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August 05, 2006

FREDDY PLAYS THE BLUES

OK heres the deal people. I have been unable to get on this blog as much as I would have liked this past week - I suppose that's a good thing cos it means that I am busy working! But I have missed the interaction, the comments, the questions! Next week is a little calmer, so I'll be around. And I will do a V Blog from todays Freddy show at the House Of Blues for sure. Should be able to get a few fun bits and pieces from the days events! Its really early, and those cameras I told you about a couple of weeks ago are due to knock on the door any second (round two of having your life examined under a microscope!!) so I'll keep it brief.

The week has been absolutely full of good stuff - from the whole In Ear monitor thing (getting moulded and ordering all the lovely shiny technology!) to guitar rehearsals with Billy Duffy for Diablo (you should hear some of the stuff that Duffy's doing on these tracks ..... fucking awesome guitar!!). There was a writing session at the Sunset Marquis with my old pal, Jed Leiber - we were working on an old riff that we have had for a while, and I started writing melody and lyric with him, and laid down a guide vocal. The cameras were there that day too, and we even did a walk through of the grounds, and talked about the day I got married there, with Robbie Williams as the Priest!! The song sounds pretty cool, and we will carry on with that one next week. If it turns out well, I'll put it up for some soundtrack stuff. And I took a great meeting over at the Warner Bros studios - seems like I'll be involved with a movie, doing some music and also being in the film. That one is exciting and when the paperwork is done, I'll fill you in on the details. We had a Diablo management meeting - went over the numbers for the upcoming dates, got on the same page with the three dates we are trying to add (again, details soon), got some updated info on the whole album release thing (it appears that the release date will be a bit later than we wanted, because of the whole Xmas thing - probably now very early 2007, with dates across the US to match. When its all signed, sealed and delivered, you will be the FIRST to know ....... trust me, I am as impatient as you are!!!) - and I generally caught up on a bunch of details.

So I am sure you lot will forgive me if I haven't been as accessible as usual - its just been a case of having to actually put the hours in this week. You know, Billy.... work??!! Shit - I forgot about how that feels!!! But its all in a good cause - it means that I continue to be able to make music, be creative and not jump off a tall building!! I better get my ass in gear otherwise those cameras will be filming me washing my hair!! Off to another great day of Camp Freddy madness! Thank you SO much to all the street team people - LA and SF are full up - we still need a couple of people in the OC/San Diego area and also Vegas. But its up and running now, with downloadable flyers and stencils, and we will add more and more material up there for all you Street Teamers as the weeks go by. We love you all. Thats it - gotta dash - see ya soon.

Billy

Posted by vivelerock at August 5, 2006 08:14 AM

Comments

Just to let you know Billy, the small but dedicated OC ST has already been at work & is planning a high level strategy session with certain LA ST members, somewhere on Sunset, sometime this eve ;)

Posted by: ozmerica at August 5, 2006 10:59 AM

Bwahahahahahhahahahahahhaha

Posted by: Kate at August 5, 2006 11:04 AM

and sweet Theresa is hitting the street scene in SD this weekend with her one man street team...I was thinking, in order to judge effectiveness of Street Team, there should be some kind of way you can tell who is getting these flyers, what if, on some of the gigs ,you gave a dollar off admission if they had one of our flyers? that way, I wrote on the back of mine 'Tell them jezzi sent you!'

I'm hitting the Palm Springs, East of LA to the desert contingent, going to Metal Skool at Key Club Morongo to spread the word..

and oz and Kate....(shhh, be vewy qwiet..we're hunting wabbits)

Posted by: jezebel at August 5, 2006 11:28 AM

Hey Billy,

Good to hear you've got all this exciting stuff going on! Passed out a bunch of flyers outside the Wiltern last night after the Burning Brides/Eagles of Death Metal/Peaches show. Peaches is crazy!!!!

Alchemy

Posted by: Alchemy at August 5, 2006 12:20 PM

if pushing back the CD album means dates across the U.S., then it is definately worth it!

Posted by: MIke at August 5, 2006 12:36 PM

alright...I'll forgive you. You've been busy.

Btw...Dave wrote on his blog today that he had no idea about tonights CF gig? Geeez maybe he should start reading yours ;-) We knew WEEKS ago.

Later, enjoy tonight. Say Hi to Slash and Scott for me!

Robin

Posted by: Peebs at August 5, 2006 05:17 PM

No surprise, with the word on Duffy. As well your are correct, we SHOULD hear it!!!

Posted by: Spencer at August 5, 2006 09:11 PM

A'right Billy, spill it...
Loop posted over on Dave's Blog "Camp Freddy, Scott and Robby Krieger = un fuckin believable tonight."

Wo. Now there's something we gotta hear about!!! Plus there are no pic's up on Getty or Wire Image.

Posted by: Peebs at August 6, 2006 06:38 AM