Threadgills Tonight

http://www.threadgills.com/events/shinyribs-5/

Tonight I’ll be playing Threadgills in Austin with Shinyribs.  The link above is to the show information.  Threadgills is one of my favorite hangs and places to see music in Austin.  I don’t always come across in person as super approachable, but this is not by design.  If you see me and want to discuss, argue, condemn, or debate anything I have written here I am always up for a good conversation.

Shinyribs Tonight

I will be performing tonight on Wednesday, November 6th at Threadgill’s with Shinyribs at 9pm.  Opening act starts at 8pm.  It is a free show.  I will leave any thinking behind on my blog for the day, and will instead dance like a monkey, for all of your amusement.  

Last Gourds Show Review

I attended what was possibly the last Gourds’ show last night.  They are deeming it a hiatus and not a breakup.  If that was indeed their last show it was a hell of a way to go out.  Those of you that have been reading my blog all along have noticed an uptick in Monty Python references.  I have been reading a book on the Pythons.  I grew up on them and I am having a personal resurgence of their influence upon my life.  However, what I am about to say I believe to be absolutely true.

So help me god last night was the closest I have ever seen to rock n roll merging itself to the surreal comedic aspects of Monty Python.  The Gourds achieved some kind of strange performance art milestone last night.  I am sure of it.  If the live stream goes up online again, it may well be now, then watch the last half hour of it.  This was living breathing surrealism that was also emotional, passionate, and well executed.  I feel like they touched, for a moment anyway, some weird 4^th dimension.

I may be slightly making it sound like it was a shit show, but it was also rock n roll of the highest fucking order.  Kevin was hitting insanely powerful high notes, even for him, Jimmy was playing bass like he was burning down a barn, Max did the best banjo solo I have ever seen live, Claude switched between instruments with ease and brought life to every one of them, and Keith simply put in a tour de force performance.

I would like to write more, but I actually have real work to do today.  My brain may also be slightly clouded by the substances I either did or did not consume last night.  But if you want to get a crash course in amazing independent rock n roll, then watch this show somehow someway online.

There are moments, primarily in the work of great directors like David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Nicholas Winding Refn, and Werner Herzog, where you realize you are witnessing some kind of hidden truth of the universe that you realize is true, but even in witnessing it you can’t quite put your finger on what it is.  You are touched, for a brief moment, by the Divine.  It only lasts a little while before human imperfection closes the door.  Last night there were several of those moments.  I was glad to be alive in Austin, Texas on October 27^th, 2013.

Well, I need to get back to the grindstone.  Not quite as glad to be alive on the 28^th.  These ups and downs in life can take some getting used to…

Again, I know and have worked with the Gourds, so I feel I need to disclose that.  If you think you that is going to make me write something I don’t believe in, then in the word’s of GNR, “You’re fucking crazy.”