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combichrist's Journal
COMBICHRIST OFFICIAL TOUR BLOG by; joe letz
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DEMNS ON TOUR: day off, MUNICH, GERMANY!
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June 22, 2009, 04:43:pm
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today was fucking AWESOME! unfortunately i don't have any pictures cause where we went i really couldn't carry around a camera, but i took this one right before we entered :-(
we basically reached out to our munich promoter a few days ago and let him know that andy and i were in desperate need of some back massages. he took us to what wound up being a giant indoor water park! IT WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME! unfortunately, we wound up not getting back massages, but we all had a blast.
we all went on this one giant slide that you had to sit in tubes for, and tried to hold onto each others tubes and stay connected the whole time. shit got pretty gnarly and trevor wound up flipping off his tube and smashing his head on the slide. it was okay though he was laughing the whole time. i fell off too and andy wouldn't give me my tube back and i was terrified that everyone was gonna smash into me at the end, but it wound up working out just fine.
there was also this giant indoor pool, which had a section that you could swim to that was outside. the pool was heated, and it started snowing. it was really awesome to stand up out of the water for like 3 seconds, feel the freezing air, and then get back in and be warm again. definitely a new experience.
eventually we went back to the bus, which was parked outside the venue we were playing at the next day. there were 2 shows going on tonight. one was ELECTRIC SIX, which is a band from new york that sings the song GAY BAR, which is awesome. what was weird was that the venue wouldn't let us inside to see the show without paying, EVEN THOUGH WE WERE PLAYING THERE TOMORROW! LAME! so trevor and i snuck in and watched it anyways. they were kinda weird, but the GAY BAR song ruled. we definitely got a kick out of them.
after that i headed on into the other, smaller room, to see this chick named KAKI KING, that Z_marr happened to have gone to high school with! that shit was fuckin awesome! she's basically this crazy successful songwriter, and her show was her, a drummer, and another dude that played some weird electronic thingy. z_marr brought them a bottle of whiskey after their performance, and trevor and i wound up going to bed to rest our sore water park muscles... OUCH! tired as fuck... NIGHTY!
Props: 16
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VIP PACKAGE UPDATE!
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June 18, 2009, 04:03:pm
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okay, so there are still a few VIP packages left for the rest of the tour. spaces opened up because people failed to pay in a timely manner after receiving the money request, and basically it held up the spots for others who were interested. we've since canceled all money requests that haven't been answered and will continue to do that so that the people who really want the packages will be able to purchase them. so PLEASE, serious inquiries only, and pay as soon as possible after receiving the request in order to secure your spots!
can't wait to meet more of you, its been a blast spending the day with everyone! thanks again for your support to PETA and COMBICHRIST.
**and please note, that a SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED! july 1st in VIRGINIA BEACH! @ the PEPPERMINT BEACH CLUB!
here's how the packages are shaping up for the rest of the tour:
6/19 tulsa, OK: *still available
6/20 sauget, IL: *still available
6/21 milwaukee, WI: *SOLD OUT
6/22 columbus, OH: *1 spot left
6/24 louisville, KY: *still available
6/25 toledo, OH: *1 spot left
6/26 pittsburgh, PA: *1 spot left
6/27 buffaloe, NY: * 1 spot left
6/28 new haven, CT: *SOLD OUT
6/29 long island, NY: *1 spot left
6/30 west springfield, VA: *SOLD OUT
7/1 virginia beach, VA: *still available
7/2 spartansburgh, SC: *SOLD OUT
7/3 orlando, FL: *SOLD OUT
extremely limited offer! COMBICHRIST US TOUR V.I.P. PACKAGES! SPEND THE DAY WITH COMBICHRIST!
we are selling 5 special packages for each date on our upcoming US tour. see dates below.
a portion of all proceeds will be donated to the ASPCA (the american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals).
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO OF ANDY SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ANIMAL ABUSE! and then read VIP package details below!
each package costs $100 dollars and will allow you AND 1 GUEST a special, all day, all area look into the touring life of COMBICHRIST.
heres the lowdown:
*beginning at sound check, you can obtain your ALL ACCESS pass and enter the venue.
*watch us perform at sound check, where we will play a few songs that we WILL NOT play during the show that evening.
*after sound check, hang out with us! forget the normal hassle of waiting at the merch booth after the show and hoping 1 or 2 of us come out. hang with ALL OF US at the SAME TIME, in an intimate, stress free atmosphere before doors even open!
*feel free to take as many pics as you'd like with one and/or all of us, and bring whatever you'd like for us to sign too! EVEN YOUR ORGAN DONOR CARDS! :-P
*receive a full "production tour" by none other than our drummer JOE LETZ! follow joe as he brings you around and introduces you to the whole cast and crew that makes up a COMBICHRIST tour. hear stories, and get insight into what it is really like to spend time on the road with and work for us!
*feel free to remain inside the venue before doors open in order to secure your most desired seat in the house to watch the show from, before anyone else has a chance to even enter the building!
*after the show, don't go anywhere, cause your ALL ACCESS pass will also allow you to stay for any aftershow happenings that we might have going on! as long as the venue stays open, we love to hang out with friends inside, listen to some good music, and DRINK! YOU ARE WELCOME TO PARTY WITH US for as long as either the club will allow us to stay inside, or as long as we can still stand up ;-)
*be featured in our TOUR BLOG on VAMPIRE FREAKS in a group picture, thanking you for your support to COMBICHRIST and contribution to the ASPCA.
VIP packages will be secured on a first come first serve basis!
again, we will sell 5 packages for each show, each package being good for 2 people (you and your guest).
HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!
email combichristvip@hotmail.com and be sure to mention the DATE AND CITY of the show that you want to purchase your package for, IN THE SUBJECT of the email.
then just wait for payment instructions and pay swiftly to secure your spot!
if spots for that day are sold out, you will be notified in as timely a manner as possible.
**ALL SHOWS are ALL AGES except for COLUMBUS, OHIO on june 22, which is 18+ (this will have to go for VIP packages as well)
**valid I.D. will need to be presented in order to enjoy alcohol with us. sorry! thems the breaks!
Props: 19
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DEMONS ON TOUR: zurich, switzerland
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June 17, 2009, 01:36:pm
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woke up pretty late in zurich today. we couldn't start making noise till a certain time anyway, so it was no big deal. we played here a couple years ago. the stage is like a V in the corner of the room, which makes it a bit difficult for us to set up like we are used to, but upon seeing how gabe worked it out once i got inside, i was way more pleased with it than the last time. last time my back was facing the crowd!
there is a ton of awesome graffiti in our dressing rooms, which i always appreciate. especially if there are penises involved. you can draw a penis on anything and make it funny! not to mention that upon entering the girls room i found a machine on the wall for "MR. SMELLIE'S TAMPONS!" YUM!
during dinner, we found some youtube videos that someone made with our songs, but with computer generated likenesses of us playing. we all got a big kick out of all of them. we also found a video of some kid doing GET YOUR BODY BEAT on an acoustic guitar. we joked about having him open up for us... that would be AWESOME!
the show was actually pretty awesome. it was one of those tight as fuck situations that had people arms distance from us, so the energy was great. gabe had to keep warning people to watch out for my arms though and i'm sure i hit a few people. so if i hit ya, IM SORRY! :-)
i guess that during the destruction of the last song, my flying penis tattoo became exposed on my leg, and some chick came up to me after the show asking about it and was convinced i was gay. i explained to her that the tattoo was pretty much a joke, but she seemed a bit offended, explaining to me that no one in switzerland gets tattoo's that are meant as jokes. oh well! I DO! and you know what i say? FUCK serious tattoo's! cause one day i'm gonna be an old fuckin fart and what the fuck good is a tattoo if i can't laugh at it! THAT'S WHAT I SAY ABOUT THAT! :-)
*me girl 
eventually everyone wanted to go off and find some food, but everything was closed so we were all forced to share this giant loaf of bread. lemme tell ya! this bread wound up being the best bread any of us had ever tasted and a bread feeding frenzy ensued. jan wound up with the very last piece and i bought it from him with a half a bottle of vodka. he wound up getting pretty wasted and trying to make out with everyone all night. i think daniel and him actually touched tongues. YAY 4 GAY!
on the bus, everyone went to sleep except for rene, trevor, elliot and i, and we stayed up and watched every single pixar style animated movie that the bus hard drive had to offer. i thought ice age was kinda lame but fuckin LOVED monsters inc. finally got to bed around 9 am. LATE NIGHT! PEACE!
Props: 12
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DEMONS ON TOUR: lugwigsburgh, germany.. OUCH!
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June 16, 2009, 01:43:am
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i swear my luck is just shit on this tour!! i literally spend about an hour stretching and doing makeshift yoga everyday so that my body can kinda handle what i put it through every night on stage, and today that shit just caught up with me.... i woke up in my bunk, did my usual wake-up stretch and just felt this ungodly tear in my neck and back which completely knocked the wind out of me. it took me a few minutes, but once i managed to get out of my bunk, i realize that i can't move my right arm or head without being in excrutiating pain! if the other day wasn't enough hell for me..... i quickly found jan and let him know that if i didn't find a chiropractor who could fix me that i just simply would not be able to play the show.... AWESOME! unfortunately it was sunday and no chiropracters were open so i was taken to the hospital. they redirected us to some private office whos only solution was to inject my back full of some steroid and numbing agent so that i would be able to move again. getting poked 10 times with a needle in my back and pumped full of that shit didn't feel that great, lemme tell ya!
i got back to the venue at the very end of sound check. trevor had took it upon himself to play my drums for the check, and gabe played trevor's. it was pretty funny to walk in on that actually. after that everyone hung in the basement dressing room for some time doing laundry. the machine was broken though and it made the room smell like a bathroom which sucked.
eventually it was time to head upstairs to a little cafe at the back of the venue where they would make us our dinner. i ordered the chili, and it was some of the best i'd ever eaten. who woulda known! awesome chili in germany! daniel was waiting and waiting and waiting for his food, and it never came. finally we had realized that someone else had eaten it and he had to order all over again. poor kid! he seemed to be hungriest of all of us!
some dude showed up who brought by some stuff for us to sign so that he could raise money for the families of the kids who were killed by some little dickhead at school the other day over here. that shit's a real bummer. i found out about it while i was wearing a LEFTOVER CRACK t shirt that says "shoot the kids at school" on it, so i retired that shirt right away. we also had the pleasure of hanging out with a good friend of mine named seven antanopolis. he's a rad drummer dude from LA, played in OPIATE FOR THE MASSES, and recently came out here to start playing with some other bands. during the show i hit him with a buttload of sticks by accident. SORRY CHRIS!
the show was pretty rough for me tonight. i was in alot of pain, but i got through it. hopefully this back shit will ease up tomorrow and i'll have better luck on the rest of the tour. after the show was a pretty mellow hang out, and catch up with my buddy seven, and then it was off to the bus to share some of alex and chrissy's wedding beer. they asked us to play at it, but unfortunately, we couldn't make it work with our schedule..... alex is gonna stop by our show in krefeld and tattoo a "unifin" on andy's leg. it will be the baby of the unicorn and dolphin i have tattooed on my arm ;-)
zurich tomorrow. everyone keeps telling me that we have to take a ferry to get there but i think they are fucking with me... goddamn it, where is my globe when i really need it!
Props: 19
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COMBICHRIST US TOUR V.I.P. PACKAGES! extremely limited offer!
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June 09, 2009, 09:07:pm
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extremely limited offer! COMBICHRIST US TOUR V.I.P. PACKAGES!
SPEND THE DAY WITH COMBICHRIST!
we are selling 5 special packages for each date on our upcoming US tour. see dates below.
a portion of all proceeds will be donated to PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals).
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO OF ANDY SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ANIMAL ABUSE! and then read VIP package details below!
each package costs $100 dollars and will allow you AND 1 GUEST a special, all day, all area look into the touring life of COMBICHRIST.
heres the lowdown:
*beginning at sound check, you can obtain your ALL ACCESS pass and enter the venue.
*watch us perform at sound check, where we will play a few songs that we WILL NOT play during the show that evening.
*after sound check, hang out with us! forget the normal hassle of waiting at the merch booth after the show and hoping 1 or 2 of us come out. hang with ALL OF US at the SAME TIME, in an intimate, stress free atmosphere before doors even open!
*feel free to take as many pics as you'd like with one and/or all of us, and bring whatever you'd like for us to sign too! EVEN YOUR ORGAN DONOR CARDS! :-P
*receive a full "production tour" by none other than our drummer JOE LETZ! follow joe as he brings you around and introduces you to the whole cast and crew that makes up a COMBICHRIST tour. hear stories, and get insight into what it is really like to spend time on the road with and work for us!
*feel free to remain inside the venue before doors open in order to secure your most desired seat in the house to watch the show from, before anyone else has a chance to even enter the building!
*after the show, don't go anywhere, cause your ALL ACCESS pass will also allow you to stay for any aftershow happenings that we might have going on! as long as the venue stays open, we love to hang out with friends inside, listen to some good music, and DRINK! YOU ARE WELCOME TO PARTY WITH US for as long as either the club will allow us to stay inside, or as long as we can still stand up ;-)
*be featured in our TOUR BLOG on VAMPIRE FREAKS in a group picture, thanking you for your support to COMBICHRIST and contribution to PETA.
VIP packages will be secured on a first come first serve basis!
again, we will sell 5 packages for each show, each package being good for 2 people (you and your guest).
HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!
email combichristvip@hotmail.com and be sure to mention the DATE AND CITY of the show that you want to purchase your package for, IN THE SUBJECT of the email.
then just wait for payment instructions and pay swiftly to secure your spot!
if spots for that day are sold out, you will be notified in as timely a manner as possible.
**ALL SHOWS are ALL AGES except for COLUMBUS, OHIO on june 22, which is 18+ (this will have to go for VIP packages as well)
**valid I.D. will need to be presented in order to enjoy alcohol with us. sorry! thems the breaks!
COMBICHRIST US tour (feat. support from JULIEN K. and AESTHETIC PERFECTION)
Jun 12 2009 5:30P
The Hangar (New Orleans, LA) New Orleans, Louisiana
Jun 13 2009 8:00P
White Rabbit (San Antonio, TX) San Antonio, Texas
Jun 14 2009 7:00P
Stafford Main Street (Bryan, TX) Bryan, Texas
Jun 16 2009 7:00P
The Glasshouse (Pomona, CA) Pomona, California
Jun 17 2009 6:00P
The Rock (Tucson, AZ) Tucson, Arizona
Jun 18 2009 7:00P
Sunshine Theater (Albuquerque, NM) Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jun 19 2009 7:00P
The Marquee (Tulsa, OK) Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jun 20 2009 7:30P
Pop’s (St. Louis, MO) Sauget
Jun 21 2009 7:00P
Miramar Theater (Milwaukee, WI) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jun 22 2009 7:00P
Skully’s (Columbus, OH) Columbus, Ohio
Jun 24 2009 7:00P
Uncle Pleasants (Louisville, KY) Louisville, Kentucky
Jun 25 2009 7:00P
Headliners (Toledo, OH) Toldeo, Ohio
Jun 26 2009 7:00P
Mr Smalls Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) Millvale (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania
Jun 27 2009 7:00P
The Town Ballroom (Buffalo, NY) Buffalo, New York
Jun 28 2009 7:00P
Toads Place (New Haven, CT) New Haven, Connecticut
Jun 29 2009 6:30P
Crazy Donkey (Long Island, NY) Farmingdale (Long Island), New York
Jun 30 2009 8:00P
Jaxx (W. Springfield, VA) West Springfield, Virginia
Jul 2 2009 7:00P
Ground Zero (Spartanburg, SC) Spartanburg, South Carolina
Jul 3 2009 6:30P
The Club @ Firestone (Orlando, FL) Orlando, Florida
Props: 48
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