I just heard The Boxer on the radio. I live in Minnesota and to me it is unheard of to hear the chems on any radio station. The only song I have ever heard on the radio by the chems is block rockin beats. I was just blown away. I started to think...could the boxer be the next single?? Any thoughts??

I don't know, breakbeata. I really don't know but we've been guessing what the new single is going to be.



A local radio station out here in S. California has been playing a few off off Push the Button including the Boxer.



That's so great to see Minnesota giving the Chems some love. Yay MN!



So anyway, how's the weather in the great white north? 1999 was the coldest winter of my life, I spent it in Minneapolis!

well we had the most snow so far this winter on Friday, but they say it is all going to melt away. As far as being cold, it has been a pretty mild winter. I really don't know what cold is any more. I am so use to the winter weather here that it seems warm to me all year round. :D

Living in snow is something thinblooded Southern Californians find hard to get accustomed to!



I'd visited my brother and his family, who used to live there, a few times before to get a feel for what it was like and life there seemed pleasant enough. Really nice people, very hospitable, and a nice change of pace from what we were used to. The scenery was lush, the summers, though filled with mosquitos, were blissful and the fall was a lovely time of year. 1999 was a... strange year for many personal reasons I won't get into. Anyway. I got it in my head that dragging the family to live in my brother's basement in the interim of setting up our new lives was a great idea.



So we head out to Minnesota one October day to try giving life in another state a go. It was gorgeous - the leaves were changing on the trees to the most brilliant oranges and red. Then the weather changed and the first snowfall was like a beautiful quiet, evergrowing blanket on the small lakeside town we were in. The weather got colder. I thought, 30 degrees isn't so bad. I can deal. The weather got colder still. 20 degrees but still doable. 10 degrees and it was too cold to step outside for a smoke. 0 degrees and the strain of having to put my son in a snowsuit just to go to the grocery store was... and nevermind stepping outside for a cigarette you'd die of hypothermia! Then the ice storms came. Then the wind chill factor came into play and the next thing we knew we were locked in this basement with nothing to do but look at each other with the all-too-often-cabin-fever induced rifts with my brother because we were stuck in a house with him - it drove us batty! And my husband said, "I'm going back to California, with or without you."



But first we had to wait for a break in the blizzard before we head out. The early morning we left it was -20, and on the way out of a gas station my rear wheel drive car got stuck in a snowy patch, and we had to wait for a snowplow to come dislodge us.



I guess some people are cut out for living in extreme areas like that - but a lot of us California native sure are pussies when it comes to exteme weather of any kind!



And here I am, talking about the weather of all things on a Chems board!

no problem. sounds like any ordinary day that we have here. Did you get a chance to check out the chems when you lived here? They played at Roy Wilkens Auditorium in late October 1999. Best show I have ever been to...

Naw... I only lived there from Oct. 1998 to January 3, 1999. Barely squeaked in 3 months.



I wasn't into the Chemicals back then. But mid 99 was the the year I 'rediscovered' them, when I really needed music the most...

Yeah i got into them in 1999 just before Surrender was out. I rember hereing HBHG at homelands on the radio wishing i was there I brought it on the day of release, like i have done with the other albums since. I think thats maybe why i love Surrender so so much. Saying that i had herd some other track prior that i really liked. Getting into the Chems was like a natural follow on from Fatboyslim.

Mild winter in Minneapolis? So not fair. You're not that far south of where I am and we had one of the coldest in recent memory. This month we had over a week straight of -40 weather...... bleh....



Hope the Chems hit your fair state so I can actually see them this summer. I love doin 100 mph on I-94! 8)

It is piss cold out here in Michigan. Fuckin hate snow. }:-@

snow is great. except the yellow kind

is the yellow kind when u piss in it?

yes