6/10/17

The sorta-annual Howlin' Wolf show at the Continental was a couple of weeks ago. Guess what? Bigfoot Chester was on the bill! shocker...

We were headlining or dead last, however you wanna see it. It was also the motorcycle rally weekend. Loads of motorcycles buzzing all over town. Generally it means no normal Austinites will come out to a club. Only musicians... We don't get a pass.

I was dreading everything (other than getting to play) about this night. But when I got to South Congress there were barely any cars on the road.  Parking was easy and suddenly, I was feeling great about everything!

There was a decent crowd when we went up, it was thinner than earlier but that's what you get at 1AM. Our set was OK. Almost everything was too fast. We were solidly in non-groove killing territory. Sad. 

Ted Roddy got up and did "You'll Be Mine" and it was amazing. We really killed that one. The next tune was "I Didn't Know" and it was a sloppy ass mess. Sorry Ted. 

We finished up, got paid and headed home. I had a 7AM flight out in the morning I was in bed at 2:30 and up three hours later. Beat to hell the next day, but... you know...

6/1/17

Bantam"s first show!!

We were at the Hard Luck, playing outside. It was looking like it was gonna get rained out the whole week before. All of us wanted to get up and play, felt like it had been forever since we did it last. Fortunately the weather was kind so we got to make some noise. 

Our set was pretty good. Lots of miscues, missed notes and plain old fuckups but the feeling was there. That's all that matters with a first show back. Did it feel right?

We added a new tune called "Good Riddance". Two cords and seven words. Simplest song I've ever written. Also the quickest. I played both the chords and the words came out. Not a lot of thinking for that one. Sometimes you got to get out of inspirations way