6/19/20

 It was just me and Harvey last Saturday at the Lonesome Rose. We did a little duo set opening for Jessie Dayton. We’d never attempted one of theses before but we were able to sneak one little run through earlier in the week.  We even leaned two new ones as went over the rest, my dog was really happy it wasn’t just me playing in the living room for a change.  

It was a pretty decent crowd for an 8pm start time.  We only played one of the two new ones and we’d been a little worried that we had enough stuff to fill the time, but we had five still on the list when we got the “one more”. Solid. 

We wrapped up and I jumped back in the car and drove back to Austin. I would have loved to see Jessie but getting home and being lazy as hell was a high priority at that point. 

5/30/21

 Another Gringopalooza? Yes. The pandemic killed it last year, this year it was back with a vengeance. 

At the Three Links with the Gringos (duh), George Jonestown Massacre, a band from California full of young dudes that I didn’t see or meet, and the Hickoids!

The place was pretty packed. I drove up myself and got a room down the street so I could stumble back and not worry about driving home until way later. The club was full when I got there. As in one in and one out with no covid capacity limits. Packed. 

The pandemic isn’t over but folks sure are acting like it. I’m desperate to play and travel and see shows and live a somewhat normal life again. But I’m pretty worried that we as a species are handling this in the worst way possible.  

I 100% blame our former national leadership and our CURRENT Texas “leadership”. Total assholes that are fucking up the world for personal gain and have zero compassion. There is a fair amount of willful ignorance and stupidity in there as well. It’s all gross and avoidable. 

Anyway. The show was a lot of fun. It was great being out and seeing a ton of folks I haven’t seen in what feels like a decade. We really tore it up and Frontier Dan even made the gig! It’s always great getting to hang and play with him. 

At the end of the night it was a series of drunken hugs with half the crowd and most of the band folks. Feels good to be missed