Box Office Concerts at the Inwood Theater, suspended after 17 Years

The first and only box office concerts, at the Inwood Theater , after 17 years, have been suspended, and most likely cancelled by management.

For a decade and a half, Tom Hendricks, as “Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar”, played two shows every Tuesday and two on Wednesday, in the box office ticket booth, behind the glass.

In between shows Hendricks would sell tickets. Performances happened through both cold winter days and hot summer nights.

Hendricks and his ’64 Silvertone Guitar would play a mix of originals, and classics – vocal and guitar accompaniment, or instrumentals. The 6 CD “Outside The Box Set”, from Musea Records, reflects many of those songs.

That may now be Dallas Music History.

The most common comment he would get when playing, was reported as, “I thought you were a Radio!”

Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 20 year old zine Musea – see wikipedia for more.)

Breaking Music News!

Dear Readers,

Yesterday, Tuesday, I finished recording my 14th and last song for my seventh cd (10 with vocals, and 4 instrumentals). The last song was my BIG song for the album – big meaning a song that starts out slow and builds to a big ending – God Bless The Child, the song co written by Billie Holiday, with a nice 60′s version by Blood Sweat and Tears.
Now on to mix, get the cover ready, etc. etc. Stay tuned!

Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 21 year old zine Musea – see wikipedia entry for more)

Big Changes for me at the Inwood Theater

HUNKASUARUS AND PET DOG AT THE LOUNGE.

There have been a LOT of changes at work (Inwood Theater, Dallas)  for me. Some good and some bad. Here’s some of the good : I’ll be playing and singing at the INWOOD LOUNGE tonight from 7-10PM. Hear me live.

Why my music sounds that way

Somebody on a music newsgroup commented that he thought my recordings were done in my apartment because they sounded so simple. Not so. The guitar and voice works* are ALL studio made on top line equipment with a great engineer, who not only has a gold record on her wall, but actually teaches audio at college – Pam Irwin. (I’m now working on my seventh CD at another studio – but it too has a gold record on the wall – Crystal Clear Studios, engineer Nolan Brett).

In both cases, we purposely kept things simple, very little if any autotune, very little special effects other than reverb, with only a few lite touches etc. What you get is a guitar, a lead voice, and two background voices.  These recordings were all made on a 1964 Silvertone (guitar sold at Sears)  that was perpetually out of tune – which was an ongoing problem. So the guitar was old and not expensive by any means -though it gets a great brassy sound that I now LOVE. This was all on purpose to get a back to basics, simple clear sound. Good music – simple sound. That’s part of the new music that I have advocated.

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*My piano recordings, on the other hand, are ALL made in my apartment on a cassio synthesizer – so they are NOT professional by any means.

“T” is for Too Shy – My Musical Alphabet

“T” is for “Too Shy”

http://music.hunkasaurus.com/tooshy.mp3