"ACL" day one. It was a wonderful night for corn lovers of all ages, and the ones who were legal drinking age got in to the club. Lovejoys, one of the few decent place to play/drink in Austin's douche bag mecca known as 6th street. Things always get a little boozy/sweaty around there... Hickoids were in the middle slot and Churchwood closed things out. The 'oids played as a seven piece for the first time ever (as in we never even had a practice with all of us). Four guitars, kinda insane especially on such a little stage. I had fun, it was like steering a barge around a shit swamp, fun! The rest of the schedule is here http://www.saustexmedia.com/AUSTIN-CORN-LOVERS-FIESTA-2011.html .
Breakdown
Lovejoys is great. The bands get a $50 beer tab each and the beer they make is $2 a pint. Classy. Thanks to the new parking laws it was $1.86 to park in a metered spot from when I pulled up to the expiration time (11 PM). It's a racket.
I played through a full Ampeg SVT, one of the 4 x 10" with a 15" cabs. It sounded pretty good, better after I learned how to defeat the limiter. It was loud but kinda crappy. I think a similar thing could be said about the Hickoids...
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