the fellow americans

had drinks last night at the bull and bush with matt hickey and hal welch of the fellow americans and ricky chewning, a visual artist who's involved in promoting the jazz by the boulevard festival and also usedta play drums with matt 'n' hal in the rio grande babies. we discussed the irony of the fellow americans having lost their frontman almost immediately after receiving favorable press for their brand-new cd search for numb from no less of a personage than rockcrit chuck eddy. (matt's gonna try singing for the time being.) also talked about fort worth rawk dumps past 'n' present, band names (faves: "instrument of destruction" and "phil spector court hair"), and the possibility of a rgb reunion set at the wreck room's wednesday jam, or even a fellow americans show with one fingered fist (and maybe, um, stoogeaphilia) in a disused airplane hangar in weatherford. nice bunch of cats.