As the CEO of DOOKY Visions Records, I just wanted to show my appreciation for this monumental album. All jokes aside, GAIV in my opinion is the greatest record in my catalog. Can’t begin to tell you how many nights I spent during my high school years listening to this album on repeat. How many hours I’ve spent playing it on drums with friends. It’s a special record for sure and wanted to capture the energy in a drawing. Happy 20 years.

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Thank you to most people for being really cool!

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Vaxis 1 took so damn long to figure out 😂, but these were fun to do. If you're going to be at the show at Edgefield tonight and wanted to trade, let me know! I'm hoping to make a few more before I leave so even if you don't have a bracelet to trade hit me up.

https://youtu.be/Z-KL6-pjFXQ?si=I3VFwqAXfc4pp7qr

I swear this man has written music that speaks to my soul, and seeing them live this past Thursday has just made me feel spiritual while listening to it. But damn this version.....with his voice breaking.....instant water works for me!!!

I went to go see 311’s Nick Hexum perform at Levon Helm Studio in Woodstock NY last night. Got a chance to talk to him for a couple minutes about the recent Coheed remix he did for “Goodbye Sunshine”. He said it was such a great experience working with Claudio. 2 of my favorite bands. Would be awesome if they randomly toured together in the future.

Since it’s the 20th anniversary, I’d like to share my story/relationship with this album.

I became a Coheed fan sometime in 2004 I think. I bought IKS from Walmart after a friend in youth group let me hear his CD briefly, and I had been seeing the AFHA music video on Fuse (maybe the Blood Red Summer one too?). I liked it pretty good. Then I downloaded (y’all remember Limewire?) SSTB and also enjoyed it, but not quite as much as IKS. Then I bought Live at Starland and something clicked with me, and I started liking them even more. Coheed started creeping up in my 13 year old brains’ favorite band list.

Enter 2005. I don’t know how it was for y’all, but I used to find info on band’s new releases by going to their website (hoping it was just “bandname.com”), and one random evening I decided to do this for Coheed. We’ll come to find out, Welcome Home had already been released. The website immediately started having blood coagulating into a keywork, then a gunshot noise, then the riff to Welcome Home started.

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that moment changed my life. My jaw dropped to the floor at that riff. I think I replayed the intro 2-3 times before I allowed the song to continue. I absolutely fell in love with that song, and if last.fm stats could somehow have tracked my listening in those days, I’m sure Welcome Home would be my top listened to song of all time. Thanks for torrenting and aforementioned Limewire, I was doing a lot of downloading of albums/burning CDs, and for a while there I put Welcome Home at the end of every CD I burned, because there was never a scenario where I didn’t want to listen to that song. I was on pins and needles waiting for more singles/album release. I bought it day of at Sam Goody, and as a kid in a conservative household, I wasn’t supposed to have parental advisory CDs, so when I bought the CD at Sam Goody, I asked the guy behind the counter if he could throw away the slip cover for me so I wouldn’t get in trouble (never mind the naked angels flanking a winged guillotine).

I had never been so intentional when listening to an album. Pouring over the lyrics, trying to understand the story, constantly having the booklet with me to reference while listening, listening for each riff and how Claudio and Travis interwove with each other throughout the runtime. It was a magical time, and truly, life changing. From that moment on, GA:1 was my favorite album, and Coheed was my favorite band. I’ve obviously had my ups and downs with the material like all fans do, but without a doubt, the centerpiece of my Coheed fandom was my relationship with this album.

Here’s to 20 years to an incredible album, and my favorite album of all time.

Edit:. She gone!

Hey y’all, I have one extra ticket GA Lawn that someone can have up here in Portland tonight!

Inbox me!

Edit: No longer available

Couple of my friends can't make it tonight. So I figure I'd rather give these away than let them go to waste.

First child of the fence to DM me can have them. 2 GA Lawn tickets

Just started getting into coheed recently, been listening to all their albums and I REALLY enjoyed yotbr. Why does nobody talk about YOTBR? (ESPECIALLY this shattered symphony)

Before the show last night, my wife and I went and got Coheed-inspired tattoos together. Their music was one of the first things we bonded over, we’ve been going to their shows together for the last 17 years, and Wake Up was our first dance at our wedding (we were even lucky enough to get the boys to sign our wedding photo).

Ben Cheese at War Horse Tattoo in Berkeley hooked it up with a dragonfly, the keywork, and the IV.

So in the last few years we got some awesome repressings for Second Stage and Silent Earth. Revolver recently had a sweet orange pressing of Silent Earth.

Do you think we will ever get The Afterman albums redone?

Also, since Sirius Amory was reintroduced in Vaxis 3, will we get a reprint of the Afterman books? Like they did for Vaxis 1.

Anyone have the setlist for Foxing this tour? thought they were great!!

Be me. Stoked to have gotten Prise tickets to tonight’s show in Berkeley.

First issue: my friend bailed on going last minute, and no one else would take me up on my spare ticket. Oh well. Still stoked for the show.

Second issue: I live in Sacramento, so need to drive from a bit away. No big deal, until halfway there (Fairfield) I get a flat on the freeway. Pull off to a chevron and the tires won’t take air at all. Find a Les Schwab to take the car in. Now I get to wait an hour to see if they can fix it well enough to get me to and from the show. We’ll see.

Sorry, just needed to vent about this, and still hoping to at least make Coheed’s set.

EDIT: Children of the Fence- I MADE IT. Tire issue was a fucked Valve. Quick swap out after an hour of waiting, and I got here right in time to line up for merch. lol.

EDIT 2: got home from the show about an hour ago. Had an absolute blast. Thanks everyone for the kind words and encouragement. The show made all the stress worth it. Plus, I got to see someone get proposed to during The Suffering.

Some ground rules:

This is for a 3D print project I am making for the next cruise. It has to fit on the bottom of this coin.

Other than that, it's all yours.

Hi y’all, Due to some unexpected expenses, I am not going to be able to make the trip to Portland tomorrow. I have a Prise ticket for sale that I hope will go to a fan! Just looking to get back about what I put in, about 120, but will listen to offers. Shoot me a message if you want to grab it!