#clay allison

[t-tex-edwards]

Back 33 years or so ago, The Hickoids’ Davy Jones (RIP) hosted a month of Tuesday open-mic jams at Austin's Continental Club with all his pals invited. I was in town visiting from L.A., so I was included. Here's a flyer he drew for that event… 

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Clay Allison - King Kong Club, College Park, Maryland, May 14, 1984

A few weeks back, we checked out some very early Dream Syndicate jams. A few years later, Kendra Smith would leave the Syndicate to form Clay Allison with David Roback (which would soon become Opal). Here's a nice, new-to-me audience tape of the band on their first U.S. tour, playing a bunch of stuff that would be compiled on the incredible Early Recordings release (which remains frustratingly un-reissued, despite fervent attempts). The band sounds great here, moving easily from winsome psych-folk to heavier Barrett-era Floyd freakouts. Tantric Pop For Now People!

Kendra Says: I am really bugged by the whole aspect of music for money. Before, art was just supposed to ornament your culture, or facilitate different social or magical events. But now music is done with the hopes that it can work out some logistical or financial things for you. It’s supposed to fulfill expectations somehow.

[historyhalls]

Find out about Clay Allison, the volatile Wild West gunslinger whose tombstone reads that "He Never Killed a Man That Didn't Need Killing"

'He Never Killed a Man That Didn't Need Killing': Wild West Gunslinger Clay Allison

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Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick

Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick

I’ve blogged several times lately about the mystery I wrote for a family night in the local historical museum. Yesterday I posted the scenario, so if you want to try your hand at figuring out who did it, you can find the list of suspects and their alibis here: Spur of the Moment Murder Mystery.

(For history buffs, the historical allusions in the game are correct — Clay Allison did kill Deputy…

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Spur of the Moment Murder Mystery

Spur of the Moment Murder Mystery

I missed the murder I created for the museum because I still haven’t gotten over my cough, so I’m reprising the mystery here. This is the scenario I wrote:

It is Monday, March 5, 1877. Rutherford B. Hayes has just been publicly inaugurated as the nineteenth president of the United States. Hayes lost the popular vote but won the most electoral college votes after a ferociously disputed ruling by a…

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More Murder Mystery in the Museum

More Murder Mystery in the Museum

Thanks to everyone who has contributed ideas to the murder mystery game we have planned for the local museum. Although I was able to use only one or two of your ideas for the game, I will keep the rest to help me with the book. (I’m thinking that my next book should be based on this museum experience, though instead of a fake body, we find a real body.) The book will be in the present, so I…

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A Murderer at the Museum

A Murderer at the Museum

I’ve been trying to figure out how to set up a live murder mystery eveningsans dinner, sans skit, just a simple game similar to Clue. The best way I’ve come up with so far, is to finger six or seven suspects, tell why they hated the victim, and offer alibis for each. Visitors will be given this brief history, along with a check list of suspects so they can cross off those they know couldn’t have…

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