Heartless Bastards....wow

LukinFan wrote:

red mos wrote:

stairs and elevators is an awesome album.

my favorite by them

Yeah I am going with that... Arrows though is an amazing time...

Stairs and Elevators kind of evening...

was security for the show last night, and got to see their full set. they sounded great. Brought their a game.

Funny story:

So my wife and I carry forth w/ our Austin trip last week despite Ed not playing. Wednesday, despite having tickets to the postponed S.A. show that night, turned out to be an incredible day. We have a lazy morning, ride 15 miles of top notch mountain bike trails in Barton Springs, see Heartless Bastards play an in-store performance and Waterloo, down some delicious homemade veggie burgers at Woodland in SoCo then go to the Black Keys show. All in all, a day that ranks w/ the best of 'em for us.

So after the Heartless Bastards' performance I finally pick up a copy of The Mountain on vinyl and get them to sign it. Erica signs last, and, before she does, I ask if I can make a special request. She's very accommodating and says, "Sure." I ask if she'll sign it, "Sit straight, think still." It's from one of my favorite lyrics by her from "No Pointing Arrows" off All This Time where she sings "I could not think straight and I could not sit still, and I could not sit straight and I could not think still." Fantastic play on words IMHO and captures the essence of the sometimes impossible task of quieting out minds for a few moments. Anyhoo, she proceeds to sign "Sit stralt, think still" followed by her name, pauses before handing it back, ponders, asks the bassist sitting next to her, "Did I do this right, I think I wrote 'stralt'?". He shrugs somewhat disinterestedly, she gives me back the record and I thank her and walk out of the store with a bemused smile.

jjflash wrote:

Funny story:

So my wife and I carry forth w/ our Austin trip last week despite Ed not playing. Wednesday, despite having tickets to the postponed S.A. show that night, turned out to be an incredible day. We have a lazy morning, ride 15 miles of top notch mountain bike trails in Barton Springs, see Heartless Bastards play an in-store performance and Waterloo, down some delicious homemade veggie burgers at Woodland in SoCo then go to the Black Keys show. All in all, a day that ranks w/ the best of 'em for us.

So after the Heartless Bastards' performance I finally pick up a copy of The Mountain on vinyl and get them to sign it. Erica signs last, and, before she does, I ask if I can make a special request. She's very accommodating and says, "Sure." I ask if she'll sign it, "Sit straight, think still." It's from one of my favorite lyrics by her from "No Pointing Arrows" off All This Time where she sings "I could not think straight and I could not sit still, and I could not sit straight and I could not think still." Fantastic play on words IMHO and captures the essence of the sometimes impossible task of quieting out minds for a few moments. Anyhoo, she proceeds to sign "Sit stralt, think still" followed by her name, pauses before handing it back, ponders, asks the bassist sitting next to her, "Did I do this right, I think I wrote 'stralt'?". He shrugs somewhat disinterestedly, she gives me back the record and I thank her and walk out of the store with a bemused smile.

Great story. One of these days I will get to see this band live

Jnich2424 wrote:

Local record store near me in FL announced they're doing an in store performance after they play at Hangout Fest

details???

he.who.forgets wrote:

Jnich2424 wrote:

Local record store near me in FL announced they're doing an in store performance after they play at Hangout Fest

details???

Central Square Records in Seaside FL, May 20th at 12:30

FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Central- ... 9049949894

Listened to Arrow for the first a couple of days ago for the first time in about a month or so - still a great album