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Here's another pic from a couple years ago shortly after the band formed. This was maybe our sixth gig, or something like that.

This was before I had acquired my leather pants!

This was also before we began using in-ear monitors and were still using stage wedges.

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This pic was toward the end of our first year.

I had leather by then! Also, by this time the wedges were gone and we were all using in-ears.

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2019.
It was 38F outside!
Too dang cold for this Texicano…I couldn’t feel my hands!
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Same gig, same night…
My drummer, producer, sounding board and best friend, Sid. He’s the person I’m closest to than anybody except my wife and daughter.
I’m blessed to find a friend this good—even though we’re 20 years separated and our backgrounds are as different as night and day, he’s truly my brother!
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My daughter, singing her lungs out at that frigid show—the last we played before the pandemic.

I’ve had that pancho since I was 21, bought at El Mercado in San Antonio during one of those “Lost Weekends”…if that thing could talk, I’d be in a lot of trouble.
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Early Screamin’ Armadillos gigs/lineups:

2004 at Central Market in Fort Worth:
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Insane Venue Manager Gig, c.2005:
(the manager was insane, not the gig or venue)
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CD Release Party, c.2005:
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^^Playing harp…same drummer, Sid.

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^^ I wrote a Vaughan Brothers-esque instrumental (“Travis County Line”), where the other guitarist and I would switch rigs (guitars/pedals/amps) halfway through the song; he’s playing my “Big Tex” Telecaster (when it was in its Esquire Configuration) through my Vibroverb and I was playing his c1981 G&L F-100 through his higher-end Line 6.

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^^My daughter would always introduce us; I’d then have to remove her bodily from the stage, because she wanted to sing with us too. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I’ve probably posted this pic somewhere around here before, but this was from a gig last November…

Anyway, it is possibly the coolest picture ever taken of me in my life, and all I was doing was turning off my tuner pedal so I could start the song! :ROFLMAO: :cool:
I’m happy because it shows both my #1 guitar (the Telecaster I call “Big Tex”) and my ‘63-reissue Vibroverb…if more than the shoulder of my best friend and drummer were visible, it’d be a dang-near perfect representation of my band, the Screamin’ Armadillos.

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