Moving Matter

Howdy!  Welcome aboard folks, if your seatbelt doesn't fit, let me tell you it's because you are too fat for this ride.  I'd like to welcome you aboard the holiday JAMMER.  We've got some great fresh pics below, from our most recent show @ the Parish with Fatty Lumpkin and Larry.  Great times and plenty of laughs.... 

It's November and MM is still running strong.  This almost looks like one of them warshed up rocker pics, like the Doobie Brothers posing for their 10,000th show at the Stardust in Vegas....  Good times and great lights on this last show, props to Jonesy and Company....

Well the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal
What sole

Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna
Salmon Chanted Evening
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player

One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she's giving me the eye
So I figured this is my chance for a little fun
You know, piece of Pisces

The crowd was heady and stoked.  Chainsaw was mackin on some fries....  Bead guy with backward cap is still rollin ballz to this day....

Is that a corpse?  Well we are all getting older now, apparently all that jammin called for a nap.

Just a whole mess of passed out sleepers?!?  I thought the Yankee's won?

Just a shout out, MaxFest 2010 is coming up at Ruta Maya!  Keep your eyes and ears out on the lookout for a release of details.  It's confirmed! Ruta Maya Feb 5th for Maxfest 2010...

We'd like to give a shout out a new baby in the family.  Margaret and Jimmy gave birth to Scarlett recently, she's a hoot.  And as you can see, like Dad she is tryin to paw on his chicken gizzards!  She's adorable, and we know that Jimmy and Margaret will be the best parents EVER!

Moving Matter is opening for Spank at the Triple Crown in San Marcos on Friday December 4th.  We're exctied to share the stage with our buds from down under.  MM will be taking the stage promptly at 10pm, so please be sure to come out early to catch raucous rock show.  It's not often that we venture to San Marcos.  We hope to meet some new smiling faces.

We are proud to be a part of the ATX's biggest, most freaked-out Halloween party - The Zombie Ball..  MM will close out the night on a massive solar-powered fire truck stage  complete with a giant disco ball hanging from the its ladder.. insane. The party grounds feature several stages and chillout areas, music from Boombox, Pong, Killa Dilla, and multiple DJ's, art installations, and of course hot Zombies ready to consume your brains.  save money by purchasing advanced tickets here..
(MM 1-2am set) more info at www.zombieball.com

This is some notes on our very first gig from Robby Richardson, original keyboardist and dear friend!  Robby was a key founder in MM and we thank him for all his contributions and love to the band.  We are all still great friends, and every once in a while manage to get him back on stage with us!  It's been a great ten years, we recently celebrated our ten year anniversary with Sushi and fistfights!

..... from the journal de bert....

"Today is our gig at Al's--I'm itching with excitement (and exhausted from the physical and mental energy from practicing and trying to understand how to work the rented equipment). Everybody is all jacked up with anticipation, and Ben, Devin, and Matt have offered to help move equipment and take care of the sound."

And then from the next day:
"The show went well with the exception of an early ending brought on by a visit from the Sheriff--the neighbors complained about the noise. They have an agreement that outdoor music at Al's will not exceed 60 decibels, and at one point, we were at 85. It was humorous really, to see the neighbors out on the street holding their decibel meters in the air, trying to catch us in the act. And it makes a pretty good story that our first gig was busted up by the cops."

Anyway, for what it's worth, here's the setlist from Moving Matter 1.0:

Set I:
Bond
You Don't Love Me
Yamar
After Midnight > Fire on the Mountain
G.M.Funk

Set II:
Who Loves the Sun?
Slime
Cocaine > Weekapaug Groove
Hottentot
Skippin' on the Moon

Set III:
Wolfman's Brother*

*interrupted by a visit from the Sheriff's Department

So, we ended up with two sets and an encore, rather than the three sets that we had planned. I imagine that each one of these songs lasted at least 20 minutes each. Whatever. It was the beginning of an era. It's crazy to think about what followed from that night.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I am so happy to have been a part of Moving Matter, if even for a while, and I am so proud that you guys have carried the torch for ten years--from Al's Canyon Grill to Diamond Billiards, Back Alley Lounge, the Starlight, and the Aggie, and on to Austin, Dallas, Houston, and around the western USA. It's an amazing thing, and people have been moved to MOVE--to dance and feel something that they would otherwise never have known.

I wish that I could be there to hang out this weekend and celebrate a landmark with you all, but am sending my best wishes in the best way that I can. Jessica has a gift for you from me that I hope will allow the four of you--the band--to go out and have a good time and celebrate ten years of Moving Matter. Know that I will be there in spirit. If you got the rhythm, I got the rhyme.

The Wonderwheel rolls on.

Much love from
BERT

Moving Matter is excited to spend 2 evenings with music transcendentalists, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, this coming September.  The band will be opening for them on Thursday September 3rd at the marvelous Granada Theater in Dallas, and on Friday September 4th at the Parish Room in Austin.  Please come out early to catch our set.

On this wonderful Friday, the 29th of May, we will be teaming up with Grimy Styles and Toast to take over the Parish Room of Austin, TX.

Eboz will be tuning you in to the lost, yet mystical land of UHF corneal imagery strewn over a junkyard of old TV's.

Synaesthesiax, headed by Jonezy, will be unleashing the Death Blossom of lighting into your soul.  Synaesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

There will be live, extraordinary painting by The Blender and Tourmaline Todd.  Mind you it is Tourm-Todd's Bday as well... make good wishes.

The first rule of Night Club is... TALK about Night Club.  In other words, spread the words.
We love all of you like family.

This Friday at Nat's Pub, the Matter will be rippin it up for the Lake Travis folk.
Arrive at 10pm, grab your favorite libation from Jorge and get yourself situated for some FACE ROCK.
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."  
-Freud

    * Go to the usual Peace Park to celebrate the ever so Austin inspired "Eeyore's Birthday Fest" on Saturday April 25th.
    * Do not pass Go, sprint Go
    * Have a blast
    * Save your energy for the official aftershow at the Flamingo Cantina.
    * This band, the FREE RADICALS, is playing with us, score!
    * MM comes on at 11pm or so...
    * "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."  Freud

LARRY REUNION SHOW! The original members of Larry come back Friday, March 27th to The Parish in Austin!! Come check out these old school jam band kings! Larry @ 11:30pm / Moving Matter @ 10:00pm
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