PHYSICAL RELEASE APRIL 14
The digital pre-release of Josh Freese’s Since 1972 that began March 24 exclusively at joshfreese.com has already seen several of the album’s more lavish versions sell, including the $20,000 limited edition of one that features such bonus material as a miniature golfing trip with members of Tool and Devo, a night aboard the Queen Mary, 2 songs written about the purchaser and made available on iTunes, a drum lesson or foot and back massage, any 3 items out of Freese’s closet and more.
Additionally, the $250 limited edition of 25 that includes lunch with Freese at P.F. Chang’s or the Cheesecake Factory has completely sold out, two of the $5000 limited edition of 3 and one of the $2500 limited edition of 5 have sold. The unlimited $50 version that includes a thank you call from Freese continues to sell briskly.
Since 1972 will be released to conventional retail on April 14.
Josh Freese has been playing drums professionally since his debut with a Disneyland Top 40 band at the age of 12. His recording and touring credits include work with the Vandals, Devo, A Perfect Circle, Guns N’ Roses, Sting, the Replacements and a host of others. Most recently, he left Nine Inch Nails following the completion of the band’s Lights In The Sky Over North America tour.
Since 1972, like his 2000 album The Notorious One Man Orgy, features Freese singing and playing more or less everything: vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass and of course drums. Unlike previous solo Freese records, Since 1972 is available in a total of eleven configurations, ranging from a basic $7 digital download that also includes three videos to a $75,000 limited edition of 1 that includes one of Freese’s drum kits, a flying trapeze lesson and Freese either joining the purchaser’s band or becoming his or her personal assistant for one month.
A list of configurations still available is detailed below. For further information, contact Steve Martin or Amy Grote at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e amy@nastylittleman.com
JOSH FREESE: SINCE 1972
$7
–Digital Download of “Since 1972” (including 3 videos)
$15
–CD/DVD Double Disc Set
–Digital Download
$50
–CD/DVD Double Disc Set
–T-shirt
–“Thank You” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like ‘Is Maynard really THAT weird?’ or ‘Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?’ or ‘Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?’ or ‘Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?’ It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.
$500 (limited edition of 15)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Signed Cymbal and sticks
–Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together 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 (limited edition of 10)
–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
–Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)
$2,500 (limited edition of 5–FOUR REMAINING)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
–Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him 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 Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
–Signed DW snare drum.
–Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
–Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)
$5,000 (limited edition of 3–ONE REMAINING)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
–T-shirt
–Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes.
–Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes.
–Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
–Get drunk together. 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 (limited edition of 1)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour.
–Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
–Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken n’ Waffle in Long Beach for dinner.
–Josh takes you and guest to “Club 33” (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror)
–At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours….take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.
$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
–Signed CD/DVD and digital download
–T-shirt
–Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
–Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
–Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
–Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
–Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….
–If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
–Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
–If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
–Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.