Photo by Allison V. Smith

Darling, oh-so-precious and infinitely talented Cabe Booth just done turned a year older. In his usual fashion, Cabe is throwin’ a shindig worthy of a drive from San Antone tonight at The Double Wide with 3 of my very favorite bands:

Saturday, July 28th
The Double Wide
Bobogoblin (12:30 – 1:30) / Happy Bullets (11:10 – 12:10)/ John Freeman (10:15 – 10:50)
Doors at 10 PM – Don’t Be Late – Gifts Encouraged (hee)

Art by Cabe Booth

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….

Happy birthday love, I hope it’s the greatest!

“Disquieting Letter” by the Happy Bullets