BMF and Ruyter Suys @ Blue Cats in Knoxville, Tennessee
Surprise for my BMF! I love this picture!
Ruyter, thanks for being such a beautiful person inside and out.He lived the way he felt and loved his life. Gone too soon. ~mc 7/28/17~
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!)
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!]
:::posted by miss chicky on 5/31/2002 @ 7:02 PM:::
He lived the way he felt and loved his life. Gone too soon. ~mc 7/28/17~
Blue Cat, Knoxville Tennessee
Three pussies in the bathroom at Blue Cats in Knoxville last night during the Nebula set…
drunk and loud pussy #1 – “GODDAMN! I can’t even understand what they are singing!”
drunk and loud pussy #2 – “Yeah and we paid $12 apiece to get in here for this?”
drunk and calm pussy #3 – coming out of the stall, washing her hands, keeping quiet
pussy #1 to pussy #3 – “Can you understand anything those guys are singing? This sucks!”
pussy #3 to pussy #1 – (ignoring the question) “So I guess you’ve never been to a Nashville Pussy show?”
woman #1 – “No we never even heard of them before.”
woman #3 – (walking out) “hmmmm…then it won’t be much longer before you get your $12 worth.”
Later on during one of the best Nashville Pussy sets ever… the two disgruntled pussies were seen doing this…
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.
:::posted by miss chicky on 5/31/2002 @ 3:40 PM:::
He lived the way he felt and loved his life. Gone too soon. ~mc 7/29/17~
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