The Bob Noxious 2010 Year In Review

So, it is. Another year has come to a close and it is time once again to look back at the year that it was. As usual, like in most peoples lives, it was filled with many ups and downs, as well as changes. Taking the retrospective look every year helps me gauge not only where I am at, but where I am going.

Anybody that knows me, will tell you that I like to keep busy. Almost to a fault. Last year, my New Year’s “Resolution” was to take a chance at stand-up comedy. Initially, I thought that it was a bad idea, but my so called friends would tell me that I was funny…and I believed them. Turns out that having a room full of strangers, staring at you, waiting to be funny…can be cheaper than therapy. After several stand-up gigs I found out what most of the stranger’s faces already knew. I wasn’t that funny. However, a lot of famous comedians aren’t really that funny either, they just have a polished act. If I had not already been playing in three different bands, I may have actually worked harder at honing the craft.

Yeah, three bands. What was I thinking? Who needs to have a social life when one of my three bands was playing every weekend? Of course there was my long-standing punk band, PIG PEN,  the rock-a-billy charged The Dive Bar Stalkers and I was doing also doing an acoustic project called, The Trailer Park Picassos. 

PIG PEN played a scattering of shows throughout the Bay area and beyond in 2010. Probably the highlight of the year with PIG PEN was when we played the 6th Annual Ramones Tribute show put on by Boney Fiend at the Dunedin Brewery. The place was literally SOLD OUT by order of the Fire Marshall very early in the night, and we played a set of Ramones songs to an already electrified capacity crowd.

The Trailer Park Picassos earned me a little scratch for a couple of months out of the year. The acoustic duo had a regular house gig at LA Hangout through the springtime on the Thursday night “College Nights”, and at a few other select bars and biker events throughout the area.

And then there is The Dive Bar Stalkers. I eventually put the two previously mentioned bands of mine “on hiatus” to put more of a focus on the DBS. And, after nearly five years of persistence, hard work and heavy bookings, it has finally paid off. We signed a recording and distribution deal with WorldSound/Universal Records in October. WorldSound has already re-released our debut Rock The House CD to iTunes and will be releasing it again through their label imprint in 2011.

I’ve already been told to get my passport in order for a possible trip to Japan and to prepare for a three week US Tour to support the physical disc once it is released.

There were too many DBS highlights this year to be able to pin down just one. We played a near capicity show with the legendary Blues Traveler. Hung out backstage with porn icon Ron Jeremy at the annual Adult Video Entertainment Awards for the the fourth year in a row. We also played our third Taste of Pinellas Festival, this time with the ten-time Grammy nominated artist Martina McBride and Lonestar. 

About the same time that I lightened my workload with all the bands, I picked up another time devourer. Radio Personality. I had already been putting out a podcast called Loud Fast and Shitty since 2007 with my good friends Shawn (Ick McWang/Saul) and Jason (Blip Magillis) on a semi-regular basis. But when my path crossed once again with the infamous Pirate Radio outlaw, Craven Moorehead, little did I know he would re-ignite my fire to broadcast again. We immediately began broadcasting LFS as a LIVE 2 hour internet radio show every Monday night on the fledgling Your Party House network.

YPH was a glorified voyeur dorm. It boasted many different rooms that were equipped with cameras and scantily clad, sometimes nude women. Paying customers to the website were able to watch the girls in their natural habitat, while listening to us knuckleheads blasting punk rock in the background.

After a few months of getting re acclimated to doing LIVE radio again, we began to get discouraged at the amount of listeners that we were not getting through to due to the pornographic nature of the site. So, what did we do? We moved the show to my home studio and branched out to two of the internet’s biggest punk radio stations and left the comfy confines of YPH. Currently, you can listen to Loud Fast and Shitty LIVE every Sunday night on RealPunkRadio and every Monday night on RantRadio from 8-10PM EST. We still turn each episode into a podcast which you can download/subscribe to from iTunes, or listen to from your mobile device with the Stitcher Radio app. To date, we have put out more than 50 new episodes since July, which more than doubles our previous three year’s total output.

So, that is it in a glance. I now look onward to the next 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 52,600 minutes and 3,153,600 seconds of struggle, growth, progress and experience. Since I never have really been one to make resolutions, I make goals instead. 2011 will be no different.

This year I’m going to write a book…I just don’t know what it is going to be about.

Until then…see you on the road!

(Source: noxiousbob.com)