LIVE MUSIC I'VE SEEN

KLRU Austin City Limits Studio

An Armadillo World Headquarters reunion benefitting long time Austin fiddler Mary Hattersley of Greezy Wheels, who has breast cancer. Highlights included Mary playing with Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn, and others whom she played with on the "Viva Terlingua" album, Marcia Ball and Paul Ray singing with Double Trouble and Derek O'Brien, Papa Mali playing Jimi Hendrix's "And the Wind Cries Mary" while Jim Franklin created a large painting on stage, and Mojo Nixon singing "Kelly Willis is Pregnant, With my Two-Headed Love Child".

Shelby Lynne, Taj Mahal, Rickie Lee Jones, Kim Richey and Jimmy LaFave

12/01/00

KGSR Radio's Tenth Anniversary Party

Tom Tom Club and Papa Mali and the Instigators

11/03/00

Band led by former members of the Talking Heads Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz

Bo Diddley with The Debbie Hastings Band

10/28/00

The Originator, a member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and winner of the Rhythm 'n Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award still rocks.

Burning Spear

10/27/00

Blues on the Green at Zilker Park

More Burning Reggae...

The Flatlanders and Kelly Willis

9/22/00

The Backyard

The Flatlanders are Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. This was a benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas.

Little Milton

9/03/00

Midtown Live

A member of The Blues Hall of Fame and winner of the Rhythm 'n Blues Foundation Pioneer Award, at an unusual Austin venue.

Toni Price

8/23/00

The Booze Weasels:David Grissom, Davis McLarty, Jimmy Pettit, David Holt, and Bobby Keys

8/19/00

Continental Club

A great cover band, mostly made up of Joe Ely's old band members. Bobby Keys, who plays sax with The Rolling Stones joined them, so they played a bunch of Stones tunes. And Joe Ely even joined them for one song, so it was a memorable evening.

Thomas Mapfuno & Blacks Unlimited

7/29/00

One of the greatest African musicians, from Zimbabwe, is known as the the King of Chimurenga (or Struggle) Music.

Antone's 25th Anniversary featuring James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins , Big Bill Morganfield, Mojo Buford, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin, Hubert Sumlin, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Wille "Big Eyes" Smith, Kim Wilson, Randy Garibay, and more...

7/13/00

Unfortunately, Clifford Antone was put away in jail a few days before this year's anniversary party, so things weren't quite the same. But still a good show overall.

Toots and the Maytals and
Bigga Rhythm

6/06/00

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

A pretty good reggae show, but it would have been better if Toots hadn't insisted that the crowd sing more than he did, and if he didn't change the rhythm of every song at the end to a fast rock-n-roll beat.

Papa Mali and the Wild Propadillos and Zydeco Ranch

6/03/00

Waterloo Park

Aaron's first live music experience, at the Bayou Boogie and Crawfish Festival. Pretty cool -- he got to hear "Hey Pocky Way" and "Iko-Iko".

4/17/00

Frank Erwin Center

The Boss has still got it, and the E Street Band sounded great. The highlight for me was when Joe Ely came up and sang "All Just to Get to You" with Bruce and the band.

King Sunny Ade

4/14/00

Willis Alan Ramsey, Peter Rowan withTony Rice, Fred Eaglesmith,Jim Lauderdale, The Karl Shiflet & Big Country Show, Smokin' Grass, One Riot One Ranger, Shelley King Band, Karen Abrahams and Reckless Abandon

It's been a few years since I had seen King Sunny, but he still plays jammin juju music.

4/08/00

Stone Mountain Special Events Center

The 13th Old Settlers Music Festival - At a new location in Dripping Springs. The highlights were Willis Alan Ramsey playing everything from of his classic 1972 album, and Peter Rowan and Tony Rice in an all-star bluegrass jam.

Mingo Fishtrap

4/07/00

Scholz Bier Garten

Robert Mingea's Birthday Bash - a good time was had by all

Coco Montoya

4/07/00

Some hot guitar

Boozoo Chavis, Marcia Ball, Terrance Simien, and Ponty Bone

4/02/00

Waterloo Park

6th Annual Louisiana Swamp Romp, this year at Waterloo Park, was a real swamp due to some timely rain. I missed a lot of it, but that's another story...

Dash Rip Rock

3/30/00


Artist	Location	Brief Description	Grade
*Wednesday, March 15*
Texacala Jones & The TJ Hookers (Austin)	Hole In the Wall	Gothic Punk Weirdness	C+
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (San Diego)	Hole In the Wall	Ho-Hum Country Punk	C-
Bob Schneider (Austin)	Austin Music Hall	Sandra Bullock's Guy	B+
Cooler (Louisville, KY)	Opal Divine's Free House	Pretty Good Punk	B
Slobberbone (Denton, TX)	Hole In the Wall	Hard Punk Bluegrass	A
*Thursday, March 16*
The Mooney Suzuki New York, NY)	Emo's Main Room	Self Indulgent Punk	D-
The Crumbs (Miami)	Emo's Jr.	So-so Punk	C
The Gimmicks (Seattle)	Emo's Main Room	Boring Punk	D+
One Man Army (San Francisco)	Emo's Jr.	"Clash"-like Punk	B-
Poster Children (Champign, IL)	Waterloo Brewing Co.	Energetic pop	B+
Fastbacks (Seattle)	Waterloo Brewing Co.	Solid Punk	A-
The Figgs (New York, NY)	Buffalo Billiards	Tight, fast rock	A
The Hangdogs (New York, NY)	Soho Lounge	Twangy roots-rock	A
*Friday, March 17*
Patti Smith (New York, NY)	Waterloo Park	Better than expected	A
The Flametrick Subs (Austin)	Stubb's Bar-B-Q	Psychobilly weirdness	B
Hank Williams III (Nashville)	Stubb's Bar-B-Q	Great, until he quit	A/F
The Supersuckers (Seattle)	Stubb's Bar-B-Q	OK Punk	C
Nashville Pussy (Atlanta)	Stubb's Bar-B-Q	Rockin' fire-breathing amazon lesbians	A+
Red Elvises (Los Angeles)	Caucus Club	Siberian surf-rock	A-
*Saturday, March 18*
Rustic Overtones (Portland, ME)	Waterloo Brewing Co.	Above average funk-rock	B
The Uninvited (San Francisco)	Waterloo Brewing Co.	Clever rock	A
Wannabes (Austin)	Waterloo Brewing Co.	Average alternative	C
Seaman's Quartet (Austin)	Buffalo Billiards	Grunge-rock with cello	B-
Tift Merritt & the Carbines (Chapel Hill)	Opal Divine's Free House	Patsy Cline-ish	A-
The Ex-Husbands (Nashville)	Opal Divine's Free House	Hard rockin' Americana	B+

The Wailers

2/25/00

With original members "Familyman" Barrett and Marcia Griffiths. An excellent show.

The Flatlanders

2/22/00

Cactus Cafe

Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in an intimate setting. A great show.

Peter Rowan and Guy Clark

2/18/00

Texas Union Ballroom

Two of the best songwriters and performers around.

Tribute to Doug Sahm

1/30/00

Continental Club

Mary and Lissa Hattersley and Tony Airoldi of Greezy Wheels, Paul Ray, and The Leroi Brothers. Unfortunately, Augie Meyers cancelled and I didn't stick around for Alvin Crow and the Texas Mavericks.

The Specials

1/19/00

The Backroom

It wasn't really The Specials. It was actually their lead singer Neville Staple with a bunch of guys from L.A. Not a bad show, but not what was advertised.

Tom Kimmel

1/13/00

Steve and Lisa Milan's House

A house concert. Tom Kimmel is a former new folk winner at the Kerrville Folk Festival.

ZZ Top & Lynyrd Skynyrd

12/30/99

Frank Erwin Center

Ended the millennium with some good old-fashioned rock-and-roll. Here are some photos (1, 2, 3) from the actual New Year's Eve show the next night in Houston.

The Scabs

12/28/99

Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band

12/20/99

Austin Music Hall

At the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar

El Vez

12/18/99

The Mexican Elvis has a very beautiful Merry Mex-mas show.

Willie Nelson Blues Band with Eric Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, and Mandy Barnett, plus The Meat Puppets, Toni Price, and the Stephen Bruton Band

12/15/99

A benefit for The SIMS Foundation. If you want to see and hear the show, an archive of a live Videocast can be found at BigJam.com. It was actually better in concept than reality, but it was still a pretty cool show.

The Meditations

12/11/99

Augie Myers, Speedy Sparks, Alvin Crow, John X. Reed, Randy Garibay, Rocky Morales, Joe King Carrasco, Mike Buck, George Raines, Jack Barber, Denny Freeman, Sarah Brown, Lazy Lester, and many more...

12/04/99

A fine tribute to the late Doug Sahm, with performances by many of Sahm's former musical partners from all facets of his career: 60's rock from the Sir Douglas Quintet, Tex-Mex from the Texas Tornados, country from the Texas Mavericks, and blues from The Last Real Texas Blues Band.

Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Vaughn, Joe Ely, Marcia Ball, W.C. Clark, Toni Price, Steve James, Randy Garibay, Gary Primich, The Blues Specialists, Maryann Price, and many more...

12/01/99

Benefit for Tary Owens, who helped preserve some great Texas music by recorded legendary blues artists such as The Grey Ghost, T.D. Bell and Erbie Bowser, Rev. Lavada "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, Snuff Johnson, and Long John Hunter.

11/20/99

11/12/99

The King of the Surf Guitar - rocked.

The Funky Meters

11/05/99

Would have been better if they'd held the show outside, since they billed it as the last outdoor show of the year.

The Bad Livers, The Damnations, and
Guy Forsyth

11/04/99

Sleepy LaBeef and
The Piners

10/22/99

Thirsty Ear Tavern

On vacation in Columbus, Ohio

Booker T. Jones

9/25/99

A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Booker T. and the MG's

Anders Osborne and Shannon Curfman

9/18/99

Justin Hinds and the Dominoes

Anders rocked as usual. Shannon is a 14 year old singer & guitar player that you'll be hearing about in the future.

9/10/99

Burning Spear

9/9/99

Another hot Reggae show from the master.

Darden Smith
and Barbara K

9/4/99

Cactus Cafe

Recorded for a possible live album. Roscoe Beck played some excellent acoustic bass with Darden.

Ismael Isaac, Ramses de Kimon and The Solar System Band

8/27/99

Mango's Acoustic Sunset Series

Some great Reggae vocalists from the Ivory Coast, backed by the fine band of Alpha Blondy

Link Wray and John Dee Graham

8/25/99

Continental Club

A legendary seventy year old with a long black ponytail who plays butt-rocking guitar. More Link Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, thanks to Big Ed

Terri Hendrix and Ginger Mackenzie

8/12/99

Asleep at the Wheel, Tonic, and Soulhat

8/09/99

Auditorium Shores

Welcome home parade and concert for Lance Armstrong in celebration of his victory in the 1999 Tour de France.

Pinetop Perkins, Big Bill Morganfield, and Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin

8/07/99

Big Bill Morganfield is the son of Muddy Waters, and Pinetop and Bob Margolin used to play in Muddy's band. Pinetop, at the age of 86, can still pound it out on the piano.

7/31/99

The final show.

7/28/99

Joe Ely, David Garza, Doctor's Mob, and The Brooders

7/24/99

Liberty Lunch

One of the final shows at this location.

Gloriathon

7/23-
24/99

Liberty Lunch

A 24 hour marathon of "Gloria" performed by various artists in celebration of Liberty Lunch's 24 years. Van Morrison actually called in from a concert in Europe to participate.

Asleep at the Wheel

7/18/99

Y.I.M.B.Y. (Yes in my Backyard) Fundraiser

A benefit for Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, hosted by Ray Benson and Diane Carr

Antone's 24th Anniversary featuring Lazy Lester, Angela Strehli, Hubert Sumlin, Susan Tedeski, Dave Myers, Calvin 'Fuzz' Jones, Kim Wilson, Denny Freeman, Lou Ann Barton, Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, and more...

7/15-
16/99

Probably the last anniversary party that Clifford Antone attends for quite a while, since he'll be spending the next few years in prison. It was a great send-off.

Graham Parker

6/26/99

A great solo show. How come there were less than 100 people there?

Robert Cray and Snooks Eaglin

6/12/99

The Radiators and Galactic

5/22/99