Quixote will perform LIVE at Darwin’s Waiting Room in Phoenix, AZ May 8th 9-11pm
Darwins is located at the Southeast Corner of 36th Street and Indian School Roads in Phoenix.
Quixote is a 3-piece power-trio from Phoenix, Arizona. The band members backgrounds and influences run the gamut and their varied histories peek through their full sound and give hints as to where they’re coming from. As to where they are going? Tell me who you know. – Mark Mathbane
Tyler Christensen – Guitar, Voice
Adam Kohler – Bass
Ehren Stonner – Drums
SuperNormal Records presents “Quixote: LIVE in Arizona.” See below for showdates.
July 18th, 2009 – Darwin’s Waiting Room Phoenix, AZ – 10pm
August 1st, 2009 – Cien Agaves Scottsdale, AZ- 9pm
July 18th, 2009 – Darwin’s Waiting Room – Phoenix, AZ
August 1st, 2009 - Cien Agaves Old Town – Scottsdale, AZ
Watch the Darwin’s Show LIVE on SuperNormalRecords.com!
I will be playing a live show at 11:00 tonight at Darwin’s Waiting Room (Southeast Corner of 36th Street and Indian School Roads). Comedian Adam Kohler will be dropping in to noodle around on Electric Guitar and Acoustic Bass. Hope to see you all there.
On December 26th. Tyler Christensen (SuperNormal Tyler) played to a packed house at Mama Java’s Coffeehouse in Phoenix, Arizona. The show started at 8pm with Tyler casually strolling through the doors and saying hello to his awaiting friends and family. This show was a rare and welcome occurrence for the artist, as he mentioned in opening his set. This Indie Rock and Roll deal consists of late night shows in whiskey bars and the like. The cozy, intimate setting of Mama Java’s provided the perfect atmosphere for a simple acoustic singer/songwriter performance.
“It’s great to do a show at a place like Mama Java’s, in that, you’re performing in a silent room save for the barista machine firing up every few minutes. You couldn’t ask for a better crowd then the one at Mama’s last night. Attentive and appreciative, they made the night what it was. Good Show.” – Tyler Christensen
And a sizeable crowd, it was. Every seat was taken in the place with patrons sipping coffee and tapping their toes to the tunes. Well, every seat except for one was taken, to be honest, the empty chair on stage with Tyler made a good spot for his songbook to be sprawled out. Tyler flipped the pages and flowed through his songs in a casual “relax, I’ve done this before” manner.
Tyler opened his set with “The Things I’m Gonna Miss” a slow solemn song setting the tone for the evening. The tone set was not solemn, however, more like captivating. Starting the set with one of his more reserved, and memorable songs locked the crowd in for the evening. From the first note Tyler held ‘em and didn’t let them go until it was closing time. Breezing through his latest material such as: “Muse”, and “Carousel” to ‘digging into the vault’ to pull out older material that Tyler hasn’t played live in years, it was a full survey of this Singer/Songwriters repertoire.
Around 9:00pm, Tyler took a short five minute break and mingled with the crowd milling around. Meeting with friends from over ten years past, Tyler had a crowd as varied and diverse as his musical history. Colette Panagos, a high-school friend from back in the days of ‘Promiscuous Chicken’, Tyler’s first band in High-School. Jessica Bonnet Jennings, a fellow face-in-the-hall all through Junior High School and Chandler High, and her husband were in attendance as well. Who needs a high-school reunion, this was much shorter and all parties involved didn’t have to do that ‘reunion small-talk’ and ‘reminiscing.’ It was just a nice evening out. Chatting in the cold and some parting, then, Tyler returned inside for the second set.
Returning to the stage at 9:15, there was only fifteen minutes of showtime left. Tyler thanked his hosts and spoke a little about the neighborhood. A recent new-comer to this part of town, Tyler spoke of his affinity for the local independent businesses supporting live music in the area. Mama Java’s, Darwin’s Waiting Room (Famous Wings), and others were mentioned in gratitude by the artist.
Indian School Road is seeing a sea-change of sorts. From the Great Escape, to The Vig, To Darwin’s, to Hazelwood’s, to Mama Java’s, Independent restaurants and pubs, and coffeeshops, as well as retail locations are buiding a tight-knit community of mutual support. A recent influx of energy was brought about by the independent businesses in the area focusing on all-things-local. There are no illusions of grandeur in this little pocket of culture in the Valley of the Sun. Humble business owners open their doors each day, and just ‘do their thing.’ When the night falls, the baristas and bartenders set up PA’s for their local musicians and artists dropping in to hawk their latest wares. The Indie Corridor is experiencing an ebb and flow of a perfect partnership between artists and community.
Take it to mean what you would like it to mean. A goodbye to a beginning is a beginning of sorts; A prelude to the next step. A movement ever-upward, humility in-tow and a handful of genuine intentions. That can be said for Tyler,and for this little local business community.
“Grow Slow.” Tyler says,
“In this fast-paced, quick-fix-perscription kind-of-world we live in, it’s important to rise above all that noise. In this little section of town I call the Indie Corridor, we’ve got the right idea. There’s no flashy-glossed-over marketing needed. The guy rocking your party is the guy you saw this morning at 8 am dropping into Mama Java’s for a little retina relaxer. And the girl hanging out talking about her artwork is the same girl who gets a pack of smokes every morning at the Circle K with two-dollars cash-back for the bus. This is my little, real neighborhood. No veneer, no catch-phrase – This is home.” – Tyler Christensen
SuperNormal Tyler dropped into Darwin’s Waiting Room (Famous Wings) in Phoenix, Arizona for a solo acoustic performance. At 11:11p.m. Tyler Strolled through the door with an acoustic guitar, and harmonicas in a case, and a jam packed backpack on his back complete with a chrome mic stand sticking out of it like a large antennae. The quintessential ‘indie’ Tyler had just hopped off of the 41 westbound bus and was making a casual beeline for the stage.
“I have begun to play local shows in the same vein as I did when I was on my Public Transit Tour of Portland, Oregon (May 2008). The idea was to utilize public transit to get to all of my gigs. I think I have nearly perfected the method of light travel and pre-planning to the point where I prefer to not rely on anything but the hopes of a good time. No cars, no MPG’s, no CFC’s… I think that I just might be the greenest musician on the planet.” – SuperNormal Tyler
Well, green to a point, he sure did bring a lot of paper with him. A key component of Tyler’s live show’s is the ream of paper stacked up on whatever is handy, be it a barstool or a table. Due to his prolific songwriting Tyler is constantly workshopping new tunes and a live performance is sure to be a presentation of his latest efforts in songwriting. No two shows are the same and no matter if you saw him play last night or twenty minutes ago, it is a fresh experience packed with new material everytime.
Blazing through his set and shuffling through the ream, about an hour in Daylon Greer the Local ‘King of Covers’ walked through the door. JT’s, a local pub down the street ,was having their 11th anniversary, and Daylon had been out celebrating and bar hopping all day. It was great to see these two local performers interact on stage, even if the whiskey was playing Daylon’s harmonica more than he was. After depleting the bar of a fair share of it’s stock of Jack Daniel’s Daylon and his girl headed out the door and back into the night.
Tyler closed out his set with a message by playing his song “Walking”. Indulging, as he rarely does, in a little songwriter/storyteller moment, he explained the story behind the song. An up-beat, positive number about a simple walk downtown, the crux of the story and the reason for the song relies on when Tyler was doing laundry in a laundromat downtown and took a walk around the block while his clothes (complete with his favorite shirt) was tumbling in the dryer. He returned to find the door open and his clothes gone. Rather than let the experience sour his chin-up stroll around downtown marvelling at passers-by, and passing on a little good cheer on a day where ‘morning made a masterpiece’, Tyler released the negative overtones of the theft by crafting a little ditty. ‘ my clothes are gone/i hope whoever needs’them puts them on and goes out walking/head held high in pride/ in their brand new clean clothing’ . The resounding choruses reverberating across the bar and out the door into the end of the night; ‘we owe eachother the world / and the world don’t owe us a thing’.
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