Let Me Be Your Salty Dog...

1 Week...that's what separates me and one of the biggest nights of my life. I have compared this upcoming Album Release to that fateful night in Charleston WV, when my High School football team, the James Monroe Mavericks squared off against Dupont (Randy Moss and Jason Kidd's old High School) in the State Semi-Finals. We had one helluva season that year, the first undefeated regular season in school history, literally plastered everyone all over the field. Several games I didn't even play the second half, would be more focused on cat calling the cheerleaders.



Be Good or Be Good at it...I choose both :)

Either way, this coming Friday, November 19th, is a chance for myself and Snake Skin Prison to show whoever is watching that we aren't just your average bullshit band, in the words of Jim Morrison, "We want the world and we want it now!"

It all begins next Friday. I'm so excited I can't sit still. This show has been in planning for over 5 months now. I read a book, that I would suggest for anyone trying to make it in the music business: "Tour Smart: Without Breaking the Band" by Martin Atkins, and he says, "Being successful isn't about avoiding the problems, it's about handling the problems when they happen....cause they will happen." I have made that statement my mantra. I personally have been through so many roller coaster rides with this band it's insane. Ups and Downs, good and bad. There's been times I thought it was nearing the end and times I could smell the next level calling my name. And through it all, here's the common denominator...never say die. You never give up. Never, it's unacceptable.

I have said this next statement a million times and I will say it again:

"The difference between winners and losers is winners do...losers don't"

It's that simple. The show must go on...period...and it will with or without you.

So with all that said I know that SSP is ready to wield the pistols of Austin Metal and spew the infectious whiskey venom from the darkest corners of Red River to the Highest Mountain in WV, and to have fun. Cause that's what it's all about...(if you read my last blog you're following along right with me)...



As for the night in Charleston WV...we lost...14-7...that night changed my life...I plan on changing my life again next Friday...and it won't be by losing.

Nobody likes a loser anyways \m/
Next Friday we RIDE!!

mb