I write the music I bring in with the way they play in mind, and they have as much say in what happens when we get together to work it out.

Truth is it wouldn't be this band with anyone else. It's a real honor to lead this band and have two of my favorite artists of all time, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt, be so committed to bringing this music, my crazy ideas, and this band to life. Get your shots, wear your masks, respect the venues and each other because everybody is working super very hard to make this possible. Also though I hope everybody comes out safely with an attitude of care for their fellow gig-goers. And I think it'll surprise everyone that comes out. I think it's really special and really different from anything else out there. I hope to see a lot of people coming to hear this new music.

There really is too much to mention about these 48 shows. Whether it's our first time playing a certain room or town, all the great opening bands we get to share bills with, venue workers and people putting on the shows we get to meet, getting to play some great fests, playing our various hometowns, and bringing it to some towns that even stepped up last minute to have us when we had some C-19 related scheduling issues. And if that wasn't enough I get to sing for the first time in front of a crowd on these shows as well.Īll the shows we're playing have some really special thing going on.

I'm excited to be able to share not only live versions of the new album songs, but also full versions of those 3 seven inch releases on this tour, and we're also gonna be bringing brand new songs still that are gonna get recorded again after this tour. We also found some great ways to do that still when we couldn't get together and they are being released now as 3 separate seven inch editions that were recorded fully in separated lockdown mode back in 2020-2021. Another is so that the three of us can keep learning how to play together better and get into the music more deeply together, which I think should be a constant quest for any band or artist. We want to share this with as many people as possible. One of them in this case is so that people in other parts of the land can hear the new music and what we've been up to with it. I think it's important, if you have a band, to keep playing as much as possible for a bunch of reasons. Those sessions came out in fall 2020 as the first mssv studio album 'Main Steam Stop Valve.' Last time we played out we did a quickie mini-tour back in December 2019 that was wholly in the state of California as a way to work out a bunch of brand new music that we then recorded right after at BIG EGO Studios in Long Beach. After aging 4 to 7 years, seven barrels were married and infused with a combination of roasted pecans, vanilla beans, cacao nibs, coconut flakes and orange peel, before a final addition of dark Belgian candi syrup.From mike baggetta regarding this 'haru tour 2022' by mssv:Īfter we had to postpone this US tour back in 2020, we finally get to take a trip through a good portion of the US with this band, mssv(Main Steam Stop Valve). Inspired by the flavors of Thanksgiving dessert, this pot distilled bourbon liqueur begins with a blend of 10 unique high malt mash bills.

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