G-d told me to go on tour with a punk band called CAN!!CAN.
No shit, I wish I were making this up.
I’d love to wake up in the morning, eat a bagel, go to work in a cubicle Office Space style and fly under the radar for the rest of my life. But I can’t. As The Blues Brothers said, "we’re on a mission from G-d".
It came to me like a flash in the dark; like a warm feeling in my stomach after eating hot tomato soup on a cold day. I need to go on tour with my band. I need to sing about spirituality, G-d’s love for humanity, tikkun olam, olam haba and all the things that drove me crazy-in-love with my creator.
And I needed to do it through indie punk, hipster metal and noise pop.
So I started messaging some friends; frum-punks, hippiedox kids, tattooed Reform rejects…anyone who would listen to what I was trying to do.
It worked out. My tour is being guided by the great people at Shemspeed, Artists4Israel, ModernTribe.com, Frumsatire.com, HeebnVegan, Bahay Shalom, Birthright Israel – Next, PresenTense…you name it! And I get to work with some awesome cats like Y-Love, Matthue Roth, Diwon, DeScribe, Stereo Sinai, Juez, Darshan and others.
The greatest thing that ever happened to me was waking up and realizing that my life was no longer about me anymore. Luckily, G-d saw it fit that the one thing I’m good at, playing in a rock band, is the thing he needed me to do the most.
I’m one lucky guy. Shalom…and I better see you guys rocking out with your cocks out!
TH Aug 13 Louisville, KY @ Derby City Espresso
F Aug 14 Louisville, KY @ Adath Jeshurun Synagogue Patrick A Dvar Torah!!
SN Aug 16 Chicago @ Empty Bottle sponsored by Birthright Israel, PresenTense, Shemspeed
M Aug 17 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vollrath
T Aug 18 Teaneck, NJ @ Shemspeed Summer Music Festival – Mexicali Live
W Aug 19 Baltimore, MD @ Sidebar
TH Aug 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Shemspeed Summer Music Festival -The Raven Lounge
F Aug 21 Providence, RI @ AS220
S Aug 22 Trenton, NJ @ Millhill Basement
SN Aug 23 Amityville, NY @ Broadway
M Aug 24 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
TH Aug 27 NYC @ Shemspeed Music Festival – The Bellhouse
F Aug 28 Hickory, NC @ Drips Coffee House
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www.myspace.com/cancanband
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