music 48 Ben Webster 52 Texas Platters 76 Music Listings Third Stone From the Sun Like a real-life version of Guitar Hero, Eric Johnson paid tribute to Jimi Hendrix at Antone’s last Thursday with a 75-minute set of idol worship and flawless astral flares, as part of a benefit for the Palmer Drug Abuse Program. Backed by Double Trouble bruiser Chris Layton and bassist Scott

RD Nelson, the local ringer balanced living room casualness with schol- arly apprenticeship in his rendition

C of “Like a Rolling Stone,” modeled after Hendrix’s iconic 1967 Monterey Everyday Hustlers: Pop Festival performance. Johnson Cheap Trixie (l) cut otherwise faithfully rendered and Lady Stardust versions of classics like “Manic PHOTOS BY JOHN ANDERSON Depression” and “Fire” with his by Austin Powell own remarkably clean solos, most Hell on Wheels Eric notably the three-minute meteor Johnson shower raining over “Bold as Love,” Ghostland Observatory’s rise to national better known as veteran blocker Cheap while closing encore “Are You prominence traces back to a halftime perfor- Trixie, who’s currently recovering from a bro- Experienced?” left no doubt. mance for the Texas Rollergirls in July ken ankle. “We almost have to befriend the 2006. That’s where the local electro-glam band to get them to play at the price we duo first caught the attention of C3 Presents’ want, but it’s a guaranteed crowd of any- After the Gold Rush Charles Attal, leading where from 500 to to a last-minute book- 1,500.” This season, The digital Texas Punk Treasure Chest offers the next best thing to MUSIC NEWS ing for Austin City ROCK & ROLLER DERBY’S the first to be pro- crate digging at old Drag bunker Sound Exchange. The locally based blog Limits Music Festival GREATEST HITS grammed by Evans’ posts rare artifacts primarily from the Austin and Houston hardcore scenes later that year. Since Hustlers teammate of the 1990s as free downloads. Recent entries include Rise Records’ The Crack Pipes, Trail of Dead 2002 (see “Electric (October 2003) Jennifer Carver, 1994 collection Live at Emo’s, unreleased recordings from Glorium and Skaterland,” Sports, alias Lady Stardust, Storm the Tower, and early singles from At the Drive-In and Direction, a The Weary Boys (April 2004) Nov. 27, 2009), the Grupo Fantasma (May 2004) has already featured straight-edge band led by Transmission Entertainment’s Graham Austin-bred women’s local favorites Woven Williams. A benefit for Houston punk staple Alex Arizpe, featuring the Tie Cruiserweight (April 2005) Roller Derby revolution The Strange Boys (June 2005) Bones, the Happen- OFF THE RE That Binds, Latch Key Kids, and a reunited Blueprint, goes down Friday, has skated to a rock IV Thieves (April 2007) Ins, and Shapes Have June 25, at Red 7, with site co-founder Mark Twistworthy spinning gold. & roll soundtrack, with Fangs, with afterpar- Dig in: www.texaspunktreasurechest.blogspot.com. Lower Class Brats (September 2007) acts as diverse as the The Chumps (May 2008) ties spilling over to White Ghost Shivers Foot Patrol (July 2008) Beerland. On Sunday, and Honky performing Amplified Heat (March 2009) June 27, Pataphysics Random Play at every match. Given lace up at Playland Last Friday, KUT Radio posted the job On a related note, former Direct Events the emergence of for an interleague bout opening for the manager of the Cactus manager and current Texas Performing more than 400 Roller Derby leagues world- between Baltimore’s Charm City Rollergirls Cafe, offering a negotiable salary of Arts Assistant Director Tim Neece has wide, the Rollergirls’ bouts have also become and the Texecutioners, who’ll also be col- $46,000, a near-20% increase from that of been named the new general manager of a coveted stop on national tours like the lecting donations to help fund their trip to current Senior Food Service Supervisor the Austin City Limits studio at Moody 2006 double bill of the Spits and the regionals in Lincoln, Neb. For a full preview, Griff Luneburg. According to the posting, Theatre. Contrary to previous reports, the Motels. “We’re very DIY,” stresses longtime scope “This Charming Wham,” the Score, the employee will “identify solutions to art- 2,750-capacity venue (roughly the same size booker Virginia Evans, a molecular biologist June 24, austinchronicle.com/sports. ist and audience service issues” and as Bass Concert Hall) will not be exclusively “develop and implement revenue initiatives booked by Live Nation and is scheduled to to sustain the Cactus,” among other open in January. “Obviously there’s a lot of duties. As tackled last week by the News competition,” says Neece, who previously man- The Mighty Rearranger tackles “The Only desk, the University of Texas-Austin is aged the Arc Angels and Christopher Cross, Sound That Matters” by Austin’s bygone Western roman- attempting to block the Chronicle’s May 17 “but the idea is to create a great space where tics Milton Mapes on his new solo with Patty open records request for e-mails between everyone wants to be.” Griffin, , which drops in September. “There’s KUT staff and UT’s primary decision-makers Local country chameleon Jesse Dayton is something really cosmic about the whole thing,” surmis- from Dec. 1, 2009, onward. Stay tuned. trading in his Captain Clegg character for es former Milton Mapes singer Greg Vanderpool, not Sixth River Architects filed suit on Reverend Roy, a Cajun drug lord in The Sinner, long after confirming the news with Buddy Miller, who June 15 against Direct Events Inc. CEO a short film currently being shot in Austin and produced the album and mastered Milton Mapes’ 2001 Tim O’Connor and executive partner pitched to Showtime as a weekly series. “The debut, The State Line. Vanderpool’s new venture, Doug Moyes, the Statesman reported on script is pretty bulletproof,” cracks Dayton, Monahans, issued “A Memory of God” on Tuesday, the Monday. The local firm claims it’s owed who’s also producing Michael Des Barres’ fourth stellar installment in a series of free monthly sin- more than $110,000 for its work on the new soul record. “There’s a lot of Frank Miller- gles inspired by the scenic seclusion of his friend’s ranch new Backyard and renovation of the looking set stuff but with a lot of depth, too.” in West Texas. Monahans headline Club de Ville with Telegraph Canyon on July 30, just four Austin Music Hall. O’Connor could not Dayton’s “One of Them Days” can be heard in days after Plant & the Band of Joy’s sold-out engagement at Stubb’s. “It’d be nice to thank him be reached for comment. this Sunday’s episode of True Blood on HBO. in person,” relates Vanderpool. www.monahans.net.

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