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Rock & Roll Weekend

Are you ready for another Rock & Roll Weekend?

I am.

Awesome song by San Antonio's very own Far Crys...

Destroyer Rocks!

Kiss Rules! I actually went back in time for a few hours last night and had a cool time at the Scout Bar in San Antonio with my Madison High School buds Robert and Edward. You'll have to excuse the quality of these iPhone shots. On second thought, the more I look at them I think I'm actually kinda digging the old school look and feel of these captured moments, you know, the hazy ass lighting complementing the bumpy blurry immediacy of it all, just like back in the day.

As for the actual show itself, I wanted the best and I got a damn fine example of an awesome effort by Destroyer. Lots of Kiss Alive! of course some Destroyer along with a few from Rock & Roll Over and Love Gun. Could have done without some of the later Lick it Up, Love It Loud, I Was Made For Lovin' You material though.



All said, awesome show, lame crowd though. The staff at Scout Bar was friendly and cool, but it really sucked that they had their club-within-a-club disco bullshit blasting with it's doors open during the entire Destroyer show. Stupid and totally direspectful to the band.

And although this was only my second time at Scout, the half filled room sounded only ok at best when standing in front of the sound board. At my first show, Riot a few months back, the room was packed and the sound was excellent. The half filled room sounded really flat, almost like an outdoor gig and the poor turnout was ultimately a drain on the overall energy and vibe as well.



I stood up front for the first few songs until this super spaced out double BudLite fisted idiot decided that tonight it was his turn to be Asshole Of The Day while the couple he was with, two metal mental midgets who were also probably drunk before lunch, an incoherent chick and her stumbling "Baby" as she called him, a wasted but polite man that grew progressively excited about seeing four guys dressed up like Kiss and kept yelling at Destroyer's Paul Stanley while waving a guitar pick from a Kiss show in Austin 8 years ago incessantly screaming "I'm the man! I'm the Man!" What a fucking dumb ass.

I digress... Destroyer Rocks! If you dig old school Kiss and you get the chance don't miss Dallas' Destroyer!

And speaking of Kiss...


That's right, dig my Ace Frehley signed Destroyer album! A funny thing happened while getting this signed...

And lastly, if you're truly a Kiss or Ace fan you'll dig: THIS.

Make It Louder,

Migwell

Big Drag

SPIN Magazine has a sweet little list of The 100 Greatest Bands You've (Probably) Never Heard and they totally nailed it with the closest thing Taco Land ever had to a house band with San Antonio's answer to the cement city Beach Boys, the mighty Big Drag!

Directly from SPIN:

BAND NAME: Big Drag
A trio from San Antonio who embodied neighboring Austin’s slacker ethos to a fault, the band melded the Jesus and Mary Chain’s fuzz and the Ramones’ three chords to sunny surf pop to create three-minute koans in the early 90s. Making believers of Yo La Tengo when they rolled through town, YLT appropriated Big Drag’s cover of the Beach Boys’ “Little Honda” (right down to the one-note guitar solo) for their own I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.

To be continued...

For the complete list of 100 artists, check out the August 2009 issue of SPIN.

Make It Louder,

Migwell

The Deathray Davies live at The Limelight San Antonio!

Hammond Eggs Morning Menu 060

Tune in bright and early tomorrow morning from 7-9 and start your Happy 4th of July with some totally bitchin' soulful & bluesy jazz courtesy of me and my bud, the host of the Casbah, Brian Parrish.

Broadcasting live from the campus of San Antonio College every other Saturday Morning from 7-9am on KSYM 90.1 FM in San Antonio, Texas.

Grab yourself a big fresh cup of java, check out Episode 060 of The Hammond Eggs Show.

Dig the Red White & Blues!

And just in case you missed it you can always grab archived podcast versions of Hammond Eggs over here - Click Hear: Archived Hammond Eggs Shows!

Peace,

HMK

The Radsoles!

Dig The Latest! Still fresh and classic mid 80's indie rock from San Antonio's very own, The Radsoles!:

Check out: On The 7th Day and Crank up the awesome Naked...

The Radsoles: Mitchell Justice Webb (Vocals, Guitar & Bass), Tom Rehkopf (Vocals & Rhythm Guitar), Charles Gruber (Lead Guitar) and John Dufilho (Drums).

Details soon - turn it up!

So great to hear this stuff again!

Migwell

Hans Frank "Get The Hell Outta My House"

Hans Frank - Get The Hell Outta My House

The Offbeats Rock!

Dig San Antonio's very own The OffBeats!

These guys have been around for a while, released a few singles, a few of which apprear on the latest "Standards", about as close as you can get to an Offbeats Greatest Hits (Vol 1, I hope!).

Press play and dig some pure homegrown power pop with a very clean and tight Albini inspired sonic vibe throughout.

I couldn't find any cover art so I made my own based on what it sounds like to me - kind of a head boppin', B grade, 4AD, Spoony and power-poppy with an energetic homegrown gritty and oh so soulful Taco Land vibe. Very nice and goes perfect with an ice cold 16 oz Lone Star on a hot and muggy San Antonio Saturday night...

Check out Pokeadot, Smoking Gun and the awesome Don't Leave Me Alone, all available for download right here: The OffBeats!

The Offbeats are just one more reason to be proud of our awesome San Antonio local music scene.

Make It Louder!

Migwell