Mar 14, 2012
DrAwkward commented on Sound Check.
"Not if you were the last Marc Jacobs fan on Earth"
Feb 27, 2012
DrAwkward commented on Die Kreuzen Reunion Show: May 26th.
Richard LaValliere from the Oil tasters died earlier this month, so you won't be seeing an OT reunion anytime soon. Sorry to be a downer.
But yeah! We in Milwaukee are stoked for the DK reunion. It's been a long time coming.
But yeah! We in Milwaukee are stoked for the DK reunion. It's been a long time coming.
Sep 16, 2011
DrAwkward joined My Stranger Face
Sep 16, 2011
DrAwkward commented on Dear Musicians, What's the Worst Band/Show Related Injury You've Ever Sustained?.
My bassist once got pissed at me enough on stage that he threw his bass guitar into my face behind my drums, smashing my front two teeth.
Our guitarist once, in a bar in Chicago, gave himself a concussion by trying to hang off a PA speaker that was hanging from chains above the stage. The chains broke and the speaker landed on his head. Friends of ours in the audience kept the speaker afloat until the song was over. After the set, the soundguy came up to us and said, "that asshole who installed the chain told us it would withstand 1000 pounds pulling on it. That fucker ripped us off!"
I sprained my ankle trying to jump into standing position on my drum throne in one motion. The song we were playing has a middle section that's just quarter notes played on the snare. As the rest of the band stood in badass rock poses waiting to come back in, instead of "bap-bap-bap-bap" the heard a crash and turned around to see me lying on my ass. I got up and finished the song and the set (it was song #1).
Our original keyboard player was holding one of our synths in his hands while playing it drunk off his ass at a basement show back in 2001. He stood up on our guitarist's combo amp, forgetting it was on wheels. It flipped and he spilled to the ground, cracking his head on the cement. Again, first song of the set. We played the whole set and he drove home but eventually needed his mom to come pick him up from the side of the road because his concussion was causing blurred vision. To this day he doesn't remember the set at all.
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Our guitarist once, in a bar in Chicago, gave himself a concussion by trying to hang off a PA speaker that was hanging from chains above the stage. The chains broke and the speaker landed on his head. Friends of ours in the audience kept the speaker afloat until the song was over. After the set, the soundguy came up to us and said, "that asshole who installed the chain told us it would withstand 1000 pounds pulling on it. That fucker ripped us off!"
I sprained my ankle trying to jump into standing position on my drum throne in one motion. The song we were playing has a middle section that's just quarter notes played on the snare. As the rest of the band stood in badass rock poses waiting to come back in, instead of "bap-bap-bap-bap" the heard a crash and turned around to see me lying on my ass. I got up and finished the song and the set (it was song #1).
Our original keyboard player was holding one of our synths in his hands while playing it drunk off his ass at a basement show back in 2001. He stood up on our guitarist's combo amp, forgetting it was on wheels. It flipped and he spilled to the ground, cracking his head on the cement. Again, first song of the set. We played the whole set and he drove home but eventually needed his mom to come pick him up from the side of the road because his concussion was causing blurred vision. To this day he doesn't remember the set at all.
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The sentiments Chris expresses in this interview are pretty much universal from one town to the next in this crazy country of ours. I could do the same interview about Milwaukee, the Trophy Wives guys could do the same one about Louisville, etc.
Also, the idea that the quality of one's music has anything to do with whether or not that music comes into fashion or becomes popular is pretty hilarious, as the majority of music history is littered with forgotten, excellent bands and mediocre nonsense that becomes popular. How are you guys digging that Lana Del Rey record?