SONIC BOOM ARRESTED FOR DRUG POSSESSION IN NORTH CAROLINA

I feel unclean...

What the fuck are you doing talking about Boomie, Doomie?!?!? He's never been on Creation or Poptones?

I'm sure Ned or Chris Barrus will set us straight. I mean... Sonic Boom. Drugs? I have a hard time believing it!

dog bites man day today is it?

Brent from the Sparks told me. He's going down for a long time or the best situation would be that his visa is revoked and he heads back to england.

and as for the unclean comment, I'm not touching that! even *I* have limits! Hahaha...

Man o man, Sonic is in alot of shit, I went through the south last year. Man o man! Anybody seen Requiem for a Dream. Crazzzy....

Mr. Reed is actually very much on the money. Here's what I know:

Saturday I was going to go with Chris Barrus to see Spectrum play the next to last show of the tour in LA. I caught the opening show in Costa Mesa, was quite nice, so I figured why not this one? (Especially since the Spiritualized show was an overblown washout.) Since the day was a busy one, though, and since I knew Chris was going to go to the final show in San Diego, I thought I'd just relax with Chris' s.o. Chelsea and our mutual very good friend Karen at Chris and Chelsea's place.

Chelsea and Karen talked *way* late into the evening, so I fell asleep on the couch and only woke up around 5 am or so because Chris had come back. And did he have a story to tell! Basically, the tour had collapsed about its ears, with Sonic so getting to Will and everyone else that the rest of the band literally bought Sonic a ticket to ship him back to LA from Texas so that way they didn't have to deal with him! I guess the idea was to let everyone detox (har) for a couple of days and then to finish up the last two shows. However, apparently Greg Shaw of Bomp got involved at that point. The full details are still confusing to me, but the LA show turned out to be a solo performance by Sonic with just his keyboard -- according to Chris, the results were 'dire shit' -- while Will, Rick and Cliff, along with hordes of other people at the show, went around cursing Greg Shaw and calling him an interfering asshole. I think Spectrum as any sort of functional unit just up and died right then and there.

The drug bust did happen -- pot was the substance of choice, I gather. That understandably added to the friction on the tour. I hadn't heard anything specific beyond that, and have heard nothing new since Chris' early morning report.

North Carolina Guard: Are youse one of those english faggot junkie punks. Sonic Boom: Uhhh... North Carolina Guard: I think he's trying to be funny, Jim, what do you think? North Carolina Guard Jim: Yeah, he's funny alright.

Cue: Sonic getting punched about the room for about an hour and being called junkie. I watched my arse when I was in the South.

Who is going to hang out in front of the jail and turn it into a wailing wall? nobody! that's what I thought bluffers!

we were all watchin your "arse" then too "micheal". why didn't you feed on our heart of darkness?? mmmm... t i g E r! you a pretty boy!! (cue "dueling banjos" or whatever)

somehow i knew when i saw SB at Brownie's it was near the end. The drummer got so exhausted from the kick drum on Suicide that he almost fell over, across the top of his kit, righted himself, was falling behind a little; SB turns and discreetly yells "c'mon" and the drummer - who has the face of a sullen angel - just turns his big sad eyes to the original Spacemen 3 bassist in a mute appeal.

Must admit Tracer I did love Savannah...

Hahahahaha!

u R Slash?? my condolences.

You didnt get the reference. Savannah, Georgia, I am Johnny Mercer's bastard child.

Sonic the Hedgehog?

Who cares?

sonic must be down to about 94 punds now, and his head looks as though it has been squished by mark mckinney on kids in the hall. the show was entirely depressing here in denver, a has been schlepping 15 year old songs for drug money. i thought he was heir to some snack cake fortune? where has all that money gone?

i thought he was heir to some snack cake fortune?

That rumor's been going around forever. Sorta wish it was true, then he could give some of it to me. The money that is, not the snack cakes or the drugs.