Event Details
Date: Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Start Time: 8:00 PM
Event Type: Special Events, Concerts
Last Updated: July 22, 2012
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High Dive PresentsThe Good WivesShotgun HodownChad CookShotgun HodownOriginally founded by Rob Woltjer in 2006 as an avant-garde psychedelic punk rock jam band, at a dilapidated rundown house on S. 9th St. At a nude latex suspension party Rob met the Amazing Amanda Jones Stevens and it was love at first sight... Amanda added her textural talents on the keyboards to the chaotic ear grinding jams that could be heard late in to the night...where origins of Long Pork and Imaginary Police grew out of the living room, and made their debut at a friends going away yard sale. With a change in band members, Shotgun Hodown was born.In 2008, two weeks before the band left to play at Burning Man, DRay Canaday joined the band. The four person band caravaned to the hot dirty dusty Black Rock Desert of Nevada, in a friend's RV, pulling a homemade fold down box stage, bound for hell and debauchery. It was a whirlwind of a time in a dusty saloon with drugs and liquor, and several long days and nights playing live, including performances on the BMIR Esplanade Stage where the band was broadcast live across the Black Rock City airwaves. A bond was created and a musical goal was set in stone. However, when the second drummer quit, Rob, Amanda and DRay became a psychedelic jug style rock band with intentions of finding a percussionist/drummer.In 2010 the band found all they were missing in Billy, and soon he was building a trash junk set from cans, buckets, and other oddities he twisted and bent with his super human strength, and crudely put together with duct tape, screws and broken cymbals. He now rocks a custom built steam punk set, with real drums and drum parts. Also in 2010, Brian Collings joined the band, and has greatly enhanced the bands sound with bluesy trombone, rich percussion and keyboards,as well as back-up vocals.On June 3rd, 2011 the bands first CD Necro-Nuclear High Desert Outlaw was released.