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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The Crazy Teens (crazy date)
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The Crazy Teens (crazy date)
crazy song but a dancehall favourite stroller !
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Friday, November 12, 2010
"Do The Dootz" Big Guitars From Texas w/Evan Johns (1985)
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"Do The Dootz" Big Guitars From Texas
"Do The Dootz" or "Do The Doots" By Big Guitars From Texas live on Dixie's Bar and Bus Stop. Evan Johns, Don Leady, Denny Freeman, Frankie Camaro, Keith Ferguson and Mike Buck with the "Do The Dootz" chorus Michael Maye and T. Tex Edwards. Circa 1985-86.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Loco Gringos-T. Tex Edwards-MeThinks-Bastardos De Sancho Oct 23 at Tree's in Dallas
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* CONCERT: LOCO GRINGOS ALSO APPEARING: T TEX EDWARDS / THE ME-THINKS / BASTARDOS DE SANCHO
Trees
2709 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75226
Phone: 214-741-1122
Website: http://treesdallas.com/
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Nervebreakers- July 24 in Dallas
Hot Klub 30th Anniversary Show at Tree’s Saturday, July 24 in Dallas TX.
Line-Up:
TELEFONES - NERVEBREAKERS -
BAG O’WIRE - DEVICES - FALLEN IDOLS -
GRACELAND - LOIS’S LAST NERVE - TEN CAN RIOT...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The next Nervebreakers performance will be Saturday, July 24 in Dallas TX...
http://wewantnothing.tumblr.com/post/609435618/the-next-nervebreakers-perform...
The next Nervebreakers performance will be Saturday, July 24 in Dallas TX at the Hot Klub 30th Anniversary Show. 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOT KLUB- JULY 24TH AT TREES. 
Line-Up:
TELEFONES
NERVEBREAKERS
BAG O’ WIRE
DEVICES
FALLEN IDOLS
GRACELAND
LOIS’S LAST NERVE
TIN CAN RIOT
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Steve Aydt's Reign of Toads (1990)
Steve Aydt's Reign of Toads (1990) PART ONE
dashuzoff — January 20, 2010 — A Whitebread Production. Very strange zero-budget Sci-fi short from a bunch of North Texas weirdos. Technicians from the future are harvesting Henry's dreams. He vows to resist, with the help of Rodrigo Trend, a redneck who lives in a bullet-riddled ice cream truck; an immortal Gnostic, a beatnik, and Dark Bubba, Lord of the Superhighway. A friend of mine appears in this.
Written, Directed and Produced by Steve Aydt
Original Score by Gavin Smith
Starring: Kenneth Weinert, Carl Guderian, Gavin Smith, Kandi Morley, Todd Williams, Lisa Forsythe
Special Guest Star T. Tex Edwards as Dark Bubba
With P.C. "Gator" Falk as Rodrigo Trend
Narration by Carsten Lueck
Special Thanks to Carl Guderian & The Bureau of Control
When in Euless, Texas be sure to visit the Trinity River
T. Tex Edwards can be heard on his current LP release "Pardon Me, But I've Got Someone To Kill" available in all fine record stores.
Steve Aydt's Reign of Toads (1990) PART TWO
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Ebay: The Loafin' Hyenas : self-titled (CD-1990)
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THIS IS A HARD TO FIND CD STILL SEALED (SOME OF THE SEAL IS COMING OFF), CRACK IN SPINE. The Loafin' Hyenas : self-titled (CD-1990) Can't find the doorknob / Boot in the toilet / Bonehusker stomp / Goin' south / Scatter / Way of the world / Scratchin' fleas / Move it / Klawhammer krunch / Forbidden see / Diablo devil / If looks could kill / Things must change / What goes on
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Ebay: Steel Rok Presents punk kbd Nervebreakers' Tex, Hugh Beaumont Exp.
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Steel Rok Presents punk kbd Nervebreakers' Tex E, Hugh Beaumont Exp
Up for grabs is the ultra-rare STEEL ROK PRESENTS cassette only compilation. Probably most famous fer the inclusion of tracks by King Coffey’s pre-Butthole Surfers band, the Hugh Beaumont Experience, but also featuring Tex Edwards in his post-Nervebreakers band, Tex and the Saddle Tramps. The real surprise here, however, is that the other bands are really good too, Dark Tomorrow in particular. The condition of the tape itself is VG+, played great in my machine. The housing and J-card and tape labels however are pretty ragged out…both have some stains and show some pretty major wear. Both can still be read but overall, a Good + seems about correct. Because of this, I start the bidding low. This one doesn’t turn up very often. I know b\c I searched fer YEARS before I found it. More rarities up fer grabs so check my other auctions. BONUS!: I not only include the cassette itself, but a CD of the very cassette being sold, recorded with the utmost care (proper levels, azimuth correction) so you’ll never have to risk yer machine eating this VERY RARE compilation…I had the Cone Johnson 7” years before I got my hands on this one!... Paypal Only please, unless contacting me first. Priority Domestic shipping is $4.85, International shipping is $8.00 Payment must be received within 7 days or item will be put back up fer bid, ok?...
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Art&Seek Q&A: Filmmaker Laura Tabor-Huerta
Laura Tabor-Huertawas a regular fixture on the North Texas punk rock and new wave underground scene back in the 80s and 90s. She spent a decade documenting the bands, the musicians, the fans and the "scene" on video. Saturday night, Laura's documentary, DFW Punk, screens at 1919 Hemphill in Fort Worth. It's a safe bet that you'll find some of those punk rock stars in attendance, which will make for a really interesting Q&A after the screening. Speaking of Q&A's, we caught up with Laura via e-mail recently to chat with her about the film, the idea behind it and more, as part of this week's Art&Seek Q&A: Art&Seek: How did you first get interested in punk music and especially punk bands based in North Texas. Laura Tabor-Huerta: I was into rock and metal music in high school. Suddenly, on the radio, new wave music started to be played and a little punk, and I guess the genres won me over. Very little information was available about punk music and any tiny picture, clipping, article or rumor was appreciated during that pre-Internet time. I was a fine arts major at UT-Arlington in the early 80s, and by word of mouth heard of some local punk clubs. I started driving over to see the bands and experience the scene, which was bigger than just music. It was about experimenting. Some did it with drugs, fashion, art or music. A&S: When did you decide to start documenting these bands and artists with video, and what was your inspiration to do so? L.T.H: It was while I was still in college that I decided to make a documentary, but I was living the life too much and couldn't really organize such a big project at that time. Later, in 1995 or so, I finally had a steady full-time job and started buying equipment and getting a crew together to work on it. I started by writing a list from memory of all the people, clubs and events that I could remember and started calling those people, which led to finding others. In 1997, I started interviewing bands and musicians on the weekends, which continued over the next year or two. My inspiration was that I knew it had been a really special time for me and a small minority of people. As I got older and more non-Texans began moving to Texas with the attitude of "all you hillbillies are behind the times," I realized that many people did not know that a punk scene thrived here back then. I thought it would be an important, accessible story, because I lived it and the subject matter suited itself to a low budget, which was all I could afford. A&S: How much footage was left on the cutting room floor? Enough for a sequel? L.T.H.: Not so much a sequel as a big ol' extras disc! Someone else can make a sequel about the later 90s to today's Dallas scene. Of course, it might be a real tearjerker, because I've heard that it's really a dead scene in Dallas now. I have a lot of interviews and old band footage that I think a niche group might really appreciate having. I even considered having multiple DVDs and offer them as burn to order. We'll see. Some of the most compelling footage is an off-shot of the punk scene; the skinheads. But I have to find a way to protect them, because everyone has a right to privacy and making mistakes when you are young. I would want to show the essence of that time for them. A&S: What is one of your most memorable punk shows? L.T.H.: Well, one of my most positive memories of the DFW punk scene was not of a specific show, rather a feeling from all of it. An average night out to see a local band was such a comfortable experience. Walking with friends, drinking a six-pack and wandering around the Twilight Room area or Deep Ellum with the intent to have fun, meet some interesting people and find some band that you've never heard of before. It was really wonderful. One of the most memorable negative memories I have was at the Exploited show back in 1988, I think. I remember going with a new friend, and he was wearing a jacket with a peace sign on the back. That was about the worst thing you could do, style-wise back then, and I remember skinheads standing behind him spitting all over his back. A&S: How has the film been received at the various film festivals, and where has it screened? L.T.H.: Each festival has been a little different. At the Dallas Video Festival, I screened a different version than the current one. It was not as tight but seemed well-received because everyone was starved for some footage and information from that time, I think. In Los Angeles, at the Don't Knock the Rock Music and Film Festival, it was well-received by Allison Anders, who picked it to screen there, but I think attendance was a bit down because the listing for the screening had no image, so the two film listings (mine and another one) may have blended into one. The crowd, though smaller, was really appreciative. When it played at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin last August, it sold out by 9:45 p.m. on a Monday night, so that was a pretty incredible experience! It was amazing, too, that the majority of the audience stayed for the Q&A! A&S: Who were the major players in the underground punk scene back in the early 80s and why? L.T.H.: I was a bit younger than the original punks from the DFW scene. I was the second wave, as Charlie Gilder, owner of Bar of Soap, likes to say. So speaking for them, which is always a bad idea, Bobby Soxx seems to stand out. He seemed to be a guy you loved to hate. He died of alcohol poisoning a decade ago. He was well known for being so destructive. However, there were many standouts; members of the Nervebreakers, Stickmen with Rayguns, Fort Worth Cats and VVV Record Store. As far as the late 70s, you'll have to ask someone from the first wave to answer that question. Some of the bands I liked in the early 80s and later on were Why am I, Sedition, Broken Promise, MC 900 Ft. Jesus and I was one of the first fans of Reverend Horton Heat. I got into the late 70s bands later, after I started making the documentary in 1995. A&S: If you could bring back one venue and put together a reunion showcase, who would perform and where? L.T.H.: I'm not big on living in the past. I would rather go back and live a random day at the Hot Klub and just see what happens. Seeing the Sex Pistols reunion tour soured me on the whole reunion thing. A&S: Are you planning on working on future documentaries or films? L.T.H.: I plan on doing small projects only, so no big documentaries, only music videos, weird warped animated pieces and small documentaries about a few people. That is about it for the next year or two. Plus, I make mosaics and draw, both of which I plan on doing a lot more. The Art&Seek Q&A is a weekly discussion with a person involved in the arts in North Texas. Check back next Thursday for another installment. http://www.kera.org/artandseek/content/2010/04/01/artseek-qa-filmmaker-laura-...
Art&Seek Q&A: Filmmaker Laura Tabor-Huerta
Friday, October 30, 2009
Sound Off: T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole (from Austin Sound)
http://www.austinsound.net/2009/10/26/sound-off-t-tex-edwards-and-out-on-parole/
Austin Sound
the independent music source for austin
Sound Off: T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole
By Austin Sound • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Featured Story, Sound Off •
Back in the late Seventies and early Eighties, T. Tex Edwards helped define the “cowpunk” sound in Texas, first with the Cramps-ian ferocity of The Nervebreakers and later with the rootsier pull of his projects that would evolve into T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole. At times twisted and brooding, T. Tex Edwards’ brand of psycho-billy trolls the darker edges of Americana with a surly Texas swagger and irreverence that rips rockabilly and jungle-twang. Edwards is preparing a career compilation album for release early next year, as well as a new Nervebreakers record, but this Saturday, Oct. 31, you can spend Halloween with the legend and fellow local icons as T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole desecrate the Hole in the Wall alongside the notorious Hickoids and the Gay Sportscasters featuring guitar giant Evan Johns. Also, we highly recommend following http://twitter.com/Ttexed for some incomparable history lessons!
Profile: T. Tex Edwards
Year Formed:
The original Out On Parole was back in the 1980’s, my first go-round living in Austin. I moved back here in the late 90’s & we reformed OOP when our album got re-released on CD by Saustex in 2007.
Members/Instruments played:
The current Out On Parole has: Joe Dickens, “Big Jeff” Keyton & Chad Nichols on guitars, J.J. Barrera or Pat Collins on bass, & usually Mike Buck or Karen Biller on drums, but Jonie Hell is filling in this Halloween at the Hole.
Former Bands/Side Projects:
Nervebreakers, Tex & the Saddletramps, Out On Parole, The Loafin’ Hyenas, Swingin’ Cornflake Killers, & The Affordable Caskets. /Recorded one-off singles with the Hickoids, Lithium X-mas, disGraceland, & Fireworks.
Albums:
Nervebreakers:
We Want Everything (Existential Vacuum LP/Get Hip CD),
Hijack the Radio! (Rave Up LP)
2010 CD release of a new Nervebreakers album, Face Up to Reality;
with Out On Parole:
Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill (Sympathy for the Record Industry LP ‘89/Saustex CD ‘07)
The Loafin’ Hyenas:
The Loafin’ Hyenas (New Rose LP/CD ‘91)
with Swingin’ Cornflake Killers:
Up Against the Floor (Honey CD ‘96)
upcoming CD, Intexicated!, a “best of” collection of T. Tex Edwards hits, near-misses, one-off’s, & oddities (1982-2001).
Influences:
Numerous, from all over the place.
Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music:
The couple that met at one of my gigs years ago, both having “Psycho” as their favorite song, & then wanting me to play it at their wedding.
Favorite local bands:
Eve & the Exiles, Transgressors, Victims of Leisure, Leroi Brothers, Churchwood, Hickoids, Cold Hard Facts, Uglybeats, Jesse Sublett…
Favorite local venue:
This week, the Hole-in-the-Wall. Next month, I think we will be at Roadhouse Rags, so that will be…
Upcoming shows scheduled:
Oct. 31 - Hole
Some of your favorite albums from the past year:
The Movie Star Junkies from Italy & the Plastic Pals from Sweden.
Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour:
The Only Ones.
Austin Sound questions:
You were at the forefront of the Cowpunk scene back in the late 70s and 80s. Looking back, how much do feel that that scene’s emergence was in reaction to the popularity of progressive country in Texas?
Well it was sometimes called “regressive country” or “punktry & western” back then.
Do y’all have anything special planned for the Halloween show?
I guess we’re obligated to do costumes. I hear JJ’s gonna be an executioner. I haven’t come up with anything yet. And alot of our material is especially creepy as it is.
Song Introduction:
“Move It’ is one of two of my songs covered by other artists, by the Leroi Brothers on the Lucky Lucky Me LP from 1985, (the other being “If Looks Could Kill” covered by Texas Terri).
Sound Off:
We still do the “psycho-country” murder ballads, but also jungle-rhythmed 6o’s pop-psych surfed trash dark-side-of-the-hick fun stuff too…
Mp3s:
Move It: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/MoveIt.mp3
Psycho: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/psycho.mp3
Websites:
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ttexedwards
Tagged as: T. Tex Edwards
Austin Sound
the independent music source for austin
Sound Off: T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole
By Austin Sound • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Featured Story, Sound Off •
Back in the late Seventies and early Eighties, T. Tex Edwards helped define the “cowpunk” sound in Texas, first with the Cramps-ian ferocity of The Nervebreakers and later with the rootsier pull of his projects that would evolve into T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole. At times twisted and brooding, T. Tex Edwards’ brand of psycho-billy trolls the darker edges of Americana with a surly Texas swagger and irreverence that rips rockabilly and jungle-twang. Edwards is preparing a career compilation album for release early next year, as well as a new Nervebreakers record, but this Saturday, Oct. 31, you can spend Halloween with the legend and fellow local icons as T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole desecrate the Hole in the Wall alongside the notorious Hickoids and the Gay Sportscasters featuring guitar giant Evan Johns. Also, we highly recommend following http://twitter.com/Ttexed for some incomparable history lessons!
Profile: T. Tex Edwards
Year Formed:
The original Out On Parole was back in the 1980’s, my first go-round living in Austin. I moved back here in the late 90’s & we reformed OOP when our album got re-released on CD by Saustex in 2007.
Members/Instruments played:
The current Out On Parole has: Joe Dickens, “Big Jeff” Keyton & Chad Nichols on guitars, J.J. Barrera or Pat Collins on bass, & usually Mike Buck or Karen Biller on drums, but Jonie Hell is filling in this Halloween at the Hole.
Former Bands/Side Projects:
Nervebreakers, Tex & the Saddletramps, Out On Parole, The Loafin’ Hyenas, Swingin’ Cornflake Killers, & The Affordable Caskets. /Recorded one-off singles with the Hickoids, Lithium X-mas, disGraceland, & Fireworks.
Albums:
Nervebreakers:
We Want Everything (Existential Vacuum LP/Get Hip CD),
Hijack the Radio! (Rave Up LP)
2010 CD release of a new Nervebreakers album, Face Up to Reality;
with Out On Parole:
Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill (Sympathy for the Record Industry LP ‘89/Saustex CD ‘07)
The Loafin’ Hyenas:
The Loafin’ Hyenas (New Rose LP/CD ‘91)
with Swingin’ Cornflake Killers:
Up Against the Floor (Honey CD ‘96)
upcoming CD, Intexicated!, a “best of” collection of T. Tex Edwards hits, near-misses, one-off’s, & oddities (1982-2001).
Influences:
Numerous, from all over the place.
Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music:
The couple that met at one of my gigs years ago, both having “Psycho” as their favorite song, & then wanting me to play it at their wedding.
Favorite local bands:
Eve & the Exiles, Transgressors, Victims of Leisure, Leroi Brothers, Churchwood, Hickoids, Cold Hard Facts, Uglybeats, Jesse Sublett…
Favorite local venue:
This week, the Hole-in-the-Wall. Next month, I think we will be at Roadhouse Rags, so that will be…
Upcoming shows scheduled:
Oct. 31 - Hole
Some of your favorite albums from the past year:
The Movie Star Junkies from Italy & the Plastic Pals from Sweden.
Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour:
The Only Ones.
Austin Sound questions:
You were at the forefront of the Cowpunk scene back in the late 70s and 80s. Looking back, how much do feel that that scene’s emergence was in reaction to the popularity of progressive country in Texas?
Well it was sometimes called “regressive country” or “punktry & western” back then.
Do y’all have anything special planned for the Halloween show?
I guess we’re obligated to do costumes. I hear JJ’s gonna be an executioner. I haven’t come up with anything yet. And alot of our material is especially creepy as it is.
Song Introduction:
“Move It’ is one of two of my songs covered by other artists, by the Leroi Brothers on the Lucky Lucky Me LP from 1985, (the other being “If Looks Could Kill” covered by Texas Terri).
Sound Off:
We still do the “psycho-country” murder ballads, but also jungle-rhythmed 6o’s pop-psych surfed trash dark-side-of-the-hick fun stuff too…
Mp3s:
Move It: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/MoveIt.mp3
Psycho: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/psycho.mp3
Websites:
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ttexedwards
Tagged as: T. Tex Edwards
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
HAAM BENEFIT DAY 2009 & GOOD EGGS & HAAM FIRST ANNUAL BENEFIT
"This is one fine organization & a Godsend to yours truly & many other needy Austin musicians. I'd probably be dead or soon-dead if they hadn't offered me a helping hand. Please be generous with your support." -- T. Tex Edwards
HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS SUPPORTER NEWS
SPECIAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY EDITION
(a newsletter from HAAM)
www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org
www.myhaam.org
www.myspace.com/myhaam
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-TX/Health-Alliance-for-Austin-Musicians/48911101474
http://twitter.com/myhaam
EAT, SHOP, DONATE, AND ENJOY ON THE FOURTH ANNUAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY!
On Tuesday, September 22, join the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) in keeping music in Austin alive and well.
Here’s how you can help:
EAT & SHOP at 170 local participating businesses and restaurants, with 5% of your purchase going to HAAM. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.
DONATE your spare change to the HAAM Benefit Day donation boxes at each of the music performances. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by Topfer Family Foundation.
ENJOY live performances from over 90 local musical acts throughout the day. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.
Also,
Forward this message to your friends to let them know how they can help!
Are you on Twitter? Find us at @myhaam and make sure you tweet on September 22 to keep your followers up to date on the HAAM Benefit Day happenings.
On Facebook? Become a fan of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
Play Your Part! Come out on Tuesday, September 22nd to support local musicians’ health!
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians was founded in April 2005 when Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David’s Foundation joined forces with The SIMS Foundation to provide medical, dental, and mental health care to the city’s hard-working, uninsured low-income musicians. More than 1,600 member-musicians, most 35 and younger, have been served.
To learn more or to make a donation, visit www.MyHaam.org.
GOOD EGGS & HAAM FIRST ANNUAL BENEFIT
Good Eggs & HAAM, the new outreach group of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians that spreads the word about HAAM and musicians’ health care, hosts a benefit concert in September with Austin-based pop-rock band nelo.
Doors open at 8 p.m., and the music by nelo starts at 9 p.m. Thursday, September 17, at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, 801 Red River St., on the inside stage. Tickets are $25, on sale now through Frontgate Tickets and www.stubbsaustin.com.
Good Eggs & HAAM members — young professionals passionate about live music, who understand that musicians are a unique and important cultural and economic part of Austin, and who have a desire to give back and support musicians' health care — are inviting their friends and the public to the concert. Proceeds benefit Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) provides access to affordable health care to Austin’s low-income, uninsured working musicians with a focus on prevention and wellness. Tax-deductible donations can be made on-line at: https://www.austincommunityfoundation.org/?nd=donate_detail&donation_id=18 or by mail with a check payable to Austin Community Foundation/HAAM Fund to PO Box 301496, Austin, TX 78703-0025. HAAM is a special project fund of the Austin Community Foundation.
HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS SUPPORTER NEWSSPECIAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY EDITION
(a newsletter from HAAM)
www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org
www.myhaam.org
www.myspace.com/myhaam
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-TX/Health-Alliance-for-Austin-Musicians/48911101474
http://twitter.com/myhaam
EAT, SHOP, DONATE, AND ENJOY ON THE FOURTH ANNUAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY!
On Tuesday, September 22, join the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) in keeping music in Austin alive and well.
Here’s how you can help:
EAT & SHOP at 170 local participating businesses and restaurants, with 5% of your purchase going to HAAM. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.
DONATE your spare change to the HAAM Benefit Day donation boxes at each of the music performances. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by Topfer Family Foundation.
ENJOY live performances from over 90 local musical acts throughout the day. Download the list of participating businesses and music schedule.
Also,
Forward this message to your friends to let them know how they can help!
Are you on Twitter? Find us at @myhaam and make sure you tweet on September 22 to keep your followers up to date on the HAAM Benefit Day happenings.
On Facebook? Become a fan of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
Play Your Part! Come out on Tuesday, September 22nd to support local musicians’ health!
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians was founded in April 2005 when Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David’s Foundation joined forces with The SIMS Foundation to provide medical, dental, and mental health care to the city’s hard-working, uninsured low-income musicians. More than 1,600 member-musicians, most 35 and younger, have been served.
To learn more or to make a donation, visit www.MyHaam.org.
GOOD EGGS & HAAM FIRST ANNUAL BENEFITGood Eggs & HAAM, the new outreach group of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians that spreads the word about HAAM and musicians’ health care, hosts a benefit concert in September with Austin-based pop-rock band nelo.
Doors open at 8 p.m., and the music by nelo starts at 9 p.m. Thursday, September 17, at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, 801 Red River St., on the inside stage. Tickets are $25, on sale now through Frontgate Tickets and www.stubbsaustin.com.
Good Eggs & HAAM members — young professionals passionate about live music, who understand that musicians are a unique and important cultural and economic part of Austin, and who have a desire to give back and support musicians' health care — are inviting their friends and the public to the concert. Proceeds benefit Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) provides access to affordable health care to Austin’s low-income, uninsured working musicians with a focus on prevention and wellness. Tax-deductible donations can be made on-line at: https://www.austincommunityfoundation.org/?nd=donate_detail&donation_id=18 or by mail with a check payable to Austin Community Foundation/HAAM Fund to PO Box 301496, Austin, TX 78703-0025. HAAM is a special project fund of the Austin Community Foundation.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Come see me tonight, Friday August 21 at the Carousel Lounge in Austin
http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=99119388861&ref=mf
Come see me with Out On Parole (featuring Joe Dickens, Chad Nichols, Jeff Keyton, JJ Barerra & Karen "Venus of the Traps" Biller) tonight, Friday August 21 at The Carousel Lounge In Austin! Cold Hard Facts of Life open at 9pm...
Come see me with Out On Parole (featuring Joe Dickens, Chad Nichols, Jeff Keyton, JJ Barerra & Karen "Venus of the Traps" Biller) tonight, Friday August 21 at The Carousel Lounge In Austin! Cold Hard Facts of Life open at 9pm...
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Arthurmag Blog: Diggers Papers
The Arthurmag Blog has been posting scans of documents produced by & about the San Francisco Diggers, from SF's Haight-Ashbury district, dating from late 1966 through 1967. Of course, this same sort of thing went on in other cities across the US a year or two later. Back in '68 or '69 in Dallas, I was a 14/15 year old alienated kid looking for some sort of something to grab onto. On one or two occasions, I went downtown & bought some wholesale Dallas Notes underground newspapers & tried to sell them on the street & at school. I got hassled by the cops on the street & sent to see the principal at school. I was lucky to break even & the thrill quickly wore off. I experimented with some drugs & even went down to Lee Park a few times to the Sunday afternoon love-in's; but mainly I went to hear the bands & look at the hippie girls. I missed the infamous "Lee Park Bust" when confrontations & arrests occurred.
Gradually in high school, I became even more alienated & turned off by the hippies, after it seemed everyone at my school was turning into one. I just withdrew into my own world of listening to music & hanging out with a group of guys who were real outcasts at school, but bound by our love of obscure rock 'n roll bands that no one else at our school had heard of.
This is an on-going series of posts from Arthur & I will add some additions to the series on this blogposting page at a later date...
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers/
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers/page/2/
arthur (Homegrown Culture)
POSTED BY Jay Babcock
JUL 12, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 1: The Communication Company announces its presence/mission in Haight-Ashbury, 1967
Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ‘66 through ‘67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader.
Most of the documents that we are presenting here are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “ComCo.” In this first broadsheet, probably distributed sometime in January, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, ComCo announces its presence, and its mission. Click on the image below to see it at full-size…
JUL 13, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 2: “The Diggers state simply…”
...Anderson and Hayward were both Diggers, and ComCo was pledged to publish anything that the Diggers gave them to print. Diggers documents were almost never signed by individual Diggers. Sometimes they are the product of a single individual; sometimes they are a collaboration; sometimes they are summaries of discussions between one of more Diggers.
This particular scan is from a copy of the broadsheet that Chester had mailed to a friend, explaining what he was up to in San Francisco, having recently moved there from New York. That’s Chester’s handwriting near the top and the right: “This I didn’t write but it explains a lot.”
This sheet was distributed in late January, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides.
JUL 14, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 3: “Storm Warning”
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..This sheet was distributed on February 3, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides.
JUL 15, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 4: “Second Notice”
...This sheet was distributed on February 5, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides. It is a direct follow-up to “Storm Warning”, issued on February 3, 1967.
JUL 16, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 5: “The Digger Office Is Now Open”/Historical Diggers
This double-sided document was probably printed and distributed in early February, 1967. Click on the images below to see this document at full size. Sorry for the crap quality of these scans—we’re working on getting better ones.
JUL 17, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 6: “Busted”
...This sheet was probably distributed after February 6, 1967 along the Haight. It would seem to be a direct follow-up to earl;ier broadsides warning of a “festival of busts” that the cops were supposedly planning (see “Storm Warning”, “Second Notice”). Evidently some folks got busted anyway...
JUL 20, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 7: “Bring the color gold. Bring photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground. Bring food to share. Bring flowers, beads, costumes, feathers, bells, cymbals, flags.”
What we have here are two posters advertising the January 14, 1967 “Human Be-In” at Golden Gate Park, which featured a principal Digger—poet/dancer/visionary Lenore Kandel—on the stage. Following the posters is a write-up for the event by journalist/novelist/poet Chester Anderson, who was new to town and new to the Diggers. I’m not sure if this document was ever published, and it’s not a “Diggers” document per se, but it’s an evocative piece of writing about the day, and representative of how the Diggers were thinking about the free, public events they were bringing into reality.
JUL 21, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 8: “The air smells green.”
...In this January 14, 1967 broadsheet, probably distributed along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, Anderson passes on some learned tips on good Bay Area headventure trips.
JUL 22, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 9: “DON’T DROP HALF OUT.”
...What we have here was part of a set that were distributed en masse (500 copies) along the Haight on telephone poles, walls, in windows, and so on, on January 28, 1967. Chester wrote these pages, and apparently sent copies to a friend or family member with handwritten text explaining some of the terms, and it’s one of those papers that we’re showing here.
JUL 27, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 10: “Approximately Public Explanation/FUCKIT”/”The Diggers Gladly Accept”
...According to Claude, these broadsides were then “handed out on the street, page by page, super hot media, because the reader trusted the source, which was another freaky looking hippie who had handed it to him/her.”
The two scans below are from Chester’s collection—that’s his handwriting on the top of the first page. The authors are unknown, the pub dates are unknown: late January 1967 is our best guess.
JUL 28, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 11: “Two-Page Racial Rap”
...“Two-Page Racial Rap” is by Chester Anderson, dated February 9, 1967. Contents are self-explanatory.
JUL 29, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 12: “Bring trucks (flatbed) with 5kw generators”
...Here’s a copy of one broadside published by Com/Co in early February, 1967. This is from Chester’s collection, but as he notes in handwriting at the top of the page, he did not author it. This was one of at least three sheets circulating during the time that encouraged SF heads to head to L.A. for the weekend.
AUG 3, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 13: “Buena Vista Park is Middle Earth” (a poem by Chester Anderson for John Fahey)
...Here’s a scan of a broadside published and distributed by Com/Co on February 8, 1967. Note: Chester was gay, perhaps bisexual, from what I’ve been told by people who knew him.
AUG 4, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 14: THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (Feb 24, 1967)
...Here are two posterish images—the black and white one is an early poster by Victor Moscoso—plus two flyers to do with the Invisible Circus, a “community” that was supposed to last for 72 hours at the Glide Memorial Church one weekend in late February, 1967. More on what happened at the Invisible Circus in our next installment of The Diggers Papers…
AUG 6, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 15: “It’s your freedom baby.
Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ‘66 through ‘67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader. (ESPECIALLY this one!)...
AUG 10, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 16: “Suckers buy what lovers get for free”
AUG 13, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 18: BEDROCK ONE event flyer/poster by R. Crumb (late Feb ‘67)
...This particular Com/Co document is a flyer/poster/broadside by a pre-fame Robert Crumb advertising BEDROCK ONE, a March 5, 1967 event organized by Anderson himself. Check out that lineup, a real who’s who of the contemporary Haight-Ashbury arts/life scene: the Steve Miller Band, the Orkustra (the band led by guitarist Bobby Beausoleil, who would later be associated with both Kenneth Anger and Charles Manson), poet Richard Brautigan, the infamous street agitators San Francisco Mime Troupe, the San Francisco League for Sexual Freedom, the Lysergic Power & Light Company, and more.
AUG 14, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 19: another BEDROCK ONE event flyer/poster
...This particular Com/Co document is a flyer/poster/broadside by an unknown artist advertising BEDROCK ONE, a March 5, 1967 event organized by Anderson himself...
Gradually in high school, I became even more alienated & turned off by the hippies, after it seemed everyone at my school was turning into one. I just withdrew into my own world of listening to music & hanging out with a group of guys who were real outcasts at school, but bound by our love of obscure rock 'n roll bands that no one else at our school had heard of.
This is an on-going series of posts from Arthur & I will add some additions to the series on this blogposting page at a later date...
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers/
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers/page/2/
arthur (Homegrown Culture)
POSTED BY Jay Babcock
JUL 12, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 1: The Communication Company announces its presence/mission in Haight-Ashbury, 1967
Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ‘66 through ‘67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader.
Most of the documents that we are presenting here are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “ComCo.” In this first broadsheet, probably distributed sometime in January, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, ComCo announces its presence, and its mission. Click on the image below to see it at full-size…
JUL 13, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 2: “The Diggers state simply…”
...Anderson and Hayward were both Diggers, and ComCo was pledged to publish anything that the Diggers gave them to print. Diggers documents were almost never signed by individual Diggers. Sometimes they are the product of a single individual; sometimes they are a collaboration; sometimes they are summaries of discussions between one of more Diggers.
This particular scan is from a copy of the broadsheet that Chester had mailed to a friend, explaining what he was up to in San Francisco, having recently moved there from New York. That’s Chester’s handwriting near the top and the right: “This I didn’t write but it explains a lot.”
This sheet was distributed in late January, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides.
JUL 14, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 3: “Storm Warning”
.
..This sheet was distributed on February 3, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides.
JUL 15, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 4: “Second Notice”
...This sheet was distributed on February 5, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides. It is a direct follow-up to “Storm Warning”, issued on February 3, 1967.
JUL 16, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 5: “The Digger Office Is Now Open”/Historical Diggers
This double-sided document was probably printed and distributed in early February, 1967. Click on the images below to see this document at full size. Sorry for the crap quality of these scans—we’re working on getting better ones.
JUL 17, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 6: “Busted”
...This sheet was probably distributed after February 6, 1967 along the Haight. It would seem to be a direct follow-up to earl;ier broadsides warning of a “festival of busts” that the cops were supposedly planning (see “Storm Warning”, “Second Notice”). Evidently some folks got busted anyway...
JUL 20, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 7: “Bring the color gold. Bring photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground. Bring food to share. Bring flowers, beads, costumes, feathers, bells, cymbals, flags.”
What we have here are two posters advertising the January 14, 1967 “Human Be-In” at Golden Gate Park, which featured a principal Digger—poet/dancer/visionary Lenore Kandel—on the stage. Following the posters is a write-up for the event by journalist/novelist/poet Chester Anderson, who was new to town and new to the Diggers. I’m not sure if this document was ever published, and it’s not a “Diggers” document per se, but it’s an evocative piece of writing about the day, and representative of how the Diggers were thinking about the free, public events they were bringing into reality.
JUL 21, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 8: “The air smells green.”
...In this January 14, 1967 broadsheet, probably distributed along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, Anderson passes on some learned tips on good Bay Area headventure trips.
JUL 22, 2009
Diggers Papers No. 9: “DON’T DROP HALF OUT.”
...What we have here was part of a set that were distributed en masse (500 copies) along the Haight on telephone poles, walls, in windows, and so on, on January 28, 1967. Chester wrote these pages, and apparently sent copies to a friend or family member with handwritten text explaining some of the terms, and it’s one of those papers that we’re showing here.
JUL 27, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 10: “Approximately Public Explanation/FUCKIT”/”The Diggers Gladly Accept”
...According to Claude, these broadsides were then “handed out on the street, page by page, super hot media, because the reader trusted the source, which was another freaky looking hippie who had handed it to him/her.”
The two scans below are from Chester’s collection—that’s his handwriting on the top of the first page. The authors are unknown, the pub dates are unknown: late January 1967 is our best guess.
JUL 28, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 11: “Two-Page Racial Rap”
...“Two-Page Racial Rap” is by Chester Anderson, dated February 9, 1967. Contents are self-explanatory.
JUL 29, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 12: “Bring trucks (flatbed) with 5kw generators”
...Here’s a copy of one broadside published by Com/Co in early February, 1967. This is from Chester’s collection, but as he notes in handwriting at the top of the page, he did not author it. This was one of at least three sheets circulating during the time that encouraged SF heads to head to L.A. for the weekend.
AUG 3, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 13: “Buena Vista Park is Middle Earth” (a poem by Chester Anderson for John Fahey)
...Here’s a scan of a broadside published and distributed by Com/Co on February 8, 1967. Note: Chester was gay, perhaps bisexual, from what I’ve been told by people who knew him.
AUG 4, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 14: THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (Feb 24, 1967)
...Here are two posterish images—the black and white one is an early poster by Victor Moscoso—plus two flyers to do with the Invisible Circus, a “community” that was supposed to last for 72 hours at the Glide Memorial Church one weekend in late February, 1967. More on what happened at the Invisible Circus in our next installment of The Diggers Papers…
AUG 6, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 15: “It’s your freedom baby.
Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ‘66 through ‘67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader. (ESPECIALLY this one!)...
AUG 10, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 16: “Suckers buy what lovers get for free”
AUG 13, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 18: BEDROCK ONE event flyer/poster by R. Crumb (late Feb ‘67)
...This particular Com/Co document is a flyer/poster/broadside by a pre-fame Robert Crumb advertising BEDROCK ONE, a March 5, 1967 event organized by Anderson himself. Check out that lineup, a real who’s who of the contemporary Haight-Ashbury arts/life scene: the Steve Miller Band, the Orkustra (the band led by guitarist Bobby Beausoleil, who would later be associated with both Kenneth Anger and Charles Manson), poet Richard Brautigan, the infamous street agitators San Francisco Mime Troupe, the San Francisco League for Sexual Freedom, the Lysergic Power & Light Company, and more.
AUG 14, 2009
The Diggers Papers No. 19: another BEDROCK ONE event flyer/poster
...This particular Com/Co document is a flyer/poster/broadside by an unknown artist advertising BEDROCK ONE, a March 5, 1967 event organized by Anderson himself...
Monday, August 10, 2009
Face Up To Reality video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vvGY8LoNM
Nervebreakers - "Face Up to Reality"
live at Club Dada in Dallas
April 11, 2009
posted by netinsanity
Nervebreakers - "Face Up to Reality"
live at Club Dada in Dallas
April 11, 2009
posted by netinsanity
Friday, July 17, 2009
TWILIGHTZONE!: The LeRoi Brothers "Lucky Lucky Me" 1985
TWILIGHTZONE! Blog posts more Leroi's!! This time "Lucky Lucky Me" from 1985 (where they covered Mr Haskins & I's song MOVE IT). I also really dig ELVIS IN THE ARMY amongst others here...
http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2009/07/leroi-brothers-lucky-lucky-me-1985.html
TWILIGHTZONE!
JUST FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009
The LeRoi Brothers "Lucky Lucky Me" 1985
Evan Johns joins the LeRoi Bros for 1 LP!
It goes without saying that no one in Austin, Texas' LeRoi Brothers is named LeRoi. Debuting on the unpretentious Check This Action as a trio (singer/guitarists Steve Doerr and Don Leady and drummer Mike Buck) plus a guest bassist, the LeRois set to rocking without ado, reeling off energetically unreconstructed rock'n'roll/R&B covers (plus a few originals that don't slow down the party one bit) in an unmistakable Southwestern accent.
Evan Johns replaced guitarist Don Leady (who went on to form the Tail Gators), Lucky Lucky Me is a full menu of high-energy tunes played for keeps. "Fight Fire With Fire," the zydeco-tinged "The Back Door" and a quick history lesson, "Elvis in the Army," are among the highlights. - Trouser Press
The LeRoi Brothers:
Evan Johns: Organ, Guitar, Vocals / Jackie Newhouse: Bass / Joe Doerr: Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals / Mike Buck: Percussion, Drums / Steve Doerr: Guitar, Harmonica, Accordion, Vocals
trax:
1) Lucky Lucky Me 2) POW 3) Elvis In The Army 4) I Don't Wanna Stop 5) Walk With Me Darling 6) Give Up The Ghost 7) The Back Door 8) Dangerous Girl 9) Darlene 10) Little Bit Of Sugar 11) Move It 12) Foggy River 13) 007
...originally served by Philo...
1 KOMMENTARE:
RYP said...
The LeRoi Brothers "Lucky Lucky Me"
gitit! pw: rideyourpony
http://rapidshare.com/files/256397658/le-45r7o0.rar
JULY 16, 2009 11:28 AM
http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2009/07/leroi-brothers-lucky-lucky-me-1985.html
TWILIGHTZONE!
JUST FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009
The LeRoi Brothers "Lucky Lucky Me" 1985
Evan Johns joins the LeRoi Bros for 1 LP!
It goes without saying that no one in Austin, Texas' LeRoi Brothers is named LeRoi. Debuting on the unpretentious Check This Action as a trio (singer/guitarists Steve Doerr and Don Leady and drummer Mike Buck) plus a guest bassist, the LeRois set to rocking without ado, reeling off energetically unreconstructed rock'n'roll/R&B covers (plus a few originals that don't slow down the party one bit) in an unmistakable Southwestern accent.
Evan Johns replaced guitarist Don Leady (who went on to form the Tail Gators), Lucky Lucky Me is a full menu of high-energy tunes played for keeps. "Fight Fire With Fire," the zydeco-tinged "The Back Door" and a quick history lesson, "Elvis in the Army," are among the highlights. - Trouser Press
The LeRoi Brothers:
Evan Johns: Organ, Guitar, Vocals / Jackie Newhouse: Bass / Joe Doerr: Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals / Mike Buck: Percussion, Drums / Steve Doerr: Guitar, Harmonica, Accordion, Vocals
trax:
1) Lucky Lucky Me 2) POW 3) Elvis In The Army 4) I Don't Wanna Stop 5) Walk With Me Darling 6) Give Up The Ghost 7) The Back Door 8) Dangerous Girl 9) Darlene 10) Little Bit Of Sugar 11) Move It 12) Foggy River 13) 007
...originally served by Philo...
1 KOMMENTARE:
RYP said...
The LeRoi Brothers "Lucky Lucky Me"
gitit! pw: rideyourpony
http://rapidshare.com/files/256397658/le-45r7o0.rar
JULY 16, 2009 11:28 AM
Friday, July 10, 2009
THE STASH DAUBER: road trip to austin
"...joe dickens got a piercing sound from his semi-hollow guild & spelled t. tex, singing a good ol' trucker's lament, while big jeff keyton played an f/x-laden, bigsby-modded telecaster,& mike buck demonstrated (as he always does) his mastery of no-frills, propulsive timekeeping..."
http://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2009/07/road-trip.html
THE STASH DAUBER
RANTS OF AN UNRECONSTRUCTED MUSIC GEEK
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009
ABOUT ME:
THE STASH DAUBER
FORT WORTH, WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, UNITED STATES
"We're all in this together, and nobody gets out alive."
road trip to austin
my sweetie 'n' i just got back from an overnight trip to america's live music capital (R) which we were able to accomplish entahrly with found money (amex reward points paid for our hotel, and my pocket change from the curious george bank supplied our walking-around money).
stayed in the sumptuous hilton garden inn, which was within two blocks of both of the places where we planned to do stuff during our stay, which meant that my sweetie could drank a li'l more 'n she usually woulda if she'd been driving. first stop was casino el camino, one of my fave watering holes on earth, run by an eminently hip gent of the same name who was called something else when he was a teenager on lawn guyland and i sold him records.
casino's bar has the best burgers on earth and my sweetie got her first taste of one (an l.a., hold the sprouts; myself, i always go for the chicago) and pronounced it "tasty." casino's been in austin since '90 and his bar's been open since '95. during sxsw, he used to host the best parties there, with live music including some of the best shows i've ever seen in austin (the nomads, the mooney suzuki, and the immortal lee county killers on one occasion, the dirtbombs on another). joe lifto from the jim rose circus still tends bar there. we got comp drinks, t-shirts and stickers from the bar on casino's generosity and invited him and his new bride to visit us the next time they're in the fort.
went back to our room for an afternoon nap (because we're old homebodies and lazy that way) before walking another block north on 6th to lovejoy's to see t. tex edwards and out on parole. the stage at lovejoy's is tee-tiny and there are six musos in out on parole -- three gtrs, two electric and one acoustic, in addition to bass, drums (played by expat fort worthian mike buck) and t. tex his own self -- so they were packed in pretty tight. they opened with an instrumental, showcasing a reverb-drenched sound that straddles surf, rockabilly, honky-tonk and psychedelia, before t. tex hit the stage, singing a selection of songs from their great pardon me, i've got someone to kill cd plus covers of songs by syd barrett and john entwistle (!) because t. tex says, "you can't just sing murder songs all the time."
joe dickens got a piercing sound from his semi-hollow guild and spelled t. tex, singing a good ol' trucker's lament, while big jeff keyton played an f/x-laden, bigsby-modded telecaster, and mike buck demonstrated (as he always does) his mastery of no-frills, propulsive timekeeping. i told him that i saw him play the first weekend i was in texas, with the fabulous thunderbirds at faces on lemmon avenue in dallas. buck and another expat fort worthian, jim yanaway of "finger poppin' time"/amazing records/legendary stardust cowboy fame were of the opinion that might have been the weekend when jaco pastorius sat in with the t-birds (on keith ferguson's left-handed bass) and denny freeman and bill campbell sat in for jimmie vaughan. i don't remember any of that, but there's a lot of stuff from around that time (30+ yrs ago!) that i can't remember so well. 'twas good to see jim and hear him talking about his current gig refurbing houses and the trip he's planning to the pac northwest with his dog, smiley.
went back to the room and watched the tv (something we never do at home) before hitting the rack. in the morning, we stayed in the room right up until checkout time watching a multi-part episode of law and order: criminal intent. my sweetie 'n' i agreed that while the appointments at the hotel were fine, we like our own bathroom (and water pressure!) at home better. fell by waterloo records but i was so glutted from recent outings to hpb and doc's records here in the fort that nothing i saw really caught my eye, so we stopped at whole foods to grab something to eat on the go before heading back to the fort, la casa, and the cats. a nice li'l road trip; we'll have to do it again once we can accrue enough reward points.
tomorrow i'm attending my ex-lead singer's funeral in the morning, closing at the market, and then playing at lola's 6th with hentai improvising orchestra -- which, this time out, won't include jon teague, who's recording with the great tyrant, but will include clay stinnett, fresh from recording with the boom boom box, along with zanzibar snails' michael chamy, trombonist marcus brunt, billy wilson on theremin, and whoever else terry was able to shake out of the trees. should be a hoot.
POSTED BY THE STASH DAUBER AT 3:44 PM
(CLICK TO ORIGINAL BLOGPOST FOR ALL THE GROOVY LINKS)
http://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2009/07/road-trip.html
THE STASH DAUBER
RANTS OF AN UNRECONSTRUCTED MUSIC GEEK
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009
ABOUT ME:
THE STASH DAUBER
FORT WORTH, WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, UNITED STATES
"We're all in this together, and nobody gets out alive."
road trip to austin
my sweetie 'n' i just got back from an overnight trip to america's live music capital (R) which we were able to accomplish entahrly with found money (amex reward points paid for our hotel, and my pocket change from the curious george bank supplied our walking-around money).
stayed in the sumptuous hilton garden inn, which was within two blocks of both of the places where we planned to do stuff during our stay, which meant that my sweetie could drank a li'l more 'n she usually woulda if she'd been driving. first stop was casino el camino, one of my fave watering holes on earth, run by an eminently hip gent of the same name who was called something else when he was a teenager on lawn guyland and i sold him records.
casino's bar has the best burgers on earth and my sweetie got her first taste of one (an l.a., hold the sprouts; myself, i always go for the chicago) and pronounced it "tasty." casino's been in austin since '90 and his bar's been open since '95. during sxsw, he used to host the best parties there, with live music including some of the best shows i've ever seen in austin (the nomads, the mooney suzuki, and the immortal lee county killers on one occasion, the dirtbombs on another). joe lifto from the jim rose circus still tends bar there. we got comp drinks, t-shirts and stickers from the bar on casino's generosity and invited him and his new bride to visit us the next time they're in the fort.
went back to our room for an afternoon nap (because we're old homebodies and lazy that way) before walking another block north on 6th to lovejoy's to see t. tex edwards and out on parole. the stage at lovejoy's is tee-tiny and there are six musos in out on parole -- three gtrs, two electric and one acoustic, in addition to bass, drums (played by expat fort worthian mike buck) and t. tex his own self -- so they were packed in pretty tight. they opened with an instrumental, showcasing a reverb-drenched sound that straddles surf, rockabilly, honky-tonk and psychedelia, before t. tex hit the stage, singing a selection of songs from their great pardon me, i've got someone to kill cd plus covers of songs by syd barrett and john entwistle (!) because t. tex says, "you can't just sing murder songs all the time."
joe dickens got a piercing sound from his semi-hollow guild and spelled t. tex, singing a good ol' trucker's lament, while big jeff keyton played an f/x-laden, bigsby-modded telecaster, and mike buck demonstrated (as he always does) his mastery of no-frills, propulsive timekeeping. i told him that i saw him play the first weekend i was in texas, with the fabulous thunderbirds at faces on lemmon avenue in dallas. buck and another expat fort worthian, jim yanaway of "finger poppin' time"/amazing records/legendary stardust cowboy fame were of the opinion that might have been the weekend when jaco pastorius sat in with the t-birds (on keith ferguson's left-handed bass) and denny freeman and bill campbell sat in for jimmie vaughan. i don't remember any of that, but there's a lot of stuff from around that time (30+ yrs ago!) that i can't remember so well. 'twas good to see jim and hear him talking about his current gig refurbing houses and the trip he's planning to the pac northwest with his dog, smiley.
went back to the room and watched the tv (something we never do at home) before hitting the rack. in the morning, we stayed in the room right up until checkout time watching a multi-part episode of law and order: criminal intent. my sweetie 'n' i agreed that while the appointments at the hotel were fine, we like our own bathroom (and water pressure!) at home better. fell by waterloo records but i was so glutted from recent outings to hpb and doc's records here in the fort that nothing i saw really caught my eye, so we stopped at whole foods to grab something to eat on the go before heading back to the fort, la casa, and the cats. a nice li'l road trip; we'll have to do it again once we can accrue enough reward points.
tomorrow i'm attending my ex-lead singer's funeral in the morning, closing at the market, and then playing at lola's 6th with hentai improvising orchestra -- which, this time out, won't include jon teague, who's recording with the great tyrant, but will include clay stinnett, fresh from recording with the boom boom box, along with zanzibar snails' michael chamy, trombonist marcus brunt, billy wilson on theremin, and whoever else terry was able to shake out of the trees. should be a hoot.
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True Stories from last night at Lovejoy's
"...there's this crazy person who frequents antones record store(nick-named "Stinky" by the staff)...he showed up at our gig last night,shirt unbottoned with an underwear band around his waist (no underwear attached)stood & danced at the front door for a few minutes all during"Rubber Room"..."
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=198440900&blogId=499582996
(From Mike Buck of Antone's Record Shop & Out On Parole drummer)
our people
there is this crazy person who frequents antones record store(nick-named "Stinky" by the staff)he is forty-ish,portly and bald with a wild fringe of hair.he comes in the store,sometimes with his dirty drawers on his head, and wanders around-occasionally giving forth a peale of maniacal laughter.
anyway he showed up at our gig last night,shirt unbottoned with an underwear band around his waist (no underwear attached),stood and danced at the front door for a few minutes all during"Rubber Room"
a perfect moment
mb
True Stories from last night at Lovejoy's:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=198440900&blogId=499582996
(From Mike Buck of Antone's Record Shop & Out On Parole drummer)
our people
there is this crazy person who frequents antones record store(nick-named "Stinky" by the staff)he is forty-ish,portly and bald with a wild fringe of hair.he comes in the store,sometimes with his dirty drawers on his head, and wanders around-occasionally giving forth a peale of maniacal laughter.
anyway he showed up at our gig last night,shirt unbottoned with an underwear band around his waist (no underwear attached),stood and danced at the front door for a few minutes all during"Rubber Room"
a perfect moment
mb
True Stories from last night at Lovejoy's:
Sunday, June 28, 2009
July 9 - Thursday at Lovejoy's in Austin
"...Out On Parole (featuring T. Tex Edwards, Mike Buck, Joe Dickens, Pat Collins, "Big Jeff" Keyton & Chad Nichols) at 9:30pm...
then later The Transgressors..."
http://www.myspace.com/ttexoutonparole
Lovejoy’s Brewpub
604 Neches St
Austin 78701
Out On Parole (featuring T. Tex Edwards, Mike Buck, Joe Dickens, Pat Collins, "Big Jeff" Keyton & Chad Nichols) at 9:30pm...
then later The Transgressors...
then later The Transgressors..."
http://www.myspace.com/ttexoutonparole
Lovejoy’s Brewpub
604 Neches St
Austin 78701
Out On Parole (featuring T. Tex Edwards, Mike Buck, Joe Dickens, Pat Collins, "Big Jeff" Keyton & Chad Nichols) at 9:30pm...
then later The Transgressors...
Monday, June 22, 2009
Remembering Joe "Christ" Linhart - 6/18/57 to 6/21/09
Word has come that Joe "Christ" Linhart has passed away at his home in Manila. No details yet on the cause of death...
(Since this was written, it has been learned that "Joe died in his sleep from a heart attack at his home in Atlanta. It was 3 days after his birthday, on Father's Day.....and he was home from Manila for an extended visit." Thanks Sebastien)
His son Alan has started a Facebook group in his memory at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=89554566698&ref=mf
In the group description he writes:
"Father, grandfather, artist, musician, filmmaker, shit stirrer and so much more. This is a group for friends and family of Joe to connect and share stories and photos of him. Stories can be whatever they are, no worries if they are offensive or what not, he would have liked it that way and to have people remember the true him. Please post any and all photos any of you have of him to this group so we all have something to look back on and remember his legacy. I miss you dad!!!!!!
I do not have full info for all his friends, so any of you that can, please invite anyone who knows him or was touched by his life to join the group by using the 'invite others to join' link below his photo..."
I first met Joe when he booked The Nervebreakers at Bleu's Grotto (a great old dark bar with paper-mache stalactites hanging from the ceiling) in Tulsa in 1980...
I remember his hospitality when we stayed overnight at his house afterwards...
Back then he was known as Joe Danger...
He joined a cool little punk combo called Los Reactors in Tulsa with Tommy Waggoner.
Here's a description from their Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/losreactors
"Los Reactors, based in Tulsa, OK, were formed in 1979 and remained together until 1983. During that time, two seven-inch vinyl records were released by the band:
Dead In The Suburbs 3-song ep (b/w Culture Shock and Pregnant Girls) - 1981 - Cynykyl Records
Be A Zombie b/w Laboratory Baby - 1982 - Cynykyl Records
During the late 1990s, various Los Reactors songs were included in compilations, notably the Killed By Death series. In 2001, Rave Up Records based in Italy released a 12-inch vinyl album with all of the material from the singles, plus an additional bunch of live recordings. This led to a CD release of the LP material by way of Ripoff Records in 2004. In 2005, Los Reactors re-grouped to play a couple of reunion shows in New York City and Tulsa, with more shows planned for the future.
Here's a video of Los Reactors performing live on a Tulsa variety TV show in 1982. The song is Wonderful Life."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2N8Us105c
I moved away from Dallas (down to Austin) in 1984, when I returned in 1986, Joe had moved to big D & had a band called The Healing Faith & had adopted a Jeffery Lee Pierce look & persona. They opened the show at the Twilite Room on March 15, 1986 for a Nervebreakers' re-union gig playing before Johnny Thunders.
From Joe's personal Myspace page at:
http://www.myspace.com/joe_christ
Here is a list of his bands:
LOS REACTORS (1980 - 1983)
G SPOT (1983 - 1985)
JOE CHRIST and The HEALING FAITH (1985 - 1987)
BIGGER THAN GOD (1989 - 1996).
Here is a list of his films:
THAT's JUST WRONG! (2005).
Other movies (all shorts) are: MY STRUGGLE (2000)
AMY STRANGLED A SMALL CHILD (1998)
IS IT SNUFF? YOU DECIDE! (1997)
SEX BLOOD and MUTILATION (1995)
ACID IS GROOVY KILL THE PIGS (1993)
CRIPPLED (1992)
SPEED FREAKS WITH GUNS (1991)
COMMUNION IN ROOM 410 (1988).
He & his movies have been written about in the following books:
That's Blaxploitation! by Darius James (St Martin's, 1995)
Slimetime by Steven Puchalski (Headpress, 1996)
Killer Art by Lynn Powers (Pontalba Press, 1999)
His movie Speed Freaks With Guns was novelized by Nancy A Collins in her short story collection Nameless Sins (Gauntlet Press, 1995)
On his YouTube page, you can see trailers for some of his films & videos he shot:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealJoeChrist
He seemed to be a nice man who reveled in his in his own weirdness. Of course, there are alot of stories around about him cutting off his penis after a 3-day speed run. I'll let someone else speculate about those tales and just say he apparently found contentment living in The Philippines in his later years. RIP Joe...
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