CKY Touring This Fall
CKY, the hard-partying and anarchic band that helped define the skate-punk scene is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a tour across North America. After two and half decades, the band once known for their crazy stunts has matured into a tight unit of resolute musicians.
"We're grown adults now with an eagle-eye perspective on who we are, what we do, and how to do it right," said Ginsburg. "None of us are out there in the clouds. We're pretty well-grounded people that have an honest perspective on where we're at."
This new tour follows the successful New Reason To Dream tour completed this past spring. The second leg of the New Reason To Dream tour will kick off on September 12 in Nashville, TN. Joining CKY as support will be the bands Crobot and Chase the Comet. Among the dates on the tour will be appearances at two major festivals, Louder Than Life in Louisville, KY, and Aftershock in Sacramento, CA. After the tour ends on October 11thin Anaheim, CKY will take a break before hitting the road again in December with a series of shows in the Pacific Northwest.
CKY shot to fame with cult videos that went viral before viral was a thing. After exploding out of the punk scene, CKY became a mainstay on the Van’s Warped Tour and had numerous appearances on MTV. The band expanded their sound and incorporated elements of alternative, stoner rock and grunge. Tours with heavyweights like Guns N' Roses, Metallica, and Deftones introduced CKY to a new fanbase. A growing number of extreme athletes and celebrities in the creative fields gathered around CKY. A community of hardcore fans arose and were dubbed the CKY Alliance.
Drummer Jess Margera described the band’s fame as the result of "a perfect storm of events.”
"When it's happening, you're not paying attention,” said Margera. “But once you get a couple of years under your belt, you realize, 'Holy shit, man. That was lucky as hell that happened to us,' ya know?"
The rest of the band agrees with Margera. The members of CKY don’t take for granted the opportunities they have received since breaking big in the punk scene.
"We're feeling rather lucky," Ginsburg agrees. "We're not taking things for granted. We're saturated in gratitude. It's an incredibly humbled CKY, with a fire to last another 20 years. The point is to go play rock 'n' roll and appreciate everybody else who does it, too. It's a lucky job to have."
