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October 16, 2004

WHAT A MESS!!

I feel really bad about last nights show. Due to no fault of our own, we went onstage at 9.00pm instead of 10.00pm. And after we played, I found out that a lot of people showed up about 9.30pm and saw us play the last song!! I am really pissed about it and apologize to everyone who came down. I give all of you my word that I will take care of you at future shows. (Stacy, - great to meet you and thank you for coming.)
It was just a big mess last night - all the onstage times were wrong, the running order was wrong, and we were thrown up onstage with absolutely no soundcheck, and expected to play!! Not one of us could hear anything at all. It was the longest 40 minutes of my life!! And to find out that most people who came down to see us, missed us, was just the icing on the cake. I shouted at the people I could shout at, complained, bitched, moaned to agents, managers, tour managers.....it just wasnt doing any good. It is what it is, and lets move on to tonights show.
I am ASSURED that our onstage time is 8.45pm - 9.30pm and that we are onstage directly before Orgy. Now, I was ASSURED that last nights time was 10.00pm, so who knows!! But as it stands right now, we will be onstage at 8.45pm. So if you are coming down, please come and say hi, and we will do our best to entertain.

CFR will be a re-run tonight as Dave is recording with TPC, Matt's back on the road, Dono is in New York, and I will be dealing with another Orgy show (and all that seems to entail). BUT we will be broadcasting the following two weeks radio shows live from The Wiltern. The 23rd will be live from Camp Freddy's show, and the week after will be live from Courtney Love's Halloween show. Should be fun.

Gotta dash - gotta go find someone else to yell at!!! Sean, Jon and myself will be in the chat room at 8.00pm tomorrow (Sunday) night, so if you wanna hang out in there with us for a while, feel free to stop by. Hope to see some of you tonight, or in the chat tomorrow.

Billy

Posted by vivelerock at October 16, 2004 08:22 AM

Comments

Hey Billy

I wasn't at the show last night due to that small geographical issue called CANADA, but I could feel your frustration when I read your post this morning.

I know it means a lot to the bunch of us that loaf around in here that you care about us so much. Don't worry too much about last night. Even though I wasn't there, I know we all understand that some shit is just out of our hands.

Let's hope you have a better time at tonight's gig.

Ciao

Posted by: flamingheart at October 16, 2004 10:10 AM

Billy, I understand your pain about last night. I hate when things don't go as planned especially when you've checked and re-checked that things go as planned. I had been studying for my grad school entrance exam. But what I didn't know is that the test changed from 100 questions to 120 and the practice tests were way easier than the actual test which is made up of nothing but analogies. I don't mind analogies, but the creator of this test must have been insane. It was worse than I expected, that's for sure. I also didn't expect to go to South Street and have such a tough time finding a place that sells decent nose rings! It's sad how much I love my nose piercing. I used to have my eyebrow pierced but I took that out once it started to grow out. It was an impulse piercing. I got it after I found out the Cult show was cancelled in Pittsburgh because of Aerosmith and poor Steven Tyler's sore throat. I was so pissed I took my $80 refund and spent most of it shoving a needle through my eyebrow. So, that's my Cult anecdote/when things don't go your way story of the day...

Posted by: Julia at October 16, 2004 11:30 AM

That is so crap! First show in ages and JS has only just got back, and they pull that shit on you. Just piss poor planning by the sound of it (there's my piece of alliteration for the day).

Hope tongiht's show goes a lot better, and I'll see if I can drag my arse out of bed at 4am monday morning (although been suffering from a shitty cold I picked up in Manchester on Monday).

Laters

Kim

Posted by: Kim (Last Wave) at October 16, 2004 02:51 PM

Hey, Billy,
I've been to The Vault befor and the gig I went to see was a total mess. I'm sure it has to do with The Vaults management, so just blow it off and enjoy tonights gig...

kdee

Posted by: kdee at October 16, 2004 02:56 PM

hey billy, sorry to hear the mess and I'm know you guys are upset about it. We, your fans, know it's not the group's fault so please don't beat yourselves up over it. I hope tonight's show does go better and can't wait to talk with you all tomorrow night.

take care,
tina

Posted by: tina at October 16, 2004 03:33 PM

Billy, Thank you again for offering the guestlist to the "family". I caught the last couple songs. What I heard sounded great. Just kicking myself for not leaving the house earlier :(

Posted by: Louise at October 16, 2004 07:53 PM

hey, any of you guys listen to CFR last night? I had Indie 1031 up and was listening to it and CFR just started then it went dead. Have not been able to get anything from the station at all since then? Wondering if it's just me or has anyone else had any problems?

I watched a movie instead, haven't done that since I August on a saturday night. ;)

Billy, hope your show went without any hitches last night.

See you all later tonight in chat!

ciao, tina

Posted by: tina at October 17, 2004 07:53 AM

I didn't have any problems listening Tina, but I know it died for Julia too.

My beef with Indie last night was that they seemed to start the 'repeat' episode about 1/2 way thru even tho it was 6pm. Billy and Dave were right in the middle of taking calls to give something away when the show faded in. Then at around 7pm, a different episode started. They ran it until about 8:15, inserted commercials in the wrong places and then just cut it off. It was really annoying, but oh well. Thank god they were repeats.

See all you guys in chat tonight!!

Posted by: flamingheart at October 17, 2004 09:44 AM