Dave Roybal moved to Austin in 1994 when the "anything goes, just play it loud" Red River district meant the neighboring punk clubs- the Blue Flamingo and Emo's. Like-minded garage rockers rallied around the Saturday night KOOP radio program "the Garage Show" and he soon found himself volunteering at the station. He inherited the weekday local music show "Live Bait", and for three cycles of South By Southwest chronicled the gritty underbelly of Capitol City's maturing entertainment district. Live Bait became synonymous with the bare-knuckle rock and roll of the Eastside Suicides, the Riverboat Gamblers, the Sons of Hercules, and Pink Swords. When he didn't have bands on the air promoting their upcoming shows, he was recording demos for them in his concrete basement. Some of these sessions were released by Gearhead Records (CA), Dropkick Records (AUS) and Rubble Records (TX). As a columnist and critic for both Rank and Revue and Reloaded Monthly he's done cover stories > on visionary alternative rock impresario, Tim Kerr, and rascally gubernatorial hopeful, Kinky Friedman.   Copyright © Reloaded. All Rights Reserved. designed by grooveefortune