So yes, the rumors are true, we will be hitting the road in May with the full live band. You can expect to see us at every major UK/ european festival this summer.
Oh, I’ll also be .. dates with Bill Laswell again....including FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL with him and DJ KRUSH.
So I'm back, postin up some of pics of my European Tour with Bill Laswell and co. I'm highly jetlagged, so it might take me a minute to get everything up here. Check back in a bit...
With that, all photos were taken by the lovely and talented Hollace Metzger. This fair lady is quite the quadruple threat: Photog, Artist, Architect, and Poet...and I thought I did a lot of things....
So, Walking down the street in a very crowded Tokyo...and what do I see. Some Cracka ass Cracka on a jumbotron. I proceeded to freak the fuck out...then went back to the hotel room and practiced for 3 hours.
After many backrubs and foot massages, Mr. Laswell has agreed to stow me in his bass case and drag me to the land of all things ridiculous and rad. Des Moines.
Ok, a close second. Japan.
Kinda Freaking out. This gig is with the latest lineup of Method Of Defiance. Which is once again, me, Bill, Bernie Worrell (bet you didn't know he went to juilliard AND was in P-funk...sheesh) Toshinori Kondo (he'll kill you with his pinky nail) and Doctor Israel.
We got 2 dates
Tokyo at CLUB UNIT 8/4/07 http://www.unit-tokyo.com/
and then Osaka on 8/5 at a currently undisclosed location...fine it's TBA. Undisclosed just sounds more bitchin.
I'm gonna get back to the woodshed, I got a lot of work to do....
Things will be quiet here till I unveil the new super rad bitchin music page. There might be a coupla updates from the road, but that's it for now.
I will be touring through Europe as a member of MATERIAL, Featuring Bill Laswell (Bass), Bernie Worell (Keys), Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet), Eivind Aarset (guitar), and Aiyb Dieng (percussion)
I will also be playing The Synch Festival in Athens with an incarnation of METHOD OF DEFIANCE that will include myself, Bill Laswell, Dr. Israel, Bernie Worell, and Toshinori Kondo.
This is easily the most humbling playing experience of my life, I'm truly blessed to have been given the opportunity. Thanks to all of you who have supported me and all my endeavors so far, I hope to see some of you on the road!!!
Date City Venue
7.11 Warsaw, Poland: Summer Day Festival
7.12 Gent , Belgium: Blue Note Festival
7.13 Rotterdam, Netherlands: North Sea Jazz Festival
