A PERFECT CIRCLE Drummer Offers Crazy 'Deluxe Editions' Of New Solo EP

April 5, 2011

According to The Pulse Of Radio, A PERFECT CIRCLE drummer Josh Freese has done it again: to celebrate the release of his new solo EP, "My New Friends", last Friday (April 1),Freese has unveiled a line of "deluxe" editions of the album ranging in price from five bucks for a digital download of the record to $75,000 for an exclusive package that features Freese joining your band or becoming your personal assistant for a month, one of his drum sets, a five-song EP written and recorded about you, taking mushrooms and cruising around Hollywood with TOOL drummer Danny Carey, and 500 copies of the new record.

Freese's previous solo effort, 2009's "Since 1972", made headlines when the drummer offered a similar unique pricing plan, with sales packages involving going to his house to pick clothes out of his closet, a trapeze lesson with Robin Finck from NINE INCH NAILS, taking possession of Freese's used Volvo station wagon, and a miniature golf outing with Maynard James Keenan of TOOL.

Four of the people who bought packages last time are featured on the cover of "My New Friends".

This time around, according to Chart Attack, Freese was initially skeptical of doing the pricing plans. He explained, "I didn't want to go the whole 'wacky special package' route again, but after coming up with a few things that were making me laugh, I decided that I should have a little fun with it again. C'mon, who wouldn't want to evoke spirits under an angry moon with Tommy Lee or go to the horse track with Johnny Knoxville?"

Among the deals offered this time: for $7,500, you can evoke spirits with Freese, MÖTLEY CRÜE's Tommy Lee and NINE INCH NAILS' Danny Lohner. The same price will also get you a day at the spa plus an arts and crafts class with Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson's band, or a private ride in THE OFFSPRING frontman Dexter Holland's plane, or a day at the horse races with "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville. $10,000 gets you Freese's Volvo station wagon, having him as a member of your band for two days, and the chance to "motorboat" his wife's friend Sarah for a minute.

Freese, one of the music business' most in-demand session drummers, has also played on albums by THE OFFSPRING, GUNS N' ROSES, STAIND, PUDDLE OF MUDD and many others.

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