"Their Parents Drank Ray's Creations And Then Humped"
by PHILIP WHITE
Puscifer kicked off their sellout Australian tour last night in Brisbane. Maynard James Keenan reports they performed Dear Brother, a work from their new Donkey Punch The Night EP.
"So we did Dear Brother for the first time ever in front of an audience," he told DRINKSTER this morning.
"I dedicated it to Ray. Of course no one in the audience knew who he was, but that really doesn't matter to me.
"I know that most of them are on this planet because their parents/grandparents drank Ray's creations and then humped. "
He refers to Ray Beckwith, the great Australian wine scientist and DRINKSTER mentor who died at 100 years of age in November.
Beckwith gets a credit on the EP cover.
Becky would have loved it.
It seems likely that there will be some interchange of dry-grown and bushvine vineyard ideas between Yangarra vine wizard, Michael Lane, and Maynard's Caduceus winery and vineyard on Mount Mingus, at Jerome, Arizona. Maynard's already playing with Ochota in a Grenache JV. Good people work together in this business!
That's Maynard's photograph of the Clarendon Vineyard above, and his view of the table. And here he is at work on Mount Mingus:
Harvest has just commenced at Clarendon, with Pinot, Shiraz and Chardonnay coming off with brilliant vital statistics. Stacey Pothoven's photograph of the High Sands Grenache vineyard is below. The author's on the left, the weed-eating sheep are in the vines on the right, and Clarendon's in the hills you can see at the end of that track.Click here to see an edited version of my last formal interview with Ray. And to hear Maynard discussing Puscifer's first two Australian gigs with the Doctor on the J, click here.
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6 comments:
Great afternoon whitey - might be a good time to remind people of tour interview with Ray - it's on line.
https://vimeo.com/54182290
Cheers
Milt
can you arrange me to meet maynard, can u post on here where will he be next, i want to go to hunter valley and meet him if he is taking a trip there???
you sure hang with some coolth dude
What a remarkable man was Beckwith. Thanks Whitey.
I met Slooppy Joe in Deer Valley next to Strides. Got me crazy. Made me burb a lot. No one warned me about the bubbly. I stayed for awhile playing catch with Yuton. Never figured I'd be probed like an innocent white boy aboard some alien mothership. It was life changing. I'll never sleep on that night of October 19th of January 2012. He used to beat off a lot. He'd sound like a spinner. He became programmable. The aliens still sodomize him. They think he's smiling whenever he grits his teeth. As for the wine, he's never tasted it without hunger. His body is now an archetype to surrender and docility. Let's go work out.
Twój blog jest bomba ;)
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