Bashing out a sequence of career-spanning sing-alongs to attendees of a private backyard concert on Friday, A Giant Dog revealed the show’s close: the live debut of a forthcoming album in its entirety. A Giant Dog performing a yet-to-be-announced new album at a backyard party on Friday (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
The band had been working on said album for “a couple years,” noted singer/guitarist Andrew Cashen.
“No, a couple months,” amended vocalist Sabrina Ellis with a smile.
Cashen further explained, in between songs, that the LP, ostensibly titled
Bite, would appear in the coming years.
“Months,” Ellis again corrected.
If I saw my guidance counselor I would kick him in the nuts.
Pineapple Tangaroa laughed. It s not that the Austinite wasn t fascinated with anthropology enough to study it at Kent State University. He just didn t realize that an undergraduate degree alone in that discipline would be a professional dead end . something his advisor clearly forgot to mention. He knew I didn t want to go for my master s degree and not once did he bring up that if you don t get a master s, there really isn t a career for you in anthropology.
So, upon graduating in 2004, Tangaroa did what people with useless bachelor s diplomas do: entry level work in an unrelated field. Abhorring the frigid Ohio winters, he returned to his previous stomping grounds of San Marcos and worked a couple of lousy piercing gigs and a warehouse job. After repeated rejection, he made an inroad into Austin s body art scene, being hired at Mercy Piercing Studios. Concurrently, he found a mentor in late local legend Daryl Bear