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[fredxmertz]

After my shift at work, i played a last minute/ impromptu gig with Davy Jones Locker Combo last night/this morning at Oak Street Speakeasy. The other groups were Free Beard & Dick Dagger, super fun.

Here's Charlie Hustle with a double necked guitar.


Me & Nuxie talked into the wee hours, and I mentally connected a few dots from my past that may help me to stitch together a better history of what makes Mertz tick. I will be reviewing all of that BS, before eventually posting a bit of it here...

sorry for the shite sound quality. Dave introduces Nathen. JP was backstage watching the whole thing, but I had to run over to WOW HALL and find out more about the Skatalites show that night. Unf'ly there was only one remaining founding member of The Skatalites playing that show, so it didn't hold much interest for me. I ran back to the FM show. Literally running back and forth, it was nuts!

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[z8z8.livejournal.com]

Saints and Sinners sounds great.
What are you playing on the song?

not me, this is FLOGGING MOLLY

[fredxmertz.livejournal.com]

me and JP caught up with Nathen at their signing event at the local 'CD Store'. we drove Nathen to the gig at McDonald theater, and he got us backstage, and lots of GUINNESS. Saints and Sinners is from their cd 'The Speed of Darkness'

Speed of Darkness is the name of the fifth studio album by the Irish-American Celtic punk band Flogging Molly that was released on 31 May 2011. The album was recorded at Echo Mountain, an old church building turned recording studio in Asheville, NC.[1][2] The album was produced by Ryan Hewitt, who has worked with bands Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Avett Brothers.[3] Speed of Darkness debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 chart and number four on the Billboard Independent Chart.[4]

The expression speed of darkness had appeared in a 1999 book mixing physics and fiction, named The Science of Discworld, written by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

Vocalist Dave King didn't really let Nathen introduce this song , it just starts with the bass. In fact, Nathen doesn't sing any lead vocals anymore, which kid of sucks because I really liked his songs 'The Sea is a Cruel Mistress' and 'Queen Anne's Revenge' now Nathen has his own group, the Original Bunny Gang, but they don't play much stuff with a hard edge, its all more mellow stuff.