The Hellbusters: Hard Blues

MEMPHIS! We’re coming to GETCHA!! Reno Blues Society 2012...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:22:17 -0800

MEMPHIS! We’re coming to GETCHA!!

Reno Blues Society 2012 International Blues Challenge nominees The Hellbusters doing “Come Back In” at the RBS IBC Send-Off Show 1/29/2012.

More updates from the road, brothers and sisters. We leave in the morning!

Thanks to talented Hellbusters staff...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:24:30 -0800

Thanks to talented Hellbusters staff photoshopper/bodyguard/driver/minister of quan/ade-de-camp Brian Heward, we’re always ready to answer this call. Always.

Sin Responsibly (click here)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:05:06 -0800

Sin Responsibly (click here):

Here’s a music video and article I made about the Hellbusters’ trip to the (world-famous whorehouse) Mustang Ranch in Nevada for Street Vibrations in September. Now playing at the Good Men Project. You can watch and comment if you like, and download a free mp3 live version of “Sin Responsibly”. Please check it out. It’s PG-13.

Hello, you people stumbling in from the IBC website to see about...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:23:00 -0800

Hello, you people stumbling in from the IBC website to see about us Hellbusters… you’re all very attractive and popular and no doubt have excellent musical taste.

We’ll see you at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, end of January… but do stick around awhile, listen to a song or two. :)

We’re done with our run of recent shows and it was really...

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:10:38 -0700

We’re done with our run of recent shows and it was really great! We get, like, two or three weekends off or something, then we’re going to crash the RBS MASH Bash again in November… and I have plans for an online concert in November, too. Check back for details on that. Meanwhile, I’m going to rest my ass awhile. :)

UPCOMING HELLBUSTERS APPEARANCES! Watch us roll and...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:40:40 -0700

UPCOMING HELLBUSTERS APPEARANCES! Watch us roll and tumble!

Sep 22 Cafe de Thai for the Nevada Food Bank $25 for dinner and show 6 pm

Sep 23 Wildhorse Ranch/Mustang Ranch, east of Reno for Street Vibrations 4-8 pm

Sep 24 Wildhorse Ranch/Mustang Ranch, east of Reno for Street Vibrations 6-8 pm

Sep 30 Cardboard Box City, Wingfield Park, Reno, time TBA (evening)

Oct 15 Village Pub, Incline Village, NV 10pm

We appreciate your support if you can make any or all of these, and your good wishes if you can’t, but most of all: we appreciate you.

Also: I believe the above picture is the greatest of all the pictures I have encountered on the Internet.

Hellbustin’ for Cause: Hot Blues and Cool Thai, Mix it Up...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:17:39 -0700

Hellbustin’ for Cause: Hot Blues and Cool Thai, Mix it Up for Hunger

At Cafe de Thai, 2547 Longley Lane, Reno 6p to 9pm, Sept 22nd, to benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.

$25 gets you in, then the Cafe de Thai staff and the Hellbusters will take it from there.

Come on, get your eat on, for those who don’t have enough to eat.

The Hellbusters are the solo/duo winners for the 2011 Get...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:51:30 -0700

The Hellbusters are the solo/duo winners for the 2011 Get ‘Em To Memphis contest sponsored by the Reno Blues Society! We’ll be moving on to the Blues Foundation International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN at the end of January!

photo by our buddy Chuck, who says: “on a day everybody brought their ‘A-Game”, the Hellbusters prevailed!”

The One About the Real Value of $1 Bets Among Friends (click me to see)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:21:11 -0700

The One About the Real Value of $1 Bets Among Friends (click me to see):

I’ve posted a new song, new video, and new story about $1 bets, friendship and my father in law over at the Good Men Project. There is also a free, downloadable and non-copy-protected .mp3 version for you to get, too. Click over, watch, download, and leave a comment if you like it. It’s pretty good.

Todd’s guitar case.

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:10:24 -0700

Todd’s guitar case.

FAN ART! Our friend and fan Meighan made this!

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:39:14 -0700

FAN ART! Our friend and fan Meighan made this!

Show coming up! Hellbustin’ for Cause: We’re...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:29:00 -0700

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...

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:39:41 -0700

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."

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:19:47 -0700

"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.

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:33:17 -0800

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

HELLBUSTERS LO-FI CHRISTMAS EP AVAILABLE NOW! Special! For YOU!...

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:02:36 -0800

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

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:01:26 -0700

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...

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:52:41 -0700

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...

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:41:00 -0700

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

Tue, 11 May 2010 17:23:21 -0700

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.