bronx-o-vision

day(s) from hell

2010-05-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

Tour is sometimes a real interesting thing. This was our day

Our USA 2 a days tour wrapped up at The House of Blues in Anaheim. Matt got a wig. real human hair even!

Got off stage and loaded up the gear. At 2 am the bus leaves and we head to our studio in van nuys. We pack up our lives for the last 2 months and say goodbye to our families, friends, and lovers that have joined us for the last leg of our US tour (worst day ever) and get the gear ready to fly to Brussels, Belgium which leaves in 4 hrs at 6 am. We unpack all the gear at the studio at around 3 am. Get to LAX at 4 pm (drunk)

A strange girl asks if we want to get high. She looks like she is headed to rehab. We politely decline. Board flight at 6 am, 4 hr layover in New Jersey. Arrive in brussels at 8 am. Grab the 2 hr shuttle to Grozerock Festival and unload the gear.

2 hrs later Mariachi el Bronx hits the stage. 6 hrs later the The Bronx hit the stage.

(this dude got kicked out for climbing the pole = horse shit)

("fuck the volcano dude" is pretty sweet though. he didnt get kicked out)

Pack the gear, 2 hr shuttle back to Belgium at 1 am for a 9 am flight to London. At this point none of us can talk. Matt decides wearing the wig on the shuttle to the airport is a pretty good idea. Unload the gear. Spend an hour checking in - doing what we call the shake and bake. Airline regulations are so strict on weight limitations that we "technically” can't fly with the amount of crap that we have unless we pay around $1,000 per flight for overages. This is how shake and bake works (what a retarded name). Start with the heaviest item (generally Jorma's cocktail kit) and its over weight. No surprise. So then we remove the item from the scale to shuffle some stuff around to see if we can make the weight. So in the meantime we put a half empty suitcase on the scale that is an oversize item (this means the airline won't take the bag, you have to go drop it off in the oversize baggage section) and we take that off the scale and put it to the side after it has been tagged. As the attemdent is weighs the drum case (again) we start cramming pedal boards, merch, banner, strings - anything that we can get into suitcase because it has already been cleared for weight while her attention is elswhere. We remove the drum case (again) and take stuff out and put it aside while we weigh another bag that is half full and oversize and it clears the weight restrictions and is set aside. Then we cram that with proclivities, jackets, and everything we can stuff in it while the attendent is weighing the drum case again. This happens over and over till we get everything tagged. Fuck that shit.
2 hr flight to London. Take shuttle directly to rehearsals for the Latin Music Fest at the Barbican. We rehearse with mariachi femenil nueveo tecalitla for 7 hrs learning each others material.

We had to communicate through a translator because none of them spoke English and our Spanish good enough to order a few tacos the way we like them. . then at 8 – we start rehearsing with our new bass player Drew from Babyshambles, who we have never met because Karla fell ill and couldn’t make the tour.

Good thing he is a total badass and learned our Mariachi record in 1 day. Rehearse till 11. Then hit the hotel for 7 hrs of sleep – then off to the Barbican for dress rehearsal.

the group ( mariachi femenil nueveo tecalitlan, emmy the great, drew babyshambels, mariachi el bronx = freak show)

6 hrs of dress rehearsal then finally showtime. this has been one of the richest musical experiences we have ever had. Load the gear at midnight – 9 am bus call the next day to start UK tour with both bands playing every night. Even though none of us could really talk and everything that came out of our collective mouth(s) made no sense at this point, we felt like a bunch of bad asses. Craziest 72 hours of our lives.

misc tour dump

2010-05-11T04:12:00.000-07:00

its pretty sweet when the bus picks you up and the driver is reppin slipknot. probably never breaks the speed limit. ever.

That's a big sound! - music hall of williamsburg

ray ray stoked on posters in dc

freaks at the white house

Gregg distort gets a free meal in Toronto!

Bradvision

Matt - Pre show Philly.

Shredicone - day off buzz Minneapolis

HOLY SHIT! Mutant Supremacy played NYC! even brought their own green lights. we finally saw them live. Check mark on the things to do in life list!

SXSW

2010-04-08T16:57:00.000-07:00

Bryan taking down frito pie in a frito bag.

after a week of stuff like this a salad was a nice welcome.

Adross and garret trash talk not getting stoned

Trash Talk, Fucked Up, and Iron Age bros

Dave Batty really loves talking to Bryan about Texas.

Lee and Clem - the real life jay and silent bob

Sam has his own bar now. called the brixton. he tried to tell us he makes tons of cash now. but we all know those singles are from stripping down at POLETRIX.

Lewis Lovely looks like he got hit by a scud missile of hair. get a hair cut freak!!

Random photo dump # 3

2009-11-09T07:13:00.000-08:00

San Frasisco - Mark Arnold locates a long lost painting of himself.

London - Gibson showroom. Rob Bass!

London - gibson showroom, fretless bass, sleeveless vest.

Portland - Drink menu for music fest northwest.

Leeds - tone jacking beers!

Germany? - our tour posters were cut out mask on this tour. jorma ramping up.

East LA - Mercatile boot selection.

Leeds - The Drips!

Stockholm - bad ass leather jacket.

Killer Tour

2009-11-09T07:05:00.000-08:00

load in

we played sports arenas. matt always took advantage of the white board to plan out our show for the evening.

schedule for pyro!

jorma pre show. loving talls.

which way to the stage... no joke.

confetti

matt and brandon = frontman Olympics.

Australia - Champion Tour

2009-11-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

leaving japan = not tired

garreth's parents

Jorma stoked on sydney harbour

Metro - Sydney

eating contest in melbourn. this meal put everyone to sleep. cept boo.

Karla getting jumped in with her new band tattoo

posters...

this koala actually shit on matts shirt during this photo.

ken getting doubled up on by the roos

The brothers Caughthran - sydney harbour

BOO!

ken had to shit so bad we had to pull over. he lost his shoes in the mud.

ken running to shit in the woods.

JAPAN - KEN'S HOMELAND

2009-11-07T11:03:00.000-08:00

Jammin' in our komotos

Brad ordered a ZIMA

Brad and Garreth eating stingray

Tokyo at 2am. still going off

sumo on the big screen.

hot saki in the tummy.

complimentary SARS masks

ken = most stoked guy ever on the flight to be home!

Joshua tree

2009-10-26T15:11:00.001-07:00

ballz early in the morning. video shoot for mariachi el bronx

reading fest

2009-09-01T03:56:00.000-07:00

Karla T & Jon Lee

Back of stage. looks like a ufo

Brad - officially the biggest head at the festival

Jon lee - looking on.

Leeds Festival

2009-08-31T13:58:00.001-07:00

backwards/backstage passes

Worlds biggest golf cart

8 am in the rain

prodigy's lights. rave on...

M.E.B.

Practice w/ strings in tesco parking lot. diesel fumes.

london photo dump

2009-08-31T13:44:00.000-07:00

old skool

trash talk in the house

super ken on the tube

they have an energy drink called "pussy" over here. no shit!

amazing....

Video Shoot - Cell mates

2009-08-21T18:03:00.000-07:00

...and we had a rooster. this dude was pissed. kept cockling because his cage sucked. we think

Brad and Karla get their faces did...

Vihuela View

Festival Season - Belfort, France

2009-07-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

This was a great festival. it was on an island of sorts. we got to kick it here all day.

They had free haircuts backstage. thats a good cut.

They also had free massages. bryan was more stoked on the man-on-man option though.

Its really funny how people assume that because you are an american band you must love jack daniels. this place litertally outfitted us with enough jack daniels gear to embark on an everest expedition.

Festival Season - Bonn, Germany

2009-07-12T11:27:00.000-07:00

we played Bonn, Germany on the 4th of july. Show was dope.

Jorma ripping up the free bevs in the artist village -

then... Matt Vs. The Germans = Metallica.

Flyaway

2009-05-24T13:35:00.000-07:00

we would like to take a second to give it up for Flyaway. one stop, straight to LAX, and they take all of our gear too. best deal in LA. 6 bucks.

http://www.lawa.org/welcome_lax.aspx?id=292

Lazy Daze at Hyde Park

2009-05-24T13:29:00.000-07:00

this post is pretty dumb, other then the fact that there is a million swans at the pond/hyde park in london. if you kill a swan you get a jail sentence unless you are the queen. the queen is the only one that can kill a swan and eat it. that's gross. Vince and jon stoked on birds.

Philly Pork Sword

2009-04-25T15:42:00.000-07:00

This place was insane. definitely didn't know what was going on. super scared to order. they yell at you.

knifeman video

2009-04-25T14:46:00.000-07:00

past lives video

2009-04-25T14:43:00.000-07:00

Ken Horne

2009-04-23T09:11:00.000-07:00

ken rippin it up on the air at q101 in chicago.

Jr high day in DC

2009-04-18T21:09:00.001-07:00

we all went to weird schools when we were kids. japan, private, ghetto and special schools. today we got to relive the grade school tradition none of us had by visiting our nations phallic symbol.

Chicago

2009-04-18T21:03:00.000-07:00

This is a real photo. Big Daddys pizza. South Side chicago.

detroit

2009-04-18T21:00:00.000-07:00

Bryn "Token Juggalo" Mcclellen stoked on FAYGO backstage

random photo dump # 2

2009-04-13T16:06:00.001-07:00

no idea where to start....

diamond dave has a huge big toe...

worlds biggest cheese burger...

genius.

to say the bronx is powered by tapatio is an understatement... we keep this little guy in the front for long drives. little dab in the right eyeball will keep you awake for a good 4 hrs...

I imagine this this idea came from a heavy lsd session..

air conditioning. homie style.

Van # three finally died

2009-04-08T18:28:00.000-07:00

We had a good run with "the chub". Scrapped it for 700 bucks in Portland this morning. We have saved all of our ford logos from previous vans and it feels pretty good to add another one to the graveyard. We are now reppin chevy. Don't have a good name for the new one as of yet. Off to Denver we go....

Vince SXSW

2009-03-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

went to get something to eat. Vince said "I'll stay and watch the gear" - Classic...

sxsw

2009-03-23T13:12:00.000-07:00

gabe brought his daughter out. she ripped it up! not stoked when daddy said that was enough. so bummed.

Jedi Nites in Birmingham

2009-03-13T15:19:00.000-07:00

Jedi Nites played birmingham. their first ever uk show! notable cuts were : "I smoke", "the vette gets um wet", and "love jungle" . Thats GOOD HIGH HAT WORK on the left (drums) and DOWNSTROKE on the right (guit + lead vox) . and they killed.

Bronx, Fucked up, + Rolo = prison yard photo

2009-03-13T12:39:00.000-07:00

This is the best group tour photo ever. check out bryan and matt yard-ing it up with rolo and fucked up (respectivley) - but sandy (aka - mustard gas) takes the blue ribbon home on this one!

Matt Caughthran Original art

2009-03-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

"Stay Away From My Kids" Matt Caughthran Original - 2009

Mexican Food - Heathrow

2009-03-13T12:23:00.000-07:00

these are enchiladas. straight up. American discount... or squirrel poop suprise. whew... bryan still ate all of it.

Dj's Mop & Glo

2009-03-13T11:57:00.000-07:00

these 2 g's cleared the floor at a really important dj gig. REALLY important gig.

weird euro shit

2009-02-22T08:20:00.000-08:00

in prague they sell you absynth that I am pretty sure is mouthwash aka - the american discount.
got some big ass straws on the rider today.
poop does itch...
sometimes ordering the only things you recognise on a german menu dosent always work out the way you planned....
heh heh....

took me about 45 minuits to try and figuire out this shower. amazing.
half shaved bison grass vodka?

think they are mean going in? pretty angry coming out...

berlin wall

2009-02-22T07:12:00.000-08:00

was sweet. wasn't as high as we thought it would be. cool murals that idiots tag all over.

french hate mail

2009-02-12T10:57:00.000-08:00

we have been getting some good french hate mail just 2 days into our tour.

this is from davide grosso (davig77@hotmail.com)

and he writes :

so, last evening yo've do a great concert. I don't know if you read the messega or you pay someone to do it. I have to say that YOU ARE THE WORST PUNK HARDCORE OR WHAT YOU LIKE BECAUSE, You do a concert in Paris, the concert began 9' and at 10 you've finished!!!???SO, you know i've paid 20 euros and you have not respect for all the guys that have paid for you. YOU DON'T MAKE A BIS, YOU DON'T RESPECT THE PEOPLE THAT WAS THERE FOR YOU!!! AND THEN, AFTER THE CONCERT THEY PUT ON SOMETHING LIKE SHIT ROMANTIC MUSIC HOW TO SAY.... GO AWAY!!GO BACK HOME GUYS!!!IS ALL FINISHED!!

AND YOU THINK YOU'RE PUNK OR SOMETHING?YOU MAKE A CONCERT FOR THE CHILDREN I KNOW THAT YOU CAN SMILE AT THIS WORDS BUT YOU KNOW

NOW YOU ARE RICH AND FAMOUS BUT NOBODY WILL REMEMBER YOU!!!

AND I'M SO HAPPY FOR THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE A GREAT

DELUSION

IF I TAKE 20 EUROS AND I EAT IT I'M TOO MUCH HAPPY, YOU KNOW?

SURE YOU'VE GOT ORANGE AMPLI AND FENDER BUT YOU'RE SHIT SHIT SHIT.

AND IF I SAY THIS THINGS IT'S BECAUSE I LIKED YOU BUT YOU HAVE DELUSE ME, YOU DON'T HAVE RESPECTED ME AND IN THIS KIND OF THINGS...MUSIC, CONCERT YOU KNOW? THE RESPECT FOR WHO PAY IS THE MORE IMPORTANT THING. SO GOOD BYE AND I WISH YOU A GREAT TOURNEE AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE I HOPE THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST.

YOU ARE REALLY NOT A ROCKER, NOT A PUNK, NOT AN HARDCORE, NOT A MUSICIAN...NOTHING.

SMILE SMILE...BUT IN LIFE

THERE ARE SO MANY BEST THING.

WITH RESPECT

YOUR EX FAN

FROM FRANCE.

IF YOU ARE REALLY MAN YOU WILL ANSWER TO THIS CRITIC BUT I THINK THAT ALL OF YOU CAST WILL NEVER GIVE IT TO YOU....

MAKE MONEY

AN FUCK WITH IT!

thanks davide - even though it sounds like you are chewing on gravel when you type, I think we get what you mean. next time we will play for 2 hrs and not use name brand equipment. thanks for your continued support!

this next gem come from Thomas Michael Yvon LIEB (thomalieb@gmail.com)

and he writes:

The principles are the same everywhere. The fact that you're

tour does not give you any legitimacy to each of your actions.

The

girls you know, some are ready in many things

and you must remain humble and not easy. The drive does

must not take precedence over reflection. My Fanny is not

those of the. I forbid you a gesture, a look of seductive or

the hit tonight.

I fought to be with Fanny, not you.

You did not know. Nobody knows who she really is.

Please leave her alone.

If I learned a special event tonight know that the consequences would be catastrophic and I will come see you in a Dijon for example...

stay straight motherfuckers!

I hate you. I hate Matt above all.

thanks thomas, even though we have no idea what you are talking about, we think you should take up rapping. preferably about child safety. how to look both ways before you cross the street, how to brush your teeth without eating the toothpaste, and the hygiene problems that can arise if you don't wipe your fanny more then once. we got some hook ups at some record labels, and if you send us a demo, we can get it into the hands of some real movers and shakers! thanks for your support!

Paris

2009-02-12T10:15:00.000-08:00

first show of the tour is today and starts in paris. went and saw sacre coeur where we spotted the eiffell tower hella far away. but at least we can say we saw it. and we were to scarred to eat at this pig place.

jorma vik - the sculptor

2008-12-18T14:12:00.001-08:00

here is the latest edition to jorma vik's sculpture collection entitled "cock shaped foods - a drummers guide to backstage dining" the collection will have a gallery opening soon - check back for details...

worlds longest day

2008-12-18T14:03:00.000-08:00

we traveled for 26 hrs today. 3 stops and 2 countries on our way to perth. this is the end of our last flight. not that you can really see this - but all those crates behind the bus are filled with real live cattle (cows). "wheres the beef" weird.

meredith festival

2008-12-18T13:54:00.000-08:00

meredith festival was rad - it rained, we got these sweet gumboots, saw a real live koala and saul williams is from outer space - in a good way.

Home

2008-11-25T16:31:00.000-08:00

home from US, CANADA, US, EUROPE, UK, CANADA, US AGAIN....tour.

made a movie - music by killing joke

looking for cigs in new jersey

2008-11-22T08:18:00.001-08:00

I cant sleep. ever. I woke up at 5 am this morning and was out of smokes. so I drove out of the hotel to look for some. got lost. ended up on the new jersey turnpike, and somehow drove around for an hour till I realized I was going into Manhattan. this is a pic from our hotel room and how far away NYC is. I think its time to stop smoking. or start sleeping.

bud lite + skill crane = winners

2008-11-22T07:49:00.000-08:00

brad, ken, zack and bryan drank some bud lite's

then won a bunch of stuffed animals from the skill crane machine

the manager came over and told them to take it easy because the guy that refills the stuffed animals only comes in once a week.

so they went back and won the rest of the toys. boosh. cleaned that rig out. winners.

zak

2008-11-07T14:15:00.000-08:00

this is our sound guy zak in his favorite outfit. now that we both have blogs - check his out here.

http://www.ifyoucantdrawacrowd.blogspot.com

Gent Belgium

2008-10-27T08:13:00.000-07:00

sweet tattoo. number one fan in gent.

This could be the best thing ever

2008-10-27T08:10:00.000-07:00

only in london!

2008-09-23T19:42:00.000-07:00

only brought one pair of pants on tour. washed them in the sink today. stinky.

bears

2008-09-21T20:47:00.000-07:00

there are all these warning signs in Canada to practice "bear safety"... we haven't seen one till today. this little guy seemed pretty harmless....

creamy

2008-09-21T17:20:00.000-07:00

gregg hetson wanted to borrow some shaving cream. we made him take a picture for us.

looking for gas in the middle of the night in canada

2008-09-21T17:15:00.000-07:00

this is ken with the mayor of viscount.

this was our evening / morning narrated by matt.

are we alive? is this thing on? miles and miles of Canadian wasteland between Saskatoon and Winnipeg somehow channeled an Apocalypse. jim morrison once wrote ... :lost in a roman wilderness of pain, and all the children are insane." this seemed to repeat over and over in my head as our gas-less van shat us out into the beautiful birthing hands of viscount Canada. we were confused, amazed and eager to swallow our destiny. our van crawled to a stop in front of a house awkwardly lit from the front by 2 ambulances. we wait. nobody around, the ambulances are empty. what the hell is happening in that house? zombies? a 54 hour meth driven sexual frenzy abruptly climaxed by a heart attack? the anticipation was killing us. finally an EMT poked her head but only to rudely inform us that medical emergency's slightly overshadow the need to get our 15 passenger van to Winnipeg so we can "jam" whatever. then out of the house comes our savior... that's right - the mayor of viscount himself. this man is highly trained and our situation doesn't even phase this veteran of the now legendary "Canadian civil war" shit he has the daughter of the towns "gas"man" hiding mysteriously inside his house. while simultaneously handling a diabetic attack and a barn fire the good mayor put us safely into the arms of our petroleum god. we have been driving through the night now and we are currently about 2 hrs outside Winnipeg. a couple of things have been become painfully clear. one, I will never be the mayor of anything except a case of beer and a town I mold out of deli tray meat. and two, I could have never survived as a cowboy. never.

2008-09-19T15:55:00.006-07:00

hot tubes - dudes - getting weird....

2008-09-19T15:55:00.002-07:00

bryan tour managing, ken and matt eating chips and getting fat. saskatoon sucks

2008-09-19T15:55:00.001-07:00

here is a photo of brad getting stacked by at&t. he spends most of the days yelling obscenities at them because his phone doesn't work in canada. we call it brad luck, or brad cloud. boy aren't we smart!

saskatooooooooon

2008-09-19T15:55:00.000-07:00

we are in saskatoon today. there is nothing here. we ate at a place called bad ass jacks. I had some bad ass poop coming out of my ass for the last 2 hours.