Russell Crowe

As Governor Rick Perry at the time, he declared that because we brought so many tourist dollars into town.

In the middle of August, bringing 2,000-plus people who have flown in, got a motel, and they're going to go to a rock and roll show over at Stubbs.

Yeah, that was the thing.

And it's funny because we haven't sold out this time.

We're here.

We play tonight, but we haven't... Where are you at tonight?

Stubbs.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, I went there first just to have some barbecue and had a conversation with...

Rodriguez the director you know who lived here and then you know a year and a bit later I'm walking on that stage it was unbelievable I was here to record at Willie Nelson's place and we said why don't we do on Fridays we'll just do little shows in town right cool

So we booked to play at Stubbs because a friend of a friend knew Charles Attal and the boys that set Stubbs up.

And while I was in England working on another thing before coming here,

They just said, hey, these tickets are going crazy, so can we go outside?

So we came here.

I think we were here recording for a month, and every Friday night we'd go and do a full house outside at Stubbs.

Wow.

It was cool.

And then we came back the year after in 2001 and raised some money for like an abused girls' shelter.

But I haven't been here since 2001, man.

This place has exploded.