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Jun052002

Ruyter Suys Interview


“Yes sir, I love 70’s music.”
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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.

Other news important to ME

The European OZzfest is cancelled because Zakk Wylde is suffering from exhaustion. Then Ozzy gets sued over a t-shirt design. But he stole the show at Buckingham Palace.

“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. :)~

The Genitorturers have a new album coming out.

 :::posted by miss chicky @ 9:15 AM:::

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Jun042002

Back from the Redneck Riveria…


“It sounds like trailer trash music!”
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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]

 :::posted by miss chicky @ 3:02 PM:::

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Mar222002

Burn Baby Burn #7

Did I miss anything?

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When you are away from home … this can remind you of loved ones.

Nashville Pussy leaves Cincinnati where they played at Bogart’s last night and will be at The Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio tonight. They accept cash only? Then tomorrow they travel over to Pittsburgh to play Saturday night at the Metropol before heading back South for a week in Flordia. It seems a very tall band called Syrup will be playing third wheel on the Flordia part of the run with the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs rejoining the tour once it heads back up to Atlanta.

That’s right…next Saturday they come back home to play in Atlanta. Hell yeah and allright.

Burn Baby Burn…Week #7

 :::posted by miss chicky @ 10:36 PM:::

 

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Feb282002

BMF Wisdom

Artimus Pyledriver 1st Show!

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I was mistaken, it was Artimus Pyledrivers first show. They rocked. For a full review of the show and pictures too, go to Whatever Happened to Rock & Roll. Tomorrow night, its “The Evils” & Dick Delicious at 9 Lives. Look for pictures and more Saturday.

:::posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 9:39 PM:::

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Feb272002

Artimus Pyledriver Tonight!

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We miss you!

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“.

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson)@ 6:09 PM:::

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Feb222002

Nashville Pussy Travels to the Midwest

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<img alt=”2.22.02 …NP at the Blue Note in Missouri” src=”/web/20020223062003im_/http://www.misschicky.com/22202BlueNote.jpg” border=”0″>

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… 

::: posted by miss chicky @ 12:27 PM:::

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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.

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 12:45 AM:::

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Feb142002

Nashville Pussy Wishes You Happy Condom Day

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What a fuckin night. I’m packed, powdered, and too damn excited to sleep although I know I’ll pay later. No matter…I’ve got a whole day to get ready for the first two nights in Vail. We leave Atlanta in approximately 5 hours.

Just got the Nashville Pussy Valentine Edition newsletter in e-mail. I was happily reading along when all of a sudden I see a link to this website. Fuck me. Thanks guys. Its a labor of lust truly. :)~

Everybody knows I love Vampires.

p.s. thanks to Smokie for being a doll.

::: posted by miss chicky @ 4:45 AM:::

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Feb072002

7 Days to Pussy Time

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This time next week on Valentine’s Day we will be walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado gearing up for the drive to Vail on Friday.

We were hoping to be standing at the Starlight in Ft. Collins next Thursday night waiting for Nashville Pussy to get on stage, but it seems that show has now definitely been cancelled. But that’s ok…it just gives us an extra day to get ready for a lot of drivin, eatin, drinkin, and hellfire music. Plus some unexpected time in Boulder that rates third on my list of places I’d like to live…right behind New Orleans and my beloved Atlanta.

BMF…that reminds me…any frat boy problems at the Tabernacle tonight? Cowboy Mouth is from New Orleans. Did I miss out? 🙂

BourboCam or BeadCam. Wish we were there…right now.

p.s. its 18 degrees in Aspen.

::: posted by miss chicky @ 10:31 PM:::

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Feb052002

BMF Wisdom

Let Them Eat Pussy

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Years ago when I had just gotten my first computer and was surfing the net like a madman looking for music websites. I came across one that is now defunct, but at the time they had a contest to win a free CD. I signed up of course and 3 weeks later got an email telling me I had one a CD of my choice. I chose a CD by a band called “NASHVILLE PUSSY” for the simple reason I liked the cover of the CD and loved their name. When I recieved the CD a few weeks later it didn’t leave my CD Player for months. I searched the web for any info I could find on the band. I couldn’t get enough of them. I was lucky enough to get one of the first CD’s that came with the EP “LET THEM EAT PUSSY”. The cover alone on that one made it go into my top 10 list of all time greats. But the main CD was definatly my new number one pick of all time best CD’s and still is to this day. When all this happened I was living in Kansas. I’m now in Atlanta, the hometown of Nashville Pussy, and have seen them play live one time. That will soon change as of Feb. 14 when me and my girlfriend are traveling to Colorado to follow the band on all their dates there with the Reverend Horton Heat. We are looking forward to lots of Fried Chix & Coffee and lots of badass rock and roll.

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 2:25 PM:::

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