Dirty Deeds At Revolution Room

This photo does a great job of describing tonight: Broken glass, blood, and cockroaches.

Bliss Lets The Weak Escape Revolution Room

The strong got the crap rocked out of them.







The fun girls from Mt. Pilot.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
Rene gets his celebration on.


Everyone managed to miss my first time playing bass with Bliss, so no pictures.
It was fun surprising Chrissy with it.
Thanks, Rikk!

The Pain...

Retox is always the first show and sets the tone for each month.
Ouch!









Over 30 bottles and this isn't even the whole table.

Happy Halloween, Bitches!

It was business as usual tonight at Rebar.
Bliss set 'em up and knocked 'em down.

Matt and a buddy had to work tonight, so we were glad they could drop by for a quick visit.

San Antonio is a hotbed of paranormal activity, and the night before Halloween is especially busy for these guys.
Ghosts who show up early, such as dead (but naughty) librarians and old fuckers killed on the way to Luby's positively infest Oct 30th, so we're lucky to have a well-equipped local office of the Ghost Busters.









I've been getting a lot of mileage out of this new skull.
These shots were worth the damage--looked like John Wilkes Boothe had done his thing by the time I got it back.
I can rebuild it--I have the technology.

Wise Guys + Hitmen = Dead Meat

Bliss was playing at Wise Guys, The Hitmen were next door at Oasis, and Craving Amy/Bliss/Undercovers etc bassist El Peege was serving up fine BBQ in the parking lot.
So many friends of mine in one place--we had a lot of fun.


This is Bliss's brand new "tub full of guts"--a plastic tote that holds speaker cables, extension cords, mic cables, and Chrissy's fan.
Doesn't it look nice?

This is the old one.
Doesn't it look like shit?

After we finished setting up, I grabbed my camera and told James to get the roll of gaffer's tape from Rikk.
He looked confused at first but when I picked up the old tote and gave him an evil grin, James caught on to the possibility of fun and destruction.
We ripped that old piece of shit in half and taped the pieces to the wall next to the dumpster!
Very satisfying.

The Peege serves up BBQ at his brother's trailer.
Delicious!

John Jarrett lets me use his amp when I play bass for Loud Nine, and he was also kind enough to let me play Possum Kingdom by The Toadies with The Hitmen tonight while I was on break from the Bliss show next door.
Thanks, John!
I used Rikk's bass because I'm very "familiar" with it after spending a week restoring it to Bass-#1 status. My DNA is all over that red Ibanez.

Mike G. of Loud Nine & The Hitmen didn't buy me a beer tonight and my feelings are a little hurt...

Since this is supposed to be a website about Bliss, here's some Chrissy pr0n.

The Flight Line's Cherry

Bliss has it now.
We took it fair and square.





These people think they're seeing the last encore, but 2 hours later Rikk James stopped by my house for one more song and dance.

Retox Detox Retox Detox

We do what we gotta do, I guess.

Steve singing pretty.

Rikk stands for Rokk.

"Dude, when the fuck are they gonna play some Jimmy Buffet?"



Not a reverse bird: Florin's finger is bent like that to hold his pick.
Look closely.

This dude rocked until he puked.
He came around looking to beat up whoever took a picture of him barfing (noticed flash and mirror-slap) but wisely chose to bathe Chrissy in his vomit breath for six minutes instead.
Bliss's audience is The BEST!!!

Cake, Cameras, Sweaty Dudes, and Pee @ Rebar

When it's my birthday we go all-out in our celebrating!

Thanks for the great little cake, Voodoo Child!
Love it.

I couldn't get a clear shot of the band all night--there were too many crazy people jammed into Rebar.

Dudes, seriously?
I know you want to take off your shirts every night at every club, but only do it when other people agree that it's warm.

I would probably pee on this sticker if it was on some granola's hybrid bumper, too.

The Legendary Rikk Returns

We were 5 seconds from starting the 1st set when this happened:






On with the show.


Rikk is back with a vengeance!
And he's even helping me hook the shit up, for which I am grateful.
I'm posting this highly flawed shot because it was an intentional hand block action by some random twat.

Coincidence...

Madness all night, which is as it should be.
Here we are getting ready to play an encore, well past closing time.

My personal favorite photo of the night.

I have the rest of the cake here at my house if anyone needs some.

Craving Amy

Watched the first set at Jalen's, and discovered that Craving Amy is a really good band. I was surprised at how much Peege sings with them, and how good his harmonies are.

















With BLISS I only get a chance to shoot pictures when my sound engineering duties don't keep me behind the mixing board--maybe 3-5 minutes total all night, so I put the camera in continuous autofocus and shooting modes and take 3 frames a second so I can improve my odds of getting 'keepers'.
On this night I enjoyed the luxury of being able to take a picture whenever I felt like it, and also got to experiment with using a small controlled amount of flash as seen in the last four.

I also got a free pint of beer from the bar staff because my coolness was so obvious.