More from the Vault, as well as some submission highlights from the Fan Vault of Doom!
Uh, what the hell's a cassette? LOL! A couple of early rehearsal demos, you'll notice the first one has a song called "Time Does Not Heal", which was the original working title for "The Rage To Overcome"; Tony on drums for both
This is the original demo we sold from Mar-Nov '93. We would dub these on our roadie Mike's tape-to-tape player, and hand stick the sticker label on the cassette 100 at a time and sell these at any show we played or attended
Great letter we used to send out to people who requested merchandise, that's my then-girlfriend (now wife's) writing in the corner, as she handled all snail mail correspondence until it just got to be too much (sent by Joe Ross)
Totally amazing warehouse show in S.F. with Biohazard, April '94. Brutal!
May '94, early headline show with Phil Demmel's post-Vio-Lence band Torque opening. (Sent by Greg)
Another Davidian video shoot flyer from July '94
BME promo flyer we spread by hand throughout the entire Bay Area, and elsewhere. Any record store, club, skate shop, tattoo shop, or just plain cool shop on Telegraph Ave. or Haight St. had this in it.
Aug-Sep 1994, our first U.S./Canada tour (and first tour ever), opening for Napalm Death and Obituary, this flyer's for the Toronto date (Sent by Canada Dave Busch)
First show in England ever, not too shabby!! Amazing show at the Brixton Academy in London. We outsold Slayer in merch that night, and got yelled at for it, LOL!! (sent by Simon Wilkins)
Another cool ticket stub from our first European tour, with Slayer (sent by Thomas Tkocz)
First headline show in England ever, directly after Slayer tour, I encourage a stage invasion during Block, Astoria cuts the power on us, riot ensues, ooops!! (sent by Simon Wilkins)
Cool ticket stub from our first Euro headline tour (sent by Thomas Tkocz)
Rad poster from our first Euro headline tour (sent by Thomas Tkocz)
Last show of headline tour of the UK, with Mary Beats Jane, and Meshuggah opening on their first tour ever. About 3,000 people, insane afterparty, I had cornrows, LOL! Ahhh the nineties. A few days before Dynamo '95 (sent by Simon Wilkins)
Oct '95, Chicago, fill-in drummer Will Carroll on drums, first headline tour of U.S. and hands-down the best show of the tour (Sent by "Madman" Mike Jakubow, Rebel Radio Chicago)
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The Flynn Vault of Doom!
Like any normal person does after touring the world for 3 years, I came home, sold my house and moved! Yay! No sitting around and watching TV, lounging around and relaxing, no way Jose, that would be too easy *cough* but the new pad is rockin', a lot more space, and jesus, I'm practically out in the country now here in our new adopted home of Martinez, CA. We had a flock of about 50 wild turkeys walk thru our backyard the other day. Crazy!? (Side Note: That's my backyard in the "Die Young" video) The coolest thing about moving though, was that I unearthed and went through the "archives", and man, what a cool trip down memory lane. Shit I hadn't seen in probably a decade (or two). As Machine Head coolly cruise into our 18th year as a band (first show was in August '92, but we had been jamming as a 4-piece since April '92), I thought I'd share some of "The Flynn Vault of Doom" with you guys, and also thought that if you're interested, you could share your stuff with us! It would be really cool to see old flyers, ticket stubs, maybe a random picture or two, anything from '92 to '95 that isn't already floating around the internet. Not really interested in magazine articles/photos, we're thinking more memorabilia-oriented stuff. So if you have access to a scanner, scan your shit (the higher the DPI the better) and shoot it over. Don't have a scanner? Take a hi-res photo and send that over! Shoot whatever you've got to mike@machinehead1.com, we'll add the coolest random stuff to the next diary along with your name!
Enjoy.
-Flynn
The first lyrics I wrote for Machine Head, circa January '92
First stickers, March '92, plastered everywhere on unsuspecting BART trains, buses and cars in the parking lot at any metal or punk show
First band photoshoot, @ The Emeryville Warehouse, by Harold O, May '92, Tony Costanza on drums
Another Harold O shot with the obligatory Biohazard shirt that at least one band member was required to wear :)
First show, August 15th, 1992, a kegger/house party at Mike (Scum) Rivera's place on Woolsey Street in Oakland, Tony Costanza on drums (Phil Demmel was there!)
More house party
2nd Bay Area club show, November '92
@ The Stone with Fungo Mungo, early '93
First flyer for the demo, March '93
March '93
August '93, unsigned and playing over Vio-Lence
October '93, before recording Burn My Eyes, Monte Conner (Roadrunner A&R) & Dino Cazares fly out to see us for the first time
Uh, so apparently for a short time, BME was gonna be called, er, Davidian, here's the mock up (WTF?!)
Rejected BME covers... bwhahahaha!!!
Davidian video shoot, July '94, Deftones supporting
August '94, Burn My Eyes record release party in San Francisco
Yep, we gave Meshuggah their big break, first headline tour, Europe, April '95
Oct-Dec '95, first U.S. headline tour laminate
Adam and my handiwork, we carved this into dudes' chest
March '96, Dave McClain's first show
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