After 21 years of playing the club every Thursday night, Beetle — the Houston-based...
“I think of the club as a community,” says Pete Gordon, who operates The Continental. “And Beetle is such a part of that community. For a lot of people, their weeks revolved around it.When: 7:30 p.m. June 15 and 22'It was 21 years ago . . .'
Cruz has been a Beetle regular for more than 15 years. He’s easy to spot in the venue, his path interrupted repeatedly as he greets every other patron. “Sometimes it feels like everything is trying to bring you down,” he says. “This is so therapeutic. We love to dance. And the band is so good; their harmonies are perfect.”They found their ritual.Winding down
From the beginning, Beetle sought to focus on the songs. Cruz says their approach makes him think of what the Beatles’ gigs would have sounded like at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in the early 1960s: raw and energetic with an emphasis on vibe, riffs and little signature embellishments, and harmonies.Beetle has down about 185 of the roughly 225 songs for which the band is best known.
But Beetle came together without much of a formal plan. Beebe says he was days out of college when he started playing with Houston’s beloved the El Orbits with Henkel on the venue’s bingo night. The band was a staple at The Continental, an outgrowth of Austin’s popular club with the same name. Their band, the Pop Kings, wasn’t quite a draw for a Tuesday happy hour slot.
Swingier songs like “One After 909” achieve an effect akin to poking a hornet nest. Dancers fill the floor and buzz about without much space to work.Charlie made a racket in Houston in the 1980s with Dresden 45, and he for years created posters for concerts taking place in Houston. A loss of vision pushed him back into making music; though his graphic design work was so widespread in Houston, he’s left fingerprints all over town.
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