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October 24, 2004
AMAZING!!
Wow - where do I begin? Its been a whirlwind week. Monday was travel day, and I flew out to New York to do the first of two Vanity Fair shows with Camp Freddy. (Note to self....NEVER choose the red eye flight again!!) Tuesday was a 'running around' day - went over to see the folks at Gibson Guitars, who are wonderful people, very helpful, and they gave me the tour and fixed up a couple of my Les Pauls. I also went over to J.Lindeberg (makers of the coolest suits) and they hooked me up with a fantastic suit and shirt for the red carpet. Black suit with a blue pinstripe, bootcut pants....very rock and roll. Thank you guys. Wednesday was rehearsal day, and a very long one at that. Fred Schneider (B52's) rocked out with us, as did Mr Duffy, Mr Cantrell, Ms Gershon and ......a certain Mr Reed!! Lou came into the rehearsal room, and everyone was extremely quiet and reverent. We ran through the two songs (Venus In Furs and The Blue Mask) and waited for his comments.....and he was very happy. He smiled and told the band how good we sounded. We were all stoked that he liked it so much, and went out to dinner at Nobu feeling good. Thursday was show day - a lot of soundcheck, a lot of press, a lot of hanging around.....and then Onstage. A packed Irving Plaza saw an amazing CF show - everyone played great, and the finale of Lou Reed just blew everyone away - including the band. An awesome experience. After the show, we hung around the dressing room for a while, and then made our way to the aftershow party at the hotel. Got to bed about 4.00am feeling VERY lucky, VERY happy and VERY tired!!!
After flying back on friday, we all went to The Wiltern yesterday to do it all over again. Different guests, different songs, but the same vibe - everyone having a ton of fun. Davy Havoc (AFI) rocked a couple of Bowie songs (Ziggy Stardust and Suffragette City), Terri Nunn (Berlin) floored everyone with her song Metro and a duet of Feel Like Making Love (with Stephen Jenkins from Third Eye Blind), Duffy and Cantrell just ROCKED the house as usual - we did the Alice In Chains song, Them Bones, with Jerry and it was just HEAVY!!! And we did The Cults Rain with Duffy and Leif Garret on vocals - sounded so cool. And the audience were just amazing. Everyone had a fantastic time, and I want to thank everyone who came down (a big thanks to Louise for the pictures - they are great)
And that has been my week - time for some R+R before next week begins. I made a mistake with that cartoon artwork. I thought that Jon had designed it, but he told me at the show last night that his designer, El Duce, did it and Jon had emailed it to me. My mistake....but I dont care who did it - it's still cool!! Next week is rehearsals with Doheny (we are playing at one of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week shows....an invite only affair I'm afraid, but I'll let you know how it goes) and we have The Roxy with Metal Skool next Monday 1st. I also have some studio stuff going on next week and a bunch of events to attend as well. So as usual, its a busy one.
Thank you all for your posts, emails, comments and general participation on this blog. I am totally enjoying the community and hope we continue to build it. As announced on Camp Freddy Radio last night (which we did live from The Wiltern), The Panic Channel and Doheny will be playing together on December 2nd, and it will be $1.03 to get in. It will be an all-ages show, and you have to bring a can of food to help feed the homeless at Xmas. Listen in to CFR each week to win tickets and other goodies.
Oh yeah, by the way -
Lisa..I sing Should I Stay (The Clash) and I Wanna Be Your Dog (Iggy Pop) with Camp Freddy.
B and WP..Gas milage on the Hummer Les Paul? Seatbelt guitar strap? You guys crack me up!!!
And Ive started 'Your Artwork 3' with a couple of cool pieces. The logo is very cool - send me one at a higher res - I need a bigger version so we can play with it.
Thats it for today. Back to the questions next week - wanna get you all thinking of your usual whacked-out answers!! And hopefully we will be able to announce more Doheny shows this week. Just waiting to hear from our agent. Peace, love and respect to you all - I'm off to Starbucks.
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at October 24, 2004 08:51 AM
Comments
Loved reading your post Billy.
You sing two really excellent songs.
FreAk has "Should I Stay" from CFR when you guys did the mini guitar version. Was that you singing then? It's tough to tell who's who sometimes for me on the radio when a few of you are there. I keep going..who said that? Who was that? Then feel foolish.
Anyway, love that mini guitar version. Really love it. It sounds so alive and raw. It's cool.
My god! Leif Garrett. I had a poster of him when I was 10. :D
(hey no poking fun at me...:P so there!)
And Terri Nunn too. Woohoo. I loved Berlin. She was always great live.
Picked those two out because I haven't heard their names in a long time.
Billy, I can't believe how busy you are and you are having a great time too. Glad Doheny has a couple of shows coming up.
Love Lisa xxxx
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 09:31 AM
Billy,
Terri Nunn was great on CFR as well, I thought her and Dave wee gonna get it on in front of the global internet radio listening audience. Radio porn if you will. Good stuff.
Leif Garrett doing "Rain"? That'll take a bit of time to digest.
Here's some pics of the Wiltern gig courtesy of Wire Image.
Posted by: Jay at October 24, 2004 09:54 AM
Sounds like you had a fantastic week and another busy one coming up. Seems you'll be pretty busy from now until xmas, which is great.
Want to say "happy birthday HEIDI" it's the big 30 isn't it. LOL :)
ta,
tina
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 11:11 AM
CFR was a treat yesterday, especially since a bunch of us headed to the Doheny chat room and had a blast listening and discussing the show together. Terri Nunn was great. And, I am so glad I got to find out what "the gun" is...thanks for that, Dave...
I just love Indie. I was listening to Passport Approved yesterday, it was awesome and chatting with the producer online. Very cool. I even got to send him one of my songs and he liked it. What a great radio station, made even better by CFR which I listen to religiously. Too bad I work during Jonesy's Jukebox.
Have a good week Billy and thanks for the in-depth update...btw, my best friend LOVES Nobu!
Posted by: Julia at October 24, 2004 11:15 AM
Almost forgot! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEIDI! I hope you had a great birthdy (and didn't end up too drunk to enjoy the party, tee hee!)
Love ya Heids!
Posted by: Julia at October 24, 2004 11:16 AM
Hey! went to the camp freddy show last night, it was AWSOME! you guys rocked!
Posted by: Sara at October 24, 2004 12:39 PM
pppsssttt billy, did you know the doheny blog is slowing being overtaken by canadians?
sshhhhh keep it under your hat, it's just between us. ;)
tatyana
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 12:42 PM
hey, tatyana in disguise
...pshhhht, over here.....
(whispering) overtaken by Canadians you say!?
I'm in!
background check:
I'm scottish born + transplanted....
...so that's Canadian, with a huge dollop of 'shyte disturrburr' mixed intae it :P
so, let's take this blog!
yours truly,
kristuffuh maltisanti
Posted by: skot at October 24, 2004 01:29 PM
Wheeeee...a Canadian takeover!! LOL
Glad to hear the shows were so much fun Billy. Looking forward to all the upcoming stuff from you guys.
And can you give a little shout-out to Sean for us? Tell him we all hope he's feeling better...well enough to at least do some laundry...lol
Heidi
PS - Thanks for all the birthday wishes Monkeys!! (hugs and kisses)
Posted by: flamingheart at October 24, 2004 01:57 PM
skot, be still my heart, scottish are you, well someone must have told you I have a weakness for scotland and anythign scottish, so you're on my team for the takeover.
Meet be behind the barn at midnight!
billy, you need to build a barn for me to take advantage... umm meet skot behind ;)
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 02:48 PM
Tina
Awright!!!
what side of the country are you on?
and so, whose midnight are we talkin about?
:P
Posted by: skot at October 24, 2004 03:56 PM
I'm on the east coast of Canada, hence the canadian takeover of billy's blog and my midnight of course. ;)
toodles,
tina
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 04:09 PM
okay tina....it's on!
im on the Left Coast here in BC
*I'll just pretend its midnight here..
we've got ya surrounded Bill!
give is your blog, ...or we'll send more ART!
Posted by: skot at October 24, 2004 04:30 PM
Who's going to meet me behind the barn? :(
Heidi~ Happy Birthday!
Love Lisa xxxx
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 04:34 PM
oh! i didn't quite catch what the gun is. what is it?
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 04:52 PM
billy, one word for last night: WOW ... thanks for such a fun show!
Posted by: Natalie at October 24, 2004 05:03 PM
Lisa,
Ask Jules to tell you all about the gun, she has a handle on it. rofl
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 07:02 PM
Oh man...my work is never done. The gun was a finger technique described by Dave on CFR to please a woman. I think that's all I need to say....
Posted by: Julia at October 24, 2004 07:30 PM
rofl jules, I love ya ;)
Posted by: tina at October 24, 2004 08:10 PM
oh god not the gun again...
New on K-tel..just for Julia.. "Daveys got a gun.. Davey's got a gun" ;)
Posted by: electric mayhem at October 24, 2004 09:23 PM
Lmao. :D Thank you for letting me in on that gun thing.
oh the puns, and jokes going through my mind..biting my tongue :X this is going to be torture for me.
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 11:09 PM
Tina, I didn't know Sean wasn't feeling well. I thought he was just being lazy about the laundry. Oops!
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 11:12 PM
Billy; That photo of you and Lou Reed captures a great moment..Lou Reed's expression as he's looking over at you.
:D He's smiling. Lou Reed is smiling at Billy.
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 11:14 PM
Billy: For Camp Freddy shows like the last couple of nights, how and when do you decide which songs to do?
Posted by: ylais at October 24, 2004 11:17 PM
OH NO...not "the gun"...ROFLMAO! See what happens Billy, when Dave shares with us all?? LOLOL!
Hey Skot...where the heck are ya in BC, cos I'm here too!
Posted by: flamingheart at October 24, 2004 11:40 PM
What up Billy!! U looked awesome in that suit u were sporting, sexy!! The shot of u grabbing yourself in one of the links posted on Dave site ") Ahhhh man to hear Metro live, that would be heaven, I used to get in so much trouble listening to that tape...lol tape... whew another flashback "P
I'd play sex..Im a over n' over...CFR was crazy funny bro..I could listen to u's chat all night for real!!! Peace n' luv to u's
Posted by: Colleen at October 25, 2004 07:06 AM