Holefest 2000 had too many highlights and lowlifes to recount,
but Nickel $ Dime Productions hopes to make a video compilation available
sometime before the 7th Annual. The years just keep getting shorter.
Meanwhile, videos of the individual band sets can be custom ordered for
20 bucks each. Featured bands include: Subset, Superego, Britt
Daniel, Darin Murphy, Walter Tragert with Scrappy Jud, Beaver Nelson, Mike
Nicolai, Prescott Curlywolf, Fantasmagordo, Jane Bond, Ted Roddy's Tearjoint
Troubadors, Grand Champeen, Telray, Sin Pelo, Ten Speed, Privateers, Alterego,
Stingers, Gnappy, The Nortons with Will Sexton, Barkers, Orange Mothers,
El Orbits, Lil' Cap'n Travis, Golden Arm Trio, Deep Sombreros, & Household
Names plus bonus footage of Fastball and Meat Puppets. N$D will now
shoot digital video of any band at any club including the Free For All
for a small negotiable fee (ranging from a Heineken to a Hamilton) to cover
tape cost and dubbing time.
FREE FOR ALL SCHEDULE:
Sunday, Sept. 24 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Shane Bartell 10 - Household Names
11 - Superego 12 - Biscuit Boyz
Friday, Sept. 29 - MARS MUSIC SUPERSTORE: 8:30 - Superego
Sunday, Oct. 1 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Z is for Zillah 10 - Jimmy George
11 - Superego 12 - Grass
Sunday, Oct. 8 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Sarah Sharp 10 - Park Legend 11
- Superego 12 - Luke Williams
Sunday, Oct. 15 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Mike DuBose 10 - Bakin' Brownies
11 - Superego 12 - Plum
Sunday, Oct. 22 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Fantasmagordo 10 - Prescott Curlywolf
11 - Superego 12 - Deathray Davies
Sunday, Oct. 29 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Lil Cap'n Travis 10 - Playthings
11 - Superego 12 - Household Names
Sunday, Nov. 5 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - NPR 10 - Dewato 11 -
Superego 12 - Choking Ahogo
Sunday, Nov. 12 - CLUB DEVILLE : Free Radio Austin Benefit 7
pm - Superego 8 - Dismukes
Sunday, Nov. 12 - FREE FOR ALL 9 - Amberjack Rice 10 - Les Dexic 11
- Superego 12 - Transfixr 1- Britt Daniel
Sunday, Nov. 19 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Kiska 10 - Litter Meet 11
- Superego 12 - Bedbug
Sunday, Nov. 26 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Rocketship Gospel 10
- Woodpeckers 11 - Superego 12 - Stingers
Sunday, Dec. 3 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Mighty Hebrews 10 - Rain 11
- Superego 12 - Conrads
Sunday, Dec. 10 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Relative Circle 10 - Choking
Ahogo 11 - Superego 12 - Arthurs
Sunday, Dec. 12 - MOMO'S 9:30 - Will Sexton 10:30
- Superego 11:30 - Dewato 12:30 - Kitty Gordon
Sunday, Dec 17 - FREE FOR ALL: 9 - Men From Nantucket 10 - Kid Biscuit
11 - Superego 12- Tom Foolery
A SHARED DREAM:
I would like to share a vision with you good people. This is an idea that has been rolling around in my head for awhile and I am ready to start pursuing it doggedly.
The Texas Music Cultural Center is an independently-operated institution dedicated to the preservation and proliferation of the indigenous music of central Texas. It is a public facility featuring multiple live music venues. The interior architecture will convert easily from an intimate roadhouse atmosphere featuring nightly entertainment to a large scale dancehall/ballroom setting suitable for concerts. It will also feature a state of the art multimedia audio and video production facility. Texas musical acts can rehearse, record, perform, produce and distribute musical products all under one roof at reasonable costs. The cultural center online includes a fully interactive e-commerce website with a variety of educational and information resources and promotional services for musicians, including music merchandise manufacturing and distribution, classifed ads, gig referrals and digital audio and video downloads. Texas Music Center television productions could reach millions of homes worldwide through online and satellite broadcasts. It would also be a fully-catered banquet facility for weddings, family occasions, corporate events, fundraisers and conventions. The venues will also serve as preservation galleries for museum-style artifacts of Texas' legendary music artists, such as photos, posters, instruments and awards. Featured acts will be all-inclusive and eclectic, varying from western swing to jazz to tejano to modern rock and punk to classical. The center will feature a fully-equipped kitchen serving daily lunch and dinner specials, with casual dining and live entertainment. It will also have a beer garden and eventually such amenities as rehearsal spaces, a music pro-shop, short-term apartments, offices and conference rooms for in-house legal consultation and counseling sessions for musicians.
One way of looking at this idea is a community organization encompassing
a club, restaurant, banquet hall, recording studio, soundstage, museum,
television channel, music store, record label and website. Another
way to describe it is a rock and roll wildflower center, only with bands
instead of bluebonnets. It could also be called a post-millenial
musical vision in the tradition of the Armadillo World Headquarters.
Whatever it is, it is a big dream of mine that needs to happen soon before
the wildflowers become extinct. I have already made great personal
progress in developing the basic skills of each of these harmonious aspects,
including live music production, event promotion, audio recording, CD manufacturing,
video production, music retail, banquet management, club/restaurant management,
web design, etc. Currently I am finishing a Master's Degree in Human
Services at St. Edward's, studying Conflict Mediation and Human Resources
Management. This project is the extension of my 20 years of
experience in music and related businesses. Upon graduation,
I plan to get a job that will enable me to continute to develop this idea
while raising capital to obtain a suitable space for this ambitious undertaking.
I have the vision, the talent and the ambition, I just need partners.
HEADLINES:
New 20 song Superego Compilation available.
Free
For All wins City Search Best Weekly Show
Holefest
Recommended Column
Holefest
Liveshot
Rutlemania
show at Jo's Rained-Out
Chepo
in Japan and Quentin Tarantino sighted at Free For All.
Argyles left on Miss Congeniality cutting
room floor
HIGHJACKED E-MAIL:
Subject: conrads rule!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:01:49 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
Live music fiends,
The Conrads at the Black Cat on Wednesdays is my favorite new regular
show. If you like the El Orbits but could do without the bingo,
you
will love the Conrads, featuring Houston expatriate vocal sensation
David Beebe, Landis "Slowhandis" Armstrong on lead guitar, Toadliquor
bassist Matt Essky, and Stingers' stickman Drew Gerfers on drums.
They
play a nearly four-hour set of indigenous roadhouse classics with no
breaks
starting around ten. Please join me on the bleachers and the
dance
floor tonight at this all too often overlooked live music preservation
hall.
Subject: Mars Attacks 2
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:19:28 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: superego@io.com
Musicians,
I just wanted to let everybody know I am returning to the red planet.
Starting Sunday, I will once again be working part-time on the guitar
sales floor at Mars the musician's planet in Hancock Center at 42nd
and
Red River. The corporation has changed to a commission
sales system
and I decided to give it a shot. Please keep me in mind for your
next
musical purchase, however big or small. I will be working Sundays
noon
to 6, Tuesdays 11-6 and Fridays 1-9. I can also arrange to meet
you
there to ring up a sale any time, feel free to call me at home or the
store. I will also have my calendar on-hand at the store for
bookings
at the hole and a new downtown jam I am planning.
Subject: Superego In-Store tonight
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:28:58 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: superego@io.com
Superego plays a 30 minute set tonight, Friday Sept. 29, 8:30 pm
at Mars Music Superstore at 42nd and Red River.
The performance is being videotaped for a nationwide contest
for a "recording contract" and a home recording prize package.
Please come by to show your support
and get some early Christmas shopping in.
Subject: Re: Superego In-Store tonight
Paul, ol chap!
Subject: Deep Sombreros gig
Tommy,
I have heard that the owners of San Jose Motel and Jo's Coffeehouse
are very
Subject: Free For All
how about midnight nov. 5th? 40 minute set, superego provides
drums, 300
Subject:Re: austin gig
would it be ok if we were to bring our drum to use those to play with?
our
Subject: Re: austin gig
Friends,
I appreciate your contacting me with questions regarding the stage set
up. We have hosted the free for all every week for six years and we have
developed a system that works for everybody. The stage is kind of small
and there are four bands playing, with your band second. We have found
that sharing equipment makes for smoother and quicker set changes, giving
each band more performance time. There is also very limited room in the
club for equipment. Here is my suggestion: Have your drummer bring his
own snare drum, snare stand, cymbals, cymbal stands, throne, kik pedal
and hi hat stand. Our drum kit is a basic kick/ floor/rack set up, we can
add a second rack tom if needed. It should feel remarkably like his own
kit once he adds his accessories.
On the amps, I would propose a similar solution. If you have separate
amp heads, bring those and plug into our cabinets to get your sound. Our
bass speaker is an Ampeg 4X10, the guitar cabinet is a Marshall 2X12, both
wired 8 ohms. If you want to bring small combo guitar amps, that would
be ok, as long as you realize the stage is small and the drums and amps
that we provide will not be removed. Bands have been using our gear for
years with only positive results.
So that's the gig. We look forward to hearing your set, feel free to
contact me with any further questions.
Subject: Rutlemania
Friends of Dirk, Ron, Stig, and Barry,
Superego will perform an unplugged set of original material followed
by a screening of the classic British rockumentary "The Rutles - All You
Need is Cash" on a big screen in the parking lot of Jo's Coffeehouse across
S. Congress from the Continental Club this Thursday, Sept. 21 at 8 pm.
"And so it was they found themselves - far from home, and far from talented..."
Subject: tape
Hey Paul, the tape looks and sounds amazing! Nice work! I especially
like when it starts moving, it's got this weird digital shakiness to it.
I was really impressed with the microphone on it, it was able to capture
all the sounds at similar levels. Well, except the bass, but it's hard
to get bass on those things. Drums sound great though. Amazing compression.
Hey I meant to ask you if you had any free-for-all slots open in October.
We have a really good time doing those and we're kind of hard-pressed for
shows in October. Just let me know if you think there's anything available.
Thanks again for the tape!
Subject: contract
On behalf of Superego I Paul Minor hereby authorize the use of any music
Subject: xs650 fork boots
hello,my name is jon sanchez. i'm in austin tx.
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:30:28 -0500
From: allyson lipkin
To: superego@io.com
References: 1
Good luck on the contest... you are a go getter. I was just looking
at all the recording distributors in texas, and there are many tejano ones...and
thinking maybe one day I'll call some of them. I had a great time at holefest,
and want to buy a t shirt and a poster. Catch us at an in store across
the street from you house at abcd's, thursday at 7. I will hand you a beer
and a cd.
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:06:26 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: tallram@hotmail.com
CC: lipkin@ev1.net, peter@jump.net
excited about seeing a 4 minute music video that I directed a couple
years back
for Deep Sombreros. Most of the footage was shot at the 24-hour
Tire Shop that
used to stand where Jo's is now. The guitar player
worked and lived there,
changing people's tires in the middle of the night. The video
is hilarious,
and so is the band. I brought the video down on the night that
Ted Roddy
played, but the owners were not around. I told Tina I would come
back next
week, but I have had a change of heart. I think that the Deep
Sombreros should
be a featured band at the gig, and that would be the appropriate occasion
for
the video, as well as a movie of their choosing. They are the
perfect band for
the venue: acoustic, upbeat and fun as hell. Please put
them on the calendar
when you resume booking for the spring season.
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:24:47 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: yourband@hole.org
watt bass rig, two 50 watt guitar amps. You bring sticks, snare,
snare
stand, cymbals, kik pedal, hi-hat clutch, guitars, cables, effects.
A VHS
copy of a digital video of your set can be provided for a small production
fee.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:48:41 EDT
From: roadband@aol.com
To: superego@io.com
drummer feels comfortable with his drumset and likes the set up and
doesnt
know how it would be using another set. also, we might like to
use our amps
too since thats where we get our sound from. if we feel we could
still get
the same sound out of your equipment then we'd have no problem using
it and
it would save us a lot of trouble with bringing it down with us but
otherwise
we're use to our sound with what we have.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:20:32 -0500
From: paul minor
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: yourband@hole.org
References: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:29:12 -0500
From: superego@io.com
To: superego@io.com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:34:41 GMT
From: household names
To: superego@io.com
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 15:45:44 -0500
From: superego@io.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: dax@talentconnection.net
by Superego on a CD compilation distributed for free at the "high-tech
happy hour" event at
Austin Music Hall 10-12-2000.
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:07:37 -0500
From: jonnyflambeaux@hotmail.com
Organization: nickel $ dime productions
To: info@domiracer.com
i'm looking for some fork-boots to fit my '76 yamaha xs650.
"omar's" refered me to you. it is part #01-06-5743
do you have these in stock,will they fit,and how much are they?
many thanks.
jonny flambeaux