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",
Short Stories (magazine) Stories" carrying well-written fiction; pulp magazine historian Robert Sampson states "For "Short Stories", like "Adventure" and "Blue Book" to follow, rose above the expedient prose of rival magazines like ivory towers thrusting up from swampland". "Short Stories" was initially known for publishing crime fiction by authors including Max Pemberton and Thomas W. Hanshew. In the 1920s and 1930s, however, "Short Stories" was best known as a publisher of Western stories, with many of the best-known Western fiction writers such as Clarence E. Mulford, Max Brand, Luke Short, Ernest Haycox, W. C. Tuttle, James B. Hendryx, Barry Scobee, Bertrand William Sinclair