neat!


pretty much the coolest thing that ever came of my days in the dames was getting to play a few shows with our heroes the melvins. it was cool enough just to be around them, chit-chatting and stuff, but when it turned out that they wanted to play our gear for the shows we did with them in '04, well, that was even better. we got to stand there and watch our idols play THOSE songs through OUR equipment. the ampeg amp i'd started on, it's been juiced by king buzzo. ian prince's drums got bashed by dale crover. and rusty's amp was tortured by kevin rutmanis (who actually ordered a replacement amp for night two, heh).

the reason i'm bringing this up is, amrep recently released a 3-disc compilation of minneapolis melvins shows, and the two they played on our stuff are both included. this means that my amp can be heard on an official melvins release.

i feel honored and maybe even a little content with my musical accomplishments. which is nice, because i usually feel like a total loser and a failure.

if i was to never do anything else with my music, at least i got to do this.