There are some changes in store for ‘ole Johnny Volume. First as some of you may or may not know I am getting married. That’s right Julie and I are tying the knot April 3^rd, and after five years I am sure she’s knows what she is in for, and she still said yes!

Another big change for me is that I am no longer doing BANNED! on a regular basis, I am still going to pop up there from time to time for some special events, including our much anticipated three year anniversary in November, as well as another Singles Going Steady, which has always been a good time @ BANNED! I ask that you continue to support BANNED! LaRue, Tyler, Sasha and Jugheads, as BANNED! has been a big part of my life and will continue to be important to me.

So with no longer lugging records down to Jugheads each week, I now have a more open schedule, so I am going to be helping out the talented DJ Dana at Valley Fever. Yucca Taproom was looking to expand VF to every Sunday, and as Dana and I can attest to, DJing every week can be laborious. So Dana and I will be altering each Sunday. I am very excited about this opportunity, as I have been looking for a chance to spin country records more regularly. I am still going to be doing Outlaw Country Brunch about once a month, and keeping the format for Valley Fever as what Dana has been doing. I am booking artists to play, and I’ll be spinning traditional and Outlaw Country records. My first week with be Sunday October 25^th and my musical guest will be Mike Skullbuster! Mike, formally of the Smoky Mountain Skullbusters has been doing his own thing for a while and I am very excited to have him play my first Valley Fever!

Other then that I am booking a few shows, check here and the Etc…Promotions page for info www.myspace.com/etcpromotions  Thanks for checking this out, and if you are interested in playing one of my Valley Fever dates message me here, and for all other bookings please contact the Etc…Promotions page, thanks.

Upcoming events…

Sat. Oct. 24^th @ ..Hollywood.. Alley

Andrew Jackson Jihad.

Ready The Jet from LA on Asian Man Records, also just released a split with…

Japanese Monsters.

Hard Girls (3/4 of Classics Of Love)

DOMO

Sunday Oct. 25^th

@Yucca Taproom

Valley Fever w/DJ Johnny Volume and special guest Mike Skullbuster

NO COVER!

Sunday Nov. 8^th

@Yucca Taproom

Valley Fever w/DJ Johnny Volume with special Guest TBA!

Sunday Nov. 15^th

@The Lucky Devil

Outlaw Country Brunch Noon-4pm

DJ Johnny Volume Spins outlaw country records

Breakfast & drink specials, NO COVER!

Sunday Nov. 22^nd

@Yucca Taproom

Valley Fever w/DJ Johnny Volume with special Guest TBA!

Friday Nov. 27th
@ Yucca Taproom
Slick 46
The Failures
Blue Collar Criminals
+1 more TBA
NO COVER!

Sunday Jan 3rd
@ Jugheads
BOATS! (May Cause Dizziness Records)

Sat. Jan. 16th
@ Yucca Taproom
Stitches (TKO Records)
+ more TBA!
NO COVER!

Here is my annual list of shit that ruled this year....and in honor of the Virgin closing, some of my various memories of the store....

Records.

1.Tim Barry "Manchester"

2.Chip Hanna & The Berlin Three "Old South Jamboree"

3.The Cute Lepers "Can't Stand Modern Music"

4. North Side Kings "Suburban Royalty"

5.Waylon Jennings & the .357's "Waylon Forever"

6.Creepsville666 "S/T EP"

7. Dillinger Four "Civil War"

8.Hellbound Glory "Scumbag Country"

9.Japanese Monsters "S/T EP"

10.Dead To Me "Little Brother"

11.Night Marchers "See You In Magic"

12.Tom Gabel "Heart Burns"

13.V/A "Revival Tour"

14.Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"

15.Hank Williams III "Damn Right, Rebel Proud"

16.Re-Volts "S/T EP"

17.Enslaved "Vertebrae"

18.Throw Rag "....2^nd Place...."

19.Street Dogs "State Of ....Grace...."

20.Alkaline Trio "Agony & Irony"

Other stuff.

Other shit that was rad….

~ ..Detroit.. Cobras/ X show in ....Tucson....

~ Casket Life tour.

~ Riverboat Gamblers/Rancid show

~ Avail vinyl re-issues

~ Iron Maiden show

~DJing the Lucero show @ Clubhouse

~Finding out in ....Indiana.... that my friends are having a baby.

~Camping in ..Patagonia..

~booking shows, losing my mind, losing my money!

~BANNED In ....Tempe...., seriously 2 fuckin' years later? WOW!

~Half Empties, back one last time.

~Old recipe of Schlitz!, Finally going to the Triple Rock!

Virgin 15 memories.

~Manny Humping the file cabinet

~Nina Gordan party/ & RUN DMC Listening party, we out drank all the other music retailers….

~"HEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOO….."

Courtney Proffitt's greeting

And all the long gone reps, Rick, Al Saltoon, Victor, Manny, ..Troy.., ....Logan...., Leroy, Michelle, Kalina, Dawn, Drew,Steve,

~Old school buying staff, Ho, Chris, Manny, Tank, Mary, Julian, ....Jackson.....

~Payday Happy Hour, Benegans (RIP) ..Alcatraz.. (RIP)

~Saferman

~"Frankle, You have call on 101"

~Painintheneckson tapes….

~The Various Virgin Megawhores through the years….

~Wednesday Night Delights BBQ's

~Papaya Spray!

~Lunch on the labels….

~Every year saying we were getting our picture taken w/ Santa, never actually doing it…..

~Drew embarrassing himself to Tom Gugliotta

~POWER and the EDGE suck.

~In-Stores…ESP. AGAINST ME! But also…I was stoned as hell for the Pete Yorn one, Bob Log III, Lucero, Michele Branch, Tsunami victim benefit, Krist Novoselic, Suicide Girls, anyone remember the Dropkick Murphy's/Get Up Kids one? No? Me neither….IMX, Something Corporate and drinking their beer @ Fun bar…

~Human shit in the jazz isle not once but a few times??

~Being able to abuse my listening post authority to get people into worthy bands!

DJ Johnny Volume is officially doing weddings! So if you or a friend is taking the plunge and you are looking for a DJ to play you some punk rock, country, metal, and/or some laid back jazz, well I can do that!

BUT....

I do not, and will not....
Play the Macarena
Electric Slide
The Chicken Dance
or any of that lame ass shit....
Hit me up with the dates and all that jazz...and you can avoid the lame ass wedding DJ Clichés....

I fucking hate being a broke ass...I don't ask for much, some coffee, beers, good times with my Homies...Those good times are as follows for this week...

Tuesday night, nothing, unless you want to come over and help me pull records. Which is really not fun, trust me, I've asked Eldridge to help a bunch, he never does.

Wednesday, watch Mets game after work. Play records, come down. It's the Terror afterparty.

Thursday, lawn shit, go see Jap Mon, the Ergs and American Steel!!!

Friday work, night, maybe nothing.

Saturday work, night go see Adventure Jukebox, used to be a rad CT punk rock radio show, now it's JR's crazy B-day band!

I have to work on the Sabbath...for shame.

Talked to my Mom today, so today was not so bad. But I am seriously bummed out on my broke ass status...Weekend fun (DJing Lucero, Bowling, TT's) makes way for weekday lint in my pockets....

Some young kid tried to argue some stupid ass shit w/ me the other night. It's one thing when you say stupid shit, but then to try and say that I played Staind? Fuckin' Staind? Come the fuck on. Yeah and Darrin knows nothing about east coast hard core, child. What I wanted to say was, "When I was fresh outta JR. High school we had respect for those older then us in the punk rock scene, if at least because if not we would have gotten our asses kicked, so consider yourself lucky." But then again that kid was not in my scene, but raher the Famous Bars and Stars shit that thinks Op Ivy was THE most influencial punk band of all time...here a just a few more so...

Bad Brains, The Ramones, New York Dolls, The Clash, Agnostic Front, The Stooges, MC5, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, and a shit load more, but what the fuck do I know? Dick.