Tony Reed to Play Drums on Mos Generator’s East Coast Tour
This year has already brought a handful of surprises from long-running Port Orchard, Washington, heavy rock trio Mos Generator. Like a new lineup. And touring. And live records. And splits. If you don’t believe me, go back a few posts. Today the hyper-active riffers keep the thread going with the announcement that Tony Reed, founder, songwriter and driving force behind the band, will step back from playing guitar on their upcoming East Coast tour in order to fill-in on drums.
He’ll still be singing, but I’m pretty sure this marks a first for Mos Generator, though Reed‘s history drumming goes back farther than that. Reed and still-relatively-newcomer bassist Sean Booth will be joined by new guitarist Scott Riley for the run — which ends giving them just one day’s break before they leave for a European tour with Elder — as the man himself explains:
2015 has been a very hectic and interesting year for Mos Generator. I have had many firsts since January, including playing acoustic shows and doing the longest U.S. tour of my career. Since the split with the original rhythm section in September of 2014 it’s been a rough road keeping a complete rhythm section intact. I’m not surprised, I knew it would be tough but I never thought I would have to end up playing drums and singing for some dates. As I am writing this I am thinking to myself that this is complete insanity, but, as insane as it sounds I am also looking forward to the challenge. So… May 5 through May 13, rather than cancel the tour I will turn my guitar duties over to my old friend Scott Riley and I will mount the kit with one of those horrible Sammy Hagar microphones and do my damnedest. It’s a good thing we’ve got the steady bass playing of Sean Booth to keep it all together. He’ll be the only one that doesn’t look like a deer in headlights. TR
MOS GENERATOR on tour:
with Wounded Giant
6/3 Sioux Falls, SD, Total Drag Records
6/5 Philadelphia, PA, Millcreek Tavern
6/6 Baltimore, MD, The SideBar (Moving The Earth Fest)
6/7 Washington DC, The Pinch
6/9 New Haven, CT, Three Sheets
6/10 Cambridge, MA, TT The Bear’s
6/11 Dover, NH, Dover Brickhouse
6/12 Portland, ME, Empire
6/13 Amityville, NY, Amityville Music Hall (Eye Of The Stoned Goat 5)
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If Phil Collins can do it, you should have no problems!!!
I know Tony can do it, and do it well. I understand the van hagar mic I never understood why more singing drummers don’t utilize that.