Halloween 2005

Ok, so I’m a little late updating this. Sorry. For this one, I turn over the blogging to Bobby Mullett of The White Leppard Crue…………..

Halloween weekend was a nutty one. It started with Stone Cold Fox on Asheville on Friday night. Pretty decent crowd. It was good to see Dave there. Seems like he has been working days for a while now. Also, seems like the OJ’s Dawg Pound was back in action. Haven’t seen them as much lately. So afterwards we headed back to the mountaineer for some shut eye. For anyone that doesn’t know, The Mountaineer is a historical landmark motel in Asheville. As far as a review of the place, well you should probably just check out hotel review sites on the web. This is OJ’s blog and we intend to keep it that way.

On Saturday morning, after visiting the local Waffle House, along with Johnny Angel, and Rick Lethal, Johnny and I hit the road for Greenville, SC. Not a bad ride. We got there checked in and then headed downtown to find a place to watch the Georgia/Florida game. Unfortunately the dawgs lost. That’s ok, they will still be SEC Champs at the end of the season. And the Gators will still be the SEC Chumps.

So usually, we load in to the wild wing around 8:30pm or so. That’s usually a good time cause the crowd hasn’t gotten there yet. And it gives us about 2 hours to get set up, grab a bite, and change before playtime. Well, we got there about 8:45 and it was slam packed! Apparently they started the costume contest a little early. Not only that but the Clemson game guys where on the stage broadcasting and we couldn’t get on the stage to set up. We finally were able to get up there around 9:30 and had to hustle getting set up. Luckily the management told to start a little late anyway since we were pushing forward on our clocks due to daylight wasting time change.

Once the show got going, Boogaloo came out rockin’. They started with a short version of Thriller. The crowd was into it and the party had begun. And once again, even the devilish Creeper showed up. (And as per her instructions, I must prove it with a picture).Simon had that crowd in the palm of his hands. I think a few people in the crowd thought that Semicolon was merely wearing a costume for Halloween. They didn’t really know that he is now Nigel “juicyfruit” Johnson.

At the break, they told us to hang out for a while and to take a longer break than normal while the DJ’s ran the costume contest.

Once the Crue came out, the real party started. Not only cause it was Halloween, and time change day. It was also Johnny Angel’s birthday. So with that we got the crowd to sing happy birthday to him. The DJ’s were tore up from the floor up. Because of the time change we ended up playing till almost 2:30 in the morning. The next day’s ride back to Atlanta was a bit rough. Oh well, so is the life of the Crue.

See ya soon,

Bobby Mullett

Semicolon has returned to his roots.

Looks like Semicolon has returned to his roots and gone back to using his name before he changed it. Ladies & Gentlemen, give it up for Nigel "Juicy Fruit" Reynolds.

Happy Birthday Asheville! And OJ too! -- October 7th, 8th, & 9th

First of all, let me start this post by sayin' Happy birthday to the Asheville Wild Wing. That's right it was one year ago that Asheville opened it's doors. Not only that, but their first weekend featured The Fox. And Not only that , but that night was the debut of Orange Julius Jackson as the full time bass player in the SCF family. So happy anniversary to me!

Now, let' go back a day or so........ Friday night, we played a new place called the Fieldhouse in Dacula, GA. It was rockin'!. A nice place with a great staff, Ron and David took great care of Rolo, OJ, Chest and Disco Stu (Jackie was on vacation knockin' some heads in the big Apple.). You should have seen the dressin room. Talkin about pimped out?!? It made the back of Rolo's van look like a hospital waiting room. Once Rolo and his boys hit the stage, the folks hit the dance floor pretty hard. We hope to return to the Fieldhouse very soon in the near future.

Now, down to he business at hand...........Birthday. Saturday not only was Asheville's 1 year birthday, but it was also their Wingstock. They had a star studded line up featuring Craven Melon, Elecrtric Boogaloo, The White Leppard Crue and Stone Cold Fox. They also had some fireworks and birthday cake for all to enjoy. Craven Melon went on first. They sounded great, but suddenly in the middle of their second set, Disco Stu was playing drums with them and it was off the hook.

After that, there were some fireworks. I even spied Dave, one of the owners drinking a Jeagerbomb through the ice sculpture. Happy b-day Dave!

Then it was time for Boogaloo to hit the stage. I tell you what, those English fellas sure can play. Frankie Fairlight was wailing on that cool yamaha of his. I also heard that someone mistakenly introduced their bass player, Semicolon, as Orange Julius Jackson and it got the crowd in to a tizzie. That's ok, if anything it reminded them all that Daddy was indeed in the house.

After a brief pause for the cause, The Crue came out with Bobby Mullet's brother Donny Mullet singing lead. After the first song they explained that Rick Lethal had been incarcerated earlier that day. Last we heard, his lawyers were working furiously hard to get him out by this Friday in time to play the Wing in Suwanee. Those boys packed the dance floor on through midnight.

Finally around 12:30, the headliners came out and put on a disco show to rival all others. It was cragy! We had ladies on the stage, in the dressin' room, on the bus. They just couldn't get enough of the Fox that night. Our good friends Will & Michelle were in the house snappin a few photos....... I hope to get those and post some here very soon. Special thanks that night to Dave and Colin for taking god care of us the past year and into the future.

Sunday, we played a place called Tavern On The Bridge in Duluth, GA.....only a couple of miles from my shack so you know I was happy about that. It was Disco Party Night. We had some very special guests in the house. The Lixx Band! www.lixxband.com That's right, Nikki Lixx and her crew came out to see The Fox. We even got Luna to sing one with the Reverend. Special thanks to them for coming out.

Well that about does it for this week. Stay tuned for news from this weekend's shows in Suwanee. Word on the street is that Semicolon is going through some changes.

later.

OJJ

www.scfentertainment.com

Greenville, SC. 8/26 & 8/27 2005

This weekend the SCF tour bus rolled in to G’Vegas South Cakalaka! The word from Rick Lethal and his AquaNet Squad is that all went well. With the Boogaloo in the house, I don’t see how it could ever go wrong. I even heard that Creeper mad an appearance. And even crazier, Johnny Angel was rumored to have come out front to sing lead on a song. I’d possibly trade my big purple hat just to see that!

Saturday afternoon, some of our road crew found a pretty cool record store downtown. This place has bar, did I mention that they have a bar. Nice place to hang if they get a big screen to watch the game. They also had computers were not only you listen to samples, but you can create your own mix disc. I had to sneak down there later and make my own mix disc loaded with plenty of Maceo Parker. If you haven’t heard of Maceo before, he used to be James brown’s sax playa. Nowadays he tours with his own Funk band as well as Prince. Trust OJ, this guy is the truth when it comes to funk. Check out his website at http://maceo.com/, you’ll be glad you did.

Now, down to the business of Stone Cold Fox at the Greenville Wing………… The place was off the hook. It was standing room only in that place. The Right Reverend Rolo P. Coltrane was even singin’ in the balcony at one point. That guy definitely has a talent for getting in weird places with a non-wireless microphone.

Special thanks to Deacon Ray Ray for comin’ out and snapin’ photos and getting some video. The pics came out great. Haven’t seen the video yet, but I’m sure it’s great. The Deacon has similar skills to Rolo in finding himself in some odd vantage points.

On a side note, the Stone Cold Fox website is up and running. It is still slightly under construction, but our webmaster is working ever so diligently to get it complete very soon. You can view the schedules of Stone Cold Fox, Electric Boogaloo and The White Leppard Crue on the site currently. The next step of the process is adding a section for each band that will features pictures and bios and things like that.

Next week we will be at the Tiki Hut. Check it out if you’re near.

And on a personal note……. GO DAWGS!

oj

Introduction

Hello, my name is Orange Julius Jackson. You are probably here cause you were groovin to the sounds of Stone Cold Fox somewhere or another. The purpose of this blog is to have a place to get things off my mind and to answer your questions and hopefully have some fun along the way. If you have a question, you can email it to this address. Ojjackson@bellsouth.net. From time to time, or maybe more frequently, this blog will have special guest bloggers such as the Right Reverend Rolo P. Coletrane or my main man, The Italian Stalion, Jackie Diamond. So sit back and relax, and we'll see you at the shows.