The Delta Riggs Remember 5 Wild Memories From The Last 5 Years

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    The Delta Riggs have accomplished heaps in their five years of existence. Following their fan fave record, Active Galactic, in 2016, the band came back late last year with the new track, Fake That. Lucky for us, we get a fourth studio record due out in 2019.

    Last month they played a fun lil festival run by Jameson Whiskey called JJ's Place alongside the likes of The Gooch Palms, Sloan Peterson and more, so we decided to have The Delta Riggs take a strut down memory lane to share their five wildest memories from the last five years.

    As told by the band's bassist Monte...

    "I often find It hard deciphering an order for things - top five bands, top five films, top five things to look at when altered. Also, "wild" has many connotations, so I am using the phrase as well rounded as I can... So in no particular order to ease my anxiety, here we go."

    JIMMY PAGE SEES THE DELTA RIGGS 

    On our maiden voyage to the UK a few years ago, we were booked to play a headline show at Notting Hill Arts Club. We rolled in, sound checked and left. Coming back the club was maybe half full and as we were about to take the stage, our drummer at the time Simmo, came up to me and said verbatim, “Just to add to the pressure, Jimmy Page is over there slamming a lemon squash.” He was right. For some ‘wild’ reason, Mr Page had blessed us with his presence. We had a good chat after the show and he invited us around to his house for some tea (classic English), we never ended up making it though. It was a once in a lifetime thing and some arbitrary twist of fate landed him there at that moment. That to me is pretty fucking wild, I know a lot of our guitar hero peers are still not over this story and harbour grave disdain that it was an us not them situation. 

    Delta Riggs

    LANDING THE FOO FIGHTERS TOUR WHILE IN TRANSIT HOME FROM LA

    Another pinch me ‘wild’ moment for me was landing home from LA a couple years back, turning on my phone and getting a string of notifications that we were supporting Foo Fighters on their stadium tour of Australia. WTF? To set the scene, we had played a wild show in LA the night before, the whole room was popping and it felt good. Cut to 12 hours later - running on zero sleep, a trip to the scorching hot valley to get Elliott’s tooth fixed by a Saul Goodman-type dentist, then a run to make the airport. A broken bunch of boys landed in Sydney to this news. So it goes, someone from Foo Fighters' management just happened to be at that show in LA we played, so they fed back to the band who then wanted us to do the tour with them. All the while we were on a plane, the whole thing got arranged within 14 hours. That shit seems like such a rare thing to happen these days with the way we all consume; there is a lack of pure, unadulterated human discovery that holds a sense of romanticism. Right place, right time shit. Oh, and I met Johnny Depp on that tour dressed as Jack Sparrow. He rolled me a ciggie which I unashamedly kept for like six months like a loser. 

    (Skip to 1:14 to see David Grohl donning a Riggs jacket)

    Delta RiggsJohnny Depp

    DELTA RIGGS DO NYC 

    It’s always a great nostalgic feeling reminiscing back to a time where you first experience something. For us as a band, it was a trip to New York to play the last CMJ a few years ago. So many interesting moments along the way, and as life goes on, you can quickly lose touch of these amazing experiences as the day to day struggles of life consume you, so it's always important to reflect on how far you have come and the experiences you have shared with randoms, family, friends the whole lot. 

    Carting our gear on the subway was such a strange concept. We would literally load up with our shit and charge down into the subway with urgency to make shows we were running late for.

    Then on the another night, I ended up with shin splints from getting out of the subway at the wrong station and sprinting six blocks in RM Williams boots to make a Broadway play, which turns out we were an hour early for anyway. I literally ran straight past Andre 3000 and would have loved to have stopped for a high five but couldn’t, because late. Then somehow I found myself at a dodgy Russian vodka bar sat next to Matthew Broderick (yes, Ferris Bueller) until 4am slamming shots. This particular trip was also the precursor to the aforementioned drug-fuelled, desert dentist expedition for Elliott. It was a show at Pianos on Ludlow, punk rock as fuck, Elliott was swinging the microphone around like a maniac and it flung back and slammed into his tooth. I wanted him to keep it chipped as it looked rad, but the dentist story wouldn’t have happened so it was worth fixing. So then we went to LA and the rest is history.

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    IMAGES: James Adams

    FLYING TYRE IN PORTLAND

    We were on tour last year with Eagles Of Death Metal traversing the West Coast of the states and up into Canada. There was one particular drive that stands out more than the rest. We had just played a sold out Wonder Ballroom in Portland the evening before and got carried away with our new friends Portugal. The Man and our borrowed photographer, Maclay Heriot. The next morning we had to drive from Portland to Vancouver so it was an early start, coupled with a late or non-finish, didn't bode too well. I was the lucky driver for the morning and as we left and hit the Interstate 5, literally five minutes into the drive I hear this huge bang and screeching noise. I look over to the right and there is a vehicle merging onto the freeway that is grinding the road with its axel, also a discarded tyre was hurtling toward our van full of gear and people on a collision course at about 100 miles p/h. I just remember seeing this thing flying at us and I don’t know how, but I managed to erratically swerve around it as it disappeared out of my sight and we braced for the impact. Riley, our US spirit guide and Tour Manager over there, looked at me in pure shock and just said, “Dude, How the fuck did you do that, that thing would have killed us all if it hit.” To add to the drive from hell, literally 10 minutes later there was a huge metal beam spinning out of control that must have fallen from the back of a truck in the lane I was in. I had to manoeuvre some turbo swerve yet again. Needless to say I pulled over and handed the keys over after that.

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    IMAGE: Maclay Heriot - Me literally one hour before departing Portland and facing those hurdles.

    FESTIVAL OF THE SUN SPECTACLE 

    I love this festival, it's got a great vibe to it and this year we played with our Adelaide brothers Bad Dreems and had a hoot. I’m not sure they remember this as well as we do, but after we played we were hanging out and getting among the festivities with the crowd. All of a sudden this wild kind of stand off began between these two tweaked guys, they started snorting at each other and kicking sand back with their feet, like bulls do when they are shaping up for a fight. As the sand kicking escalated, they both stripped out of their clothes, without breaking eye contact and eventually became totally naked. The crowd was really starting to gather around this spectacle, when they charged at each other and started rolling around in the sand wrestling, completely naked. Now for the wild part.. Gradually, the wrestling became less and less aggressive until they morphed into fully making out with each other. Like passionately kissing on the ground, naked, in front of about 250 people. Everyone was surrounding them in a circle staring in amazement, somewhat stunned at this odd romantic setting that happened before our eyes. Surely other people who were at the festival must remember this. You don’t see that shit every day now do you. 

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The Delta Riggs have accomplished heaps in their five years of existence. Following their fan fave record, Active Galactic, in 2016, the band came back late last year with the new track, Fake That. Lucky for us, we get a fourth studio record due out in 2019.

Last month they played a fun lil festival run by Jameson Whiskey called JJ's Place alongside the likes of The Gooch Palms, Sloan Peterson and more, so we decided to have The Delta Riggs take a strut down memory lane to share their five wildest memories from the last five years.

As told by the band's bassist Monte...

"I often find It hard deciphering an order for things - top five bands, top five films, top five things to look at when altered. Also, "wild" has many connotations, so I am using the phrase as well rounded as I can... So in no particular order to ease my anxiety, here we go."

JIMMY PAGE SEES THE DELTA RIGGS 

On our maiden voyage to the UK a few years ago, we were booked to play a headline show at Notting Hill Arts Club. We rolled in, sound checked and left. Coming back the club was maybe half full and as we were about to take the stage, our drummer at the time Simmo, came up to me and said verbatim, “Just to add to the pressure, Jimmy Page is over there slamming a lemon squash.” He was right. For some ‘wild’ reason, Mr Page had blessed us with his presence. We had a good chat after the show and he invited us around to his house for some tea (classic English), we never ended up making it though. It was a once in a lifetime thing and some arbitrary twist of fate landed him there at that moment. That to me is pretty fucking wild, I know a lot of our guitar hero peers are still not over this story and harbour grave disdain that it was an us not them situation. 

Delta Riggs

LANDING THE FOO FIGHTERS TOUR WHILE IN TRANSIT HOME FROM LA

Another pinch me ‘wild’ moment for me was landing home from LA a couple years back, turning on my phone and getting a string of notifications that we were supporting Foo Fighters on their stadium tour of Australia. WTF? To set the scene, we had played a wild show in LA the night before, the whole room was popping and it felt good. Cut to 12 hours later - running on zero sleep, a trip to the scorching hot valley to get Elliott’s tooth fixed by a Saul Goodman-type dentist, then a run to make the airport. A broken bunch of boys landed in Sydney to this news. So it goes, someone from Foo Fighters' management just happened to be at that show in LA we played, so they fed back to the band who then wanted us to do the tour with them. All the while we were on a plane, the whole thing got arranged within 14 hours. That shit seems like such a rare thing to happen these days with the way we all consume; there is a lack of pure, unadulterated human discovery that holds a sense of romanticism. Right place, right time shit. Oh, and I met Johnny Depp on that tour dressed as Jack Sparrow. He rolled me a ciggie which I unashamedly kept for like six months like a loser. 

(Skip to 1:14 to see David Grohl donning a Riggs jacket)

Delta RiggsJohnny Depp

DELTA RIGGS DO NYC 

It’s always a great nostalgic feeling reminiscing back to a time where you first experience something. For us as a band, it was a trip to New York to play the last CMJ a few years ago. So many interesting moments along the way, and as life goes on, you can quickly lose touch of these amazing experiences as the day to day struggles of life consume you, so it's always important to reflect on how far you have come and the experiences you have shared with randoms, family, friends the whole lot. 

Carting our gear on the subway was such a strange concept. We would literally load up with our shit and charge down into the subway with urgency to make shows we were running late for.

Then on the another night, I ended up with shin splints from getting out of the subway at the wrong station and sprinting six blocks in RM Williams boots to make a Broadway play, which turns out we were an hour early for anyway. I literally ran straight past Andre 3000 and would have loved to have stopped for a high five but couldn’t, because late. Then somehow I found myself at a dodgy Russian vodka bar sat next to Matthew Broderick (yes, Ferris Bueller) until 4am slamming shots. This particular trip was also the precursor to the aforementioned drug-fuelled, desert dentist expedition for Elliott. It was a show at Pianos on Ludlow, punk rock as fuck, Elliott was swinging the microphone around like a maniac and it flung back and slammed into his tooth. I wanted him to keep it chipped as it looked rad, but the dentist story wouldn’t have happened so it was worth fixing. So then we went to LA and the rest is history.

Delta RiggsDelta Riggs

IMAGES: James Adams

FLYING TYRE IN PORTLAND

We were on tour last year with Eagles Of Death Metal traversing the West Coast of the states and up into Canada. There was one particular drive that stands out more than the rest. We had just played a sold out Wonder Ballroom in Portland the evening before and got carried away with our new friends Portugal. The Man and our borrowed photographer, Maclay Heriot. The next morning we had to drive from Portland to Vancouver so it was an early start, coupled with a late or non-finish, didn't bode too well. I was the lucky driver for the morning and as we left and hit the Interstate 5, literally five minutes into the drive I hear this huge bang and screeching noise. I look over to the right and there is a vehicle merging onto the freeway that is grinding the road with its axel, also a discarded tyre was hurtling toward our van full of gear and people on a collision course at about 100 miles p/h. I just remember seeing this thing flying at us and I don’t know how, but I managed to erratically swerve around it as it disappeared out of my sight and we braced for the impact. Riley, our US spirit guide and Tour Manager over there, looked at me in pure shock and just said, “Dude, How the fuck did you do that, that thing would have killed us all if it hit.” To add to the drive from hell, literally 10 minutes later there was a huge metal beam spinning out of control that must have fallen from the back of a truck in the lane I was in. I had to manoeuvre some turbo swerve yet again. Needless to say I pulled over and handed the keys over after that.

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IMAGE: Maclay Heriot - Me literally one hour before departing Portland and facing those hurdles.

FESTIVAL OF THE SUN SPECTACLE 

I love this festival, it's got a great vibe to it and this year we played with our Adelaide brothers Bad Dreems and had a hoot. I’m not sure they remember this as well as we do, but after we played we were hanging out and getting among the festivities with the crowd. All of a sudden this wild kind of stand off began between these two tweaked guys, they started snorting at each other and kicking sand back with their feet, like bulls do when they are shaping up for a fight. As the sand kicking escalated, they both stripped out of their clothes, without breaking eye contact and eventually became totally naked. The crowd was really starting to gather around this spectacle, when they charged at each other and started rolling around in the sand wrestling, completely naked. Now for the wild part.. Gradually, the wrestling became less and less aggressive until they morphed into fully making out with each other. Like passionately kissing on the ground, naked, in front of about 250 people. Everyone was surrounding them in a circle staring in amazement, somewhat stunned at this odd romantic setting that happened before our eyes. Surely other people who were at the festival must remember this. You don’t see that shit every day now do you. 

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