User:Nathandrama

1965-

Joe “Nathan” Olivarez is a Texas musician who has spent most of his life pushing the Austin Music Scene.

At the age of five Nathan was playing classical guitar in the Spanish Catholic Mass. As the saying goes, he has never looked back having played guitar for a living ever since.

The defining moment was when his Father dropped him off in Austin, Texas at the age of 15. Nathan played around the the University of Texas campus making “the drag” his home base. This was the golden age of Austin Music as Nathan frequented Antone’s, Raul’s, Steamboat, Liberty Lunch, Armadillo Headquarters etc, learning music from the masters that made Austin Music what it is today.

At 17, a radio DJ paid for and debut acoustic release called Project: Nathan. This featured Nathan on 12String guitar with good friend Bobby Landgraf adding guitar support. It was critically acclaimed and got the attention of an investor who then gave Nathan $5000 to record and start his own label. Nathan Media Inc. was born. With Project and a new recording with his high school buddies called Dancyr, Nathan began his long relationship as an Austin Music Business.

In 1990 Nathan met a gentleman who was recording metal bands at the famed Backroom and that was the introduction to his long time working partner Dave Prewitt. Dave had filmed Dancyr and soon asked Nathan to come down to the television studio for a hang. That turned Nathan from an unknown musician into the host of a widely watched underground phenomenon known as Capzeyez. “I figured I could get more people to watch television than I ever could get anyone to see a single live show”.

In 1992 the metal band Dancyr started to ad acoustic guitar to its heavy metal sound. It was way cool but music wasn’t ready for that quite yet. In 1994 Nathan formed Nathan’s Stupid Drama with a few close friends taking his acoustic songs and adding a full band sound. After a few attempts at making Drama a working band armed with Capzeyez videos Nathan began the long journey that is Stupid Drama. Through many musicians and as many recordings NSD is still going stronger than ever with only the best players making the Drama lineup.

Fast forward to the year 2020 and Nathan has ventured on his own by starting his own YouTube channel, Waterloo Underground Television, revamped the metal band Dancyr and touring and promoting Stupid Drama’s seventh studio album called Fat Cats: Songs for Management.