The Remote Possibility saga continues. I’m thrilled to announce that their tumultuous lives have inspired another fantastic opus: Coked Up in Kentucky.
Once again, Icepic, the band’s inspirational leader, goes to the trouble of documenting the bands’ unfortunate trials and tribulations.
A short excerpt to whet your appetite:
[…] so they accepted an opening spot on a Neil Young tour. It was a step down from the headliner status they were used to, but they knew it was only a matter of time until they were back on top.
Things did not go according to plan, however. There were weird tensions on the tour from the beginning. Remote Possibility sets were plagued by technical difficulties and equipment problems. They were plagued by constant small problems that kept them off balance; broken strings, bad pots, out-of-tune instruments. Many people suspect that people in Neil Young’s camp, perhaps Neil himself, were jealous of Remote Possibilities musical mastery, particularly Sknoblogger’s rich baritone, which, it has been said, caused Neil to feel no end of insecurity when he compared it to his own high, thin nasal whine.
All this is speculation. What history does record is that the morning after one gig in South Carolina in which RP did an especially fine job of transcending the difficulties of that tour, they woke up to find that the tour had departed without them.
Read on to find out how they barely survived an insane long haul trucker and somehow made it to Harmsaphonic Studios, where Harmsichord, co-wrote, mixed and mastered Coked Up in Kentucky.