Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Not Sufficient Coverage of Local Talent
RECEIVED Mon., June 30, 2008
Austin Powell,
It really offends me as a musician/booking agent and citizen of Austin that there is not sufficient coverage of more local talent that is not considered "already cool."
I threw a really important benefit show for a friend battling stomach cancer May 23 at Red 7, and it didn't even get a mention in your column, “Off the Record.” He was the drummer in Badger/the Tie That Binds from Houston, who, in the mid-Nineties, was a big influence in post-punk here in Texas.
What's really sad, Austin, is that your predecessor, Chris Gray, wrote an amazing story about the second benefit I threw Alex Arizpe Saturday, May 24, in Houston.
Can we get more focus on local talent now?
It really offends me as a musician/booking agent and citizen of Austin that there is not sufficient coverage of more local talent that is not considered "already cool."
I threw a really important benefit show for a friend battling stomach cancer May 23 at Red 7, and it didn't even get a mention in your column, “Off the Record.” He was the drummer in Badger/the Tie That Binds from Houston, who, in the mid-Nineties, was a big influence in post-punk here in Texas.
What's really sad, Austin, is that your predecessor, Chris Gray, wrote an amazing story about the second benefit I threw Alex Arizpe Saturday, May 24, in Houston.
Can we get more focus on local talent now?
Al Shire
