MacktraXXX
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
haha!! BGR mention's MICKEY AVALON
Boy Genius Report mentioned the AVE here...even tho they were tryin to diss I think the exposure iz still good! and I still love the boygeniusreport...thx BGR!!
PETER DOHERTY : GRACE/WASTELANDS
Man I been so bizzy of late I totally forgot thiz was coming out..it came out the 16th...I feel bad..I would of bought it the day it came out...wut iz it? itz PETE DOHERTY's 1st solo record ever!!
so how iz it?....itz bloody GREAT!! good job Pete. really ..not just saying that ..itz fucking ill...slow doherty like I like it..
lush(?) or plush production should I say on "Last of The English Roses". there's stripped down acoustic numberz"I Am The Rain"...and a full ragtime jazz one "Sweet By and By"..and a KILLER version of a song he's been playin since the LIBERTINES daze..."New Love grow on Tree's".violins!!
and a surf folk rock version of "Palace of Bone"....then the beautiful ballad "Sheepskin Tearaway"...love that one..I have like 10 versions and this iz one of the best..I was hoping for "Darksome Sea" and "Through The Looking Glass" but "Broken Love Song" iz AMAZING...dreammy james bond meets the Beatles w pete singing..."they are theeee lonlieeest...they are theee lonlieest.."
all in all i really liked the album and was impressed even for me ..a self admitted Doherty addict...itz Mellow Pete...like his solo acoustic performance's w some songs fleshed out more w production...if u only like Pete when he's doing garage rock or uptempo stuff ala the Libertine's u might be suprised by how much u could get into thiz dreamy but effective style..and the cover iz sick too!!!
buy it here.....now!!
ya diiig?
MacktraXXX
Monday, March 30, 2009
A Day at the Inkhouse Tat Shop
right side Lil C portrait the "Forever" logo which Franco designed
christ holding cross with heavens and doves above all in memory of chris
back of the leg in progress virgin mary and a crying eye
It was good to see my boyz again, I watched Fluee get some more work done on his leg piece , and I designed and went over pictures for the portrait of LIL C I'm getting, w Franco. Getting it inked in 2 weeks
MackTraXXX
DIRT NASTY meets RIFF RAFF
Alchemist showed Dirt Nasty a youtube of (Houston rapper/reality TV star)Riff Raff a couple months ago. We all got obsessed w the enigmatic magic that dwells inside him...Dirt and Riff Raff started an online relationship...Riff Raff had to come to LA for his MTV show reunion and they finally got to meet each other and talk biz...here iz the video of their 1st meeting. Thiz guy iz for real..itz not an act......enjoy..Expect a lot of things from Riff Raff thiz year! "these boyz wanna know how to bleed blocks too" Thiz guys lingo iz unmatched not even by E40..u will all see soon...Mackey
Friday, March 27, 2009
Random iphoto pic #1
taken during the height of my matching orange hat and hunting jacket combo wearing days. not sure where thiz pic was taken...utah?...idaho? any out there know...the Mack
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Q:WHY Do I DRINK JACK ONSTAGE?
A: Because it turns your rockstar abilities on like a switch.
I saw these guys in 4th grade then in 6th grade for GGG. It changed my life! From then on I wanted to move to Hollywood and be a rockstar. No one puts on a better show then the CRUE. I could go on for days and days. Just watch it. Why do think Beardo's been slingin around a bottle of jack onstage now..? Cuz his DJ iz a bonafied MOTLEY CRUE fiend!!! Vince iz in classic CRUE banter mode.." I tell ya somethin about thiz boy right here, he was voted the sleaziest, sickest, dirtiest mother fucker in the world"!!!....." oh its thursday nite, u should be on your back allready "...." we've .....got a bass player down over here"..."fuckin' down it.. nikki"!!! "fuckin down it SIXX" & " let's get thiz rock n roll fiasco started"...
All HAIL THE BEST THERE IZ>>>MOTLEY FUCKING CRUE!!!!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
the AVE and his ART
thiz shot iz from rehearsal before Aus I think. The AVE iz a brillant (british accent) painter as well as thee best rapper on planet earth...see the paintingz in the background and that iz just a few!
Monday, March 23, 2009
aspiring bands and artists read here!!
A couple things...
1. ahhhh .....sleep!
2. Had a wonderful weekend. thx Nils,Shaun, Em, Kim, Jamie, and my new homie Alfie aka (Alf a Matic)!!!
3. alchemist iz one of the funniest dudes on twitter. the sarcasm master.
4. looks like there iz more rap at sxsw this year.
5. thiz iz wut happens when u r on a tour bus too long (jadakiss got jokes too).
6. i love u Jada but ,kids don't cup ( put your hands around the microphone ) like this..see how it sounds like they r rapping in a tunnel or at the tunnel (sorry i'm old, corny I know.) I liked the performance tho anywayz..alchemist beat right at the jumpoff, then Pac!
7. i am on emily's computer and all the keys are diffferent see look £££ ha... I stole a pic from her computer...there it iz up top of thiz post...itz from the secret show...and look how crazy i look..ha!.....Let's Go!!! (lol)
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
BEARDO iz NUTZ!!!!
This fool iz for real..Why did he really whip out his dick at 3 shows in Oz?!!...Cuz he'z straight on some JIM MORRISON shit. Whiskey is an amazing drug!!
Friday, March 20, 2009
DJ MACKEY is THINKING?
DJ MACKEY is thinking about starting a TWITTER. He is VERY scared tho. He can spend hrs just reading other people's but he knows it is the best marketing tool out now...damn!
JUST WATCH IT!!
I jacked this from Pharell's blog, which is one of my favorite's....anyways someone edited all these individual performances into a song. Like Pharell, I can't believe people have the free time to do this shizz.....and P.S. I'm about to give in to TWITTER...even tho I'm scared very scared.
Video of SECRET SHOW !!!
thx to ALLISON for informing me of this video's existence....Beardo, Mickey and yours truly rockin out at THE ROXY. This video made me a little seasick from all the movement so be warned. Thx to TOM GREEN @ tomgreen.com for the vid and for kissing David Faustino!!
Who's the chocolate chick at the end who looks like Tatiana Ali? Reach out and touch someone ...U r cute!!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
VINTAGE DJ MACKEY!!!
Yes that IS me standing up in the middle with the Corey Feldman mullet. What u know about VARNET foo. On the far left is none other than super video director to the stars JAMES LARESE from SYNDROME. My best friend since we were 5!!! That's who gave me this pic...5th or 6th grade BBALL practice haha!! Good to see ya yesterday JIMBO. I got a sneak peak of a BIG vid he just did for that Marshall Mathers guy. Of course it is AMAZING!!!!!
THX TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO THE SECRET SHOW @ THE ROXY
There was a secret show at the ROXY Tues nite. For those of u that missed it, it was a special stripped down performance w no stage props and no Dirt Nasty :(.. I saw a lot of old friends, wut up REBEL!!, and was getting A LOT OF LOVE!!! It's Kind of been tripping me out lately, the stacks aren't here yet but the perks def are!! 
The soundman at the ROXY is top notch and a very cool DUDE...LEE wut up. he knows what every soundman should....wash the mic's w Listerine between gigs!!!! all the dif in the world!!more soon mack
MICKEY AVALON TATOO'S!!!!!
I was scared for her, but the AVE is actually really good at giving tats. He's an amazing painter so it's really not a suprise I guess.
This pic isn't as good a picture but it shows the Legendary Mark Mahoney watching on the side GLEEMING!!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A night out w my best friends from LONDON.
So I'm back in LA and I love it. Touring around the world is great, but every time I come back home I realize how much I love HOLLYWOOD.
After about 18 hrs of sleep I wake up and remember some of my best friends from London are in town and they are ready to party. A little back story first.
2 coachella's ago Mickey was invited to play onstage w legendary Manchester group The Happy Monday's. Mickey is on a song from their album Uncle Dysfunctional of that same year. So we are hangin tough in the Monday's trailer which was right next to Lily Allen's trailer. Mickey tells me to infiltrate the Lily Allen camp and hook us up. We had become fans of hers right before that and were excited to meet her.
Long story but we end up hitting it off with her crew which was like 10 deep and hung out with them the whole rest of Coachella. The brits know how to party and were impressed that we could hang with their level of debauchery and even add a little to it. haha We had so much fun that we all vowed to keep in touch and I ended up making some new friends for life.
Emily , Lily's manager, and I really hit it off and kept in contact. Lily came to LA last year to finish her album and was nice enough to take Mickey and I to go see Lil Wayne at the House of Blues right when The Carter III had just come out. It was a great show which I will never forget..Lily is a witty little talented smartass ..I love her.
Ok cut to now. I get a message from Emily saying she is in LA and is with another one of the crew , Kim who I haven't seen since the original Coachella meeting. Time to hang! I go meet them at Bar Marmont ( don't ask why there) and there is Kim and Emily along w actress Jamie and 2 boys that are a couple. We are suposed to meet up w Lindsay Lohan as well since Emily's tight w Samantha Ronson and Ms Lohan now too.
Emily is in town finding someone to mix the new group ( The Big Pink) she is managing's record. Em informs me that she no longer manages Lily , but they are still best friends. Her and Lily go way back because Em is best friends w Lil's sister Sarah. Lily and Mickey are a lot alike because they are both demanding to work with and require a lot of attention and concentration from the the people that work for them. So Emily is more relaxed than I've ever seen her and stoked about working with her new group.
We meet up and it's all love. Like I said, I hadn't seen Kim in almost 2 years and I hit it off w Jamie right away. The boys they were with, were great as well, and we proceeded to get pissed (drunk), while waiting for LiLo to show up...
Let's just put it this way if there was a partying category in the Olympics , Britain would win EVERY year.
Lindsay shows up and hangs for an hour or so, then leaves. The rest of us close the place down and move the party to the boys million dollar pad up in Sunset Plaza. Em's playing her new group. I'm showing Jamie and the boys some Mickey Ave, Dirt Nasty, and Beardo and going over my exploits from Australia. Laughs and excitement are bouncing off the walls and each others souls.
Cut to 9am party still going. I crash out literlally on top of Em on the couch, while the party is still going. Everyone is still talking and playing music and I'm out like a rag doll in the middle of it. I somehow make it to a bed and wake up @ 4pm and they are STILL going at it.
I ask for a cab to be called for me and head home.. The girls are here for another week or 2 so loads more fun to come. I'm bringing them to our show at the Roxy on Tues and we are gonna do it all over again..
Funny how you can meet someone once and instantly be best friends...it's cosmic when that happens. I truly adore these girls and can't wait to go to London and go crazy with them in their town...
Jamie took some pix of the night so i will update this post with them when I get em..
Until our next adventure readers....this is DJ MACKEY and I'm out.
Friday, March 13, 2009
this pic sums up the whole trip pretty much
I'm back in LA now.. This flick was taken at an after party in Brisbane by cobrasnake...more soon
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
On the way back to LA folks!!!
DJ Mackey had the best time on tour in Oz and NZ.....last night was wild. Thx to the Goddess of Love from New Zealand for a great night! We are crewing up and getting ready to head to the airport. All my new friends I will be in touch....thx to Von Zipper for everything.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tour Essentials
Raiders chain, new VZ chain, sick unrealeased VZ metal frame shades, lotion for sunburn, MPC beatmachine and my best friend JACK!!
NEW ZEALAND GRAF- AUCKLAND CITY BASQUE PARK
saw some PIECES from my hotel balcony and went and got some flix
STENCIL one
pretty ill
more PIECES
old school
some one's bedroom
some one's living room
Basque Park sign
THANK YOU AUSTRALIA....!!!
We have left Austrailia. It was a great time there..Pix and stories from Brisbane soon. Dirt and Beardo are back in the USA. LC and Jarrah are back in Sydney. Mickey, Chucky, Cobrasnake, Garson , The Pricks and I are in New Zealand now. Pix from here soon too. It's RAD!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
COOLANGATTA SHOW
Suspect B2 & B1
Dirt and Beardo ( w/ corn rows!!) arrive
Rockin out. See the B's tryin to creep up on the right...haha
It was a funny funny nite that ended w me being woken at 8am by a brawl between CERTAIN extended crew members over who?......fucking B2!!!....but thats a whole nother blog
CHICKS = TROUBLE...
photos courtesy of www.reposarphoto.com
TOUR PRANKING 101 and "I'm on The inside cover of THE ROLLING STONE!!!"
Ok wow. A lot has happened since I last checked in. So much stuff gonna tell the story in a couple different blogs. This video was taken a little bit after I calmed down from a tour prank perfectly executed by MICKEY AVALON and the whole crew.
Ok some back story. Some of the names will be abreviated to protect the innocent!(?). Remember my blog about getting to gold coast and meeting some chicks. Well lets call em B1 and B2. B1 slept over the first night at my hotel. Then the second night I stayed at her hotel.
I wake up over at B1's and go back to my hotel. After hanging out with my Aussie mate LC, I realize my SERATO mixer and my PRO TOOLS box is missing? I KNOW I brought it. I imediately think I got jacked by some grommets in the hotel, but our building is secure, the contest riders are here, and no one has been in our room really, except B1 and B2.? But shit they are PAID rollin a beemer why would they steal my equipment? Well I don't know this but MICKEY came in my room in the morning while I was sleeping at B1's and decided to hide my shit and see what happened. So I call the Tour Manager freaking out. Game on. MICKEY comes over and swears it must be the chicks who did it.
Everyone hypes me up playing along telling me all this fake shit. Like B2 was asking weird questions like how much Beardo's camera cost and about my equipment. I even saw B2 snag a ball cap drunk the night before from 7-11 and thought back she must be KLEPTO! Then once everyone was in on it. Cobra or Mickey got B1 and B2's friend "G" to play along and say that she had seen her steal before and pawn shit!! WTF!!? After that intel ,and many other lies told to me I was convinced. Now ....I'm generally a nice guy but I have a bad temper and I can go to 10 quick. Used to always be strapped... u know how it iz ..or maybe u don't. I'm thinking sick sick things at this moment.
So the tour manager tells me we need to get the police involved because we have tour insurance and if we have a police report we can collect.( but really to make sure I didn't physically (SP?)harm anyone...ha) So we needed to bait B1 and B2 back over to the room and film them when I confront them. Everyone's like "I got ya back" and is in the room filming. like 4 cams going. I'm just getting more livid every second. So by now the girls are totally in on the joke and are willing to play along. But they don't know what they are in for. I'm notorious for GOING OFF on people sometimes. My former life as a soundman at an all RAP club (at the time) in LA called CLUB LINGERIE, and adventures in the streets, has hardened me and made me a little crazy. So they come in and I'm on some full FIRST 48 shit cop interviewer steeez. I start calm but escalate quickly literally going off threatening their lives and all this stuff I won't mention. Just roasting B2 like B**** you stole my shit. B1 just has this weird look on her face. Its gets nasty. I'm throwin verbal jabs. They start jabbin...I'm trippin!! Don't worry everyone filmed it. Some one will put it up eventually.
Finally they are like well we can get it back for you. Go in your room. The gear is right on the bed. But I don't see it and I'm still going off hard. I finally realize that it is a joke and I felt sooooooooo mad STILL, but not at the prankster, still at the girls. I Said some classic NIKKI SIXX shit after I knew it was a joke and they were pissed for real. So that game is salted....after I just woke up in bed with one of them that morning...I just couldn't go from level 11 to level 2 like that. Fuck it oh well..more on that later...errr back to the story...Beardo filmed me at about...umm level 8 and I was trying to deal wit it. I did the "I got punked" saying with a smirk for the camera and shouted out RIFF RAFF. Then slowly I started to think it was funny kinda. (Now I think it's HIGHLARIOUS!!) but...took awhile
so here's me about an hour or two after the incident (before the new shave!)....talking about the ordeal briefly...
stay tuned for pix of the show last night and the drama that ensued again around the "B's" ...it was even crazier...oh yeah and ya boy DJ MACKEY IS ON THE INSIDE COVER OF ROLLING STONE AUSTRALIA homie....
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
MINI TENNIIS DAY 2
No pix today but The COBRASNAKE shot the whole thing and will probably have the pix up soon. Team THE PRICKS absolutely SLAUGHTERED the competetion today in windy conditions. They won every game until JARRAH & LC teamed up to form Team AUSTRALIA and they won a match. On a brighter note I played Tommy from Team THE PRICKS 1 on 1 and WON 2-love..Cheers
MACKEY
Monday, March 2, 2009
MINI TENNIS IN COOLY.
Beardo with the slice
Team BEARDO & DIRT NASTY
Team THE PRICKS
Team DJ MACKEY & GARSON
MY TEAM WAS DECLARED THE WINNER!!
3 GAMES IN A ROW!!
I'm BAAAACCCKKKKK...(the wordy post).
Hey EVERYONE. Sorry for the long delay. I have been busy nonstop since I landed in Australia. A hectic schedule and shotty internet performance has kept me from being able to post..
A quick recap:
Day 1: I landed in Melbourne. Got picked up by the Von Zipper reps. Since I was the only one of the crew allready in Melbourne, they took me to their hotel. I had the best night with these guys and made some new good friends!! What up CAM, SCOTTY, MATTY, NATE DOG,TOM, JIMMY and I forgot one name but he was a beast. STOP LIGHTS!!!! and THE GOON....wow.
Day 2: Recovered...all the boys arrived....went to a steak dinner...internet not working at hotel.
Day3: Work madness begins. Instore performance soundcheck at 3pm. Performance @ 4pm.
Straight from there to big gig soundcheck. Everything's good. Big gig performance. All my new mates showed up , ripped it. BEARDO literally gave one of his best performances of his life....amazing. Show was good. Made it to bed @ 4am. One of my best mates that I met last year in Oz ( and who is helping us promote the shows) Jarrah shows up at room at 5am with his 6'5 little brother in rare form. Woke up and didn't go back to sleep really cuz.....
Day 4: Had to get up at 9am to catch a flight to Sydney. Imediately go to sound check for the big gig in Sydney. Nice venue, great sound man, but we had a little tech difficulties resulting in a LONG check. Make it back to hotel exhausted. Too many heads around to sleep and I have to suss out the instore performance for 2morrow. PRE SHOW not feeling to good, tired and my voice was pretty much gone. I literlally didn't think I was gonna be able to perform but made it through like a champion w a little help from my man JACK DANIEL'S. Crazy show, sold out, 1300 AUSSIE's going BONKERS. Dirt Nasty climbed a ladder and jumped off of it professional wrestler style...MICKEY killed it as always..Most of the crew went to an after party in KINGS KROSS..I decided to sleep at me mates house and try to avoid all the partying and people at the hotel so I could rest. Slept and HOUR maybe and the party came to right where I was sleeping. Oh well NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN....
Day 5: Rooftop party @ Hotel today. I'm supposed to spin. Instore performance too today. So off to soundcheck for that. AVALON shows up and we have a mob scene of 12 year olds everywhere..Go back to hotel room to organize my set for upstairs. Ask if they have Serato. Told no, but they REALLY want me to play anyways. Went up to the party like "fuck it I'll just chill" cuz they don't have Serato. I go up there they DO have it and the HIP HOP DJ SUCKS..A lil bummed I didn't spin but glad to have a lil time to check out the scene...Everyone goes out again. I stay in to watch First 48 ( just like back home) and try to rest..
Day 6: Monday, flew to the gold coast where the surf competion is. I was weary about going to a beach town ( cuz I'm a city rat) and almost stayed in Sydney another day. I'm glad I DIDN'T because ever since we landed on the gold coast I'm in HEAVEN. My room is at the nicest hotel where the competion surfers stay. They have internet THAT WORKS...It's fully palatial. No show til thursday or friday....ahhh time off after 5 soundchecks and 5 gigs in 3 days.. I'm breezy now. So some fine women came over and I hit it off with one (wut up B!) She even got me in the ocean!! ( after a lot of vodka) Haven't been in the ocean in 13 years. I love it now. Partied. Got all loud and obnoxious.
Day 7: Today, tuesday the 3rd. Woke up to a beautiful girl next to me and had some breakfast dipped in the ocean and FINALLY got back on the net!! I missed it badly...I have NO idea what is going on in the world...gonna check some stuff out now, but I had to update all of you 1st!
more later and pix
shouts to CHUCKY, JARRAH,TREECE, BROPHY from the PRICKS, THE PROTECTOR's , TOMMY, GEORGE, MICAH and ASHLEY for working so hard. And a special thanks to all the lovely fans I have met as well.
MACKEY
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