GUEST BLOG: TODAY IS THE DAY’S STEVE AUSTIN

So we rolled into Chicago on April 1 on a mission to destroy. The club was ready and so was the crowd. (1) Broken mic stand, (2) smashed guitars, (3) a shitload of blood, and the show was over.

So it was time to go out on the town and tear up more shit. We got invited to stay at Dylan’s place; Dylan is the owner of Emperor Custom Guitar Cabs & Cases. While we were there, they asked me if any of our gear needed any repairs. We brought all of my cabs in their shop and they started fixin’ ’em! I had been playing on the same 1969 Marshall cabs for the last 20 years and couldn’t see myself ever not playing them. But under the shop lights the damage that had been done to them over the years was obvious. Dylan suggested that we pull my vintage 25-watt Celestions speakers out of the old silver guitar cabs and mount ’em in some new Emperor cabs. Talk about cool dudes and real people. The cabs they hooked me up were made of oak and I wanted to cover the speakers in oxblood grill cloth, which they had very little of. So, in midday fuckin’ traffic, those guys jumped in the car and drove four hours roundtrip to go get the oxblood grill cloth!


When they returned I tried like hell to give ’em cash, but they said no way. They worked on my cabs for 13 hours that day. As night came we needed to eat and rock out, so we headed over to ONLY THE COOLEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD called Kuma’s Corner. We walk in and fuckin’ Burzum is BLASTING through the speakers and shitloads of rocker dudes and chicks are all there eating the hugest, sickest freakin’ burgers I have ever seen in my life. We and our buddies from Mouth of the Architect were in heaven! Blasting black metal on the jukebox LOUDER than a live band and awesome food.


Alex, the owner, poured 14 shots at a time for all of the guys in Mouth and Today Is the Day, and we fuckin’ stayed until after they closed that night. Went to pay the $750 tab and Alex said, “No way, man, I love Today Is the Day, and it’s the least I can do.” Fuck it, we gave the waitress a $200 tip and split back to the Emperor Cabs factory. When we got there my rig was completed and it LOOKED FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!! I plugged that shit in and started rippin’ our song “The Descent,” and man, oh man! I was SO goddamn happy. My sound was bigger than EVER, and the cabs just sounded so organic and warm. Fell asleep on the floor next to my cabs. Sometimes life is really, really good.



Today Is the Day with tourmates Mouth of the Architect, Complete Failure, and Psyopus.