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September 30, 2005
WOW - WHAT A NIGHT!!
The 12 hour day that we pulled yesterday was just amazing!! The Key Club was just packed with people, and everyone pulled out the stops to provide maximum rock and roll, and generate some much needed cash for the people down in the Gulf Coast. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen - BC Ethic, Indie 103.1, The Key Club, Nine.Com, our own fantastic team at Bolthouse, and of course, everyone that came out, bought a ticket or a shirt, won an auction, and got into the spirit. You all made it another night to remember.
The day was long - very long!! Dave and I arrived at noon, and ran over the songs a couple of times. Then we soundchecked for four hours, until 6.00pm. At which point we had a meeting about a few things. Then at 7pm, we had a crazy live CFR broadcast from the club. I have NO IDEA what that must have sounded like, as we had no monitors, no headphones, and the room was full of people getting drunk!! But we got through it, and moved on to a few bits and pieces of press. At sometime around 9.30pm, our good friends Camp Teddy hit the stage and did Mark Bolan's Get It On. These kids completely pulled it off. They sounded great - so great in fact, that Dave, Matt and I jumped onstage and did some impromptu backing vocals!! Respec' to Alec and the boys for warming it up before we came on. Hope you all had a great time.
Everyone knows there are fires burning in So Cal because of the heat we are getting right now. And from the moment we hit the stage, I knew it was going to be a hot, sweaty affair!! And of course, I had chosen to wear a suit!! The jacket lasted about three songs, before the heat and the sweat made it feel like I was gonna pass out!! The list of guests last night went on forever. Terri Nunn, Jerry Cantrell, Steve Jones, Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard), Ty Taylor, Billy Duffy, John5, Rob Zombie, Brandon Boyd and Mickey Einziger (Incubus), AJ Popoff, (Lit) Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow), Rex Brown (Pantera), Mark McGrath, Cherie Curry (The Runaways) ....... all on the same stage. Absolutely fantastic. We played a bunch of the usual stuff, but threw in Cherry Bomb and Lets Go Crazy to keep us on our toes!! I know we all had a great time, and thanks again to everyone who came out and made it a great night.
After the show, I came home and started to watch this weeks episode of Lost (by the way, the shark was attracted by Sawyer's blood) but I fell asleep while it was on, so I'll watch the rest today. NOBODY spoil it for me!! I have a meeting or two today - one of which is with our new Guru Girl Allison, so watch out people. Billy will be armed with enough information about how this blog works to be REALLY dangerous!! Suddenly, things will look weird, posts will go missing, and I will be on the phone to Allison screaming .."What have I done??? I've broken it!!" No - seriously, I will be finding out how certain things work, so that between us, we can keep the site looking fresh, with some MP3's and video, and she will also be starting work on an all-new Camp Freddy site next. We are getting there people!!
OK - Enough blogging for me. Camp Freddy radio will be live again on Saturday and I believe Dave will be with us. Always good radio when that guy is on there. He brings a smile to everything he does, and for that I am truly greatful. I am off to sift through a million digi pics of last nights show, and see if there is anything decent in there. Mucho thanks to our boy, Todd Newman, for manning the cameras and fighting to document such crazy shows. I shall now .......... sign off.
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at September 30, 2005 08:28 AM
Comments
Last night's show was amazing - my first Camp Freddy show since I've moved to Hollywood! You boys (and girls) did not disappoint - I had a blast. Every song was stellar. And Camp Teddy killed it!
Let me just say - that those pilates are surely working - you're ripped, man! Not that you were hard on the eyes before, but... wow.
Posted by: Theresa at September 30, 2005 10:21 AM
Billy-Congrats on the show & awesome pics.
Posted by: Brett at September 30, 2005 10:27 AM
What Abby said! Your shirt went off and we both were like"dammmmnnnn" thank you for coming to sing I Wanna Be Your Dog to us, and the damn cell phone DIDN'T get the pic, but the image will stay in my mind! (Nice Dunks)
You guys rocked it, Billy, would like to hear you sing more often, you rocked Search and Destroy!
A pleasure meeting you, Kate, Laurie Tuttle and Theresa!(homegirl)! Off to daydream about men who do Pilates...
Posted by: Junebug at September 30, 2005 10:31 AM
ROCK N ROLL!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
The show was AWESOME!!!!!
Camp Teddy ROCKED DA HOUSE!!
Bits n Pieces...(especially for you Simon)
Lineup was -
Hot Karl
Camp Teddy
Camp Freddy
Dave was sick (ill) but was sick (amazing) anyway - he MUST have sweated out any gremlins in his system by the end of the night.
Billy was fab, even tho we didn't get to see the new boots.
Terri Nunn was great & I think (?) did some naughty stuff with Donovan on stage lol...
http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&logsrch=1&sfld=&nbc1=1
(type Camp Freddy in search)
She also sang Feel Like Making Love with Ty Tyler.
Annabella is awesome & beautiful.
Rob Zombie electrified the crowd & had some badass pants on!
Hey Billy - so glad you have Todd the phat photog documenting these gigs coz...
Some horrible pics from my crap phone here...
http://photobucket.com/albums/a180/califan/Camp%20Freddy/
THANX BILLY for another amazing night!
Posted by: laurie tuttle at September 30, 2005 10:51 AM
Glad to hear that the show was such a success! Hope you guys all had a blast...the rest of us are living vicariously thru you!
Billy - let me know when you're ready for me to spill the beans with Lost... It's a good one.
Posted by: flamingheart at September 30, 2005 11:35 AM
Hey Billy. i just woke up man im sore all over from jumping when you guys were playing we starrted a full freenzy in the cround everyone was jumping it was awsome during rob zombie. ok well i want to THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING man last night was awsome. i cant say thank you enough. you guys are the greatest!
Posted by: Alec from camp teddy at September 30, 2005 11:55 AM
wow my spelling is really bad
Posted by: Alec from camp teddy at September 30, 2005 12:00 PM
here's a few pictures. I had a real hard time getting anything and didn't have enough memory...
Posted by: Wendybird at September 30, 2005 02:38 PM
Thanks so much for those pictures Wendybird! Great shots of Billy Duffy...what a great musician and a fine handsome man. Thanks for adding some color to the show!
Posted by: Musemelodic at September 30, 2005 03:09 PM
Junebug, it was a pleasure to meet you last night finally. Wendy... we didn't see you anywhere girl. Glad to know you got there. Laurie Tuttle, my bud! Always a pleasure.
Billy, I adore that tat on your back! First time seeing that! What does it say?
Camp Teddy, I am so proud of you! What a perfect opening for our guys!
Well, I'm still thrashed, but thank you again for a fantastic night!
Posted by: Kate at September 30, 2005 06:30 PM
Billy...what have you done! It's gone crazy here...must be amidst some experimentation here ;)
Posted by: Abby at September 30, 2005 07:06 PM
Wow...things are weird here...I had to hi-light the page in order to see any writing and the comments have all run together....
Anyway...glad the show was such a success and Wendy...your pics were awesome as usual...always makes me feel like I didn't miss so much!
Have a nice, relaxing weekend Billy :D
Posted by: Cori at September 30, 2005 09:07 PM
Incredible show last night!!! Great song selection and you SHOULD sing more often. "Search and Destroy" and 'I Wanna Be Your Dog" were perfect!
Jezzi, I think I might have seen you there. Were you on Billy's side to the far right?
Posted by: amy at September 30, 2005 11:40 PM
hey billy anpther awesome show. your guys did a great job once again. cant wait till next time
Posted by: jake at October 1, 2005 01:28 AM
love and hugs Billy..
the eye is the window to the soul...;)
Posted by: ylais at October 1, 2005 05:10 AM
Eek! WTF?? Okay never mind, haven't had coffee yet....
Posted by: Junebug at October 1, 2005 08:25 AM