7/3/12

OK, so it looks like Trophy's is never gonna go away. Somebody was gonna knock it down and build condos. Someone was gonna build a better club. Someone was gonna build a grocery store... Right now none of that's gonna happen. You can't even rub the place out of South Congress, it just keeps working it's way in deeper.

When I got there the front door was being put back on the hinges because it came off again. On a more positive note there wasn't a sewer smell coming from the ladies room all night. It only lasted a little while and I played on the other side of the stage so I had another ten feet of smell dissipation between me and the sewer. With of the recent Austin club scandals like Jovitas ($7K a day in wholesale heroin sales!) Trophy's has moved up a few notches in it's overall status. It's a total shithole but an "honest" one. No one is getting rich out of that place...

Breakdown

Once again the free six pack per band. Lame, but enough people bought me beers I was happy. We kicked ass. Just the five of us, the new "core" of the Hickoids. We made a lot of fun of Davy and his porn addiction. The man is too busy masturbating to find porn on the internet! Sad...

11/13/11

Another day at Jovitas. My buddy Ken Jones (aka Poetken) asked me to join him in a little round robin songwriter swap. I did and it was fun. I am not into the whole four songwriters on the stage playing one song each going around and around (I've played this way and it's been called a guitar pull, one of the worst names). Most of my songs are two and a half minutes long and when your followed by three others that have songs four to five minutes long you get kinda bored. The "mini set" route is so much cooler. Three songs each and switch. It gives you time to build a little something. Three songs about murder, love or sex. Or some of each really changes the dynamic of a boring songwriters night.

Breakdown

The staff was the same as the last show so everything was great there. My solo setup Is so good it hurts. My Guild jazz box into that Top Hat portly cadet is so sweet I could explode. 5 Watts of dreamy goodness.

11/5/11

It's back to me and the "girls". Wiley's first show/ 5th rehearsal/ 2nd time to play with us with a full drum kit and it was pretty damn great. The "band" before us was a couple of older gentlemen with a couple of mics and some weird black tower they sat the computer on. The computer had the music they sang to. They did hits like "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Unchained Melody" and they mentioned something about releasing a cd...

After us was Chuck's Wagon. Three guys from Australia and two from Central TX. Some pretty bad assed straight up country with a little edge to it. Fine stuff. They opened for the Hickoids here.

Breakdown

It was at Jovitas and the beers are cheap and the crowd was decent. The LPB-1 still rules. A nice and simple Saturday night.