Sept. 22, 2005 - Damage Control KPFT - Hurricane Rita Edition - Devin the Dude

Hot on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, Houston was bracing for Hurricane Rita which was supposed to wipe out our coast and do much damage to Houston. Everyone freaked out and left town, of course. After seeing what happened in New Orleans, most people were not trying to stick around. The roads were crazy with cars like I had never seen before. Inbound lanes were opened to make them outbound lanes. Shit was insane. The whole crew of Damage Control headed out of town earlier in the day, but Matt Sonzala stayed to do the show, and got to do it alone. Usually the show would have up to 100 guests (not kidding) all around the building, but on this night, only the one and only Lean Sippa from Belgium came through (he was in town staying at a hotel and weathered the whole storm, and he brought us Belgian beers!), and also the one and also only Devin the Dude came down. Devin came fresh from the studio with demos of songs that would later become the Coughee Brothaz first solo album. I played a bunch of hard ass gangsta shit because we didn't have any guests with their stupid sippin lean out my cup while a stripper dance in the heart of that H-town bs. I got to play whatever I wanted, and tell people to get the hell out of town. My daughter Elena was only 2 months old at the time and Eva was 3 years old. After the show we hit the road at 3am from 290 and TC Jester. At 8am we had only gotten to the Beltway, so we turned around and went home. When we got up in the morning the gas station by our house had a huge line but they had gas, so we filled up and tried again to leave for Austin. It was a really sunny and nice day. The highway was littered with cars. The intersection of I-10 and 71 looked like a scene out of Mad Max. No gas, and people just all over the side of the road, the median, etc, sleeping, waiting, hoping. But we rode right into Austin and I was still high from doing this show. Because I got to play the music I love with a couple of my really great friends. K-Rino came down later too. Anyway I wanted to share this with you. Please share it far and wide and leave comments. THANKS! (Also Hurricane Rita caused no damage to Houston and minimal damage to Galveston. We moved to Austin just before Hurricane Ike though, and that bitch wreaked HAVOC)