My camera died... will buy a new one.

The NERD in me......

Scored this giant bible of Robert E Howard's Conan stories this afternoon in San Francisco. 923 pages of psychedelic barbarian destruction... Me and Andy (Our trusty Tour Manager) also went to Amoeba Records and managed to leave without having spent our life savings on records... which is saying something 'cause it's a ridiculously amazing record store, and it's also not saying much because i don't have any life savings.....

west coast 09 tour

Left this morning for our 10 day trip down to san diego and back with toronto's The Sadies! After spending 2 hours at the border waiting for guards in training to figure out how to process our work visas (one of them asked us how to spell "Mountain") we finally hit the I5. Hit Seattle rush hour, wasting another hour.... and a big accident involving a military flatbed and some humvees that fell off of it into the ditch (another half hour)... finally at the hotel in Eugene, watching south park and enjoying a can of Rainier beer. Happy St. Patricks Day!

CBC BUCKY AWARD

Black Mountain was the recipient of an award we'd never heard of called "The Bucky Award" from CBC radio. The back of the medal says; 2008 Bucky Award, Catchiest Hook, Black mountain "Stormy High". It looks like a medal I won back in the 80's at a Judo competition, which was awesome, so this is awesome too...

Golden Plains Bright Lights

couple cool pics from the stage at the golden plains festival

Day Off In Sydney

Brisbane Epiphany....

After the show tonight i went for a drink with an old aquaintance i'd met through a friend in Vancouver  years ago. While we were chatting over a couple makers marks a cluster of drunk guys from the show came up and told me how much they'd enjoyed the set this evening. One Fellow gave me a laminated four leaf clover he said he'd been carrying around for quite some time. I told him I was honored and promised to carry it always to which he walked away seemingly pleased.... However, a few minutes later his buddy dragged him back and asked me if pal had given me a four leaf clover to which i replied he had. Buddy asked me to give it back to Pal 'cause he'd been carrying it for a long time through some serious shit and it was important, to which i replied "indeed!" and promptly returned the token, for i am a man who can appreciate such worryings. The drunken fellows went off and i resumed my conversation with my friend until minutes later when Pal returned and insisted i take the four leafed clover because even in his drunken state he was sure that it was important that the leaf should pass to me. I received it once again with reverence and put it in my wallet with the hope that someday it will save my ass on these unstable and treacherous roads/ skys/ and waters  i travel... thanks drunk guy, xm

Brisbane bat bridge!!!!

My hotel room is right beside a big steel bridge and in the evening giant meter long bats come out from under it a swoop by my balcony!!!!!! they're MASSIVE!!!!!!

Youngsters "Lady Strangelove" opened both melbourne shows.

Lady Strangelove from Adelaide raged both nights.

Brisbane, Remco at work, Perth Festival soundcheck on the beach

after show van, Benn our Amazing Tour Manager, soundboard opening band