Email Author Anthony Mariani

2000 Stories by Anthony Mariani

• Buying Time

  published October 5, 2000

  While doing his survival gig (waiting tables) one night at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, singer-songwriter Clay Farmer bumped into a familiar face. Vic... More >>

• Stolen Thunder

  published September 28, 2000

  Musicians love their instruments. Take Jesse Dayton and a local blues guitarist who have both recently been ripped off. These six-stringers... More >>

• In Good Hands

  published September 21, 2000

  Just like every other club in town, Cezanne does what it can to survive. Every Thursday, Houston's only serious jazz hangout invites aspiring... More >>

• Jailhouse Rock

  published September 14, 2000

  Barbara Lynn's August-issued CD is not only her big shot at breaking through but also Clifford Antone's best chance at, umm, breaking... More >>

• Workshop City

  published September 7, 2000

  Framed by the window at Diedrich Coffee, Mark Zeus looks like a regular customer, another quiet head and shoulders sitting there at eye level with... More >>

• Social Distortion

  published August 31, 2000

  Bands need to stand out, no question. And ever since Chuck Berry first chicken-walked across the stage 50 years ago, it's the guitar player who... More >>

• Laptop Liberaces

  published August 24, 2000

  Rows upon rows of binary code scroll up Kim Kraft's computer screen. Like a player piano, his CPU reads these hieroglyphs and generates music.... More >>

• His Truth Is Marching On

  published August 17, 2000

  It's been such a long time. A couple of months ago Southern Cross (formerly known as Renegade) released its first full-length work. That's... More >>

• Grooving in Greenbacks

  published August 10, 2000

  There are a couple of good explanations for Mikel Fair's success. Just over the past six months, the electronic artist, who's commonly known... More >>

• Debt Releaf

  published August 3, 2000

  Everybody who has ever smoked a cigarette in any one of a few Houston venues knows this scenario: You're bracing yourself up against the bar,... More >>

• Room to Grow

  published July 27, 2000

  Location, location, location. This cliché probably means everything to business owners in cities where people walk to and from places.... More >>

• Leary of Home

  published July 20, 2000

  Gotta love King's X. Three cats from Missouri who relocated to Houston in 1985, landed a deal with Atlantic Records a few years later, lived... More >>

• The Causey Way

  published July 20, 2000

  For Causey, front man for this semi-eponymously named Florida quintet, getting guitar lessons from David Koresh was like the Flying Nun learning... More >>

• Radio Gaga

  published July 13, 2000

  Like a bloated blimp on the horizon, the Band Soon to Be Formerly Known as KISS wafts its way back over the Plains states, extracting with the... More >>

• Will the Real Texas Musician Please Stand Up

  published July 6, 2000

  When folk talk about Texas music, they are almost always referring to the work of artists who play lap steel gee-tars or fiddles or banjos and use... More >>

• Later, Floyd

  published June 29, 2000

  As the lights dimmed, everyone staring up at the faux starry-night sky on the ceiling of the Burke Baker Planetarium whooped and hollered. A young... More >>

• Da Bombing

  published June 29, 2000

  Well, wonder what new albums and movies are out this week. Where to find out? Let's see. Jump in the car, cruise down West Gray, past a... More >>

• Born in the USO

  published June 22, 2000

  No one really hung back by the bar. Everybody was up at the front of the stage, where four scary-looking characters in leather and jeans and a... More >>

• Holy Diver

  published June 22, 2000

  In City of God, E.L. Doctorow's latest novel, a Catholic priest by the name of Pemberton questions every infallible notion in the Bible and... More >>

• Off the Road Again

  published June 15, 2000

  Missed shot. Rebound. Slam dunk. Shaq Diesel! (Yawn.) As the TVs beamed the L.A. Lakers' manhandling of the Indiana Pacers in game... More >>

• Back in the Saddle

  published June 8, 2000

  On stage at Blanco's open mike night late last month, Clay Farmer -- sporting trendy Buddy Hollyesque eyeglasses -- talked a little about his... More >>

• Metal Help

  published June 1, 2000

  After reportedly being kicked out of the SRO/OT Sports Bar and Cafe on Mangum for drunkenness, William "Tray" Folliard was being... More >>

• Art School Style

  published May 25, 2000

  Ahhh, the unforgiving foibles of the art-rock fan: Playing Magic, watching hockey, "reading" Danger Girl or Fathom (or any other... More >>

• Breakin' Up the Bands

  published May 25, 2000

  Though door receipts might indicate otherwise, I am I and Coterie are two of the brightest talents in town. While I am I's sound, full of... More >>

• E-jukebox

  published May 18, 2000

  On a random guitar case behind the Buzz stage at the Westheimer Street Festival "In Exile." On a wall in Fitzgerald's. Even in the men's room... More >>