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Hosty Duo

About Me

P.O Box 843 Norman, OK 73070 www.hosty.com“Out of Norman, Oklahoma, witty guitar guru Hosty and his side kick, 3 piece drummer, Michael “Tic Tac” Byars, entertain as the Hosty Duo with a tour schedule of 250 shows a year. Hosty simultaneously tears through gritty slide leads, blows harmonica and or Kazoo and uses foot pedals to stomp bass lines. His guitar collection includes an 8 string instrument that allows him to thump three bass strings with his thumb while he fingerpicks guitar. The Hosty Duo has developed a huge underground following of bikers, sorority gals, hippies and truckers.” Billy Block’s Western Beat Monthly -May 2003 Edition

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/19/2005
Band Website: www.hosty.com
Band Members: Hosty and Byars
Influences: Fred McDowell, Ry Cooder, Jon Wayne, Canned Heat, Charlie Patton
Sounds Like: An old frieght train the engineer keeps pouring the coals too, with the boiler about to blow.
Record Label: HTM Records

My Blog

Doing DaVinci Hosty Duo Fan

Wow, I guess it will now be a goal to see how many tv shows we can get a Hosty Duo T-Shirt on. The T-shirt was already featured on Cash Cab....and now DaVinci.........I got this e-mail from Lando who ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Beer of Life

Researchers at Rice University have come up with a beer that will extend your life. Through genetic engineering they have managed to alter the yeast in beer to create or to produce resverstrol which h...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:22:00 GMT

The Nomad

On the Highways and byways, Recreational vehicles, trailers and conversion vans all have nicknames. The companies who produce them would refer to them as brand names. I am always on the lookout for a ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:55:00 GMT

Merlin the Snake

The Little River Zoo is an animal have in Southwest Norman, OK that cares for a variety of animals some of whom were once pets and sometimes laboratory animals that have found a new home.You see, some...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:23:00 GMT

Pterodactyl on Terror

I read the other day that the US Government is employing a new device in the Military. We have all seen the Drone Aircraft, the robot aircraft that have been flying around in Afganistan and Iraq. Well...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:50:00 GMT

Cash Cab

Yes we have gotten a lot of mail about seeing a Duo T Shirt on the TV show "Cash Cab." You see if you get a T-shirt, you might get asked to be on a game show and if you are on the game show wearing th...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:06:00 GMT

Honorable Mention

Well, I had written about how the Hosty Duo has been "worth mentioning" in the Oklahoma Gazette Best of OKC more than several times. Today, I learned from a reliable source that the song "Oklahoma Bre...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:31:00 GMT

Dangerous Mascots

Oh the Philly Phanatic.......You may have seen him way back in the 70's at an OKC 89-er game or even more recently a likeness of the Phanatic is portrayed on the Simpsons. The Phanatic is from the fam...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:08:00 GMT

State Fair Spider Woman

So I took the whole family to the great State Fair of Oklahoma and witnessed a creature that should not be alive: The spider Woman.Now for one whole dollar or fifty cents for kids you can walk into a ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:09:00 GMT

Contests, Awards and Festivals

Big News!First of all we were not selected to play at the South Padre Music Festival in Texas. The winner is a band from Texas who is currently looking for a drummer. Thanks everyone for voting for us...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:17:00 GMT