That just blew me away. I’ve seen a few places
at home, like the Cooly, that have a few tour
posters up, signed or whatever, which is cool,
but in America, man, it is just next-level. It’s
tour posters signed, it’s photos from gigs past,
everything.
First stop in Colorado
We played at a place called Trees in Dallas
Texas, and you walk into the hallway and
the whole hallway is just lined with Dimebag
(Darrell) guitars. I made a point of walking
around in Dallas, and for me, I felt the spirit
of Dimebag in that town so powerfully. There
were still people walking around in old beat
up Pantera t-shirts, that looked like they were
ready to be chucked in the bin. There were
murals of Dimebag painted in various points
across the city, for a metal guitarist. They
embraced him like one of their own man. The
venue itself, it was all hand-painted portraits
of bands that had played there, signed by the
artists, drumskins all signed, everyone from
Static X to Lit ... to Ace Frehley you know,
all kinds of bands like Sevendust and all the
bands I’ve looked up to all on these walls - and
I was just kicking myself thinking that I’m in the
company of all these great bands.
It was all great, playing at places where, you
know, like Kurt Cobain smashed a guitar on
a fan’s head here and ... but for me the most
powerful place like that was the night we
played at the Whisky A Go Go. For me I can still
feel it right now, like chills down my spine. That
was the place, where so much in that room had
been and gone, and I don’t know if the other
guys felt it , but for it me it was like ... even
people as far as Charles Manson had played
there, Jim Morrison, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica
played early shows there - just so much history
on that stage.
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We don’t have much of that on the Gold
Coast, and every time we get some history
chalked up like that, some developer or
councillor comes and tears it down. The
Playroom held so much of our culture and