Adventures in Live Music

alien angels, come to take me home. rolling back the stone. lost but not alone. close my eyes and start to float... (written whilst still ab...

man, did i take one for the team last night (what team? well, alright, you got me there). operating on five hours sleep and with a lingerin...

rare outing for me on a friday (due to familial obligations, ya see). but i couldnt miss chemistry set's last show. no fuckin way. godda...

looooong but satisfying night at club dada. first up were the felons , who, with one performance, launched themselves damn near to the top o...

started off the night with knuckles at mckinney tavern, local watering hole and, at least last night, supermodel hangout. tried to watch the...

hey hey hey people!! this one should be shoert, cuz i'm pretty wasted asnd unable to expound on the usual matters like i usually do. luc...

omigod have i mentioned how much i HATE THE FUCKING CAVERN???? jesus christ if i never set foot in that place again i'll be a happy man...

had to get in one last show before a short hiatus, so i headed out to rubber gloves on a thursday night. missed a childlike fear . i'd s...

OK, OK - I have heard the clamoring of my adoring public, so here's yer damn trip report (tony). this was the night i proved my dedicati...

had to go to haileys to see tartufi again - bands that good just cant be missed, no matter how hard it is to get up and go to work the next ...

well shee-ut, somehow i screwed up the comments settings and turned them off, but you'll be happy to know i fixed it, so you can now com...

been a while since i wrote one of these completely sober, so, fair warning went to club dada (geez, four weeks in a row now) for boca tinta...

writin this WAY too long after the event, just so you know... frontier brothers - 3-man (guitar, keys, drums (no bass)). definite beatles i...

well you're on a bridge to nowhere and you;re gettin there fast, put it in the past, put it in the past. if this is a race then i hope y...

after watchin my aggies kick some longhorn ass at the infamous mckinney tavern, i found myself on my way to club dada at 6fuckin30 to meet u...

I may regret this, but I have now enabled anonymous comment posting, since my buddies told me how creatively frustrated they were because th...

like i said, this was a fantastic night, for a lot of different reasons. started the front-loading activities at bone daddy's, getting i...

this was a fantastic night, in a lot of ways. music - unbelievable. interaction with fellow human beings - incredible. pizza - yummy. so mu...

went to RGRS to see B and BL and red monroe and MATAS. buddy joe showed up too. first up was matthew and the arrogant sea and i loved em. t...

went to andy's so tony could get his demigs fix. he was desingnated driver. woohooo!! lookout! BLARCH!! walked around the square afore t...

Went to the Cavern on a thursday night - never seen lowest greenville that dead, but there was actually a decent crowd at the cavern. First ...

met up with joe the boy-toy (not mine, you asses) at club dada. it's always nice to have a fellow music appreciator come out. didn't...

Went to RGRS to see Sean K and Parata. i apologize in advance - this report will not be up to the usual standards (hah!), due to a few facto...

wow. totally cool night. totally cool. now let me try to remember why. went to club dada to see chemistry set. picked up tk on the way. had ...

semi-drunken trip report - look out went to andy's in denton hom eof the infamous squishy squishy, but alas not much tonight buncha cree...

went to firewater to support my buddy chris batman bender and his band 1000 Miles From Home. only one other guy from work showed up - where ...

convinced myself I couldn't miss the DMST show at Hailey's. That's what I get for drinkin in the afternoon. $14 cover - yikes....

started out at lucky's roadhouse again, this time the joint was empty (no more $.25 drinks, eh?). went back to car to, uh, fetch someth...

OK, so I didn't make it to the City Tavern after all to see The Chemistry Set. I wasn't into the other two acts, plus I found out ab...

OK, got pretty messed up at lucky's roadhouse before-hand (25 cent drinks!), so I missed alice rose and pretty much zest of yore. sorry,...

omigod, i hate the effin' cavern. spune - please, fortheloveofgod, find somewhere else. nearly came face to face with the barkin dog Avi...

I was going to rant about the flakiness of the live music scene, how I've been screwed countless times by bad information or just lazy v...

Went to another free night at Rubber Gloves: Dust Congress - i've seen him before - one-man band (guitar/banjo, kick-drum, high-hat, et...

Went to the first night of Rubber Gloves' Free Week. godblessem, they must know how broke I am right now (long story). Florene - totall...

Hailey’s - 9/1/07 Walked to SHQ first to check out the art show - very, uh, interesting. lots of boobies. Anyways, the show ...

method entertainment all-day event - got there at 7:30 salute - G southern rock (not my thang, tho), 3-man, greasy-long-haired ball cap bas...

Red Pony Clock - 10-man band, horns aplenty, oboe (!), couldn't hear vocals well. OK happy psych-pop ZipZipZapZap - OK punk pop The Ma...

Here's a listing of the shows I have been to in the last 8 months, with a few comments thrown in here and there. Don't expect incred...

Real answer: I'm not sure. I must be going thru a "phase", or a mid-life crisis, but right now I can't get enough of liste...

I'm an engineer in North Texas who recently discovered a love for the local live music scene (big D & little d). I spend as much ti...