If you’re in Austin, and out and about tonight, come out to The Carousel Lounge and check out my band. Oops, I mean my bands. Yep, playing in two bands and they are both playing tonight.
The Famous Characters are basically pretty poppy. I play guitar in this band. Check out the MySpace page HERE.
The Sheeps [...]
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All hail Paul Ford! - He did the impossible. He did the unthinkable. He did the why-would-anyone bother?
He downloaded the entire SXSW torrent file which contains more than 48 continuous hours of music, representing 763 different bands (which is less than half the bands that played). Are you beginning to comprehend how ridiculously large the [...]
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This is the is the companion article to “Good Lord, that’s a lot of guitars.”, but with the focus on amplifiers this time. Granted, I’ve not owned as many amps as I have guitars, but there are fair amounts, as the headline indicates. Also, this article further supports my claim to total embarrassing guitar nerd-dom, [...]
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Posted in Bands, Best Of, Culture, Music on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just re-visited Nivana’s video for “In Bloom” where it is all retro, Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan looking.
Great song and fun video. But there is also the Weezer Buddy Holly video where they are rocking for the kids at Arnold’s ala Happy Days. Which came first? Which is better? Who cares, they are both fun and great.
Although, Nirvana does [...]
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Posted in Bands, Music, tagged greatest music, pearl jam on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The best hype man Eddie Vedder could have ever hoped for was Eddie Vedder.
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Oh.
Oh. They most certainly did.
How many other bands debut to a full crowd (small bar but, probably 75 people) and have a crowd that begs for an encore even after the singer informs them that they don’t know anymore tunes???
“Well, Play ones you already played before!” the crowd demanded.
The Sheeps obliged.
Glory Story was great. Some Honey Pot ladies [...]
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I would say “Come see my band” but with most of ya’ll in North Carolina, that’s just not happening. But you can enjoy the flyer anyway. I always like checking out band flyers. Our first gig is Wednesday. I’m hoping Gator will take some snaps that we can post, she’s a good picture-takerer.
But anyway, my [...]
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Throughout the year, the AV Club keeps track of some of the dumbest band names they come across and at the end of the year they let us in on what made the rather puerile list.
Some of my favorites include:
Garrison Killer. - It’s a play on a name that mostly your grandparents will recognize. Not the way [...]
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