Its nice and busy in the land of Morrison right now! And I love that I have this Blog because it helps me catch up with the reality of my daily life. Its easy to have all these things swirl by in a haze, but stopping every few days to recap on here makes me remember things, appreciate things, and generally catch up with myself!!! So - What with some Freddy activity, some approaching Diablo stuff, plus starting to work on the new Morrison TV Channel over at YouTube.com, and the whole V-Blog/Website/internet thing that looms periodically, I am being kept busy and out of trouble!! I also need to get over to the editing bay and watch the latest edit of that documentary we were shooting a month or so ago, and I have a couple of other film based things that I need to follow up on ...... but we'll get to that lot in November, I would imagine. For now, its been The Tonight Show performance, the San Francisco gig, the upcoming Diablo show at The Viper on Saturday (14th Oct) and then the Freddy show in Orange County next week.

First up was Leno - and although it was weird doing that without Dave, the addition of our guests Slash and Rick Nielsen filled up the lead guitar spots nicely, and we had a long but fun day over at NBC. Thanks to everyone who made it painless for us, and hopefully, you lot are enjoying the video on this site. They pulled it from YouTube and will probably end up getting me to pull it from here as well, so enjoy it while you can!!

Then it was off to San Francisco, and a big extravaganza of a show at the amazing Warfield Theatre in the heart of the Tenderloin district of San Fran. For those of you who don't know that area ...... hmm ..... well, picture this scene, and all will become clear .......
'Billy Morrison arrives at the stage door in a town car, straight from the airport. He gets out of the car, holding his Louis Vuitton sports bag, and wearing his new Henry Dwarte custom made leather coat. He's feeling pretty good after the short flight from Los Angeles. Suddenly, he feels a tap on his shoulder, and hears a voice quietly whispering ....... "Yo - hey brother - I gots me the shit here" ...... Morrison turns around, and stares into the crack smoke-filled eyes of an addict weighing about 95 pounds, covered in dirt, and holding his hand out with three rocks of cocaine lying in his filthy palms. ...."$25 dollars for all dem rocks, brother - you want?" ......
THAT is the Warfield Theater, and the Tenderloin!! An awesome venue in the heart of drugland, and its ALL going off outside the venue ALL day!!! Another time, another place, and I woulda been out there. SO glad its different for me these days.

The show was killer!! Joe Satriani, Lars and Robert from Metallica, Chester from Linkin Park, Slash and Duff ...... we pulled a huge rock and roll show out of the hat, and played for about an hour and a half. Everyone had a blast as usual, and Steve Jones took Dave's place for the opening few tunes, before the rest of the guests came out. McGrath, De Martini, Stephen Jenkins ....... we all played and sang well, and despite really missing both Navarro and Chaney (who will BOTH be back in full effect at the upcoming Orange County show), we did well, had a great show, and came home tired but happy.

The next night, I landed at LAX, came home, got changed, and went up to the Spike TV Scream Awards at Pantages Theater, where Ozzy was getting some kind of life achievement award. I am not sure what it was, cos we went up with him, and left straight afterwards, but I did get to watch Korn do one song (which sounded cool) and the whole Ozzy thing was great - flames, buzzards, people in strange masks!!! Watch it on Spike TV tonight (I think).

Then tonight, we have another screening of Tripping Forward, this time at the Hollywood Film Festival thing at Manns Multiplex thing on Hollywood Blvd. I shall be nipping up there for a bit, and then making my exit and moving on. Lots to get done this week. INCLUDING - VERY IMPORTANT!!! Voting for Circus Diablo in the unsigned band MySpace competition. Check it out - vote for us and help us raise our profile on MySpace. It ALL helps get the band on the road and into YOUR city!!! Which is where you all tell me you want us to be!!! So CLICK HERE AND VOTE FOR CIRCUS DIABLO

Finally, make sure you listen in to Camp Freddy Radio on Saturday night, as I will be giving tickets away for the CIRCUS DIABLO show at THE VIPER ROOM that same night. I will be going in to join Dave on the show after our soundcheck, and during the show, I'll give away a few pairs of tickets to come to the show later that evening (OCT 14th) - it will sell out, so these tickets will be very handy to have!!!

Thats it - enjoy the V-Blog. I have to get outta here, but click on the new YOUTUBE/MORRISONTV button on this page and subscribe to my channel. Lets spread the word, and I promise that eventually, Morrison TV will have exclusive content, not shared with this site or any others. So get on there and subscribe people!!! All your questions from the last couple of posts will be answered in my next blog. Till then .....

Billy

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Posted by vivelerock at October 10, 2006 04:32 PM

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