2/4/22

 

Hicks were out at the Gray Horse in San Marcos last Friday night. It’s a pretty cool joint in a strip mall just outside of town on the way to Wimberly. I would have missed it if the lady in my phone hadn’t told be to turn in the parking lot. 

We went up after the Bulemics who i hadn’t seen in… forever? They were so fucking good!!  When they went up I was getting crabby because they started late. But once they were going I was all “Holy Shit!! They are rocking this shit!”   THEN they ended after thirty minutes (oh, they didn’t start late at all…). 

I’m easy to get crabby but hard to impress musically. This was a definite win here. 

Then we went up and had a decent one. Harvey wasn’t  with us and we were missing some of our sound but we kept it going and played until 80% of the crowd left…

It’s what we do. 

1/21/21

 

Catching up here with the second lost show…

Went on with Harvey at Low country down in SA. We were missing Andrea on this cold as hell Friday night. But we ended up having a real nice low key set with just  the four of us. 

It was pretty sweet. I was playing right by the door so I “greeted” everyone as they came in. The room packed out at 10 folks watching us play. And gear, not a huge space, but its the perfect size to really feel the love. 

This was a semi release party for the new ep. Three tunes we recorded with the Austin version of the band about a year ago. It’s pretty good sounding little record. And Harvey got someone to make an animated loop to go along with the instrumental “Man Eating Chicken”. 

Pretty cool shit!

12/31/21

 The Hickoids were at the Sagebrush for New Year’s Eve. We went on after the Beaumonts and another band…. I got there when the Beaumonts have three left so I missed most of the night. 

I am not a fan of New Years or any “party” holiday, I tried to avoid as much as I could. Also we lost our  our buddy Klaus the day before so I was in an absolute funk before I got there. 

By the time we got up I was feeling better and happy for the distraction. I ended up getting pretty drunk and that helped even if it was temporary. 

Klaus!