Unforgettable: HaShiSh Tour through the US…

What can I say? (I might say Sorry for being late!!!)

How can I retell all our experiences in just one paragraph?

It’s just impossible…

Levon, Ernesto and I have been traveling through a crazy journey. We have been playing in Los Angeles (The Derby Club, The Malibu Inn and The Roxy Theatre!!!), then we went to San Francisco (The Rockit Room) and finally in New York at Sultana Bar, Brooklyn.

It was really crazy, but Los Angeles is a total different urban design for a city. There were so many highways; there was no people walking, empty sidewalks, and car everywhere. Cars are like shoes in Los Angeles!!!
We stayed in Glendale for two weeks. It was really crazy because we felt we really were in Armenia. It was crazy, there was no Ararat in the Horizon, but the mood was totally kavkazian! What’s more I can’t forget the breakfast we had in Paradise Bakery in Glenoaks and our shopping odysseys at Jons Supermarket…Totally Crazy ! ! !

Liana Aghajanyan, Keeg Shamlian and T-Bone Taschyan

It was really great how an Armenian punk rock band from South America, HaShiSh named reached to play in the Roxy. It was 29^th September, Saturday. We performed with guys from Chameleon Conductor and Garabed Jibilian. Producer Ara Koulayan arranged the date for that night. We also must be thankful to Vigen and Narek from the Slow Motion Reign and to Sam Babayan of The Dirty Diamond. They all trusted us and gave us a big hand to arrange this dream we had.

Roxy’s show was crazy. You can smell rock and roll in the air when you walk down Sunset Boulevard. Same day in the morning we were at a CD store. I picked up a CD of the Ramones, and when I saw it was a recording of a live show at the Roxy I said to myself “Tonight I am going to step on the same stage were my idols started their career”. For me that was enough…

We had the opportunity to meet Shavo Odadjian, bassist from System of a Down. He was really friendly and kind with us. He also told us about his new project called ursession.com, check that out, a real big idea for independent musicians.

HaShiSh with Shavo Odajian of System of a Down.

We must be thankful to all our friends down there. Special Thanks to Taschyan family. Tigran, Ojen and Haik. They helped us at any time. We could have done nothing without them. T-Bone (Tigran’s Nick Name) and all his friends and family were behind us in every movement at every time. HaShiSh Team.

Another surprise was Keegam Shamlian. Keego is an English-Armenian, creator of the Gogortiloz Phenomenon and President of the Gogortiloz Foundation. This guy traveled from London to Los Angeles to know us and see our shows. Imagine ourselves. We felt totally touched. Viva The Smiths.

I know Tigran and Keegam since years chatting, and sharing our virtual madness for Armenians and general culture. After years (7 years!) we all knew each other.

Nor Endanik. Nor Geank. Nor HaShiSh.

PS 1: Soon there will be videos, articles and more about the Tour.

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