Reverend Jim (H.G.C.) (E.B.C.) (B.D.H.)

About Me

In league with Satan........ fuckers.(typed sometime in 2003) I once went through two bottles of Wild Turkey with Phil Anselmo and Sammy Satan.......told Phil he should start Down back up and sing (not just scream) again......and we all know how that turned out.........The Tore up from the Floor up 2000 Tour (Clutch, COC, Karma To Burn, Clearlight, Sixty Watt Shaman) quite possibly was the pinnacle of my life.I once taught Wino and Scott Reeder how to play a song I wrote, talk about intimidating.I am actually blood brothers with Kirk Windstein.On tour in Europe, I once did drugs in Croatia that you can be executed for possessing, in a club run by the slavic version of the Mafia. I once got kicked out of Dimebag's house, by Rita, for being too drunk, if that's not ironic, I still to this day don't know what the fuck is. Spending way too many months on a tour bus with Crowbar, I believe I endured a schizophrenic break-down, but I'm feeling much better now. Lars Ulrich once ran way from me in a panic, imagine, right after Danny Sixty Watt explained in detail to Hetfield, just how much Cliff Burton meant to me. I once got so goddamn ripped with Hank III on the Superjoint bus, that it took me two hours to figure out I was still in Baltimore, at an intersection in the middle of the Inner Harbor. Brilliant, right? Most Emo and Screamo-core groups that are tearing up the airwaves and the touring circuit these days probably hate me. I treated them like shit when they came through the Ottobar, and trust me, they deserved it. White belt, party hair, non-playin' jackasses, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Zakk Wylde once called me "Cliff Burton from Hell".Pepper Keenan once called me a "Bad Motherfucker", to Rex Brown of all people.Sparky Voyles once called me "The Little Ball of Hate".Scott Reeder calls me a brother, so I'm truly blessed. Rickenbacker Basses make me giggle like a fucking schoolgirl. I love my friends and family, blood or not, and cherish them to death.
12/03/06-(revised) 1/16/07- Today, I once again play bass for Sixty Watt Shaman. I helped assemble the most unthinkable of projects, with some of the most incredibly talented people I know, SOAPHAMMER. I have the honor of being a member of ANGELS OF METH (best thing from Kentucky since bourbon).B.D.H. Forever, AOM always....All Hail!!!
3/16/08- The unthinkable has taken place, finally. I'm now proud co-owner of a business. Bedlam Tattoo and Body Piercing, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana is up, and running like a motherfucker. Since sneaking into the arena, carny stle, back in 1994, I never thought my impetous, disagreeable ass would ever, truly be my own boss.....well guess what kids.......hehehe. Two functioning bands, one on hiatus, and my own goddamn shop, it rules to be busy. Cheers!!!!
Angels of Meth - "Kentucky Reign" available now on The Tiny Empire Records.
Angels of Meth - "These Inner Demons" Live at The Mad Hatter, 11.15.07
Angels of Meth - "Linesweeper" Live at The Mad Hatter, 11.15.07

My Interests

Satanism with a sense of humor and sticking as close to humanly possible with a life philosophy that is summed up in one short Bill Hicks quote........." It's just a ride...."

I'd like to meet:

Hard workin' motherfuckers that never got thier due, Ric Flair and Cliff Burton.........

Music:

ANGELS OF METH, SOAPHAMMER,SIXTY WATT SHAMAN being the self-promotional whore that I am, CLUTCH, THE HIDDEN HAND, MISERY INDEX, TREPHINE, IRONBOSS,COMPRESSION,MEATJACK,SUPERJOINTRITUAL, DOWN, COC, EYEHATEGOD, CROWBAR, SOILENT GREEN, SUPLECS, GOATWHORE, KYUSS, Unida, Nebula, Black Label Society, Cliff era Metallica, GOIN BACK A MINUTE......NEXT STEP UP, STOUT (Scott Powers probably stopped me from getting my ass kicked more times than I could count, and Tad is still a hero), GUT INSTINCT, JUST CAUSE (the fundemental roots of SWS, Cheers to Approach, anyone...anyone???)....and a goddamn plethora of B-More hardcore bands......Atomic Rooster, Sir Lord Baltimore, CACTUS, FREE, BIG CHIEF, SACRED REICH, TESTAMENT, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Mastadon, Suicidal Tendencies, Today is the Day, Carcass, Fudge Tunnel, Terrorizer, Nailbomb, Danzig, Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Ozzy, WitchFinder General, Satyricon, Venom, Entombed, Dolly Parton, Fu Manchu, Johnny Cash, Tomahawk, Fantomas, The Melvins, Across the River, Agnostic Front, ST. VITUS, Black Flag, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Patsy Cline, The Refused, The Accused, Gorilla Biscuits, CIV, STEEL POLE BATHTUB, Acid Bath, Life of Agony, Deicide, AC/DC, Post Real Thing FNM, Hank Williams Sr., Hank III, Cro-Mags, SOIA,The Misfits, Death Angel, David Allen Coe, R.L. Burnside, Sepultura, Minutemen/Firehose/Mike Watt, Soundgarden, Exodus, DRI, DOA, Testament, BUZZOVEN, WeedEater, Emperor, Lowrider, Thin Lizzy, Dimmu Borgir, Atomic Bitchwax, King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Diamondhead, Budgie, Spirit Caravan (RIP), Pentagram, Destruction, Kreator, Voivod, Alabama Thunder Pussy, The Dwarves, Supersuckers, Avail, Obituary, Black fucking Sabbath, Leaf Hound, SLAYER, Dozer, The Obsessed, Morbid Angel, goddamn PANTERA FOREVER( RIP Dime, you were a badass brother), Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Cryptic Slaughter, Dark Angel, Forbidden, Mayhem, Dark Funeral, Emperor, etc., etc, etc.,

Movies:

Dawn of the Dead 2004, Return of the Living Dead, The original Romero trilogy,Cannibal Holocaust,Children shouldn't play with dead things, Death Scenes 1 and 2, Dellamorte Delamore (Cemetary Man), Blazing Saddles, Acion Mutante, The Exorcist, anything by Lucio Fulci, Big Trouble in Little China, Stripes, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Anything Tarintino, Young Frankenstein, Bill Hicks Bootlegs, Anything with Rudy Ray Moore, Reannimator, Bride of Reannimator, Dead Alive, The films of Dario Argento, Scarface, The Godfather 1 and 2, Halloween 1 and 2, They Live, Clockwork Orange, Kingpin, Meet The Feebles, River's Edge, Blue Velvet, Kalifornia, Seven, Carnival of Souls, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Night of the Demons 1 and 2, All old Hammer Films,The films of H.G. Lewis, HollyWood Chainsaw Hookers, Anything with Linnea Quigley- Michelle Baur or Brinke Stevens, Spider Baby, The Unnamable 1 and 2, Alien 1 and 2, House of 1000 Corpses, Freddy vs Jason, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.............

Television:

Real Time with Bill Maher, football (especially when I can catch a goddamn Raven's game), too much CNN/Headline News/MSNBC, Dexter, Weeds, Sopranos (RIP), The Daily Show, Masters of Horror, Californication, Iron Chef/Iron Chef America, Older shit off WWE 24/7(I'm a complete old school wrestling mark), Family Guy, South Park.GHOSTHUNTERS (best shit ever). That's about it. Most normal broadcast TV bores the livin' shit outta me, short attention span for mediocrity.....

Books:

Shit Magnet-Jim Goad, Redneck Manifesto-Jim Goad, The Collected Works of Anton Lavey, The Joel-Peter Witkin Collection, Dark Carnival-The Strange World of Tod Browning, Johnny Cash-The Autobiography, Geek Love, Anything Giger, Anything by Noam Chomsky, Houdini: The Untold Story, The National Directory of Haunted Places, Flowers of Evil-Charles Baudelaire, Anything by Poe, Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Redneck Heaven : Portrait of a Vanishing Culture, Ed Wood-Nightmare of Ecstacy, Crazy from the Heat-David Lee Roth, Sex Stupidity and Greed : Inside the American Movie Industry, Bedlam-A year in the Life of a Mental Hospital, The Sleaze Merchants - Adventures in Exploitation Filmaking, Imajica (thanks to Vix for reminding me.....such a good fucking book), Inferno Collection-X-Men (Marvel Comics)-thanks to Jess Morgan for that last one, took me back.

Heroes:

Cliff Burton, Geezer Butler, Scott Reeder (the trinity)...................and of course Wino, J.P. Gaster, Neil Fallon, Tim Sult, Dan Maines, Joe Selby, Tecla, Evan Tanner, Sparky Voyles, Little Vinnie, Uncle Pauly, Col. Mike Knecht, Chris X + Mike Bowen. Cheers and much love!!!

My Blog

Fixing what I broke, with eyes like daggers.............

This Saturday, @ the Mad Hatter............CD release for AOM's Kentucky Reign............. badass like breathing.........what we do. Cheers!!!! King of the Nighttime World, Rev. Jim...
Posted by Reverend Jim on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:58:00 PST

I'm Broken......

No suprise to most that know me..........without goin too much into detail......I did my best, I failed. So the story goes.................
Posted by Reverend Jim on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:39:00 PST

bucket loads of humble pie....

ol' boy's takin' his medicine...........and learning many lessons. Goddamn. Ain't third person a motherfucker. Rev. Jim
Posted by Reverend Jim on Sun, 13 May 2007 02:49:00 PST

Standing at the edge of the cliff...the brink...the void.

Three sets in a fucking row, at the Ottobar no less, I'm out of my goddamn mind. Beat up, broken in so many goddamn ways.........but I said hell goddamn yeah. People like me, my brothers, my kin, tend...
Posted by Reverend Jim on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:48:00 PST

To my brothers.....

To my bandmates, our Tennessee trip was like it should be, fuckin' family, hangin' on, standin' up, and fighting forward. Cheers beyond belief to Armazilla (more to come Randall, I promise), Negative ...
Posted by Reverend Jim on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:32:00 PST

Dime a dozen rants and self-important pats on the back.................

It's all comedy...........
Posted by Reverend Jim on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST

April 28th 2007.........Unite, Define...like we always have.....

Dramatic, right? I'm not that cool, seriously, I'm not, just ask Mary, she'll fill ya in.....but, I have the honor, the goddamn privilege, to somehow be a part of this night.......Here we go....... Sa...
Posted by Reverend Jim on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:22:00 PST

Can I get an amen......

Fuck Yeah I can.....to my brothers in Angels, to my brothers and sisters that showed up tonight, to my lovely Miss Mary and the only Eskimo I like (inside joke kids), to anyone that gave a damn....
Posted by Reverend Jim on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:09:00 PST

I so love my boys......my goddamn band

Stand up, stand tall, no matter what........beautiful people.....true as the day is long......and that is by far....all that goddamn matters! Rev. Jim
Posted by Reverend Jim on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:49:00 PST

Sixty Watt, Good friends, and somethin' bout runnin' home to mama......

Pulled it off......showed off......and had a great goddanm shared birthday party. One hell of a time. Cheers Miss Chelsie!!!!!!!! All in all, I was once again surrounded by loved ones....
Posted by Reverend Jim on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:53:00 PST