Archive shot and musings.

 

A shot of ebolabuddha playing at a small theater on 6th St. in San Francisco, 2016. Hard to believe it's been ten years since! ebolabuddha started on a lark but ended up doing a lot of interesting shows. It was cool for me as a person older than the other guys in the band as I got their younger perspectives and was shown certain parts of the Metal scene in the Bay that would not have been otherwise available to me. The peak moment of that particular experience for me was when we played on KFJC, the best radio station in the world. My wife and I were talking recently about how in a sane world, this part of the year would actually be acknowledged as the ending of the year. It's been a fun "year" for me, these last four seasons in Tucson. Two albums have been recorded and I'll guess we'll see if they ever get properly released. Plenty of shows have been played too as recounted in this blog. Who knows what the future holds, but optimism will remain. Hey, it can't get as lame as it did in the early years of this weird decade. At least that's my hope! Zenzizenzo shows coming soon! 

Benson Highway Band-Slow Body Brewery Tucson, 10/24/26

 

We had a good turnout but playing last means that you're kind of doing clean up and bidding patrons goodbye. Still, cool that some good money was raised by the anti-data center organization. Hopefully it will be put to good use. The entities that want to build data centers are arrogant in that they seem to believe that they can just have tax payers foot the bill for their potentially hugely profitable ventures. There needs to be some pushback against the elitism that they flaunt. That's my take anyway. 

Below: a blurry shot of Sean Whalen & the Benson Highway Band and a clear shot of yours truly. Aw how cute. 

Benson Highway Band plays this Saturday at Slow Body Brewery!

 

Sat., 10/24/26

Slow Body Brewery

831 E 17th St.

Tucson 85719

7PM

Benson Highway Band

Mad Ugly

Miss Olivia and the Interlopers

$10-20 sliding scale, half the proceeds go to No Desert Data Center Coalition, half to performers

Seems like a worthy cause to me! 

Ovipositor first album up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/11-ayler-i-licked-colins-anus

Yeah, the link name is funny and gross but that's how Colin wanted the track subtitled on the album so there you go. The other Ovipositor albums can be streamed at Amazon and Bandcamp but this one has been out of the digital sphere. That cover guy is Jason Batzer. He ended his life in 2013. This world was not kind to Jason and he struggled a lot. Cool font for the logo too. 

Zenzizenzo-Chicago Bar Tucson, 10/17/26

 

Chicago Bar of Tucson is under new management and they're doing lots of things in order to make money and get some new buzz going for themselves. I feel like this spot would be a great place for many different types of Tucson bands, and bands from other places. It's a nice sounding room and there is a ton of historical vibe residing within its walls. Chicago Bar is just cool, and I hope that they find much success. Zenzizenzo played a somewhat truncated set at this fine establishment and it was a fun time for that duration, even with a few tech difficulties. Especially cool was having Holy Nitemare singer Rita sing a version of Annihilate This Week with us. Rita rocks. I like to think that Zenzizenzo rocks too and hopefully those who hear us would agree. And if not, ah well. 

Zenzizenzo plays this Saturday night in Tucson!

 

Sat., 10/17/26

Chicago Bar

5945 E Speedway Blvd. 

Tucson, 85712

10PM

Zenzizenzo

Holy Nitemare

Dead Train Gone

Free

We will be doing yet another cover song with a special guest vocalist! 

Benson Highway Band Che's Lounge Tucson, 9/26/26

 

Just one shot and it's a still from an Instagram feed. I'm in there somewhere! It was a good time as we had some people dancing and such. People were too busy partying to take pictures, and that's OK because that's what Che's Lounge is all about. Good times at a cool spot!