The Rocket 808 LP came out at the end of 2019, and I had big plans to tour a bunch to let the world know. Luckily, nothing at all came up to disrupt these plans…
Now, the first and only Rocket 808 show of 2021 will be Thursday, September 23rd at the Railgarten in Memphis, TN, the first night of Gonerfest:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd at RAILGARTEN
5:30 Opening ceremonies with Ross Johnson
5:45-6:15 Alicja Pop
6:30-7 Rocket 808
7:15-7:45 Smirk
8-8:45 Human Eye
9-9:45 Jack Oblivian and The Sheiks
10-10:45 Negative Approach
11-12:15 Quintron and Pussycat
I have had one new release since all this went down – the 45 box set tribute to Bo Diddley on Black Gladiator! My cut is a version of Let Me Pass:
I’ll be playing this in Memphis – for the first and maybe only time in history! Be there!
At the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, I made it to Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, but I had hoped to make it to a lot more cities. I went to Los Angeles in February 2020 to play with old friends The Guilty Hearts, and was going to play SXSW just a couple of weeks later, then, you know…
Rocket 808 