WILLIE NELSON FOR PRESIDENT!

Okay- topper of all toppers, AFTER having FINISHED recording what is perhaps the greatest rock record of all time... or at least our time. The Nashville Pussies saunter over to Willie Nelson's old timey ghost town named LUCK, Texas. Which has been used for a buncha movies and videos with the provision that any movie using the property has to build ANOTHER fully functioning old timey building to add the town. Willie has his World Headquarters there which is basically an old timey two level building with a nice long wooden bar, poker tables, wood stove shoe shine seat and big screen tv and a stereo, oh and tons of trinkets of his travels. He has a wall that at a distance is merely and orange wall - then the closer you get you realize it's made up of a serious lifetime's collection of Orange ZigZag Boxes. We got permission to shoot some cool pictures with our buddy Judson who takes a helluva picture and drives a fucking cherry Roadrunner.
We shot a buncha beautiful pictures as the sun was setting, moseying down the gravel road with the chuch behind us,
hanging out in the Saloon and looking 'no good' around the bank and eventually posing in the Hoosegow.. or jail. As we were leaving we had seen Mr. Willie Nelson himself arrive to his HQ at the head of the main street in Luck. We could hear him cranking out some tunes and saw him serving from behind his bar to some buddies that dropped by. Obviously we all wanted in there, hang with Willie - so Judson knocked on the door and sadi thankyou for letting us shoot on the premises and Willie said 'No problem, y'all smoke?'
The rest, my dears, is history! I'll leave you with - there was no more tequila and our cheeks were sore from smiling. He is a class act all the way and it felt a little bit like leaving Heaven as we had to say good bye. Sitting in the Bar with Willie Nelson enjoying his generous 'company' etc. and listening to his playing a recording of 'Sitting on top of the world' was very apt and true and as we left town, even though we were literally 'out of Luck' it sure feels like a lot rubbed off.

ciao amigos!
ruyter

CHICKEN FRIED BACON (day three)

OK, we have been Haulin balls on this recording, not to get ahead of ourself cause we are day three and still have ONE song left to track. The weather, the people and the vibe have been condusive to some balls out rock n fuckin roll. Blaine has been hitting the Boone's farm for some serious inspiration and from what we've heard him singin so far, this album is going to make our last album seem like an asshole. He has seriously surpassed himself. We have to turn his vocals down so we don't hear what he's saying and accidently fuck up playing coz we're laughing so hard. Today is TRUTH day - every song is the Gospel Truth - all true tales from the front line.
I borrowed this awesome old Fender Telecaster for a couple of twangy songs. Remo's father Jerry was kind enough to lend it out for this album - though I'm not so sure he's gonna love what we've done with it! Nah, he'll love it. We been calling it the 'Daddy Tele' and I am slowly learning how to ride it. It's quite the singing beast - gonna have to get me one for the tour.
Yesterday we had an amazing suprise, turns out in these parts, they have a food we never have even though of in our wildest drunken depraved Caligula dreams, get this....... COUNTRY FRIED BACON! - it's true!! it was part of our regular massive order of food and I can honestly say, to quote our original drummer Adam Neal; 'I can feel myself dying with each bite'.
In rummaging around Willie's pad, I found an old Golf Score card of his from '94. I'll get the picture up here soon cause, it is pure comedy. He won, is the short story, the Rules are another... that man's got Moxie.
Today we met a dog that plays the fiddle.
I ain't lying, she rides around in that Horny Texas flagged 'Cat a lac' that Mr. Daniel Rey is a settin in in the picture. The cute puppy behind him is Molly, who has been on Conan O'Brian, no shit! I'm jealous of a dog, for Conan, the Car AND the damn fiddle playin!!! I think we're gonna have Molly sit in for a solo tomorrow. I wish the Georgia Flag was car-able.
OKAY it's a few hours later from the last paragraph and after a bunch of takes and some serious options on how many hours the solo should go on for, we got a rediculously take on our last song!! I wound up on my back on the floor playing with my fingers on Daddy's Tele! Thank you Jerry! I hope to have done you proud. We'll have to get you an instrumental version so you can play it for your friends without having to explain all the cussin' n comedy.
We heard that Willie was playin golf this morning- but that was this morning and we were still sleeping off last night. We saw his stage manager (the famous Poodie, who has his own Hot Mustard!) now that's class! his bar is just a few miles down the road so we'l probably have a celebrate there when performance warrants a reward. Until then we'll be ordering Opie's Bar B que and laying down greasy tasty tracks with Sticky Saucey Fingers. I finally know what the Stones meant, they must have recorded in Texas.

Day one at Willie's place!

Well we are here, after a grueling 16 hour drive which left Karen, Jeremy and myself all loopy. We arrived Saturday at noon in Austin. Blaine had a crazy Nine Pound Hammer gig in Stone Mountain (outside of Atlanta) on Saturday so he flew in and met us Sunday. We spent the night sleeping off the trip at Jeremy's parents and woke up to freshly cooked Mom Food, pot roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, veggies and bisquits and even Peach Cobbler. We hung out with our Austin buddies and reconviened Sunday for the requisite Mexican breakfast and later burgers at Casinos before making the trek out to Perdenales studio here in Spiceland or Briarcliff Texas, only about 30 min from Austin.

Both our condo and the studio are right on the Lake Travis so the view is beautiful. We have two balconies that both face the lake and right now I can see Turkey Vultures and little black birds slowly making circles in the sky. I'll make sure to keep moving so they don't think I'm lunch.

Blaine and Remo are at the studio already, we have to get some groceries and Blaine will probably be off to get Daniel from the airport.

It's really pretty and calm out here. And Willie Nelson's studio has a great vibe. Gordie from the band Grady and of Big Sugar fame is our engineer and he has all sorts of drum sound tricks that Jeremy is excited about.

We got everything set up last night more or less enough to get some basic sounds for when Daniel arrives. It's a groovy old place with lots of Willie charm, Gold records, pool tables and even a real reverb room tiled from floor to ceiling. We'll be recording to tape initially to try and get the fat sound of the 70's so vacant in todays compressed for ipod recordings. In the tape room there's a reel labeled 'Willie and Frank' and yes, Frank means Sinatra. Pretty awesome company we're keeping here.

Unfortunatley the olympic sized swimming pool at Willie's has been filled in. Insurance reasons and such. Pity, we all bought our trunks, and I even trimmed the hedge! Still the studio is spacious and has lots of escape rooms for anyone to go off and 'concentrate'. Basically Blaine has lots of places to write lyrics and come up with good silly stuff to sing about.

So day one is underway, we're all anxious and excited about getting some stuff down to hear how it sounds.

In the last few weeks cramming with Daniel in Atlanta we've managed to nail down 12 originals for this new titleless album. Most of them are so fresh they won't be fully baked until we get them on tape. We've been tweaking and altering them everytime we play them so nothing is even remotley stale. We'll be recording live, as usual, with Jeremy enclosed in the drum room so we can watch what he does but won't have to smell his farts! (We all need our own rooms for that). Mmm mexican food!

The funny thing is the studio feels strangely familiar. I think I actually had a dream about this place. Feels real comfortable. Like all the ghosts are our old friends, helping us rock out.

Love y'all!

Ruyter and co.

Long Overdue Long Ass BLOG, XMAS etc.!! LEMMY FOR XMAS

Everything is great! The last tour went VERY WELL!

As you all know we started our tour off being very excited to play 5 shows with Hank 3 - whois easily one of our favorite live bands these days (and we like him on album too! STRAIGHT TO HELL is the one to buy) But right before we started out on our fucking 3 day drive across america we found out that Shelton(HANK) had to cancel. So we began the long, lonely drive across this country knowing that it would only be us two bands on the first part of the tour with the REV! It is about 50 hours of driving and our first show was Dec 26th in San Francisco. That meant we HAD to spend Christmas at a truckstop! Pretty suitable for our style anyways.

It must have been the Christmas spirit because our Christmas present this year was finding out that the tour with the Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy would be joined by none other than LEMMY KILMISTER himself! That's right you heard me right!!!! LEMMY from MOTORHEAD decided to spend his Birthday with us and the REV. What a gift. So for the first week on tour we got to watch Lemmy every single night play at least 5 songs with The Reverend Horton Heat. They played 'Going To Brazil' 'Run, Run Rudolph','Route 66' and a few Rev's songs also.

For New Years Eve in San Deigo Blaine was asked to join them on stage and sing one of the verses of 'Run Run Rudolph'. Karen and I were asked to sing Background vocals on the same song. That was so FUCKING COOL! There really is nothing cooler than being on stage in front of a bunch of crazy super awesome fans cheering you on and looking over and seeing your husband singing and next to him seeing LEMMY smiling while he watches Blaine sing too (we'll try and upload the vid Trav shot) - No one else in the world can say that! what a fantastic night! Mojo Nixon (a dj on Sirius radio) Came out and met the band finally. We listen to him all the time when we are touring. He is one of the main DeeJays on OUTLAW COUNTRY and we are dying to have one of our songs on there.

So even though we fought over who's Jack Daniel's it was every night most of the time we had too many bottles of 'drink' and we were all very sad to have to say good bye to sweet Lemmy - He will always be a mentor and hero to us! Plus he's fucking funny as shit, and smart, and smells good - a real class act all the way!

Let's see, what else happened..... We played in Colorado for 11 shows! that was kinda crazy - especially when you consider we have only ever played about 5-7 different cities in the entire country of HOLLAND. But yes Colorado is pretty fucking big and we even managed to play a few new places which is always fun.

The first stop was Durango - it is in a VERY amazing area of this country which we had never seen before - just south of Durango is some of the most amazing landscape I have ever, ever seen. Super long vistas of nothingness, then out of nowhere HUGE giant crazy dangerous looking rocks jutting out of the ground, then nothing again for MILES AND MILES. Fucking cool as shit! Durango was tucked into the foothills of some fucked up crazy mountains that were pretty exciting (and terrifying) to drive. It is a beautiful little town with a bunch of very cool people (buying me whiskey).

I met a cool, generous tattoo artist named Matty who gave Blaine the coolest cowboy shirt in the world. Blaine has not taken it off since. He wore it on every single show after that! It is an old timey stitched cowboy shirt which Matty drunkenly tore the sleeves off. But the back has this super awesome embroidery of a Skeleton in a cowboy hat drinking XXX whiskey!! Woo Hoo! So cool! We also met Ed Stasium (he engineered 14 Ramones records) and also the Reverend Horton heat - so VERY cool to meet him and his awesome wife in that bizarre little town.

Some of the highlights in Colorado include staying with Danny and her friends in her parents mansion in Aspen (her house had an elevator!!) and hanging with Sara (from the Virgin Islands), Micha and John at the swanky Resort in Vail!! Thanks again for giving us that amazing hotel to stay in for FREE! Anytime gentlemen! We had a swell time!- Getting stuck in the snow in downtown Apsen was pretty funny too - at least we finally learned how to put snow chains on.

Another HIGH point was being invited to one of the best meals we have ever had in our life! A friend of a friend was drunk and bragging about what an incredible chef he was. When he sobered up we asked him if he was still such an incredible chef and he re-invited us to his restaurant for a 5 star meal. with at least ten courses plus dessert and paired wines - the whole she bang. He specializes in food from northern Italy and I hate to tell you but the competition is on! Any restauranteur who wants to challenge THE GREATEST MEAL OF A LIFETIME - Nashville Pussy will gladly be your humble judges. On a day off - otherwise we will just go to sleep when we hit the
stage! Anthony Bourdain watch out!!

In Boulder, Colorado we were visited by the one and only JELLO BIAFRA from The Dead Kennedy's. He has been a friend of ours for some years now and is a good friend of The Reverend Horton Heat as well. His family is from the area so after our show in Bolder we drove him home and he gave us a little tour of the town he grew up in including where JonBenet Ramsey's house was. CREEPY!! Jello came out to the next three shows and when we played Denver - he came out on stage with the Rev and sang WAR PIGS! It was crazy and the audience went nuts. But even better was when both Blaine AND Jello came out and Jello sang the chorus's of ACE OF SPADES with Blaine! That might have been the high point of the tour! I thought the audience was gonna melt they went so crazy over that.

One of the other outstanding moments of the tour was in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Cain's Ballroom. This place has been around since at least the 30's - and had giant 'colourized' pictures of old musical cowboys and cowgals on the walls. People like Roy Rogers, Spade Cooley, Hank Williams(before he was a Sr.), Tennessee Ernie Ford and the like. We heard tell that this was where BOB WILLS and the Texas Playboys used to play ALOT!. Bob Wills by the way is one of my all time favorite bands - Good old Texas Swing, Buck Owens was a huge Bob Wills fan (Buck is also one of my favorites )Skynyrd is also a fan and another huge fan is DWIGHT YOAKUM!!! When we played in Tempe Arizona we had the honor of meeting a very Foxy Cowboy in mustache and cop sunglasses.

I was asked to guess who he played drums for and guessed 'Bob Wills?' they said 'NO - DWIGHT YOAKUM!!' so we got to meet and hangout with Mitch Marine - who besides having good taste - is pretty damn foxy I might add!

TULSA was downright HISTORICAL. the audience was fantastic - but the Venue - is really something else - we are honoured to have rocked the shit out of that club (plus there was a cute little 10 year old girl in front of me all night wearing a KISS shirt - I had no choice but to Rock a little extra hard for her!)

Really the whole tour was very amazing. We spent so much time in cold ass Colorado my face was chapped!! It was fucking cold and there is NO moisture in the air at all- it was kind of difficult for Blaine and I. Evidently Whiskey is not very moisturizing despite what I have heard!

After Lemmy Left the tour - Blaine was invited to sing every night with the Reverend Horton Heat! The band had learned how to play 'Ace of Spades' just in case Lemmy wanted to play it - but he really wanted to play songs he never gets to do so we never once heard Lemmy play ACE it with The Rev. The guys in the Rev did an excellent version one day in sound check and asked Blaine to sing it once Lemmy left the tour. So for the rest of the tour - for the Rev's encore - Blaine ran out and did Lemmy justice- Blaine was fucking incredible and the audience reaction every night was practically electric! he nailed it!

The funniest night was in Springfield Missouri where Blaine was off drinking with some chicks and missed the beginning of the song. Jim (the Rev) announced his name from stage - but there was no Blaine - no one in the band saw him at all. Someone finally told me they saw him walking towards the bar a few minutes earlier - so I ran off and found him being 'entertained' by some locals!! I told him he's supposed to be on stage and he was like 'yeah, yeah - I'll be there in a minute" and I had to tell him that they were singing the song without him. Blaine ran through the bar and jumped up on stage in time to do the Chorus and the rest of the song. He only missed one verse! And instead of shaking hands with the band he stage dove into the audience and they carried him off!! Probably back to the Bar! What a finale. I know that night we drank AMISH moonshine out of a plastic milk jug! OUCH my head hurt in the morning! BUT again - the bar owner was really foxy! What can this poor girl do?

We said goodbye to the Reverend Horton Heat the night before in their home town of Dallas TX. The Grenada Theatre in Dallas had a really cool lighting rig that kept whispering 'Ruyter, climb me, you know you want to'. So at the end of the show I monkeyed my way up to the very top (about 20 feet) and pulled all the strings out of my guitar over the audience. One of the guys who worked at the Theatre said he had seen audience members TRY to climb up it but never someone in a band!

The last night of the tour was in glorious Austin, Texas and we got to do our own show. Finally we played a WHOLE SET in front of the always awesome audience at Emo's. It was a perfect end of a successful and rewarding tour - and our good buddy Gary Lindsey (from Hank3's ASSJACK) was there and came up on stage to sing Rose Tattoos 'Rock n Roll Outlaw' with us. It was an intimate evening spent with a few hundred of our best friends and a handful of very cool strangers with excellent taste!

I hope this will do for now- we are home for a bit - writing new music for the next Pussy Album!!!!! Blaine has been very busy writing music 24 hours a day. And the new Nine Pound hammer album comes out real soon - so keep your eyes peeled for it!!!

love you all

Ruyter and (Nashville Pussy)
p.s. I know this is LOOONG, hey I ramble. and I'll find some cool photos soon I promise!!

We Still Got A Long Way to Ho (Ho Ho!)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS All Y'all!! Nashville pussy Hits the road again TOMORROW! after an amzingly productive week writing new songs with none other than Mr Daniel Rey - who graced us with his presence for three glorious days here in the ATL before hitting the Xmas Circuit with Mz. Ronnie Spector. We had a ball and came up with some pretty impressive new stuff. Hopefully the audiences in the next week will be so kind as to let us try some of them out.
Unfortunate news, Mr Shelton Williams AKA Hank III/ASSJACK - won't be joining this tour as previously announced. we just found out yesterday that he'd had to pull out of this tour but hopefully that will pave the way for the Truly Unholy Union of NASHVILLEPUSSYHANKIII tour down the line, coz now they owe us cuz!
With or without- the Pussies will be doing the glorious trek across this fine country to celebrate Xmas in no less than the finest Cracker Barrels this nation has to offer. Our first show is in San Franciski on the 26th and the tour goes until the 17th in Dallas with the Reverend Horton Heat. Then we have our own headlining celebration gig in Austin TX at EMO's. Should be a blast as always.
Blaine and Nine Pound Hammer just got back from a few gigs in France and Holland including the amazing SPEEDFEST with Peter Pan Speedrock - all reports have been stellar so far and I am fucking pissed I wasn't there. I finally watched the PETER PAN SPEEDROCK DVD out of jealousy and there are some classic Jeremy moments on there to say the least - most of the DVD is in Dutch but Jeremy is speaking one of those Universal languages that happen late at night... pretty funny stuff. Look out for a movie called Run Fat Boy Run - Hammer has a song in it - also look out for a movie called ALL HAT which uses the Pussies 'High as Hell'. I haven't seen either so if you have, let me know!!
Much Love to y'all, We'll miss Shelton and his gang - hope you guys have a swell Xmas without us, we'll miss your whiskey!! If you come to the gigs, I know yule have a ball (ho ho) and we'll see y'all down the road!

Rev Horton heat and Hank III HELLRIDE

Okay we've been off since Thanksgiving from this tour and I think we are all still reeling over how great it went. I cannot say enough about this combination of bands - Every night was sold out and every night the crowds were wrung out from partying so hard, three times in one night! It was a triple threat and Hank III was a triple threat within himself - playing in his glorious Damn Country band, The HellBilly co-oprative and finally the full frontal assault of Assjack. Having never seen Shelton and his entourage perform we were floored by the whole show and the people behind the machine - princes among men all of them.
We spent Halloween in Baton Rouge and got done up good. Harry Pussy Potter, Dee Snider, Elvis and of course Yosemite Sam!


Even the Rev was in the audience that night disguised as Joey Ramone he coud walk amongst us and not get hassled. Shelton was dressed in Ghoul makeup and later as some freaky New Orleans style Satan with a belt around his neck hoding his mask on - creepy!
We got a good look at those strips of leather he calls boots ducttaped to his feet - what a mess! We gotta buy that boy some boots!
The Rev's Jimbo had cuts painted all over his face so got no sympathy when he thew his bass into the ceiling and it came down and sliced open his nose. Oh well Chicks dig scars luckily.
It was my birthday in Orlando and before I passed out in the van the band arranged a delicious cake and a bubblemaker backstage for me to play with.
One of the crew got named FUCKBUBBLES for fighting with the bubbles that night. I had fun shoving cake into peoples faces andeven though the Fiddle player Adam had gum in his mouth- he was kind enough to say it was pretty tasty!

We got in the habit of borrowing assjack's lead singer Gary to sing Rose tattoo's Rock n Roll Outlaw with us - we got pretty damn good at it too I think. I still gotta remember to make sure I don't lose a tooth in the enthusiasm.


At the end of the tour we had gained a crew member as Kevin from Hanks' camp came home with us to celebrate Thankgiving 'Pussy Style' (a couple days late and too much of everything!!!) He baked a cake and even carved the bird!
Nashville Pussy has a few weeks off right now but will be back doing this all over again for Xmas and New Years on the west coast - we are all counting the days back to all that dirty fun on the stage and the back of the bus! I think I am starting to like the taste of moonshine now that I know it don't taste like water like Barney Fife led me to believe.
If we are still allowed on the bus - it'll be a blast, otherwise we'll be at the bar!!
Blaine is in Europe as I type - he's got three Hammer shows including one with the Almighty DWARVES in Eindhoven Rock City, Holland for the second annual SPEEDFEST put on by those Dutch cuties PETERPAN SPEEDROCK! Damn I wish I was there!
That's all for now - I'll try and figure out how to post some of the cool photos from the tour.
Rock on, see y'all down the road

Gettin Down time finally!

Hey Y'all!! After our whirlwind tour of South America we had a few days off then we spent a few days in Vegas playing a private party which quicky became public at the PALMS 'Rain room'. It was really swanky to say the least and we ran into BMX'rs from around the world there for the Film premire we were playing. A bunch of crazy fuckers from Nelson BC put the show on and we met people from as far away as good old Holland. Partied with a bunch of Dutch that we met at the Lirop Festival as well as a bunch of Canuckleheads and of course the local Las Vegans. We played in front of a waterfall and there was a giant candelabra of fire blasting in the centre of the room that kept going off at climaxes in the music- it got hot in there.
Now we are just enjoying some time off - working up some new tunes and getting ready to hit CMJ in New York at Don Hills on the 18th. This is a virgin experience for Blaine and I as we get to play with both Nashville Pussy and Miss Georgia Peach. We have never performed as a band with her so it should be pretty exciting. Hopefully we will play early in the day at Don Hills and another show- I'll post on here when I have the details - but it should be worth checking out. The Miss Georgia '45 comes out in November and hopefully we'll have some for sale in NY as well.
We got to hang out with the Turbonegros when they played Atlanta last week (Euroboy's got braces!) And Saw Nick Oliveri for the first time since he was in Queens. Also Brent from Mastadon is fine in case you heard about his scuffle at the VMA's. For the TURBONEGRO after party Blaine got to DJ. This was his first time DeeJaying in the USA! Now he's done it in Melbourne, Montreal, Japan? I can't remember where else but the place was rocking. Man that guy can spin some wicked tunes - I know it sounds like my living room but that night he busted some shit out that we don't even listen to around the house. Including a bunch of shit that Turbonegro ripped off and some VIKINGS too!

By the way - our Buddy HALE has some new Limited Edition Autographed stuff for sale on http://www.noisenoisenoise.com/ Our merch website has been closed for renovations so he has some new cool shit up on his site instead! I apologize to those who have wrote in saying we have nothing available! Check out his site, he has stuff no one else does and the proceeds go straight to the band, not some lying jerk getting his daughter to ask for autographs then selling them on ebay. This guy is straight up.

see y'all down the road!