On the road, almost to Everett, WA! Here’s Dan wishing there was a skateboard under him… my KDF board is way too slick for wet-use.
And what metal tour would be complete without stopping to assemble in a circle and enjoy some drugs? None, I tells ya.
One of Jameson’s biggest fans, Dexter, was hanging out with us before the show so they decided to get a pic with him. Save this, Dex, it’ll be worth something someday!
Upon requesting a jumpshot, most of the guys weren’t interested and called me terrible names for always asking them to do jumpshots. Jay on the other hand, obliged with something 10x better than a jump… a straight up ninja kick! If you didn’t know, Jay is not only a bad ass bassist, he’s a Tae Kwon Do devotee.
^Vic from Maleva wails on the drums! The venue they played that night was cool, but shall remain nameless because the owner was a dick to us non-playing band members! Wtf dude?!?! We need free drinks too!
I still don’t understand how Matt Bomb didn’t lose his voice the whole tour. Between all the drinking and yelling in crowded places, I lost mine almost every night. Matt Bomb, on the other hand, did all that PLUS scream into a mic every night. Voice box of STEEL!
I think Jameson’s music made both of these guys uncomfortable. The faces say it all…
This guy was at the show celebrating his birthday, so Matt Bomb pulled him up on stage for a birthday shot.
After the show, I wandered next door to see what was going on. We saw a lot of scary looking pierced up people going in earlier, and some girls had told us that there was a freak show going on.
This guy was laying on a bed of nails, then they stacked cinder blocks on him and broke them with a sledgehammer. SO awesome.
The freak-wrangler Noel Austin, was totally down for me to shoot their escapades and led me to the back room of the venue where they had their miniature operating room set up to patch up the performers after their suspension acts.
Here’s the same guy as was on the operating table in the previous picture. They had hooks through his back-meat connected to pulleys and then to two other freaks’ back-steak. The puller-guys hoisted him off the ground and the nail-bed guy swing him out over the crowd! OUCH!
In addition to having dudes suspended from various body parts by gnarly hooks, they also had cute girls with steel plates over their outfits and angle grinders to make sparks with. I first saw the grinder-girl spectacle on the man show, but I assure you it’s far more awesome in person.
One of the grinder girls missed her ass-plate…
…but nail-bed guy (soon to be referred to as knee-hanging guy) was happy to help her clean up the wound.
This is by far the gnarliest suspension I’ve ever seen. Two hooks on either side of his knees were about to be the only thing holding up all his weight.
Words cannot describe the chaos going on in this picture. Guy swinging by his knee-skin, crowd members swinging him, grinder girl sparks, and the noise of a heavy metal concert, am I missing anything?
After a few minutes shooting, I noticed that Jameson and Maleva had followed me into this crazy place. We all agreed that they should definitely play at this place the next time a tour brought them through Everett.
“I’m just looking for some meaningful o-ring contact!” -Clive (aka TJ the road dog, aka Art).
The end. Stay tuned for #5! #4 was late, so we don’t know when the hell #5 will be out. Check the site every 15min until you see it 😉
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