Fine Line: July, 2006

Here's a nice little chunk of last night's show…enjoy…

Rhett Jones and Tim Ruble are hosting the Open Mic Nights at The Fallout Lounge on Mondays, so you can surely understand the importance of being there for the whole thing.

I’m goin’ tonight if anyone wants to show up and purchase libations fer me…I’m quite parched…see ya there ’round 7ish…

Sam Machkovech enjoys a healthy snack at last night’s Ten Hands show…click below for more pics from last night.

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It was simply divine…

It’s Monday and you know that that means, right? More Club Dada gush! This week’s shows at Dada (and no, we don’t get paid to promote this stuff) are an eclectic mix of just about every genre…well…except Screamo…

Check it:

Monday, July 31st
Callithump Productions Presents:
Gris Gris (Oakland, CA) / The Strange Boys / Cartright / Prayer for Animals
$7.00 - Doors at 6 PM

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Tuesday, August 1st
Callithump Productions Presents:
Steve Austin / Pikahsso / Verbal Seed / Romio No E
The Hip-Hopinest Night Ever!
$4.00 - Doors at 6 PM - Show Starts at 9 PM
Fine Line will be in attendance with mics and cameras so be sure to stop by and say howdy-do

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Wednesday, August 2nd
IndieKitten Heads West:
Eastwood
Listen to Eastwood Live at Dada


Doors at 6 PM

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Thursday, August 3rd
The Fine Line Presents Listening To:
It’ always ON Baby!
Fishing For Comets / Travis Hopper / PorterDavis / Marcus Rubio
$5.00 - Doors at 6 PM - Show Starts at 9 PM

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Friday, August 4th
Hard Night’s Day Happy Hour
Lil’ Later:
Escort Service / Millicent Friendly / Chemistry Set
Doors at 6 PM

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Saturday, August 5th
The Dead Thing / Cowpilot / Alamo Jet / The Ramonalisas
Doors at 6 PM

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Sunday, August 6th
Jenn Nabb’s Open Mic Night
Always entertaining / always fun / always a must
8 PM

Ten Hands last night at Dada was brilliant. We’ve got about 4 hours worth of audio, I’m uploading some video as I type and there are photos out the wazoo…these 2 idiots demanded I get their pics up post haste…I give you, Monkey & Cow doin’ Dada…

…this just ain’t right…

This is one work of art from the Kettle Art Exhibit tonight, but don’t get all excited, cuz Amanda already purchased it….

….she bought this one too so put it back in your pants…

…Frank sellin’ and sellin’ these amazing works of art…ain’t he the shit!

…Frankie Campagna is a badass Backseat Bingo…

The Weeeeeeeeee Demon finished up that promised Podcast!

It’s a good’un too…

Don’t just sit there you sad bastard, Click!

"The Man I Don't Remember" sung live at The Cavern by The Channel.

'Twas a Golden evening at The Cavern on Friday night - All the cool Bears came out…

The Channel came. The Channel played. We watched. We listened. We clapped. Toes were a'tappin'…too bad I can never get decent sound at The Cavern though…

She’s going to kill me for this, but I can’t help myself…below is a bulletin my darling baby girl posted on stupid MySpace…

Subject: you know what I love

Body: Deleting people

I love that button at the bottom of bulletins that says “delete from friends”

It’s so handy.
Just one click!
YAY!

I love this child with all my heart and soul…

I’m SOOOOOO excited! I get to spend the entire day with my partner in crime, Ms. Amanda! She been gone. I been gone. Now we’s back…if you see this *, then you’ll know where to come purchase libations for us…otherwise, here are a few other good choices for a loverly Sunday ear party

Lakewood Furniture *
Colin Boyd Band performs at 5 PM
Free - Fun - Furniture

Kettle Art Presents: Beyond Skin Deep *
Opening Sunday, July 30th
7:00 - 10:00pm
Featuring artwork by Tattoo Artists including:
Adrian Evans, Casey Coklic, Jason Boatman, Nick Ley, Jon Chancey, Mark Merchant, Dru Bias, Will Card, Brian Churow, Caleb Barnard, Jorge Perez, Sam Yamini, Tim Davis and more…

Adair’s
Picker’s Jam Early then Green Apple Quickstep

Club Dada *
Ten Hands…TEN-FREAKIN’-HANDS!
Robert Wilonsky Writes:
“So, let’s see…first Edie Brickell and the New Bos play Club Dada. Then, on July 25, Nick Brisco and Chris Claridy of Fever in the Funkhouse get a gig at the resurrected Deep Ellum mainstay. And now, on Sunday, it’s–no, really–Ten Hands, which, last I looked, broke up in 1995. Who’s next on the Amnesia Lane circuit? Soul Food Café? Dr. Tongue? Pop Poppins? Then again, getting the old gang together is precisely what the new owners at Dada need to do at this late date. Slapping that Holy Trinity of late ’80s bands onstage and out in the courtyard can only serve to remind folks who’ve stayed away from Deep Ellum for years why they went downtown in the first place: to dig, in part, on the funky free-jazz-gone-mellow-pop rants and rumblings that once served as the neighborhood’s foundation. It’s old home week as Paul Slavens, now an underappreciated disc-spinner at KERA-FM (90.1), slaps the Ten Hands back together to noodle and doodle at Dada like it’s 1988; gonna bust out the hairpiece and fake I.D. for this one, guarantee, then head over to the Twilight Room to check out the ghost of Three on a Hill.”
Ten Hands Official Website
$10.00 Cover - Doors at 6 PM - Show Starts at 8 PM - Be there!

Gypsy Tea Room
Scott Biram / Blackheart Society
$8.00 - Doors at 8 PM - All Ages

Double-Wide
Laptop Deathmatch
9 PM

Absinthe Lounge
Michelle Mayfield
9 PM

J. Pepe’s
Joe Tucker

Love & War in Plano
Tommy Alverson
“uno más cerveza por favor senorita…”
4 PM

Dan’s Silverleaf
Emil Rapstine / Warren Jackson Hearne / Sabra Laval
10 PM

Hailey’s
Wild in the Streets
21 + Free / Under 21 $5.00 - 10 PM

Rubber Gloves
The Sword / Those Peabodys / Hogpig
$8.00 - Doors at 9 PM

White Elephant
Clubhouse Concerts Presents:
Micky & the Motorcars / Jason Eady
$10.00 - 7 PM

Enjoy your day…

Radio Sunday…

The Local Show on KDGE 102.1 The Edge with the always hot ‘n hunky Chris Ryan - Tune in at 9:00 PM

The Adventure Club on KDGE 102.1 The Edge with the wicked awesome Josh Venable - starts at 6 PM

The Front Porch on 99.5 The Wolf with the better ‘n buttah Justin Frazell - 6:00 PM

The Good Show on KTCU - 88.7 FM with my fave 3 stooges Tom U. Tony Diaz & Chris Bellomy starts at 9:00 PM.

Frequency Down with Frank Hejl (RIP) - he’ll be back…oh yeah…he’ll be back…

90.1 at Night with my mentor Paul Slavens - 8-10 PM

Uncut with DJ Steve Nice - The absolute best in local Rap/Hip-hop/R&B 8 PM.

Being the good man Eric is he is…he managed to lift his adorable arse outta bed and get some rehash up post hastetity…I luvs him madly.

Click here for one man’s vantage point last night for Golden Bear and The Channel….

I got audio, but I’m watching Pee-Wee’s Playhouse re-runs on Tivo right now and I’m…so…laaaaaazy……later…

I usually do my homework when it comes to bands/shows I promote here on The Fine Line.

It's been a tough week for Ms. Amanda…and I sort of fell off the job…or lost a lottamore brain cells or sumthin'.

Anyhoo, stupid MySpace has been glitched-up for about 103 hours, therefore bands that ain't gotta website have been somewhat…um…screwed. Long story short…cuz I gottalotta rehash from last night…Last Picture Show ain't no damn "jam-band" as told on Google searches…in fact, I sort of already knew 'em and didn't know I knew 'em….here's a samplin' from last night…more to come…

Photo by Allison V. Smith

If there is some dumbass out there who don’t know the exceptionally talented and divinely handsome Cabe Booth….then stay in yo’ dumbass world…but fer the restaya hipsters, there’s a party goin’ down this eve…but first allow me to digress so’s that we can rejoice in all that is Cabe…

I am a Dallas native. In my teenage years I have been a National Junior Olympic Fencer for 4 years and a DJ for KNON in the 80’s (at the time I was the youngest DJ in the country) with a show called Audio Abuse. During those years I spent my free time skateboarding at the clown ramp with other local dallas skaters (Phillips, Hollenbeck, Roach, Wilkes, Craig Johnson etc.) and hanging out at the Twilight Room (and all its incarnations) and Theater Gallery.

After graduating from Lake Highlands High School I spent 2 years at UT in Austin attempting my horrendous mistake of business school. After the University politely asked me to leave in 1989 I spent a year in Dallas before deciding on a career in art. I arrived in Denton in 1990 and enrolled in the visual art school there. While in Denton I joined the infamous Delta Lodge. I spent most of my time organizing concerts at the house or in the backyard with bands like Vibrolux, Hagfish, Tripping Daisy, Brutal Juice and Baboon with quite a bit of time upstairs drinking Natural Light and smoking Basic cigarettes in my room while doing large paintings or murals in the house.

In 1991 I was given the task of booking Fry Street Fair, a job I continued to do until 2004. I have always treasured that job and feel it was one of the most important things I have ever had the pleasure of being involved with. But as all things do, it has changed over the years and different forces came into play which eventually convinced me to voluntarily step down from the job in 2004 to allow the younger kids at the Delta Lodge to enjoy the thrill of booking the event like I had enjoyed for so many years.

I graduated in 1995 with a BFA in Fine Arts and moved back to Dallas to work in band management and booking. I was the booking agent for Love Swing, Vibrolux and Tablet for 2 years or so until the bands either moved on or signed with major label.

After that I returned to concentrating on my art. After a couple years of mild depression and little work, the Curtain Club called me to start doing band portraits for the new venue. Starting in 1998 I began painting detailed portraits of many Dallas headliners. Since starting, I have painted well over 150 portraits for the club which now coat the walls inside.

Using a style of broken wood panels I also began creating large multi panel images of aircraft and flight, mainly centering on WW2 aviation. In 2003 I was offered the job of doing large 4′x4′ portraits at what is now Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie. This added client finally allowed me to become self-sufficient as an artist (something I never thought possible).

Since starting at Nokia I have painted over 50 autographed panels including artists such as Ringo Starr, White Stripes, Elvis Costello, Chris Rock, Willie Nelson and many more (If you see a band playing there, then there is a 95% chance the have a portrait.) All of these paintings are unfortunately hung in the backstage area and not visible to the public….

I’ve loved this Cabe-man for many a year…and it’s a whole new year kicking off for him tonight at The Cavern for the biggest, bestest, most kick-assest birthday bash this town has seen…

Cabe Booth Day ‘o Birth Bash!
Saturday, July 29th
The Cavern
Bring it on mo’fo’s:
10:00 PM - The Dutch Treats
11:00 PM - Bobgoblin
12:00 AM - Baboon
$6.00 - Doors at 6 PM

Gifts are highly encouraged, but your “present” is best given by your presence…

Crap, I just spewed water all over the ol’ work computer…above is Andrea Grimes dressed as Robert Wilonsky…attitude and all…which I’m assuming was Halloween at D.O. headquarters…funniest damn thing this week…

Olospo performs on Saturday, July 29th at CD World in Addison. 3:00 PM

While you are there, check out Dave Little’s debut musical offering, Uncomfortable Moments - I hear tell he’ll be your bestest friend for a week with each purchase.

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Revolution Gallery Presents: A Study of Self Portraits

How one sees themselves is a measure not only of self-worth, but of a deeper, fascinating suboncscious constant. The self portrait is a display of you as only you can describe. In general, there is a reciprocal approach to producing ourselves in art form. We measure the perceptions of the world around us, accepting and interacting with the stimulus that is in us…

Revolution Gallery
3309 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75266
214.542.7103
Opening Reception - July 29th - 6-9 PM
Runs through 8/5/06

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You can hang with LouWee at at Lakewood Furniture on Sunday, July 30th for their continuing concert series. They gots great stuff, I hear-tell Wade’s gonna be grillin’ and music on the patio from 5-8 with the excellent Colin Boyd Band.

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Kettle Art Presents: Beyond Skin Deep
Opening Sunday, July 30th
7:00 - 10:00pm

Featuring artwork by Tattoo Artists including:
Adrian Evans, Casey Coklic, Jason Boatman, Nick Ley, Jon Chancey, Mark Merchant, Dru Bias, Will Card, Brian Churow, Caleb Barnard, Jorge Perez, Sam Yamini, Tim Davis and more…

From this weeks Dallas Observer…

Tattoo You
Skin artists show off at Kettle Art
By Jennifer Medina

The artistic worth of tattoos has always been up for debate. While there are some people who don’t even consider it a form of art, others think of it as the ultimate form of self-expression, both for the artist and the human canvas. There used to be a time when the only people you’d see with tattoos were retired military men, former cons and those sketchy-looking guys who lived on the fringe. These days, the taboo of tattoos is all but gone. With Miami Ink on the same network that brings us Trading Spaces and What Not To Wear and Britney Spears-like celebrities and athletes showing their own colorful skin with pride, tattoo culture is becoming a more and more mainstream part of society and pop culture. By taking the art off of the body and putting it onto canvases, Kettle Art, the not-quite-a-year-old art gallery in Deep Ellum, is going one step further. Beyond Skin Deep, an exhibition featuring the art of local tattoo artists such as Casey Corklic, Mark Merchant and Jon Chancey, will give people an opportunity to remove the flesh element of tattoos and focus on the image, showing us what these guys can really do with ink. The opening reception takes place at 7 p.m. Sunday at Kettle Art, 2714 Elm St.

My sofa ain’t a’gonna see much of my ass the weekend cuz there are good shows a’plenty…

You might also check in with BobbyEDreams - they call ‘em good and they’s much better about band links than lazy-ol’-me…

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Hime’n'me will be here this eve…

The Cavern
9:00 PM -Last Picture Show (Athens, Georgia)
10:00 PM - Golden Bear (Austin)
11:00 PM - The Channel
12:00 AM - Belafonte
Bonus - Gorilla vs Bear spins up-top.
Doors at 6 PM - $6.00 - 18+

“Sibylline Machine.mp3″ by The Channel

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Club Dada
Cocktails with Hard Night’s Day Should Always Kick off your evening Happy Hour

AllGood Cafe
Stayton Bonner / Adam Carroll
A lover of singer-songwriter paradise.
9:30 PM - Be sure to get something to eat

Club Clearview
The Bracelets / The Gobos / Man Factory / Lazer
Doors at 9 PM

Gypsy Tea Room
Final Friday Hip Hop / Dow Jones / Da’ Boondox / Thesis & Music Theory / ATP w/Special Guests Mista Long & Triggaman
Doors at 8 PM

The Double-Wide
The Mullens / The Ugly Beats / The Shapes
$5.00

Bar of Soap
Dragna / Wo Fat / Four Forty
10 PM

Darkside Lounge
Mugzu
Somebody just inboxed me with the news that Denton-based, harder’n'hard Mugzu is at the Darkside tonight. They are worth whatever the cover charge is…which I don’t know, nor do I know times or other bands…you gotta do some of the work kids.

Bend Studio
Travis Hopper / Matt the Electrician
8 PM the doors open - 8:30 PM the Show starts
No shoes - BYOBeerandWine - Don’t come to talk, come to hear great music up-close-and-personal

Standard & Pours
Slowtrain / Karen Naomi / Josh Hendrick
Good food - good coffee - good friends - good music

Barley House
The Lemurs / Deathray Davies
No Cover

Sambuca
Shanghai 5
A Fine Line Fave

Granada Theater
The Church
$20 - $27 - Doors at 8 PM

Obzeet
Drop Top Rockets
Rad Rockabilly
I think it’s free

Plano
Love & War in Texas
Mark David Manders
Texas Country
9 PM -$7.00

Irving

Silverado Ranch
Junior Brown / Asylum Street Spankers
Even the most country-music-hater in your life will find pleasure in Junior-freakin’-Brown and Asylum Street Spankers are always entertaining.
$15.00 at the Gate - Doors at 7 - 18+ - BYOB

Denton

Dan’s Silverleaf
Dale Watson
es muy bueno
10 PM Start Time

Hailey’s
Diplo (hollertronix / Bonde do Role (mad decent/brazil) / CSS (cansei de ser sexy (sub pop))
$12.00 - Doors at 9 PM

Rubber Gloves
The Minders / The Kingdom / Brooke Opie
$8.00 - Doors at 9 PM

Texas Jive
Brian “the Beerman” Houser
No Cover

Fort Worth

Black Dog Tavern
Warren Jackson Hearne and His Merrie Something Something…I always ferget
Greatness personified
10:30 PM

Whte Elephant Saloon
Big Eddie Burleson
Honkety-Tonkety
9 PM