I'am A Member Of The Right Brigade

In April/May of 2006 i tour managed the Cro-Mags(FVK)/Betrayed tour through all of Europe and the UK. How an Australian kid ended up tour managing a band from the east coast and a band from the west coast of the USA through countries i had never even been too i'am not quite sure, but it happened, true story.

This particular story iam about to tell happened in a  venue called TJ's which is located in a town called Newport in Wales.

After we loaded in and had set up the stage and merch area everyone sort of went their seperate ways ( as you do ) before doors. The Betrayed dudes and Scott Roberts who was playing guitar for the Cro-Mags went for a walk into town to see how many fights they could get challenged to ( Wales is hhhhaaaarrrdddd). So that left the Mags a man down for sound check. AJ Novello was playing bass in this line up, so obviously he could sound check the guitar no problems ( after touring with him in 03 and seeing him shred on guitar it was a bit of a waste to see him confined to 4 strings if you ask me ) but it still left them a man down and unable to hear what the bass was like in their monitors.

But when i heard them jamming "Right Brigade" i had an idea. Last Nerve used to cover it so i knew ( or thought i knew ) how to play it. I jumped up there and proudly told the dudes ( JJ, AJ and Mackie, holy fuck now thats a line up) "i know how to play right bridage, lets do it".

But from the first note i knew something was wrong, see i guess LN was tuned to e flat and the mags were just in standard e ( or maybe something else i'am not even sure), so where i thought i should be playing just sounded fucking weird, and the more i tried to find where i should be playing i just couldn't. After AJ trying to show me from the other side of the stage for a few bars i just gave up. The guys made fun of me for a while to my protests of "you guys are in a different tuning", and we all laughed it off. But looking back on it i regret that i fucked it up, and i wish i was a better musician and could of just easily worked out what i was doing wrong ( nerves aside). Not many people can say that they have jammed out with those dudes, some of the guys that were behind a couple of the best hardcore records ever made.

So yeah i blew it, but just the other day i relearned that fucking song in every tuning known to man, so John if your reading this, i'am ready for round 2 brother.