But don't worry! Social Distortion is here to save the day!
Everything was working. Everything was working so damn well minus Joe Turpel’s vocabulary, the left, Martin Potter, too much Merino, the actual plow itself plus a handful of other issues depending on who you talk to and depending on what they’re drinking.
Surf Ranch. A success. An unmitigated* success then blink-182 cancels.
Like that.
Blaming drummer “Travis Barker’s ongoing medical issues.”
Dammit.
And what the hell? What the dammit hell? How could this happen?
Tickets were sold based purely on blink’s wide appeal. Tickets, man, to kids wanting to see mechanical surf of course but also Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge. I mean Matt Skiba.
How?
Thankfully there appeared to be a backup. Social Distortion. Social D.
Now, I’m not even going to pretend I don’t love Social D so I’ll be there. But will you?
Will you?
Speaking of Social D real quick I saw Mike Ness once backstage at a Brian Setzer Orchestra show in Orange County. My damned ex-wife performed with Brian Setzer and I was there backstage, before she was my ex-wife, standing next to Mike Ness, looking at him thinking “heroin does no favors.” Though maybe it had nothing to do with heroin. He was very wide. Much wider than I wanted him to be. And that sounds like it has absolutely nothing to do with heroin at all does it.
My damned ex-wife is also from near Lemoore remember. She grew up in the cow stink and made me hate that cow stink forever and ever and ever. Everything comes full circle.
Everything.
*Minus Joe Turpel’s vocabulary, the left, Martin Potter, too much Merino and the actual plow itself plus a grab bag of other things.
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Social D needs to open with Drug Train. Anyone who is willing to accept the piece of fucking shit judging that’s taking place must be on Drugs!
Drummers medical issues? A hard hitting tatted up chain smoking drummer succumbs to medical issues? I don’t buy it. I think they finally looked up Lemoore on the map and said Fuck This!
Anyone see Tom DeLonge on the Rogan podcast talking about aliens? Guy is at least 3/4 of the way to a break down.
Blink-182 is less reliable than Bruce Irons.
Will the I Brake For Satan crowd get their money refunded?
As JTIV (joe turpel’s inner voice) i’m so proud that finally my monotone zolofted excitement, is fianlly mentioned by my hero, Chas in one of his diatribes. Also why the F was longtom not there as a wildcard???
best plan b since the actual plan b.
best use of fisticuffs since chas choked ashton.
https://variety.com/2018/mu…
Heck, they could have gotten BORIS! and fixed everything.
Hell I’d drive to Lemoore for a BORIS/SunnO))) double bill…
I almost flew from Victoria to see BORIS! and The Melvins at the Roxy!
Even better- they played at the Echoplex. Roxy has shitty sound!
Oh shit, well I would have fucked up anyway.
Melvins are possibly the only band I have walked out after they finished and thought that I couldn’t possibly have taken another song, (in a good way).
Perhaps ‘War on Wisdom’ could be the new wsl theme?
Official Vid: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Live: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I watched them do Houdini in full in Melbourne and the played Honeybucket twice. Fucking twice!
I saw the 2 drummer tour. Just blew me away for intensity. So much so, that it took a minute or two of conversation with a mate to note that Buzz was wearing a kaftan and the bass player wore a turban the whole show. It was completely incidental to the music. Awesome. (Would love to see the Steven McDonald version).
Trevor Dunn was on bass 🙂 Met Buzz out the front earlier and he just spent the time laughing at his own jokes. That laugh!
He’s a different cat, that’s for sure. I fear he would be the one person I’d go giggly schoolgirl over. Dale, on the other hand, and I would get on fine.
Wow. Never heard of em.
I think I’ll be checking them out a bit more thanks!
They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but they’ve managed a fair bit of influencing in their career, one way or another.
Hermano vs. Unida? Who do you choose?
Slo Burn
Holy Shit! You answered correctly. You just blew my mind.
“Son of God”
So just tuned into the feed to see a camera feed of a flat, deserted pool and an announcement that the event is on hold. WTF? Has the sled broken down? And when did a wave become a run? Each competitor gets 2 runs??? What is this circus I’ve tuned into…
They should put the flags at half-mast for Burt Reynolds.
half-staff. (just because this comments section has turned into a linguistic battleground.)
Half-assed?
Certainly not Burt.
No Sir.
Half-mast in Australia, half-staff in America. Although we rarely observe the tradition down here because we really don’t care about things very much.
half-mast on ship, half-staff on land
Old legends never die, they just keep…losing weight.
Visalia and Coos County…how didn’t that last?
Is the MC5 going to replace social d or are they going right to Dick Dale?
Maybe the WSL should only pick musical guests for Master events.
Hope there are no Trump supporters at the show since Mike Ness tends to beat them https://nypost.com/2018/08/…
fitting that lowers will pump all next week…would rather watch barra de tijuca
“ongoing medical issues” – more like low ticket sales I reckon!
Oh, looks like they cancelled the whole tour, probably got nothing to do with low ticket sales in Lemoore. The curse of Sophie strikes again!
…..They actually improved the event? I thought they’d replace them with something equal or worse like Pennywise but instead they’ve upgraded the whole event ten fold with Social Distortion? Ya Kidding?
first they lose cloud break and now blink 182. come on Sophie. get your shit together.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Geez, Michael February’s arms swing so wildly he made a cow one field over flinch and choke on it’s cud.
Dare I say “the new Wiggolly”?
**gasp**
Oh no you didn’t!!
The tourettic wounded gull?
Yep. The gorilla with a broken back.
Wessley looks to be on next year and we’ll be getting our monies worth. It clearly appears that he has been trying to out paddle his big bro in his formative years.
I’ve watched it for two minutes and already lost interest. And, from what I can tell, there are hardly any spectators there…
I think it is closed today but dang Turpel totally commented on the “huge crowd” hahaha!
Any word on why the feed keeps dropping, Chas.
Very nearly unwatchable.
I’ve seen a bit of it but this would drop number 7 or 8 for me.
Turpel is the Sarah Huckabee Sanders of the WSL
The Sean Spicer. He was the one stepping on his d!ck during that debacle.
SHS kicks ass.
hahahahahah!
She is brutal and effective, but she works for the evil.
She pantses Jim “Look at me I’m Jim Acosta” Acosta on a daily basis. It’s glorious.
In the last days, men will call good, evil and evil, good.
Have you seen Joel Tudor’s latest idiotic post, where he takes credit for the women getting equal pay and his hopes longboarder kids will someday earn as much as other surfers, looks like he blocked the comments section for the post!
So many Joels, so little time. He basically invented equality. And was’nt thanked!
You have to be fucking kidding, there were 250 people there tod ay including pros, coaches, filters and WSL employees, and a few Facebookers who have rented the whole pool out after this for fun.
Thank God, we’ll never hear Joe Turpel say “Blink 182” again.
Be grateful JTurp isn’t a Kiwi. Blunk wun-et-too do not rock in any language.