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WHO WE ARE
Hot damn, it’s the Hellbusters, from Reno, Nevada, USA… we play pure, natural, lean, hard, raw blues at high volume and rocket speed.
The Hellbusters are Todd Mauldin on guitar and vocals, and Jack D. Doyle III Esq. Jr. on harp and stomp box. We play our own brand of Mississippi-inspired blues. Our shows are fun and funny, soulful and sinful. Stylistically, call it RL Burnside meets Georoge Thorogood in a dark alley, just as Henry Rollins walks up with Kim Wilson… and somebody starts counting off.
People all over the world are listening to the Hellbusters and digging our raw, mean, driving sound… sound like fun? Then don’t be shy. Obey the Hellbusters!
We’ve been invited back to Cardboard Box City on September 25th and are very happy about it! Cardboard Box City is an annual event to raise awareness of the challenges homeless people and families face and funds raised benefit Family Promise of Reno. It’s our third time playing at this event and this year I’m planning to stay all night (I haven’t made it all night since 2006 for one reason or another…) and if you’d like to support the event please consider renting a box for the night and we’ll make us a Hellbusters camp! For more information contact Cardboard Box City, or me.
Here’s a little front-porch Hellbusting, (actually as I recall, I recorded it in my motorhome, actually)… a solo version of our famous illicit-substance song “Heat”… remember, you can’t be arrested without an x-ray, kids!
Courtesy of his better half, and Jared and his Seven Needle Sermon at Ace’s Tattoo in Reno, Hellbusters geetar-torturer Todd Mauldin’s right calf is going to obey the hellbusters forever. :)
What’s up, Hellbuster Associates? We just got word that the Reno Tahoe Blues Fest folks liked what I did over at Spring Vibrations the other day enough to move the Hellbusters down (and that’s a good thing) in the rotation of local bands on the side stage, to 2:45p on Saturday August 15. Which is super cool, but then they went and decided to have us play our originally-scheduled 11am set! So we get to play the RTBF *twice* in one day and we’re really excited about it. Look for the Hellbusters at 11a and 2:45p!
Get your tickets now. I got a special code that’ll get you 20% off your ticket if you use it when you book through ticketmaster. Call me, email me, write me or see me at a show and I’ll hook you up!
Here’s part of an email I got the other day… I thought you guys might enjoy it:
“It all started when my co-worker Dawn showed me a website featuring a band she claims to know personally. Bear in mind I’m not making this stuff up…they’re a Gay punk rock band called Pansy Division (I swear this is all true) and they have a documentary in release that discusses the travails and hardships of being A) Gay, and B) Punk Rockers. Dawn is a cutie, middle-aged like us, and I think was probably following the Grateful Dead around throughout the 80’s, selling tie-dyed T-shirts out of her car’s trunk. She’s that kind of gal.
So…I bring up your website and show her the Hellbusters, w/ your sampled concert et cetera et al…Dawn tells me she hates Blues Music but loves Punk…I respond wittily with “Wha???”
And then we start bringing people into her cubicle, taking a straw poll, real man-on-the-street hard hitting investigative journalism, and it pleases me to inform you that Hellbusters downed Pansy Division decisively, 8-3. We’d have polled more people but my boss popped into the hall and wanted to know what he was paying us for. Like selling a few more cases of fizzy drinks could be more important than deciding which musical group known to our fizzy-drink company employees is superior. Ha!”
So there you have it. We’re more popular in an 11 (or so) person office somewhere in the American Southwest than a gay punk band is. Obey the Hellbusters!
Associate Hellbuster Rev. Joey Cummings left Mississippi and moved to American Samoa a few years ago, to talk on the radio and have adventures in the South Pacific. Now he’s an American Samoa media superstar and he’s turned his great song “Monkey On My Back” into a great video. He’s a good friend of the Hellbusters and I think you will enjoy this here video and song a great deal.
Just a quick update: everything is cool at Burning Girl, we’re still going to appear there on July 4th. More details and instructions to follow. It’s more of a private party down there now but you’re all still invited.
Also, please do drop by tomorrow Friday 6/5 over in Victorian Square in Sparks to see me bust a little hell from the Reno/Tahoe Blues Fest stage. I’ll start making noise at 11 am.
Just found out I will be playing a solo set at Spring Vibrations, the springtime biker freakout in Sparks, on Friday June 5. I’ll be the first act going on the side stage somewhere at Victorian Square that has been generously given to the Reno Tahoe Blues Festival people, starting at 11 am. After me, Terrapin Road will play a couple of sets, and then the Pickled Beets. Please do stop by and check me out (and stay for TR and the Beets) if you’re looking for something to do on Friday other than work. Spring Vibrations is a great event, lots of stuff to see and do and there’s beautiful motorcycles and interesting people everywhere.
On another front, we’ve been advised by the organizers of Burning Girl that Lyon County has sent them a notice saying they can’t have any bands at Burning Girl without a special use permit (despite the event being held on private property). I think the orgainzers are pushing back and trying to work something out, but right now the Hellbusters appearance (and everybody else’s appearances) are in jeapordy. We’ll let you know if the gig sticks. Just wanted you all to have a heads up. Once again, it’s an example of the Man trying to keep us down.
More lo-fi front-porch hellbustin’, solo. “One Bad Stud”… first guys I ever heard do it were the Blasters, on the “Streets of Fire” soundtrack. It was from the cool part where there was this awesome chick dancing around (I forget her name, should look it up on imdb.com… but she was the same dancer who doubled for whats-her-face in “Flashdance”) in the Bomber’s hideout while Raven (Wilem DaFoe) was upstairs menacing Diane Lane and the Blasters were wailing downstairs. I’ve since found out that the song certainly pre-dates the Blasters, but my version is based on theirs. Anyway, Happy Wednesday.
Fan screen capture… apparently there’s a guy who has LED signs, with webcams pointed at them… and what is displayed on the LED signs is controllable from the Internet. So one of our fans put our message on there, and for a few seconds, the Internet LED sign was preaching for us. :) Thanks!
