BAND 1: Erin Budd (guitar), Winston Chapman (guitar), Jenny Arthur (guitar), Matt Nicholson (WILD)
BAND 2: Travis Catsull (bass), Eli Welbourne (bass), Renee Manly (bass), Richard Schildman (bass)
BAND 3: Deena Hyatt (bass), Eric Bradford (WILD), Reed Posey (bass), Chris Lyons (guitar)
BAND 4: Dustin Pilkington (WILD), Thomas Allen (guitar), Sam Vandelinder (WILD), Preston Dukes (WILD)
BAND 5: Jason Chrien (bass), Josh Rios (guitar), Ben Aqua (bass), Shelly McCain (keyboards)
BAND 6: Tim Bond (WILD), Carrie Palazzolo (guitar), Dirk Michner (drums), Mattie Nichols (keys)
BAND 7: Matt Lacomette (drums), Evan McLaughlin (WILD), Rosemary French (drums), Pat Brady (WILD)
BAND 8: Chad A: (WILD), Henry Gillespe (bass), Lace Durrant (bass), Jason Chronis (guitar)
BAND 9: Pat Healy (drums), Chef Pittman (guitar), Robert K (guitar), Adam Sweatpants (guitar)
Influences
Fantasy Football, that Denton band lottery that Dirk and Pat talked about, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune.
The Austin Band Lotto is a long-term experimental project whose goal is to promote the formation of new sounds, songs, friends and bands. How? By gathering a group of friends, acquaintances and strangers and putting all of their names in a hat. We will then, naturally, draw those names out of the hat. The first four that we draw will be assigned to be Band 1. The second four will be Band 2. The third four, oddly enough, will be Band 3. This exercise will continue until everyone had been assigned to a band.
Next, we will spin a large "prize wheel" type of device to determine what instruments everyone will be required to play in their bands. The wedges of this wheel will have words such as guitar, drums, bass, etc written on them. You must play the designated instrument even if your band members have all been assigned the same one. That will make your song even more interesting.
We will then put another handful of paper into a hat. These slips of paper will have many random topics written on them such as Canada, Dogs, Sadness, Temperature, Cube, Purple, etch. Those aren't the actual topics I just made those up. We will then draw one slip of paper out of the hat and every group must write a song about that topic. They will also be required to write an additional song that does not have to be about the topic.
Once everyone has written and recorded their two songs we shall distribute them to everyone to be voted on and then we shall release a CD featuring all of the songs in the order from favorite to least favorite.
