“Nashville Pussy was all about decadence, sexy swagger, and slashing Southern rock – AC/DC with a worse attitude. It’s satisfying to report that the songs from the new disc, ”Say Something Nasty” cooked on all burners, landed a few snarling hooks, and suggested Nashville Pussy’s range goes beyond gimmickry.” [read more about the 6.4.02 show in Cambridge]
2. Talking to Ruyter after the show, getting the info on Tracy, and Ruyter asking me to post the information on our website…(which she loves by the way.)
3. The security guards actually inviting me to get between the barricades to take pictures when usually they are telling me to get back. (see #1 for the reason why)
4. Getting another drumstick. Now I have a pair.
5. Seeing Blaine get real crazy into it…jumping up and down with the mike in one had, beer in the other, and the guitar strapped across his chest.
punkarella 5
1. The official photo pass was indeed cool.
2. But getting searched for weapons at the door was even more better.
3. Getting some video especially the ones with Blaine’s “You Give Drugs a Bad Name” speech and the one with Jeff watching the Ruyter. I think he has a crush. 🙂
4. Gettin lectured by the guy for taking too many pictures of Ruyter and not enough of Katie. But…But…Katie doesn’t take her shirt off. Yet.
5. Watching Jeff from the other side of the stage get a chance to talk to Ruyter and feeling a little jealous, but really being happy for him cause he loves this whole roadtrip and the rock and roll thing so much. And I know he loves me with all his heart.
Vail, CO Reverend Horton Heat/Nashville Pussy Tour…..day one in CO
For a day to day diary of the trip go to Miss Chicky’s. Click on a thumbnail for the original image.
The easiest way to get the movies is to “right click over link, save target as, and save it to your hardrive
The numbers below are short MOVIES we got of the band live. Large files so expect long downloads. 1234567
Here are additional movie clips from the 3/30/02 Earthlink Live show here in Atlanta 89101112
(6/14/17 update from mc – the movie clip files are from 2002 and the links are now dead, but I will bring them into current time for people to see again. Lots of the photos below are missing and I’ll have to dig them out again from one of BMF’s computers. I reposted the ones I have below.
Awww now who would have guessed Nashville Pussy are Led Zepplin fans?
Ruyter went one on one with Livewire’s Phil Bonyata sometime last month before they left on tour:
“Yes sir, I love 70s music. I don’t know, I dig real classic rock like Zeppelin. We’re all huge Zeppelin fiends! Lately, it’s been really bad. On the last tour we’ve been listening to the whole box set and listen to 10 hours straight of Zeppelin, then we start listening to the Black Crowes doing Zeppelin. It’s gotten really fucking bad about our Zeppelin, man. We’ve got about 50 hours of Zeppelin boots on the road with us. We have tons of Stones shit, too. We’ve been rediscovering the Who lately. I saw the Who in high school in something like ’84 or ’83 and they were quite amazing. That was their first last tour. We saw Tenacious D. We saw them play at South By Southwest two years ago. It was fucking great, it was like 1 in the morning and they were playing for about 800 drunks. About 200 drunks knew all the words, now everybody knows the words!”[read more]
Canadians love Nashville Pussy. Read a Say Something Nasty album review by Canoe.
“Yesterday at Buckingham Palace Ozzy, with secret guest Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi, played “Paranoid” in front of an audience of 12,000, as part of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. The Madman promised to behave himself, saying “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in the Tower [of London]. I mustn’t drop my trousers, no bad language, or perhaps a trap door will open.” Princes William and Harry reportedly got their headbang on as father Charles looked on, perplexed by their nodding approval.”
I hope Zakk gets some advice from Nashville Pussy how to survive on the road before Ozzfest comes to Atlanta and that t-shirt site is cool. Funny how I used to crush on Ozzy now I just want him for my daddy. :)~
I took four cd’s with me down to Flordia. The three Nashville Pussy albums and a BMF mix consisting of Clutch, The Cramps, Iggy Pop, Dope, Slaves on Dope, Mary Prankster, Impotent Sea Snakes, Elvis, Gillian Welch, Dead Boys, Marilyn Manson, The Pixies, Zen Guerilla, and Nashville Pussy. I was told by a nineteen year old that she didn’t like any of my music, but instead wanted to hear the likes of Bright Eyes, Alkaline Trio, and Dashboard Confessional. I agreed we would take turns being I have such an open mind. After listening to 26 songs by Alkaline Trio I had to pull the plug. I inserted the first album, Let Them Eat Pussy, and clicked right over to the last track, “Fried Chicken and Coffee”. She almost got thru it before finally screaming “STOP! …it’s just noise. It sounds like trailer trash music!”.
I replied, “Exactly”.
Check out Nashville Pussy pictures from the Knoxville and Baltimore shows last week.
Rutyer says…
“All these guys with their lines — I’ve heard them all,” she says, laughing. “They usually start off with, ‘You know, I respect the hell out of Blaine, but …’ I get that constantly. I just tell them, ‘That’s OK, baby. I’m already getting laid.'” [read more – great article]
Download this one song from the new album and drive fast to your local record store.
(updated by ~mc~ on 7/28/17 – goddamn time flies – and Nashville Pussy is still rocking it all over the world!)
Say Something Nasty is the new Artemis album by Nashville Pussy. Not surprisingly, NP singer/guitarist Blaine Cartwright declares in no uncertain terms that, “It’s our best one yet!”
But Blaine’s words are-to quote John Lee Hooker-“no brag, just facts.” This 15-track set of raunchy, high-voltage Southern guitar rock features the best songs and sharpest production yet from this Georgia-based quartet. Say Something Nasty includes such hilarious, hard-rocking originals as “You Give Drugs a Bad Name,” “Keep Them Things Away From Me,” “Beat Me Senseless,” and “Gonna Hitchhike Down to Cincinnati And Kick The Shit Outta Your Drunk Daddy.”
To record Say Something Nasty, Blaine explains, “we went back to Glasgow, Kentucky and worked with [producer] David Barrick. I knew him from my old band, Nine-Pound Hammer. David runs a small studio with big-time machines. He installed the board, he engineered all the sessions-he’s the whole show! He’s worked with a lot of up-and-coming bands, doing demos, and also with Kentucky Headhunters and with Bernie Worrell.”
The entire album took less than three weeks to track and mix. “Glasgow is in a dry county, which kept everyone concentrated,” notes Blaine. “It’s impossible to score any weed, and the nearest beer is 30 miles away. You can’t even buy a Playboy magazine! So the only place to go every day was the studio.”
Say Something Nasty contains 11 new songs written by Blaine Cartwright, although “I credit everybody because of their contributions.” Two other standouts are “Beat Me Senseless,” recorded for a Circle Jerks tribute album, and a blazing take on Johnny Winter’s “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.” “Say Something Nasty,” “Can’t Get Rid Of It,” and “Gonna Hitchhike Down To Cinicinnati And Kick The Shit Outta Your Drunk Daddy” also appear on a 3 song sampler that is being serviced to metal and rock specialty radio.
Formed in 1996, the current lineup of Nashville Pussy features Kentucky-born singer/guitarist Blaine Cartwright, lead guitarist Ruyter Suys (pronounced “Rider Sighs”), drummer Jeremy “Remo” Thompson, and bassist Katie Lynn Campbell a/k/a “Vampire Girl.” The band’s debut album, Let Them Eat Pussy, was released on Amphetamine Reptile in 1998 and later picked up by Mercury Records for national distribution. A track from that album entitled “Fried Chicken and Coffee” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Nashville Pussy’s second disc, High As Hell, was released in 2000 on TVT Records. Two cuts from High As Hell – “Wrong Side of A Gun” and “Shoot First and Run Like Hell” – were featured in the film Super Troopers and on the soundtrack album.
This is one “people’s band” that has garnered some surprisingly favorable press. Philadelphia’s City Paper called Nashville Pussy “arguably the funniest, raunchiest, most kick-ass group in rock today.” The Orange County Weekly wrote: “Nashville Pussy [are] a guilty pleasure-swaggering, menacing, hedonistic, riveting-yet they don’t come off as contrived�Part of their potency, no doubt, is that they’ve got excellent musicianship to back up the glimmer.”
For nearly six years, Nashville Pussy has virtually lived on the road. “Out of the last six months, we’ve been home for about three weeks,” says Blaine. “We don’t go home!” They’ve held their own in venues ranging from a Hell’s Angels festival in France to the 2000 “Tattoo the Earth” tour with Slipknot, Slayer, and Sevendust. During a European tour in the summer of 2001, the band managed the astonishing feat of playing four different European festivals within 40 hours.
Contrary to popular myth, the Nashville Pussy live experience does not include fire-breathing, live sex, or the open promotion and use of narcotics. (In the audience, maybe, but not on the stage.)
“All that stuff’s just a myth,” says Blaine with a chuckle. “It’s the kind of thing that always starts going around about any crazy, high-energy rock and roll show. When I was growing up, I heard that Alice Cooper killed puppies on stage. People swore they had seen this!”
“We just try to create a situation where you think anything can happen. We always have good shows in places like Indiana, where there’s nothing else to do.”
Perhaps the key line in Say Something Nasty comes from the anthemic, uproarious “Keep On’ Fucking,” in which Nashville Pussy declares, “you don’t have to be smart to understand.”
“That’s what this album and this band are really about,” declares Blaine Cartwright. “We rock for the stupid and the smart, and our audience runs the gamut every night. We’ll be closing with ‘Keep on Fucking’ for the next 20 years. We’re gonna shove this album up America’s ass!”[via Artemis Records]
Say Something Nasty comes out in Japan on July 24th with bonus tracks and will only be available thru the internet.[thanks countrystarr!]
After you get the new fresh album in your hands spend at least a day listening to it from beginning to end
to absorb the goodness because you already know Nashville Pussy isn’t about to let you down. Read the
liner notes and look at the pictures. Then listen to it again while you get high but don’t think too much upon
it just yet … only enjoy it.
The next morning after you feel good and refreshed from a night of frivolity(purrrrrr…;)and during your
morning coffee put that fucker back into your stereo and turn it up. Sit down and start playing your favorite
PS2 motocross game right before you go to work and let the feelings fly. Song by song. Replay them over
and over if you need to.
Gather all your thoughts about the new album and post your review all over the internet and on your own great fan site like the Nashville Pussy Chronicles. Support your favorite band. Buy their music. Buy their
swag. Go see a show.
A he said/she said review of _Say Something Nasty_
1. “Words of Wisdom” …at first we thought it was one of those Dick Delicious guys and then we were told it’s Blaine’s voice with some kind of distortion filter. Like he needs any more vocal distortion. Kinda reminds me of Alice Cooper’s “Lost in America” .
Except it’s about having a band with pussy in it:
Pussy it’s all about pussy You gotta sing about pussy, to get money You gotta get money, so you can get pussy And you gotta get pussy, so you can sing about it And a record company don’t let you sing about pussy, they ain’t your record company
2. “Say Something Nasty”
punkarella – The title song that gives you everything you need to know about Nashville Pussy’s music. When you hear the beginning riffs of this song you know Nashville Pussy is about to kick your ass live and in person.
BMF – My favorite song on the album. If today were the last day you could ever hear a rock and roll song this is the one to pick. It’s the one song AC/DC wishes they had written. A mix of Nugent Wango and AC/DC’s, “You Shook Me All Nite Long”. [Insert Your Own Favorite Rock Song Here] and you have “Say Something Nasty”. The ultimate guitar riffs…perfect ending to a perfect rock song.
3. “Drunk Daddy”
punkarella – Nobody can argue whether Nashville Pussy puts on the best live show going today … cause they do. We have heard this song live about eight times before and thought it was good but not really a showstopper. That has changed after listening to the album. The studio version of “Drunk Daddy” just became my new favorite Nashville Pussy song. I’m not sure what Blaine was doing the day he recorded it but his deep growling voice in this song makes me wet thus making it my new favorite. The guitar playing is heavenly too.
BMF – Makes me want to fight.
4. “You Give Drugs A Bad Name”
punkarella – Ok I’m spoiled. I love this song because we know its about once upon a time cool firebreathers becoming party poopers. The live version of this song sounds totally different to me. “You Give Drugs a Bad Name” and “Fried Chicken and Coffee” are my two favorites when I go to a NP show. I guess I fell for that sweet little rant Blaine spews out before they start playing it. Nevertheless I really love the live version of this song so the studio version seems a little bland to me.
BMF – I disagree. It’s a new rock and roll anthem. The live version and studio version sound the same.
punkarella – whatever.
5. “The Bitch Just Kicked Me Out”
punkarella – hmmmm…if I have to pick a “least favorite” song on the album this would be it. But I like the way Blaine sings “Oh Baby”.
BMF – Good song. I’m not really sure what he’s saying nor do I care. I just like the way he sings it.
6. “Keep On Fuckin’”
punkarella – The riffs in this song will cause you to fondle your own breasts no matter where you are when you hear it. Again I love this song live more than the studio version. The background vocals are too ummm clear or something. I like it better when Ruyter is doing her Angus Young impression and runs over all breathless to Blaine and sings into the microphone, “Keep On Fuckin”.
BMF – Another anthem song. If this song were on the radio today it would be #1 forever. Period.
7. “Jack Shack”
punkarella- this is the first of two songs co-written with former bassist, Tracy Almazon. I guess it’s pretty normal people have split emotions when a member of a band leaves. So yesterday there was a lot of discussion on the Nashville Pussy messageboard about whether Tracy was given proper credit for what she contributed to the new album. Tracy took it by the horns and put a end to the controversy by posting this message to everybody:
TRACY
“I’d like to express my thanks to lightbulb for encouraging people to call me at home….glad to see this bulletin board is as insane as ever. I wrote the music to Jack Shack when I was in Helldorado. Glenn Hettrick wrote the lyrics and named it Rocket to You. Helldorado broke up. Blaine wrote his own lyrics over the music and called it Down at the Jackshack. What was I supposed to do? Make a Helldorado shrine and…Blaine didn’t like the melody line Glen had done and I was pysched that Blaine did something different with it. It’s that simple. If anyone else has a good enough band, I’d be happy to unload some of these tunes on you, too. In the meantime, buy the album, listen to it real loud and just relax. I had a great time with Nashville Pussy, but everyone knows I don’t like playing the bass that much…despite how sweet that old Thunderbird is. Who’s the bass player for Nashville Pussy? Katie Lynn and she rocks. That’s all you need to know. Sure ’nuff!”
Very classy former pussy she is. As far as the song is concerned…it’s not the one I want to play over and over. But others might love it.
BMF – The guitar line reminds me of a train. Damn good song.
8. “Keep Them Things Away From Me”
punkarella – There is some awesome guitar playing in this song. And I like the reference to Atlanta but I don’t know what “them things” are yet.
BMF – I love the music but I don’t like the singing.
9. “Here’s To Your Destruction”
punkarella – The second song co-written with Tracy. It’s a little off vein for me. Too ummm bluegrassy or something. But that’s just my own personal taste. There is a really good guitar riff in it though.
BMF – I like it. It’s a drinking song and it sounds like they are having fun playing it. “Here’s to your destruction…I’ll buy the next round…” And like I already said it has a kind of ‘boogie woogie’ flavor to it that really shows Ruyter can play anything she wants to and play it like no other. Most NP songs make me feel like fighting or fuckin but this one just makes me feel happy.
10. “Let’s Get the Hell Outta Here”
punkarella – I really like this song. It’s like a fast car going real fast. Speed guitar and fast vocals.
BMF – Hillbilly punk.
11. “Slow Movin’ Train”
punkarella – Oh yeah this is the “slow” romantic song on the album and I love it. Real southern rock and roll.
BMF – Reminds me of Bad Company.
12. “Beat Me Senseless”
punkarella – “No pain … no gain … come on … Beat Me Senseless” …
BMF – I love this song cause I love punk. This sounds like a Southernized version of the punk band Fear.
13. “Can’t Get Rid of It”
punkarella – ……………………………………………
BMF – I like it.
14. “Rock n Roll Hoochie Coo”
punkarella – I must have grown up at the same time Blaine did cause this was a teenage anthem when I was growing up in the South. It must be a guy song cause guys always wanted to sing it to me in the backseat of a car. That was before I knew what a hoochie coo was but I never liked the song anyway. I realize it’s supposed to be a salute to the real pussy in the band(something Prince is famous for)and it is a better version than the Derringer original. The best Drunk Daddy addition has to be Blaine wailing, “Did somebody say keep on rockin’? It was meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
BMF – I don’t really like the song either but if I have to listen to it I prefer the Nashville Pussy version.
I’d say Nashville Pussy won them over wouldn’t you? Rock and Roll Hoochie Cooooooooo!!!!!!
Ohhh there is much more to come about Nashville Pussy getting back on the road last night. They were so fired up! The Blue Cat is a great club…wish we had one like it in Atlanta. The sound seemed great to me cause my ears are still ringing. And nothing can get you more excited than pulling up to a club and seeing Harley’s lined up and down the street. NP has added more of their new songs to the setlist and it’s all tight. Blaine was in a great mood and his speeches are becoming legendary. Katie fits like a glove and is a perfect counterpart to Ruyter who is just the sexiest and sweetest little rocker ever. And the only thing we can say about Jeremy is he’s the best drummer in the best band.
By the way if you like headbanging music sorta like Black Sabbath you are going to love Nebula. I also think they should keep Dick Delicious on the road with them too. They turn it into the perfect triple musical extravaganza. Even if they have been tainted in a previous life by some fat ugly bitch with a big stinky pussy wearing a towel on her head. No they don’t wear masks in their act even if they should cause all the fat ugly girls are waiting for them with baseball bats after the show. Plus they caused me to worry Ozzy had actually died after their little tribute to him. But I have to forgive them cause they are good looking and cause they are just trying to cover up the fact they can really play that fucking music white boy.
Stay tuned. More thoughts and most importantly lots of pictures coming soon.
5/30/02 Knoxville, TN Blue Cats 5/31/02 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle 6/01/02 Richmond, VA Canal Club 6/02/02 Baltimore, MD Ottobar 6/04/02 Cambridge, MA Middle East Club 6/05/02 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony 6/06/02 New London, CT El-N-Gee Club 6/07/02 New York, NY Irving Plaza 6/08/02 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero 6/09/02 Portland, ME The Skinny 6/11/02 Winooski, VT Higher Ground 6/12/02 Buffalo, NY The Showplace 6/13/02 Pittsburgh, PA Club Laga 6/14/02 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre 6/15/02 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre 6/16/02 Youngstown, OH Nyabinghi Dance Hall 6/18/02 Bowling Green, OH Howard’s Club H 6/19/02 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s 6/20/02 Indianapolis, IN The Patio 6/21/02 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 6/22/02 St. Louis, MO Mississippi Nights 6/27/02 Houston, TX Fabulous Satellite Lounge 6/28/02 Dallas, TX Trees 6/29/02 Austin, TX Emo’s 7/03/02 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre 7/05/02 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre 7/06/02 Irvine, CA Hidden Valley 7/07/02 San Diego, CA Embarcadero Marina 7/08/02 Tucson, AZ The Rialto 7/10/02 Ventura, CA Ventura Theatre 7/11/02 San Jose, CA The Usual 7/12/02 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst 7/13/02 San Francisco, CA Slim’s 7/14/02 Petaluma, CA Mystic Theatre 7/16/02 Chico, CA Brick Works 7/17/02 Sacramento, CA Crest Theatre 7/18/02 Eugene, OR W.O.W. Hall 7/19/02 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 7/20/02 Victoria, BC Lucky Bar 7/22/02 Whistler, BC Garfinkels 7/23/02 Chilliwack, BC Area 51 7/24/02 Banff AB Wild Bills 7/25/02 Jasper, AB Pete’s 7/26/02 Edmonton, AB The Rev 7/27/02 Calgary, AB Nightgallery 7/28/02 Red Deer, AB Dakota’s 7/29/02 Lethbridge, AB The Edge 7/30/02 Regina SK The State 7/31/02 Saskatoon SK Odeon 8/01/02 Winnipeg MB West End 8/02/02 Thunder Bay ON Apollo 8/03/02 Sault ON Foggy Notions 8/04/02 Sudbury ON Townehouse 8/05/02 Montreal QB Club Soda 8/06/02 Quebec City QB Kashmir 8/07/02 Sherbrooke QB Cafe du Palais 8/08/02 Ottawa ON Babylon 8/09/02 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace 8/10/02 Hamilton ON The Border 8/15/02 Omaha, NE Ranch Bowl 8/16/02 Kansas City, MO Beaumont Club
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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
2004 Miss Chicky To Do List
1. Do a handstand in the middle of the street wearing gray panties.
2. Get a pet and name it Dr. Xiang-Dong Wang.
:::posted by miss chicky @ 8:26 PM:::
Official Photo Pass(find photo)
He lived the way he felt and loved his life. Gone too soon. ~mc 7/28/17~
