Welcome to the best classic rock band in Southeast Texas… well, we think so anyway. And why not? For the past 9 years, we've brought you the best, purest Classic Rock and Blues of anyone around. If you're gonna play cover-tunes around here, you'd better get it right and Rockin' Horse does just that… from ZZ Top to John Cougar, J. Geils to Pink Floyd, and Santana to Golden Earring, The Horse brings it to ya... loud and proud just like it was meant to be played.

So for a ballz-out good time with the music you know and love, come spend an evening with Rockin' Horse. We promise that you'll love it as much as we do!

In the meantime, feel free to poke around on our site. You can listen to or download our demo, check out our band bios, and dig through the stuff we weren't quite sure what to do with. And be sure to leave us an email address so we can let you know about upcoming events. Send it here.

Keep Rockin’
-Major Tom

The holidays are over and all we're left with is the fading afterglow of yuletide happiness, the residual reflux from all that roast turkey (or fried, most likely), and another bad sweater from Aunt Sally. Well there is the swollen Mastercard account and the dented front fender you mysteriously picked up at the Mall during the insanity of last-minute shopping, but basically it's over. Only 300 or so shopping days 'til next season. Now what? Oh yeah… tax time! What joy.

This is the dead zone… the joyless period of waiting between the frenzy of Christmas and the promise of springtime. Mardi Gras helped some, but the weather sucked so bad that I almost missed it. Somewhere out there, racing toward us, is a Spring Break... rife with nubile women and frosty beverages, surf, sand, the whine of jet-skis and outboards. But dammit, it sure seems like a long time coming! What do we do with ourselves in the meantime?

Now I know that your first impulse is to sit in the corner, watching Everybody Loves Raymond reruns and eating cold pizza, and try to ignore the joyless temporal void between the present and the tenative emergence of Spring's first bikini. I understand that. But you can't let yourself succumb to it. You gotta get out and make something happen, just to keep in practice if nothing else! Find a local club and support your favorite musicians, or (God forbid) go listen to somebody you've never heard before. Take care of your local music scene, and it'll take care of you! No matter what the weather.

-The Maj

Summer’s gone and here we are, dodging hurricanes and mosquitoes. Welcome to Southeast Texas, y’all! That’s OK, we’re all used to that stuff. But the onset of fall means cooler weather is on the way and cooler weather means folks will slowly begin to emerge from their air-conditioned, hurricane-proofed houses and venture forth into the world once again. Like large, pallid butterflies they will leave the chrysalis and seek out the necessities of life… food, music, and beer. It’ll start slowly, but soon it will develop into an all-out swarm. Thousands will amass in a frenzy of freedom and hunger. These swarms are sometimes known as festivals, fairs, and bike-rallies! That, folks… is where we come in!

The Horse will be headlining Saturday night at Night of the Coyote on Oct 6, way out in the woods at the Mill Creek Motorcycle Campground in Spurger, Tx. Alan Leger and friends have really come a long way with the MCMC, holding two major rallies there a year… the Wild Azalea Run in March and Night of the Coyote in October. Lots of music, craziness, good food, and fun for everyone (over 18) whether you’re riding on two wheels or four. Another local band, Stone Free, will be appearing there, too. For more info, including a map and directions, scoot on over to mcmotorcyclecampground.com.

Also, the South Texas State Fair is a-comin’ to town, and Rockin’ Horse will be there. Haven’t nailed down a schedule yet, but I’ll let you know. Also looking forward to playing Softails in Baytown.

Had a great time at the Southeast Texas Musicians Forum party and jam on Friday, Oct 21 at Changing Times in Beaumont. For those of you who do not frequent the forum, it’s just a discussion board that has turned into something pretty special… over 750,000 hits in 2 years! Bands appearing at the Jam were Brother Man (a project including Mark Britt, Ben Sanders, Junior Lopez, and Tony Risotta), Larry Carrell’s new band, Stone Free, Rockin’ Horse, and the Wesley Niles Band. It was a large time, and we hope to have another one in about 6 months. Meanwhile, if you’re in the mood to blog, bitch, or brag… tune into the Southeast Texas Musician’s Forum.

Hey… thanks for stoppin’ by.

Keep Rockin’
-Major Tom

Let the rains stop, for cryin’ out loud! This is festival time. Time for the river and the beach and the park. Time to sit outside and listen to some good music and drink frosty malt beverages with your buds. I don’t know if it’s been 40 days and 40 nights yet, but it’s certainly workin’ on it. I know. Let’s build us an ark and use it as a stage. First we figure out how long a cubit is. Then we’ll round up two of everything… a couple of classy Les Paul’s, two Marshall half-stacks, a couple of old Twins with cigarette burns on the vinyl and maybe a toilet paper patch on one of the speaker cones, two drum sets… one acoustic ( DW maybe) and one electric (definitely Roland) … both with double bass rigs, of course! A pair of vintage Strats, beat up and broke in like your favorite old boots, two SVT’s complete with refrigerator cabs, an old P Bass, a Jazz, or maybe a light new Cirrus to thump on… you get the picture. We’ll float around and make merry noises while we wait for Mount Arafat to dry out again. No cover charge, smoking on the poop deck only. Somebody watch for the doves, will ya! Or were those Seagulls?

But seriously folks, we just got rained out of a prime gig down on Crystal Beach, right in the middle of The Zoo. Where’s the justice here? For that matter, where are the bikinis, the sassy tattoos, and the tawny young lasses that wear them so proudly? Where are the Show Me Your Tits signs and all the idiots that wave them, grinning like its an original idea? That homogenous blend of preppy school kids, career rednecks, old hippies, and gang-banger wannabes… wafting with conflicting aromas of beer, barbeque, coconut oil, Marlboros, and ganja. That randy cacophony of Travis Tritt, Ted Nugent, Beyonce, Grand Funk, Los Lonely Boys, and JayZ competing with a veritable symphony of Flowmasters, 4-wheelers, and police sirens. I’m really gonna miss all that. Guess I’ll sit on the porch instead, and watch it rain. Baby… please get me another beer while yer up!

We’re back, though… after a short and fun-filled break The Horse is back. Guess I’ll update the calendar and get back in the swing of messing with this site more than once every three months! If I make it a habit to put new and interesting stuff on here occasionally, y’all might actually log onto it every now and then to check out The Horse. What have we been doin’ this last couple of months? Marcus has been picking up some extra cash playing with a couple of country bands in the area. Brian has been working all the OT he can get so he can afford insurance for his 16 yr old daughter, Taylor, who has a new car. (I can relate!) And the Doc? Who knows what evil lies within that mountain of a man? It’s the quiet ones you really have to watch, you know. Me? I’ve been on holiday in Tibet. The Dali Lama says “Hey!”

Keep Rockin’
-Major Tom

OK... we needed a break. Didn't count on all the stuff happening during that break, though. It's a good thing we were off! I appreciate all the support and condolences on the loss of my Dad, Melvin M. Janise, last Saturday. We were close and I'm gonna miss him.  Now back to business. We let our dance card almost empty out ... time to beat the bushes for some work. I know Barefoot Tina's is in the works again, and we have a couple of private parties lined up...  we'll keep you posted on the calendar.

Y'all take care. And keep on rockin'!

-Major Tom

Hey, it's festival time again, and the phone's about to ring off the hook here at the stables. Everybody wants to get outdoors and enjoy the spring weather. We have the Heritage Festival and the Redbud Festival and the Catfish Festival and the Pecan Festival and the Texas BBQ Festival. How many did I miss? And that's not to mention the bike rallies… Wild Azalea, Thunder in the Hill Country, Cowboys on the Coast… its gonna be a good year and The Horse is in full stride.

We have some new venues comin' up… Whisky's on Galveston Island and Barefoot Tina's #2 in LaPorte, are the latest. We're lookin' forward to those dates. Also you may have noticed the new website… the old one was getting a little shopworn and we needed something simpler that didn't take as long to load up… those big ol' graphics files are hell on a modem and a phone line! Anyway, thanks to Aaron at citizensubject.com, we have a new site to play with for awhile. One handy thing is the calendar that's right up front (No… look down. See it? It's right under this paragraph) so you don't have to click around tryin' to find it, and I don't have to click around tryin' to edit it! Simple as a feed trough, huh? Gonna add some pix and some sound bits to it as soon as I figure out how to do all that. You'll just have to check back pretty regular to keep track of our progress.

See you soon!
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