CAMP FREDDY IN THE MIDST OF ALL STAR RESIDENCY AT THE ROXY IN HOLLYWOOD X

Camp Freddy, which includes Dave Navarro, Matt Sorum, Chris Chaney and Billy Morrison, talk about what’s next after the band’s residency at The Roxy

Camp Freddy are in the midst of their month mong residency at The Roxy in Hollywood, Ca and besides Billy Morrison (The Cult), Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction), Matt Sorum (Guns N’Roses, Velvet Revolver), Donovan Leitch (son of legendary folk singer Donovan), and Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction), the band features a revolving door of some of musics biggest names. Just in the first three weeks of their May 2008 residency, Camp Freddy welcomed Chester Bennington (Linkin Park), Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray), Warren DeMartini (Ratt), Billy Duffy (The Cult), Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), Juliette Lewis, Moby, Steven Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Brett Scallions (Fuel) and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) to the stage to perform a wide range of cover songs with a certain amount of improvisation and Hollywood flair.

We caught up with drummer Matt Sorum, who has been behind the kit for The Cult, Guns N’Roses and Velvet Revolver to get his thoughts on how Camp Freddy got started.

“Camp Freddy kind of started by accident. We got invited to play a party at the opening of The Standard in downtown (Los Angeles). Donovan got called to do a jam and he put some musicians together and he called me and Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison and at the time we had a different bass player. We went down and played and there was a lot of musicians in the audience, a lot of well known people. Robbie Williams was down there and Twiggy form Marilyn Manson and some other guys, I can’t remember all the names but everybody seemed to want to jump up.”

Matt also talked about Camp Freddy being a success because of friendships and even admitted he makes a lot of the phone calls to see which of his friends is in L.A. and has time to sit in for a jam.

“Camp Freddy really works sort of as a friendship basis. I make the phone calls a lot to my people that I know, Slash, Duff Steven Tyler, Billy from Green Day when he came I called him over at Capitol and said ‘Hey what are you doing tonight.’ Lemmy from Motorhead, same thing I called him. I didn’t go through his manager, I didn’t go through his agent, I didn’t go through that s**t. A lot of times that usually kabashes the whole plan and the plan isn’t much execpt for getting together to play music just like we did when we were kids when we didn’t have a record deal and we didn’t have a manager and it was easy.”

Although Matt mentioned the band started an album a few years ago that has yet to be completed, he talked about the difficulties in getting the album done.

“It’s a little bit difficult because people have other bands you know and when we get ready to go and try to record, you have to get all these clearances and you have to deal with their label and their manager.”

Camp Freddy have performed a number of benefit shows in N.Y. and L.A. as well as made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn, and Last Call with Carson Daly. Camp Freddy also host a weekly radio show on Los Angeles’ acclaimed Indiern103.1 every Saturday from 6 to 8 PM. The bands Thursday night residency at The Roxy extends until May 29th.