So, next Sunday, June 19th, we will be performing at The Stage on 6th st. here in Austin, TX. Headliners, Fran & Anton Cosmo (formerly of Boston) and many more musicians and friends are gathering to help raise awareness of the importance of organ donation as well as help raise the funds to pay for Tammy’s transplant. There will also be a silent auction for 4 rush tickets, an autographed gibson guitar, and two night retreat to the islands of Lake Travis. We are proud to be involved in such an event and are trying to do all we can to really return the same love she has shown us.

This Tuesday, June 14th you can tune into to Lorris Lowes Local Licks on KLBJ 93.7 to hear us perform some of our songs acoustic. We’ll be talking about the benefit show as well as giving away two pairs of tickets to the show on the 19th. If you don’t have radio, you can listen online at 10:00PM here: http://www.klbjfm.com/stream/index.aspx

On Friday, June 17th, we will be making an appearance on “Good Day Austin” Fox 7′s local morning show. So, you can count on us once again to be playing some songs and spreading awareness.

If you are reading this, please do all in your power to come join us next Sunday, it would really mean a lot to a lot of people and most of all it, could save someone’s life.

Best,

Tucker

Below are some details for the show:

Fran Cosmo/ Former Lead Singer of BOSTON and Anton Cosmo/ former guitarist and songwriter of BOSTON, come to Austin to play a benefit fundraiser concert promoting Organ Donor Awareness! June 19th at The Stage on 6th St.!!

Doors open at 2pm June 19th at The Stage on Sixth Street;
5 bands:
EM Cravens; Cody Jasper band; The New Mars, Tucker Jameson & the Hot Mugs, and….
Fran and Anton Cosmo (formally of the legendary BOSTON) come on at about 8 pm.
(Rusty on keys and guitar, Mick on guitar, Bernie on bass, Tom on drums)
Silent auction/ food/ drink specials.

Tickets -
$25 advanced/ $35 at the door….
$75 VIP includes shuttle to and from venue to Molotov lounge for after party with Boston
$100 VIP includes Austin’s Aware t shirt and drink special bracelet all month June.

www.teamtammymiranda.com to buy tickets (scroll to the bottom of the site)

Sponsored by:
Carmack Concepts, The Stage on 6th, Famous Vodka, Sheradon Hotels, Outhouse Designs, Deep Eddy, Dizzy Rooster, Chuggin Monkey, The Dogwood, Molotov Lounge, Thirsty Nickel, Blind Pig Pub, Bat Bar, Dare Music, Gibson, AMFM Studios, Dell, Scentsy, Amway, Austin Concession Trailers, Hairbrained Solutions, Red Gorilla Music, KLBJ Local Licks, Alex and Dolores Spitzer, Jim Zumwalt & Assoc at Shacklaw, MaryJane Asato & Assoc,, Alpha Graphics, HotSauce of Austin!, Gary Lee Cox Band, Cody Jasper Band, The New Mars, Tucker Jameson & The Hot Mugs, Emcravens Band,Guilty Pleasures of Austin, In The Pink, Tish & MizzBeHavin, Aaron Navarro Band, JO Hell, Sonny Wolf, Stewart Mann, Shawn Pander, Ransom Jack, O-Port, Islands of Lake Travis Resort, Fran Cosmo, Anton Cosmo and Angie Vasconcellos Event Planner/ Coordinator

There has been lots of cool stuff happening so I suppose it’s finally time to get back to the blog. Back in October the band relocated to the wonderful city of Austin, TX!   Blake, David, and I all live together in a Band House, which, although trying at times, is a total blast.  We’ve had construction going on in our backyard for the past few weeks because we are sound proofing our garage for a rehearsal space (uber exciting news for our neighbors lol).  Austin has been so friendly to us, the people we meet and work with are kind and extremely supportive of musicians.  Despite a few cold spells and one short burst of white powder from the sky, the weather has been gorgeous (sry North East).  The three of us that live together have been playing lots of acoustic happy hours to keep our chops up between official gigs and to promote our full band electric sets.

Maybe the most important and latest development is the addition of Chris Copeland to our band.  Chris is a very talented drummer with an always lifting spirit, he was born and raised right here in Austin and is a blast to play music with.

We have been gigging like crazy!  The highlights form the past month were most definitely our show at STUBB’s and our show at the Gibson Show-room which was filmed by FOX 7.  Now, we are gearing up for all our shows during SXSW.  So far we are playing 5 shows, 3 for the RedGorilla Festival, 1 for Berklee College of Music, and one special show at Stompin’ Grounds.  It’ll be my first SXSW and I’ve heard that the traffic is crazy but the experience is worth it, so I’m pumped.

Our website is about to be updated so that it will be easier to see our schedule and interact with us.  For now, I will try to post shows here, however, the best place to look for updates on show times and venues is our facebook band page CLICK HERE

Hope to see you soon at one of our shows

Best,

Tucker

SSMF is a three day music festival spanning all genres and showcasing some amazing artists. Among the Roster of performers are Slash feat. Fergie, Smashing Pumpkins, P.O.D., Kid Cudi, and many more.

http://www.sunsetstripmusicfestival.com/

TJ & The Hot Mugs @ The Cat Club Friday, Aug. 27th

Our roll that night was to cap off a night of 90s reunion shows. A Hootie-esk band and a Metallica wanted-to-be band were getting together again for a single show. It was a night of wondering if they were any better 15 years ago. The verdict was not. After a 2 hour delay and mass exodus of the supporting crowd, we played a semi-drunken set to the bartenders and local drinkers. Semi-drunken because, lets be honest, if you’re supposed to play at 11:30pm, but you start at 1:30am, you’re not going to NOT drink until after your set.

We had a hotel, so we slept in that night and drove back to Houston in the afternoon. We decided to head to the beach later last night and got here after the sun set and the moon had come out. Beach walks in the moonlight are unbeatable.  We’re here for another night and back in Houston tomorrow afternoon. Couple days of practice too before we head out west!  More and more excited to get to LA again.  See  you all there,

Jon (bass)

Once again the Powell family shows us their kind hospitality. Due to the cancellation of our House of Blues show, the Powells are going to enjoy our company until we have to leave for LA. Well, we hope they enjoy us.  The cancellation saddens us as much as it causes delight. A show is cancelled, but we get to eat really good food. Such is life.

We knew when we were planning our second trip out to the west coast, wanted to hit up Momo’s in Austin again. It just has a nice atmosphere, it sounds good in there, staff is awesome. We were fortunate enough to get a time slot on a day we could do it, so I know we were all looking forward to it in our own little ways.

Simply because a time slot was available for us to play in doen’t always mean it is the best slot for us. At this stage in the game we will take anything. As we should. But closing the night after sitar, soprano sax and tabla night is pushing it. Some how we got tacked onto the end of ‘World Music Night’ at Momo’s, which I believe is what happened last time.

“And now, representing America, ‘Tucker Jameson & the Hot Mugs’!”

It was a late night but a chill one. We had some great Mexican food, drank good beer in the air conditioning, hung out. Set for us started at midnight.  We played till about one and then headed out, but not after relaxing with our friends who had come out to see us.

And now, we practice, work out in the pool, see old friends, eat great, and hang until our departure to LA.

Jon (bass)

We played Lizard’s (ironically owned by a chick named ‘Liz’) about a month ago on our last tour round the country. We liked it so much that we wanted to come back, especially since the booking agent for the venue promised us we could directly support (play right before) the headliner: owner Liz’s band. But since disappointment circulates in the music business like the common cold, we got slotted as the opener for the night. What ev’s. We dealt with it.

Lizard’s, to refresh your memory, is this dive across the bad side of the train tracks outside of Indy. A basement venue, it’s just one of those places all the blue collar guys go to drink when they want to get away from the wives, and where all the bikers end up when they’re done being seen. So needless to say, we fit right in with the crowd. We’re surprisingly liked at Lizards however. We don’t get it, but we won’t fight it.

So after we got done with our set and put our stuff back in the trailer, we got hit with a musical experience NOBODY wasprepared for. Words do not describe.

Then Liz, the owner, played a trio set with her boyfriend/bass player and new guitar player.  We called it a night after that one.

After a pit stop at Guitar Center we are headed down to Houston, TX for a day of R’n'R before the show in Austin on the 17th. Austin, Dallas, Houston, LA, HOME. The end is coming to a close. :’(  Wish us luck on this last leg!

Jon (bass)

What a cool show yesterday. We we’re the only out of town-ers, and the rest of the groups brought great crowds. This was a special show though; we were the oldest band there, which for us, is a rarity. The first group was a 16 year old Allman Brothers band who ripped on some bluesy jams and hinted that they had some jazz chops too. They were from a local Chicago School of Rock, which, by the way, has yet to let me down. Every band that I’ve heard from those types of programs has been burnin’.

Our set was fun.  I think the other bands enjoyed seeing what the older kids could do.  We had some friends of Tucker’s dad come out to the show again (they came to our last Chicago show) and it was great to see them again.

The band after was a cute group of 13 year old girls and their 24 year old baby-sitter/drummer. They were so good! Even for 13 year olds. Great performers too. Then the band after them was a group of high school students who had a Killers or MGMT kind of vibe. The whole night I was thinking about how great it must be playing at those levels at such young ages. They kids we played with last night could all go really far if they wanted.

Now, I’m only typing this based on drunken babble, but I think Blake and Austin and David hung out with the Black Eyed Peas last night after our show.  All I put together is that they were at a club they all went to after the show and that cigarettes were smoked together.  Will confirm in the next blog post.

New show added: House of Blues in Houston, TX! That’ll be sweeeeet. Show date is August 24 (11 days from now), @ 8pm. But first off to Cleveland tonight, Indianapolis tomorrow, and Austin, TX a couple days after that.  See you guys at the show!

Off to Cleveland, OH!  Looking forward to meeting Mary Kate, who did a radio interview with us on Wednesday.

Jon (bass)