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Spotlight: Glass Eye
Music Story  March 17, 2006
Description: Austin's Glass Eye reunites!

"...Although mostly recorded over a decade ago, Glass Eye's forthcoming "lost" final album, Every Woman's Fantasy (RexyRex), could've been recorded last week. Such is the mixed blessing of being a band forever out of time...."

Still Listens to Glass Eye
Postmarks  April 29, 2005

"...I know it sounds strange, but hearing from her again has meant a lot to me. Yes, I am one of those that still listens to my Glass Eye albums, and I will be getting her newest..."

Everyday Magic
Music Story  January 29, 2010
Description: Lee Barber returns to that place you go to find a song

"...Producer and Glass Eye bassist Brian Beattie became his co-captain for the recording, helping Barber sketch out his vision. It felt right, Barber seeing parallels between the way Beattie approaches recording and the way he approaches painting...."

Texas Platters
Music Review  September 18, 2009

"...Co-produced with Brian Beattie of Glass Eye, Thief and Rescue takes an alternate route through singer-songwriterville. There are no sappy strums or stompy songs about booze and bar fights..."

SXSW Film
Screens Story  March 20, 2009

"...But the film leaves these and other avenues maddeningly unexplored – such as a Philadelphia ER where three or four young black men die every weekend, many tattooed with "Get Rich or Die Trying." Or the Last Mr. Bigg, a towering Alabama rapper shot four times in his head, who now wears a glass eye embedded with diamonds..."

Off the Record
Music Column  December 26, 2008
Description: The politics of Austin music in 2008: Barack Obama boogies back to Texas, a Man From Plains, and the Live Music Task Force

"...Bringing to life the art and music of Daniel Johnston, Zach Theatre staged the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle, featuring Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty. Bluesman Gary Clark Jr..."

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews: Saturday
Music Story  November 7, 2008
Description: Metaphysical Graffiti and anti-intellectualism in pet names

"...While classics such as "Bitchin' Camaro" and "Punk Rock Girl" have received regular flashback-lunch airplay in the 13 years since the band split, the satirist's Central Texas pedigree is lesser known. The Milkmen recorded three albums – 1987's Bucky Fellini, 1988's Beelzebubba, and 1990's Metaphysical Graffiti – at local and area studios with former Glass Eye bassist Brian Beattie..."

Continued Story
Arts Story  February 22, 2008
Description: Daniel Johnston's songs find new life in the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle

"...Long ago in the Eighties, I was in a band called Glass Eye. We were a very popular and critically acclaimed band, but we never "made it." (If we had, I wouldn't have to tell you who I am!) When Daniel Johnston came to Austin, he decided that Glass Eye was the greatest band ever ("The Beatles of Now!"), and he came to all our shows and gave us his tapes...."

Off the Record
Music Column  January 25, 2008
Description: Daniel Johnston-inspired rock opera Speeding Motorcycle rolls into town with Kathy McCarty riding shotgun, Transmission Entertainment gains another foothold on Red River, and the Black & White Years get Real! In Color! with the Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison

"...14-April 13 at Zach Scott Theatre. One of the first local musicians to recognize the depth of Johnston's oeuvre with her celebrated 1994 tribute, Dead Dog's Eyeball, the Glass Eye guitarist and Chronicle Food writer will be appearing as an angel, a nurse, and a skeleton, among other iconic characters, and closing the show with a duet of the unreleased Johnston tune "Loving Feelings." Rounding out the house band for the performance are the Meat Purveyors' Bill Anderson and Sherry Lane, Terri Lord, and members of the Invincible Czars, all of whom will appear at some point as Joe the Boxer..."

Behind the Lisa Story
The Gay Place Blog  June 8, 2007
Description: Behind the scenes on the Lisa Cameron photo shoot.

"...The special Pride feature in this week's Chronicle, features a conversation between Glass Eye Austin rock legend Kathy McCarty and an ex-bandmate. I consider both musicians dear friends, and the opportunity to edit this piece was an honor..."

Deprogramming Dave
Features Story  June 8, 2007
Description: Drummer Lisa Cameron talks with ex-bandmate Kathy McCarty about her transition into self

"...He played with them from 1977 until he moved to Austin in 1981. He went on to play with Roky Erickson, the Lotions, Glass Eye (with me), Squat Thrust, Three Day Stubble, Daniel Johnston, Moist Fist, JSAS (Jherri Siggenfeld's Atrophied Sac), ST 37, and numerous others throughout the Eighties and Nineties..."

So, Basically, Breakfast Tacos and Free Beer
Food Story  March 9, 2007
Description: Enjoying good food and drink for $10 a day during SXSW

"...I know, because I lived as a broke Austin musician for about 20 years. Our touring per diem in Glass Eye was $5..."

The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
Music Story  February 23, 2007
Description: Timbuk 3's Barbara Kooyman looks to a brighter future with Texamericana.org

"...The show introduced the world to modern Austin music on the order of the Reivers, Daniel Johnston, Glass Eye, Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue, and the True Believers, among others. It also presented Timbuk 3, who got signed to IRS Records as a result of the show, and the label included "Future's So Bright" on a compilation cassette..."

Texas Top 10s
Music Story  January 5, 2007
Description: Local Top 10s of 2006

"...4) Glass Eye, Every Woman's Fantasy (RexyRex)..."

Welcome to the Jungle
Music Story  July 28, 2006
Description: Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...Or the night I booked Glass Eye goof project Monniker to open for Porcelain Grind. I loved these little experiments..."

TCB
Music Column  June 9, 2006

"...THE JESUS YEAR The Hole in the Wall, the club that can't be killed (nor should it), rolls into its 33rd year with some remarkable resurrections of its own. Last weekend brought bygone indie-rockers Glass Eye (above) back for one last encore, this weekend it's cornfed cowpunks the Hickoids Friday and their twangier bastard heirs the Texas Sapphires Saturday..."

Visions Holy and Damned, Innocent and Experienced
Screens Story  May 5, 2006
Description: The documentary 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston' – as well as this story – are just the latest attempts to make sense of his life and art

"...Meanwhile, Dead Dog's Eyeball, Kathy McCarty's seminal 1994 album of Johnston songs, one of the most inspired and brilliant of Austin albums, was recently reissued. The quality of performance, arrangements, and range of material in ex-Glass Eye McCarty's album (produced, of course, by Brian Beattie) provided the first detailed blueprint as to the astonishing quality of Johnston's songs...."

Genius and Jive
Screens Story  May 5, 2006

"...They were not there by accident. The headliner was Glass Eye, very popular and worthy of seeing, but this turnout of musicians wasn't close to what they would get at a normal gig..."

Texas Platters
Music Review  April 7, 2006

"...Glass Eye..."

TCB
Music Column  April 7, 2006

"...You usually have to push him to get out and do something." Johnston made it to New York's Whitney Museum last month to see his artwork featured in its famous Biennial exhibition and plans a trip to London's Barbican Hall next week to perform alongside Teenage Fanclub, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, and Vic Chesnutt at a special tribute. (Dick rates his brother's chances of playing Friday's Glass Eye show at Room 710 as "low probability, but possible.") Even convalescing, he's prolific as ever; The Electric Ghosts, from the Hyperjinx Triangle sessions Johnston and tour manager Don Goede recorded in various hotel rooms in 1999, came out on Important Records last week..."

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