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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… 

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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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Feb212002

Oh that makes him hard…

5 for 2.19.02 @ Double Diamond in Aspen

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<img alt=”Ruyter the Knee Grinder… 2.19.02…Aspen,Co.” http://www.misschicky.com/crop010.jpg”>

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1. Blaine talking a lot more between songs.

2. Blaine,Ruyter & Katie (where were you Jeremy?) signing CD’s and stuff for us.Nashville Pussy Chronicles
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.

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 12:28 AM:::

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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.

::: posted by miss chicky @ 3:31 AM:::

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Feb192002

5 for 2.18.02 @ Levelz in Steamboat Springs

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Nashville Pussy Chronicles

Levelz Club in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

BMF 5

1. Talking to Jeremy before the show.
2. Talking to Ruyter after the show.
3. Getting awesome pictures of me & Ruyter.
4. Talking to Katie after the show.
5. Miss Chicky getting up close to the stage with me the whole show.

punkarella 5

1. Finding out some Jeremy facts before the show.
2. Ruyter coming by and promising me she would “take care” of Jeff.
3. Ruyter doing as she promised.Ruyter Suys and BMF
4. Getting right up close to the stage.
5. BMF protecting me from the dirty dirty mosh pit people. 🙂

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 9:16 PM:::

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Feb182002

Steamboat Springs-NP Night #4

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Nashville Pussy Chronicles -Steamboat Springs

Nashville Pussy @ Levelz Club in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

The drive to Steamboat Springs was incredibly beautiful. So far Steamboat Springs is the best place we’ve been. If we are going snowmobiling this will be the place to do it…if I can talk Jeff into it. Boulder is great and Vail is pretty good if you have LOTS of money. As for Colorado Springs…just about any other place on earth would be my favorite. Nothing personal but anybody living there should move. Sorry to be so harsh.

We have performed our pre-show rituals and are just on our way out to see NP at the Levelz Club (right up there) We saw the Reverend HH’s bus pulling in right after we took that picture and the club manager said NP were not schedueled to arrive until 7 for soundcheck. NP isn’t in a bus but a white van with a U-haul behind it. I wonder if they drove all the way from Atlanta? If so…goddamn.

5 for 2.17.02 @ Colorado Music Hall

BMF 5

1. This. Ruyter Suys and BMFOfficial Photo Pass(find photo-found it! 8/23/20 at 2:30 am @ musicfilter tumblr)

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.

::: posted by miss chicky @ 9:42 PM:::

The infamous and treasured Nashville Pussy pass.
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Feb182002

BMF Wisdom

Nashville Pussy at the Colorado Music Hall
February 17, 2002

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Hey Pussy Fans, I have some news about Tracy leaving the band and some news on the new bass player Katie. I had the chance to talk to Ruyter after their show last night in Colorado Springs. It turns out that even the band themselves have no idea as to why Tracy quit the band. Ruyter said she sent the band an E-Mail simply stating that she quit. No explanation, no nothing. Ruyter says they were blown away cause as far as they knew things were going along great. She went on to tell me that they sent email after email to Tracy begging her to at least tell them why she wanted to quit, to say she was ok or something, anything to explain why but they only recieved one other email from her saying,” My decision is final.” Ruyter told me that they were truly upset over the whole deal not only cause she quit abrubtly, but because they truly love her and are concerned about her. So it seems only Tracy can answer why she left the band cause the rest of the band sure in the hell doesn’t know.

Ruyter asked me if I liked their “Katie” and I told her hell yes and asked her if the band liked her. Her response “oh fuck yeah!” She went on to tell me that they feel like things have actually worked out better for the band this way and described Katie as “a cross between Corey & Tracy, and after only her 3rd show with the band she is kicking ass.”

Last night’s show at the Colorado Music Hall did kick major ass. It seems like they get better with each show. The majority of the crowd last night were obviously there for The Reverend. Three songs into Nashville Pussys show, I had to go out into lobby for a second and there were a buttload of people out there just hangin around. I wanted to go up to each one of them and tell them they were missing one kick ass band. So I watched the crowd when I got back in the arena and they were just kinda standing there not sure how to react. By the middle of their set though, NP had obviously won them over as the crowd started moving and screaming. Katie gets better with each show. Ruyter rules over the stage every night, this night being no exception. Blaine is a BadMotherFucker period. Jeremy seems to effortlessly bash the drums like no other, proven by the way he splinters his drumsticks. I love it when Blaine talks between songs. Their new song,”Keep on Fuckin’, gets better every night. This tour is KICKING FUCKING ASS and I’m so fuckin’ happy to be here doing this. No matter how star struck I may get though, the only person that really gets me is Miss Chicky. She cuts me the deepest every night. I love you baby.

A few pictures from last night’s show…

Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5

note: left these big so unless you have DSL you will need uploading patience. 🙂

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 1:20 PM:::

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Feb172002

BMF Wisdom

5 for 2.16.02 @ 8150 Club – Vail, Colorado

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Nashville Pussy Chronicles...Keep On Fuckin

Tonight we are in Colorado Springs, where we are supposed to see our buddies we met in Vail, Kyle & Jake. I think I’m gonna switch from bourbon to vodka tonight. We got a new smart media card for the camera so we can now take over 80 pictures at a time. And we figured out how to make short movies so look for those too. All of our pictures and movies will be available when we get back to Atlanta and get them all linked up and stuff. We have some awesome ones already.

Till after the show…Viva La Vulva MF’s.

5 for 2.16.02 @ 8150

BMF 5

1. Being on the Guest List
2. Ruyter doin’ one of those awesome leg kicks right towards my face.
3. Ruyter walking over to me mid song, turning around & shaking her ass at me.
4. Some dumb ass threw a dollar bill at Ruyter at the end of the show, she picked it up, looked right at him, ripped it into pieces and threw it back at him along with the middle finger.
5. Realizing I’m living a dream with the girl I love the mostest.

punkarella 5

1. That unfuckinbelievable bartender remembering us from the night before and serving us in real glasses the whole night instead of plastic cups.
2. Sitting on barstools with our legs between each others, waiting for the show to start, and having one of those deep conversations we get into.
3. A dumb blonde coming up to me and asking if we are the ones following NP around and then telling me I have nice teeth. heh.
4. Jeff making me go to the front of the stage where I felt the whole floor shaking and saw Ruyter slide her hand(while playing the guitar)between her legs during “Fried Chicken and Coffee” on the lyric, I’ll Shoot Your Ass….oh that makes me hard. I loved that part…a lot.
5. I liked the dollar bill thing too cause it was such a cool “fuck you” to whoever threw it up there.

p.s. Bourbon…he’s sticking with the Bourbon.

::: posted by BMF(Jeff Jackson) @ 8:49 PM:::

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Feb162002

5 for 2.15.02 @ 8150 Club – Vail, Colorado

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Setlist!, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Whatever Happened to Rock and Roll

BMF 5

1. Being there to see the new bass player’s first night.
2. Meeting my rock and roll buddies, Jake and Kyle.
3. Watching Rutyer kick her leg out Ted Nugent style in the middle of a riff.
4. Jake catching the drumstick and then giving it to me.
5. Ruyter introducing me to Katie after their set.

punkarella 5

1. Watching and listening to BMF and Kyle debate Limp Bizkit.
2. Finding out from a reliable source the new album will come out in April.
3. Jake asking me for girl advice.
4. Trying to hook Jake and Kyle up with a dumb blonde.
5. The awesome and unfuckinbelievable bartender.

Some pictures from last night…we have about 30 more but BMF forgot his download cord…however he did remember Jack and Mr. Happy.

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*Find pictures below – MC
Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5,
Picture 6, Picture 7, Picture 8, Picture 9, Picture 10

::: posted by miss chicky @ 8:14 PM:::

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Feb162002

Miss Chicky’s Observations about Nashville Pussy

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Last night was my 5th time to experience Nashville Pussy. I admit the first time was the very best because the first time is always the best plus it left my ears ringing and my jaw dropping for two days. But each time since has been its own good experience. Like the time a sex store sponsored the show and strippers and porn stars were mingling around, or the time the guy threw up on my new shoes and I still felt sorry for him, or when I finally got to see NP with Jeff for the first time and some guy who claimed he played bass for James Brown kept feeding him Jagermeisters. I didn’t know if he would still be awake to see NP after that but he made it. Barely. So a NP show is always going to be eventful in some way. That could explain why we picked Nashville Pussy to be the first band to follow around for a few days. We had talked about doing it for about two years and finally just went for it. Or maybe we finally made the decision because Nashville Pussy’s first tour of 2002 opened in some of Colorado’s best resorts but mostly it was just cause of Nashville Pussy.

Nashville Pussy is the best live act going and last night was no exception. I can only compare them to Iggy Pop in terms of energy and playing to the crowd. That thought just gave me a fleeting fantasy. A Iggy and NP tour. Goddamn.

Last night we got to see Katie the new bass player. I spent my time watching her play. Maybe because that’s the side of the stage I was sitting on…tonight I plan to be on the other side. It was obvious everyone was trying to make Katie feel comfortable especially Ruyter who had Katie by her side before and after the show introducing her around. But Katie looked pretty comfy to me once they started playing. I’d say her stage style is very similar to Tracy Almazon’s style, kinda reserved and laid back. Even though some guy there told us the last time NP played the 8150 Club Tracy was spitting water at the crowd! Oh wooo. But who knows…maybe Katie just had first night jitters and her wild side will come out soon. After all she was a Vampire once upon a time.

I just have to add that no matter how many bass players NP goes thru, and I’ve seen all three now, the NP experience will always be about Ruyter and Blaine. Sure, it was great when Corey was there because she was so stunning and kinda cartoonish in a sexy way and it was pretty cool she could breathe fire and all, but it’s Ruyter your eyes always travel back to…that girl has the goods and it’s not just a novelty.

That other band playing,The Reverend Horton Heat, seemed pretty damn good too. The Vail frat boy/dumb blonde type crowd was really into them. I think I’ll be sipping plain water tonight so I can stay for the whole show and really hear their music with an untainted mind.

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