Message from Johnny Guten Tag
The 2005 tour kicked off the release of Texas 110, an album that has created a lot of buzz in a patch of grass next to interstate 80 near Peru, IL.
Actually, that buzz was just a copy of the album being shredded in a municipal worker's lawnmower.
Germany and Austria were the drop points for Horace Pinker’s “Strawberry Invasion”. A new edition to the already deadly group was Stab Face,
who is hot white lightning in a bottle. Well that bottle was broken in Germany and Stab Face destroyed more than the Memphis Bell ever did. Paired up with Dom
the stylist, these two single handedly ate away at Hamburg with an appetite for destruction and ketchup, and they weren’t paying for the ketchup.
Scott and Bryan picked up right where they left off in Europe playing three to four encores when the crowd didn’t even request them. Mean Mike, the driver,
and one hell of a scary German, would stand at the door and make sure no one left. In Stuttgart, HP played the song Seven Seconds three times in a row that ironically
took up 25 minutes of the crowd’s time.
Greg, a follower the Buddhist religion, refused to play a couple shows due to the Rice with Sheisse that was served to the band which contained parts of the sacred cow
and the excrement of holy rats.
All and all, the tour took the band to places never visited before, exposing their potent rock to a new and younger crowd of cult hopefuls. The album leads
listeners in two different directions with the use of two singers and a split between the traditional poppy Pinker and a new hardcore style. The CD has been enhanced to
include 7 hours and 46 minutes of Bryan continuously drumming and also includes the new video featuring a Suicide Girl. Pick it up if you get a chance and look for a Horace Pinker
invasion near you soon.
