october little d after dark 2012
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Monthly entertainment magazine of the Denton Record-Chronicle.TRANSCRIPT
OPENING SHOT
Natural Child at Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios on Aug. 31.Photo by Ed Steele
2 Little d After Dark October 2012
Photo by David MintonOCTOBER 2012VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2
>> something for himself Will Johnson is a staple among
Texas musicians, having long played in and toured with his share of rock
bands across the state, including his group, Denton-based favorite
Centro-matic. And because of this, making time for his own solo record
releases can be challenging, Johnson says.
get on the list Spune Productions wears many hats these days:
booking agency, artist developer, record label and promoter. Whether
music lovers are out to see a favorite big-name artist at the Palladium
Ballroom or hoping to discover a new indie favorite at a local festival,
the Dallas-Fort Worth-based company is likely behind the show. On
Oct. 5 and 6, Spune will play host to the first Index Festival. >> 11
all hallow’s fun Nearly four years ago, Denton decided to cele-
brate Halloween good and proper. That’s when Denton composer,
arranger and trombone player David Pierce unveiled both his undying
affection (get it?) for Halloween and Cirque du Horror. This year,
the show’s bigger and better than ever. >> 19
Bone Doggie can’t keep the hint of irony out of his rasping voice when he
names the date he and the Hickory Street Hellraisers were born into the personae they now enjoy. “I can tell you
exactly when the band we have now came to be,” he says, pausing to exhale a long drag from his e-cigarette. “It was at
Denton’s Day of the Dead last year.” Makes sense. Story by Lucinda Breeding
Publisher Bill Patterson
Managing Editor Dawn Cobb
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Features Editor Lucinda Breeding
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Radke, Rachel Watts
Designer Rachel McReynolds
Photographers David Minton, Ed Steele,
Chris Newby
On the cover Photo by David Minton
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THE ELEMENTSCOVER STORY
FEATURES
opening shot >> 2
good dates >> 4
editor’s note >> 5
the alchemist If you’ve never had a
Jägerbomb, you’re in for a vaguely
licorice-flavored trip down memory lane.
>> 6
work the room Head to the
rockin’-est country venue this side of the
Mississippi. >> 7
b-side beat >> 10
flavor junkie Oatmeal chocolate-
chip creme pies with bourbon milk? After
you’ve done your homework, dear. >>
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I LoveLucyDay
Earl Bates’ Celtic Sessions,
7 p.m. Free. Abbey InnRestaurant & Pub.Peelander Z, Electric Eel
Shock, 7 p.m. $10-$12.
Dada. Tomahawk, Pujol, 8
p.m. $29. GranadaTheater. UNT Concert
Orchestra’s Halloween
Spooktacular, 8 p.m. Free-$10. WinspearPerformance Hall.
Halloween
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Global Rhythms with Andy
Narell and the One O’clock
Lab Band, 8 p.m. Free-$10.Winspear PerformanceHall. Mario Cruz, 8 p.m.
Free. Dan’s Silverleaf.
Cirque du Horror, 5 p.m. $7-$15. Dan’s Silverleaf. The
Smithereens, 7 p.m. $25-$51. Granada Theater.Nas, Lauryn Hill, 8 p.m.
Palladium Ballroom.Granada Theater. My
Empty Phantom, 10 p.m.
$6-$10. Lola’s.
Lucas Bevan, noon. Free.Love Shack. Cirque du
Horror, 4:30 and 9 p.m. $7-$15. Dan’s Silverleaf.Mara Penatzer, 6 p.m. Free.Banter. Smells Like
Someone Died, 8 p.m.
Andy’s Bar. Crocodiles,
8:30 p.m. $11-$14. Dada.Ghostland Observatory, 9
p.m. $35. PalladiumBallroom. Mothership, the
Spectacle, Red Light Kills,
Shaolin Death Squad, the
Phuss, Trebuchet, 10 p.m.
$5-$7. Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios.
Foxtrot Uniform, noon.
Free. Love Shack. Cats &
Dogs: A Benefit for the
Denton Humane Society, 5
p.m. $6-$8. RubberGloves RehearsalStudios. Drew Phelps, 8
p.m. Free. Banter.
Ben Smith, 6 p.m. Free.Love Shack. Ronan
Delisle, Addison Frei Duo, 6
p.m. Free. Banter. Danny
Rush & the Designated
Drivers, the Holler Time, Old
Warhorse, 8 p.m. Andy’sBar. Baloney Moon, 8 p.m.
Free. Banter. Space Camp,
Ghost of Industry, Isaac
Pierse and the Arbor, 9 p.m.
$5. Hailey’s Club. Frontier
Ruckus, Buxton, Chambers,
10 p.m. $7-$10. Dan’sSilverleaf.
Link Chalon, 6 p.m. Free.Banter. Afro Deezy Axe, 10
p.m. The AbbeyUnderground.
Earl Bates’ Celtic Sessions,
7 p.m. Free. Abbey InnRestaurant & Pub.Busdriver, Nocando, Open
Mic Eagle, 8 p.m. $12-$14.Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios. Chris
Cortez Trio, 9 p.m. $10-$15. Dan’s Silverleaf. The
Demigs, the Dig, We Shared
Milk, 9 p.m. $5. Hailey’sClub.
Lower Dens, Jennifer
Castle, Deep Time, 7 p.m.
$11-$14. Dada. Nicki
Bluhm and the Gramblers,
the Brothers Comatose, 8
p.m. $10-$15. Dan’sSilverleaf.
UNT College of Music Gala,
4 p.m. $25-$100.Winspear PerformanceHall. The Afghan Whigs,
Centro-matic, 7 p.m. $29.Granada Theater.Wild//Tribe, Long Knife,
Terminator 2, Deadline,
Mean and Ugly, 9 p.m. $8-$10. Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios. The
Dead Kenny G’s, 9 p.m. $8.Dan’s Silverleaf.
Eric Johnson, 7 p.m. $25-$50. Granada Theater.
Screaming Females, 7 p.m.
$8-$10. Dada. Mario Cruz,
8 p.m. Free. Dan’sSilverleaf. Mind Spiders,
Lenguas Largas, Occult
Detective Club, 9 p.m. $5-$7. Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios.
Columbus Day
Dallas Symphony Orchestra,
8 p.m. $10-$20. WinspearPerformance Hall. Paul
Slavens and Friends, 10
p.m. Free. Dan’sSilverleaf.
Riggs, Slater, Eckels Jazz
Experience, 5 p.m. Free.Dan’s Silverleaf. County
Rexford, 7 p.m. Free.Abbey Inn Restaurant &Pub. Bombay Bicycle Club,
Vacationer, 7 p.m. $16.Granada Theater. UNT
Concert Band, 7:30 p.m.
Free-$10. WinspearPerformance Hall.
Devin Leigh, 6 p.m. Free.Love Shack. Godspeed
You! Black Emperor, Total
Life, 7 p.m. $25. GranadaTheater. Spookeasy, the
Hanna Barbarians, My
Wooden Leg, 8 p.m. $5-$8.Dada. M83, Sun Airway, 8
p.m. $30. PalladiumBallroom. R. Stevie Moore,
9 p.m. $11-$13. RubberGloves RehearsalStudios.
Chris Watson, 6 p.m. Free.Love Shack. Roger
Creager, 7 p.m. $16-$30.Granada Theater. Acorn
Bcorn, Sol Tax, the Red
Death, Tricounty Terror, 9
p.m. $5. Hailey’s Club.Ray Wylie Hubbard, Charlie
Shafter, 9 p.m. $15-$20.Dan’s Silverleaf. Mount
Carmel, Old Warhorse, 9
p.m. $6-$8. RubberGloves RehearsalStudios.
James Hinkle, noon. Free.Love Shack. Brandon
Jones, 6 p.m. Free. Banter.Stars, Diamond Rings,
California Wives, 7 p.m.
$20. Granada Theater.First Aid Kit, Dyland
LeBlanc, 7 p.m. $27. TheKessler. Scrote, 8 p.m.
Free. Banter. Spectral the
Pusher, Kid Beer, 9 p.m.
Free. Hailey’s Club. The
New Trust, Pswingset, Birds
of Night, 9 p.m. $6-$8.Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios.
Index Festival, 2 p.m. $28-$38. Trees. Alex Cannon, 6
p.m. Free. Banter. Cory
Morrow, American
Aquarium, Holy Moly, 7 p.m.
$16-$29. GranadaTheater. The Scary
Mondelos, Gonzo City, 8
p.m. Andy’s Bar. Acoustic
Distortion, 8 p.m. Free.Banter. The Wee-Beasties,
Enormicon, Poor Dumb
Bastards, Tricounty Terror, 9
p.m. $5-$7. RubberGloves RehearsalStudios. Somebody’s
Darling, 9 p.m. $5. Dada.
Index Festival, 5 p.m. $28-$38. Trees. Lost
Immigrants, 6 p.m. Free.Love Shack. Flobots,
Astronautalis, Gallerycat, 7
p.m. $15. Granada The-ater. My Jerusalem, Dana
Falconberry, 8 p.m. $8-$10.Dada. Cleanup, Boyfrndz, 9
p.m. $7-$11. Lola’s. Inter
Arma, Baring Teeth, Lions of
Tsavo, Bludded Head, 9 p.m.
$5-$7. Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios.Infidelix, Lace Tunes, Ewok
the Kid, Frank Twitchy, 9
p.m. Hailey’s Club.
Link Chalon, 6 p.m. Free.Banter. Paper Diamond, 7
p.m. $16. GranadaTheater. UNT Wind
Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Free-$10. WinspearPerformance Hall. Rich
Perry, Alex Sipiagin, Donald
Edwards, Lynn Seaton,
Stefan Karlsson, 9 p.m.
$15. Dan’s Silverleaf.Breathing Problem, Public
Health, 9 p.m. $1-$3.Rubber Gloves Rehear-sal Studios. Siberian
Traps, Mailman, Solo Sol, 10
p.m. $5-$9. Lola’s.
Riggs, Slater, Hamilton Jazz
Experience, 5 p.m. Free.Dan’s Silverleaf. Earl
Bates’ Celtic Sessions, 7
p.m. Free. Abbey InnRestaurant & Pub. UNT
Concert Orchestra, 8 p.m.
Free-$10. WinspearPerformance Hall. The
Tontons, Cowboy Indian
Bear, 8 p.m. $6-$8. Dada.Zammuto, Lymbyc System,
Bethan, 9 p.m. $12-$15.Dan’s Silverleaf.
Menomena, PVT, Team
Tomb, 7 p.m. $16.Granada Theater. Mister
Joe & Friends, Le Not Quite
So Hot Klub du Denton, 8
p.m. Free. Banter.Merchandise, the Young,
Wiccans, 8 p.m. $8-$10.Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios. The
Lord Huron, Night Moves, 10
p.m. $10-$13. Dan’sSilverleaf.
Stepdad, the Terror Pigeon
Dance Revolt, 7 p.m. $8-$10. Dada. Inspectah
Deck, DJ Yeahdef, 8 p.m.
$12-$14. Rubber GlovesRehearsal Studios. ATaste of Herb: A Tribute to
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass, 9 p.m. Free. Dan’sSilverleaf.
Rudy Cervantez, 6 p.m.
Free. Love Shack. Jack
Ingram, 7 p.m. $17.50-$40. The Kessler. 1140,
8 p.m. Free. Banter. The
Raven Charter, Fantasma,
Secret of Boris, 8 p.m. TheAbbey Underground. JJ
Grey & Mofro and Galactic,
8 p.m. $25. GranadaTheater. White Horse with
Luke Doucet and Melissa
McLelland, 9 p.m. $10.Dan’s Silverleaf. Ben
Kweller, 9:30 p.m. $22.50-$30. The Kessler.
Ian McFeron, 6 p.m. Free.Love Shack. Woods,
Widowspeak, 7:30 p.m.
$11-$15. Dada. UNT
Symphonic Band, 7:30 p.m.
Free-$10. WinspearPerformance Hall.
County Rexford, 7 p.m.
Free. Abbey InnRestaurant & Pub.
Jeff the Brotherhood,
Diarrhea Planet, 7 p.m.
$11-$15. Dada. Paul
Slavens and Friends, 10
p.m. Free. Dan’sSilverleaf.
Green Brigade Marching
Band, 7 p.m. $10. UNTColiseum.
Matt Wertz, Steve Moakler,
7 p.m. $17-$25. TheKessler. Human Inc., 8 p.m.
Andy’s Bar. Dark Dark
Dark, Emily Wells, 10 p.m.
$9-$12. Dan’s Silverleaf.
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Triangle Squares’ Beginner Square Dance Lessons
Triangle Squares’Beginner
Square Dance LessonsTuesday, September 11, 2012
Denton Senior Citizens Center509 Bell Avenue, Denton, Texas
Teacher/Caller:Toby Thomason
7:00 PM – Salad Supper (1st night only)
7:30 PM – Lessons BeginAll ages welcome – youth to seniors
Cost $25/person or $40/couple(20 Lessons)
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Gaslight, steampunk
and lost Gypsy dances
T he name Bone Doggie started comingup in conversation with local musiciansabout three years ago. Folk-soul singer-
songwriter Ashley Gatta had started a regular date atwhat is now Denton Square Donuts and named it“Song and Story.” Bone Doggie was in on those earlysessions.
I first encountered the man himself one night atAndy’s Bar. I was there to meet with a source — butended up giving that source the short shrift. I wasdistracted by Bone Doggie and the Hickory StreetHellraisers on the stage, commanding the room.Bone Doggie was a sight — with long, frazzled hair, arakish grin and the kind of voice all of us showersingers would sell our souls to have. He was confi-dent — not too trained, but confident. And those
pipes, those rattling, scratchy pipes that sounded likethe illegitimate lovechild of Tom Waits and JanisJoplin.
What really caught my attention was the electriczeal of the Hellraisers, whom Bone Doggie calls his“ragtag crew of miscreants.” Every person on stagewas besotted with the music. What was that theywere playing? An Irish reel bred with a blues-rockheartbreak ballad? They were all caught up in the joyof being on stage, making freakishly happy musicand sharing it. What is this music? I was stumped.
After we met over the summer, Bone Doggie wouldprove to be as intense in person as he is on stage. Andhe finally told me what the band’s genre is. Thinkgaslights and steampunk and lost Gypsy dances.
The Hellraisers makes something that is all three.
— Lucinda Breeding
Take noteIn the September
issue of Little d AfterDark, the originalphoto used for thecover illustration ofFergus & Geronimoand the photosaccompanying thestory were unattrib-uted. PhotographerBradley Kerl took theshots of band mem-bers Jason Kelly andAndrew Savage.
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jägerbomb >> by rachel mcreynolds, mariel tam-ray and lucinda breeding
The drink 1 1/2 oz Jägermeister1/2 can Red Bull energy drink
Fill a shot glass with Jägermeister. Drop the shotglass into an highball glass, or other tall glass, filledwith a half of a can of Red Bull.
Even if you’ve never tasted a Jägerbomb in your life,you have. You just didn’t know it at the time.
Jägerbombs, a staple among the get-drunk-quickcrowd (you know who you are), also happen to tastelike childhood cunning — like mornings spent pre-tending to be sick under the covers, hoping your momwon’t take your temperature, that she’ll let you stayhome from school without going to the doctor.Jägerbombs taste like narrowly missed pop quizzesand skipped PE and hope.
Like cough syrup, basically. Delicious, licorice-fla-vored cough syrup.
So pop this dandy little shot in your mouth andbruise your eardrums with some room-rattling bands,before settling into your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesheets and dreaming of schemes gone by.
The tunesWhile you’re sipping, listen to these anti-establish-
ment bands: Shaolin Death Squad (a Denton band thattakes a machete to a Beethoven symphony, reordersthe themes and plays it with amp-destroying volume),Sex Pistols (the original purveyors of spit and vitriolwith a sneer), The Clash (fiery, world-wise punk rockersnot shy about tackling politics or dabbling in differentsounds from around the globe).
Photo by David Minton
rockin’ rodeo >> by lucinda breeding
Cowboy hats and Harley shirts
L loyd Banks remembers whenhe went to the University ofNorth Texas, and the times he
went looking for fun after class and onweekends. He recalls walking along FryStreet and stepping into the bars for adrink and some live music.
“When I was at North Texas, we had FryStreet and that was all we had,” says Banks,the owner of Rockin’ Rodeo, Denton’slargest live music venue. “Fry Street wascool, but I got so tired of going to the sametwo or three places and they were all acapacity of 72. Venues that small are great,and you can see a lot of great live music ina venue that size, but that was all we had.If you got there late, you had to stand inline until people left.”
Banks has a sister who attended TexasA&MUniversity.Back then, heenvied thelarger barsthat studentsand CollegeStation resi-dents had tochoose from.
Banks nowowns Rockin’ Rodeo, wherepeople can hear country, Texascountry and Red Dirt music,near UNT. It’s got one ofDenton’s larger dance floors,dusted with sand for the benefit
of local couples who enjoy two-stepping and Western swingdancing.
“If you go to any college town in the state of Texas, you’regoing to find two or three big places to catch live music or godancing,” Banks says. “That’s what it seems like to me.”
Rockin’ Rodeo feels like your no-frills country music tav-ern — the pool tables are in the southwest corner of the bar,and a few flat-screen TVs are mounted to the walls forpatrons who want to watch the big game or the rodeo. A bigbar flanks the dance floor — situated deliberately in front ofthe stage — and a second bar is along the wall opposite theentrance.
And yet there are frills at Rockin’ Rodeo. Banks has a long,roomy stage along the north end of the bar. Curtains can bepulled toward the center of the stage for smaller bands or
Rockin’ Rodeo corrals country, Red Dirt and rock
ROCKIN’ RODEO1009 Ave. C. Hours:
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Wednesday through
Saturday. Bottle beer
and cocktails served.
Standing invitations:
Wild West
Wednesdays, with
hip-hop, country and
dance music; live music
Thursdays; girls’ night
Fridays.
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Couples take a
spin around
Rockin’ Rodeo’s
dance floor on a
recent warm
September
night.
Roger Creager
opens his set at
Rockin’ Rodeo
with a bang.
Photos by David
Minton
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acoustic acts. Or they can be pulled all theway open for big bands. Rockin’ Rodeo hasprobably the most photogenic lightingdesign in Denton aside from the CampusTheatre — a plus for fans who want to savea memento of that night they saw ElevenHundred Springs, the Eli Young Band orJosh Abbott Band on their smartphone.
Banks says when he took over the clubseven years ago (he owned the Fort WorthDrive venue the Groovy Mule 10 years agoand owns another bar in Abilene), hisplan was to entice locals and college stu-dents with a busy calendar of live music.
“We never wanted to do just one genre,”Banks says. “I wanted to get national andregional touring bands in. I wanted to dopretty much any kind of music we thoughtwould bring people in. I wanted to givepeople a nice, big place and a good soundsystem.”
These days, Banks splits the stage
between rock, country, alt-country, Texascountry and Red Dirt rock and country.That’s what brings patrons in the door, hesays.
“We have some bands that always bringpeople in but aren’t country, like theToadies,” Banks says. “We’ve had AaronWatson here and there were 70 to 100people crammed up against the stage, butthe back of the room is empty. With theToadies, the place was packed and every-one was crammed up against the stageand the whole bar was full.”
Banks says the bar has introduced himto some of his favorite bands. Right now,he’s fond of the Dirty River Boys, a bandthat’s growing in popularity. The businessdoes give him the first glimpse of musi-cians destined for stardom, too.
“When I used to own the R Bar, thesetwo guys walked in and asked if theycould play. I was like, ‘Sure.’ Those two
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guys were the guys who formed the EliYoung Band,” he says.
Another starving artist called the R Barand asked if he could come in and sing for$50. He was on his way to Austin andwanted to stop in Denton.
“It was David Cook from AmericanIdol,” Banks says, referring to the winnerof the seventh season of the blockbustertelevision singing competition.
He’s not in it to spot future stars,though. Banks says he simply wants tokeep the doors open for working men andwomen who might need a cold beer and atempo to dance to. He says he loves get-ting to know his customers.
“What we pride ourselves in is throwinga party,” Banks says. “We throw the rowdi-est, loudest party in town. We’re yelling tothe crowd, and I’ve never had a problemmaking a fool of myself on that stage. Wejust want to throw a party. And I think wedo that.
“I can tell you that I’ve seen a guy in a10-gallon cowboy hat get up and move it toa hip-hop song you’d think he’d never like.”
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S pune Productions wearsmany hats these days:booking agency, artist
developer, record label and promoter.Whether music lovers are out to see afavorite big-name artist at the PalladiumBallroom or hoping to discover a newindie favorite at a local festival, the Dallas-Fort Worth-based company is likelybehind the show.
On Oct. 5 and 6, Spune will play host tothe first Index Festival at the iconic DeepEllum venue Trees.
Index Fest will feature nationallyknown artists such as Portugal. The Man,Cold War Kids, Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA,Washed Out and Grimes, along with localfavorites Telegraph Canyon, Air Review,the Angelus and many more.
“Index is a way Spune can grow withartists we’ve booked for the first, secondand third time in D-FW,” says AnnetteMarin, a marketing coordinator withSpune. “It also gives us the opportunity tohighlight up-and-coming acts and workwith them as they mature.”
GZA was a surprise, and recentlyannounced, addition to the festival. Marinsays his performance is the one she’s mostlooking forward to.
“I’ve probably listened to Liquid Swords10 times since the announcement,” Marinsays. “What a great album to revisit.”
Planting
their
roots
at Trees
index festival >> by megan radke
Spune puts togethertwo-day festival at Deep Ellum haunt
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INDEX FESTIVAL5 p.m. Oct. 5. Doors
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B one Doggie can’t keep the hint of irony out
of his rasping voice when he names the
date he and the Hickory Street Hellraisers were born into the
personae they now enjoy.
“I can tell you exactly when the band we have now came to
be,” he says, pausing to exhale a long drag from his e-ciga-
rette. “It was at Denton’s Day of the Dead last year.”
Makes sense.
Bone Doggie and the Hickory Street Hellraisers have gath-
ered good ol’ steampunk steam in the last two years by sling-
ing face-melting — wait for it — Gypsy Americana.
See, when you put it like that — Gypsy Americana — the
“face-melting” part feels all kinds of wrong. But then you see
this outfit live.
Abby Messerli, known as “The Duchess,” boogies hard and
fast in a curve-skimming red dress, her trombone whipping
this way and that when she isn’t calling Gabriel down with
crazed blasts aimed at the rafters.
Christopher “Ghost” Morehead (who lives up to his nick-
name with pale skin and long-as-hell, stringy limbs and
sharp cheekbones) glowers through sooty guy-liner, digging a
hole in his guitar.
Greg “Thumper” Beach slaps the bass double-time, dead-
panning at the audience under a porkpie hat.
Kris “El Chupa” Cordell works up a sweat behind the
drums, never nursing a grudge about the comped drinks that
never seem to make it to the back of the stage.
Then there’s the man known by most local movers and
shakers as Bone Doggie. The short guy born Brett Coleman
hollers over a throat that’s one part God’s gift, one part
smoking habit (hey, he’s down to a half a pack a day now that
he’s got the e-cigarette). When it’s time for the frontman to
take a solo, he struts to the front of the stage in dingy white
spats and delivers a fevered set of phrases on the bouzouki
that singe the faces in the front row.
“I guess we knew we were onto something at the jazz festi-
val last year,” says Cordell, who has played with Bone Doggie
for years — since the time when Doggie was playing bass
with rock bands. “We were on the Celebration Stage on the
midway, and we had a huge crowd. And it kept growing.”
Bone Doggie got to Denton 15 years ago. The Kansas City,
Kan., native moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 1975
and graduated from Carrollton’s R.L. >> Continued on 14
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Photo by David Minton
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Turner High School.“I got here as fast as I could,” he says. “I got
here and just loved this little town.”Bone Doggie is a freelance graphic design-
er and illustrator, but music has been a partof his life for a long time. For decades,Doggie charmed roadhouse crowds with hisbass.
“I went from playing bass in rock bands toplaying Irish bouzouki. I was a big, big progrocker. Big,” he says. “Yeah. I played bass andI was [expletive] good at it.
“I’ll tell you exactly when I knew when Iwas done with that scene. I was at a gig. Twowords: ‘Comfortably Numb.’ Pain threshold.I blew out an amp. I was done.
“A big part of it is my Irish roots, but it’salso that I’ve never been a fan of pop music. Ilike stuff that’s different, stuff that isn’t popu-lar.”
American music of the 1920s and ’30s isfar from popular, and Bone Doggie says hegot obsessed with it around 2004. When hestarted developing a solo act, it seemed thatthe music of Irish, Scottish and Welsh immi-grants to America bore a relationship to theDelta blues. For Doggie, both “green grass,”which is Irish traditional music, and blue-grass, the amalgamation of Irish trad and thefolk music of Irish immigrants, shared amusical vessel with the blues. All three sharean intensity, and all three have an ancestral
inheritance from acoustic jammers. (Imaginescrappy Irish railroad workers unwindingwith guitar and hand drums, and Americanslaves recalling their motherland on theupturned bottoms of whiskey barrels.) All ofthat mixed with the prog rock in Doggie’sblood.
Something fresh was hatching. Eventually, Doggie started jamming on
bouzouki with John Thomason on guitar,playing Civil War music and 1920s tunes.They added two hand drummers. The jamshappened at Thomason’s place on HickoryStreet.
“The Hickory Street Hellraisers beganthere,” he says. “I started doing open-micnights at Banter, and I’d never ever donethem. I was never a frontman. I never sang. Icould sing with a gravelly voice. I knew Icould do that,” Bone Doggie says.
The open-mic nights connected the front-man with Beach and Morehead. By thattime, Bone Doggie was stewing up a soundthat mashes swing music with blues, folk,green and bluegrass and lots of theatrics. Hewas also writing music for the first time. TheHellraisers were becoming a pub band thatwould draw drinkers to the stage eventhough they showed up to do anything otherthan listen to music.
“I was doing open mic, doing stand-up,and Bone Doggie asked me if I still had abass,” Beach says.
Beach moved to Denton from California
with his family when he was 7. He went tothe University of North Texas to pursue adegree in jazz studies and master the trum-pet.
“Somewhere along the way — and I knowthis is going to sound weird — I kind of justlost my love for it. I put the trumpet down,”Beach says. “When I saw the Hellraisers, Iwas immediately a fan for the same reason asthe other guys in the band. The energy. Thepassion. When you go to a Hellraisers show,you can’t help but move.”
It was energy and passion that made BoneDoggie chip a tooth on a microphone at theAbbey Underground, one of the band’s regu-lar venues. Doggie says he played throughthe set with a bloody mouth.
“It probably added to the overall effect,” hesays. “Though the Duchess says I did lispthrough the rest of the night.”
Morehead knew Carrek “Bam Bam”Coleman, Doggie’s son and longtime bassist,from open-mic nights at Banter, too. They’dplayed together and before long, Moreheadwas opening for Bone Doggie.
“I loved it,” Morehead says of his firstglimpse of Hellraisers action. “I just loved it.It was completely different. It wasn’t quitefolk. It wasn’t quite rock. I listen to every-thing, but I grew up listening to punk andglam. I’m into the theatrics.”
The band dresses the part, wearing steam-
Track fortrack: Live performances
A LITTLE BAR IN TEXASWith a trill from the bouzoukiand a churrr-wang from the gui-tar, this song turns into a folkdance about a fictional Dentonbar (the Tyrannosaurus Rexus).Bone Doggie rasps out “Opa!”between folksy verses. “You’re abastard, Will O’Grady/Get’chermitts off my old lady/Well shewas with me when I first comein!” Pretty soon, a pint ofGuinness is emptied over some-one’s shoes — and “the bodiesstart to flyin’ everywhere.” Live,the band picks up the pace witheach chorus.
BABY GOT SWINGA song the Asylum StreetSpankers would do if Tom Waitshad taken over the band.Swing-rock spiked withabsinthe-flavored rockabilly, thissong is that reliable tribute tothat one very special pair of bat-ting eyelashes. ChristopherMorehead takes the ax for awalk during a solo, and bassistGreg Beach keeps the whop-a-doo rhythm razor sharp.
HARD ROAD WALKIN’Most Hellraisers songs areabout dancing on that thin linedividing damnation andredemption. This song betraysDoggie and Co.’s blues-rockchops. A cheer for the every-man struggling to make rentand groceries, it’s an optimisticcall for a stroll on the brightside. Our only prayer is that it’snever co-opted by a futurepresidential campaign. With gui-tar licks worthy of Springsteenand drumming that suggestsKeith Moon, it’s too pure towear a jingoist brand.
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punk-influenced garb — from Doggie’sgarter armbands and scarlet vest toMesserli’s Betty Boop shift andMorehead’s black top hat. Doggie struc-tures his set list as a miniature three-actopera, weaving song stories (“A Little Barin Texas”) and murder ballads (“HerrVasser’s Wife”) through pub roastersuntil winding everything down with astraight-up working man’s anthem,“Hard Road Walkin’.”
“The Hellraisers are all, to a man,entertainers,” Doggie says. “The theatrics
are extremely important to me. And tothe band, I think. Everything you seehappening up there, it’s an extension ofour personalities. Even when I was play-ing in rock bands, I thought it wasimportant to put on a show. You want toconnect with your audience.”
Messerli says it was watching theHellraisers that schooled her in perform-ance. Messerli was a kid who sawPresident Bill Clinton playing saxophoneon The Arsenio Hall Show and fell headover heels for brass music. She ended upplaying trombone, and was in the habitof standing still while playing, eyes castdown at the music on the stand.
Messerli says she joined the band forthe experience. She’d been in a ska bandbefore joining Bone Doggie, which mightaccount for her 1940s-era stage style.
Being with the Hellraisers “taught methat you don’t have to play off the page,”
she says. “It taught me to do improvisa-tion, something that had always been amystery to me. I have a lot of influences,like Tower of Power, and that kind ofstyle. Being part of the Hellraisers hastaught me that, when in doubt, justblow.”
The theatrics came with the music forthe Duchess.
“When the Hellraisers are playing, it’simpossible not to dance,” she says.
Bone Doggie says Messerli is his wing-man.
“I hope I always have this one,” he says,pointing at Messerli. “She keeps theHellraisers’ feet on the ground. I don’tever want to be without the Duchess.Whenever we’ve needed to audition anew band member, they have to pass theAbby test. If the Duchess doesn’t want’em, they don’t get in. And every now andthen, I get these ideas, and she’ll be the
one to tell me ifthey’re notgoing to work.”
Take, forinstance, thematter ofDoggie’s mur-der songs.“Herr Vasser’sWife” is a
seven-minute song about a marriedwoman meeting a messy end.
“He kills so many women in thesesongs,” Messerli says. “I’m threateninghim now. I’m like, ‘If you kill one morewoman in a song … .’”
Messerli gives Doggie a side-eye and
the maestro lets out a gravelly peal oflaughter.
“Yeah, she has threatened me, forsure,” he confirms.
Like Denton’s Brave Combo, theHellraisers have a fan base that reels inpunk rock buffs and the Lawrence Welkset.
“Sometimes the people you’d neverexpect to like us end up liking us themost,” Cordell says. “We played Roanoke,and there was this old cowboy guy overto the side just eating it up. He was dig-ging it for sure.”
Doggie brings material to the band,and each musician adds another layer tothe music. They get together everyWednesday at Morehead’s house for jam-style rehearsal. The musicians says egohasn’t crept in to gum up the system.
“We’re pretty straight with each other,”Morehead says. “We all respect oneanother, and if we think something isn’tworking, we let one another know. And ifyou have an idea, but someone else has abetter one, you let go of your idea.”
The band is about to go into the studioto record an EP. Cordell says the band isburning up fun as fast as it can.
“It’d be nice to be able to make a
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The Hellraisers were becoming a pub band that
would draw drinkers to the stage even though they
showed up to do anything other than listen to music.
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Organizers have also lined up a numberof food trucks, which have become a sta-ple of local festivals, as well as a fullystocked beer garden.
The cozy Trees may not seem like theusual choice for a festi-val, but the people atSpune have made sureit won’t be an over-crowded mess. Twostages will be set upoutdoors, and thevenue’s indoor stagewill also be used.
“Trees is, hands-down, one of the best-sounding rooms inDallas,” Marin says. “Ithas a lot of surroundingspace for true festival-style atmosphere.”
Caleb Dickerson, a member of the pro-duction company’s so-called “Spune Army,”a group dedicated to helping out at shows,says he’s most excited to see Surfer Bloodand Atlas Genius. He’s also happy aboutthe choice of Trees as the festival’s home.
“It’s an amazing venue to start off thefirst Index,” Dickerson says. “It’s a first forTrees, but it’s going to be killer.”
Festivals such as Index, Spune’s recentUntapped Festival, 35 Denton andHomegrown Festival are, organizers say,in the unique position of exposing the restof the country to the growing North Texasmusic scene.
“Dallas music has come a long way out
of the dark in the last year,” Dickersonsays. “More quality bands are sproutingup and people are getting back out andsupporting live music again.”
MEGAN RADKE is a University of NorthTexas music graduate who’s obsessedwith music. She lives in Dallas.
index festival
Continued from 11 >>
The cozy Trees may not seem
like the usual choice for a
festival, but the people at
Spune have made sure it won’t
be an overcrowded mess.
Celebrating the cerebellum
will johnson >> by rachel watts
Will Johnson taps his higher cognitive functions with new solo album
W ill Johnson is a stapleamong Texas musi-cians, having long
played in and toured with his share ofrock bands across the state, including hisgroup, Denton-based favorite Centro-matic. And because of this, making timefor his own solo record releases can bechallenging, Johnson says.
Patiently, he decided to shelve therelease of his own work, Scorpion, for twoyears, and instead concentrated on severalof his other projects.
“I believe in hurrying up, then waiting.Airport dream customer,” Johnson says.
Scorpion is as stripped-down and starkas the five wintry days during which John-son and Centro-matic producer/drummerMatt Pence recorded its 10 tracks. There isvery little percussion — no beats of thesnare or crashes of the cymbals to speak of— just as there were no leaves on the un-adorned winter trees outside the Echo Labstudio near Argyle. The minimalist soundmakes the album feel a little bit ambiguousand meandering at times, although it maybe because Johnson’s entrancing vocalsseem to thrust you into a daze.
“The main inspiration for this sessionwas weather,” he says. “We recorded in themiddle of winter. It got into the writing.”
After a wait of nearly eight years sincehis last solo album, Vultures Await,Johnson says this album is different in itsapproach. An example: His two previoussolo records were fully written beforegoing into the studio. This one wasn’t.
“When I pulled into the driveway of thestudio, I had three songs in hand that Iwanted to use for this record,” Johnsonsays. “After that, I realized I needed somegroceries for the week, so I backed outand went to the Kroger. It’s a fairly longdrive, and I thought that experiencewould bring another song or two, butwhen I came back to the studio I still onlyhad three songs.”
Johnson describes his creation of thisalbum as being very “front of brain.”
“I had ideas for the sequences going in,and those experiences were mapped and
“I believe
in
hurrying
up, then
waiting.
Airport
dream
customer.”
— Will Johnson
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Creepy crawlies
day of the dead >> by lucinda breeding
Get the heeby-jeebies with a daylong All Hallow’s fest in downtown Denton
N early four years ago, Dentondecided to celebrate Halloweengood and proper.
That’s when Denton composer, arranger andtrombone player David Pierce unveiled both hisundying affection (get it?) for Halloween andthe first original score for Cirque du Horror.The original Halloween musical featured ascrappy chamber orchestra, a mess of local tal-ent and music, music, music for a standing-room-only crowd at Dan’s Silverleaf. A pageantof stinky monsters, lonely demons and nervouspumpkins kept an all-ages audience enrapt.
Last year, the event turned into a full-fledgedstreet festival that attracted thousands.Cirque du Horror had twoshowings on thestreet.
Denton’s Day of the Dead returns starting at10 a.m. Oct. 27 on Industrial Street.
Only it’s bigger and better.For parents and kids (or grandparents and
kids), the pumpkin patch will have games,activities and music for most of the day, andtrunk-or-treating will satisfy the costumed littleones.
The truly courageous can take a gamble onthe coffin races — pine boxes on go-cart wheels— to get the adrenaline going.
Denton bands will perform and vendors willsell food, T-shirts, handmade Halloween andDia de los Muertos trinkets and more.
A crowd favorite from last year’s festival, thesalsa cook-off, will be back. So if you have a dipthat could start a funeral pyre to burning
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rooms, closets or attics. The parade will be ledby a funeral barge and big Dia de los Muertosskeleton puppets. The parade is open for anyand all creative souls who want to whip up acostume.
This year, the crown jewel of Denton’s Day ofthe Dead, Cirque du Horror, returns to Dan’sSilverleaf. The first show will be at 4:30 p.m.The second show starts at after the close of thestreet festival at 9 p.m. The final show will be 5p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28. Dan’s is located at 103Industrial St. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $7 forchildren and seniors age 65 and older.
To reserve tickets now — because Dan’s canfeel as snug as a casket (won’t someone stopus?) — visit bit.ly/UnIfJQ or cirqueduhorror.com.
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and supposed to be making healthy snacking choices, butI just don’t care about how many ways you fancy up hum-mus and veggies; sometimes you just need somethingsweet and ridiculously indulgent. C’mon. We work wayharder now than we did back then, right? We deserve thistasty treat! We deserve a nap too ... but we’ll focus on
what is actually attainable for now. Friends, I give you the oatmeal chocolate-chip cookie
sandwich with bourbon-creme filling, served with brandymilk punch. Laced with the good stuff and chock-full ofcalories, this “snack” is worth taking a 10-minute breakfor. It may even give you the boost you need to finish upyour busy day.
So, enjoy! And rejoice that there is more to the world ofsnacks than celery covered in peanut butter and raisins.
ALYSSA JARRELL is an adventurer in the kitchen whoenjoys giving her culinary creations to family and friends.Her website is thepinkantler.com.
Oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature 3/4 cup sugar 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs 1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 cup quick-cooking oats 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large cookiesheet with parchment or a Silpat (nonstick bakingmat).
Using an electric mixer, beat the butter in a bowluntil light and fluffy. Add both sugars, salt and vanilla,and beat until well mixed, about 3 minutes. Stir ineggs, one at a time.
Sift together the flour, baking soda and cinnamon ina separate bowl.
Add half of the flour mixture to the butter with themixer on low speed. Once the flour has been incorpo-rated, add the second half. Stir in the oats and choco-late chips.
Drop the dough, by the tablespoon, onto the cookiesheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden.Remove from the oven and cool the cookies on a rack.Store at room temperature in a cookie jar or other air-tight container.
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1/4 cup salted butter, softened 1/4 cup vegetable shortening 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted 1 tablespoon heavy cream 2 tablespoons bourbon
Place the butter and shortening in the bowl of astand mixer and cream together.
With the motor running, add the powdered sugar tothe butter mixture, 2 tablespoons at a time. Scrapedown the sides of the bowl.
Add the heavy cream and bourbon and continue tobeat until smooth. Set aside until ready to use.
When the cookies are cooled to room temperature,spread 1 teaspoon between two cookies.
Brandy milk punch
2 ounces brandy1 ounce simple syrup1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract1 1/2 ounces milkfreshly grated nutmeg, for garnish
Combine all the ingredients in cocktail shaker withice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass filledwith ice.
Garnish with a light dusting of freshly grated nut-meg and serve immediately.
Sometimes you just need
something sweet and
ridiculously indulgent.
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prepared,” he says. “The Scorpion sessionfast became an effort to get the truest doc-ument of a musical stitch in time for Mattand me.”
He describes the recording process assomething akin to a weeklong boot camp— one that’s, of course, much quieter andmore laid back. Johnson would wake up,write and record demos on a four-trackmachine before Pence would show up torecord more developed versions of thosesongs. The pair would then get a couple ofsongs recorded and fully mixed by the endof each day, Johnson said. They did thisfor five days straight.
“Sometimes this type of thing reallydoes not work out, but I felt like these 10songs made some sense together,” Johnsonsays.
Centro-matic bandmate Scott Danbomand musicians Howard Draper and MikeyKapinus are also featured on Scorpion.The album was released Sept. 11, andJohnson opted to do a self-release directlyto the fans, to cut out the middle man.
“I enjoy a direct connection between fanand artist,” he says. “Fugazi is an exampleof a band that did a phenomenal job withthat. In turn, I think that created a richer
connection between them and their fans.” Johnson is currently on his 28-date
tour, stopping in Dallas on Oct. 2 to per-form at the Texas Theatre, a building he isexcited to set foot in for the first time. Heanticipates a greeting of familiar facesbefore continuing his trek to Spain andNorway, then moving on to finish his tourin the Netherlands.
“I like a change in atmosphere. Thatkeeps a person learning,” Johnson says.
“Even if it doesn’t work out or it only hap-pens once, you’ve still learned something— there’s still something of value to takefrom it.”
RACHEL WATTS enjoys participating in thelocal music scene and co-owns a smallindependent record label called I LoveMath Records. She lives in Denton.
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living, but that’s what we all say aboutevery band,” he says. “We just want tohave a good time.”
Beach says the dividends from thehours of work come during gigs wherebodies shuffle to the stage.
“You’ll see heads bobbing, peopledancing. Drinks coming to the stage.That’s when you know the audience isfeeling it,” Beach says. “When you leave aHellraisers show, you’re gonna leavetired. You’re going to have had an experi-ence.”
LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached bycalling 940-566-6877 or sending an e-mail to [email protected].
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