Tombstone Bullies Blog

Sunday, October 9, 2011

yes

..lots of stuff happening.. shows around town at 1st Down & Stassney, Boomerz, Poodle Dog, places out of town - National College Radio Day in Kingsville, TX on Oct 11, the Lost Pines Resort in Bastrop, Juniors in Round Rock, Cypress Creek Cafe in Wimberley, Adobe Verde in Gruene .. also playing a couple chili cookoffs, one for the Austin Vegan and Vegetarian Network and one for the Natural Springs Garden Chili Cookoff Festival on Oct 22 .. also we'll be playing and interviewing on UT's KVRX on Nov 2 for Blues at Sunrise with Colin Sturrock .. and then there's the second TB or NOT TB at Blue Bamboo on Nov 11 .. thanks for reading!

Friday, August 19, 2011

yes

..so we played Jovita's outside stage the other day, it was good .. I remember really liking a select group of songs, one was Other Side of the Road, mentioned in the last blog, I always like what G brings to it and just really like the song.. we didn't play Cadillac Seville ..another one that I really enjoyed was Mean Old Frisco by Arthur Crudup, very nice song ..glad to see some friends out too, it was fun .. and on and on ..

Friday, August 12, 2011

yes

ok, well evidently I'm somewhat better at doing gigs, playing and writing and such than I am at maintaining a blog, it seems convention isn't working for me because truly I find it boring and redundant, SO I've decided to screw convention and get working on this blog in a way that I can continue to be productive (ahem) and stay interested.. so, and therefore, I've decided just to write whatever the hell I feel like writing about, and really I think that was the original intention behind creating a blog for the band in the first place, to let out some of the weird creative musings and things that are happening behind the scenes which we find interesting, and perhaps it'd be fun to share that stuff .. read on if you like

beginning: three nights ago practice, Let My Love Open the Door by one of our faves, we've done this song before, for whatever reason I always remember playing it at the Hideout near Congress and 7th Street at an early duo gig, around 2004 or 5, anyway we used to do it more or less like the recording, same key which my voice hardly touches in the bridge and basically the same tempo which is a little trying to maintain on acoustics, so the new deal is a lower key and we've given up on trying to be the rhythm section with acoustic guitars and let it breathe a little.. so, then we looked at several originals that we'd like to introduce, two of which are Gabriel's contributions, Taking My Heart Out and Mommy Dear, the latter of which we did a spoken word version of as part of Channel Austin's EXSE Spoken Word 2011, and the other original is one of my contributions which we've played live here and there called Other Side of the Road which is literally the "other side" of a previous song that I'd written for TB called Cadillac Seville which we've performed extensively for years, and which our current bass player, Jason Rasberry, loves to play so it's bound to be played along side it's newer counterpart.. so these four songs we plan to perform this coming Saturday at Amy Zamarripa's open mic at Native Nom Nom ..glad to work on new material..

so there, I guess that's the first installment of the newfangled loose fitting blog, much more comfortable, think I can manage ..I hope

m






Friday, July 1, 2011

South Austin Show

Here's some pictures taken by our friend Catherine Olzcak of a recent show at 1st Down & Stassney in South Austin. Jason Toll is visible on drums in one shot. We really enjoy playing with him. I believe this may actually be the last show that my oddly patterned green Stratocaster was used. It has since been replaced by a black acoustic Takamine.

Gabriel, Mike and Jason

 Mike on vocals
 Gabriel having a seat
Dueling strats





Saturday, June 18, 2011

Wow again!

Wow, again, as in wow another month went by with nary a touch of the new exciting blog.. hmm





Thursday, May 19, 2011

Wow!

Wow! ..as in - time flies when you're not looking and a whole month goes by and you haven't touched your new blog. Well of course it's not "you" that hasn't touched "your" new blog. Well you know what I mean, I hope. Anyway this is just me "touching" the blog for the sake of getting back on the ball, so to speak. Although I think that being on a ball would inherently be a difficult thing to do if I'm understanding the analogy correctly. Perhaps I'm not. Why would one want to be on a ball anyway? Well, as nerdy as it is to muse on such things I guess it'd be just plain moronic not to click the mouse a couple times and find out what all this "on the ball" stuff is about anyway and perhaps how close or far I was to the actual origin of the saying, thus, and if you care to have a look; On the Ball. So! ..this has been the latest blog entry. I guess it's the kind of thing that's gonna appear at 2:30ish in the morning after a show. We played C. Hunts Ice House tonight by the way, in case anyone feels that this blog should have some relevance to what we do musically. It was a good show, really neat little place in North Austin. So there it is. It is a band blog after all! Peas and Ques!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

What's New?

What's New? Well we've been busy. Beyond playing shows we've been doing some other sorts of fun and interesting things. Yesterday we did what has become the annual Channel Austin EXSE Spoken Word Poetry Showcase. This is the 4th year that we've done it. It's always fun and thanks always to Karla Saldana for selecting us to perform. This year we had our friend Eric Sterns come and play Native American flute behind our music and poetry. In fact I think that this may have been the best one yet, thanks in part to Eric.

Also the other day we did a live radio broadcast on KDRP Dripping Springs with Bill Paige which was a lot of fun, and thanks to Bill for having us. We happened in on vinyl week and helped Bill to pick out some of the selections that he was spinning. I recall that for some reason Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin II was among the choices of records (remember that word?) to be played and between the two Bullies we picked the tracks "What is and What Should Never Be" and "Lemon Song" which famously references (being nice) Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues". Well being that "Lemon Song" is over 6 minutes long, not exactly suitable for quick action radio shows, the former track won out. Then out of the blue Bill played Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" which oddly enough was the inspiration behind the name "Tombstone Bullies". Although in truth the lyric in "I'm Ready" is actually "tombstone bullets" we maybe heard or thought differently of it and went with the "bullies". And speaking of Bullies and music we also played several songs on the air, three actually and an interview, which is a lot of air time. So, overall it was a great broadcast for us, glad we did it. Thanks for reading,

TB


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Gigs and Players

We had a good show at Boomerz last night. Boomerz is on 290 West as you approach Oak Hill. Cool little place, kindof a neighborhood bar. Lot's of folks came out which is nice, although the place is so big that with so many people it still looks kinda empty. It was good though. Enjoying playing with our latest bass player Jason Rasberry, a very talented and accomplished player with the same laid back attitude toward music that we have. And then there's our recurring drummer Jason Toll from the Beautiful Mistakes, also very talented and, thank goodness, laid back as well. It's good to have players who aren't overly perfectionist and who take it slow and have a good time. The two Jasons. We like to call them the Brothers Jason or the Jason Two. Daren Underwood formerly of the now, and recently, defunct Redneck Jedi is also playing with us on occasion. He's due to play with us at our debut performance at the Cypress Creek Cafe in Wimberly on April 21st. He was our regular bass player for a while there as we juggled drummers and then he left us to rejoin Redneck Jedi just in time for them to break up. Well that's bands and music for sure. A musician friend of ours always says that if he were ever in a band that didn't break up he'd still be in one! How true how true. Thanks, grace and peace.

TB

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tombstone Bullies inception into the world of blogging.

Yes! Here we are. Tombstone Bullies. We play music in and around Austin, TX. We've created a blog just for fun and thought maybe it'd be a good place to put some of the photos we take around town and elsewhere when we're out gigging. Plus occasionally something interesting happens and maybe we can share these things as well.

I'm guessing perhaps our blog isn't like your typical music or band blog. Seems the ones I checked (although it wasn't many) were focused primarily on promoting shows, tours, videos, new cds, etc. Essentially places on the internet where everything you ever waited your whole life to know (or didn't really care about) about said band is glimmering, flashing, highlighted and underlined. I didn't want this to be that kind of a thing. We've already got a bunch of other sites for that purpose, ie: Reverb Nation, Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc. Sure the links and whatnot are there, if you're interested go ahead and check them out. But this I thought could be something more fun and creative. Maybe pictures, stories, musings, interesting things. Not sure yet really as I've never embarked on the world of blogging before. I know they're quite popular nowadays and I do actually somewhat follow a number of them myself, but I've never had one of my own. So here's a first attempt. We'll see how it goes. Comments, suggestions (and follows of course) are welcome as long as it's respectful. Thanks and peace.

MTN