No hiding at Herman’s by Citrus

From Citrus' myspace blog

We played a show last Saturday with Ben Taylor..that dude was cool. He was a hot mess of drugs and stuff...but way cool! He had a great voice and played the guitar with style and finesse. I guess the apple fell RIGHT under the tree huh?
I enjoyed his songs and his attitude...he really had that ..."shut up and listen to me man" thang....even playing songs in the dressing room and expecting airbody to shut that fuck up and listen...which we did!

The Flashmob was up next and true to form they ROCKED the house! I really dug hearing them and running upstairs to peep them from time to time while I wasn't being entertained by Ben! D. Scott is a monster! His guitar tone shure doesn't match the tone of his voice! They really rocked the Ska tip and I enjoyed their vibe...our fans should definitely peep the Flash Mob if you haven't yet!


We got up onstage and it was very nice to have some lights and some fog and some engineering that was worth a shizzle! Herman's has obviously spent some chedda on making the evening more of an experience for it's patrons...Kudos Roth dudes!


We seem to have a new energy about us...and I think that it's just gonna get better from here. The line up changes have been for the better and the hard work that we have been putting in is paying off...I DID look around the stage and imagine the cats that have played with U.S. on that stage in the past and get a little reminiscent... Thanks to ALL of YOU mugz that have played with the Pipe over the years!!!!!!
Luckily, that hallucination passed quickly enough that I didn't mess up because of it or anything.

WE even had a brand new sax player and our buddy from the Filthy Children up on Bone...they were loose..but FUNKAY! I must say that we are getting tighter and tighter and having more and more fun up there on the stage lately.


I had a gig without Breaking a string! WTF???
How did that happen?
I was told that there was some betting going on about when the FIRST one would pop! LOL
I had switched to a lighter pick just to preserve my strings for the night! PLUS they were brand new! ...I was tuning up all night and not really enjoying the attack that the weaker pick gave me...but hey...didn't have to change guitars or strings on the fly for ONCE!
We Do really need a tech tho...just the simple things like the Kick drum mic moving away from the drum made an impact. I could feel that it was missing for a grip...but was too focused to look around and check that mic...sorta a good feeling tho...my techy-ness is fading and my musicianship expanding. In past years I would have stopped playin all together to find out why it was wrong.


I was super stoked to have some talented dancers and good party people in the house all night long...People came to PARTY!!

Nothing is more inspirational to a funk band than a bunch of mugz gettin it on out on the dance floor! I personally LOVE to play to a person or people dancing...it changes EVERYTHING for me....I can try to match them or follow them or guide them. It is an experience that few things can even come close to in MY world
...I bet a few of them continued that dance at home in their beds!

It is the TANDAVA:

"Tāndava or Tāndava nṛtya, the divine art form, is a dance performed by Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. According to Hindu mythology, Shiva's Tandava is a vigorous dance that is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution. While the Rudra Tandava depicts his violent nature, first as the creator and later as the destroyer of the universe, even of death itself; the Ananda Tandava depicts him as the enjoyer of his creation - the universe. In Indian tradition, Lord Shiva as Nataraja (lit. "Lord of dance") is the supreme lord of dance."

"How many various dances of Shiva are known to His worshipers I cannot say. No doubt the root idea behind all of these dances is more or less one and the same, the MANIFESTATION OF PRIMAL RHYTHMIC ENERGY. Whatever the origins of Shiva's dance, it became in time the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of. --Ananda Coomaraswamy

that was from wiki by the bye.

I see all of you dancers as Shiva and Shakti....dancing the world into existence and void. The tru reason I play music at all..

I can't remember when or who right now...but I HAVE been told that babies have been conceived after a Pipe show...the toply top honor a funk band could ever have! THE BOMB!!

well alrighty then...off to work on some photography! I have an ART SHOW coming up!