Two Gallants (band) the pair decided to just make music together, plugging Stephens' guitar into Vogel's bass amp in order to play bass lines with melodies. The name Two Gallants was chosen after a short story of the same name from James Joyce's "Dubliners", as both were reading the book at the time and the name "seemed obvious". With Stephens on guitar, harmonica, and lead vocals and Vogel on drums and vocals, Two Gallants began playing house shows around the Bay area and busking outside BART subway stations, particularly the stop at 16th and Mission. Two Gallants released their debut album, "The Throes",
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants biggest book collectors in 19th-century Beijing and clearly an elite member of the society. Based on "Longtu Erlu", the 120-chapter "The Tale of Loyal Heroes and Righteous Gallants" was printed by a movable type at the Juzhen tang (聚珍堂) in 1879, which caused a sensation in Beijing. Unprecedentedly for a print Chinese novel, the oral storyteller's name Shi Yukun appeared on the title page. The book also included 3 prefaces, written respectively by: In a 1883 reprint by Wenya zhai (文雅齋), the novel was renamed to "The Three Heroes and Five Gallants", with the "three heroes" being actually four people,