We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.
Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it's so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.