A chapter in the SEX SLAVES book closed last Saturday, October 7th, when we played the final show of the "Bite Your Tongue" tour in Mentor, Ohio. Fifteen months on the road, 80,000 miles of asphalt, hundreds of cities, thousands of new friends, dozens of cases of Jack, bloody faces, broken bones (& teeth- sorry Sara), a million bottles of water, doomed relationships, smashed windows, flat tires, blown-up amps, shitty promoters, and awesome DJ's.... those are the first things that come to mind.
I couldn't have imagined how difficult and amazing the past year would be. It's remarkable what three dudes with a road atlas, a van, and a cell phone can do. As we began the 9-hour drive back to NYC from our final show, we talked and laughed about the past, our future, girls, and writing songs, and I thought about how fucking wild it is that the three of us had been cooped up in that van for so long and we were just hanging out and having fun. No bitterness, no resentment, no fighting. It requires such an intricate and delicate chemistry to live successfully on the road, and with no money, no management, & no booking agent, we had mastered it.
Looking back on it all, I wouldn't have done one single thing differently. We learned as much from the terrible shows as we did from the great ones, and our collective experiences have made the band grow into something bigger than any of us on our own could be. We were shocked on a regular basis by the love we felt all over the country-- we've made some truly great friends who really took care of us. And as much as I want to keep circling the country, playing crazy shows and seeing everyone, it is definitely time to put the "Bite Your Tongue" era to rest, and move on to conquer new horizons.
You won't be seeing much of us in the next few months as we lock ourselves in the studio and figure out how to turn all the love, hate, and insanity into music for our next record. We don't really know what it will sound like or where it will take us, but if there's one thing I've learned in the past year, it's that Eric 13 and J Bomb are the baddest motherfuckers on the planet, and I can't wait to see what we come up with. Alone, we're just three dudes with huge dicks. Together, we're the fucking Sex Slaves.
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