Another busy weekend for Camp Freddy, with the benefit show last Thursday for Scott P at The Viper Room, followed by a quick trip to Vegas to open the new club at the Hard Rock Hotel And Casion, called Wasted Space. The hotel sent a plane for us (that’s how you roll when you own a casino!) so we had the pleasure of private travel. It’s something that you could really get used to……and completely ruins any regular commercial flight one might take in the future! So we hopped onto the plane and were in Las Vegas as quick as a flash.

Now I have to say that Las Vegas and the words ‘acoustic performance’ don’t exactly go together! But that’s what we were scheduled to do, so that’s what we did!! Gavin Rossdale also played before us, and did it acoustic style as well. Interesting vibe, especially in Las Vegas, but we had a blast anyway – Matt was on the drum kit and the rest of us sat on stools and did the ‘up close and personal’ thing!! HAHA!! My favorite moment was getting to play “What It’s Like” with Everlast – one of my all time favorite tunes, he just walked onstage unannounced, sat down next to me, and I just started playing the riff!! Very cool. Royston Langdon and Billy Duffy were our guests – we did a great version of The Cult’s Rain, and Royston nailed People Are Strange as well as his Spacehog hit, In The Meantime.

The next morning I wandered around the tables with Donovan, throwing a few dollars here and there and ended up walking away up a few bucks. Always the best way to leave that town. And that was that. Another swift Lear Jet ride back to our waiting cars in Los Angeles and its on to another week. This week is turning into a fantastic one for me – about to sign some paperwork on something that will fill up a lot of time for me in the coming months. Details, as always, as soon as its safe to do so!! But keep fingers and toes crossed!!

Got some diving booked for this coming weekend with my pal Patrick – no doubt we will be discussing the ‘Billy Morrison Solo Project’ while we both sit on the boat out to Catalina. Looking forward to getting wet again, and getting a few dives in before my vacation – Cozumel this year!! Big respec’ out to Ron and Beth at the Eco Dive Store on Sepulveda. Yet again they came through with the VIP treatment – they are the ONLY way to dive here in LA. That’s it. A lot of behind the scenes work for me this week, with the dive at the weekend. Last Saturdays CFR is up live (thanks to Paul as always) and Dave and I will be in the studio for another all-new CFR this coming Saturday, So tune in at 6.00pm on Indie 103.1FM or check it out on the website, www.indie1031.fm. Or just be lazy and wait until Navarro or myself have it up on the websites!! Either way – I’ll see ya soon.

Pretty unbelievable. The place was packed beyond belief, the police kept showing up outside and eyeing the lines of people and the scene outside with interest, the sweat was literally dripping off the walls of the club inside......and we raised a fantastic amount of money to help Scott P with all his medical expenses by playing loud rock and roll. To everyone who attended and donated, a huge THANK YOU!! And if you were there last night, you will have witnessed Chrissie Hynde jumping up onstage and trying to get us all to sing an Elvis Presley song with her!! None of us had any idea how the song went, but she kept singing it by herself anyway! Eventually Dave threw down the opening chords of Brass In Pocket and we were off and running again. If you were at the show, there will be a few extra details of that song and Chrissie's performance that spring to mind!! But I am not indulging that stuff here.

I gotta say that one of the many things I love about Camp Freddy is that there are few bands that invite, encourage and cope with a complete surprise appearance such as Chrissies last night. To play that song with her in a small club like that, with no prior warning that its going down, just makes the evening special for everyone. I think Chrissie had a great time as well......even though we don't really rock Elvis that much!! I am sure pics and video will surface, but again, thank you to all the people who came to see the show, the artists who played (Cory Taylor, Billy Duffy, Warren De Martini, Corey Parks, Abby Gennet, Stephen Perkins, Patrick Cornell, Terri Nunn, Dave Kushner, Mark McGrath, Brett Anderson and the inimitable Chrissie Hynde) and Harry and all at The Viper for making it possible. OH yeah.....and Mr Michael Ball from Rock And Republic jeans......you fucking rock!!!!! For me, I now turn my head towards Las Vegas and our acoustic show tomorrow at the Hard Rock hotel's new club, Wasted Space.

Billy

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I’ve never been much good at being sick. I revert to the age of about 9 years old and get really needy…..I stay in bed, eat Ben And Jerry’s Ice Cream and whine about how shitty I feel. It was even pretty much the same back in the day when I would be dope sick…..except without the ice cream. And without the bed!!! But I’m feeling a lot better today – and that’s good news, because our benefit show at The Viper is this week. Thursday to be accurate, and it looks like its gonna be a good one. I want to thank all of you who have made the effort to donate to Scott’s fund and please, if you live in LA, come down on Thursday night. Make a donation. Help us help one of the good ones.

We did a crazy private acoustic show on Friday night at The Peninnsula Hotel in Los Angeles. We played for an hour and had a couple of friends join us for a few songs. Highlight of the night for me was finally playing The Car’s “Just What I Needed” with Donovan singing. The song suits him perfectly, I learnt the solo note for note, and even with acoustics it sounded killer. I’m gonna be voting for that one in the electric set next time. And that next time seems to be this week! Twice! The show at The Viper on Thursday, and then I believe we are off to our home away from home, Las Vegas at the weekend for a show at the new club in the Hard Rock Casino – Wasted Space. More details on that soon, but I know the show is Saturday night. And I want to thank photographer Lynn Goldsmith for taking some great shots of Camp Freddy in Aspen - check out the collage picture below.

The radio show is up on the Podcasts page of the site (thank you Paul – hope you got some well deserved rest!) and as an added bonus, here is an MP3 of the Rod Stewart classic, Maggie May, with myself on acoustic and Matt Sorum on lead vocals. You gotta admit that Matt did a fantastic job on the song. Considering I sprung it on him at the last minute, pulled the guitar out ad said – lets do it now, on live radio! – I think he sounds great. CLICK HERE FOR MAGGIE MAY (Performed by MATT SORUM and BILLY MORRISON).

I’m done. I got nothing particular lined up for today. Its been a week without exercise so now that I feel better I’m gonna hit that shit with some purpose today, and then I’m going to start Season 3 of Nip/Tuck – and that will keep me occupied for the rest of the day. I also want to let you all know that I have had a few problems on this site with spammers and comments - we have been getting hundreds of Spam comments and I have been having to delete ALL comments in order to get rid of them. So if you see that you have commented and now its been deleted .... ITS NOT PERSONAL!!! Help me figure out how to block the fucking Spammers and I'll be able to leave yer comments alone. If I deleted you by mistake, I'm sorry!! Don't let that stop you from commenting. See ya.

Billy

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Time for an update I feel!! What with the Sunset Strip Music Festival, an appearance with McQueen at The Whiskey, a swift Freddy trip to Aspen, a video shoot and some CFR action its been a minute since I focused on this site. So lets rectify that and catch up. First on the menu – the acoustic performance on Sunset Strip as part of the music festival. We did a live broadcast of Camp Freddy Radio first…..not exactly the smoothest show ever, hahaha!!! Its really hard doing outside broadcasts because you cant hear the person in the studio properly, and the audience watching you do it cant hear the songs that you are spinning! So when you verbally cue a song, you aren’t sure if the board operator in the studio is actually playing that song (the music is not played from the live location – its played from back at the radio station) and then the audience watching you do the show stand around in silence waiting for you to talk again!! A complete receipe for disaster. But its all part of the fun, and we got through it. After the Darling Stilettos, we played a short set of acoustic songs. Dave was unable to be there, so we had Matt’s friend Lanny Cordola, my songwriting partner Patrick Cornell, along with Billy Duffy and Brett Scallions help us out. An interesting and somewhat different afternoon.

Later that night, our friends from the UK, McQueen, were playing at the Whisky A Go Go as part of the SSMF. And me, Sorum and Duffy had all been invited to jump up and play with the girls. So we all found ourselves upstairs at the world famous Sunset Strip club at about 1.00am in the morning, watching the girls rock the Whiskey. It’s the first time I had seen the band (although they had guested with Camp Freddy in May during our Roxy Residency) and they blew me away!! Awesome songs and a killer live show. And at the end, they rocked a couple of covers so that we could join em. I grabbed a guitar and played Dirty Deeds and Its So Easy with Sorum on the second drum kit and Duffy on lead guitar. So much fun – thank you girls (and the ever present Mr Zutatt) for having me.

Aspen. In the summertime. No snow. A weird place for Camp Freddy to play. But play we did. At the Belly Up club’s July 4th party (except we played on 3rd and were onstage at Midnight to usher in the 4th celebrations!). But I am getting ahead of myself. The first signs of this being a slightly ‘different’ gig was when Matt and I were sitting in a town car, on our way to LAX Airport. Dave and Billy Duffy were ahead of us in their car, when my phone rang. It was my guitar tech, who casually says….”have you seen the news? Some guy is wandering around LAX telling people he’s a terrorist and he has a bomb. Airports closed’….Great. Our flight leaves in 45 minutes. A quick cellphone pow wow with Navarro later and we have turned around, booked a private plane for ourselves (not cheap, but a good emergency plan!!) and I was back at home eating Pinkberry before you could say ‘Fucked Up’!! The next morning we tried again. This time, it was over to a private airfield in the Valley, drive straight on to the tarmac, park next to the jet and take off immediately. Instead of a five hour trip, with a change of planes in Denver, we landed directly in Aspen an hour and a half later. The only way to travel. The show itself was a lot of fun. We did a half hour acoustic set, followed by an hour electric set. Doing the Alice In Chains classic, Got Me Wrong, on acoustic, with Jerry Cantrell singing, just blew my mind!! And playing Suffragette City, standing next to 80’s legend John Oates (who was RIPPING on lead guitar!!) was another Freddy first for me. All in all the Aspen trip was another strange and wonderful Camp Freddy experience. I know that we all have to thank Chris Chaney for letting us stay in his families house up there. Your hospitality knows no bounds mate. It was fantastic, thank you.

Oh - I just remembered. Had a killer review of the Stimulator album sent to me - the album is sold out in hard copy form now, but is available in its digital form from I-Tunes. CLICK HERE TO READ THE STIMULATOR REVIEW.

I’ve run out of time (as always!!) and I gotta get moving. But before I jet, I want to tell you all that Camp Freddy will be playing a VERY special show at the Los Angeles VIPER ROOM on July 17th. The show is a benefit for our wonderful tour manager Scott P. Scott is basically the guy that ensures the gigs actually happen – from the amps being on the stage, to the band actually walking on to the stage together!! He has been with us pretty much since day one, and is part of the Freddy Family. He has been diagnosed with Cancer and is being hit with ridiculous medical bills in the process. We all believe that he needs to be concentrating on fighting the disease and not worrying about paying those bills, so we are going to play a special show and ALL proceeds (including the money from the door and the bar – thanks to Harry M and The Viper) will go directly to Scott. It is a MINIMUM donation of $50 on the door (although you are welcome to donate more) and we will also be auctioning off a Gibson Les Paul that will be signed by every guest performer that evening (thanks due to the wonderful Shanon and Jenny at Gibson for donating the guitar). We’ll take bids from the stage during our show. So get off your couch, get your wallet out, come down to The Viper Room on July 17th and help a very special person. The club holds 200 people – it WILL sell out. Buy your tickets now.

See ya

Billy

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After getting caught up in yesterdays LAX bomb threat and missing our flights to Aspen for the Camp Freddy gig there today, we are rushing to the airport right now to get a jet straight to soundcheck. Sounds glamorous. Its not. The last week has been crazy with gigs getting added, cancelled, added again. I have not been able to keep up with it all, so I have decided to let the dust settle and then see what we have confirmed after the holiday weekend. A HUGE happy 4th to you all. I gotta run cos if we miss THIS flight as well, we dont play tonight!!! See ya.

Billy

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It’s a quickie from me cos my call time is 10.00am again today but I wanted to put these pics up from yesterdays video shoot. We are working on the ‘Evergreen’ video which will accompany the release of a Billy Morrison EP later on this year – and yesterday was day one of the shoot. I was stunned when I arrived on set. Director Michael Shelton (who directed Basement Jack – the horror/slasher movie I am in) had set up a crew of 22 people in a green screen studio and it was a hive of activity when I pulled up. Wardrobe, make up, grips, gaffers, DP’s, AD’s……the place looked like a fucking Bruce Willis movie set, not a humble little music video!! He had pulled out all the stops, and before I knew it I was whisked off into hair and make up for another day of “hurry up and wait”!

My new songwriting partner Patrick Cornell, and Matt Sorum and his wonderful girl Ace (from the Darling Stilettos) were also making appearances in the video, as a sleazy porn king, a billionaire Texas oil baron and a hot businesswoman respectively!! The concept of the video is pretty cool, and it will be a completely green screen video (which means ALL the background will be CGI – put in via computer later on!!) The song makes a statement about ecological issues in a way that is pretty plain – basically we are screwing up our own planet and we all (me included) don’t really seem to be too aware of that. But slowly our awareness in growing and we are, in fact, capable of salvaging and nurturing our home if we pay attention and make some right choices. So that’s what I am up to right now – we shot some cool B-Roll as well, so the promise of a V-Blog (including some Las Vegas and New Jersey clips as well) looms in the background yet again. If only I could actually find time to edit that stuff together!!! Oh well, I am having a blast so you’ll just have to be patient.

Oh and while I remember – this coming Saturday is a live Camp Freddy Radio broadcast from the Sunset Strip Music Festival. Basically they are gonna let us do the show from the side of Sunset Blvd and give us a few radio mics!! So expect some ‘roving reporter’ style radio from us. After the show, we will be playing three or four acoustic songs – its NOT a full on gig as some people are talking about, but we will be doing a few songs…..if we remember to take guitars with us! Have a great day. I’m off to work.

Peace

Billy

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So here I am, sitting in my hotel room in Nashville on a hot and humid Sunday morning. I’ve already done an hour of cardio, the pot of coffee is empty (time for a refill), I’ve watched the last episode of Dexter Season 2 (fucking awesome by the way)…..and our lobby call isn’t until 3.00pm!! So I naturally turn to my online community – and a few answers to your questions. I’ll do a review of the Gibson Jam that we did yesterday when I get back to LA cos I have a few nice pics but can’t get em out of the camera right now. So it makes sense to bust out a few answers right now and write a review of the weekend in a day or so. What I will say is that it was a lot of fun, REALLY hot, and we all got nice guitars!! We also all missed our compadre in arms, Mr Dave Navarro. He’s on vacation, so he didn’t make this trip – hope yer chillin’ my friend!

SO….lets see now…..Beth asks about more Camp Freddy residencies. Well, I think its safe to say that the success of the first one pretty much guarantees that we will do it again. But ‘When’ is another matter! One of the band, on hearing a discussion about a potential second residency (who shall remaion nameless!) simply said….”fucking hell, that first one nearly killed me!”

Kate – there are a few shows being lined up, but the LA one looks like its August 1st at the House Of Blues again. We have done that X-Games show for the last three years and I believe its on our calendar again for 2008. But don’t quote me!

Ambersonian – Didn’t bother going to see The Happening after reading more than a few terrible reviews. That shouldn’t stop me seeing a film, as most music reviewers get it so wrong that the bad reviews are usually the albums I like!! I should apply the same logic – but I decided it was a DVD or a Netflix and not a movie theater movie. I did, however, watch The Number 23 on the plane out here and thought it was great! Carey rocked the psychosis thing perfectly!

JD asks how I cope with hanging out in a dressing room with some ‘partying’ going on. Its EASY!! When I used to get loaded, the term ‘Partying’ was just not one you would have used to describe it. I never ‘Partyed’ in my life…..I got wasted, fucked up, overdosed and homeless!! So its pretty easy to remember that and not get sucked in. It doesn’t really bother me what other people do.

Danni asks me to describe myself in three words. This is actually a really great question. Took a little thinking about. I decided that Billy Morrison is …..FULL OF GRATITUDE.

Jay mentions the Ian Curtis/Joy Division movie control. I was never the worlds biggest Joy Division fan, although I did see them play and I did appreciate their effect on the scene and loved a few songs. The movie was just fantastic!! It was made by a friend of mine, and I got to present Sam Riley with an award earlier in the year at one of those shindigs we have in LA. Wonderful movie. And yes – The Pistols were a huge influence on those guys.

Robin asks how I cope with the multitasking that I do – and that again is a good question. I am pretty good at juggling 10 different projects at once, but I am not very good at dealing with stress! So I do end up working from 7.00am to midnight in an effort to get everything done!! Not great for keeping your wife in the loop, or rejuvenating your mind, body and spirit!! So I am actively trying to work on letting a few things fall through the cracks and NOT worrying about them. Hard for me but I am trying!!

That’s all I got for you guys right now – I gotta get my bags packed and eat something. I’ll be back in a day or so with a ‘Gibson All Star Jam Session’ review and some pics. Podcast is up (I'm gonna call him Speedy Paul cos its in my in-box about an hour after we broadcast the show!!!) See you lot then.

Billy

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Its been a week or so since I got on here and posted, and I finally find myself on this sunny Sunday afternoon, in the desert (yet again! I know I come here a LOT!! But it really is a quiet, relaxing vibe – its good for me to take a breath every now and then.) with a bit of time to chill out, visit my sites and update a thing or two. Which reminds me – the hard copy STIMULATOR album is now completely sold out. If you wanna hear the record, you can still grab the digital download from I-Tunes. Thanks to all of you that supported the cause and bought the record. It was a complete success and because of that I intend to continue that model with the next release (Evergreen EP).

So - Last week was split between East and West cost. Much thanks goes out to the cast and crew of “The Perfect Age Of Rock N Roll” - the movie that I was doing in Jersey. I am honored to have been asked to be in it, and had a real fun time playing the drug dealer, Fashion Jones. Peter Fonda, Kevin Zeggers, Jason Ritter and Taryn Manning were all on set while I was out there, and I think I did an ok job. My screen time is short, but hopefully memorable! And either way, it was a blast just to be involved. The pic is of me with Kevin before he shot his ‘I’m a fabulous rock star’ scene ….and he NAILED it!!!

I played a brand new Billy Morrison track called “Be Yourself” on yesterdays Camp Freddy Radio. I was holding on to the tracks that will be part of the release later in the year, but me and Matt Sorum were hanging out, chilling and playing new music and I just felt comfortable playing the song. Hope you guys were listening and hope you enjoyed what you heard. Matt and I decided I am fully in my Britpop phase now! As usual, thanks to our resident insomniac, Paul, the Podcast is up on the Podcasts page. The more observant among you will also see some new banners cropping up around this site – another regular of ours, Mr European Edwin (I have nicknames for you ALL!!) has been slaving away over a hot FLASH program and supplying me with some nice work. He is currently working on a new, much needed Gallery page. Lets see what he comes up with….

I am off to Nashville at the end of this coming week to play at a Gibson event – part of the Summer NAMM festivities, the wonderful people at the Gibson Custom Shop asked me to put together a few friends and come jam for a while – so that’s what we are doing. More details to come, but I do know that we’ll be cruising the NAMM show on that Saturday afternoon, so if you are around, come say hi! (And thanks Wendy for the wonderful pic! I cropped it but you can still tell its 100% WendyBird!) And I can also tell you that Camp Freddy Radio will be broadcasting live from the Sunset Strip Music Festival on Saturday 28th June – we will be down by the old Tower Records on Sunset, and will probably be doing a bit of an impromptu acoustic jam during the afternoon. We have no details on this one but I know we are doing it, so just roll up and check it out.

Rumors of a Freddy show or two in July are surfacing – not sure where or when, but the ‘people’ are working on a thing or two, so stay tuned and keep it right here at www.billymorrison.net. The pic I have used is from the Ross Halfin session we did at the Roxy. I messed with it a bit just because its fun!! Hope ya don’t mind, Ross!! I know I also have a ton of cool video from all the recent goings on – but it takes time to edit together. And as fast as I log it all into the computer, some other trip comes up and I leave town again! I’ll get around to it eventually. In the meantime, why don’t I do some Q+A – knock me down with yer questions…..I can handle it!! Until next time – Happy Fathers Day to anyone that cares – I am gonna post this and hit the movies – maybe The Hulk? Or maybe The Happening? Not sure, but what I do know is that the TV series “Dexter” RULES!! Watching that one on my I-Phone in the gym every day and loving it. Alright, I am waffling now…..see ya.

Peace

Billy

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I finally turned the studio computer on and threw together a few highlights for you before I leave town. Today I am running about getting a few errands taken care of and throwing some clothes into a bag - the flight to Vegas is at 10.00am tomorrow!! I am taking the cameras so a little Pistols action will be in order, as will some "On Set" movie making madness from the East Coast. The CFR tomorrow has been taped so tune in at 6.00pm for some Sorum/Navarro action. The post below has some pretty cool links to press and stuff, so be sure to click on any of the capitalized grey text and enjoy! Also the Podcast is up as per usual - Big Up UK Paul!!

STOP PRESS: Straight off the set of "The Perfect Age Of Rock And Roll", currently being shot in the blistering heat of New Jersey, here is a first look at my cameo character - Mr Fashion Jones, drug dealer extrordinaire!! - relaxing off set with one of the stars of the movie, Jason Ritter, and the director Scott D Rosenbaum. Nice mars bar, Mr Jones.

Peace

Billy

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I actually still haven't stopped since the last show at The Roxy - we had a photoshoot all day on Saturday (I did get a couple of clips from that on my camera so if it works I'll post em on You Tube), followed by the radio show, yesterday was full of meetings, and somehow, someone scheduled a call time today of 7.30am!!! Who DOES that??? So here I am guzzling coffee before heading out into the early morning LA haze. Regular readers will remember my "Life Less Ordinary" project...well, we are doing some work on that today. I did hear rumors that Thursday is a full on, no holds barred day off - had one of those on Sunday....it was awesome! I went to see Indiana Jones (which I thought was great - totally my kind of film, and Harrison really IS Indy). I'll do Iron Man on Thursday if the "Day Off" rumor turns out to be true. Oh, and there is a new interview up over at Crusher Magazine in the "Features" section - CLICK HERE TO READ THE CRUSHER MAGAZINE INTERVIEW, and click on the FEATURES button.

This month is also very busy for me, with Las Vegas, Nashville and two New Jersey/New York trips. All good fun stuff. A little Sex Pistols action in Vegas, some music in Nashville, and some movie making over on the East Coast. I even have what I believe to be my FIRST MENTION IN VARIETY MAGAZINE _ HAHA!!! Check out the pic from the last East Coast trip - the Hilfiger Sessions In The Round! At the end of the month I shoot the video to Evergreen here in Los Angeles as well, so June is pretty much blocked out. As my darling wife is still really busy, its probably best that I keep my head down and let her get on with what she has to do - both of our eyes are set firmly on August (and some time together on a beach/under the water). The Pistols also just announced a show at Hammersmith in London which seems suitably enticing!!

I will get the V-Blog together. You know I will. TONS of great footage....I just need to find the time to edit it all. But it will happen. Look at it this way - when you are least expecting it, some choice Freddy footage will surface and you can all revisit the wonderful world of Camp Freddy!! I did at least manage to get another MODERN GUITARS journal entry done. CLICK HERE FOR THE MODERN GUITARS JOURNAL. And lastly a quick question from Jay - he asks about other musicians using your own gear (or you using other peoples gear). Good question mate - and although I do love my guitars, they are only guitars! I dont think anyone would damage them deliberately so I dont worry about it. I am blessed to have enough to loan them to people at shows! Duffy, Jonesy or Cantrell (the usual "borrowers") are all totally respectful, as I would be borrowing their shit. Which answers the second part of your question! Without doubt, recording the guitars to God Save The Queen (for the eventual Camp Freddy album) through the actual amps owned by Steve Jones, was pretty fucking awesome!! OK. Thats it. Podcast is up as usual. I gotta jet - take it easy people.

Peace.

Billy

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CAMP FREDDY’s final sold-out show of their month-long May residency at The Roxy in West Hollywood culminated last night (May 29) with a special appearance by Billy Idol. Idol, guitarist Steve Stevens and drummer Brian Tichy treated the packed house to a cover of The Doors’ "LA Woman," also featuring The Doors own Robbie Krieger on guitar along with CAMP FREDDY. The crowd went wild when Idol, Stevens, Tichy and CAMP FREDDY--BILLY MORRISON, DAVE NAVARRO, MATT SORUM, DONOVAN LEITCH and CHRIS CHANEY--launched into Idol’s classic hits "Dancing with Myself" and "Rebel Yell."

Another highlight of the night was a duet by Juliette Lewis and LEITCH on X’s “Los Angeles.” In a surprise twist, while millions of “Lost” fans were at home watching the two-hour season finale of the hit show, Naveen Andrews (“Sayid” on the show) joined CAMP FREDDY onstage to play guitar on the Sex Pistols’ “EMI.” Andrews also joined in the all-star CAMP FREDDY finale of The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” when Olympic Gold Medalist snowboarder Shawn White also came to the stage to lend his vocal pipes. Earlier in the night, Train’s Pat Monahan belted out a powerful rendition of Led Zeppelin’s "Whole Lotta Love" with Krieger on guitar.

The star-studded night also featured special appearances from the following additional music guests: Nick Hexum (311), Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains), Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray), Chris Vrenna (Marilyn Manson, Gnarls Barkley, NIN), Wayne Static (Static-X), John5 (Rob Zombie), Leah Duors (McQueen) and the all-female punk rock dance group the Darling Stilettos (featured each week).

Here’s a full list of guests that performed with CAMP FREDDY during their triumphant month-long Thursday residency at The Roxy in May:

Billy Duffy (The Cult)
Billy Idol
Brandon Boyd (Incubus)
B-Real (Cypress Hill)
Brett Scallions (Fuel)
Brian Tichy (Billy Idol)
Budgie (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Chester Bennington (Linkin Park)
Chino Moreno (Deftones)
Chris Vrenna (Marilyn Manson, NIN)
Corey Parks (Nashville Pussy, Die Hunns)
Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver)
Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols)
Hayley Cramer (McQueen)
Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains)
John 5 (Rob Zombie)
Juliette Lewis (Juliette and the Licks)
Leah Duors (McQueen)
Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead)
Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray)
Michael Starr (Steel Panther, Metal Skool)
Mike Inez (Alice in Chains)
Naveen Andrews (actor-“Lost”)
Nick Hexum (311)
Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme)
Pat Monahan (Train)
Paul Cook (Sex Pistols)
Poe
Robby Krieger (The Doors)
Satchel (Steel Panther, Metal Skool)
Sen Dog (Cypress Hill)
Slash (Velvet Revolver, Guns N’ Roses)
Steve Jones (Sex Pistols)
Steve Stevens (Billy Idol)
Steven Perkins (Jane’s Addiction)
Sugarfoot (The Jacksons)
Terri Nunn (Berlin)
Tiffany
Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine)
Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe)
Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard)
Warren DeMartini (Ratt)
Wayne Static (Static X)

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There are a few major differences between healthcare here in the US and back home in the UK. One of those would be the fact that on a holiday weekend, no british doctor is leaving his warm fireside playing monopoly with his family, to open up his office for some tattooed 'erbert with a dose of the flu! Here in LA - completely different story!! Having interrupted my Dr's weekend twice!! (sorry Dr S - won't happen again!!) I am now feeling a lot better and by the morning will actually feel human again. Just in time to fly across the country, play NYC, and fly straight back again to play the last LA show!! So I figured that seeing as I will be pretty much out of 'blogging' distance till Friday, I should post a little something now before we leave. So here goes....

It seems crazy but we only have one Freddy show left here in Los Angeles. This thursday at The Roxy. I believe that there might be A FEW tickets getting released on the night at the box office, but all advance tickets have now sold out. So I suppose its a case of 'keep your fingers crossed' and show up on Thursday. I can promise a night not to be missed - I just did the set list and it blows my mind just reading it back!! As long as we all actually remember how the songs go, we'll be golden!! HAHA!! Its been so much fun and I want to thank all the members of Camp Freddy, everyone at The Roxy, all our friends who came down to jam, and all you lot who showed up and made the place a hot, sweaty, sticky place to be!

Before that, as I said, we are jumping on a plane to go do The Hilfiger Sessions at Webster Hall on Wednesday night. Its a private affair I'm afraid, so no tickets available. But providing I feel ok, I love going to NYC - especially at this time of year. Although this trip, I'll see next to nothing. But I will be back soon afterwards for "The Perfect Age" movie shoot, so plenty of East Coast vibes coming up for me. The show on Wednesday will actually be two shows in one - we are doing a small acoustic set earlier in the evening, and then the full rock/electric set later on. Interesting - and we have some New York friends coming out to join in the fun. I just spent an hour on I-Chat with Dave (who is already in New York) running through songs on the video camera!! Oh yes - we are definately a high tech band - we rehearse using web cams!!

I also have a few other bits and pieces scattered around for me to do - beginning a couple more tracks in The Sunset Marquis studio - Billy Morrison Solo tracks - at some point, and revisiting the ones I did with Patrick one more time (just got a few subtle tweaks to do on them) as well as helping Patrick work on a song or two of his own (he's calling it producing, but I'm calling it 'getting in the way with my own opinions!!'). We have a Freddy photoshoot for a magazine at the weekend, and of course, The Sex Pistols play in Las Vegas soon - whaddya think I'm not heading out there??? So still a full plate for Morrison for the next few weeks at least. I gotta run now, and pack a bag or six, but take it easy and see you all soon I hope.

Peace

Billy

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This pic by Wendy has to be enough right now!! I am in bed getting myself well after coming down with some kind of flu bug or whatever. A good excuse to throw down with Ben And Jerry's! But then again - this pic pretty much sums it all up anyway! Back when I feel better....hopefully before I get on the plane Tuesday!

Peace.

Billy

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Another new entry!! Must be Christmas....or not. Either way, here I am again, and I finally edited a V-Blog together from the reams of footage that I have. There is so much, and I know that this Blog doesnt really make cohesive sense - but then again, I don't care!! An interview with Matt Sorum, me hacking on about nothing in particular, and some choice clips from the Roxy. What more could you want?!?! So thats the primary reason for this post, although I have figured out (finally!!) how to embed these custom YouTube players, so the TV below has 15 of the best videos so far from my YouTube channel. For more of the same, CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/MORRISONTV.

I have to answer Merc's question - its been asked a lot!! Yes, it is me in the "We Are The Champions" Robbie Williams video! Rob and I used to be good friends and in actual fact, he was the Priest at our first wedding at The Sunset Marquis hotel in LA!! During that time, he recorded that song for the movie, and when it came time to shoot a video for it, he figured it would be fun to ask me to be in it. And he was right! The two day shoot on the Universal backlot was a scream!! Lots of chickens, "gadzooks" and buxum wenches!! I send my love to Rob - hope you are doing ok, mate.

And once again, the heavy set female is warming up in the background. I gotta go - things to do, people to see, video games to play. See some of you on Thursday. Oh - I nearly forgot, Jay...yes I saw pretty much every band play back then EXCEPT the Pistols. I saw Gen X a few times - The Lyceum and The Marquee stand out in my chemically challenged mind! Chelsea played a lot and I saw them all over the place. So there! As per usual, the Podcast is up and available. Thanks Paul.

Billy

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Its getting hard to keep up around here! I have been frantically logging footage all morning from Week Two, Week Three, the Map Awards (LOVE this pic of Chester, Matt and myself from the Awards - nice one, Mike D!!) and the Sorum/Noce party and still haven't got it all in the computer. I was hoping to get a V-Blog edited up today but it looks like its gonna be tomorrow now, cos I gotta start getting my playlist together for CFR tonight. Still, I've looked at a lot of video today and it looks really good! We are having a great time up on the Strip, with two more shows left to do. We'll see some of you up at The Roxy next Thursday for another dose of MAYhem.

In the meantime, lets catch up a bit. First of all, those of you in the LA area might have seen the cool two page thing that the LA WEEKLY ran on me as part of "The People Issue". If you haven't seen it, you can CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LA WEEKLY ARTICLE. Mucho thanks to Kevin for what I consider to be an amazing photograph, and to Paul for the wonderful words. Also I did a shoot last week for Hugh Hamilton - check out his site BY CLICKING HERE FOR HUGH HAMILTON. We did a photosession for a book that he's doing on things that people have held on to since childhood and I brought along some scrapbooks that I have had for about 30 years! - I like the one that I've put up here. Nice work Hugh!

I also wanna tell you about an auction thats up right now to help with the MAP cause - I have a signed watch up there by Nixon. Here's the blurb - To bid on a cool piece of Billy Morrison autographed memorabilia, including a custom Nixon watch made of Morrison’s personal wardrobe, visit the GRAMMY® Charity Online Auctions May sale! Proceeds benefit MusiCares®. Auction ends May 22, so check it out today at www.ebay.com/grammy.

What else? Well, Camp Freddy did a photoshoot with Ross Halfin for Classic Rock magazine, and I am beginning work on the movie "A Perfect Age" this coming week, along with preparing for Week Four of the residency. Oh yeah, and I restarted my lacklustre efforts over at MODERN GUITARS!! They gotta be the most tolerant people in the business!! I dropped a new blog after about a year!! You can CLICK HERE TO READ THE MODERN GUITARS DIARY.

Saw a bit of drama going on about people photographing the shows - let me be really clear. I do not have the power to say yes or no - I cannot authorize people to do anything!! I really dont have that say. As far as I know, ANYONE can take pictures at The Roxy....no special permission needed. But don't ask me, cos I dont know!! Just show up and take pics - no big deal!!! Also the new Flash intro is getting some love! I think the version thats up now is the best one - and I am gonna keep it for a bit - again a HUGE thanks to tech genius Edwin, who figured it all out for me. Glad I could help with that situation out front last week, and glad to see UC and all the peeps along the front row - very cool.

Gotta go - See Ya - Peace

Billy

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