Photo By maryelle st. clare on Flickr
Edit: I just noticed this was announced in Feb., but it looks like most of the offers still stand.
If you’ve been playing drums for any amount of time, you’ve had to of heard the name Josh Freese. He’s played with everyone from Katy Perry, To Guns and Roses, To The Vandals, and Nine inch Nails.
Recently Josh has released his new CD – “From 1972″ and with this release has come a whole new way to sell CD’s. Josh has setup a tiered pricing system that gets you everything from a digital download to
“Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR we play ‘quarters’ and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.”
Here is the way the pricing breaks down (remember some of these are limited so they may be sold out at the time of this posting)
- $7 – Get’s you the digital download
- $15 – Get’s you a CD/DVD Double Disc Set and the digital download
- $50 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt*
- THANK YOU phone call, from josh, for buying “Since 1972″
- $250 – This Package Is Currently Sold Out… sorry
- $500 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt*
- Signed Cymbal and sticks.
- Meet me in Venice, CA and we go floating in a Sensory Deprivation Tank (filmed and posted on youtube).
- Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and “all you can eat” Shrimp on)
- $1,000 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt*
- Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks.
- Josh washes your car OR does your laundry….or you can wash his car.
- Have dinner with Josh aboard the “Queen Mary” in Long Beach, CA
- Drinks at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach and afterwards cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)
- $2,500 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt**
- I give you a drum lesson. Or (for all you non-drummers) I’ll give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
- Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and I to either the “Hollywood Wax Museum”. Or if you’re not into that we can do the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
- A signed DW snare drum.
- Take 3 items of your choice out of my closet (first come, first serve).
- Change diapers and make bottles with me for an afternoon (preferably AFTER the lunch buffet at the Strip club).
- $5,000 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt **
- I write a song entirely about you and put it up on Itunes (also on upcoming record that I’m working on now).
- Then you and I “co-direct” a video for the song I write about you and throw it on youtube.
- *I give you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland.
- Have Blue Margaritas at El Torito. If you don’t drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the “Tuba Tree.”
- Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on “Since 1972″
- $10,000 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt**
- Go on Joe Escalante’s Indie 103.1 radio show and talk about the package you just purchased. Maybe even play a few hot tracks.
- Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle tour 2000-2001.
- Drum lesson or his and hers foot/back massage.
- We go to lunch at “Club 33″ (super exclusive, private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribean) and hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the “Tower Of Terror, The TIki Room and The Haunted Mansion”)
- At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in my Volvo. It’s all yours…..take it. Just drop me off at home on your way out though please.
- $20,000 – Sorry, this one is sold out too
- $75,000 – Get’s you:
- Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
- T-shirt**
- Come out on tour with me for a few days.
- I write, record and market a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
- Take home any of my drumsets (only one but you can pick which one)
- Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR we play “quarters” and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
- If you have a band, I’ll join it for a month….play shows, record a CD together, have a swim party, etc…. or none of the above. We could also just sit in yer basement and jam old Van Halen.
OR…
If you don’t have a band I’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks….10 am to 5 pm) and then we take a limo down to Tijuana and I’ll show you how it’s done (what that means I can’t legally get into here, right this minute). - If you don’t live in LA but are in the USA I will come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
- Take a Flying Trapeze lesson together in the San Fernando Valley and then Robin from NIN and his wife make us raw lasagna.
If nothing else, I’m definitely going to grab the digital download since Josh has been one of my inspirations for years now… Any of you plan on spending big bucks to actually go and meet Josh? Let me know in the comments.
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