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“Dave and I were playing acoustic music for a long time together, driving all over Texas,” Anderson remembers. “I’m not sure if there was one breaking point, or a slow, agonizing breaking point. . .but I got tired of people being able to talk over me. I wanted to be so loud that they couldn’t talk about me.” Shortly thereafter, Quaker City Night Hawks were born.
“Mark Twain was on this boat,” Matsler explains, when asked about the origin of the band’s name, “and they were going to the Holy Land — Jerusalem — because someone had commissioned him to go along with these pilgrims. He was just going there to write, so he was, like, going gonzo on this thing. The boat was called the Quaker City. He was hanging out with all these religious people, trying to find some people who would drink and smoke and play cards with him under the boat at night.
“The cool thing we’ve noticed is, a lot of those guys cultivate this really rad scene where their fans know they’re gonna be really judicious and vet who’s gonna open,” says Haynes. “[The fans] trust the headliners to pick a good opener. They made this climate with their fans: ‘show up for the opener’s set.’ They’ll all be in place before our set, instead of trickling in. It’s like, “If you show up early, we’ll bring you cool shit.” And you can definitely feel that vibe with those artists.
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