Austinist: The Tonewheel Collective: Another Reason To Love Thursdays

mike norris

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:16:30 -0600

Wow, those comments were so far from reality. Peter and the wolf (if you listen to the full-length) started as one guy and one girl singing love songs. then it added a bunch of friends to create a clamor onstage at bigger shows. Where did anyone get the idea that it's a boys' club? As for the reference to D. banhart, he has never to my knowledge performed onstage with trashcans and junk instruments; there's just no comparison. And those "hipsters" were actually members of lots of local bands including the ones that played earlier that night: ink, tacks the boy disaster, as well as locals peel, SOUND team, and more. it's just a bunch of friends supporting one of their peers' artistic vision. How does all this negative conjecture even get started? jeez.

el rojo

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:25:51 -0600

ps for the record, the peter and the wolf showcase at sxsw will feature an all-girl supporting cast, so there ya have it.

el rojo

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:21:27 -0600

dude devendra aped that shtick from me, i been playin junk music forEVER! and the torn shirt was my friend lucas's who moved to russia, i wear it whenever it's laundry day. so bite me. but that marie antoinette thing sounds pretty cool.

smores

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:47:07 -0600

seeing a bunch of hipsters change into torn shirts, muss up their hair, and bang on their pots and pans down at the rhisome collective the other night was irritating... one, because they're aping devendra banhart's act, and two, because it vaguely reminded me about soemthing i'd heard about marie antoinette once- how she had an entire miniature village built, complete with a flock of perfumed sheep, so she could play "peasant girl."

dgarcia

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:40:38 -0600

i don't know about other "thrown together folky" acts in Austin, but Peter and the Wolf has a revolving group of members, at least 3 of which are females who play prominent roles in the group. From what little I've seen, The Hobo Orchestra which backs Red is not simply some friendly boys club which casually excludes females, it is honestly inclusive of anyone who feels like being a part of it..

allen

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:20:44 -0600

is that really true? someone back this up!

musicappreciator

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:45:01 -0600

Tonewheel is generally great, except that they, like almost every other thrown together folky act in austin (peter in the wolf, etc) are a friendly boys' club that casually excludes females from performace. Its a pervasive trend throughout art and music though, so they can't really be blamed too much.

karen

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:31:40 -0600

i think there was a banjo last time. there was definitely a dobro.

disjointed praise!

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:30:58 -0600

Yeah, these things are pretty freaking awesome. Martin Crane singing the blues was quite an amazing thing to see, as was the Red Hunter-led venture with pretty much all the boys mentioned above screaming/singing/cooing the chorus, stomping their feet, and getting down on stage. If I were to list my top 5 favorite musicians in the world, three of the slots would definitely be occupied by those involved in these happy hours. Sigh sigh sigh And tonight! a band recently assembled by Mr Crane will play one of the many mini-sets tonight. Love, Tonewheel's unofficial (or official?) number one fan P.S. I think I would say the "core members" of Tonewheel are Jared, Mark, Martin, Nathan, and that drummer guy Matt from Voxtrot, with all the others being "those involved on a significant basis."