GLK wishes our rock n roll sister, Annie Venom, the best of luck on her move back to Chicago. We will miss you Annie, and we know you will have great success in art school!
The Green Lady Killers are happy to announce new bassist, Ivy Rose! Ivy Rose grew
up in greater Los Angeles, and her past musical projects include The Ramonas and Juju
Bones. Ivy Rose rocks a Fender Jazz Bass through a Fender Bassman 300 Pro full stack
to deliver some serious low end! You may also know Ivy Rose as Wonder Girl from
superhero band, Adam West the Bat. When she's not rocking out, Ivy Rose spends her
time wrangling tarantulas, boa constrictors and magical unicorns.
In less than two months Hellbound Glory is about to release an amazing batch of songs further embedding their boot print into the country music landscape. Rarely does a band create such a buzz without having the chops to back up the hype. The fellas in Hellbound Glory have it in spades and damn proud to have been working with them for the last five years.
Here is one of the new finalized and mastered tracks entitled "You Better Hope You Die Young". Also, here is another image from the photo shoot that was the idea we all put together to represent the over arching idea of Damaged Goods.
Current men's magazines are all about looking good, wearing sharp clothing and being clean as a whistle and that just lacks character in our minds. Whatever happened to men that wrestled bears over their recently shot elk as the bear tried to get a free dinner? Or what happened to those adventures in which you came back with a beard as you were gone so long? We are huge fans of old magazines and pulp novels and often reread the stories as they are right out of a Mickey Spillane universe in which women were Dames and a finger point to the chest meant fists would come into action if need be. This compared to worrying about the other party calling in a lawyer to settle a dispute, as we personally have seen happen a few times unfortunately with wussies that want to sue over a few scratches and busted egos. Check out some of these great covers of old men's magazines and go out and make adventure happen instead of relying on life to just happen.
If you are in the South East, do yourself a favor and get out to the Barber Vintage Festival, here is a full post from the fellas over at Dime City Cycles on the event along with what is going down.
What a wonderful time it is for motorcycling! Cafe Racer TV Season 2 is mid-way through and keeping all us glue to the TV when we’re not wrenching or riding, The Ace Cafe just celebrated it’s 10th anniversary of being re-opened and Triumph Motorcycles is in-tune with the current vintage/retro movement more so than ever!
Here are Dime City we’re busy cranking out parts and orders as well as bikes and trophies! That’s right, trophies and stands for the upcoming Cafe Racer TV Bike Show taking place at Barbers 7th Annual Vintage Festival. If you haven’t already heard it’s going to be the biggest and best vintage motorcycle event yet.
We’ve pulled together a handful of the awesome and talented builders from Cafe Racer TV like Loaded Gun Customs, Brian Fuller and Alain Bernard from Santiago Choppers to name a few along with the crew from DOTHETON.com as well as, Ace Cafe North America to put on a “Cafe Racer Paddock” at the top of the hill in the far western corner of the track. It’s the makings for a truly rememberable event!
Here’s a quick glimps of the schedule so far:
Friday:
9AM – Area opens, tents are manned
10AM – 10:15AM – Address to the crowd by Mark McKee
12:30AM – 2:30PM – Lunch Ride
2:30 – 4:00pm Pitch Your Build CRTV
2:30PM – 3:30PM – Book signing by Mark Wilsmore and Mick Duckworth
5PM – Shutdown
Saturday:
9:00 – Area opens, tents are manned, bike show entries accepted
9:00 – 4:00 CRTV Photo Ops w/Bikes and Pin-up models
9:00 – 4:00 Pitch Your Build CRTV
9:00 – 9:45 – Hogslayer Presentation
10:00 – 10:15 – Address to the crowd by Mark McKee
11:00 – 11:30 – Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
2:00 – 2:30 – Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
2:30 – 3:30- Book signing by Mark Wilsmore and Mick Duckworth
4:00 – Bike show trophies announced
4:30 – 5:00 – Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
4:30 – 5:30- Book signing by Mark Wilsmore and Mick Duckworth
5:15 – 5:45 CRTV Builder Roundtable
5PM – 6PM – Shutdown & Ace VIP Session
Sunday:
9:00 – Area opens, tents are manned, Morning Ride (9AM – 10AM)
9:00 – 4:00 CRTV Photo Ops w/Bikes and Pin-up models
9:00 – 4:00 Make Your Pitch to CRTV
9:00 – 9:45 – Hogslayer Presentation
10:00 – 10:15 – Address to the crowd by Mark McKee
11:00 – 11:30 – Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
2:00 – 2:30 – Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
2:30 – 3:30 – Book signing by Mark Wilsmore and Mick Duckworth
3:30 – 4:00 – (Tent) Rockabilly Band The Cigar Store Indians
4:00 – Shutdown and head out
As you can see, there’s a full schedule and plenty to enjoy in addition to the already fantastic elements that make up the Barber Vintage Festival. We’ve got several BIG sponsors who’ve stepped up to donate some quality items for the winners of the different bike show classes. Guys like Bell Helmets, Dennis Kirk, Lossa Engineering and Loaded Gun Customs just to name a few. To break it down, we’ve got over $1,500.00 in giveaways so far and the event is still a few weeks away!
That said, be sure to register your bike ASAP by emailing jason@dimecitycycles.com as we will NOT be able to take bikes the weekend of the event.
Here’s a quick snapshot from the shop of the plaque stands we’re building for the TV series bikes which will be on display in the paddock for you to get your grubby little wrenching turning hands on as well as their builders so you can finally ask “How’d you do that? As well as a spy shot of the 1972 CB350 Twin we’ve been building to compete in the AHRMA Production Race Class. With any luck, it’l be completed in time and ready for the track that same weekend!
If you have any inclination on what it takes to undertake land speed racing, you know that its a game of physics mixed with weather and a dash of endurance. Circle track racing is just folks turning left and having to maintain steady speeds while fighting off the competition, relying heavily on lane position and mechanical endurance. Land speed racing is about the driver and the vehicle meeting in the middle to pilot through that magical radar line off in the distance at the fastest speed possible. Within those thousands of feet everything has to work to perfection or to your mechanical advantage, per sey if you have a tail wind or the cool morning air to help the motors run tip top. Have a look at Roland Sands going all out to reach 200 mph at our local Maxton Mile. After his last pass it is quite evident what level that components need to be at to be able to handle the stress of those speeds. We know that he will push that Victory to the coveted elite 200mph record as his determination is written all over his face.
Found this amazing write up over at Revolver Magazine with Lars Ulrich of Metallica speaking on Cliff Burton. What an amazing talent that left this world way too soon. For all of us that grew up listening to Metallica in the 80's and being one of our first metal bands, Cliff we forever will remember your memory...
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton’s
death. In remembrance of him, the band’s drummer Lars Ulrich (pictured
left) gave a personal and emotional account of him in Revolver’s January/February “Fallen Heroes” issue (available here).
He had so many great stories about Burton, we couldn’t fit them in the
magazine. So, in reverence, here is everything Ulrich had to say about
Burton.
REVOLVER What do you remember about the first time you saw him? LARS ULRICH
I had just never really seen anything quite like it. It was just unique
and so original. And there was just this incredible stage presence and
this uniqueness to the whole vibe. I had just never seen anything like
it. It was new, it was different. And obviously you could tell there was
an incredible ability, and there was a stage presence, and all this
type of stuff wrapped up in this incredible type of personality. And I
think we were a little intimidated by him in the beginning because he
was just so unique.
But then as we got to know him a little bit, and I sort of started courting him to try and jump ship [from his band Trauma],
then I started realizing he was a pretty chill dude. But he was also
pretty firm on the fact that L.A. was not for him. ’Cause me and James
were trying to get him to come down to L.A., and he just wasn’t into
that. He was really rooted up here [near San Francisco], he
really was a kind of a Northern California…almost a hillbilly like. I
mean, there’s a lot of different vibes up here, and there’s definitely a
kind of unique vibe in Castro Valley and Hayward and stuff. And he was a
real, really rooted where it came from. And he was probably, certainly
speaking for myself, I was much more of a gypsy. When we traveled and
stuff like that, he was the first guy to want to go home. And he was the
one who was probably at the strongest of roots of all of us. He had
family and kind of a history. Me and James were more loners.
He seems like he was laidback.
He didn’t hurt people. He didn’t cross the line, but he was certainly
always up for being part of stirring some shit up. But more like a
rascal point of view then someone who was out to hurt people. So it was
more fun and games. He would fake fight or whatever, throw some kind of
fake punches, but he would never throw any real punches. I don’t think I
ever saw Cliff in a fight. I don’t think I ever saw Cliff get into
heated exchanges or anything. I mean, he was a pretty chill guy. And it
never got nasty or unpleasant.
What are your fondest memories of him?
My fondest memories of Cliff are his total disregard for convention and
his total disregard for playing things out the way you expected them.
He was up to challenge the normalcy, to challenge the status quo, to
just fuck with things musically, attitude-wise—the way he dressed, the
way he carried himself, his sense of humor, his relationship with the
music that inspired him, the music that he played. It was always very
unconventional, and it was very unusual. You could certainly argue that
me and James [Hetfield] at that time were more kind of the
squarer guys, ’cause we were more like, “Motörhead, Iron Maiden!” Heavy
metal T-shirts, and long hair and bang our heads into the wall. Cliff
was just so fast in his palette of things that he was into and things
that were inspiring him and the things that he was doing. So it was
definitely his music, and his attitude, and his approach towards life
that really inspired me and James to broaden our horizons, broaden
Metallica’s horizons musically. So when I think of Cliff, that’s what I
think…that’s just kind of variety and unpredictability, you know
What are some of the bands he turned you on to?
First of all, he was classically trained and really knew his way around
classical music. He actually studied classical music at college. So he’s
sitting there talking about Johann Sebastian Bach, talking about some
of these kind of cool classical things. And I had heard some of these
words thrown around when Richie Blackmore was talking about his
influences, but it was not something I had ever been exposed to.
Then
he was also really…you know, this whole Southern thing. I mean,
obviously I was aware of Skynyrd and had an appreciation for some of
their heavier moments. But he was so immersed in Skynyrd and .38 Special
and ZZ Top and the Allman Brothers and all of these things that kind of
came in the wake of that Black Oak Arkansas. And the Outlaws and all
that stuff, there was a whole kind of thing there.
He was also
really into a lot of kind of progressive stuff like Yes, and Peter
Gabriel, and a lot of f prog rock. And he was a hardcore Rush fanatic.
Certainly I had an appreciation of Rush, but not to the level that he
did. So there was a whole kind of array of things.
When I met
Cliff in ’81, I had been through a lot of different musical experiences
myself. But at that time, the things that were inspiring me to play
music and so on were…I can’t say that Lynyrd Skynyrd was a particularly
big inspiration for me to start playing drums. It was much more narrow.
Iron Maiden and Deep Purple and Judas Priest and Diamond Head and Angel
Witch, and the stories been told a thousand times. And the New Wave of
British Heavy Metal stuff, and Cliff was just so wide in his scope. I
played him Diamond Head. He liked some of their stuff, he liked some of
Iron Maiden’s energy. He liked Witchfinder General, some of that stuff.
But he also, he was a little more selective in what he liked, where me
and James were more sort of like, Dude, the New Wave of British Heavy
Metal, it rocks! Where some of it you can argue 20, 30 years later was
not as good some of the other stuff. There were hit and misses in there.
But
Cliff was sort of into Peter Gabriel, the Police. Some of the stuff, I
mean, it wasn’t the enemy because I was aware of the fact that there was
musical integrity there. But I can’t tell you I knew much about what
the Police were doing other then five songs I’d heard on the radio. But
all of the sudden, in between the Diamond Head tapes and the Iron Maiden
tapes being played on the tour buses and in the shitty vans, the
fuckin’ Police album Zenyattà Mondatta would come on. Or what was that Yes album? 90125
or whatever. Some of that stuff would come on. It would just be nice.
He loved to play some early ZZ Top. I just didn’t really know my way around Tres Hombres or the rest of those albums until Cliff started pounding them in our direction.
What do you think of him when you look back at it all now?
He was really cool. It was, obviously other than losing a brother, it
would’ve been the more… I would’ve been interested to see what else he
could’ve contributed, because it felt like we were just getting started.
We just started playing “Orion” again on the last run, in the last two
weeks [when Metallica were preparing for the Big Four concert in April].
So playing “Orion,” I think we played it like three times in the last
two weeks. You sit there and all of a sudden go, Fuck! What a, just,
incredible piece of music. And just so unique. And it would’ve been
interesting to see what else would’ve been in that vast well of stuff
that he could’ve shared with the rest of us. That will forever be the
curiosity element. But I’m so glad that I got a chance to play with him
for a couple, three years. And got a chance to know him, and got a
chance to drink with him, and all the shenanigans that probably
shouldn’t be printed in a nice, family publication like Revolver. But it definitely was a pretty nutty time, and at the time we certainly embraced what life was offering
us. And accelerated it to a “mach 10,” as James used to say on stage.
The folks down under at Fuel Magazine have just wrapped up Issue 8. Read below for more info and on how to order the latest and greatest from those folks.
Issue 08 is now here and on sale through our
online store. It will be on newsagents shelves in Australia next Friday, 7th October. If you don't want to buy online, and you can't wait until it's in the shops, we'll be at the Chopped Rod & Custom Show this weekend.
Issue 08 'Americana' is dedicated largely to our
first Fuel Magazine trip to the States earlier this
year. We got behind of the wheel of the Hotchkis Challenger, visted Viva Las Vegas, as well as some cool loactions around LA.
On top of the great things we saw and experienced, we have contributions from some fantastic Amerian photographers throughout the issue. Marc Gewertz sent in photos of his brother Coby's awesome Church Magazine van, Peter Vincent takes us on a visual journey to the Bonneville salt flats, and we have some amazing pin up and fashion
photography from contemporary photographers Shane McCauly and Vara Pappas.
Top this all off
with a Max Grundy feature!
The issue is now bigger than before, with a higher page count, and an increase in thickness of about 20%. It really is packed with great stuff.
To see for yourself, check it out online and it'll be in the post out to you quicker than you can say Americana.
To say that we are excited just might be a huge understatement when it comes to finally releasing Jay Berndt's new album "Sings Waylon For Jessica". This whole project started as a christmas gift a few years back and from there spiraled into a much larger endeavor as we kept tellin' Jay that he should release it for the masses.
Being the perfectionist and amazing talent that Jay Berndt is, he went in and revamped all the songs to make them linger in playlists for many years to come. This batch of songs is one of those that will stick to your head like wet hair on a hot and humid summer day and then instantly cool ya off like the first ice cold beer of the day.
Do yourself a favor and check out these songs, we know that Waylon would have been proud. Order the Album now
From Jay on the recording of the album:
"My two previous bands, the Revival Preachers and the Brimstone
Assembly always played Waylon songs. I just love his voice and his
delivery; he just sounds so honest and sincere. Plus that beat! That
four on the floor stomp... Nobody else in country music could do it like
Waylon & The Waylors. And really no one has done it better. So
whenever we played one of his songs live, my wife Jessica would always
ask “Was that Waylon?” and I would remark that we should record some of
his songs. Well, I never got around to recording any of them when those
bands were in existence. So I decided that I would pick some of her
favorite Waylon songs, play all the instruments myself and give her the
CD as a Christmas gift. So I began the project in September 2008 and
could only record when she was at work on weekends or very early in the
morning during the week. I remember cutting the harmony vocals for “You
Can Have Her” at 5:00 am and wondering how the hell I didn’t wake her
up! I brought in my good buddy Damien Puerini to play all the amazing
guitar leads and bring the whole thing together. I was putting finishing
touches and mixing it as late as 11:00pm on Christmas eve, just trying
to get it all done. None the less, Jessica loved it. She smiles every
time she hears those harmonies on “You Can Have Her” and that means the
world to me. I think it’s one of the best gifts I had given her.
Now it’s our gift to you. I hope you enjoy it."
Track Listing
1. Lonesome On’Ry & Mean
2. Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line
3. Black Rose
4. Cedartown, GA
5. The Door Is Always Open
6. Ramblin’ Man
7. Loving Her Was Easier
8. Ain’t No God In Mexico
9. The Taker
10. Rainy Day Woman
11. Freedom To Stay
12. You Can Have Her
