Came across this on youtube today and it was too good no to share. It's two songs in this clip; "That's All Right Mama" and "Rock This Town". For those who want to skip ahead to "Rock This Town" it starts around 4:23. Really good stuff, of course the Rev nails it. 
Rev. Horton Heat plays "Rock This Town" with Lee Rocker
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Oct 23, 2008 9:53 p.m. bonedaddy:
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Oct 24, 2008 12:43 a.m. bonedaddy:
what, no one thinks this is cool???
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Oct 24, 2008 12:57 a.m. crowbone:
COOL!!
Lotsa Gretsch Banners there too.
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Oct 24, 2008 12:58 a.m. wenzel:
I had never heard a live clip of the Rev with him playing so cleanly and the guitar not being too muddied up with too much volume and effects. He sounded awesome in this video. I'm sure he sounds awesome anyway live, but this was the best live vid I'd seen so far. WOW!
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Oct 24, 2008 5:27 a.m. Ratrod:
I've seen that clip before.
The rev also played Rock This Town when he played in Amsterdam.
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Oct 24, 2008 5:45 a.m. jetbunny:
I believe that's the Gretsch show that Proteus covered well this year.
As always, The Rev delivers.
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Oct 24, 2008 6:07 a.m. Catdaddy1967:
Saw a clip of him with Lemmy... now THERE's a match made in heaven! (Actually it weren't too bad!)
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Oct 24, 2008 6:11 a.m. Walter Broes:
Gee, you'd think maybe they'd play a Ronnie Dawson tune, or something by Johnny Caroll, maybe Buddy Holly, at the Texas Rockabilly Revival. Yawn.
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Oct 24, 2008 10:59 a.m. troy6120:
Walter Broes said: Gee, you'd think maybe they'd play a Ronnie Dawson tune, or something by Johnny Caroll, maybe Buddy Holly, at the Texas Rockabilly Revival. Yawn.
I know what you're saying, Walter. Though I didn't attend the festival, I would guess that the psychobilly aspect of rockabilly was "well represented". Around here, in any way, shape, or form, it's good to have any kind of old-school rockabilly played, just to keep the roots alive. Keeps the young-uns in check, maybe. And you're right, the song choices depicted in the clip are fairly obvious. If we're not careful, though, the early Sun Records stuff may slip into obscurity one day. Maybe some 18 year-old guy left that show wondering who originally recorded "That's Alright, Mama", and "Who was the guitar player on that old stuff"......... and then thought to himself, "The Reverend's licks in that Stray Cats tune were right on the money. I need to learn those". At least that's what I HOPE happened. -
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Oct 24, 2008 11:09 a.m. Walter Broes:
Don't get me wrong Troy, I think it's cool Gretsch is sponsoring an event with "independent label" only bands, and I have nothing against the performers that were playing there.
But to do it in Austin of all places, a town that has a ridiculous amount of talent on the rockabilly/country/roots scene, and call it the "TX Rockabilly Revival" while completely ignoring the local talent past and present, is just asking for a little chuckle at the very least IMO. (I do realise the good Reverend is from TX, but was anyone else on the bill?)
They could have called it the Gretsch psychobilly rumble, or whatever.
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Oct 24, 2008 11:25 a.m. Ripley1046:
I think I need some motion sickness drugs after that video. Cool to see those 2 play together though.
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Oct 24, 2008 12:22 p.m. bonedaddy:
I'd have liked to seen/heard a better quality clip from that. It's interesting though, how accessible some of this stuff is becoming due to the onset of tiny cell phone camera, digital cameras that take surprisingly good video/audio etc... Imagine the bootlegs that could be had that stuff been around in the 60s?
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Oct 24, 2008 12:30 p.m. TwangOmatic:
Very cool indeed btw wenzel the rev has alot of clean stuff im guessing but id say about 50% of his songs are pretty clean you have just heared the wrong 50%.
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Oct 24, 2008 12:49 p.m. Proteus:
The organizer of the event, Orlando Rios, is all of about 22 years old. He started his "Rockabilly Magazine" while in high school and smitten by 80s punkabilly and the Rev's psychobilly.
He risked pretty much everything to organize what he called The Texas Rockabilly Revival, probably not so much because he intended to highlight Texas artists as because ... he lives in Austin.
Gretsch was invited in as a sponsor because of Gretsch's deep roots in the music, which Orlando recognized. Gretsch had no part in picking the name of the event nor the artists.
The first night of the 2-night event was dedicated pretty much to rockabilly-influenced music from the 80s to the present. Bridgette Handley and the Dark Shadows, an all-female band from Australia started things with kinda derivative pyschobilly. The Koffin Kats followed up with horrible squawling metalliconoisabilly.
Th'Legendary Shack Shakers did what they do - southern gothic polka punk funk rockabilly blues fusion. Just a great band.
Then two 80s-ish British bands having "revivals" of their own, having recently re-formed (maybe for this event): The Rockats and The Guana Batz.
With the exception of the execrable Koffin Kats, who had no business on any stage beyond the basement of the last parents who could stand them, I took the first night as a revival of various hyphenated forms of -billy, 80s to the present.
The second night, while not filled with native artists from the first round of rockabilly, certainly had a much rootsier, organic, genuinely rockabilly feel. The Lonesome Spurs are a countrybilly duo who paid homage to the earliest forms.
The Lee Rocker Band ought to need no defense, and if anything, the band sounds and feels more rootsily rockabilly than The Stray Cats. Unknown Hinson - not so rockabilly, but an amaaazingly entertaining guy, a fine guitar player, and a funny performer well worth seeing. (I've seen NO clips online that begin to do justice to his sound, but it's worth noting that Jim Heath stood at sidestage and watched Unknown through his entire set, and says he's done so many times.)
And the Rev. Rockabilly? Pscyhobilly? Whatever - he's cognizant of the roots, and was trying to honor them while also doing his own inimitable form of whatever it is he does. And he's a Texas boy, for what that's worth.
The rockabilly circuit at least in the US seems to be home to any roots-related music that doesn't fit any other category. Acts like the Shack Shakers, Unknown, and the Rev dip into rockabilly and roots sources and bring their own innovations and influences to it. That's OK with me, and with their fans - nothing wrong with some evolution in the form.
No doubt there are purer examples of 50s-era revived rockabilly, and maybe Orlando will book some of them for TRR #2. But the young man took some significant risks to put on two nights of obscure music, and it was great to see it work out for him. (There will be another event next year, and Gretsch is committed to sponsoring it as well.)
I'm sure Orlando meant no disrespect to Texas artists when he named his event for the state he lives in. Texans think EVERYthing is about Texas, and when you're in Austin it's hard to argue with them about that!
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Oct 24, 2008 1:05 p.m. Walter Broes:
Sure Proteus, whatever.
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Oct 24, 2008 2:47 p.m. troy6120:
Walter, I didn't get you wrong, and I hope you didn't get me wrong. I do see what you're saying. I see what Proteus is saying. And I also hope it didn't look like I was knocking psycho-billy or any other offshoot of rockabilly. I was just trying to get across the point that I'd rather see some veterans playing an Elvis cover in front of a large group of people (for the sake of influence) than another guy in a mechanic shirt singing about a flying vampire bat that terrorized him while he was getting busy in the backseat of his "57 Chevy. Wait, I just got a new song idea!!!!....... Never mind that crap I wrote about the '57 Chevy. Peace, brothers..... Peace! (I'll end on a happy "hippy" note).
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Oct 24, 2008 2:56 p.m. Walter Broes:
Troy, I think we understand each other perfectly. A lot better than some people who have been to one festival yet seem to know all about "the rockabilly scene"...
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Oct 24, 2008 3:14 p.m. Proteus:
I don't know "the rockabilly scene" in depth.
I do know that festival. Your characterization of it as somehow insulting to Texas or traditional artists seemed unfair. I don't think that's where Orlando was coming from at all; he was about respect for the artists he presented, not disrespect for anyone else.
I was making the point that he's a young guy who was putting together a single show (his first) from artists he could get, not proposing a canon.
Since that festival I've paid some attention to bands marketed as rockabilly, or connected to that amorphous "scene," and noticed that there's some latitude in who makes up that scene, if not in definition of the form itself. (Whatever that definition might be.)
It would be a cool thing for Orlando to focus on more traditional local and regional artists for next year's show.
Beyond that, The Seatsniffers and The Coolhand Lukes would be good candidates as well.
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Oct 24, 2008 3:25 p.m. troy6120:
(I edited this because Proteus responded before I did. My response to Walter was): Cool deal, then. I try not to be a feather-ruffler. I don't really feel like I know anything about the rockabilly "scene", other than what I see when my band plays somewhere or when I make the odd-pilgrimage to a show in Houston.
Proteus said: The rockabilly circuit at least in the US seems to be home to any roots-related music that doesn't fit any other category. Acts like the Shack Shakers, Unknown, and the Rev dip into rockabilly and roots sources and bring their own innovations and influences to it. That's OK with me, and with their fans - nothing wrong with some evolution in the form.
There it is. I understand (but don't personally subscribe to the theory) when people say that rockabilly is great, but that it gets boring, repetitive, "it all sounds the same", etc. I understand that if the form doesn't somehow progress, it will die. I will readily admit that I could not live on vintage rockabilly alone. It still gives me the chills, though! And the fact that someone is putting on a new Rockabilly Festival anywhere is good news. Long live THAT tone!!! -
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Oct 24, 2008 3:44 p.m. Walter Broes:
Proteus, you seem to mistake me for some kind of purist, or "scenester".
I don't know where you read this "Your characterization of it as somehow insulting to Texas or traditional artists seemed unfair. either.
What I perhaps should have said, is that if you'd had the means to take another extra week off and spent it club-hopping in Austin, you would have been amazed at the breadth and the quality of the music there, and I bet the whole festival would have probably been a small footnote in your Austin report.
Which urged me to note that something called "The Texas Rockabilly Revival" having one band from Texas on the bill is kind of funny when you think about it, and maybe even somewhat of a missed opportunity.
It's a shame that after three installments, the rockin' 50's fest in Green Bay is probably not going to happen any more - if you enjoyed yourself at the TX fest, you would have had an insanely good time at the rockin' 50's fest - and a much better idea of what "the rockabilly scene", if such a generalisation can be made, is all about.
And I wasn't trying to plug my own band either, I've played in Austin a couple of times, and have a very nice and capable booking guy there, but thanks.
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Oct 24, 2008 4:31 p.m. Proteus:
Yup.
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Oct 24, 2008 5:01 p.m. TaylorHill535:
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Oct 24, 2008 5:02 p.m. TaylorHill535:
I can top that i found this on Youtube a little while ago its
The Great Mike Ness With the Living legand
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Oct 24, 2008 5:14 p.m. troy6120:
TaylorHill535 said: The Great Mike Ness....
Not Mike's best showing, I don't think. Brian didn't sound very inspired, either. Thanks for the link, though.
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Oct 24, 2008 5:25 p.m. gusto:
Im going to get lamb basted here by saying this but I think i may be one of those guys that find rockabilly/psycobilly boring and repetitive, at least modern stuff. ive got a flying saucer compilation cd and damn near every song on there is about zombies eating brains or car racing. Same beats and and chords. I went to a local psycobilly show last week (record release) and it might be my last, i just feel that there has been no progress with the formula. The scene needs something new. Lately ive found myself going back to the basics, early early rockabilly, hillbilly whatever to be very inspiring. Im going to listen to some Hank C Burnette now. flame away
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