“Skeletons in the Closet Tour 2009” – October 3rd, Edmonton, AB
By: Derrick Nau of Skeletonwitch
I’ll start today with an example of how dumb endless hours in the van can make you. As we we’re leaving the venue last night Metallica’s “King Nothing” came on the radio. I was kind of drunk and I thought it would be funny to make up new lyrics about shitting your pants, and in a very clever moment, I changed the title to “King Butt Cheeks.” Skeletonwitch and BDM shared a greenroom today and we all sat around and added butt cheeks to Metallica songs: “Master of Butt Cheeks,” “Trapped Under Butt Cheeks,” “Hit the Butt Cheeks,” “The Four Butt Cheeks,” “Enter Butt Cheeks,” “Jump in the Butt Cheeks,” ad nauseum . Hilarity ensued.
Anything to occupy the mind I guess.
The place we played today is nestled in the largest mall in North America. Evan (our bass player) and I wondered around in the China Town area of the Mall. Seriously, this place is mind boggling. They had all kinds of stuff which I’ll never understand the appeal of: pig snouts, chicken feet, fish heads, and all kinds of weird little shellfish. It smelled like my cats breath. Yuck. We did get some good Vietnamese food and I got Sriracha in my eye. Fuck!
The show was great, a lot of kids and they were super energetic. I even heard someone yell “you’re drummer is a god.” How wrong is that guy?! AMIRITE!? Chance (our singer) then called me a “Hobbit looking son of a bitch,” which I’m sure made all the ladies swoon. Met some cool folks out the merch area and drank too much Jagermeister. Again. At least there is a day off tomorrow.
Now, back to warming up. I sit on a chair or my throne and start pretty slowly and just do some kind of 8th note pattern with both feet. I slowly speed up and angle my ankle back and forth so some of the time my entire foot including my heel is touching the ground and some of the time only the balls are touching. This seems to work pretty well, it stretches the muscles I use to play enough to make feel comfortable on stage. Right at the end of my session I’ll try to bash the ground as hard as I can to get really fired up before we play. You gotta get MEAN!
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