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Released 2006. Studio Album featuring Tony Redman on guitar, Bobby Daniel on Bass, Rick Lyon on Drums, Pat Benfield on Organ and Dave Biller on Steel
(14 Tracks) Released 2007. 14 solo acoustic tracks recorded at various dates around Texas in the spring and summer of 2007 while Chris was writing his second album.

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Chris Gates live 9/22/07
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Solo acoustic performance featuring songs and stories from throughout Chris' career shot live at Flipnotics in Austin Texas.

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My Interests

music, family, art, movies, intelligent conversation, spirituality, more music, motorcycles, uh...music...

I'd like to meet:

Keith Richards and Gram Parsons/Los Angeles/1970
Tom Dowd/ Muscle Shoals/1972
Billy Gibbons/Texas/1975
George Lucus/Los Angeles/1973(during the filming of "American Graffiti)
John Fante/Malibu, CA/1978
Ronnie Van Zant/Jacksonville, FL/1978

Music:

I'm still listening to a lot of Buddy Miller. I just bought both Hayes Carll records, and I've played Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Snake Farm and Kris Kristofferson's "This Old Road" till I can't hardly play'em no more... Anybody got any suggestions?

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Punch Drunk Love, Igby Goes Down, Old School, Royal Tannenbaum's, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and of course the best movie ever made... Raising Arizona

Television:

Waiting for Lost...Heroes, Chuck, Journeyman...the new Doctor Who... Jericho...sucked in to the serials...

Books:

Neil Gaiman, John Fante, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchet, Elmore Leonard...

My Blog

the ties that bind

So once again I am learning... Just because we like each other doesn't mean we are friends. Just because we love each other doesn't mean we have a relationship. In order to have a r...
Posted by Big Chris on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:58:00 PST

The Accountability Gap pt2

So here's how it looks to me... I can't really find any reference to the idea that "we want our children to have a better life than we do" anywhere before World War II. I understand that the folks com...
Posted by Big Chris on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:23:00 PST

The Accountability gap

I have all these not-so-random thoughts about the state of our world, and the reasons for it, and I keep getting the idea that, at its core, all the problems that this country and its people are suffe...
Posted by Big Chris on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:49:00 PST

you'd think I'd learn...

Why is it that even seemingly realistic expectations get me so sideways when they aren't met? You think that I'd have figured out how to roll with what's happening better by now....I guess I don't kno...
Posted by Big Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

all the great minds of our time are writing screenplays and song lyrics...

"Theres more to this life than just living..." (From the earth to the moon) "We dull our lives by the way we conceive them..." ("The Soul's Code" by James Hillerman) "Winners always want th...
Posted by Big Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

for a friend gone missing...

Its like this&. it feels as though for years we were wandering around with blinders on, searching for the light. And suddenly, with a little divine assistance and the help of a few friends, I can see...
Posted by Big Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

We're the Liar's Club...

We're the Liar's clubWe get together to pretend that everything is fun,Where everyone looks perfect and the party's never done,'Till we see the sun... We all know the rules,We hit the trendy spots i...
Posted by Big Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Birth of a notion...Rock and Roll!

Ok, so I've been going th the "Honky Happy Hour" at Ego's for the last couple of weeks, and we played last night (kinda last minite), and I gotta say, this feels allot like it did back in LA in 1986 w...
Posted by Big Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST