What's up sluts?

Right now MERCY KILLERS are in San Luis Obispo at a cozy little motel. SLO is RAD if you people haven't been here, I highly recommend it! The show last night was AMAZING, there were definitely two girls making out in front of me while we played, and that is always a really good thing :) Here's some tour diary action from days past...

I think we left off last with Portland...up next was Eugene. Now with all due respect to Eugenians, this place is weird. Its super left wing liberal, which I'm always down with, but at the same time is full of some serious crack and meth heads. These people know how to get down! Its a strange place, but none the less I really dig it. Since we tore Portland back, the drive to Eugene was SLOW. I think I slept most of the way. We pulled in around 5 and loaded all of our gear, and went to a local music store. I discovered my next passion here. The Celtic Harp. For some reason they had an amazing collection of full size harps, and all I could picture was myself JAMMING on the harp with both hands, the possibilities are really musically endless on one of these things. Plus when was the last time you saw someone RIP it up on a harp? Thats what I thought. So harp it shall be. Know that when I play my harp I will be wearing a full suit of chain mail with nothing on underneath, thats the only way to go.

Oh holy fuck shit, I almost forgot this next part. Fuck yes. We went to get food before we played in Eugene, and this is the EPITOME of what goes on here. Eugene in a nut shell? Equals this.

We find a pizza place. Of course its not just a pizza place, but its organic everything, and its a uber cool coffee shop with a bunch of seats and a decent sized stage and P.A. As we wait for our organic pizzas...this is the bad ass shit that went down.

We noticed a woman on stage checking her saxophone. Pretty sweet we all said, sax's are rad. She's practicing her scales, soundchecking it...and then another woman gets up and starts checking an even bigger sax. Wow, dueling saxophones, isn't that some shit? Now mind you, these women look about as straight as George Bush is honest. You go girls!! The next woman that got on stage was pretty intense. She looked like a Hells Angel with a leather vest and shaved head...and yes she had a fricking sax too! Wait for it...yes there is a 4th lesbian that gets up and starts checking her sax too! Wow! My life is almost complete! Then they start checking their vocals, and every single one of them sings, each one a different harmony.

So lets recap here, we have a 4 piece saxophone band, with 4 vocalists doing 4 part harmonies. Brilliant.

The jokes would be too easy at this point, but we were trying to think of what this band was called. Our drummer, Bizarro, came up with "Sax on the Beach." hahaha This was elaborated upon with "I wanna Sax you up," "Saxy Lady," and "Group Sax." Group Sax of course being a reference to the Circle Jerks first record "Group Sex." Fuck yes.

Now the best part is what they were actually called. I get back to the club and was talking to Jack from TSOL about it...and get this, the were called DYKESAPHONE!!! WTf!!! Thats the best name for a lesbian 4 piece saxophone group EVER!!! My hat is off to you ladies. Well done!

Unfortunately we left after about a minute of their first song, as the sound left a lot to be desired. Time to fuck up some Eugene punks and lay our sound on the dance floor. Here's some pics of us in action. Apparently we moved REALLY fast this evening and the camera couldn't keep up with our fury. Check it:















Expect WAY more tirades on religion, social consciousness, and some great humanitarian causes on a upcoming website i'm working on...called the "fairblog." My last name is Fairbaugh. Yay for being clever.

So the show was badass, people danced their asses off, which is a good thing since we've never been here before. Thank you Eugene!!!

Ill leave you with this last picture. This lady made my whole night. She was in her 50's I think, and she was working the back door at the club. We were talking with her and she totally dug us. In her words " I was working the bar downstairs and you guys made me wiggle in my seat and stand up and SHOUT!" Yes!! She also said that the first time she ever stage dived was to TSOL. I heart this lady so fucking much. I had to get a picture with her. When we got the camera out she got all excited and started screaming "revolution!! power to the people!!" Yes!! This gracious woman's name is Lauren. You kick ASS Lauren!!!



After the show we peaced the fuck out and drove overnight to Reno, Nevada. Nevada has LOTS of sucky sucky shacks. Ladies of the night. Bunny ranch's. You get the picture, legal prostitution. In my opinion this is a great thing, and if people were getting laid more, we wouldn't be fighting as much! There should be more clean and healthy places to get your fuck on, instead of the capitalist conglomerate one-stop-excess-shop moneyplexes like the Starbucks/Blockbuster/Home Depot/Wal Mart things that are taking over the universe. Right? Its a no brainer. And if the ladies need a man? They should be available too. But thats a whole different story...men generally are less intelligent and just like a sack of flesh instead of the content inside. Fuck yeah guys!

Stay tuned for Reno...i definitely did some stripper moves upside down on a stripper pole.

Be well,
CRAIG