"What doing?" - Me

"We are a way for the universe to know itself -- We're made of starstuff." - Carl Sagan

This one is not for the faint of heart. By reading this statement forth you are waiving your right to contest my actions and you hereby already understand that my embarassing moment was way out of line and I regret what I'd done, although I must say it makes a good story. =) Ok, you've been warned.

I was inebriated during our band's summer tour for 2007's Synchrony Release. We were in Texas... and Let's just say I was we had a little fun with my good friend Jameson in Houston. So much fun that I have *NO* memory of that night. You know where this is going -- this is NOT going to be good. The next morning I woke up and I was told that in the middle of the night, I had unzipped my shorts, bust out my *** and peed on Pete.

Needless to say I wasn't allowed any more alcohol for the rest of the trip. And Pete is now AKA Pee.

"I'll be right there, after I take a shower." - Frank Dux

We were playing at a Student Conference in Texas. Midway into our first song, my guitar strap broke off. I had to play the rest of the song on my knees (this was a rocking song mind you). After the song, I was so angry at my guitar that I threw it to the floor. Of course this made my guitar go way out of tune. I found it out the hard way as I strum the first chord of our next song and the audience went, "eh?" I made Nam stall as I went back to tune my guitar. Having already made a fool out of myself, I decided to stage dive during our last song...belly first. While surfing on my belly, I decided to turn onto my back. This unexpected move caused the audience to lose their grips, and I went tumbling to the floor. Luckily, adrenaline had kicked in and I didn't really feel the pain. I quickly jumped back on stage and finished the song. The next morning, I was hurting.

"You know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that."

We were doing a show at the Westwood Brewing Company, debuting 10 new tracks from Synchrony. The drink specials for the night? $3 kamikaze shots. Big red flag right there, especially since it was a packed house with all our family & friends. Even before we played, the audience was drinking and getting pretty crazy and hyper. Anyway, a couple songs into the set, people in the audience started buying us shots -- which is always appreciated, don't get me wrong -- but they were doing this in between every single song! So ok I took one or two at the beginning to loosen up. But when the 4th, 5th, 6th (i lost track) came around, the audience would "boo" if we DIDN'T take the shots! So of course we had to oblige :) And keep in mind, each song is what 5 minutes tops? That's a whole lotta shots in not a whole lotta time!

So yea, by the end of the set, I was so freaking drunk on stage, I couldn't even pluck the notes on my bass until a second after I heard it. My vision was blurred. I don't even know how I remained standing. So I apologize for everyone in the audience that night -- it must have been an awful sounding set.

And to top it all off, I heard from my friends later that my post-set adventures included sitting on the bar counter, body shots, ...

"Live every day like it's shark week" - Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock

There was one time Nam and I showed up at a gig wearing the same dress... It was a complete faux pas!