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| Hello Pussy Posse!!! june 4, 2003 - Welcome us home for a bit! We are back after a fucking amazing tour(s) As you all know we went out with Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society for a west coast tour de force which was no less than spectacular. Playing to mostly virgins everynight it was tailor made for the pussy! Zakk is a helluva guy and his whole band and crew are a pack of sweethearts, (well most of them anyways). Besides a transmission breakdown in fucking Ape City, Arizona the tour was swell and everyday was a new excuse to get on or off the bus. We found out from Zakk that the tour bus we used for Tattoo The Earth was the same piece of shit bus wasn't just Journey's lame-o bus but also the same one that Randy Rhodes' plane hit that Ozzy was sleeping in when the plane hit it. Sad story but Zakk is determined to carry his torch and I think he's doing it dammit. Cute boy alert - Nick the guitar player - as far as I know is totally up for grabs and any chick who doesn't is a sucker - he's a catch - and he's in the movie Rock Star and a helluva guitar player too! Tell him Ruyter sent ya! It was sad to say goodbye to them BLS boys but all good things must pass besides we were on to an even better tour - our own - in Europe!! We started to tour in Le Mans - the 24 hour motorcycle race in France. Our first night we got to watch Peter Pan Speedrock tear shit up. Them Dutch boys kick ass - they're like the new Zeke - with a little Rose Tattoo thrown in for good measure.The next day we headlined with our Canadian buddies Bionic opening up for us and the Fuzztones closing. Needless to say everyone stayed up real late getting our Euro feet on the ground. We jumped the wee pond for a British quickie in London - at the classic Garage which was packed to the gills and smelling like soup as usual. Everyone doped up on their last blast of Fish and Chips and true 'English' before heading back to the continent. We played Holland just enough to fuel ourselves for the rest of the tour, France and Germany; Bishopfswerda and Karlsruhe's Substage being highlights. Katie can't stop saying Bishopfswerda - it's her new favorite word. Check out the pics from Substage- which was an old subway station converted into a club- very cool! For the first time in our lives since we first hit the road with The Pleasure Fuckers we shared the Bus with BIONIC. At first we were kinda scared - but they're Canadian so we figured they'd be pushovers - HAH! Turned out they were fucking great to tour with, and good at defending themselves as well - a total breath of fresh air to hang with - everyone wound up pairing off in evil little groups to form new bizarre unions to maintain sanity. Out of the whole tour Greece was definatley the highlight - we've never eaten such good food in our lives - the whole band agreed it was the best meal of the tour, if not forever. I'm ruined now for Greek food and for coffee too - we spent more time in Italy than ever before and we really, really like it; the people and the language are just beautiful - But I swear I can't even drink French coffee after Italy. (yes I can) Europe is ruining me for North America- where the hell gonna get coffee and weed now! Damn Holland! - raising our standards!! We got to see the Acropolis/Parthenon while in Greece and it was incredible - we crawled around the ruins with some high faluntant so and so - we didn't recognize whoever this dude was but he went surrounded by security- FBI style - American rent-a-dudes with them little walkie talkie's in their ears- like ten cars worth of security - turns out he was some kind of Army General or something - he certainly wasn't no movie star. Guess he was done fightin' and needed alittle R n R. Thankfully he didn't mind us hanging around his tour of the Parthenon and hear from an English guide what the hell we were looking at. We found out the Parthenon was built by paid workers - not slaves- and they were paid a Drachma a day. And we found out that there is a complete Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee!! (duh) Oh yeah- and the show in Athens was top of the line as well- despite jet lag and being full of food! The audience was fabulous and the boys are good looking!! (mama kin?) We went to "Garage Night" at a rock and roll bar after the gig where they had a poster of us on the wall over life size- it was like ten feet high!We got to dance with hot Greek women - who really know how to shake it! And we got to drink the local gasoline from Crete. Tasty! Then we went to Rome! OK the Acropolis is where it all started - then the Romans ripped off the Greeks for everything they knew, but....The Collusseum in Rome is absolutley amazing, still standing and is still being used!! The place was surrounded by sound and light trucks - turns out Paul McCartney was preparing for a gig there in a few days. A "private" invite only gig for 500 people - at $1500 ticket! I can't wait til they let us play there - It'll look like the Parthenon by the time we're through! We got kicked out of the area we had to plug our bus in - the club owner and our tour manager had some 'problem' with eachother - so we had to drive. Before Blaine was arrested we woke up Norbert the German driver after only two hours of sleep and wound up having a drunken tour of Rome in the midddle of the night with no traffic or people to contend with. We saw the collusseum again, the tomb of the unknown solider which is HUGE and has it's own 24 hour guards. The City Hall, Bernini's Pantheon, and even the home of Ennio Morricone he's like a god over there. We saw the 'boca del veridad' Mouth of Truth - which is some ancient guillotine/lie detector - supposedly you'd put yer hand in it's mouth - then tell a 'truth' and if you were lying - your hand would get chopped off!! We even got to see the Circus Maximus - basically the old style Nascar- where they had the chariot races. Jeremy, Jonathan and Tim went running around on the track all keystone cops style. Jeremy swears he peed his name on the ground and spelt it JEREMYUS - I'm pretty sure he just wrote Jer and nothing else. While in Rome we also got to see the famous fountains where you throw a coin in to ensure your return to that fountain! After Italy we went to Croatia and Slovenia - Blaine had been there with Nine Pound Hammer so he had his own following including his own mega fan on the local radio station where we were interviewed but it was Nashville Pussy's first time. Both shows were packed- sold out - and important 'cultural' shows it seemed - in Slovania- a school 200 km away shipped in 80 kids to see our show as part of an ART class. There were all these kids wearing backpacks and were seriously like only 16 years old. The same happened in Croatia - only they weren't shipped in for school- they were there anyways and horny!! It was like a rock n roll love fest outside the bus - some little girl gave me a hickey!! We did a few more awesome shows in Italy and drove back to Paris to fly home. As soon as we got back to ATL we HAD to go see Camarosmith one night Supersuckers the next and the Datsuns two days ago! (Sexy boy week in Hotlanta!) This was by far the best Euro tour ever - got to make tight friends with another band and get to travel to a bunch of new places and even the weather was fantastic! We're headed back at the end of the month to do Spain, France and festivals in Belgium!! Anyways - had a blast - we wish it hadn't ended - We 'go down' to Japan and Australia in a week! Leave June 5th and come back after about eight days - teaser tour!! (coz we wanna go back already - even though we haven't been there yet!!) Hawaii got cancelled - but they are still at the top of the list! Rock the fuck on y'all - we had a ball - and to all the strangers - we'll see ya down the road! Ruyter P.S. we're playing the Mulletfest in Chicago for the Onion (best newspaper in the world) on June 28th - The Cherry Valance is opening - don't miss em! |
"WE
MADE IT!!" 25 shows in 29 days.
Nashville Pussy with Bionic
in Bassano - left to right we have (BOTTOM ROW) Sir Ian
Blurton, Jean (Gloria) Luc, Dame Katie Lynn, Mistress Ruyter, Count
Remo, Paul (smoke anything but meat), Sandro (Italian rep;
Nashville Pussy: Say Something Nasty pic disc (LP) New! Reservation Records
Australia
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2003 Tokyo Ikebukuro - LIVE INN ROSA Sat. June 14 Hawaii CANCELLED Fri.
June 27 Rockford Illinois Kryptonite July
2 - SPAIN, Barcelona - Razzmatazz
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BY BOB RAY and WERNER CAMPBELL Nashville Pussy Rock Connection Brazil Interview w/Blaine 411 mania review of SAY SOMETHING NASTY |
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