Thursday, March 6, 2008

how we met king khan

the first time i met KK was in munich germany, about a week into our first european tour. I had heard very little about him at that point. Only posters of his giant face plastered all over evry club in france and germany. I was just finishing my dinner that the club had cooked for me when a wild eyed indian man in an old german kaiser hat comes up and excitedly introduces himself to me as "blacksnake", then sat down and yammered on talking a mile a minute. I thought he was out of his mind on speed or something but he wasnt. He had hitchiked down from is home in kassel, germany just for the show. We got along pretty well, but we all thought he was crazy. he never stopped talking. The show finally got started and i was doing merch. he was high stepping all over the club and talking to everyone real loud and laughing like a mad man. He came over to the merch table and pulls out his dick and pees on some of our tshirts, then pees into a bottle and tries to drink it and spat it out everywhere. then threw the bottle. Me and cole were kinda pissed because we didn't know him. but he was still funny and charming. We finally start to play and i notice glass bottles being broken everywhere. He was breaking everybottle he could get his hands on, then jumping onstage and screaming. After that he came out with a massive bowl of salad and threw that everywhere. It was getting slippery and chaotic, and i had already slipped and cut my hand on the glass. So he came up and grabbed my hand and drank my blood, and declared us blood brothers. Then he went back to the kitchen and grabbed a huge cake(it was the promoters birthday) and he grabbed big chunks and smeared it everywhere, and on everybody. The germans were terrified. I didn't know what to think. After the show the place was destroyed. A bunch of german girls were following him around and screaming at him and telling us "king khan is not your friend" e turned the show into his own debacle. Backstage we were trying to do an interview, but the angry german girls followed and kept screaming at him. There was a table with about 100 or so beers on it and i guess out of frustration he cleard the whole table. every bottle. It was a fiasco. Interview over. We were asked to leave with our new friend. We got banned from the venue. A few weeks later i wrote him and his family a letter. We played with the shrines for the first time a month after that, and we have been best friends ever since. It took alot of thought. do i love him or hate him. Turns out we love him

56 comments:

Uncle_Max said...

That might just be the best story I've ever read.

kingcon said...

That's Khan alright. First time I met him wasn't that crazy but we did tell everyone we were cousins and got offered THREE blow jobs, that's right THREE. Ofcourse one was from a drunk guy but whatever.

Nicky Peacock said...

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bdtrppr6 said...

hey!
couldn't figger an email addy here, so i thought i'd just post here. there is a boot of the chicago show here,

http://onabadtrip.blogspot.com/

hope this is okay. you guys rock! thanks for a great show!

it's magic time!

bdtrppr6

Unknown said...

Ha, Ha...great to read this...remember that night quite
well. There are some details I forgot and some I didnt know. But it wasn't Munich, it was in Münster at the club "Gleis 22". It was my birthday. I booked that Black Lips show as (sort of) birthday present for myself. Even with all the chaos (and partly because of it) I enjoyed that show and the whole experience a lot. It was a great way to turn 40, comparing other peoples lame 40th birthdays. In a way it was more like an out of control childrens birthday with body fluids, cake, salad and what else flying through the air (okay; there are no broken beer bottles on children partys:).
Yes, you're right - some people were very angry (in case of my co-workers and the cooking team at the club that was quite easy to understand, for my part i was too drunk to bother about the whole mess...), but one half of the audience were very amused and thrilled about that whole night.
I would say that about 50% hated you and 50% liked you (and King Khan) at that show. There are a lot of people still speaking with fond memories (or with horror) of that glorious superchaotic gig! I think you can fill a book with crazy Khan storys, and this first meeting with the B.Lips in Münster is sure one of the funniest. I didnt know the part that he peed on your t-shirts...of course it was just his way to say that he loves you.
Interesting to read that you didnt know what to think of him at first,
can understand that, because even for his wildman standards he was very extreme at that night. He can be too much some time, but i think in the end he is a great guy with a big heart. The point with the "banned from the club" isnt quite true (maybe I explained it wrongly), because there is no existing private owner or club manager of the(kinda public) Gleis 22 who could do such a thing,it was just the fact that 3 of my co-workers (behind the bar and at the door) and the soundman told me that they dont wanna experience another Black Lips show and wouldnt work at another of your shows. You were still at the Gleis during the aftershow party. Nobody wanted you to leave the club, but maybe you had the impression with terrified
germans screaming at KK and you.
There were even some people angry on me for inviting you and for not stopping the disaster. One year later I booked you at another Münster club ("Luna Bar" again with Mr. King "Super-lunatic" Khan, again very spectacular, with fake blood and razor foam, musically a lot better than the year before, definetely one of my favourite shows I have ever booked) ,but in 2006 it was the Gleis again, that time a solid show, but a little to stoned (Mushrooms?) from your side. I tried to book you again for this april (you are still one of my favourite bands), but sadly it didnt work out with the agency. Hope for later this year, in case you're doing some more german dates. Sorry for the bad english, hopefully you understood my part of the story! If you want to get in touch... www.myspace.com/recordriot
Markus (From Münster/Germany)

Unknown said...

I really love him for calling me from some Swiss girl's living room half an hour after the show I booked for him and his Canadian friend had started, telling me he was with BBQ at the Swiss-Uzbekistany border and that they wouldn't let him cross it cuz his papers had expired... good thing I had booked a band to open his show that actually showed up. El Conquistador and three of his Italian fratellis weren't that much amused after their four hour drive, one of them has a gift for both the canucks that fits in one hand, I don't know if he already delivered it to them or if it still has to reach their nose, who knows perhaps it is still waiting around the corner. Anyway I was told to hand out a letter to BBQ which I did hand out in deed, it wasn't too flattering judging from his reaction while reading it, anyway what's that with allmusic telling about your record on bomp we knew best http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=BLACK|LIPS&sql=11:jcfwxqe0ldae~T2

is that already out there or what?

and here is a picture of that show with the foam
http://www.webalice.it/tsorvillo/banners/20060624-blacklips-FLYER-web-w424-big.jpg

finally here's khan sending greetings to you with BBQ in the background
http://www.quadorb.net/photo-tiberio-sorvillo/kingkhan/kingkhan.jpg

no wait there's one more thing here, it says: you got one free year, of live and work in the USA for free! how great is that... I wish I could win this as well and then go to Guantanamo for some showers and workout in an orange track suit, if you don't believe it check this http://www.quadorb.net/pricklypeabowls/yougotonefreeyearofliveandworkintheusa.gif

que te vaya bien! sincerely your driver and wine pusher, obladioblada

Unknown said...

that's great! the links I posted have been cut off, alright I'll try some HTML. Have fun!

this is the greeting card from king khan and BBQ

http://www.quadorb.net/photo-sorvillo/khan.jpg

and this is the prrof of your new life about to begin

http://www.quadorb.net/ppb/usa.gif

Unknown said...

prrof, poof or proof I'll leave it up to you... luca is saying hi as well

rocknroll nurse said...

My first introduction to King Khan was via a tape that my friend Ralf Brandt from Germany sent me. The first live show that I saw was here in Memphis with BBQ & I was officially a fan of both after that great experience. Their next Memphis show is only 2 weeks away(11/19/08) & I can't wait. My favorite picture of KK is featured on myspace/rocknroll nurse giving me a kiss along with Roman of Redondo Beat..great night..gotta love 'em.

jdhatl said...

I was there, it was Münster, the German cultural phobia about vomiting was involved. We all stayed at the promoter's apartment. I have a recording of that show (somewhere!)
-Justin

Chad__hayes said...

Haha King Khan is a riot. I met him once I was leaving the building were i just finished my Grad and there was a local festival and Im with my parents, and who comes down the street but King Khan I was like your fuckin King Khan he was yelled back at me ya man lets get a grad photo together. All the kids that i went to school with me were looking at me all weird at me cause I was so pumped to get a photo with this guy in a blue hawaiian shirt. Best part of Grad Hands down

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