Ever notice that strange little logo on the Bones’ posters?
TwangXiety Productions. What is that? Who are they? Who is behind the powerhouse Twang’in and Rockin’ of The Busted Bones?
One thing is for sure: We never could have gotten to where we are in the Twang/Rock stratosphere without them!
Here’s a brief history of TwangXiety Productions…
TwangXiety Productions emerged…
…from the shadows sometime in the early 1960s. Operating out of what appeared to be an abandoned Taco Bell (complete with a nonfunctional soda fountain and a lingering smell of stale Gorditas™), the company became known among dozens of people for producing music without ever meeting the artists.
Contracts were signed via cryptic notes slid under doors, vinyl demo records were exchanged through spy-like dead drops in public parks, and final mixes were delivered by a courier wearing a nametag that said “Dalve” who only communicated using small semaphore flags.
Musicians lucky enough—or unlucky enough—to work with TwangXiety would send raw tracks into the void, only to receive back albums that were aggressively average. The production quality was consistent: not good, not bad, just sort of there. An occasional Taco Bell drive-thru order could be heard in the background. To date, not a single TwangXiety-produced album has been sold, though many have been politely accepted as gifts and promptly forgotten.
Then came The Busted Bones, a band determined to blur the line between honky-tonk and classic Rock-n-Roll. Their motto: “Rock that Twangs and Twang that Rocks.” Their problem? About half their songs appealed to the Twang inclined, while the other half made boot-stomping cowboys deeply uncomfortable. TwangXiety managed to produce their debut album, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe, a record so perfectly in the middle that it left listeners profoundly unable to decide whether they liked it or not.
Yet, despite the lack of sales, TwangXiety Production remained anonymous, fueling low-level speculation. Some believed they were the employees of the old Taco Bell who simply never left, surviving on expired hot sauce packets and outdated recording equipment. Another theory suggests TwangXiety is made up of musicians who once played weddings but were banned from the circuit after a disastrous reception where their rendition of Free Bird lasted 27 minutes and ended with the bride on fire. Or perhaps TwangXiety is simply a Nigerian Prince with a lot of money.
No one knows for sure. All that’s certain is that TwangXiety Productions is still out there, still anonymous, and still turning anxious twang into regular twang — one mysterious mix at a time.
