| Corrosion
of Conformity Recovering From Hurricane
Katrina
European Tour Dates With Motorhead Postponed
C.O.C.
Plans U.S. Tour with Disturbed
CORROSION
OF CONFORMITY have been forced by Hurricane
Katrina to postpone their scheduled U.K.
tour dates and European tour with Motorhead.
A New Orleans resident, C.O.C. lead vocalist/guitarist
Pepper Keenan evacuated the city with his
family, leaving behind his house and Magazine
Street bar, Le Bon Temps Roulé. Keenan
and his family are staying temporarily in
Lake Charles, Louisiana and awaiting word
on when they will be able to return home.
"It wouldn't feel right standing on
stage singing songs at a time like this,"
Keenan says. "My priority right now
is to get back home and help rebuild my
city."
C.O.C. 's latest album, In The Arms Of God,
struck a powerful chord in the hard rock
world, with Billboard praising it as a "riff-fueled
set that ranks with [the band's] best work"
and Rolling Stone honoring it with a 3.5-star
review. Keenan, guitarist/vocalist Woody
Weatherman and bass guitarist/vocalist Mike
Dean were joined on the album by special
guest drummer Stanton Moore, a member of
the highly respected, New Orleans-based
jazz/funk band Galactic. Moore is a longtime
friend of Keenan's and also a Crescent City
native.
Written last year, the album's fifth song,
“Rise River Rise,” sounds eerily
prescient in the wake of Katrina: "I
remember you, seems like yesterday/Do you
remember me? I got lost on the way/Wrong
muddy road is nothing new/We stand, but
this river's washing through/River rise
from teardrops without warning/Float away
while flooding yesterday/I'm gone I won't
be back by mourning/So rise river rise/Wash
this place away/Clean my dirty soul/So I
can save it for Judgment Day."
Living two blocks from the Mississippi in
the city's Carrollton section, Keenan often
walked along the levee and contemplated
what would happen if the river overflowed.
He found out last month. As the storm approached,
Keenan boarded up his bar, his mother's
house and the house of his friend, jazz
drummer Johnny Vidakovich. By the time Keenan
got back to his own home, the wind was howling.
It was time to go. He grabbed a duffel bag
of clothes, the Grammy medal C.O.C. earned
when their song "Drowning in a Daydream"
off Wiseblood was nominated for Best Metal
Performance in 1997, and his old National
resonator guitar before joining the exodus
in his truck. He has visited the city briefly
since the flood; while his house and bar
are still standing, the bar was shot at
and looted. Meanwhile, the area remains
without power, sewer or running water.
"There are a lot of songs in this experience,
that's for damn sure, " Keenan says.
C.O.C. plan to tour again in support of
In The Arms Of God, this time opening for
metal titans Disturbed.
For more information, visit:
www.coc.com
www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com
COC dates with Disturbed include:
11/04
Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
11/05
Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
11/07
Kansas City, KS Uptown Theatre
11/08
Saint Louis, MO The Pageant
11/10
Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
11/11
Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
11/13
Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
11/14
Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
11/16
Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
11/17
Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
11/18
Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
11/21
Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/22
Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/24
Chicago, IL House Of Blues
11/25
Chicago, IL House Of Blues
11/26
Chicago, IL House Of Blues
11/29
Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
11/30
Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
12/02
Boston, MA Avalon
12/03
Boston, MA Avalon
12/05
Portland, ME State Theatre
12/06
Portland, ME State Theatre
12/08
Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
12/09
Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
12/11
Atlantic City, NJ House Of Blues
12/13
New York, NY Nokia Theatre Times Square
12/14
New York, NY Nokia Theatre Times Square
12/16
Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
12/17
Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
12/19
Washington DC 9:30 Club
12/20
Washington DC 9:30 Club
12/22
Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
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