8/15/13

It was night one of the "Hairy Chafin Ape Suit" record release weekend, at everyone's favorite San Antonio club, The Mix.

I got there around 10:30 and Lance was playing drums for Misty White! Pleasant surprise for me and him. She asked him right before she went on. They rocked through a half hour and the In and Outlaws were up.

Always good, always solid. And an upright bass in a bar like that is an awesome thing to see/hear. Hell of a set.

We were last and we tore through it like a group of relatively young men. Lots of good, explosive rocking. We is mega Hickoids...

Finished the set around two, loaded up and made the drive home.

Just north of San Marcos, on the left side of I-35, I saw three cop cars surrounding a car that had spun around the wrong way. There was a girl in a dress with handcuffs on standing there with her head hanging down. Rough way to end your night.

8/11/13

Oh what a joy, waking up in New Orleans and not only does the van work, but all of our gear is still around and not in a pawn shop under someone else's name. It's the little things...

We made the drive to Lafayette and pulled up to Heffe's around five in the afternoon. They were making Gumbo out front, we are in Louisiana. Smitty , Lance and I crashed out in the Freak for an hour or so then we loaded the gear in to the club and ate. I love a place that feeds you!

We were first and did the old man rock thing. The set was a little slow and plodding, but we touched rock and roll glory more than once.

"Some Kind Of Nightmare" were next. A three piece from San Diego on month five of a YEAR LONG TOUR! Jesus, they made me feel old. Just hearing about it made me want to take a nap. They had a rocking little set with loads of energy and when they finished up they had another seven months left on the tour.

We packed up the freak, said goodbye to our new friends and headed west on I-10.

8/10/13

Looks like the Hickoid Louisiana travel curse is over! No delays with my flights and the new freak made the drive trouble free. 

Siberia is a great little and very sweaty club. It's the second time we've played there and there were about ten times the amount of people as last time. It was extra sweaty. 

Poor Dumb Bastards and the Beaumonts were on the bill. Beaumonts were solid as usual and the PDB brought their A game. Really strong set. We think they've been practicing. 

Norco Lopalco were the openers for the night. In typical New Orleans fashion they were amazing. There were three "chicks" in the band. The drummer who pounded like hell (if she lived in austin...) a kick-ass singer and an astonishing guitar player! A chick ripping it up on a Les Paul is a very cool thing. 

Lafayette tonight. 

Flying to New Orleans

I'm flying to New Orleans for another Hickoids show in a little bit. The rest fellas are in the freak and well on their way, I had to work...

I've been hoping things go better than this time, but I've already gotten four texts about my flight times changing...

I'll keep you posted.

7/10/13

It was me and the ladies at the Sahara Lounge last night. We rocked them in deep east Austin. Ralph White and Kirkland James opened things up. Pretty cool hearing a resonator guitar plugged in to an amp with blues fiddle over the top. There were some extremely cool moments in their set.

The ladies and I loaded up and did our bit. Since it was a blues kind of night we didn't do too many "rock" numbers. We kept things swampy and lowdown. That stage was bouncing in no time. At some point in our set I was jumping around and some of my sweat hit Draya in the face. Disgusting or sexy? You decide.

Kingdom of Suicide Lovers were next. I stayed for most of their garagey set. I love a female bass player, but I love them even more when they are LEFT HANDED!!! We southpaws look out for each other (or we are thinking "I want that bass/guitar").

Breakdown

I love this place. It reminds me of several of the crap holes I played back in Tennessee. The only real difference is this is an actual legal bar. They buy liquor from a distributor they don't make it in the basement.

It's a vinyl kinda week

New hickoids acetate!

6/28/13

Another two in one! This one was easy, the clubs are neighbors and I didn't need a bass rig for the second one (even though I had it in the car).

#1
Me and the Ladies at Red Eye Fly. Another good night at the Fly. Not packed but a nice amount of folks were up in the front to watch us.

It was ridiculously hot on stage. We were all a little off our game and coated in sweat, but we were able to punch our way through to the end.

Played a new one I'd written called "Selfish". It's about Davy Jones getting busted by his father jerking it as a preteen. "David, that's the most selfish thing a person can do..." He told the Hickoids and the Grannies all about it when we were in Europe and each of us were talking about writing a song. This one is mine.

I worked up a couple of beats that seem a little at odds but really come together in a nice way. Added it with one of those "tricky" six cord song that sounds like it only has two. Add a bass part and some 60's style backing vocals (which I make everyone sing even if they don't have a mic!). Beautiful

#2
Bigfoot Chester at Beerland. Continuing the tour of Red River, it was Walter's birthday and Bigfoot was on the bill. We played after Chitlins (which is Bigfoot with Davy and I being substituted by Billy Steve Corpi and Cindy Toth). I dug their set, it was like a bouncier, upbeat Bigfoot.

We played a thirty minute set of ass kicking, thick and swampy music. Ted Roddy was there and right before he got up it was announced that the Bigfoot/Roddy 45 had just arrived from Spain! That's right I showed up to the gig and got a brand new piece of vinyl that I played on... KICK ASS!

Cunto was last and they gave it their Cunto all. I wouldn't expect anything less.

Breakdown

The three free beers I got at each place was more than enough for me (a couple of folks offered to buy me more, but I was fine). Using a house rig is the best. Even though I loaded/unloaded mine it was better than having to screw around with parking and a second round of the load/unload game.