- This has been a mellow year for me in terms of buying music, but I did buy a sick Dicks Picks not too long ago. # thirty-something. I'm pretty sure it's the only live recording with a drum/space on it by the Dead.
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| Favorite Live Performance of 2004 |
- Without a doubt the Slayer show was off the hook. The drum riser was like 5 feet up among the flying bats and hell smoke flowing from the eyes of Dave Lombardo, the best speed metal drummer to ever walk the planet. I got to go backstage and you kinda expect virgin massacres and goats blood, but they have slowed down a bit. Some mineral water with cheese and crackers. As Kurt Cobain said "Gramma take me home"
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| Favorite On-Stage Moment/Show of 2004 |
- When Buckethead took off his mask only to find he wasn't wearing no mask. Just kidding dude. He is a guitar god, but how can you live with the idea of supporting a GMO, animal testing, blood clotting nazi co. like K illing F ucking C hickens? Buckethead: do you know what you are advertising? Get with it and join the cause!!
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| Classic Album or Artist You Rediscovered This Year |
- Always the Dead and Dylan. I have been throwing in some old Rush these days too. They never bore me. Pert is a god. All shall kneel in front of his 6 foot long robe and brush his waist-long locks while he rings the chimes in Xanadu! I also recently threw in Neil Young’s first solo album with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Great slide work. Reminds me of "Big Brother and the Holding Company" stuff.
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| Artist You Are Most Excited About in 2005 |
- Without a doubt that would be my band, The Piss Shivers. A revolution of Eco-Punk is on the doorstep and we plan to light a bag of shit, stomp it out and kick in the door. It's time to take all of this great music we have and use it as a tool to educate people. Some people do not even know what a "spiked" tree is! How can we take the streets back if we don't know how to work them? Songs about beer and chicks are great, but they numb the mind from the real shit that happens on a daily basis. Wake the fuck up and make things happen, Period!
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| Best New Gadget You Can't Live Without |
- I'm poor as can be, so my favorite gadget is they key to my front door. After wholesaling organic produce all day my favorite thing in the world is coming home to my love and sharing some wine and just plain chillin’. If they have a gadget that removes back hair and adds hair to my scalp that would be it. Do they?
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| New Hobby Discovered This Year |
- My new hobby this year is playing in a band again. It had been about 14 years since "Sexy Vanilla" and about 20 years since "Sledge." We were in the fifth grade and wanted to be "Rigormortis" until we saw an ad in Thrasher for that band. We didn't even know what it meant, but it sounded badass to us at the time. I probably had a mullet, but it was a cool one.
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| Guilty Pleasure of the Year |
- Cooking veggies. You might as well drink a glass of green water if you cook veggies, but sometimes it's hard to eat raw veggies all of the time. I abused my body pretty hard-core for more than half of my life, so it's time to turn the corner. I don't mean drinking a six pack abuse either. That's practically medicine. But we as consumers have the ultimate choice in what businesses survive and thrive, so even if I like hamburgers, I don’t like the mistreatment of animals and the cutting of forests and the whole "shit in the water" thing. Wake Up!!
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| The Retro Comeback You're Hoping for in 2005? |
- I would like to see "Dine and Dash" make a huge comeback. The Full Lush, Captain Kicked, Dee Dee Hickenson and maybe myself Mr. Peter Shivers. They rock hard, and I would totally complete their circle. So that’s my job application. for DaD. Full Lush, give me a ring some time so we can get back to our Full and Foes roots.
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| Selection for Person of the Year |
- The person who ends the breathing cycle of GWB. This guy has got to go. I feel like our country is a big redneck sandwich with most of the population voting on guns and sexual preference. Hey Fellas: The more guys that date each other equate into more single women in the world. I'm just fooling, but on the serious side, there is a revolution and it's knocking so pick up a fucking rock or join their team. Don't sit on the fence and call names to each side. That makes you a wuss.
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| A Memorable Moment From the Road in 2004 |
- Our singer/bass dude, Nolan Void, drank so much at our last show (2 weeks ago) that he literally passed out behind his bass stack with his feet sticking out. He looked like the fucking wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz (try the lion/ Dark Side of the Moon thing, it really works for the first time it plays through). We don’t party like that on stage, so it was out of the norm for us as a band. Plus my jacket was behind my kit and our roadies had used my jacket for a vomit guard when they had to move him. Kinda funny: Our guitar player called me the next day and asked why I was talking to the club show booker dude while they carried Void out of the joint and I replied "Booking another gig, naturally."
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