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The Stacks released the recordings we did with Andre Marquette.
Andre played drums and also engineered the recording.
New Orleans rock The Stacks Anything Helps Andre Marquette recording Bandcamp Covid-19
My new band Golden Ray makes its re-re-scheduled debut.
Playing on Gina's stage with George Wilde and Lo Amps, only rescheduled.
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My new band Golden Ray makes its rescheduled debut.
Playing on Gina's stage with George Wilde and Lo Amps, only rescheduled.
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My new band Golden Ray makes its debut.
Playing on Gina's stage with George Wilde and Lo Amps.
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the debut of Golden Ray
A new band rising from the ashes of the Stacks, who haven't actually burned down.
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Got my keyboard fixed.
Lewis d'Aubin got it done in an hour.
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Stacks recorded in the studio.
Our drummer is moving away so we're recording while we can.
Stacks rock recording Andrew Donaldson Andre Marquette New Orleans
Here are ten or twelve albums that really influenced me.
These aren't even necessarily the ones I listen to the most. These are the ones that "influenced" me.
The Stacks played the Circle Bar with Chef Menteur and Good Sugar.
This was Court Batson's first appearance with Chef Menteur.
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Stacks played at Siberia with Rubber Maids and Egg Yolk Jubilee.
I made an animation to advertise the show.
New Orleans rock Rubber Maids Egg Yolk Jubilee Stacks Siberia
The Stacks played the Circle Bar.
link to (excellent) Bandcamp recording in post
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The Stacks played at Gasa Gasa.
Great show. Really loud.
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I played some shows with a band called Speedcrawler.
It was a lot of fun. Most tired I've ever gotten as a drummer.
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Went to a bar in Austin with my old band mate (not pictured).
This guy is a friend of my friend's sister.
Stacks played at Siberia with Scott H. Biram.
Pretty fun show. Austin Lucas was bossy.
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The Stacks played the Hi-Ho Lounge with Lauren Oglesby and Laugh In the Dark.
Lauren Oglesby brought all the people.
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The Stacks played the Saturn Bar, with Mystery Girl, I think?
Was this the show with Mystery Girl?
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The Stacks played the 8th Annual Chazfest.
The Stacks played the 8th Annual Chazfest, in the yard of what was known as the Truck Farm, on St. Claude Avenue.
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Stacks played the Circle Bar with Primitive Boys.
Primitive Boys were great, but I don't think they ever played another show.
Stacks played at Allways Lounge with Lynn Drury Band.
Another birthday show for me.
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The Stacks played Allways Lounge on Lundi Gras with M.C. Sweet Tea.
Paul Caporino from M.O.T.O. was on this bill as well?
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Saw Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at One Eyed Jack's.
Good show. Mike Edison was in town.
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Stacks played Siberia with Original Shake Charmers and Guitar Lightnin'.
Tuesday night rock and roll. Good crowd, actually.
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Stacks at Siberia with Happy Talk and a play.
a very quickly drawn flyer
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The Stacks played at the Big Top another time.
We went on real late if I recall.
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Jimmy and The Wolfpack played Parkside Lounge.
We liked playing anywhere with "lounge" in the name.
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Headless Hookers played at Zablozki's.
It was a bar in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
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Jimmy and The Wolfpack played at Matchless, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
We played this bar several times.
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Jimmy and The Wolfpack played Lakeside Lounge again.
Looks like I had a good time at least.
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The Stacks played at the Brooklyn Lyceum for a Katrina benefit.
Not sure if we benefited from it, but it was a good time.
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I saw Archie Bell at McCarren Pool.
Great show. He talked to Kool-Aid.
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Jimmy and The Wolfpack played a club in Manhattan somewhere.
I can't remember how this happened or what the name of the club was.
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Jimmy and The Wolfpack played at Otto's Shrunken Head.
This was a nice place to play in New York.
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Stacks played the Circle Bar and took pictures.
Thanks, anonymous photographer.
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The Stacks played at Dr. Cliff Davis's garage again.
The second of a couple of excellent garage shows.
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The Stacks played at The Big Top with Jeremy Lyons and The Deltabilly Boys.
Jeremy Lyons was really busy in New Orleans until one day he was just gone.
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Stacks played Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge with the Interlopers.
Interlopers had a good new record about to come out.
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The Stacks played Balcony Bar with Zydepunks and Narcissy for St. Patrick's Day.
We tore it up at this show to a well-oiled crowd. I also saw something remarkable on the way to the gig.
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The Stacks played Lounge Lizards with Paradise Vendors.
Paradise Vendors weren't like any other band in town, good stuff.
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The Stacks played Cafe Istanbul after The Goodnight Show.
It probably wasn't a great idea.
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The Stacks played the Big Top with This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Dinteen, and Narcissy.
We looked good in front of those velvet curtains.
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The Stacks played Sluggo's in Pensacola.
I sort of made an ass of myself.
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The Stacks played another happy hour show at the Mermaid Lounge.
I guess we tried the Happy Hour thing again.
The Stacks played the Bridge Lounge.
I remember having incredible suicidal/elated mood swings on this day.
The Stacks played Lounge Lizards with The Sutures.
I'm sorry, I don't remember The Sutures at all.
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MAXIMVS! played the Cave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Part of a big fun fest called Blackbeard's Lost Weekend.
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MAXIMVS! played the Star Bar in Atlanta.
Trey got punched in the face, but it wasn't his fault.
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The Stacks played a happy hour show at the Mermaid Lounge with Black Bonnets.
Black Bonnets had Andrew Donaldson, who'd later join the Stacks.
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The Stacks played at Dr. Cliff Davis's garage.
I think this was the first time playing the garage.
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All-Night Movers played the Emerald Bar in St. Pete.
I guess this was the last All-Night Movers gig.
MAXIMVS! went to Barton Springs in Austin.
We didn't have a gig but we wanted to go anyway.
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The Stacks played Lounge Lizards with Ka-Nives and Spinns.
There have to be picctures from this.
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Stacks played Dragon's Den with Bipolaroid and Ratty Scurvics.
The venue gives me the willies but it was a fun show.
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Stacks played Lounge Lizards with The Sophisticats, I made a special flyer.
The paper color was really important.
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I saw The Fuse and The Ponys at Circle Bar.
I liked the Ponys until I got thoroughly sick of the singer's voice.
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MAXIMVS! walked around and played all over on Mardi Gras day.
We stopped at Buffa's and played a short set, uninvited.
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The Stacks played the Big Top on Lundi Gras.
I wonder if it was actually MAXIMVS! that played this gig, though.
MAXIMVS! played at the Big Top again after the Muses parade.
Less than a week after our first show.
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I saw Andre Williams on Valentine's Day.
Had to be at Circle Bar or One Eyed Jack's.
New Orleans rock shows Andre Williams Circle Bar One Eyed Jack's
MAXIMVS! played our first show at the Big Top.
I said I would only be in the band if I could play drums. The thing is, I didn't know how to play drums.
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Stacks played New Year's Eve at Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge with Lottie Collins, Ka-Nives, and Jimmy and The Wolfpack.
We had nothing to hold the kick drum in place so for a while I sat in front of it.
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Stacks played New Year's Eve at Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge.
I think this was the first of three New Yearses we played there.
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The Stacks played The Mermaid Lounge with Bamboo Kids.
One of my coworkers really made an impression on me.
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I went to Gretna Fest and saw two favorite acts on the same day.
It was as if they designed this show specifically for me.
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All-Night Movers played at Dixie Taverne with Preacher's Kids and Original 3.
I was just a huge fan of Preacher's Kids. Wish I could have been in the band.
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Saw The Ka-Nives at the Circle Bar.
I would put them up against any band in the world for best live show.
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Stacks played One-Eyed Jacks with Doctor-a-Go-Go and Pocket Foxx.
Got out my black and green inks.
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All-Night Movers played Beerland in Austin with Ka-Nives.
My first experience wtih Texas' blue laws.
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All-Night Movers played Sound Exchange in Houston with Ka-Nives.
We were fine. Ka-Nives were over the top.
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Slade and I flew to New Orleans on Mardi Gras.
Concluding our first and only New York tour.
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All-Night Movers played at Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn.
Very fun show and we recorded it.
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All-Night Movers played 219 Flamingo with The Demands.
I never heard of the club before or since.
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All-Night Movers played the Hi-Ho Lounge with the Ka-Nives.
The Ka-Nives said New Orleans shows were stiff and nobody came. This time they were right.
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All-Night Movers played the Hi-Ho Lounge with the Bangs and Original 3.
The Bangs had a song called "Dirty Knives".
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All-Night Movers played at El Matador with Demolition Doll Rods.
Dan Kroha (ex-Gories!) had a nifty "diddley-bow". I had forgotten we played on this show.
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Saw VLADRM and Fontanelles at El Matador.
I feel like there was another band called Golden Showers on the bill but I dunno.
All-Night Movers played the Pilot Light in Knoxville.
A comedian opened the show.
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All-Night Movers played Star Bar in Atlanta.
We played with a band called the A-Sides.
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All-Night Movers started a Southern tour.
We started in Athens but we didn't actually play there.
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Dirty Knives played our last show at Mermaid Lounge with The Forty Fives.
We had a new drummer but the change didn't do what we wanted it to.
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All-Night Movers played Circle Bar. I jumped on a patron who somehow fell asleep.
Everybody said the guy was some sort of mafioso and I should expect retribution.
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All-Night Movers played at El Matador with Mondo Topless.
We went out for fried chicken after.
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I got interviewed by Bunny Matthews for Offbeat.
I don't think the managing editor was too thrilled.
All-Night Movers played the Mermaid Hallowe'en Masked Ball as ELO.
Slade got us matching Jeff Lynne wigs and shades.
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All-Night Movers played to a crowded house at the Circle Bar.
This is probably the apotheosis of my New Orleans social life, back when I had one.
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All-Night Movers played a show at Sara Essex's studio.
It was downtown on Carondelet Street.
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All-Night Movers played at Jeff Pounds' house.
Jeff made crawfish etouffée.
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Dirty Knives played Dixie Taverne again.
The venue was un-airconditioned.
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Dirty Knives played Mermaid Lounge with Immortal Lee County Killers.
Immortal Lee County Killers' drummer J.R.R. Tokin' used his floor tom strictly as a coffee table.
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Sleepy Heads played El Matador with Hip Replacements.
I do remember this show happening. I have no evidence that it did though.
Dirty Knives played Bandito Burrito in Huntsville, Alabama.
The picture is from 1990, found on a website.
Dirty Knives played Mermaid Lounge with Hip Replacements and 66 Goat.
I think both 66 Goat and Hip Replacements were power duos.
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Dirty Knives played Dixie Taverne.
The cops took all the money.
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Dirty Knives played El Matador with Sugar Tank.
At the end of our set Trey hopped down the little steps at the side of the stage, smashing them to bits.
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Dirty Knives played Rock n Bock with Lowerline.
We got to this lonely place and Dan said "This is like being on tour in North Dakota."
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Stacks played Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge With Bad Times.
Except...I'm not sure this show really happened.
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Dirty Knives played with Rock*A*Teens at Tipitina's, I think.
I honestly don't recall playing Tip's twice but I guess we did.
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Dirty Knives played with The Woggles at Tasty World in Athens.
I guess the Woggles had a guarantee and we didn't but they gave us ten bucks for gas.
Dirty Knives played a house party near UNO.
We opened for The Bruisers and The Bullies.
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Dirty Knives played our first show at Mermaid Lounge.
We opened for The Bruisers and The Bullies.
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The Innuendos played Nightingale's.
The Innuendos played a gig with a couple of favorite NYC bands.
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The Innuendos first date recording with Mitro.
We recorded down in the basement.
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The Hi-Balls played The Continental on my birthday.
Great show. Al gave me a plaque.
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Hi-Balls did a photo shoot.
When they bring out the white seamless, you've made it.
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Snake Oil played Gryphons with Swell.
Gryphon's was the laundry where we practiced.
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Snake Oil's first practice.
We came out of the basement to discover the Gulf War had started.
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I saw Fugazi at the Library in Knoxville.
Lotsa hillbilly white supremacists showed up.
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Everything Tool played with Across The Yard at China King.
Across the Yard were, in fact, the jangliest.
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Everything Tool played with Abstracts at Cityside.
This had to be one of my first attempts at setting type on a computer.
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I saw The Ramones at Bucknell University.
I had a great time but I wore some vintage shoes and they hurt.
The Red M&Ms recorded our five-song cassette, Unhealthy.
After the recording my brother got picked up to go to summer camp.
I saw the Black Crowes before they were really the Black Crowes.
They were the opening band. They were pretty good.
Punk rock comes to Chattanooga.
We started to get real DIY shows in Chattanooga in 1984.
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Thanksgiving Punk Fest.
Punks and skinheads finally united.
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I was in a band called Dial A Miracle.
We went through so many drummers.
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