I was working in college radio as the Metal Director. I had cultivated a good relationship with Rita, the radio rep for Big Chief Records. So she tells me all about this band they’ve signed called “dead horse”. Who? Ok, I check it out. The album is “Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers”. And I tell you, there’s nothing else like it. Not since, not ever again. dead horse are unique in the musical world, and no one comes close to all that their music is and was. It’s hard to describe, you just have to listen. It’s the most eclectic mash-up, yet it works. It’s not trying hard and failing, it’s just a natural thing born in many ways from Texas roots and thus succeeding.

Thing is, at the time I was living in Virginia and I had no idea about the Texas connection (dead horse is from Houston). When I moved to Texas, I still had my dead horse t-shirt. I wear it out every now and again, and no shirt I have garners such interest as that shirt. All sorts of conversations get struck up when I wear the shirt. At concerts, other people start shouting dead horse lyrics towards me and we all bond over our shared interest. It’s a shame they never gained a larger following and success, but on the same token it wouldn’t be the same if they had.