4/5/18

Had a little solo set the other day.

My buddy Ken Jones was hosting a music happy hour at the Austin Poetry festival. He'd put out a call for a non-paying gig and it sounded like the perfect opportunity to get off my ass and work up my solo act. So I did!

I got there and Ken was up doing his thing with a guy on percussion, I was next. They finished and before I started setting up I asked the guy on drums if he wanted to play. He was in so solo set be damned!! I was a duo?...

He was on my shit. Right with me through every style I play. He was hitting a nice groove the whole time. We were up to the tenth song and I threw out "99 Bottles of Beer" so he could do the solos.  He tore that shit up!

After I packed up I shook his hand and thanked him, but it wasn't until I was back home that I realized I didn't remember his name... Kinda lame and beautiful at the same time.

3/31/18

We were in Denton on this Saturday night at Dan's Silver Leaf playing with Slobberbone! Not just playing with them, they opened for us?!?!?! I was texting with Smitty earlier in the day and he said "the opener", not "the opener, Slobberbone" Or "Slobberbone's on first". None of that. I was shocked when they started setting up before us.

The drive up was easy, Easter weekend and most of the traffic was already where it wanted to be. I'd pre-loaded my cabinets in the freak but there was no need for them to make the trip. Bass players share!

They had a pretty kick ass set. The crowd was thick and really in to it. Brian (on Bass) hit both "Sailors Hornpipe" and "Yackety Axe" in the middle of tunes. Fuck! Yes!

Our set was ok. We weren't the tightest even though Smitty wrote up a set list before we went on. That might be the sixth time that's happened in my history with the band.

Anyway, the crowd dug us even though it slowly thinned out through the course of our set. At the end it was a dozen or so hard rocks and the members of Slobberbone staring at us. 

I like it up in Denton