We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.
Texas is where I found my musical self.
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.
There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.