everything will be o.k in the end...

if everything is not o.k,,,

it is not the end!

slow down, here we come....

i love the people that have been responding to the new music, and coming out to the shows, tellin me that the new direction is the shit!...but, please realize...it is not a new direction, it is me, just coming from a different place in my head! i will always be coming from a "new direction"....always!!!!

i know that some of you have been clamering for new you tube videos, itll happen, but will probably post here first!.....a web site, to me is so much better than any mas, upload, information station!...

hope to see ya out there......with new album in hand!

goodaysallways,,,

~g~

if u waited till the last minuet for the free tickets to uproaR.....

U SCREWED THE POOCH!!!!

there are no more tickets, and no mo help is needed! thank you.....stop writting emails now....thank u again!!!

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1) What is the thing, or things you are always working on?

G) what to destroy or not. life around me. what gets the knife,or boot...or what lives, and flourishes.

i have to keep myself on my own leash. I'm either the nicest guy in the world, or I'm Satan! always ready to fuck shit up, including myself. i try and save that for the stage now, but its like saving money.sometimes it (life) just burns a hole in my pocket. sometimes i can bank it. its fucked up!

2) What is the real story behind you and Tom Zutaut ( a,and r, geffen records)

G) That was a long time ago...oh man, what the fuck....uuuuug, ill tell it for the last time.

I didnt know who he was. we were playing the Viper room in l.a ca. (with the band i had formed called the Okra Pickles)

He was justa prick, throwing his money around, talkin shit about the songs, what i needed to do to get signed(what the fuck is that anyway) back then i guess it meant allot.like i said i didn't know who he was. like it would have made a difference anyway. i got tiered of listening to his shit, i just swallowed a fist full of pills, and drank a 5th of something, 20-30 beers. i just walked up behind him, with everybody watching, and put him in the sleeper. he went down, and was doing the heeby jeeby, making a snoring sound, and when he got up, and found out it was me that had done it...well...i was black balled in so many words. ended up on the sidewalk, but that's the night i meant the cats with  Jagermeister, and signed up to do tours for them. been with them ever since!

i love those guys!

3) you actually got totally sober for like 5 years.

G) yea..just stopped everything, meat, coffee, booze, pills, everything..it was part of my manic bi polar...everything in excess!

going back out on the road was so boring, and being the only sober cat, a whole new set of responsibilities got laid in my lap. all the songs i wrote during that period were crap...no struggle, no shit, cant get inspirado from a glass of iced tea. i remember going back out with "WHITE ZOMBIE, AND PANTERA" and had a beer with DIME, that was the end of that..it was cool, cause all that down time, for a while, it was like getting drunk for the first time again! it felt good. started kicking out good songs again, bullet proof!..manic, bi polar, back to the other side!

life's a trip, and i stumble, allot...see ya next fall..(laughs)

4) so how about now? where you at know?

G) well i bought a house in Oregon, and converted it into a studio. still touring, still living it! now more than ever.

its crazy, when i was younger i always said "if i don't make it by the time I'm 21 ill kill myself"...fuck, it takes so long, just to ground yourself, prioritise. Ive slowed way down on the partying. some jagermeister, that's about it...full circle. i was diagnosed(funny word) with some sort of growth on my spine...fucking painful, so, the doctors got me on meds...and mood stabilizers.

i don't take them when i tour, or am writing...just fucks everything up...reality is somebody's idea of what there life should be, not mine! still battling demons, but have turned allot of them into friends, they help in my writing . i have no way i write, no formula. its like this...

if you have to shit, you sit on the toilet, and shit comes out. if you don't have to shit, you can sit on the toilet all day, and no plop plop!...in other words, you cant force a song, its either there or not, good or bad. i have never been able to just sit and write a song on demand...Ive done it...but its not the way i like to do it!

i sleep in the controll room, i love waking up surrounded by gear!

i do 12-20 hrs a day in the studio.

i never grow tiered of it!

i have some great friends, endorsements, that keep me rolling. its that thing, you know..(or maybe you don't) when someone believes in you, its just an awesome feeling.

life is just life, a thing that you wake up to everyday. its what you do with that life!

money, i pay the bills, but am always broke....

having allot of money, only gives you the luxury of not having to worry about money.

love, love is something you earn.

and music, is a way of life, love , and little money.

at this level, that is to say, living it, not a hobbyist, it is work. don't kid yourself....it is work, HARD WORK...if you ain't got it in you at birth, if your not born unto the life, no matter how hard you try, you'll never get it, and to get it, is more of a curse than a blessing!

SO THE "SEATTLE" SHOW(JAGERMEISTER MUSIC PRESENTS, UPROAR FESTIVAL)

HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GORGE....THE BIGGA SIDE!!!18-20.000 + SEATING...

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AND OTHERS...

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HIT US BACK, AT

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and we will give u all the details, and the peeps u need to talk with!, this is not a "mabey" thing, this is fo sho....but, there is limited tickets, and peeps needed, im not sure how many, but a few.....

this is awsome...get in the trenches with us, be a part of the festival, and get free tickets!

this in our opinion is the way it should work~! GWAMBA FANS, AND FRIENDS, GETTING BRO-ED DOWN FOR HELPING PROMOTE!

dont hesitate, get yo name in...as we said, limited situation!....so....start to email us on our command.,.....EMAIL NOW!!!!!!

haha....thanks yall,

see yas there!

J.R MANDROID,

GWAMBA

P.R, ARTIST MANAGEMENT

AND HEAD OF PROMOTIONS!

im gonna try and help some of u the fuck out!....if u r still battle-ing your deamons with cheap crackers, and shitty wine...read no further....but, if u have an open mind, and are getting your heart kicked around, more than a soccer ball in teajuana...listen up...!

i got a message from a friend.....he just didnt get it.....he wrote his ol lady " love notes" everyday, he told her he missd and loved her everyday, he drew her pictures, he waited on her hand and foot on her days off.....(starting to c a patern)..and suprizingly....she was a bitch to him....hmmmm..look mang.....

i had a parrot one time, and i wanted this parrot to like me more than anything..i talked to it everyday, bought it special toys.....bla bla bla...and that fuck bit me everytime i tried to pick it up....one day i got tiered of getting bit.....so i said fuck it....i fed it, watered it....but left it the fuck alone....and within a month the strangest thing happened....the bird got nice, called fer me.....wanted to be held, fell asleep on my shoulder, so i figured, allrighty, and started the same routeen....and the bird got mean again.......left it alone....walla.....

some things, including people get smothered!.......u can love someone right the fuck out yo life!....think about it....u always want what u cant have, or...is harder to obtain.....im not sayin b mean, just b cool, and give people there       SPACE!!!!!!!!

if i had some one all over me constantly, it wood drive me nuts...i wood be like , fuck, i dont wanna go home,,,,,im gonna get smothered, and i like air!.....this is sorta obvious right?....u wood think so, but love is blind, and so are , is, people who are subjected to the same ol same ol every day...i like ice cream, but not 3 meals a day!.......it seems to me, the more u make some one think u can live without them, the more they want to live with ya......the more u make it seem like u would die without them......the faster and further they are gonna wanna run and make u prove it!.....look man, i dont know shit, but i do know this......treat people like u wanna b treated....(*"oh....but i wood love to have someone smothering me with there love"!/////realy?.......think about it!.......like the old saying goes.....

"when i stop looking at another chicks ass, and tits.....u should start to worry")...in other words, u r not loking, cause u r getting some on the side, like fries at the frosty freez!/u want fries with that........fuck yea(hmmm, he likes fries......(u want fries with that.....fuck no......did i ask for fries?).....(hmmmmm....he used to love fries).....yea i still do, im just sneakin a bag a day, on the way home from spin class!..

so in closing mu bruthas, an sistas.....love is cool, in doses......be cool, b nice, do a special thing, on a special day, and keep um satisfied...if u know what i mean!....dont ask.....just throw down!....flowers are nice, and so are candles.....but flowers have thorns, and candles, can burn down yo fuckin house!......

and for those of u who are in search of (a soul mate)......might as well be in search of the lost ark....it dont happen that way......when u least expect it........it just might find u......and its not gonna be the toe down blond at the end of the bar, who knows the bartender by name, and half the blowks who walk past.....(or, run past).....yea, they might look good as a brand new chest pice, done by GUY ATCHKINSIN".....but....there is a reason she is toe down, at the end of the bar, and like norm from chears, everybody knows her name.......she has most likely had more cock, than foster farms.....on a slow day!.....

1)ye shall not shearch for thy soul mate!

2) ye shall allways(and i mean allways)...no matter if u meat um in church, or at the hard rock, wrap it!!!!!!(why do u think they at church????

3) ye shall back the fuck off!

4)ye shall keep um satisfied!

and finnaly 5)......dont listen to your parents!!!!!!

goodatsallways..

~g~

not doin the greatest today.....

i feel death, i feel it surounding me, smothering me..i am not affrain of death, i dont like it, when it happens to people that are not ready for it....and it comes out of nowhere.....effecting many,

jelouse in a way, just because life is pain, and it has to be better on the other side, even if the other side has is nothing...it is rest!....i dont know, kinda in a nhaze, just not feeling life today!.....

just one of those, grey sky, dull rainy nhothing days.....

hope yours is better!

~g~

here is the information for the celebration's of RANDY'S life.

THURSDAY,AUG 12- 2-8 PM,

VIEWING 2691 RIVERSIDE BLVD.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 10 AM

SAINT ANTHONY'S 660 FLORIN ROAD. FOLLOWED BY BURIAL.

IMIDIATELY FOLLOWED BY A RETURN TO SAINT ANTHONY'S HALL FOR AN ALL DAY CELEBRATION OF RANDY'S LIFE!

YOU WILL, ALLWAYS BE MISSED DEAR FRIEND!

REST IN PEACE BROTHER!

AND TO RANDY'S FAMILY , I CAN ONLY WISH YOU PEACE, AND COMFORT, THERE IS NO WAY I CAN FEEL YOUR PAIN. YOU ARE IN MY THOUGHTS, AND I SEND ALL MY GOOD ENERGY YOUR WAY!

I AM STILL IN SHOCK , THIS HASENT SUNK IN YET. SUCH A BLOW TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE RANDY TOUCHED THRU HIS MUSIC, HEART, AND SOUL!

THERE ARE SO MANY, SOO MANY.

SACTOWN HAS LOST, A MUSICIAN WHO MOLDED, SHAPED, AND CARVED THE MUSIC SCENE FOR AS MANY YEARS AS I CAN REMEMBER!

I AM LISTENING TO AN OLD "BRUTAL GROOVE "TAPE, AS I TYPE THIS. HIS LOW END BASS LICKS WERE IN FACT "BRUTAL", AND RANDY DID IN FACT , GROOVE!....CORNEY?...EEEH, MABEY SO, BUT TRUE ! TRUE TO THE CORE! THE HARD CORE!

most of yall probly know whats goin on.....

but fer those of ya that dont......the celebration of our dear friend RANDY'S life, will be on this thur. and fri.

ill let ya know times, and places, as the info gets to me!.....i want to thank ANGEL, AND JOEL, for keeping me in the loop, and leting me know whats up.....as i can pass it on to u, or the peeps that dont use face book, or the other mass forms of comunicado...like myself!

fuck....miss ya brother!

u were takin from your friends and family in my opinion, way too soon!....as i said in a few blogs back...when your card is punched......your card is punched....RANDY was/is strong, a fighter(in life, in mediforical terminology).....he was also a tuff mo fo, if he needed be,,,,but, i saw RANDY show the world, way more love, and affection, than hatred and agression!!!!!! to bve sure!

R.I.P bra!

~g~

WELL.......FUCK, I MUST WRITE THE WORDS AGAIN....

REST IN PEACE!

A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF MINE....PROBABLY YOURS....HE WAS A CLOSE FRIEND TO MANY...

.............RANDY VALDEZ...........

RANDY was in a terible car accident yeterday......and my thoughts as well as the thoughts of many others were with him....aparently, not enuff,,,,RANDY MENT HIS MAKER!

WHAT THE FUCK, A GREAT GUITARIST, HIS LIFE WAS MUSIC.....EVERYTIME WE GOT TOGETHER, WE SPENT HOURS, TALKING SHOP....HE LEAVES MANY FRIENDS AT EMG, SHECKTER AND A FEW OTHER COMPANYS THAT SAW THE POTENTIAL IN RANDY!

I WILL MISS U MY HOMMY!....

THROW UP YO BEST "PRETEND" GANG SIGN(ITS SOMTHING WE USED TO DO ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM FOR KICKS)....AND I WILL SEE IT, WHEREVER YOU ARE!.....

WAY TO YOUNG....LEAVING EARTH AS A FATHER, NOT A DAD....HIS NICK NAME WAS "R.V".....YES BECAUSE HE WAS A BIG MAN FOR THE BETTER PART OF HIS LIFE, BUT A BIG , GOOD MAN, EVERY INCH OF RANDY WAS GIVING....I STILL HAVE A ROAD CASE, THAT WE TRADED....AND NOW, THAT ROAD CASE WILL BARE HIS NAME, AND IT IS SOMTHING I WILL KEEP FOREVER!

GOODBYE FRIEND, BROTHER.....

ILL SEE U ON THE OTHER SIDE!....SAY HEY TO HENDRIX, FOR ME.....I KNOW U 2 WILL IMIDIATLEY PLUG IN, AND KICK THE JAMS!

~g~

how sad it is......that youth is wasted on the young!