Former Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell plans to reflect on the aforementioned band’s gold-certified third studio album “Obsolete” via an upcoming spoken word tour. The following was offered of his plans for that brief run, which will be a phone-free experience and has been dubbed ‘Obsolete By Word Of Mouth‘:
‘Guests will be asked to silence and put away their cell phones during the presentation. No filming or recording will be permitted.
There will be no screen between the audience and the experience, and no social media feed capable of recreating what happened in the room. The only way the experience travels beyond those 50 people is the way stories once traveled — from one person to another, by word of mouth.
Thirty years after Obsolete, Burton C. Bell is opening the story again in an entirely different way.
Three cities. Fifty guests per room. One voice. One shared experience.
No filming. No recording. No scrolling.
Just the story of Obsolete, told by the man who lived it – and carried forward by the people who were there.’
Dates and pricing for the run include:
October 6 — San Diego, California
Scorpion Percussion
Guest arrival: 7:00 pm
Spoken word presentation: 8:00–9:00 pm
October 7 — Los Angeles, California
The Crooked Path
Guest arrival: 7:00 pm
Spoken word presentation: 8:00–9:00 pm
October 9 — Las Vegas, Nevada
The Space
Guest arrival: 7:00 pm
Spoken word presentation: 8:00–9:00 pm
Tickets: $50.00
Limited to 50 guests per event.
Bell bitterly left Fear Factory in 2020 and has more recently been pursuing a solo career under his own name. Fear Factory meanwhile are readying their first new album without Bell on vocals for an upcoming release.
