{"id":263154,"date":"2026-04-23T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:10:17","slug":"mike-fraziers-shows-with-the-bad-quitters-the-shut-ups-represent-sa-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263154\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Frazier\u2019s shows with the Bad Quitters, the Shut Ups represent SA homecoming \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AA full album from the Bad Quitters, called I\u2019ll Be Damned, is due out in a couple of months.
Credit: Courtesy Phot \/ The Bad quitters<\/p>\n

You could call Boise, Idaho musician Mike Frazier\u2019s two upcoming San Antonio gigs a homecoming of sorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As frontman for the Austin bands Transmography and the Shut Ups, Frazier developed a fondness for the Alamo City, and the latter band was more of a fixture here than in its hometown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s returning to the 210 with his newest group, the Bad Quitters, who will perform Thursday, April 23, at the Lonesome Rose \u2014\u00a0a show that celebrates the group\u2019s latest single, \u201cSpend It All,\u201d featuring the Alamo City\u2019s own Garrett T. Capps on fiddle. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And to celebrate the past, Frazier\u2019s other band, the Shut Ups, will play Lowcountry on Saturday, April 25, for King William Fest. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bad Quitters offer a refreshing take on Americana, drawing on the Neil Young and Crazy Horse template of raw, thrashed guitars holding up a tenderly melodic sensibility. Meanwhile, the Shut Ups are a noise-rock whirlwind, whose shows are generally 20-minute meltdowns marked by frantic drumming, skittering guitars and outlandish costumes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though not a San Antonio native, Frazier\u2019s had a long history with the city \u2014\u00a0and with music-scene fixture Capps in particular. Frazier, who\u2019s 10 years older, was the local singer-songwriter\u2019s camp counselor at Camp Rio Vista, the oldest summer camp in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was his counselor when he was 11,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cWhen I met him, he was just a really cool kid. Had a big CaseLogic CD book of about 200 CDs, and we would just talk music all the time. He was already a drummer. I was a guy from Austin just figuring my way through music and thought it was great \u2014\u00a0here was this kid already with cool taste in music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frazier recognized a kindred spirit and the pair bonded immediately. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always the same guy he is now, man,\u201d Frazier said of Capps. \u201cHe looked and talked the same. Well, he did have green hair one summer.<\/p>\n

Capps\u2019 high school band, the Boy Scout Cookies, even played the White Rabbit with Frazier\u2019s Transmography. Eventually, Frazier snuck Capps and the band into his SXSW showcase. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Fast forward a few more years and Frazier had started The Shut Ups. Though based in Austin, San Antonio embraced the group and their particular brand of improvised insanity.\u00a0 The Shut Ups played Capps\u2019 2016 Cinco de Mayo blowout, providing Frazier with his most treasured San Antonio memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were playing at Paper Tiger when they still had the radio antenna,\u201d Frazier recalled. \u201cWe were playing the courtyard, packed house. Our drummer, Eric Green, kind of the front man of the band, he scaled that antenna. I had my eyes closed, and I noticed everyone looking up \u2013 Garrett had gotten on the drums and Eric scaled the antenna, at least 50 or 60 feet in the air, hanging upside down, in a monkey or shark costume.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually Paper Tiger\u2019s owner \u2014\u00a0local restaurateur Chad Carey \u2014 was forced to take down the antenna due to liability concerns. The stunt made it obvious why.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[Carey] wanted to put a statue of Eric up there \u2026 but actually had to take it down,\u201d Frazier added.<\/p>\n

Now, fast forward again to the present, and Capps is hosting Frazier\u2019s The Bad Quitters at his club, the Lonesome Rose, not long after he played fiddle on the band\u2019s single, recorded with Josh Bloodsworth and Justin Morris at San Antonio\u2019s Cornpound Complex.<\/p>\n

A full album from the Bad Quitters, called I\u2019ll Be Damned, is due out in a couple of months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than anything, the decades-long friendship and collaboration between Frazier and Capps is a testament to the power of music to bring us together.<\/p>\n

In a world hell-bent on siloing everyone by age, gender and political persuasion, it\u2019s refreshing to see these two musicians reach across the years and craft indelible, ass-kicking tunes.<\/p>\n

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