2/8/20

Last night it was a double up with Bigfoot and Harvey at the Black Sparrow out in Taylor. Made the drive and set up both bass and guitar rigs. Might as well lend them out since I’ll be there and using both. 

Right after he got there Harvey’s piano took a dive and the action got all screwed up.  As in a lot of keys didn’t work at all.  Fuck. We covered as well as we could but it was kinda hurting. Next time....

Bigfoot went up and we had a decent one. Couple of newish things here and there and plenty of the same old... not a bad set.  We might be in an upswing!!

Beautiful Delilah’s closed it out, but because I had to work at 8am in the morning I drove my ass home!!!

10/25/19

Last night was way better/easier than the night before.  The Harvey band (I’m calling it that until we get a name other than the “trio”... there are four of us now!!!) was at The Bang Bang bar. He’s done this Friday before Halloween the last three year’s and I was happy to be a part of it this time. 

Beautiful Delilah’s went on two minutes after I got there. They are so damn good with the new bass player. Tighter and stronger in every way. I liked them before but now....  man.  

We went up and had a solid set. All of us had costumes on but the finest of the bunch was Andrea. She’s not usually playing with us but since she’s with the last band on the bill she hooked up for a few. 

And she wore an inflatable T-Rex costume... holy shit that was funny. Seeing her get on and off stage was amazing, those inflated feet and legs inching up the stairs... But the best was seeing her play!!! It kinda killed me. 

Anyway our set was great. We did two new ones and we nailed them pretty hard. I’ve been spending a lot of time at home going over them and it payed off. Yea for homework!

I took off soon after we finished.  There is another San Antonio show tomorrow and... sleep!

6/22/18

And the second two shows were at Kick-Butt Coffee. I’ve been there for a couple of shows but I’ve never played there. And on this night I did twice!

Beautiful Delilah’s were first. Great as ever. I love playing with Trey but it’s really fun watching him rock out with someone else. And rock it they did!

Bigfoot went next. Our 25th anniversary show. It was pretty cool and a little redemptive after that last set at Sahara... we put out a cassette with a bunch of leftover stuff from the past and a couple of new ones that we did with Cris last month. It actually sounds pretty good, the new ones in particular. Couple of the old ones sound awful. My bass is mixed OUT of one of them...  bad bad production. Even for a cassette.

So we got Ted Roddy to sing a couple and Angele got up and played bass on five. In the past I’d get down and watch but this time I played some guitar and it felt really good. I played guitar on one recording back when I started and that was it.  After 20 years of waiting, finally I get to strike!!

Hickoids were last. Our set was somewhat subdued by Hickoid standards. But there was lots of time for bullshitting with the crowd and I even got to gear a story about Davy I’ve never heard before. THERE IS STILL GOLD IN THAT HILL!!

2/24/19

Sunday night!....  a little hard to drum up the excitement. We were ready to play but you could tell before we headed out it was gonna be a slow night at The Mohawk. 

We were last of three The Beautiful Delilah’s were on first. Followed by another band of Walters, Polarizado. It was their CD release.  

As I loaded in the first bit of my stuff in to the club, Two dudes were with the door guy, $10 cover. For three bands with barely any pull.... One of the guys said “That’s ok, we don’t even know who those bands are.”  

Right on the nose. 

Anyway the show was fun. All three of the sets were solid, but my guess is there were five people who paid, so it wasn’t exactly the kinda night where the crowd pushed the bands over the top. Oh well. 

7/12/18

Bigfoot and the Beautiful Delilah’s were at the Hard Luck again. We did this show a few months ago when it was winter. That was a rough gig, my hands were frozen and I could barely play. This was pretty much the opposite. Middle of July and we started a half hour after the sun went down. It’s what you want when you moved to Texas because you like heat!

We had a fun set. Trey was all warmed up after his playing with the Delilah’s so we kinda had a leg up. The crowd was a good one. Very receptive to the Bigfoot thing.  No shocker there, a good twenty five percent were friends and the rest of the folks just wanted a good time.  Hard Luck is that way. Not a stuck up poser bar. Just folks wanting no bullshit and a good time.  A good place for Bigfoot. 

1/11/18

It was one of those "oh shit kinda" nights...

Bigfoot was on at the Hard Luck playing after The Beautiful Delilahs. It was cold as hell.... Like 38 degrees and it's always outdoor there. And (sigh) And I thought it was at the Lost Well and I dressed for an inside show... So stupid. Life has been on top of me for the past little while so I "put" us in another club where it was warm!!! Wish I'd layered better.

Delilahs were killing it and looking warm, moving up around there on the stage. I know the lights are LED's but the looked toasty. I was even envious because the stage isn't concrete and it would be warmer than where I was standing. 

Our set was pretty good considering. I asked that we play a slow one to start off, my hands couldn't deal with the cold! Anyway, we played pretty good and the turnout was decent considering it was 38 degrees outside...