Jamming with the Alien Baby

Tonight I jammed with Joel and his new/temporary side project, Holy Shit! Alien Baby.

It consists of musicians who practice, and who don’t, who decide to rehearse, or who decide to just plain ol’ hop onstage on impulse during shows.

Joel told me about it, as they are playing during Flood The Sun’s last two shows before he moves to Los Angeles with his lady, Ashley.

I came up with the brilliant idea to bring my saxophone to practice and play through this harmonizer called a voice box to see if I’d be down to play a show with them, reverting to my unfledged high-school roots as a jazz saxophonist.

Joel is rather more fledged than I, and it was the first time I got to see him put the sexy vibes through my not-so-sexy student alto horn. We missed each other by one year from being in the same jazz band class. Too bad, so sad.

They play two shows. I didn’t know there was one so soon, so I’m bailing on tomorrow night. Maybe I’ll play the next show, just maybe… that is, if my 10-years-out-of-practice mouth, and ego, can handle it.

New Video: Flood The Sun as Smashing Pumpkins

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Flood The Sun does Smashing Pumpkins, I do D’arcy

Flood The Sun was Smashing Pumpkins for Halloween. Here’s our set list:

1. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

2. Where Boys Fear To Tread

3. Zero

4. Bullet With Butterfly Wings

5. Bodies

As you can see, I was D’arcy Wretzky. Noel (80’s Madonna) is seen presenting her creation to you in the above photo.

I’m happy to say that I sewed the feather border onto my shirt, but sad to say how hard it is to look like a woman when wearing pants and military boots…

…as opposed to yesterday’s smokin’ hot dress.

We played at the Launchpad. We were only allowed 15 minutes. But it was one of the more fun, more packed shows I’ve played. Live footage here.

Music and brick week

Just keep going, dude, for the love of Pete...

We (Americans) are all alive today, which means I think I can quit paying attention to death-and-destruction conspiracy theories. Because we all know that prophecies of destruction and massive casualities are for people who don’t take responsibility for the banality in their own lives.

After work, I went down to the practice space before Coma practiced to rock Casey’s drums. Dustin showed up and started jamming with me. He had some nice riffs, but he doesn’t ever keep going when we are nailing the fun parts.

Coma plays a local reunion show with Left Unsaid and A Summer Ends this Friday at the Launchpad. Flooding Sunkins is Saturday on Halloween. Music and Bricks all week.

Flood The Sun + Smashing Pumpkins = ?

Flooding Sunkins

Tonight I had band practice with Flood The Sun + JD (from We Were Born As Ghosts). We are going to play a Halloween show at the Launchpad as Smashing Pumpkins. JD’s Iha riffage is tight, Casey Chamberlained it, and Joel is frightened by how good the Big Muff sounds through his amp.  He’s Corgan. I’m D’arcy. We are Flooding Sunkins.