If anybody is a musician and plays shows around houston/austin post and talk about it here. Follow the dream! I love local bands and am always trying to check new **** out. I'm a musician myself playing in bands around austin.
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contrary to what a lot of people think, houston has an excellent local scene. Its just pretty hard to find at times, but once you are in, its everywhere. I've been doing a lot of local underground house music events over the past 7 years in houston, austin, and mcallen. All the stuff i do locally is at the Jet lounge, which is now the closest bar/venue to toyota center. If you like underground house music, every saturday is fantastic there. Jet also does bands, hip hop artists, and dubstep on the other nights. Since it's under new management now and i'm tied very closely with the venue, there will be some good talent coming in more often there. Also, i'm going to do my best to get some rocket fan appreciation in there for the rocket faithful
cool dude. i've played shows, saw good local bands, and had a lot of great memories around last concert cafe, ponderosa house, doctor's office etc. but that's really underground music scene ****. a lot of high school/college bands and starter mc's
A friend of mine is pretty talented and trying to break in the scene here. You might see him around town these days. Support him! https://soundcloud.com/czeromusic
Lots of musicians here. I did the original band thing for a while back in the 2000's. We regularly played at Rudyards, The Mausoleum, Last Concert, and some other clubs that probably don't exist anymore. We did several radio appearances (on KPFT...) and even got one of our songs played on some MTV reality show about fratboys. After a while, it gets old lugging all your gear around every weekend and not making any money. So I sold out and joined a cover band and haven't accepted a non-paying gig in over a decade.
Accompanied a fresh group at UT this evening and we were fortunate to get a professional drummer going with us. As the bassist, holy crap was it liberating to have such a reliable drummer backing me up. We had a fairly heavy number and right at the crescendo we hit the sweet spot (everyone's right on the beat, the instruments and speakers are resonating, the reverb/echo is at the right setting, the audience is into it, etc) and I couldn't help myself but beam and be animated while playing the song. Haven't had the luck to play with such talented musicians for a long time, so tonight was fantastic. There's just a completely different kind of rush when you turn in a really satisfying live performance
I'm fuzzy on the details, but we played in the Banquet hall of the Union. There was some event going on that brought over a band from NY. I sometimes play music with the event organizer but we were missing a drummer so the NY band drummer filled in for us. All I really know about the other band is that they make their money playing music so the drummer was completely skilled and it was a lot of fun playing with reliable time keeper
a few of the bands i try to see when i can umbrella man the trimms electric attitude grandfather child a couple of bands i have only seen a little bit but need to see more so i can tell if i really do like them the suffers thelastplaceyoulook
