Where the dinosaur roam.
U.K. friends - Hamell incoming!
UK! Here's what I have for this time I think. Going to come back more extensively in March 2025. Big thanks for all the help, can't believe you still remember me.
HAMELL UK
Tue Oct 1 Adelphi Social Club Hull UK
Wed Oct 2 The Dorothy Pax Sheffield UK 8:00 free show!
Thu Oct 3rd The Golden Lion Todmorden UK 8:00
Fri Oct 4th The Sunfold Weston super-Mare UK
Sat October 5th Hyde Tavern Wi******er UK
https://wegottickets.com/event/631652/
Blues class is in session with Ernie Durawa, Alan Haynes and Jackie Newhouse. Cmon down to Flagship Records at The Corn Pound.
HOUSTON - get some Hamell On Trial on ya this evening!
Come see Hamell On Trial & Tony Vila rock the stage at Ovations on Saturday July 20, 2024 @ 8pm!!
Tonight!
A lot of you Austin folk have been asking when we'll be performing 'We're In It For The Corn' in the city the band was birthed in - well, here ya go...Sunday July 21 we'll appear at “The Hotter Than Hell Full Moon Barn Dance” - a sort of house concert and potluck on steroids and true old school Austin style event held at the home of venerable singer/songwriter Leeann Atherton (who is super sweet to stray a little off format to ask us to play her long running event.) In a nod to our beginnings at Austin’s O.A.F. House we’ll be performing the 1985 debut album ‘We’re In It For The Corn’ in its entirety in Austin for the first time since the mid-80s.
Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hotter-than-hell-full-moon-barn-dance-tickets-947103119927?aff=oddtdtcreator
Space is limited, please visit fullmoonbarndance.com for more info..
This is actually a pretty funny story…I think my remembrance of what went down is a little more accurate than Danny Crooks…
I had a band called the Dum Dum Boys in the early part of the 90s. We were groping musically and our live performances were pretty uneven, admittedly. Still we had a little following and as a result were asked to headline a Friday night at Steamboat down on Austin’s Sixth Street for “new music night” or some variation on that theme.
It was fair sized club, I want to say the cap was maybe 350-400…it was a decent sized crowd, maybe 150/75 folks there. If memory serves there were two (or maybe three acts) that played before us.
After the openers we quickly hu**ed our small combo amps up to the stage (keep in mind that a lot of the bands that were the mainstays there used full amplifier stacks.) We did a quick line check and began our set. After the first number the soundman asked that we turn down our amps (which were probably on 4 or 5, definitely not “dimed”)…
So, we play the second tune and he again asks us to turn down which we pretended to do. Following the third song the soundman announced “that’s it! We’re going to listen to CDs for the rest of the night.”
I addressed the soundman on my mic saying “Hey you forgot your fu***ng microphone!” Which I then removed from the clip and cable and threw at the sound booth, with great malice and gusto. (FYI - I started at quarterback my first three years of high school.)
I was high on crack and probably had half a bottle of bourbon already and maybe weighed about 135 pounds at the time. I was tackled by the large stage manager and another security guard who collectively outweighed me by around 265 pounds.
So, I’m laying on my back on the stage with my guitar still on me and these two guys holding me down. Now comes soundman getting in my face, spittling “you need to chill out!” about ten inches from my face. I was yelling something along the lines of “Get the f**k off me and go back to deejaying at the t***y bar in Abilene or San Angelo or wherever the f**k you come from…” Then I got one of my hands up, yanked on his hair and spit in his face, at which point he slugged me in the face as the two others still held me down.
So, he immediately realizes that he freaked out and probably shouldn’t have hit me in front of a hundred plus people. I got up, the cut over my eye was bleeding. My girlfriend Adrienne had gotten up on the stage and was yelling at and kicking the dudes who had been me down. I picked up my twin combo amp and threw it at the soundman and Michael Parker then came and hustled me out of there.
FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON my newish “stuprgroup” the nascent Gay Sportscasters were asked to play at Steamboat about three weeks after this incident, fetching $1500 for a thirty minute set opening for Little Sister…
Saturday July 6th at The Corn Pound we christen the revamped performance area “Amaizing Space” - we’ve been working hard to get it ready and make it an all-ages venue for both seasons here in Satantonio: HOT and HOTTER THAN HELL. Special thanks to super heroes Matthew Silaski and Martin Medved for bringing the vision to life in short order - y’all come! Event link below…it’s free and mostly unconditional.
Here’s a new video that was captured back in March at the Whiskey A Go Go - Neil Turbin (original Anthrax vocalist, DeathRiders) doing the lead guest vocal on ‘I Believe To My Soul’ with Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre. The song was Neil’s contribution to ‘Call Me Animal: A Tribute to the MC5’ released late last November on Saustex Records. You can stream, download or order the double LP or CD at Saustexrecords.Bandcamp.com - with a portion of proceeds benefitting Jail Guitar Doors USA.
From "Call Me Animal : A Tribute to the MC5" available on Saustex Recordshttps://joecephus.bandcamp.com/album/... Saustex Records is proud to bring you a tri...
As many of you know our boy Matt Meshbane had a serious stroke on Easter Sunday. Matt's one of the good guys - please support and share. Also don't forget the fundraiser for him this coming Saturday at Sagebrush in Austin. Hickoids would be there but were previously committed out of town. Thank you in advance.
This past Easter Sunday, our friend Matt Meshbane suffered a serious stroke th… Stewart Ramser needs your support for Support Matt's Recovery and Music Legacy
This Thursday!
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Hard rock’n’roll, hard livin’ - it’s been a rough year for MC5 fans. R.I.P. Dennis Thompson, Wayne Kramer and John Sinclair…
Dennis Thompson, whose hard-pounding style helped give the MC5 its musical edge, died Thursday morning following complications from a heart attack.
Pleased to share this video of Cherie Currie (The Runaways) performing ‘Ramblin’ Rose’ with Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre at The Whiskey a Go Go in West Hollywood from back in mid-March. Cherie did the guest vocal on the track for ‘Call Me Animal: A Tribute to the MC5’ - it’s available at saustexrecords.Bandcamp.com
Cherie Currie Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre Joey Killingsworth The Runaways Saustex MC5
From "Call Me Animal : A Tribute to the MC5" available on Saustex Recordshttps://joecephus.bandcamp.com/album/call-me-animal-a-tribute-to-the-mc5-2 Saustex R...
Pour one out for the man I hold up as the greatest American punk vocalist of all time, Gary Floyd of The Dicks.
I first saw the Dicks when I was 16 or 17. They were a ramshackle freight train oozing danger and a dark romance that telegraphed the message “our love is doomed — but the cops will probably kill us before we can fall apart.” Fatalistic but defiant with some unquantifiable level of simmering violence lurking beneath.
If all the clownish portrayals of punk rock to be seen on television and in movies during the late 70s through the mid-80s had conveyed one fourth of the power of The Dicks on a good night, punk rock might have actually been banned.
To be sure, the original outfit was more than the sum of its parts - a true band. Glen’s twitchy, dissonant and inimitable guitar playing cast a hollow spread over the relentlessly bouncing frame of Buxf’s ever-moving groove while Pat’s steadfastly off-kilter drumming reminded a twenty-five cents for fifteen minutes motel bed shaker that occasionally coughs and still chugs when the quarter has run out…all of this propels Gary to sing at the top of his lungs while laying atop this queasy chemistry, secretly hoping his voice will rattle the plaster off the ceiling and maybe the whole fu***ng roof will cave in so he can forget about that man, the pigs and every other cruel thing the world has thrown at him…and then maybe the whole seedy motel will collapse and it will all seem random rather than intentional so he can go to sleep for a long, long time in the comfort that it’s not just him. It’s the soundtrack of decay and desperation. Decadence fed by heartache.
I saw some fu***ng great punk and hardcore bands in the day…but I have rarely if ever seen a punk band (or rock adjacent band of any genre) who could deliver with the emotional power of the Dicks.
The reason was simple. Gary’s struggle was real. By late 70s Texas standards the notion of an openly gay, morbidly obese, Maoist poor boy from East Texas fronting a band of novice outcasts was the stuff of a pornographic sci-fi novella ala Martin Amis. And, not to short change another group of local heroes fronted by an outsized gay man - The Big Boys, but they had more to do with the good times than the bad. It’s not necessarily a great analogy but they were the light of The Beatles compared to the darkness of our Austin punk rock Stones.
On a musical level Gary and the Dicks found their greatest power (like the Stones on their epiphanic masterpiece ‘Exile On Main Street’) with the blues and were the first punk band, American or otherwise, with the possible exception of The Gun Club, to fold the style into punk in a successful way. (In spite of the greatness of the art one could make the argument that Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s narrative and musical choices had a studied contrivance not found in The Dicks. “Successful” used here to mean artistically high-performing rather than financially rewarding, of course.)
The world is chock-full of guitar players who can hit the notes and bend the strings while making the ugly s*x face. Our planet is also fully stocked with those who can carry a tune and string together a rhyme of heartbreak and appear emotionally vulnerable while doing so. That doesn’t make it either good to my ears or moving to my heart.
Gary was free of artifice when it came to his singing. Not to say that he couldn’t be a sometimes silly yet riveting front man but his poetry was always forceful and direct. Folk music stripped of everything that distracted from the point. As a young man I failed to fully grasp where he was coming from - it was too far from my realm of experience. But he sang with his whole body and absolute conviction whether the subject was heartbreak or injustice. I might not have understood where all of his pain came from but his voice told me it was real. And while a lot of other punk singers of the era spewed opportunistic political diatribe that amounted mostly to complaining, Gary simply belted out his truth. Even though the conflict might not have been mine his voice made me understand the righteousness of the fight. Gary’s words helped provide me with the empathy starter kit I lacked.
Gary had a couple of other very good and more commercially palatable bands after The Dicks - Sister Double Happiness and Black Kali Ma.
He didn’t get the success he deserved but he’s not alone there. Still, I believe he died a happier man than he was in the era I remember him most vividly from. We exchanged messages on FB and spoke on the phone occasionally during the past decade.
Rest in power my friend. It’s not just you - it is the world. You might not have changed the world in the way you once hoped but you changed mine.
The Thursday, March 28, show at the Lonesome Rose will include a full performance of the group's debut album.
Performing ‘We’re In It For The Corn’ - one night only…
Hickoids The Krayolas Hickoids 40th Anniversary show with The Krayolas The Lonesome Rose
Hickoids are filling in for Th’ Misery Girls (who besides feeling perpetually hopeless also have a tinge of food poisoning) at today’s Parlor matinee. Jambalaya con Corn Dawgs! It’s free! It’s unconditional! Make the scene!
3pm The Differentials
4pm Hickoids
5pm Speedbuggy USA
6pm Dash Rip Rock
Satantonio- make the scene!
Esta noche at The Lonesome Rose right here in Satantonio! Trash Rock Deluxe starring Labretta Suede and The Motel 6 plus Hickoids and Kimmi Bitter and The Westside Twang! Hickoids Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, Hickoids, Kimmi Bitter and the Westside Twang Art by Ian Wilson https://www.instagram.com/venus_of_alphabet_city?igsh=MXBzcDdqbzZhcWYzMg==
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Slow music week… 😉 thanks to Bill Baird and our friends at The San Antonio Current. Make the scene Friday at The Lonesome Rose with Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, Hickoids, Kimmi Bitter and the Westside Twang!
Rockabilly and swing revivalist Brian Setzer is also bringing his guitar skills to the Alamo City.
Friday at the Lonesome Rose in Satantonio - Labretta Suede and the Motel 6 plus Hickoids and Kimmi Bitter & The Westside Twang. Make the scene. Advance tix @ Saustexrecords.Bandcamp.com/merch
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