The Hellbusters: Hard Blues

FAN ART! Our friend and fan Meighan made this!

Show coming up! Hellbustin’ for Cause: We’re appearing at Urban Beets (50 N. Sierra St.) with Tyger, Roger Rhythm and Roy Delaine Moore to benefit Northern Nevada NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Show starts at 8pm, Wed May 4. $5 donation gets you in, we’ll take it from there. :) Come see the show and help some people who need it.

HELL WILL BE BUSTED

We’re playing Saturday April 16 at the 32nd Annual Tattoo Association’s event at John Asquaga’s Nugget. We’ll start about noon and we’ll play until we can’t go anymore. You can come see us and learn about tattooing and maybe get one. There will be lots of people there from all over the world. They’ll all be nice and fun and freaky. Hell will be busted. Oh yes, baby, hell WILL be busted! :)

"Any man caught trying to help homeless people spends a night in the box."

I did a video and article for the Good Men Project Magazine on our Cardboard Box City adventure in 2010. Video features footage of the event and a pretty good blues song I wrote. You may find the article and video interesting, please click over and check it out

I really like this song. So I made a picture about it.

HELLBUSTERS LO-FI CHRISTMAS EP AVAILABLE NOW!

Special! For YOU! The Hellbusters are proud to release this little 5-song EP as our holiday gift for our fans and friends. Please enjoy it! It’s FREE to listen to and/or DOWNLOAD as your very own.

Track List:

1. Christmas Story Long Ago (Mauldin) 2:50

2. Little Drummer Boy (Traditional) 3:58

3. My Name Is Claus (Mauldin) 3:50

4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Traditional) 2:16

5. Auld Lang Syne (Traditional) 4:06 *our favorite track, btw!*

Here’s how to get it:

First, you can follow THIS LINK to listen and/or download the EP.

Or you can cut and paste it into your browser: http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3097762

When you get there, the music should start automatically playing. To download each track so you have your own copy to save forever and ever, press the little button with the down-arrow next to the song.

OR…

If you don’t want to mess around with ReverbNation’s player/download thing, you can email me and I will email you back with each track as an mp3, as well as a crappy .pdf file with our “album art”.

OR…

If you would like a physical CD (in the form of a CD-R with no label on it) sent to you (if you don’t live in Reno, NV area) or delivered (if you DO live in the Reno, NV area) then you can email me and we’ll set it up for ya.

If you select one of the later options, email tavo@hellbusters.net!

Hellbusters Lo-Fi Christmas EP is copyright 2010 Carriebear Publishing (ASCAP), all rights reserved. Released free of charge as our gift to our friends and fans by Jack D. Doyle and Todd Mauldin, holiday season 2010.

Recorded on an iPod Touch (I know!) using only the finest gear and equipment we had lying around that wasn’t broken or in hock. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Happy New Year and may the blessings of the season be upon thee and thine. Please enjoy the record responsibly (and by “responsibly” we mean play it at high volume at inappropriate times and places, and send copies of it and links to it to everybody you know).

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Welcome to the Fall

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Hi everybody, and welcome to the fall (with whatever apologies that are appropriate to Ministry).

You may be tempted to think it’s been a quiet few months in Hellbusterland. Resist this temptation. Because while outwardly there haven’t been many Hellbuster sightings since July, things have been busy behind the scenes.

I wrote a new album’s worth of material between July and September. I started fooling around with a video camera. I started writing articles too, got some attention over at scribd and Good Men Project about the blues philosophy.

And now we’re on a little run of shows. Did Cardboard Box City as a one-man band, on account of Jack being on some kind of vision quest and unavailable… and will also do a little one-man-banding on 10/9 for North Valleys fundraiser… and then when Jack finally leaves the peote shack and comes back to Hellbuster Worldwide Control, we’re going out and playing on 10/23 for the Project Restart benefit called “One Day on the Streets” (check our facebook page, or their website for details), and then on 11/13 (or something like that) we’re planning on taking up our usual position in the lobby as a warmup/fluffer act for the Reno Blues Society MASH Bash at the Reno Ramada!

So be not afriad, friends. More is going on that you thought.

We’ll see you out there soon. Keep those cards and letters and emails and cakes and underwear and bail money coming in!

Tavo

OFFICIAL ART: I drew this on my ipod touch. It’s the official logo… suitable for using on your ipod, iphone, or whatever… wallpaper. Or use it as tattoo flash. Or print it on stickers and put them all over your town. Or print on fliers next time we play. Silk screen it on shirts. Have a clown at the fair face-paint your child with it. It’s YOURS people, long as you OBEY the HELLBUSTERS.

You’re welcome.

FAN ART: Got an email the other day, a fan was playing “Moonbase Alpha”, a Steam multi-player online game where everybody has to cooperate building a base on the moon. Sponsored by NASA no less. And apparently, this fan figured out how to tag the moon with our name. :) That’s obeying the hellbusters, baby! Click the picture to see better.

Spring Digest of Hellbusteristic Activities

Checking in, everybody.

So we just finished a run of shows at Harry’s American Bar in Reno. It was pretty fun. Made some money, made some new friends, and played in a very relaxing atmosphere. We took our little “busking rig” down there, first unveiled at the RBS Mash Bash last year, and played. I did three nights solo, and two nights with Jack. Thanks to everyone who came out.

Speaking of the RBS, we also got a chance to play out in the lobby before Shawn Kellerman and the Rick Hammond Blues Band played the RBS Spring Dance party at the Reno Ramada. That was fun too. I gotta tell ya, the Hellbuster busking rig makes us like blues Special Forces… we travel light, set up in seconds, hit hard, and disappear into the night with only blown minds, lighter wallets, and dropped panties to let you know we were there at all.

Speaking of blown minds and dropped panties, this Shawn Kellerman guy… holy crap was he awesome. I had only the faintest idea of who he was before he played, but I’ll never forget him now. Terrific show. High energy, great songs, excellent technical player and he also had a lot of charisma… especially for a Canadian. :) And our old friend Rick Hammond did his usual awesome job, playing a great set to open the show for Kellerman. I even got sent back by my wife to the show to buy a Kellerman t-shirt!

We’re messing around with some new wrinkles to the act and getting ready for the “Taking It To The Streets” part of the 2010 Taking It To The Streets tour… be looking for short-notice announcements of street gigs in and around the Truckee Meadows starting in June. We’re picking out spots now, and assuming the cops don’t get us, it should be a lot of fun.

We’ll be in touch.