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We’re doing a show on Friday 2/5 at the Studio on 4th Street (corner of 4th and Valley) @ 7pm with the guy above… Noah Engh! As you can see, his music and our music should go together like gasoline and matches! Please come out and see the show!
Here’s what we look like:
Come on and see the show!
How about that?
Thanks for a great 2009 everybody!
Happy New Year, everybody!
Which is also a great song by Todd Snider…
Anyway, welcome to 2010, friends. Yes, I’ll get around to changing the graphics on the home page one of these days, but not today. Today I’m sitting in the cold and snow of Reno and thinking about the year to come. The year past, while very good in Hellbusting, was pretty sucky in general overall for just about everybody, so I’m just saying so long to it with a minimum of fuss, and moving on down the road.
We have new and interesting plans for 2010. Let’s call them New Year’s Resolutions.
If everything goes according to the general plan we will:
1. Record at least one album. We have tons of demos done. I know I’ve been saying a new record is coming for months if not a year… but we resolve to record the new one in 2010 and maybe even release it.
2. We’re taking our music to the streets. I enjoy playing clubs and festivals, yet I feel like we don’t get to do either of them enough. So rather than focus on what I can’t control, the overall state of the economy and the seeming shortage of venues willing or able to book the Hellbusters, we’re going outlaw. We did a fair bit of busking and playing outdoors in 2009, starting with the TV deal at Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest, then continuing with the solo show at Black Tangerine and the really great time we had playing outside the RBS Mash Bash, we’re gonna get on it for serious. Look for a schedule, with dates starting in the spring, of street shows. We’re just gonna start going out and playing. We’ve developed a really great rig for playing music on the streets and I’m satisfied with the sound and I love the extra interaaction we get with listeners doing it like that. So standby for more info.
Thanks to all our fans and friends for all the support over the last year, and for all the love and support since we started. It makes us feel great. We wish you all a prosperous 2010. God bless.
Tavo
Hi everybody!
I don’t know what happned, the last couple of months BLEW by and it’s been forever since I posted anything here on hellbusters.net.
I can report the summer was really great Hellbusting… The highlights of Burning Girl, Taylorsville Solar Cookoff and the Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest are now behind us but we’ll never forget them. Playing music on a ranch by the Walker River… Hanging out with all the cool folks up at Taylorsville (especially getting to hang out with Guitar Shorty as well as all our old friends like Blue Haven and Whiskey Haulers and Rick Hammond), and then playing in front of a few thousand folks at Rancho for the RTBF (and also being on TV) were awesome.
The Cardboard Box City fundraiser was great too. We finally had good weather, and your friends the Hellbusters got contributions from all over the world (via PayPal) to play and stay all night. We continue to really enjoy this event and are proud to be part of it.
We have a couple of short-notice gigs coming up. We’re going to busk outside of the Reno Blues Society’s annual MASH bash this year so come see us on your way in or your way out. And I’m going to make a solo appearance (unless Jack can suddenly make it) at the Black Tangerine, a cool little venue way down in South Reno (behind the mobile home lot across from the Winco on South Virginia).
We have enough material written for nearly two records now. The plan was and sort of still remains to record the record this winter. We had selected a recording engineer and producer but the guy has moved out of town so looks like we’ll have to go on the road to get the thing tracked. We’ll keep you informed (hopefully more frequently than the last couple of months.)
Have a great Halloween (or as we call it here in Nevada, “Nevada Day”… Nevada entered the union on Oct. 31, 1864).
…with apologies to Bon Scott and AC/DC…
Folks, we just got word that we’ll be appearing on KOLO and KRNV’s morning shows on Friday 8/14 in support of the Reno Tahoe Blues Festival! We’re very excited to be a part of it. Both stations will be doing live remotes from Rancho San Rafel park from 5 to 7 am and we’ll be playing music and talking about the festival. *Do* tune in won’t you? And then as soon as you’re done tuning in, buy tickets to the festival and come see us, along with all the other wonderful acts on Saturday and Sunday at the RTBF! You can get more information here.
So, here’s your Hellbusters schedule:
8/14 5 am to 7 am: Hellbusters on KOLO and KRNV (ch. 8 and ch. 4)… I know it’s early, set your Tivo or something. Or half of you will be just getting home at that time so turn on your tube!
8/15 11 am and 4 pm: Hellbusters at Reno Tahoe Blues Fest on the second stage
Yes yes yes… HAIL yes…
I’ve been saying this for years, and you know I’m right: Obeying the Hellbusters is good for you and can make all kinds of miracles happen. Here’s what Hellbuster Associate Steve in Ohio emailed me just now, about a miraculous encounter with that powerful Hellbustery music:
“Funny story, Todd. I’m in one of my stores today, got my headphones on, Zune set to shuffle. Low and behold, Guilty Blues pops up in the rotation. I’m bobbin my head, in my own little world, singin along under my breath. A lady taps me on the shoulder and says “No, but I wouldn’t mind.” And then gives me her phone number…”
There you have it, world-wide blues fans. More proof that the high-energy, stripped-down powerful sound of the Hellbusters makes you stronger, more attractive, make the day go faster, and maybe even get you laid.
Hot damn, I love my job.
The Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest just posted links from facebook for all the second-stage bands at the 2009 RTBF, and so the Hellbusters would like to welcome you all to our little site. You can learn (almost) everything you need to know about us by clicking around in that big box over there on the left side of your screen. We’ll see you August 15th!
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!
