April 29, 2008
Brand New Richard Christy Drumming Special Now On Howard TV!

Howdy Everybody, Richard Christy here, and I just wanted to let you know that a brand new drumming special that I did is available now on Howard TV! I have to give a million thanks to Howard TV and my boss Howard Stern for giving me the chance to show off a side of me that some people might not know about. Before I worked on the radio with The Howard Stern Show I toured with some of my favorite metal bands including Death, Iced Earth, Burning Inside, Demons and Wizards, Incantation, and many more, On my new Howard TV drumming special called "Beating It" I talk about my life before the Stern Show as a professional drummer. I also play tons of brand new drum solos and at the end of the special is a brand new instrumental song that I wrote entitled "Frost" in which I wrote and played the Guitar, Bass, and Drums. I'm extremely proud of the special and I hope you all enjoy it. Howard TV is available all across the country on cable, you can go to www.howard.tv for more info.

Also, I'm really excited because my hometown newspaper in Kansas where I grew up, The Fort Scott Tribune, recently did a front page article about me! Here's a link to check it out: www.fstribune.com I'll also post the article at my website richardchristy.com.

Don't forget that Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay is in theaters now! I have a small part in the movie that I'm really excited about and the whole movie is hilarious! If you love comedy you must check out this movie, it's awesome! You can check out several different trailers for the film (some of which I'm in) here: www.youtube.com

And my interview in the current May '08 issue of the great metal magazine Metal Maniacs is currently on news stands, check it out if you're a metalhead like me! I talk about all the bands I've played in and how my life has changed over the past several years.

Also, if you go to www.richardchristy.com you can get info on my upcoming comedy shows including St. Louis on May 9th and Indianapolis on May 10th with the Killers of Comedy!

Well, I think that's about it for now, thanks to everybody for your emails and support and hopefully I'll see you out on the road soon! Take Care!

Sincerely,

-Richard Christy

April 23, 2008
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay!!!

Hey Everybody, this Friday April 25th is the big day, my big screen debut in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay! The movie actually opens at midnight April 24th (Thursday night/Friday morning) and I'm sure the midnight screenings will be a hell of a party if you get a chance to check one out! I saw the movie last week at the premier in Hollywood and it is hilarious! I can absolutely say that it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life and I'm so honored to be a part of it! I highly recommend this movie to everyone who loves to laugh their ass off! So party it up and please check out Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay! 

I also did a brand new interview with the awesome heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs which is on newsstands now. It's the May 2008 issue with Dismember (one of my all time favorite death metal bands, Indecent and Obscene is a masterpiece!) on the cover. I have to thank Liz and Ben at Metal Maniacs for including me in such a cool magazine that I've been a fan of since the early 1990's! I talk about metal and many other of my favorite things in the interview so check it out if you get the chance! 

This past Monday was a special day for me. The 21st of April - The Fog Day! One of my all time favorite horror movies is John Carpenter's horror classic The Fog, which takes place on the 21st of April. Every April I celebrate this movie by watching this horror classic. Some people celebrate Easter in April, I celebrate The Fog! 

My hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas has a charity where they are raising money for upgrades and renovations to Ellis Park. I'm a proud Kansan and I'm always happy to help out my hometown so if you're interested in perhaps helping out or finding out more about Fort Scott and the Ellis Park project you can go to www.yatfortscott.com.

I'd also like to thank everybody involved in the Big Lebowski Screening in Red Bank, NJ last Saturday! It was a blast drinking White Russians and watching one of the greatest comedy movies of all time on the big screen with hundreds of other proud Lebowski Achievers!! Plus I got to hang with Jeff "The Dude" Dowd, who the Coen Brothers based the film on! He was so cool and so fun to hang with!  

Last but definitely not least there are a couple of brand new metal songs that I wrote with my good buddy Jason Suecof for my upcoming comedy, viking, metal, rock opera film Majestic Loincloth now available on Itunes and all other pay download music sites! Just type in the words "Majestic Loincloth" in the search on Itunes or any other download site. The songs are titled "Your Naughtiness Must Stop" and "Majestic Loincloth" and they're pretty cheesy but very metal! The songs are featured in my new comedy, viking, metal, rock opera film "Majestic Loincloth" which I will have up on my website RichardChristy.com very soon!

Well, that's it for now. Take Care and always
remember, The Dude Abides!

Sincerely,

-Richard Christy

April 4, 2008
Birthday & Metal Maniacs!

Hey everybody, just wanted to update you all on some cool new things I've been up to and will be up to. First off I want to thank everyone so much for their birthday well wishes! I really appreciate it and it made me so happy to hear Happy Birthday from all of you! I just turned 34 and had a wonderful birthday full of Papa John's Pizza, Champagne, Halloween parts 1 and 3 (it's a yearly tradition for me to watch those two movies on my birthday) and Jekyll and Hyde restaurant here in New York City! I'm getting older but definitely not maturing. I also want to let everyone know that the Iron Maiden concert at the Meadowlands last month was awesome! I raised my metal horns high for two hours (I had a beer in the other hand) and the gods of metal Iron Maiden have never sounded better! I felt like I was back in 1984!

I can't begin to explain how excited I am for the film Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay not only because the movie is going to be hilarious, but because I'm in it! I loved the first one and I'm so honored to be a part of this movie! It comes out Friday April 25 and you should definitely check it out! Take some of your friends and make it a party! If you happen to check out one of the commercials for the movie on TV, I'm the one who says "Mexicans"! Here's the website for the film along with trailers and info about the movie: HaroldandKumar.com Speaking of a party, I'm hosting a  screening of the classic Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, along with the real life "Dude" Jeff Dowd, who inspired the film! I'm so psyched because I've seen this movie about 100 times and drank about 1,000 White Russians over the years while watching this awesome movie! The screening is on April 19th in Red Bank, New Jersey at the beautiful Count Basie Theater. It starts at 8 pm. You can go to CountBasieTheater.org for info and tickets. See all you Achievers there! I'll also be appearing with The Killers of Comedy in St. Louis and Indianapolis in May! I'll be appearing along with Bob Levy, Sal Governale, Shuli, Yucko the Clown, Beetlejuice & The Iron Sheik! Here's the info for the shows

The guitar company B.C. Rich is releasing a line of Stealth model guitars in honor of my dear friend and band mate Chuck Schuldiner who passed away in December 2001. I played in the bands Death and Control Denied with Chuck and I think it's really cool that they are releasing the model of guitar that Chuck played in honor of his musical legacy. If you'd like to check out the guitar and see a tribute to the musical legend Chuck Schuldiner, you can go to: www.chuckstealth.com

I posted a 2002 interview I did with the awesome metal magazine Metal Maniacs, click here to see and read all pages... I go in depth about drumming and metal music and the interview was conducted by my great friend and fellow Kansan Andrew Sample. I just did a brand new interview with Metal Maniacs that turned out really cool and that issue should be hitting newsstands everywhere pretty soon!

Well, I think that's about it for now. Thanks to everybody who's emailed me and to all the people who've made comments on my Myspace page, I greatly appreciate it and here's a hearty metal cheers to y'all!!!!! Take Care!

-Richard Christy

March 4, 2008
Horror Movies & Heavy Metal!

Hey Everybody, wanted to let you know that a new interview I did with an awesome horror movie website called killerreviews.com is up, click on the link to check it out.

I also recently played drums on a cool show called Talking Metal on FUSE. The guys I jammed with were really cool and the show turned out awesome! Here's video links to us jamming on Slayer's South of Heaven and Black Sabbath's Paranoid! Click on the links to check them out.

I also recently went snowboarding for the first time in Colorado which was a freaking blast! On the plane ride to Denver I was jamming on some Heavy Metal on my Ipod and decided to write a blog about my lifelong love for Heavy Metal! It may be a little rambling because I was drinking at the time but if you love heavy metal too then you might enjoy this, here it is:

For some reason I feel compelled to write about my most metal day; Thursday Feb 28. My day started out at 4am walking to work listening to the masterpiece album With Oden On our side by Amon Amarth on my Ipod while walking to work in Manhattan. My metal day continued at about 3pm when I ran into the legendary guitarist Nick Bowcoot of Grim Reaper. I've been a Grim Reaper fan since the tender age of 10 when I first heard See U in Hell. I also had Mirrors of the amazing album covers of See U in Hell, Fear No Evil, and Rock U to Hell hung up in my bedroom courtesy of the dart and balloon game at the Bourbon County fair in KS where the prize for popping 3 balloons with darts was a kick ass metal mirror. Needless to say I was stoked to see Nick who's a super cool guy, and I jammed Grim Reaper on my Ipod on the flight to Denver. Another band I jammed on my Ipod on my flight was the mighty Iron Maiden who I'm going to see in concert in two weeks in NJ. To say that I'm looking forward to this concert is a major understatement. I first heard Live After Death when I was 11 years old and it changed my life. When I started drumming at the age of 10 the first albums I practiced to were Van Halen 1984, Quiet Riot Metal Health, Twisted Sister Stay Hungry and Iron Maiden Live After Death. When I was 12 years old Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time came out and I literally spent about 6 months learning the first hit hat and kick drum beat from the beginning of Wasted Years. To this day I still have a hard time playing it. I tip my Viking Helmet to the mighty Nicko Mcbrain, a drumming genius. I'm riding on a party bus to the Maiden concert with my great friends from the awesome metal bar Duffs in Brooklyn NY. I've already planned to be in bed on March 15 and 16 because I'm sure I'll be out of commision due to massive headbanging. I'm 33 years old and my poor neck doesn't hold up like it used to! Well now I'm still on the plane to Denver writing this blog on my Treo and I'm currently listening to the great band Riot's classic 1997 album Inishmore. If ur a metal fan then U MUST own this album! It is a metal classic and one of the best albums of the 1990s. My good friend Bobby Jarzombek plays drums on the album and he is a drumming monster! The last song, an instrumental entitled Inishmore is to say the least, a Metal Masterpiece. Well, to wrap things up, I want to let all U metal heads out there know that metal is alive and well in 2008. There are so many great tours coming up, including Gigantour which is gonna be awesome! And so many great albums coming out including my friends Children Of Bodom's new album which is gonna rule! I can't wait for the Worrel Dane solo album too!

So all U metal heads bang your heads hard and raise the chalises of metal high! Oh and by the way, on the way home I watched Bad Santa for the 150th time which is the greatest Xmas drinking movie ever! And Claudio Sanchez is a genius. If u like music, no matter what kind, you should check out Coheed and Cambria, one of the most original and creative bands EVER! And now as I land in LaGuardia Airport in NYC I raise my plastic chalice of Stoli vodka and Orange juice high as I bang my head to Hermods Ride to Hell from the mighty Amon Amarth on my Metal Infused Ipod! Thor would be proud!

-Richard Christy

January 27, 2008
Editing Majestic Loincloth, Drumming, The Elite, & A New Comedy Date

Howdy Everybody, I have a few updates about some stuff I've been up to lately. I finally found some time to edit my film Majestic Loincloth which I shot in 2003 and 2004 and I'll be putting the full movie up on my website RichardChristy.com and on Youtube.com very soon. It's a Heavy Metal Comedy Viking Rock Opera and it's pretty damn goofy. As far as I know it's a first of it's kind, I don't know of any Viking Comedy Rock Operas out there anyway. If you like Metal and laughing at grown men wearing loincloths in public, then this movie is for you! I wrote the music with my good friend Jason Suecof at Audiohammer Studios and it kicks some major ass! I'll probably be making the music from the movie available on iTunes too. If you'd like to check out the trailer for the movie, it's on Youtube.com, just type in Majestic Loincloth in the search, or follow this link: youtube.com/watch?v=uT9sloSupfA

I also posted a new drum solo video that I recorded back in 2004 at Audiohammer Studios on Youtube.com. You can type in Richard Christy Drum Solo 2004 or follow this link: youtube.com/watch?v=OR3RuZGy3Zc

I also posted 3 great videos from the band The Elite which I play drums in on Youtube.com. They're pretty funny videos and they feature my good buddy Skip Skiffington. You can type in the search: The Elite Wiener Roast, The Elite What Are Those Sores, and The Elite Goose Em Up, or follow these links: youtube.com/watch?v=Hoka7hwKQio
youtube.com/watch?v=cVybe915aKU
youtube.com/watch?v=ho49PMyWj3c

Also, I'll be doing a gig with the Killers Of Comedy in Atlantic City, NJ at the House Of Blues on Friday March 28th. Click here for more info...

Well, until next time, crank up some Amon Amarth, and take care everybody!

-Richard Christy

December 11, 2007
Happy Holidays! New Harold and Kumar Trailer & Online Interview!

Hey everybody, although I'm still bummed that Halloween is over I'm enjoying the Holidays in New York City and partaking in plenty of Egg Nog and Apple Cider with Rum! Plenty of cool things have been happening around here lately. I'm in the new Harold and Kumar 2 Uncensored Movie Trailer! They use one line out of my scene in the trailer and you can see it either at HaroldandKumar.com or Whatwouldnphdo.com and when you go there just click on the "View Age Restricted Material" logo and fill out your info to gain access to the Uncensored trailer! The movie is scheduled to come out in February 2008 so make sure you check it out, it's going to be hilarious!

I also did an interview recently with my good buddy Jimmy Duff from the kickass heavy metal bar Duff's in Brooklyn, New York. You can check it out here: duffsbrooklyn.com

If you're ever in New York City and if you're a Metalhead you HAVE to check out Duff's! They have the heaviest jukebox ever and the people there are super cool. The bartenders rule too and there's PBR's aplenty!

Speaking of metal I saw a few amazing concerts recently. I saw Amon Amarth in New York City and Cleveland and they are true Viking Metal Warriors! They sounded super heavy live and I love that the singer drinks out of a Viking Horn on Stage! That is so Metal! If you haven't heard the new album yet you must give it a listen at full blast, it is the heaviest, most melodic and flat out best metal album in a long time!

I also recently saw Coheed and Cambria at a sold out concert here in NYC. They played for around two hours and sounded incredible. Not only are they some of the best musicians in music right now but their songwriting is the best in rock music right now. Every song they played live sounded even better than on their albums and I got so into it during my favorite song of theirs "The Crowing" that I banged my head into our table full of drinks and knocked them all over! Needless to say I had a blast at their show! Their new drummer Chris Pennie, who I'm a big fan of, did one of the best drum solos I've ever seen live too, the guy is a monster on the drums and I'm so psyched that he's a member of Coheed and Cambria! Claudio and Travis' guitar duels at the end of the show were amazing as well and it's so fun to watch Claudio do guitar solos behind his back and with his teeth! The guy is a genius! Definitely check out their new album if you want to hear some amazing progressive rock music!

Lastly, my girlfriend and I went on a cross-country Amtrak train trip for the week of Thanksgiving. Since I work full time now in New York City I haven't had the chance to go on the road with a band in the last
few years and I really do miss the road so this was my chance to hit the road again in a small way. We had so much fun and saw so many amazing things along the way. We started in San Diego, traveled up the Coast of California where we rode right next to the ocean and saw several Dolphins jumping out of the water right from the train window! Then from San Francisco the train traveled east through California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. We stopped for two days, including Thanksgiving Day in the beautiful city of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, the site of one of the largest natural hot springs in the country. After relaxing in the hot springs for a couple of days and having an amazing Thanksgiving with our friends Walter and Julie from the Lumber Baron Bed and Breakfast in Denver, we continued to travel through Colorado where we followed the Colorado river and saw many sites that you can only see from a train, including several Bald Eagles hunting for Salmon along the river! Nothing beats drinking a cold beer and sitting in the sightseeing car of an Amtrak train looking out at the beautiful Rocky Mountains! We also traveled through Nebraska, Iowa (where we saw the town of Ottumwa where the legendary arcade Twin Galaxies once resided, made famous by the hilarious movie King of Kong), Illinois (where we stopped in Chicago long enough to go to the top of the Sears Tower and eat a delicious Chicago pizza), Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and ending up at Penn Station in New York City. I would highly recommend this trip for people who love to go sightseeing; it's very relaxing and very fun! Hopefully this will be a yearly tradition for my girlfriend and I because we had a blast! I'm going to try to upload some pictures of our trip to my Myspace page as soon as I get some time.

Also, as a reminder my band Burning Inside's brand new self titled EP is available on all the downloadable music sites including iTunes and Rhapsody. If you're into melodic technical metal, check it out! Well, I think that pretty much wraps things up for now, I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays! Take Care!

-Richard Christy

September 24, 2007
Shows & Halloween Trip!

Hey Everybody,

I have several comedy shows coming up with the Killers of Comedy and also a show with Artie Lange. The dates and info are in the comedy dates section of the site. Also, Halloween is my absolute favorite time of the year and my girlfriend and I are traveling all around the country this Halloween season to celebrate. I'm going to be keeping a blog of our Halloween travels on my Myspace page. So if you're a big fan of Halloween like me, you might wanna check it out. Also, I answer all of my emails personally every day so if you have anything you wanna ask me you can always email me. Well, I've gotta get back to drinking my pumpkin beer and watching American Werewolf In London, until next time, take care and Happy Halloween!

-Richard Christy

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