lurch70 said:
... wtf?
When Watchmaker first started, NOBODY would give them a record deal and they couldn't get ANY gigs that actually paid money. They supported bands that hadn't even written any songs yet. Reviews of their first one were either really good (about 5 of us thought that) or really bad (the other 400 reviewers were on this side).
Now Watchmaker could probably jump to a label like Relapse, although they won't do it because they don't tour (at least that's my guess), they have played gigs with Akercocke, Suffocation, Sabbat, and a bunch of other bigger names, and nearly everybody claims to be "into" Watchmaker.
He liked it better when they were hated.
He told me about one time when they were playing live on the radio. There was a big window in the radio studio where people could watch, and there were speakers outside. There ended up being one guy watching, and he was a drunk homeless guy. The band ended up giving him a bunch of shirts and whatever money and alcohol they could put together on the spot.
Anyway . . . if you go to that show, tell Brian Livoti (the singer) I referred you. He might become your best friend. He's very friendly, and he LOVES to talk 80's thrash/metal. He's always telling me about frickin Accept of Manowar or some band like that. I'm like, have you heard Gojira?
