doobage. bit of a rain delay i smelled like smoke for 3 days after this one.. thanks to my old pal b ross for being my temp. booking agent in the north country.

sept 15 ZIG ZAGS lake placid, ny
im so amazed at the ski jumps in placid high as shit, still in place from the olympics in the early 80's posh little town. great bar kinda like a very clean sports bar and very surprisedthe sound kicked ass . great merch, got hammered and slep in parking lot 28 degrees overnight. the leaopord skin pants didnt cut it. thanks again to the b ross, maui north, and the mercury for lining up this shit last minute

sept 16 THE WATER HOLE #9 saranac lake ny
okay a wise fool learns from his mistakes.. well not this time... i returned to the water hole for another round and i blacked the fuck out.enough said this one really hurt me like a motherfucker. thanks to the abbi for the weird soup and hospitality in my time of dying. and the kick ass guys at the meet and greet. i might have even puked in the parking lot

sept 21 THE POISION ROOM cincinatti, oh
on the 18 ted from montreal joined the chaos. toured through upstate ny, boozed it in ithica ny, camped in geneva ohio state park cool movie like red neck boardwalk ghost townish out of season.. on to cleveland rock in roll hall of fame kick ass.. teds mission was to drop of an aretha franklin test pressing but shittly it didnt make the archive.. we got lost in a massive ghetto we barely escaped gunshot wounds to the caveman cruiser.. cleveland can be very sketchy. do you homework if you go there.. bob log 111 finally at the beechland tavern we saw girls of all decent jammingthir boobs into his scotch, pretty interesting, we also saw a 300 lb old ass burlesque dancer she was destined to shot her tit 37 times and yet i almost barffed... oh yeah back to the poision room.. people were very nice an cool two story room but i was on a last minute bill with 10 boy bands and it really freaked me out.. got the fuck out of there... cinci has a very cool very free art museum..

sept 23 WEST NASHVILLE RAGER.. nashville tn
played at a party for some ragers on a back porch in west nashville, after 20 miuntes or less of the caveman show there were 2 firetrucks and 20 police officers.. who hosed the fire. and put the clamp down.. ate great homemade bread and strohs beer. saw a fight and a guy dragged and thrown into cab with instructions and an adress. sweet jesus.

sept 24 SPRINGWATER nashville, tn
smokey shit hole good fun . got to rage with gomer and his possee, monday night fball saw the drunkest people of the south tour, real close to water hole 9 and they dont even have liquor kinda like the star wars bar scene, massive doobage on the patio is normal. so smokey your fucked..

sept 25 PARRISH BAKER PUB oxford, ms
on the square did a happy hour guitar solo gig massive parking lot doobage and high life champagnes. late night show i was borderline black out mode. crushed it and definately freaked some people out and made a few new friends. top shows of the tour thanks to the moss possee for the hospitality and led zeppelin video on the big screen

sept 26 MARTIN'S jackson, ms
sadly had to part ways with ted from montreal. he has a cool punk band in montreal called jerk appeal and is one hell of a co pilot. thanks ted from montreal.
co bill segmented version of cool pappa bell starring dr rob p... i love this place, great sound rybolt always hooks it up.. spirits lurking from some of the juke joint heros. surprisingly didnt get too hammered did slide in a few little jagers however.. i think i remembered my last visit when dr rob was blowing fireballs and i felt like shit for 3 days, so i reserved it a bit this time. actually i did get a bit hammered i forgot the part about sneaking into the kitchen and making the infamous turkey sandwich.. oh yeah in jackson eat at kiefers good hummus and pitchers of cold beers

sept 27 NICKS ICEHOUSE hattiesburg, ms
hit the happy hour real fucking hard with dr. cp massive doobage. there were 3 people at the show, heart breaker... cool old barntype structure , massive off night.. southern miss lost so i guess everybody stayed in and cried i cried too.. not for long i was swept away by hippies to a weird keg party and woke up sweating in the van. feel ing like shit. road a shit load of bikes in h-town good exercise, and the happy hours are the craziest anywhere. thanks to the p family and mike the girl for steaks booze pizza and good times!

sept 29 EGANS tuscaloosa, al
double bill w/alabis from atlanta
very subdued show good booze yummy jagers.. alabama lost so the town was also sad... ashley the bar man kicks ass and parties like a shit house rat.. i love egans and it is always my last stop on the chitlin tour,,, hope to be back before christmas...

oct 1 THE OFFICE somewhere tennessee
tired as a motherfucker. regrouping... if you are a legitmate booking agent please hire me. i will make you cash and maybe laugh. also if you can make a website call me.. i love you ... all
snake
po box 1248
asheville, nc 28802

see you soon
love snake

back porch bramble

2007-09-23T13:06:00.001-05:00

aw lawd.. plattsburg ny, ithica ny (fuck yeah got a library card to add to the collection) geneva OH and the ghost town boardwalk, cleveland oh, sincinatti oh, nashville tn in route to start the chitlin circuit...

finally got to witness bob log the 111 holy shit smoking show and none the less smoking was the uncle scratch gospel revival, the 300 lb burlesque lady to open was kinda weird but ballzy.. by the way if youve never been to cleveland check your maps and wear a bullet proof kevlar.
i was youthfully impressed by my premier visit to the rock n roll hall of fame. great spot and if you have a cd the admission is freeee. they are now the proud owners of a shake it like a caveman record.. on to cincinatti cool art museum which is alo free and a bizarre little mountain top dreamy upper crust hillside district. played the poision room w/ 39 other green day boy bands was very weird. last night takes the cake i played in a east nashville residential area at a birthday party. the stage was a back porch and massive bonfire. it took about 20 minutes of shake it like a caveman before there were two firetrucks 20 police officers. saw a brawl and ate some good homemade bread. dranks a couple bootleg strohs. prior to the party attended my first pro ice hockey game....now from 28 degrees at night to almost 100 in the day ... im eating my wheaties for the last leg of the tour sure to be chaos. added a few more shows check listings

see yall soon
love snake

where the chilly wind dont blow

2007-09-17T10:02:00.000-05:00

eeee... monday monday monday... bit of a rager weekend and im still a bit buzzed in random internet cafe. friday played in a field with nice bonfire and im permanat smoke scent.. woke up in a horse pasture feeling smokey.. saturday last minute gig in lake placid ny.. home of the 1982 winter olympics and ubu ale. im excited like a little kid when i see the giant ski jump platforms... i almost barf just looking up at them. ski jumpers are completely balls. sunday night brought me back saranac home of the world famous cold beer... 28 degrees over night... rager early evening show with lots of really weird hawian punch style liquor.. eeeee... this week heading down south!! see you soon

love snake

ahh september

2007-09-10T20:07:00.000-05:00

ha ha chuckle cough.....
holy shit its been almost 4th week on the little jaunt to the northland... im now positioned somewhere near the canadian border, luckilly my phone only sometimes works and i have found a computer from where to send my ramblings (yes im still pissed about the crack head fucks in new orleans who make my communications and video progress barbedwire style cumbersome)
eat shit while its burning.)
aaah now where were we.... two radio shows this week. the first english version equipped with henikens recorded in a bomb shelter, no shit an old bomb shelter converted into classic rock 105" somewhere in the north country.." up next shake it like a caveman, just after dont fear the reaper".... then on to francophone land where i did a radio news show with translated interview and some acoustic shit. 101.5 montreal .. very fun!! i didnt understand a word, no booze this time. ill post some recordings later.
on my return to ny state i was pretty much everything but rubber gloved at the border. if i were an activist or more pissed i would write a nice piece to the local editor. (and light it on fire)
... anyway now i am basically resting and recouping until the 4th bi annual chitlin tour cranks up next week with dates added daily... last week was my first visit to backwoods pondstock, (for real its the real name) holy shit 3rd world action in the cowfield. backwoods barf-fest, holy shit.. enough about that. thank goat himself for those little vitamin efforvesence (s.p.) called airborne. if i eat another g.d. turkey samwich from some random grocery deli i am going to shit in my pants, for real. and light them on fire (as you will notice addition of the fire part makes anything the ultimate fucking statement).
and lets see today, random trip to the g-hound station in upstate ny to pickup a relative of a friend ( a.k.a uncle terance- basically who loves to get fucked up).. holy shit this guy was out of a bukowski hs thompson novel, when he coughed or sneezed strange noxious powders flew out of his eyeballs.. a quick stop to a mini mart, Ter(for short) crushed a tall beer within 4.5 secs on arrival into the vehicle, and was jamming something up his nostrils... usually a, "do you mind if i smoke in your car would suffice." holy shit uncle Ter . more about this later ..
so the last show i played i was accused of selling my soul to the devil... just for clarification this is not true... i really needed eye protection as every 5 miuntes there were broken glasses and bottles... not be rude but sorry saranac i had to turn down the shots after you bought the first 17th, thanks. the next morning i returned to the bar to pick up a forgotten item, when one of the staff members asked me if i knew anything about why there were no more pint glasses out of the hundred or so they had the night before, i just said "not sure man" they also wanted to know why their feet were sticking to the floor, literally it was like glue, no shit.. must have been the jager machine i said, with a finger raised to my nose..
.. tought race between hanks saloon nyc and saranac for the classic memoribilia award this tour..

my van is looking good,,, for those who didnt know i got a sweet child scaring dodge 2500 white van and i am in heaven.... i even got a thumbs up from the asshole checkpoint fucks, perhaps a sweet little compliment floating amongst swampy fat inferiority complex.

being out of the bar for a few days im begning to ponder september & what a crazy month... lots of new starts jobs schools etc... or a need for the last quarter wind to send us ambitiously sailing into dec. or warmer climates... the shake it like a caveman firm highly reccomends: take naps, walks where needed and drink plenty of refreshing fluids (airborne where needed)... see you soon
ps corn tortilla tacos help also.

hang in there
love snake

wtf spam bots

2007-08-31T09:56:00.000-05:00

howdy from burlington free library vermont... ok first off what the fuck every mail, you tube account or bull shit myspace is now infested with hacked spam porn... not really sure whats up so im trying to phase out the myspace ect. and go for the http://www.shakeitlikeacaveman.com/

aaah... so been cruising in the new caveman van for the past couple weeks.. rocking the highways and smokey bars.. jumped in the ocean last week to 60 degrees currently in burlington. tonight at the "phish," famous Nectars... also somehow got an audition for street performer and made it here on the streets. tommorow blow it all in montreal. sweet.. hope all is well in your neck of the woods... Mississippi ill be there in a jiffy.

*Tennessee possee get ready for the BIG CITY BUSH earl oct check dates.

love snake

HI FI DIRT

2007-08-07T22:57:00.000-05:00

in the midst of the southeastern summer the capsizing arms of humidity move towards our sweaty loins. we trudge on in search of escape by means of embracing a frosty cold mug, as it moves towards our lips and whilest thou we search for portions of a tree branch which block the blaze of the sun. for only a moment.. we dream of sunset, and the hope we will pull our automobile next to the wall of a tractor trailor blocking the blaze,we keep us moving on. cause lawd knows it will be cold as a motherfucker soon.

in the midst of the southeastern winter the capsizing arms of wind move towards our frozen loins. we trudge on in search of escape by means of embracing a warm mug, as it moves towards our lips and whilest thou we search for portions of a tree branch not blocking the glow of the sun. for only a moment. we dream of sunrise, and hope we will pull our automobile away from the wall of a tractor trailer blocking the glow, we keep us moving on. cause lawd knows it will be hot as a motherfucker soon.

.. alright enough of the herman mellville shiht.... i now officially have a blog..

this weekend was rocking ballz... we caravaned as a three piece through the tennessee mtns to hartford tn.. on the river.. we witnessed people beating the shit out of each other in blue inflatable rafts covered in jello. only one poked out eyeball and to our dismay there were no flying boobies. we had a raging show as big city bush.. drank some bootleg g&ts and woke up sweating in the back of the mad maxx cruiser.. felt pretty toast on sunday so drank a red stripe and much better... with worley as our guide we had a fucking smoking recording session in a trailer somewhere between knoxville and newport tn.. so we are stoked to soon release the 3 or 4 song ep big city bush calles "hi fi dirt"..
trying like a mother fucker to fill some northeastern dates, ill post sooon... figuring the web shit also. big big big news on the horizion for the caveman ill post as soon as its finalized... sorry about the sporadick lapse in writings, my computer is now owned by crack heads/pawn shopes in nawlns. im working with shitty tandy style computers and libraries who ban myspace. check back

love snake

fake nap

2007-07-24T19:09:00.000-05:00

oh shit.. july 28th freds speakeasy in asheville nc.. shake it like a caveman 10pm....

over the past month have been recovering from lots of raging by soothing my bodie in the ocean. gearing up for a nasty little august tour.. europe dates tba september. still serching for the perfect burrito and trying my hand at homemade pizzas.. havent gotten the pizzas all the way yet but the beer part a crisp itallian brew works fine.. pulled a successfull cd release earlier in the month. big thanks to the halo bar leah and the ace (aka the regulator) erich hubner, christabel & the jons, jon worley luke wood, rob.. and jay wiles. look for dates in the north east coming soon. maybe a few sneaky big city bush shows. and finally the web site with shopping cart etc. new tees. share the love and check out banksy street art links and read a book video by notarapper.com and great fake nap album junior boys...

love yall see you out there soon

snake

bring me the fucking rock

2007-05-31T18:02:00.000-05:00

okay enough of this manual labor bullshit for this week. as of now the weekend has begun a day early... and if i see another piece of furniture im going to shit on it and light it on fire. (a blunt refferal to my job as a temp furinture mover this week)... my adventures to the scrap metal yard with all the soft tooths,metal benders and wife beaters can also suck it... and fuck the green paint that got on my air jordans.. now its time to rock! come to the shows buy shit, sign me to your label, give me food and beer. your chances this weekend and week are at the following: june 2nd Johnson city Tn. 6 pm the Halo bar . late night Big city Bush show with luke dog @ Cahootenannys also in jc on the 2nd. the cave june 6 chapel hill 10pm. MAV eat your fucking wheaties, its on!

love snake

shirtless shitholes to roller zombies

2007-05-26T23:13:00.000-05:00

alright.. yep yep spring time in full effect.. been getting the swim on as much as possible... in the time since the last post the caveman show has reached out to dirty ole mississippi (my fav) the carolinas and tn. the shows have been progressivly more insane just like my spelling and composition.. today my mouth seems to be filled with gravel and my internal organs are puslating with overindulgence. from roller derby zombies to shirtless shitholes the caveman is still trucking.. the cd is finito,,, check for release dates.. coming soon,, for now you can buy the disc on cd baby and stores across the carolinas... the website is smoked for a little while so check this one and the mysp page... if your in tennessee next week get your ass to the shows.. sat in jc tn 6pm will be insane.

love snake

pressure treated bumpers

2007-04-02T15:47:00.000-05:00

aaah shit.. here we go again... st patties was a fire code head smashing evening, with dried blood on the rear of an onlooking bmw... days later another tree jumped out infront of the caveman cruiser... i almost had a melt down but regrouped with a stolen radiator from nearby junkyard..hundreds of miles later sadlack's raleigh treated me with open arms and sierra nevada on draft.. the tarheels broke down and franklin street definately was not on fire as i played the cave chapel hill for 4 people,,sweet.. a sweet pressure treated plank now adorns the spot where the bumper used to be.. and its pretty wild when i actually come in contact with other cars even remotely close to the style of the cruiser... after begging my way into design lab at nearby university the layout for the cd is finally fucking complete! the show in dc rocked eventhough my amp and all my equipment is smoked.. madames organ always treats nice with rr drafts and yummy food and 3 floors+balconies of friendly debauchery. great late nite falafel and early fresh squeezed oj. a day off in baltimore with some gnt's and renegade recording with slackwand.. to college town of no parking and 24hr harris teeter and convienently located chain bookstore.. charlottesville tonight. punk rock in a tasty tortilla

radio gaga

2007-03-08T12:44:00.000-05:00

greetings from the depts of computersanctum.. friday show at wdvx knoxville pretty interesting opening for a christian bluegrass outfit, the show was tame and didnt scare anyone of the 60yr old bluegrass fans and families out of the building. sold some tees and got a pretty good burrito out of the deal... that nite pretty painful i played a really cool gallery with 10 people. i sported my diamond jeans and spandex shirt. althought the highlight of the night was a pbr push cart ralley smashing into the garage entrance of the studio. after the show friends got a ticket for actually going 5 miles under the speed limit (un speeding ticket.) then on to morristown tn.. a great rock venue where i got to jam with squirley on blazing harp i lost reality and had a kick ass time. sweet turkey sams and rolling rock. woke up in waffle house parking lot... again.

my stomach is a jello shot

2007-02-12T18:24:00.000-05:00

whhhheeew! thursday nite the caveman show joined forces wih makia to rock the halo bar.. good crowd on endless cup beer nite. thank god i found a 5ft beer bong in the green room and was able to entice contestants to crush endless cups during the show.. we all escaped with no injuries... then on the the waffle house and to the best of my knowledge the weirdest scene in waffle house history. people were doing strange white powders on the high bar while a tuxedo mullet and his diva with glowing heels made out next to the atm.. in the back corner there were dance parties and everyone kept exchaniging little packages with each other for money.. and to my dismay my grits were very bad, and i think its kinda hard to fuck up grits...
Friday nite takes the big city bush show to a great bar in an old airplane hanger or greenhouse , anyway you get the motif. prior to going on stage we noticed girls with their shirts off lying on the bar doing body shots... after the bar cleared a bit we made way to get a cold on before we went on round 2am.. this is when luke and myself turned into jello shooters... we rocked the house. and made our way back to the jello.. after countless slurps... and viewing more lesbo birthday body shots, we staggered back to home our jc headquarters.. KLC & HLE thanks..

. wasted on to the indian buffet the next afternoon... luke and i broke up here as he rocked another night with hot carl at a hotel bar in a best western and i made my way to el break up party in the oasis of marshall nc... wich was the only time in my life i have ever witnessed childbirth, it was on video but kinda freaked me out... great show erich and danny! i also got a pete rose forged valentine....
sunday morning was avacado sandwiches... and whiffle ball at mccoys where i luckilly whipped everyones ass in home run derby.. time out this week, for a few days anyway...

snake

runnin on faith

2007-02-07T18:23:00.000-05:00

cool shows in raleighwood, nc... leake the buddah peters the whole gang was great!
it was a peacefully busy urban congested afternoon in our nations capital . as i was going to the guitar shoppe and...KAFUCKBINGBLOWWEE.. a older gent in a truck smashed the shit out of the caveman cruiser.. we both esccaped with no injury.. my cars was still driveable. with a bit of finageling and rubber hoses i was able to patch things together and rolled up the mtn to avill in one but tatterd pieces... im loving dancin tony and the turkey sandwiches @ sadlacks, and the jcash photos and the drunken yamika party at the bickett. the shows were semi calm as the square footage for the performances were tight... had a coo late nite dance party with the f-varina gang, & ate some great pesto gnocchi with leake and the buddah and got hammered on quazi mad dog and jap beers.. also the north hills jewel princess is noteworthy. grrrrr! so life goes on tattered ducked and trying..

peace
snake

snow day suaree

2007-01-30T22:11:00.000-05:00

Well made it through the birthday rager. with only a few scrapes and shakey hands. big thanks to kristen and paige turner for the "snake cake" which rocked my world and yes i ate the eyeballs first. also to M.A.V for the glowing skull lights... as the weekend screeched to a roaring halt i have stumbled into monday or tuesday remnicising of $6 dollar pitchers, and the brain cells i lost. also good to see the ace j wolf bstock on the scene at salsas. my neck hurts like a mother fucker after rocking the walls off the frozen building with luke wood and big city bush and the bathroom suaree. i know my spelling sucks. so as we move in the week the caveman show is heading to raleighwood for beer and sandwiches at sadlacks. cant wait to see leake and peters. im also tyring to raise cash to pay for the smoking new release. any ideas?

p.s. yes luke and i did rip our shirts off during the show and smash shit, and yes i smashed my penis aginst the glass entry hall way at frozen onlookers.

love
snake

2007-01-10T17:50:00.000-05:00

Or will it take everything

2007-01-10T17:10:00.000-05:00

the caveman crew are awaiting the birth of the debut album "or will it take everything?" erich hubner of "man or astroman" and "El hub" is behind the controls in his countryside studio in Marshall nc. im gathering up all the loose ends and raising the funds for the project and were hopin its in stores in mid- february. were currently organizing a tour for the southern states for feb march. ill be posting news and pics on this site.... see you soon

snake