Billy Morrison: DIAGNOSIS

January 18, 2006

DIAGNOSIS

Wow. From the emails and posts, to the candle-lit vigils and the naked girls dancing the 'sick laptop' dance, you guys stepped up to the plate!! And the end result is a mixed one. The laptop officially passed away late last night. Hard drive failure and a corrupted logic board were the official causes of death. They did manage to rescue most of the data from the machine, so I will be transfering that over to this computer after Sundance, and I consider myself lucky to have other machines around, so that I can continue everything. Its funny - I was trying to justify buying one of the new Mac laptops that come out in February. Now I dont need to justify anything. I have to buy a new laptop anyway! So I'll be without portable computer power until they are released (Oh NO!! what will I do for three weeks!!) I do have alternate methods for doing video blogs, so they will continue to arrive as and when I get around to filming them. Which brings me to ......

Sundance. I am really looking forward to that. We fly out tomorrow, and play outside, at the base of the mountain in Park City, Utah on Friday night at 7.30pm. Its right outside The Canyons hotel, so if you are up at the Film Festival, stop by and hang out. Its not a Camp Freddy show, but a few of the usual suspects will be there, and we are all doing it as a reason to spend a couple of days in the snow, maybe a bit of skiing or snowboarding, and some rock and roll thrown in for good measure. We fly back late Friday night and I have an early morning call for NAMM the following day, so I will be the one in the corner at Gibson's booth on Saturday with shades on, getting a quick nap behind the Les Pauls!!

I'll be with Matt up at Sundance, so hopefully we can schedule another week in his studio to finish off the Circus Diablo tracks. As soon as they are done, I can begin the process of getting them out. We plan do do a few licensing deals to help get the EP out to a few different places, and of course, once the website is functional, they will be available on there as well. I'll talk to Billy about some shows at the end of the year, as he will be busy with The Cult for a while. More news as I get it.

A new video blog will appear on Sunday (hopefully shot on location in the stunningly beautiful winter wonderland of Park City, Utah, and maybe even a glimpse from the madness of NAMM - now there's an idea!) so I hope you have a great few days, and I will be back when I can.

Peace

Billy

Posted by vivelerock at January 18, 2006 07:06 AM

Comments

First!! haha!!
Good news, Billy!
Have fun~!! Looking forward to listening on Saturday and seeing what you come up with for your next vlog!

jezzi

Posted by: jezebel at January 18, 2006 08:25 AM

RIP little laptop...you were a good and faithful servant. At least most of your data was spared!

Have a blast in Utah (kinda seems like an oxymoron, huh?) and be safe.

Posted by: Cori at January 18, 2006 09:37 AM

So I gather you will not be alongside Billy with The Cult this time around? Sorry to hear that...

Posted by: SVen at January 18, 2006 09:50 AM

Good news!!! I recently had a hard drive crash and I lost 5 years worth of digital pictures of my kids...I am still in the wife's dog house over that one. I now own an external hard drive and am doing regular image back-ups of my internal drives. I am so glad you were spared my fate. Now if only I could do something about the wife's being pissed about it cuz it's lonely on the couch! lol:) Sounds like you will have a kick ass time at sundance. enjoy!

Contact me if you are still interested in me working on that Myspace page for you...
jedi_scott@comcast.net.

Scott

Posted by: Scott Williams at January 18, 2006 11:28 AM

Have a lot of fun there Billy. And I can't wait to hear C.D. tracks once you guys put them out there.

Posted by: JRoberto at January 18, 2006 11:53 AM

Glad that most of the data was retrieved, and a new laptop..that's always fun.

Enjoy Sundance!

hugs
Lisa
xxxx
(I'll be on the couch sleeping off a cold..man I feel like a steamroller ran over me. :S)

Posted by: ylais at January 18, 2006 12:23 PM

Sorry to hear about the ending of your laptop. Been there before my friend. Guess we all don't realize sometimes how much we rely on our computers. Then again, happy computer shopping! :D

And Ian? How could he? Hitting your head like that. Gain control of your instrument man! I think I once heard something about David Lee Roth swinging his mic around and slamming himself good on the head. I'm sure it's happened more then we know.

I remember about hearing about some of Def Leppard's early shows and Steve Clark did this big Pete Townsend windmill setup and when he struck the guitar strings....no sound. D'oh! So much for the big setup, ha ha.

Thanks for sharing Billy and have fun in Utah!
Peace,
~Muse

Posted by: Musemelodic at January 18, 2006 12:55 PM

Nice to hear that all your computer woes will work out for you in the end, Billy.
Also glad to know of more V-blogs to come, one from NAMM and Sundance would be rad no doubt!

Posted by: Spencer at January 18, 2006 01:43 PM

Billy

Glad to hear all your data was not lost. Dude you must be relieved. Talking about guitar shows and NAMM what is your favourite guitar tone/sound from another artist i.e Van Halen's brown tone

Have a good one

Junkie

Posted by: junkie inc at January 18, 2006 02:16 PM

You didn't lose all of your data... AND now have a valid reason to buy a new Mac in just a few short weeks! Sounds like a win/win situation with a valuable lesson tucked inside -- back up your hard drive!

Actually, your computer mishap finally motivated me to transfer all of my data off of my old machine... much of which can be seen on my MySpace page. What do you think? A bit too much? =)

And while on the topic of MySpace, I think that having someone maintain a page for you would be a great idea... the Camp Teddy boys alone have at least 1000 friends between them. A few "Billy" bulletins would get the word out, and ulimately bring more traffic here. So, outsource away!

Have an amazing time at Sundance. Bring me back some free swag, won't you?

Caffeinated Sue =)

Posted by: Caffeinated Sue at January 18, 2006 03:48 PM

Billy,

Thought you might need a laugh in these sordid times of laptop hell..

http://www.mugshots.com/Criminal/Sex%20Offenders/Billy+Morrison.htm

It's amazing what kind of shit you can find while Google-ing..

A good day to all,
Jay

Posted by: Jay at January 18, 2006 04:15 PM

Hey Billy,
Glad to hear most of your data was salvaged. I won't be in Utah but I do hope to catch you at the NAMM show. You'll be the one with snow still on your boots.
And next time you want a new MAC, you don't have to justify it by trashing your old hard drive, just go buy it. Hugs!

beth

Posted by: beth at January 18, 2006 07:56 PM

Yeah, what all those above me said.., glad to hear that you could retrieve some things.

Have a great time at Sundance!

Posted by: Stardreme at January 18, 2006 08:30 PM

Who is Older - You or Dave ?
and
When and How did you guyz meet and become good friends ?

Thanx

Posted by: JOHN DICKERSON at January 19, 2006 08:00 AM

okay, own up! who was dancing the naked laptop dance? :D

Posted by: ylais at January 19, 2006 08:21 AM

I hired the 100 girls to do the naked lap top dance. I have to have a little word with their shaman, btw... it was supposed to WORK entirely.

I told her no donkeys, but she wouldn't listen.

It would be bad and wrong if I did it personally....

Posted by: Kate at January 19, 2006 09:19 AM

He llegado a esta pagina de pura casualidad. Pero como veo que sois muy majos, os mando un saludo y os deseo suerte con vuestro nuevo grupo.Un abrazo desde las montañas del Pirineo(España), de parte de Marina.

Posted by: Marina at February 5, 2006 04:30 PM

Por cierto, alguien sabría indicarme
como llegar hasta una página oficial
de los CULT? Eso es lo que andaba buscando
y por eso llegué hasta ésta, CONGRATULATIONS
está MUY BIEN HECHA.Voy a flipar si alguien
me responde porque me imagino no entendereis
ni papa de castellano(SPANISH).DES GROS BISOUS
POUR TOUT LE MONDE and good luck with the new
band.

Posted by: Marina at February 5, 2006 04:42 PM

MARINA. my Email adress is:
ordequin@hotmail.com

Posted by: Marina at February 5, 2006 04:55 PM