Friday, August 8, 2008

Video tour of Nick Hexums Tour Bus....

Watch this AWESOME video HERE!

Pnut gets interviewed first, than on to Nick.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

I WAS VISITOR #311.......

I hoped on here this morning after checking my emails and such, and decided to go to view my profile...... sho-nuf.... i was visitor #311.... ha, go figure.



Thanks to a friend of mine, for capturing this interesting info he received from a conversation with P-Nut and SA after the Baton Rouge show!

“I asked P-Nut how Bob Rock had been treating him and he said that he was really nice and had been working them. Bob Rock told P-Nut he wasn’t listening to the drums and he need to stop being ahead of the beat doing his own thing and P-Nut was saying that he needed that. And that they were doing something completely different and moving ahead. P-Nut also said he and Nick had been working on the bus on an idea with the bass almost sounding like a percussion instrument.

SA was asked if they were working in Hawaii and he said no, they were actually back in the studio where they made MUSIC…he said that while he wasn’t a fan of Metallica or anything and he had reservations about working with Bob Rock that after working with him it is coming out really dope. He also said it was another level for 311 and seemed really excited as well.
He said they’ve recorded 10 songs and only a few guitars etc. have to be done on them, and they’re going to write and record a few more.

Back in the studio in Oct.

New album and tour by next summer and then another fall tour. He said the songs were really good before Bob Rock but that afterward he brought a whole new level to them.
It’s going to be a concept record with a story and a whole package etc.
The 311 day 08 footage leading up to the show is going to be bundled with it.”

Now Thats Exciting stuff!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

PUSHING THE ISSUE & SIGNED GUITAR UP ON AUCTION BLOCK

I GUESS NICK AND HIS PUSSY CAT GIRLFRIEND STILL PUSH THE ISSUE.....
I just noticed that the Pussycat Dolls shot a portion of the video for their new single “When I Grow Up” right in front of Nick’s fav spot THE FROLIC ROOM! Haha…
Watch the video HERE!
You can see The Frolic Room very clearly at about 1:35 into the video. =D


GUITAR SIGNED BY NICK AND P-NUTT UP FOR AUCTION!!!!
Nick and P-Nut are two of many artists recently on Loveline that have signed a guitar that is up for auction right now. The proceeds benefit Hillsides Child Center and Camp Ronald McDonald. Other people that have signed the Squier guitar include:
System of a Down/Achosen - Shavo OdadjianAtreyu - Dan Jacobs & Alex VakatzasThe Used - Quinn Allman, Dan Whitesides, Bert McCracken, Jeph Howard311 - Nick Hexum & P-NutLouis XIV - Jason HillBad Religion - Greg Graffin, Greg Hetson, Brett GurewitzThe Bravery - Sam Endicott, John Conway, Anthony BurulcichPennywise - Fletcher Dragge & Randy BradburyLinkin Park - Chester Bennington & Mike ShinodaAdam CarollaStryker & Dr. Drew
Here are a few pics of the guitar!

Click HERE to bid! Auction ends Jul 31 at 12:00 AM PDT! =D

Monday, July 28, 2008

Access Atlanta interview with Nick Hexum, plus Chad Sexton speaks with MTV.com

Access Atlanta interviewed Nick last Monday and did a fun Number/Word Association game with him. You can read the Q&A HERE! It asked me to login/sign up, so if it does the same for you (and you don’t want to sign up), so I copied and pasted the text here.

AccessAtlantaPublished on: 07/21/2008
Eighteen years in the music business, and 311’s lead singer Nick Hexumclaims he’s never been asked to play a round of Number Association.(That’s a twist on the old “word association” where you say aword/phrase/whatever with a number and the other person says the first thing that comes to mind.) So days before his rock quintet returned forits annual, multi-genre Unity Tour, we got Hexum to oblige us:

* “Beverly Hills 90210.” “Sideburns.”

* “Reno 911!” “The whale. Remember when they were trying to push thatwhale back into the water [in the movie ‘Reno 911! Miami’]? I didn’tactually see the movie but it was a great trailer. I’ve seen the [TV]show too. It was on in the studio, and I remember the episode when thecops were trying to rap. Talking about ‘Smoking the chronic.’ ‘Smokingthe chronic’ has been an in-studio joke since we saw that.”

* “867-5309.” “Ooooh - the summer swimming pool. … Growing up in thelate ’70s in Omaha, Neb., I will always remember that song, ‘TaintedLove,’ just great memories of girls in bikinis. Summer and the pool.”

* “777-9311.” “Never heard of it.” (It was a hit by the ’80s funk bandthe Time.)

* 50 Cent. “Blowhard.”

* U2. “A role model. Inspiration. An example of how to do it right.”

* OneRepublic. “Good pop. I have a secret pleasure going on right nowwhere I’m really enjoying them and Paramore and just a lot of popularstuff. I like a lot of stuff on the radio right now. I started listeningto the Top 20 station on my satellite, you know, doing a littleresearch; and I got pretty hooked. It may not be hip or cool to saythat, but I don’t care.”

* Andre 3000. “Super-creative. One of my favorite MCs of all time. Hisguest vocals on ‘I Choose You’ by UGK, just that long intro rap overthat old sample - ‘I typed a text to a girl I used to see/Saying that Ichose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be/Wetness all around me, true,but I’m no island/Peninsula maybe, makes no sense I know, crazy’ - that[expletive] is genius!”

* 2Pac. “Missed it. He went over my head. I don’t have any of hisrecords.”

* 311. “A gift to my life. An honor. And a privilege to do this for 18years. It was our dream, but it has become much bigger than that. It’s awhole community of people, and we feel very grateful.








Chad Sexton talks in an interview with mtv.com about how he feels 311 is the next grateful dead here!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Update on the New Album....

Click HERE for some words about the new album from Nick, SA & P-Nut.

Friday, July 18, 2008

the ULTIMATE PRIVATE ISLAND ESCAPE!!! Money Key Island........

Have you ever had the dream of escaping to a deserted island, where seclusion is paramount and everyday life is left behind? I have.... And one day I will be there. I would love to spend it with someone special someday..... I guess I better start saving now...... Cuz I never know when I'll find that someone special.

Melody Key Island is my fantasy place to live.... it is formerly known as Money Key. Nick Hexum the owner of the Island and lead singer for 311 changed the name after purchaseing it. Here is the link to the web page for this, spectacular, wonderful, beautiful island.


yes, the property is for sale......FOR SALE BY OWNER! $4,900,000
The price includes the island, the fully furnished and redecorated luxury home, two boats, a sea walled canal lot on the mainland 1 mile away from the island for parking and launching to the island (which is big enough to build a small home on it) and much more. The island also has the unique feature of being permitted to have short term rentals; it is a right that is grandfathered in and is permanent and will transfer over to the new owners. So, you can run Melody Key as a rental business if you like. Most homes in the Keys are not permitted to be rented out for less than 30 days, so this is an invaluable feature.
email link: info@melodykey.com

new york show reviewed by spin mag.....

Read the review of the Coney Island show HERE!


SNOOP DOGG, ON TEAMING UP WITH 311 FOR THE UNITY TOUR!!!
From an article in the Boston Herald: “311 have an incredible fan base and a lot of those fans are Snoop Dogg fans so it was a no-brainer,” Snoop said. “We have separate sets but every night has been off tha chain. By the end of tha tour we goin’ make it right and we got a surprise for tha fans. Chuuch.”
Hopefully someone records this surprise!!!

Article for the New Richmond Show..........
This is mainly an interview with Nick. Very interesting though!

THE COUNTDOWN

OCHO STINKO' JERSEY (BLAA)

OCHO STINKO' JERSEY (BLAA)
me throwin down some brews on 3-11-07

AMAZING! I DID THIS, AND I'M AFFRAID OF HEIGHTS!!!

ROCK OUT TO SOME 311 WHILE YOUR HERE!!