It’s not all roses and butterflies!
June 7th, 2008I got to bed last night around 10:30. Me…on a Friday night? I know…I took my temperature…98.6…ship shape. This morning, as I am fully rested and cleaning up the apartment for the weekend it’s hard for me to think about bad things. However, Stacey McCann and I were talking this week and she said: ”Lucas, not for nothing your blogs are great. But, people need to read about the OTHER side of what we do. ” Ok, I will be glad to share. Although the shows are going extremely well and we gain new fans every show there is a lot that goes into a show. This is the typical show day. Wake up, start sending emails and checking over booking. Make a few phone calls and then start making promo posters. Each one of those takes about an hour to make. Then it has to get approved by Fred. “Nope…to pixilated, forgot the date and it’s too big.” I have to have him look over these because I’m creative…I will give you that but when it comes to perfection…well, let’s just say my posters are a little more ‘organic’ than Fred’s.
So, then it’s off to the music store. This is always an interesting trip. Just imagine every department…drums, guitars, bass, audio…every department has someone in there tooling around trying to impress the person they brought with them. I recently was informed by a Guitar Center employee of a new phenomenon. Stevie Ray What-A-Burger! Here is the issue with most of the bands in Austin. By the way…we have 6,000 bands in Austin. Only 2,000 play about once a month or more. So, you can see….here we are…a baby band and we play 3 nights a week! Things are good. The problem is 5000 of those bands in Austin try to sound like Stevie Ray Vaughn. Bass, drums and some dbag on his knees playing a 15 minute solo. No lie…if you are musically inclined you can understand this gets old. LET THE MAN DIE and just because you gig on 6th street doesn’t mean you HAVE to play Pride N’ Joy! So, apparently some folks from What-A-Burger went to the Guitar









