BLAST! REUNION..AT LEAST IN PICTURE.

..but not before I go out and shred. The original lineup of Blast! hanging out last week. Photo courtesy of Steve "Stevenson" Borek.

The first Blast! record is one of my favorites. Imagine my surprise when original guitarist Steve Borek dropped me a line. Seems like "The Power Of Expression" lineup have been hanging out as friends a lot lately. Will they play music, and write some new tunes? Steve says he isn't sure. I say: why the fuck not? These five men together were a awesome band. They could be better now..why not?

WHAT I FOUND ON THE INTERNET TODAY.

PICTURES OF COC IN S.F. BY MURRAY BOWLES, I THINK. I RECOGNIZE THE SETING. PRETTY KICK ASS.



DREW THIS FOR THE BAND CINDER...COMING OUT SOON. THANKS, GUYS.



FOUND THIS ON THE INTERNET..HA HA HA..PRETTY FUNY.

DOUBLE NEGATIVE AT ATP.

We went and flew to England to go to a small town called Minehead where we were to play at ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES, this one being curated by the Melvins and Mike Patton. It was a rushed jet lagged pleasure, surreal and cold. Most of us have never been to England before.

The festival site was by the sea. It was fucking freezing all of the time we were there and the jet lag was immense, and that was strange considering that it was just a six hour flight to Amsterdam and a five hour layover there before backpedaling back over the English Channel to land in Bristol. hmm..maybe it wasn't such a shock how tired I was.

There were tons of bands there. I wish I could give you a blow by blow of what went down, but I can't because the truth is, I barely watched anybody play. Pretty lame I guess..it seemed like two or three songs by anybody was enough.

Our chalet was really nice. We had two between the four of us. We spent a fair amount of our time there, walking back and forth from the festivities back to our spacious quarters.

I spent most of Saturday in the merch trenchs sitting next to Henry from Chunklet, being entertained by his English friend Pete, (by far the coolest person we met over there.) and selling all of the posters and books that I brought. I signed some autographs and met some nice people. More importantly, I earned a living, a pretty good living for one days amount of work. Lots of young men with hoodies strolled by at one point, as you could see.

I was pretty happy about Saturday. Sunday night at two in the morning was when we played. We bid our time well waiting for our turn to play.

It seemed to go over well. It probably wasn't the greatest we have played, and the monitors were feedbacking constantly, but I think we did fine. It is not like anyone here has seen us before, so we were cool..some folks seemed to really REALLY dig it.

Afterwards we waited four or so hours before our taxi arrived at seven a.m. to take us back to the Bristol airport. We thanked Buzz for being so gracious as to include us beforehand and when we did fly over the Atlantic Ocean it felt like we were chasing a four hour sunset.

I am shocked at how little I really have to say about it, but all in all it was a fun rushed little adventure, we met lots of nice folks and played to a audience that I am sure mostly had no idea who we were and still seemed to like it. So, it was a immense victory.

thanks again to everyone we met over there. And tanks for the folks who bought my stuff. photos provided by Scott unless he gave the camera to Kevin or Justin....

WWW.BRIANWALSBY.COM IS DOWN..

In some sad news, I was told the other day that my sort of outdated site, www.brianwalsby.com, is down.
I don't know what happened. I will be looking into this but I suppose for now you will be stuck going here or to my Myspace page. I wouldn't be too bummed but obviously I shouldn't let it go down if I can help it. Hopefully it will be up again.

If I can't get it back, you'll be seeing more artwork for to check out.

We'll see what happens,
Brian


AFTERNOTE: IT IS TAKEN CARE OF, AND IT IS BACK ONLINE. GO TO:

www.brianwalsby.com

and I finally got around to checking out that last Torche cd..man, it is really good. I miss out on everything.

DOUG MOODY?

LOOK FOR NEW UPDATED VERSION OF THIS.

In perhaps the funniest (in both meanings of the word) work project that has fallen into my lap recently, I have been hand picked as the artist for the upcoming album entitled NARDCORE 3. I didn't even know that there was a NARDCORE 2, to be honest.

To make a long story short, my old pal Tony Cortez of ILL REPUTE got in touch with me and explained that he was putting this together and not only that, but that Doug Moody of Mystic Records fame was involved! Tony was a really cool guy, and it was nice to hear from him. It was however, odd to think that Mystic Records was still around, let alone Doug Moody! He is like eighty years old, and still out there. Very odd.

Some of you might remember Mystic and Doug Moody..they put out a non stop onslaught of endless young thrash bands in the mid eighties, like SCARED STRAIGHT. Otherwise, I can assure you that we NEVER would have been able to put out a record, and SST wasn't going to be knocking on our doors anytime soon. Doug got a horrible reputation for ripping off his bands, and faded away into obscurity. But look, I am really sure that he wasn't depositing a cool half million dollars in the bank off of all of those Manifest Destiny and GRIM records. Call me crazy but that is how I see it.

The NARDCORE compilation was drawn by me years ago. But the version that you see here is actually someone tracing over the original with a black marker. True story! I remember getting it and being too mortified to say anything! Yikes almighty!

So I told Tony I would do it..sounded like a hoot..but that I wanted half of the money up front. He said he'd get back to me, and then he did. Doug Moody is going to do it. Which really is um...interesting.

Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine drawing another NARDCORE cover twenty five years later, or that Doug Moody was going to be involved. Have I landed on bizzaro world?

PROGRESS.

then.


now.

MANCHILD 4 AD RATES.

HERE ARE THE AD RATES. CONTACT CHARLES IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. THANKS.





1/2 PAGE AD (6.25WIDE BY 4.5 HIGH)WILL COST YOU $100.00
FULL PAGE AD (6.25WIDE BY 9.25 HIGH)WILL COST YOU $160.00
INSIDE FRONT/BACK AND BACK COVER (ALL HAVE BEEN RESERVED)
IF YOU WOULD LIKE BRIAN TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR AD, ADD $30 FOR 1/2 PAGE AND $50 FOR FULL PAGE.
ALL ADS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED AS GREYSCALE 300DPI TIFF, JGEP, OR AI FILE. THEY SHOULD ALSO COMEWITH
A CHECK FOR THE AD.
BIFOCALMEDIA PO BOX 50106. RALEIGH NC 27650
WWW.BIFOCALMEDIA.COM
BOOK SIZE: 6.75X9.75
PAGES: 100 or more
PRINT RUN: 2000 for the initial run with many more to follow
FULL COLOR MATTE FILM LAMINATED COVER
DISTRIBUTION: LUMBERJACK/MORDAM AND AK PRESS
THIS PUPPYWILL BE EVERYWHERE.
Call or e-mail asap to reserve ads.

Charles Cardello
Bifocal Media
919 696 3892
Charles@BifocalMedia.com
charles@bifocalmedia.com

I AM GOING TO ENGLAND NEXT WEEK!

APPARENTLY WE ARE PLAYING AT TWO IN THE MORNING AFTER THESE GUYS. HOW DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN?

So I will be flying to England as the ongoing drummer of DOUBLE NEGATIVE next week to play at this three day music festival, ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES. Besides playing with such little known bands like THE MEAT PUPPETS and THE DAMNED, I will be on hand to draw all matter of homemade posters for every English person who strolls by the merch table, and not only that, I will be selling previously made homemade posters, my MANCHILD books and I am sure some other stuff as well. It will be three days of tea and crumpets probably!

Please help me convert euros and pounds into something that makes sense to me..and if anyone knows Scott Walker, invite him down. I'd like to say hello.

Until next week..toodles!

COMING SOON....

IT IS MY FIRST EVER T-SHIRT DESIGN AVAILABLE THROUGH VOLCOM..IT IS A DRAWING OF ALL OF THEIR BANDS FROM THEIR LABEL ON ONE SIDE AND A LOGO I DID FOR THEM ON THE BACK! VOLCOM BANDS ALL HAVE LOTS OF BEARDS AND LONG HAIR! STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE DETAILS ON WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE.

MANCHILD FOUR: RIDING THEM COAT TAILS...

HERE I AM, RIDING THEM COAT TAILS.

After messing around with other choices like, "cupcakes and puppy tails","good luck..you'll need it" and "the one", we decided that the full title will for sure be MANCHILD FOUR: RIDING THEM COAT TAILS.



Ad rates coming soon.

The phrase "band slut" will be in the cover too.

ANOTHER MELVINS CD TO BE INCLUDED IN MY NEXT BOOK.

I am pretty excited, because I got the green light for the next musical contents of my next book, MANCHILD 4.

We are going to do another full album length MELVINS cd, this time we will be focusing on two shows to pick from, one of which is from a show in Boston on the band's last u.s. tour that Toshi (Big Business) recorded, and it is pretty smoking. It is very likely you will hear some brutal live versions of "Eye Flys", "Boris" and a handful of new songs from the Buzz/Dale/Jared/Coady lineup of the band.

The real goodie is a show recorded at (of all places) Gilman Street years and years ago with the fabled Buzz/Dale/Lori lineup. This is historically significant due to the fact that it almost chronologically follows the previous "Making Love" demos that were in MANCHILD 3 material wise; more songs that eventually ended up on the record OZMA and (to me at least) were actually better versions, like the versions of "Oven" and "Koolegged". You can almost hear a pin drop between songs, as if the people watching just didn't know what to make of the assault, which was actually par for the course back then.

Put it all together, and you'll have a really neat all live MELVINS cd, and another fine addition to their massive catalog.

Sadly, the idea of having this cd become a split between the MELVINS and DOUBLE NEGATIVE will not happen due to a small assortment of reasons. Maybe next time.

thanks.