3/3/18

Hickoids were down in San Antonio last weekend. We were at the Paper Tiger, third on a bill of four. The headliners were the Dead Milkmen. The place was packed.

I got there and The Sons of Hercules were ripping through it. Frank is one of the best "don't give a fuck" front men ever. So much fun watching him and the rest of the group.

White Heat was next. Apparently it was their first show in twenty years?!! Didn't seem possible, they had a great set and every song flowed right in to the next one. Like they planned it!

Our set was pretty good. It's fun as hell playing in front of a packed house. We don't usually have that "problem". The last time we were at Paper Tiger we played for a dozen people this time it was around a thousand. Or capacity. Either way, it feels good to rock out for that many people at once.

The Milkmen were great. They did Punk Rock Girl as the second song as if to say "If you came for this you can leave now" But it's San Antonio, nobody is leaving that early. Especially when the second song was Taco Land! 

Hell of a night!

2/1/18

Second night of two, it was supposed to be three, but the benefit we were gonna play the next night got canceled. Long story involving some deceit and a weed deal that never ended up happening for the benificiary...  Yup.

We were second of three at the Lost Well, the boys for Alaska were first and Cunto! finished the night off.

The place was pretty crowded for our slot. Loads for those Cunto fans love us. And they are a rowdy bunch! At some point Smitty was on the ground, missing his shirt and some gal was grinding on him. Boom.

We finished it off with a bunch of covers.  I had to beg to play “China Grove” instead of “Take It Easy”. Believe it or not it’s the lesser of two evils.

1/31/18

Hickoids had a nice rehearsal last night at in San Antonio at High Tones. That's right, rehearsal... it wasn't much of a show. But we went up and did it. Our next set in Austin should be great.

We went on after the Goddamn Ranchhand Band. a couple of guys from Alaska the fellas hooked up with when they went up there without me last year. Mandolin, guitar and all the dumb jokes you need.

Harvey went up after us but Lance and I snuck out right after we finished. Boring old men with day jobs.

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...

12/9/17

One more before the year is up. it’s also late and hell... life’s been getting dramatic and all over me. 

Hickoids were playing Riley’s with the Beaumont’s and Spider Mike.  It was cold as hell out in the country. 

I made he drive in my noisy ass truck, but I made it down there easy. The access road was lined with cars at the exit. Families all ready to go to a three acre chunk of land with Christmas lights on it. They might have had a Santa in there, I’m betting it wasn’t worth it for anyone involved in any capacity.  

Mike stated after I loaded in. His new act had a lot of slide in it.  All is good. 

Our set was decent, the stage is really too small for the size amps we use. And the jumping around, Tom and I kept running into each other. And then there is Smitty... Fucker is all over the place. 

Beaumont’s were killing it but I still took off right after “Not As Cool As Jesus” aka the greatest song in the world!!! Those guys, I fucking love them. 

Next year is comin soon!!

11/30/17

We Swished it in San Antonio the other night. Played at an art opening at a place called The Brick. It's in a formerly industrial part of town right across the street from the Pioneer Flower company. And it's all been gentrified.


The gallery was cool as hell. It was a unicorn themed show and a bunch of people were showing and their was a costume contest so loads of folks dressed up as unicorns. Pretty cool stuff.


I was sick as hell. Coming down from a nasty cold/flu hybrid that had been (and still is) kicking my ass. At the end of the set both Lance and Tom asked me how I thought we did, "I have no clue"... Poor sick boy. They both said we had a good show. I guess I believe them.



Pocket Fishermen went on after us. I loaded out and went home to bed.

10/13/17

Week two, day one of ACL. Or my second and final sow of the festival. ABGBs with Beaumont’s, Winsome Losers and Rennie and the Banned Names.

I missed out on Rennie's first show ever... She had Lance and Cody (and another dude) playing with her. It sounded like they had a good first of many.

Winsome went up, hmm most of that band is familiar. Sometimes Austin to San Antonio. Is one big pool of talent that puts it's players in interesting and new ways. Great set. 

We went up and kinda killed it. Since Frontier Dan wasn’t here we were regular Hickoids. After last weeks three shows with him it was fun just being us. And the crowd gave everything we gave them back with a multiplier.

And then the Beaumont’s...  “Not As Cool As Jesus” is still the greatest song in the world. I could hear it for a week straight and not be tired of it.