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ABOUT THE BEAUMONTS
There's something about Lubbock. Something other than the
oppressive blue sky, the unavoidable cloud of shit-smell that
occasionally engulfs the city, the flat, featureless landscape, or the
preponderance of teen pregnancy, boredom, alcoholism, and God. There's
music. Yes, indeed there is. The Hub City has spawned music like you
wouldn't believe. Music loved by folks the world over. Even the real
"King of Rock and Roll" came from Lubbock, and if you believe that
(which you'd be a damn fool not to), then it ain't too much of a stretch
to believe Lubbock is also home to the greatest country band that ever
existed. That band is THE BEAUMONTS.
It wasn't too long ago that four of Lubbock's most loved veteran
musicians decided the state of Texas country music was dismal at best,
and horrifying at its worst. Somehow, over the last twenty years, it
became acceptable for a group of frat-boys to show up in thrift-store
AC/DC shirts, play half-ass Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes about drinking Lone
Star and smoking weed, and call that "country." Well, good friends, THE
BEAUMONTS didn't think that was "all that damn country" and decided to
do something about it. What resulted was a juggernaut of essence, the
trooest of troo cvntry, something akin to the creation of the universe,
but with Telecasters. Behold, good friends, and delight in the majesty
of THE BEAUMONTS!
TROY WAYNE DELCO
(guitar, lead vocals) is an alcoholic and a deviant. "I sing bad
because I need a drink, but can't have one because I'm on the antabuse.
You could say the same's true of my guitar playin', but you'd be wrong."
Having spent his entire life in Lubbock, Troy was in one of the cities'
biggest acts in the 80's, "THE INSTABILATEENS." "We fucking ruled, but
our singer got queer on us and joined another Lubbock band "The
Nelsons." I ain't gonna name no names, because bygones are bygones, but
it was just painful seeing him up there prancing around instead of
crushing skulls like we did over at the "TEENS." We were never the same
after that." Troy loves women, dogs, pills, and Telecasters. Troy also
registered to vote while in jail. "I got demons, man, I fight 'em back
every day with my music."
HOLLYWOOD STEVE VEGAS
(lead guitar, back-up vocals) has been called "The baddest motherfucker
on the South Plains, and probably in the world" by just about
everybody. A classically trained musician, Steve spent his formative
years backing up some of the most high-profile acts in the music
business. "I spent about ten years with Kent Summerlin, played on and
co-wrote"For Your Heart, I Surrender" then got into production while the
band was at home. I did the first "PEACHFUZZER" record, which went
platinum, plus a bunch of lesser-known stuff I am equally proud of." If
you want to get into a spirited conversation with Steve, go ahead and
ask him about his turtle sanctuary. "I got into rescuing turtles when we
were on the road down in East Texas, and one night we were going down
the highway and saw this big old snappin' turtle walking across the
road. I made Troy stop and we captured him and took him back home in a
beer cooler. Since then, I have rescued about 200 turtles. I try to find
'em homes, but mostly they end up in my back yard where the swimmin'
pool used to be."
DON EARLE ROSEWOOD
(city bass, back-up vocals) has a voice you can't help but recognize.
"Yeah, I'm the voice of Big Sur Waterbeds, which was out at South Plains
Mall from about '80-'89. We did about 50 commercials for them. I was
working for the cable company and our voice talent was out sick, so they
got me to do the voiceover on the first one, then kept me around for
the rest. I get recognized quite a bit when I'm out, can't say it hasn't
helped me from time to time!" Don Earle played bass for thirteen years
during the '80's and '90's with Merkel Houlihan and the Wingwalkers,
sharing the stage with some of the biggest show-bands of the era. "Back
then, you could make a damn good living in a show band.We'd travel on
the weekends, mostly on the retirement resort circuit, and be home for
most of the week. Rent was cheap, plenty of single widows at the gigs,
it was a different, golden time. They'll prescribe old people some of
the wackiest shit, too. I guess it's just to shut 'em up, but one time
this nice lady gave me a bottle of percodan, must of been a hundred of
'em, because I told her I burnt the roof of my mouth on her coffee!
Those sure were the days!"
JIMMY NED MESSER
(drums) is a longtime associate of Don Rosewood, and former salesman at
Big Sur Waterbeds. "Don and them used to come around to make waterbed
commercials. Don worked for the cable company, and they'd come in and
shoot, he worked the camera and did the voiceovers. There was this
asshole named Bruce Fox, he had a speech impediment and talked like
Murderface from Metalocalypse, anyway, he was always there too, acting
like he was directing the shoot or something. This Bruce Fox dude was
always talkin' down to Don Earle, sometimes yellin' at him, and Don just
went on in his Don Earle way like nothin' ever bothered him. One day
when Bruce wasn't around I asked Don why he never just punched the shit
out of 'ol Bruce, and he said "I don't need to..... because I'm fuckin'
his wife." We were friends for life after that. We did some time in the
Wingwalkers, saw the country together......" Jimmy Ned credits THE
BEAUMONTS for bringing him back to music after a long leave of absence.
"I saw what was going on in country music and just figured if that was
what the people wanted, I was gonna have to do something else. In my
mind, red dirt is something you get in your underwear from doin' it in a
cotton patch, not a fashion show for fancyboys to show off their
designer jeans. If you're gonna rock, turn that shit up all the way and
go, same with country. Respect the music. THE BEAUMONTS do that, and I
wouldn't be with any outfit that didn't."
And Special Guest, from Colorado City, Texas:
CHIP NORTHCUTT
(pedal steel, lap steel, slide guitar) doesn't give one shit, not one.
"I am from Colorado City, Texas, that oughta tell you all you need to
know. I have friends who have actually had marital relations with
sotospeak "entities other than the homo-sapien," hell I might have
myself, but can't swear to it, I've woke up in some unusual places."
Chip is a third generation musician with quite a pedigree: "My Granddad
played banjo and guitar on the Louisiana Hayride, my Dad was a fiddle
player with Purl Langhorn and Osteen Robeson back before I was born. I
took the torch offa the old man and went out to the East coast to make
my bones, but ended up back here in Lubbock in the late 70's after the
disco and punk took over out there. Right about the time I got home,
fuckin' "Urban Cowboy" came out, and country bands were springing up all
over the place. Fuckin' people in New York City were starting country
bands, it was ridiculous. I stuck around Lubbock and C-City, eventually
finding my groove playing with dance bands on the weekends and working
as a gunsmith during the week. You'd be surprised how many times being a
gunsmith has come in handy on the road with THE BEAUMONTS, real
surprised."
So, you see what I mean? THE BEAUMONTS are here to save us all,
not just those of us fortunate enough to call Lubbock home, but all of
us. So, enough of this hibbidy-jib. Put on your dancin' shoes, put a
call in to your best girl, and get the bail money down from the closet,
because THE BEAUMONTS are comin' to your town, and you're gonna need to
be ready. Are you ready? Well, all right, here we go. One, two,
aonetwothreefour........
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