It has been a mad house in the DRAXSEN camp since the release of Chronic Pain. Launching the album is usually a fun thing to do after all you are pushing a product that you are proud of as well as passionate about. But DRAXSEN is not just another band sweating it out up and down the highways setting up in gin socked bars and small rooms that you can get the obligatory 50 fans it that makes the venue a sell-out and more often than not you barely cover the cost. It’s not that we snob our noses at the music scene or we think we are too good or better than that, it’s just that we had to adapt to the changing face of music a lot quicker than most bands as we can't play live gigs! We cannot book Thursdays to Sunday nights for three months straight and sleep on venue floors or the back of an old VW wagon or a friend of a friends work van. We can drink and get smashed before going on stage and thinking you’re as tight as all hell only to hear a taped copy of the show from the front of house mixing table and you sound like shit. Don’t get me wrong before our injuries we loved that life and lived every second of it.
DRAXSEN had to change a long time ago, before the internet really kicked in. It was forced upon us and we either swan or sunk. Yes it has been ten years, But DRAXSEN didn’t sink. We sort of floated until the current drifted us close enough to shore that we got a hold and pulled ourselves up. It was hard at times. It was during this period that we each suffered our injuries. Now I’m not going to expand on then, it’s not my place, but we each now have our personal issues as a result of the injuries and neither of us are the same. I will say though we all are having a tuff time when we have to go through a withdrawal faze which is a monthly process. Zan was the one that came up with the idea of syncing our withdrawal faze enabling us to have about 2 1/2 weeks out of every month that we get to work together, still it’s harder than it seems. The valium that relaxes the muscles affects your short term memory, so remembering lyrics or a riff that you’re working is very frustrating. During the week after the withdrawal faze we also need anti depression which make you drowsy , so we can only work in short brakes at a time before one of us falls asleep. The pain killers have many side effects, one of which is anxiety which causes you to shake or tremor, which makes it hard to keep time and hold anything. In short we are a bunch of old farts that cannot remember their parts and lyrics while shaking with tremors and fall asleep during recording sessions and cannot be too far from a toilet because another side effect from pain killers is incontinent.
So we have made the best out of a bad situation and we hope that you might understand where we are coming from. I’m just glad that we finally get to live our dream, even though it is somewhat restricted, we really do meet all of the requirements it takes to be a band. Sex drugs and Rock N roll and in case you’re wondering yes we do get sex you snug bastards lol.
DRAXSEN had to change a long time ago, before the internet really kicked in. It was forced upon us and we either swan or sunk. Yes it has been ten years, But DRAXSEN didn’t sink. We sort of floated until the current drifted us close enough to shore that we got a hold and pulled ourselves up. It was hard at times. It was during this period that we each suffered our injuries. Now I’m not going to expand on then, it’s not my place, but we each now have our personal issues as a result of the injuries and neither of us are the same. I will say though we all are having a tuff time when we have to go through a withdrawal faze which is a monthly process. Zan was the one that came up with the idea of syncing our withdrawal faze enabling us to have about 2 1/2 weeks out of every month that we get to work together, still it’s harder than it seems. The valium that relaxes the muscles affects your short term memory, so remembering lyrics or a riff that you’re working is very frustrating. During the week after the withdrawal faze we also need anti depression which make you drowsy , so we can only work in short brakes at a time before one of us falls asleep. The pain killers have many side effects, one of which is anxiety which causes you to shake or tremor, which makes it hard to keep time and hold anything. In short we are a bunch of old farts that cannot remember their parts and lyrics while shaking with tremors and fall asleep during recording sessions and cannot be too far from a toilet because another side effect from pain killers is incontinent.
So we have made the best out of a bad situation and we hope that you might understand where we are coming from. I’m just glad that we finally get to live our dream, even though it is somewhat restricted, we really do meet all of the requirements it takes to be a band. Sex drugs and Rock N roll and in case you’re wondering yes we do get sex you snug bastards lol.
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