stories – PIG IRON RECORDS

2024: recorded and released the EP “CLEAR”; organized a 6-concert European tour.
2020: organized a 5-concert tour, nicknamed “Sabot 3.0”, in the Czech Republic.
2013: played what would be our last show for 5 years on March 1st at LA STRADA FESTIVAL NOLEBO in Rome.
2012: organized a one-month European tour; organized a three-week tour in China; Beijing premier of the SABOT Silk Road Tour to China documentary film in cooperation with Les 7 portes
2011: organized a three-month European tour; prepared for the release of the SABOT Silk Road Tour to China documentary film in cooperation with Les 7 portes
2010: organized a three-month European tour including discussions on the state of independent music; released 240 Months – 20th anniversary book and DVD
2009: organized a seven-week European tour, prepared SABOT 20-year anniversary book with photos, stories and DVD
2008: released SABOT’s ninth CD Further Conversations; organized a one-month tour of Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico and Cuba; organized a nine-week European tour
2007: organized the SABOT Around the World in 81 Days tour; organized several short tours in Czech, Poland, Russia and Serbia; began editing for SABOT Silk Road Tour to China documentary film
2006: released If the Shoe Hits, an MP3 and album cover graphics compilation of SABOT recordings from 1989-2003; organized a two-month tour of Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand; organized a one-month Spring European tour and a six-week Fall European tour
2005: recorded SABOT’s eighth CD D.I.O.; recorded split vinyl single with Deverova Chyba for Freedimension records; contributed audio and video material to CD compilation TENZENMEN PRESENTS: ECCENTRICS #3 for ten-zen-men; organized a six-week tour of Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand; organized a one-month Spring European tour and a one-month Fall European tour
2004: organized a one-month tour of Australia and New Zealand; organized a two-month Spring European tour
2003: recorded and released Sabot’s seventh CD MISSION SUPERSTITION; organized a two-month Spring European tour
2002: organized a two-month Spring European tour
2001: recorded SABOT’s sixth CD ONCE UPON A MIND; organized a two-month Spring European tour
2000: published SABOT’s ten year anniversary book 120 MONTHS, including photographs, essays, stories, SABOT trivia and a compilation CD-Rom with various bands and musicians doing cover versions of or original pieces inspired by their favorite or most-hated SABOT song; organized a seven-week European tour.
1999: completed the SABOT Silk Road Tour to China March – July, 1999: an overland tour through Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Pakistan, and China, which highlighted interdisciplinary collaborative performances with artists in each country; the Tour was fully documented on digital video and audio, and an on-line World Wide Web journal
1998: returned to the US for four months and played several concerts in New York and San Francisco; completed recording the fifth SABOT CD Go There Do That; released GO THERE DO THAT CD on Vicious Circle (France) and cassette on QQRYQ (Poland); organized a five-week European tour; continued preparing for the SABOT Silk Road Tour to China
1997: released SOMEHOW, I DON’T THINK SO… CD on Vicious Circle label (France); contributed to the compilation CD, Un peu plus a l’est (Vicious Circle/Bad Karma label, France); completed a 10-date promotional tour of France and Basque country; organized a 2-month European tour; began recording for SABOT’s fifth CD
1996: recorded the fourth SABOT CD SOMEHOW, I DON’T THINK SO… ; released SOMEHOW, I DON’T THINK SO…cassette format (QQRYQ label, Poland); toured in East and West Europe for 6 weeks
1995: organized a 2-month European tour
1994: recorded the third SABOT CD VICE VERSA; organized a 2-month European tour
1993: relocated to the Czech Republic; released the live LP-length cassette Not To Stop (Outside Label, Poland); organized a Spring and Fall tour of East and West Europe
1992: released live 7″ FORBIDDEN recorded at the Tilos Adzah club in Budapest; organized a 14-week tour of Europe and the former Soviet Union
1991: recorded the second SABOT CD/MC PAM KRAY and organized an expanded European tour that included more of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; contributed to the compilation EP Collective Conscience Broken Rekids (USA)
1990: organized a successful 3-month, ten country tour of the U.S. and Europe
1989: recorded the first SABOT LP SURFACE TENSION
1988: began composing what was then unusual two-piece instrumental material and performed several concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area