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

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

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