Weekend Music Preview: Grupo Fantasma Featuring Greg Boyer [Antone's / Friday & Saturday]

You have performed with many exceptional musicians -- what would you consider to be your crowning achievement?

Playing with and doing horn arrangements for the "tribute to Hank Williams, Jr." Not just because of his stature in country music, but because I've never done a country gig before. It came out fabulous!

When did you know you wanted to be a musician?

As a kid, I wanted to be a lot of things: baseball player (up until my first 'high 'n' tight fastball!), artist (cartoonist), electrician (like my grandaddy). But i knew i wanted to play music at around ten when I started out on alto sax. While other kids were learning scales, I was playing jazz standards!

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My first show - a talent show when I was 11. We played The Temptations' "Get Ready". I think we lost because we didn't have an ending. Hearing my junior high school band director comment on some horn arrangements I did when I was around 11 or 12 ("Man, this is good stuff!")

My first gig - Playing tenor sax with The Chosen Few at Evan's Grill. At 15, I was too young to drink, but they let me play anyway!

My first 'real' gig - I think getting the call to play with Parliament/Funkadelic was more memorable than the first show itself! That might be the last time I ran through the house like I'd won the lotto! After that, the "cool" set in.

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Rockabilly Magazine presents Texas Rockabilly Revival 2009
Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9
Nutty Brown Cafe (12225 W Highway 290)
Reverend Horton Heat, Lemmy Kilmister & The Head Cat, Wanda Jackson with Slim Jim Phantom, Wayne Hancock, and much, much more
[schedule] | [tickets]

Friday:

• Comin At Ya: Birds on S. Congress Grand Opening with Astronautalis, Neiliyo, Andy The Mouth (9 p.m. / Free / Birds Barbershop on 1902 S. Congress Ave., 78704)
• TV Torso, Radar Radar at Club de Ville (9 p.m.)
• The Flash Boys, Free To Kill Again, Black Panda, The Extravaganza at Room 710 (9 p.m. / $5)
• Lucero, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears at Emo’s (Outside / 9 p.m. / $12 -- Tickets )
• Richard Buckner at Cactus Cafe (9 p.m. / $14)

Saturday:

• Glass Candy, L.A.X. featuring Yadira Brown, Learning Secrets, Richard Henry (Outside / 9 p.m. / $12) & Screaming Females, Yellow Fever, Follow That Bird!, Send Help (Inside) at The Mohawk (10 p.m.)
• The Arm, The Lemurs, Good Times Crisis Band, Neiliyo at Emo’s (Inside / 9 p.m. / $10 -- Tickets )
• When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Exeter, Shitty Carwash, The Joy Busy at Red 7 (8 p.m.)
• Black Panda, ELR at Lamberts (9 p.m.)
• DJ Mel, Umoja Orchestra, Este Vato at Beauty Bar (9 p.m.)

Sunday:

• Fake Problems, Broken Gold, The Golden Boys, Bluebonnet Plague at Emo’s (Inside / 9 p.m. / $8 Advance; $10 Day of Show -- Tickets )
• The Roller, Green And Wood, Strider, Eagle Claw at Red 7 (8 p.m.)

Check out the Austinist Weekend Music Preview Slideshow below for details on a number of events in town this weekend.

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