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January 25, 2008

I.S.P. HELL

Thats what happens when you try and make things faster, newer, stronger, better. They just stop working altogether! The whole week since I got back from Sundance has been 'sans internet' and all because I made the educated decision that my ISP wasn't as fast as it could be ....... and the 'new, better' service promptly didn't work!! So I have spent days figuring out whats up, with tech support feeling like they now know my most personal details, and a working knowledge of DHCP leases, IP addresses and stuff that I JUST DON'T NEED TO KNOW!!! Anyhow, I am back online again, and yes, it is indeed faster - by a hair. Was it worth it? Probably not. Will I sleep better knowing that my materialistic, 'keep up with the Jones' attitude has been sated by a kajillion MBPS upload speed? Maybe. All I know is that life without the web is a scary, dark place. Even scarier, in fact, than the dark places available to us ON the web!!

OK, so Sundance was SO hectic, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. The actual Camp Freddy gig was a fairly low key, last minute affair. We were asked about a week before if we wanted to jam, and literally called a couple of friends on the day of the show to actually put the set together. Dave Navarro had previous commitments, so Billy Duffy came up and played lead for the evening. Cisco Adler, Scott Ian, Johnny Fayva and Nuno Bettencourt all jumped up at various points, and the 500 people that saw the show had a great time. The gig ended with me at the top of a HUGE drum monitor, surveying the whole scene (and wondering exactly how to get down again!!) and it was a great way to finish off a few days in the snow. But you can forget a V-Blog - I looked at the minimum footage I remembered to get and its not worth it. It was so 'Go Go Go' the whole time, that the stuff I did get is lame. Even lamer than usual!! So we'll do a good one soon. Instead - enjoy the Moose pic. I did!!

The DJ gig was also successful - T-Mobile had put together this really cool 'cyber-diner' type place with a bunch of great food and computers everywhere. I spun for two hours before moving next door to play the Freddy show. I have definately been getting better and better on the turntables and felt confident for most of the set. I always have a few 'moments' throughout when I wonder what to play next, or if I press the wrong button! But I figure its the same as guitar playing - no one really notices if you recover quickly and well!! Big up to Justin and his mate who had the tenacity to bug me until I got em in!! Hope you both had a great time. It was my pleasure to help, and you all need to know that when I can, I will.

I will have news on a few things at the end of the month. Plans are coming together, and 2008 is shaping up. I FINALLY put a 'Billy Morrison' MySpace page up - we'll see how I feel about it in a month or so!! The address is MySpace.Com/BillyMorrisonMusic - and you can click on the pic above to take you there - feel free to add away. Right now, I need to hunker down and hide from the torrential rain that we have here in LA right now (feel better about yerselves, London!!) and hope that the SoCal sun shows its head around here soon. Ask your questions - lets do some of that again. Back at the weekend with Dave and an all new CFR. Till then - PEACE!!!

Billy

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Posted by vivelerock at January 25, 2008 08:26 AM

Comments

One of our Saleman in LA called the office before and told us about how bad the rain is...but you know you guys REALLY need it! So enjoy it while it lasts.
I know the "life without the web" feeling, my DSL was out for a few days last year and I was climbing the walls! You always feel like your missing something that your not.
So HOW many myspace pages do you have to keep up with now?? Like you have all that extra time on your hands! :-p
Well you better except me as a friend!

Posted by: Robin (Peebs) at January 25, 2008 09:34 AM


were you able to install liquid compass?

Slice x

Posted by: bkslice at January 25, 2008 10:47 AM

http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/25/hard-rock-royalty-who-are-the-lucky-seven/

Do we call you Sir Billy now??
NICE!!

Posted by: Robin (Peebs) at January 25, 2008 12:09 PM

Peebs, you beat me to it! I was just going to post that.

NICE!!!

And Nuno played with you guys? Aaaarrrgh.. wished I'd been there. Very cool.

Posted by: Kate at January 25, 2008 05:11 PM

is there any particular reason why the moose has dreadlocks? =P

Posted by: UC13 at January 25, 2008 07:12 PM

Sexy Rastafarian moose there.... good catch UC!

Posted by: Kate at January 25, 2008 07:49 PM

Hey Billy-welcome to the myspace world. I didn't know if I would like it but check it daily;)

An odd question, have you ever watched an infomerical all the way through? Which one?

Thanx for ALWAYS answering my questions, you ROCK BILL!! have a a happy weekend, Db

Posted by: Danni at January 25, 2008 07:50 PM

Infomercial-sorry, no spell check

Posted by: Danni at January 25, 2008 07:52 PM

you know, I was wondering where you'd got to Billy!!
i thought, that's not like Billy, to be offline for this long!
glad it's all sorted now, and you've returned to entertain us with your posts.
love and hugs
Lisa x

Posted by: ylais at January 25, 2008 11:16 PM

Hey Billy, you will be pleased to know that it is nice and sunny here in London! YES... SUNNY! Not so warm though hehe

Question:
- Any chance of us here over the pond getting to see Diablo play some shows or festivals this year?

I think you guys would go down really well at both the Download festival and Reading & Leeds.

re: camp freddy - did you or dave manage to get in touch with someone from Starbucks after they refused to send coffee to the troops?


Have a good week dude, and take care!

Posted by: Claire at January 26, 2008 09:17 AM

do you know where that camel's lips have been??!!

Posted by: merc957 at January 26, 2008 03:11 PM

Huge fucking props to Billy for a great night! You really hooked me up and I owe you big time! The setlist was awesome and I positioned myself right in front of Mr. Duffy and watched him kill it even with very little practice on most of the songs! Everyone was great and a fucking blast was had by all I'm sure.

Camp Freddy plays some of best songs ever, but they are cranked up and intensified to be even more fun than the originals!

Freezing weather, obscure location, infamous rockstars, A-list actors, and a fucking stellar rock show equals one of the most memorable and fun nights of my life!

Only one word can describe a night with Camp Freddy at Sundance and that word comes from your favorite EMF song-UNBELIEVABLE!

Thank You so much Billy...Peace!
JB

Posted by: Justin Blamestorm at January 26, 2008 05:12 PM