“HOUSTON TEXANS NUMBER 1″ by George and Jeff

When Houston was awarded a new football franchise after the Oilers bolted for Tennessee, I thought the team needed its own fight song. When I came up with the idea for “Houston Texans Number 1,” the name “Texans” didn’t even exist. After a little persuasion, Jeff decided to record the song with me, and once the name “Texans” was set, we laid it down in his garage in the Heights.

Our old friend Robbie Parrish played the march on the snare, we brought in two horn players from Houston band Global Village (they probably thought I was an idiot when I was humming their parts to them), I took the lead, then Jeff and I sang the other voices about 50 times to make it sound like 70,000 people were singing.

The tune was played on KILT 610 Sportsradio (Texans flagship station) a few times, and KPRC Channel 2 reporter Mary Benton did a story on us, but I couldn’t get the team to listen to it. Then one day I ran into then General Manager Charlie Casserly in the parking lot of the Randall’s grocery store. He told me where to send the song, they heard it, but in the end opted to go with country music star Clay Walker’s theme song.

With the Texans 2-0 and waiting for the Dallas Cowboys this weekend, I though now was as good a time as any to resurrect our poor old fight song. Let us know what you think.

Houston Texans Official Website

Clay Walker’s “Houston Texans Theme Song”

Gig Alert! Rudyards – Saturday, Sept. 18

We’ll be rocking it again at Rudyards, 2010 Waugh Dr. in Houston, this Saturday, Sept. 18. This time around we will be sandwiched in between Jim Beazy and Bright Men of Learning. We should hit the stage sometime around 11 p.m. Jim Beazy is shooting the show for use in a documentary he is putting together about local music, so the more the merrier on Saturday in the Montrose. Also, if you want one, you can have a FREE copy of our first CD, Another Lame Semi-Tragedy. Bring it on, Houston and support local music.

“It’s only 26 hours from Houston to New York City” – Tour 2008

We ventured to the East Coast in October, 2008 for a week long tour that took us to New York City, Asbury Park, NJ, New Hope, PA, Danbury, CT, where we literally played to no one, and finally back to Honey Grove, TX, about an hour outside of Dallas. Anyway, this video chronicles our trip up there. Have you ever been in the car for 26 hours???

Gig Alert! Dan Electro’s with Fondue Monks, Sat. Aug. 21

We’ve been trying for two years to nail down a gig with popular Houston funk band, Fondue Monks and we finally got one. Saturday, Aug. 21 at Dan Electro’s on 24th St. in the Houston Heights will be the place to be. We’ll bring the rock, they’ll bring the funk and it will be a rockin’ funky good time. Check out a of video of Fondue Monks below…

“Breath It In” by Fondue Monks

KPFT Radio Interview, Pt. 3

This is the final segment of our live appearance on KPFT Radio in Houston on May 14, 2010. We played one our new songs, Let It Flow, and talked a bit about the songwriting process. RadioActive airs Fridays from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. on KPFT 90.1 in Houston. It’s a great show that promotes local, regional and national acts who get little or no airplay on commercial radio.

Don’t forget to come check us out on Friday, Aug. 6 at Bohemeo’s, 708 Telephone Road, in southeast Houston. Great little place owned by our friends Lupe and Sid Olivarez. We will be giving away free copies of our first CD, Another Lame Semi-Tragedy.

New song preview! “Last Night of My Life”

We’ve been working on new material for a while now and hope to have some available, at least online, by the end of the year. “Last Night of My Life” is a tune about loneliness, regret and reaching for people who are gone forever. We originally recorded it as a full-out rocker in the same vein as Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender,” but decided, because of the sadness in the lyrics, that it just didn’t work that way.

I played the tune a few weeks ago at Bohemeo’s in Houston and this is close to the way you’ll here it when it’s finished. Enjoy my friends!

KPFT Radio Interview, Pt. 2

In part 2 of our interview on KPFT Radio in Houston, we play “Father’s Day,” a track off of our first CD, Another Lame Semi-Tragedy. Enjoy!

KPFT Radio Interview, Pt. 1

On May 14, 2010, we traveled to the studios of KPFT Radio in Houston to promote our latest single, Someone Came To Help Me, and talk about our upcoming gig at Rudyards. This is part one of our interview on the show RadioActive.

Orange Is In “Comes Alive”

Our own Chris Rogers always gets great guitar sounds, whether he’s live or in the studio, it’s always rockin’. He is so good and puts out so much sound that many times he sounds like two guitar players. While he is creative and has quick fingers, we found out a lot of that sound has to do with his peddle board….and we have one legendary guitar player to thank.

Gig Alert! Aug. 6 – Bohemeo’s (early show/free CD giveaway)

Like Quagmire says on “Family Guy,” we are gigity-gigity gigging again. Friday, Aug. 6 we will be rockin’ Bohemeo’s, 708 Telephone Road, inside Tlaquepaque Market, in Southeast Houston. This is a great small venue owned by our good friends Lupe and Sid Olivarez. If you’ve never been there before, it’s an excellent place to eat and see a band. We are playing the early set at 8:45. Pete Simple is the closer.

We will be handing out copies of our first CD, Another Lame Semi-Tragedy, to everyone who wants one. We will also have t-shirts and our second CD, Come and Take It, on sale for you to purchase as well.

Jeff joined me at Bohemeo’s on July 3 for a version of one of our new tunes, “Time Is My Enemy.” Enjoy. We hope to see you at the show. Keep rockin’.