Birdy’s
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Feb282002
Nashville Pussy Chronicles
Feb272002
Artimus Pyledriver Tonight!
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9 Lives Saloon, Atlanta, Georgia
We are heading over to the 9 Lives Saloon in a bit to watch Artimus Pyledriver for the first time. I am probably mistaken but from what I understand reading from their website, this is their first show…?..surely not. If so we will be there in all our glory taking pictures of the show and talking to the guys. Look for a full review and stuff about the show tomorrow on both this website and also on “Whatever Happened to Rock & Roll“.
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Feb272002
Nashville Pussy at the Union Bar tonight…
call 319-339-7713 and listen to the guy say Pussy..
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Patron with broken leg sues bar and bouncer. A man who broke his leg last fall has sued the Union Bar in Iowa City and one of its bouncers, claiming the bouncer tackled him. According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Jonathan Scheib had been at the bar for about an hour when he was tackled from behind by the bouncer, Ben Ruley. Scheib said his leg twisted beneath him as he fell. His leg was broken and his ankle was dislocated.[Des Moines Register 2.24.02]
heh…Ben Ruley.
Pussy Poll
Who would you like to see on tour with Nashville Pussy? Vote here.
Iggy Pop
Motorhead
Impotent Sea Snakes
Hole
Dick Delicious
Lucky 7, Reverend Horton Heat’s new album was released yesterday.
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Feb252002
Nashville Pussy in Bloomington, Indiana Tonight!
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The Reverend Horton Heat
According to my clock Nashville Pussy is probably just about ready to crank it up at The Bluebird tonight. Tomorrow will be a rest day. I just wonder how much they actually rest. E-mail us to add your reviews, stories, personal worship of Nashville Pussy, and/or pictures to the 2002 Nashville Pussy Chronicles.
I feel sickly and I’m going back to bed. Goodnite honey… and open up anything you like…I’m weak tonight and you can do whatever you want cause I L O V E U.
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Feb242002
Nashville Pussy at the High Dive
in Champaign, Illinois Tonight!
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Nashville Pussy Interview – October of 2001 by Antimusic
This is a great video interview for those of you who haven’t heard it yet. I don’t know who the guy is doing the interview but he’s really good. His pen name is Phil Dis., who is probably a real sober respectable type journalist because he asked good and sometimes tough questions. If you can’t get a chance to talk to the members of Nashville Pussy before or after a show, this interview will give you a little bit of their off stage essence. They are real down to earth people who love their music, fans, and lifestyle.
The interview is approximately 12 minutes long. It has very poor video quality and some gaps in the sound, but it’s still a really great listen. NP talks about touring and how much they love it and how they go crazy when they are off the road. Phil asks Blaine what direction the third album would take considering the first album, “Let Them Eat Pussy” was more raw and punk than the second album’s, “Highway to Hell” hard rock sound. Blaine tells him the new album will be pretty much where the last album left off. They were hoping the new album would be out this past Christmas but were having problems with the album title…probably cause they want to call it, “Keep On Fuckin”…lol. Or maybe it’s what BMF and I were discussing…they are trying to come up with a cover design that will come close to the last two covers although the cover for “Let Them Eat Pussy” is one of a kind and will be hard to ever top. The album is first being released in Japan before being released here in the USA sometime in April.
However they have been playing a few of their new songs on tour since May or so last year … “Drunk Daddy” , “Say Something Nasty”, and “Keep On Fuckin'” . I also learned from the interview “You Give Drugs a Bad Name” is also a new song. I don’t know why but we thought it was one of their older songs. I guess because we saw them perform it at the Echo in Atlanta this past November. So it seemed like a oldie or someting but oh contrare because it’s really one of the highlights of their live show…the part where Blaine starts his storytelling and really gets the crowd cranking. We have a small piece of video of it from Colorado. After hearing the interview and reading this and this, it’s pretty clear the song is about Corey Parks. Blaine was real cool about it though when asked if Corey quit or was fired…he confirmed Corey was the one who quit the band.
One part of the interview seemed a little sad considering Tracy has now left the band under strange circumstances. Phil asked Tracey how she liked playing with NP and how it compared to her experiences with Helldorado and Wives. Tracey seemed really cool talking about how much more organized things were and how nice and “uncrazy” everyone was in NP. Phil also asked who wrote the new songs for the album for which Blaine replied he wrote all the songs except for the two Tracey had written for the new album. Ouch.
Other stuff they talked about: what kind of cars they drive…mostly souped up Chevrolets..their musical influences..who they listen to now…discussion of the controversial Pussy name…and favorite places to play. Plus Blaine recalls a funny story about Slayer.
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Feb232002
Why do we need so many damn pictures anyway?
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Cause its fun to sort them and create those little picture organizer thingies. Here’s Nashville Pussy in Vail, Colorado at the 8150 Club on the first night of their first show in 2002. And what makes these pictures a little more special than all the other ten million Nashville Pussy pictures out there on the internet is the fact sweet little Katie Lynn Campbell with the big bass makes her first appearance with Nashville Pussy. As we all know by now Katie replaced Tracy Almazon who suddenly quit the band right before the tour started.
Nashville Pussy at the 8150 Club in Vail, Colorado on 2.15.02.
(look for http://www.misschicky.com/nashvillepussyphotos001.html)
Road Warriors
According to my calculations … Nashville Pussy will make a 450 mile drive today from Missouri to Madison, Wisconsin where they have a show at the Orpheum Theatre tonight. Then another 250 miles tomorrow to Champaign, Illinois.
Essay #1 on the Road Warriors.
The mere thought of this makes my tailbone ache.posted by miss chicky @ 2:50 PM | | leave a message for Nashville Pussy | current
Feb222002
Nashville Pussy Travels to the Midwest
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I think I’m starting to recover from the trip after about 36 hours of sleep in a big comfortable bed. I feel a little guilty about it too. I had a dream last night about NP and their two roadies driving and hauling their equipment all over the country. This band isn’t traveling in any big nice luxurious bus with a driver. NFW! They travel in two big vans with a U- Haul trailer. They haul their stuff into each club, set it up, get it tuned right, do a sound check, play a hard, hard, one hour, 15 song set, break it all down again, pack it up, haul it to the next town, and start all over again. Seems like it would become pretty dull after a while…but the one roadie(the guy with the cool dreads-what is his name..dammit)seemed to love it. His picture is on the NP website and I got his picture too. If I ever get them transferred from the Mac laptop to the Sony PC, I’ll post them here on the Chronicles. In the meantime you can see a lot of pictures on BMF’s site…cause he’s much faster than I’ll ever be. 🙂
NP played at the Granada Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas last night which is a 14 hour drive from Aspen. And that doesn’t take into account there was a huge snowstorm on Wednesday as they were leaving the Rocky Mountains.That would have given them a one night break to gear up for their show which I’m sure was kickass as usual. Tonight they play at The Blue Note in Columbia, MO…a measley three hour drive from Lawrence. It appears they have added a third band , Split Lip Rayfield, a band from Witchita, Kansas to this leg of the tour. They are described as Bluegrass Outlaws. We’ll fire Morpheus up to get a little taste.
Want to know how Nashville Pussy got started?
Blaine started it all off. We’ve done somewhere around 3000 shows as far as I can figure. We are a guitar driven band. I play bass and hold the foundation. Ruyter has been playing for about 23 years and Blaine has been playing for about 19 years. They write the songs and Blaine writes all the lyrics. Blaine was in a band called “Nine Pound Hammer” and I went to see them when I was living in North Carolina. I met with him and we hung out because his band had the next day off. I told him I was in this “All girl cock rock band” and I play bass. He asked if I was any good. The cool thing with Blaine was he talked about his wife (bandmate and lead guitarist Ruyter) all night. Girls can smell bullshit a mile away and the fact that he could talk about his old lady all night long really showed me that he was for real. He even called her up and we talked. We ended up meeting and talked about starting a band called the “Homewreckers” but it sort of just fizzled out. About 6 months later I got a phone call saying that “Hammer” is still together but Me (Blaine), Ruyter and Adam (the old Hammer drummer) are jamming in Kentucky but we need a bass player can you be here this coming weekend. I had no car, my bass was in hock! 🙁 I took a 23 hour bus ride and showed up on the doorstep. And then I also mentioned that I breathe fire. It materialized over a boy. I did it to impress a boy! Anyways, so now the four of us are together, all 500 miles apart! Adam is in Kentucky, Ruyter and Blaine are in Nashville and I’m in North Carolina. We all jammed at Adam’s because his grandmother let us use the attic because she was a nurse and worked the graveyard shift. This let us jam all night long and that’s our hours. We’re usually ready to start jamming at about 1 in the morning, and then take a break at about 6am. We jammed for several times for 3 days at a time. Blaine had 5 songs done. He’d send them to me on a tape. I’d learn them and then come up to the jam session with what I learned and we learned 6 covers so we had about a 30 minute set. We did covers of Elvis, Mitch Ryder, ZZ Top we did all kinds of covers. Soon we started hookin up our own tours. The first one was for 4 days. Then the next was for 10. Then the next was for 4 weeks, then 8 weeks. We never booked gigs with just us playing. We always played with other bands and stole their audiences. It was amazing! We just stayed on the road. After the 6 week tour we all quit our jobs and decided that we all needed to move into the same house. Blaine and Ruyter’s house in Nashville had burned down so we figured we’d continue touring. We would drive 1000 miles out to Phoenix to do a record store show for 14 people on our day off! Blaine had a little 6 cylinder van with one door welded shut and windows that wouldn’t go down. We loaded the van, the four of us hopped in with one other guy that did everything for us….sound, mic’s, tech stuff and we just hit the road. By the end of that 6 week tour Peter Davis had called us up and he kept us on the road. He was impressed because we sold out a place in Minneapolis on a Monday night! His eyes just lit up so we started working together. We did 20 months with only 10 weeks off. The records were never even thought of. Those all came as a result of the touring….and playing those songs thousands of times.
from a Corey Parks interview in June of 2000…
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Feb212002
BMF Wisdom
Return to Atlanta…had a fucking good time!
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The last night of the Colorado leg of the NP tour in Aspen was incredible to say the least. I have to say I love it when Blaine talks between songs, and he did it a lot more than usual last night and it was awesome. I wondered before the trip if after a few nights of hearing the same songs over and over could get a little old. I can honestly say that they never got old. Every night was fresh and exciting and the songs rocked increasingly harder every night I heard them. How many bands can you say that about? I can say it about only one….Nashville Pussy. They are the coolest, nicest, hardest rockin’ MF’s I have ever met. I’ll never forget this trip with my baby Paula.
I’d say Miss Chicky covered the last night to a T so I’ll tell about the morning after. The last day. We got up at 6a.m. That sucked. We noticed it was lightly snowing but didn’t think much about it at the time. We took out of there at 7am and by 7:30 it was snowing so fucking hard we could hardly see ahead of us. I have some experience driving in the snow from living in Kansas, but this was like no snow I had ever seen. We had to make it to the airport by noon and at the rate we were going it wasn’t gonna happen. About 2 hours into the drive we noticed a big silver bus with a U-haul behind it being towed up the mountain we were slowly climbing. It was none other than The Reverend’s bus itself trying to get out of there for a show in Lawrence, Kansas tonight.
After about another 30 minutes of driving through almost white outs we stopped for an eye and nerve break in Frisco…a cool little town near Vail. We finally made it to Denver, missing our flight of course, and after 4 different ticket agents fucking our flight back home up we ended up arriving here in Atlanta around 11:00 PM. We rode the Marta to Peachtree Street, walked to the Hard Rock Cafe, had some supper, and then walked home. Here we are back in good old Atlanta. I am sad the trip is over, but glad to be home too. Can’t wait till we get to catch NP again though, and hope that we can do the same again in another state. Thanks for everything guys. And honey, I love you, lets hit the sack.
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Feb212002
Oh that makes him hard…
5 for 2.19.02 @ Double Diamond in Aspen
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BMF 5
1. Blaine talking a lot more between songs.
2. Blaine,Ruyter & Katie (where were you Jeremy?) signing CD’s and stuff for us.
3. Ruyter grinding on some guys leg while blarin’ on the guitar.
4. Katie singing more.
5. Catching a 3rd drumstick from Jeremy. Thanks man for tossin’ it my way.
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Feb202002
Nashville Pussy Rocks Aspen
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We just got back from the Aspen show at the Double Diamond. We called it a early night and left right after NP played since we have to be up at 6 AM for our flight back to Atlanta. I wish we had one more day to explore Aspen because it really looked cool, maybe next time around.
I thought it would be hard to beat the crowd in Steamboat Springs but the crowd in Aspen proved me wrong. The club was small and packed shoulder to shoulder with people. I’m quite sure it was probably some kind of disco in the past because the stage was set up in what used to be a sunken dance floor. Real early 80’s style. I thought at first we might be dealing with another “beautiful people” crowd like we had in Vail. But they turned into moshing animals as soon as NP got cranked up.
We arrived at the Double Diamond around 9PM just in time for the sound check. Ruyter looked so cute in her racoon hat, glasses, and sheriff’s star pinned to her sweatshirt. It was really cold in the place and Katie was freezing. We saw her later all bundled up in her coat and red scarf before their set started. Sometimes just seeing stuff like a sound check can be real exciting to those people standing around watching it. They warmed up with “High as Hell” and it was so awesome.
After they finished Ruyter, Katie, and Blaine came over…talked for a few minutes and signed some cd’s for us. Thank you guys. And I just want to say HI to Ruyter’s mom…and let you know we got some great pictures of your girl and everybody else too for that matter. 🙂 And one other thing…she’s kind and sweet and plays guitar better than any man I’ve seen. And she’s funny…I’m sure she will tell you about the dog poop box which we looked for but could never find…
I have to mention one other thing I saw that made me smile to myself cause it reminded me of Jeff…and that’s while we were sitting there talking about silly stuff like dog poop and how expensive everything was in Aspen…Blaine gently rushed Ruyter to hurry up cause they had to get ready to go on stage. He was really so sweet to her.
The show as always rocked and was full of energy. They had to play a shortened set so the Reverend could get on by midnight I guess. They left out “Fried Chicken and Coffee”…dammit. Blaine was extra good with his between song stuff and he let out some screams that would make any metalhead proud. Katie looks more and more comfortable and she smiled a lot more tonight. Ruyter was her sexy ass kicking self as usual. And Jeremy just looked real happy to see a joint land on stage and eventually in his hand. And he directed a drumstick towards Jeff who now happily has a third one to join the pair he already had from two previous shows.
I’m sure there is a ton more I could write and probably will later on when we get back to Atlanta and things calm down. But right now I need to get in the bed and get some sleep. It’s been one exciting week and we wish it wasn’t over, but we’ll save up some more money and get back out there again soon to continue the Nashville Pussy chronicles…maybe the New York or Florida leg of the tour.
We took several little 20 second videos…but they are huge files. I’ll post one here and hopefully you can take a look at it. You will need Quicktime to view it. I’ll try and figure out how to reformat it when I get back to Atlanta.
In the meantime… NP Live in Colorado Springs.
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