*FREE PRESS HOUSTON PARTY
*NEW SUPER HAPPY FUN LAND
*WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR
*BIRTHDAY JAM 8 - Quick Report
*Hippies.TV TONIGHT - Teach The Band a song
                                          w/ Dr. Rockit, Suzanne Pratts, Aaron Trumm

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FREE PRESS HOUSTON PARTY
Super Happy Fun Land - Saturday Night!
3801 Polk
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One event to tell you about this weekend. The Free Press Houston is celebrating it's 5th with a great party Saturday night at the brand new Super Happy Fun Land with musical performances by Sideshow Tramps (Medicine Show), Studemont Project, Ceeplus, Bad Knives, Piano Vines, H-Town Zillionaires - as well as a rare appearance by The Free Press Houston Clutch-time Orchestra! Should be a blast!

The new SHFL has been open less than a month, but has carried on their tradition of cool shows filled with large bills full of musically interesting artists of all varieties.

Free Press Houston is a local institution which deserves support by all of you! Get out there and slap a bunch of Omar's (real, perceived and metaphorical) on the back and tell 'em what a great job they are doing!

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REPORT FROM THE BACK YARD
(Slight Return...)
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My birthday party was great! All of the musicians played well, none of the food burned, all of the cameras and recorders worked fine...

Big thanks to MArlo, who shook off the urge to play house and hostess just enough to direct a pretty good bunch of footage of the performances! Yea, MArlo!

Thanks to Roger & Mikey, who showed up early and helped put gear together long before it was noon. Pamela Nolin and Dennis Benton did fine work on cameras, too! Dennis used the new jib crane. We had asked him to figure out how many beers it took before crane operations were hampered. There will be long, long days at SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2008 next month, and these are the questions we need to know!

BTW - schedules for SOUTH BY DUE EAST have been posted at www.myspace.com/southbydueeast and www.southbydueeast.com/event.html

Thanks to Randy Soffar for handling the world wide webcast, too! Randy and I may have a Z-Rocks reunion with Billy Block at SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2008. I'll keep you posted...

One of the coolest moments was when my daughter Chelsea called and said she was watching us party - live on the internet from her apartment in West Hollywood. Everyone there went "ooh" and "ahh"! Thanks, Chelsea! I love you!

And - I love all of you who came out and partied hard. Thanks for all the great gifts, too! The first ruff edited footage from the party will up before the weekend is over, and I'll give it the location www.bluesguy.com/bbj8firstruff.wmv - try that on Sunday or Monday!

I'll give you a better essay on the Birthday Jam, as well as all of the other jams and open mic on the last leg of the imaginary tour when I write next!

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WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR
Courtesy of The BluesHound & Baby Girl and KPFT-FM90.1
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FRIDAY February 22

• Anderson Fair – Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes
• Armadillo Palace – Gary Kyle
• B. Jiggers (Holiday Inn, Galveston) – Radio London
• Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) – Vertigo
• Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) – Run Over Twice
• Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) – Falskye
• Baker Street Pub (The Woodlands) – Shinolah
• Big Easy (The) – Texas Johnny Brown & the Quality Blues Band (Johnny's 80th birthday party)
• Big Top (The) – Front Porch Society (7 pm)
• Blanco's – Dale Watson
• Bogart's Club – Airwaves
• Bugle Boy (The) (LaGrange) – Antje Duvekot
• Club 21 (Galveston) – Double Ought
• Cock-Eyed Seagull (Clear Lake) – Lucious Collide
• Concert Pub (The) – JD's Throwdown Band/Sherree B
• Continental Club (The) – Two Hoots & A Holler (10 pm); Felipe Galvan y Sus Carnales (11:30 pm)
• Corner Pub (The) (Conroe) – Three Fantastic (9:30 pm)
• Cypress Saloon – Ezra Charles & The Works
• Dan Electro's Guitar Bar – Fahl & Folk (7-9 pm); Inner Lights/deSangre/Irene
• Dosey Doe Coffee House (The Woodlands) – Blake & Fallon (8:30 pm)
• Einstein's Pub (Katy) – Bag 100
• Elegant Hogg (The) – Mojofromopolis (9 pm)
• FBI Rocks #1 – Wide Open Throttle/Dirty Mind/Second From Waking
• Firehouse Saloon (The) – Honeybrowne
• Fitzgerald's – Hero & Rad/GT Garza & V-Zilla/Mic Skillz/Pav La V & Roco (up)
• 517 Bar (Dickinson) – JJ Dynomite
• Gabby's (North Shepherd) – Randy Meadows & Bad Bob (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Gabby's (Spencer Hwy) – Kim Carson (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Gabby's (Telephone Rd) – Southbound (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Gravity Bar (Galveston) – Carl Pianosmith (12-3 pm); Dave Oates (3-7 pm)
• Hideaway (The) – La Raza Connection
• Howling Coyote (The) – Blackdog
• JP Hops House – Happenstance
• Katie's Bar & Grill (Bacliff) – Tommy Dardar Band
• KK's Pub (Pasadena) – Jamie Richards
• Last Concert Café (The) – Gadget White Band
• Main Street Crossing (Tomball) – Texas Renegade (8 pm)
• McGonigel's Mucky Duck – Clandestine (7 & 9:30 pm)
• Meridian (The) – Marzi/Chris Duarte/Eric Sardinas (Blue Room); Tody Castillo/James Reese Project/The Mighty Orq (CD release) (Red Room; 10 pm)
• Mink (The) – 30ft Fall
• Mo's Place (Katy) – Texas Unlimited Band
• Mother's Speakeasy (Bacliff) – Billy Bourbon
• My Bar – Joe Valentino Show
• Nutty Bar (The) – CC Rider
• Old Quarter Acoustic Café (Galveston) – The Hudsons/Joanna Gipson
• Poor Michael's on The Strand (Galveston) – Mary Smith Band (9 pm)
• R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) – The Slags
• Red Cat Jazz Café – Dean James
• Rendezvous Club (Alvin) – 2nd Wind
• Rock Wine & Blues (Humble) – The Allstars w/Ms. Vanessa
• Rowdy Buck's Saloon (Crosby) – CEO Band/Keith McCoy
• Rudyard's - Kvalles
• Sambuca Restaurant – Shape Shifters
• Sammy's – Faye Robinson & the Midcity Players
• Scott Gertner's Sky Bar – The Scott Gertner Band (9:45 pm)
• Scout Bar (Clear Lake) – Chrome 44/Faktion/The Cast
• Shakespeare Pub (The) – Lady D & “D” Band
• Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) – Rat Ranch
• Sherlock's Pub (Humble) – The Crisis
• Sherlock's Pub (River Oaks) – Electric Gypsies
• Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) – Cross Check
• Spring Tavern (The) (Spring) – Donnie Simmons & the House Rockers
• Tommy's Steakhouse (Clear Lake) – Morgan Bouldin Trio (7:30-10:30 pm)
• Tommy's Steakhouse (Westheimer) – Kim Prevost & Matt Lemmler (5-7:30 pm); Matt Lemmler Trio (8 & 10 pm)
• Tubby's (LaMarque) – Down to Earth (9 pm)
• Ugly's (Spring) – Matt Leddy & the Meatcutters
• Uncle Albert's – The Bootleggers
• Vintage Pub – Sunnybrook
• Walter's on Washington – Johnny Hootrock/Luxurious Panthers
• Warehouse Live – Golem (The Studio)

SATURDAY February 23

• Al's Sports Bar (Westheimer) – Identity Crisis
• Anderson Fair – Beaver Nelson
• Aquarium (Downtown) – Tommy Dardar Band (1-5 pm)
• B. Jiggers (Holiday Inn, Galveston) – Down to Earth (9 pm)
• Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) – Cross Check
• Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) – Shinolah
• Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) – Love of Peace
• Big Easy (The) – Alan Haynes
• Bugle Boy (The) (LaGrange) – Carolyn Wonderland
• Cactus Music – Cobra Starship (2 pm); The Mighty Orq (4 pm)
• Cafe Soleil – Carrie Ann & the Apocalyptics (8 pm)
• Club 21 (Galveston) – Double Ought
• Cock-Eyed Seagull (Clear Lake) – Nitewave
• Concert Pub (The) - Fearless
• Continental Club (The) – Davie Allan & the Arrows (9 pm); Fever Tree Rising (10 pm); Freddie Steady 5 (11:30 pm)
• Corner Pub (The) (Conroe) – Dragliners (9:30 pm)
• County Line Bar & Grill – Martha White/Coco & the Players (8 pm)
• Crighton Theatre (Conroe) – Gary Nicholson/Delbert McClinton
• Cypress Saloon – The Spiffingtons
• Dan Electro's Guitar Bar – Hank Woji/Patti Sullivan/The Free Radicals/ Brother2Brother (Fundraiser IVAW Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan; 3-7 pm); Guy Forsyth
• Dosey Doe Coffee House (The Woodlands) – The Kelley Peters Trio (7:30 pm)
• Einstein's Pub (Katy) – Saturday Nite Palsy
• Elegant Hogg (The) – Just Us
• FBI Rocks #1 – Mindcrime/Busted
• Firehouse Saloon (The) – Billy Joe Shaver/Jamie Talbert
• First Tee (The) – The McClanahans
• Fitzgerald's – The Fox Derby/Mind's Eye/Southern Kill (up)
• Gabby's (North Shepherd) – Kim Carson (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Gabby's (Spencer Hwy) – Ben & Rose (6-9:30 pm)
• Gabby's (Telephone Rd) – Dan Golvach (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Gravity Bar (Galveston) – Carl Pianosmith (12-3 pm); Dave Oates (3-6 pm)
• Hickory Hollow (Heights) – Kimberly M'Carver (6:30-9:30 pm)
• Hideaway (The) – Lounge 4407
• Hour Glass (Alvin) – 2nd Wind
• Howling Coyote (The) – Mike Milligan & the Altar Boyz
• JP Hops House – The Hudsons
• Katie's Bar & Grill (Bacliff) – Scott McGill & Old Dog Mac
• KK's Pub (Pasadena) – Matt Deaton & Front Porch Texas
• Lance's Turtle Club (Seabrook) – Luther & the Healers (9:30 pm)
• Last Concert Café (The) – Y2 Steve
• McGonigel's Mucky Duck – Sisters Morales en espanol (7 & 9:30 pm)
• Mo's Place (Katy) – The Emotions
• Mojo Risin' Coffee House – The Good Company Band/Andrew Edison
• Mother's Speakeasy (Bacliff) – Dave Nevling & the Blues Kats
• Mugz Coffee Bar – acoustic open mic (7-9:30 pm)
• My Bar – Gypsy Train
• Old Quarter Acoustic Café (Galveston) – Band of Heathens
• Poor Michael's on The Strand (Galveston) – Tom Katz (9 pm)
• Pub Fiction – John B (patio)
• R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) – Chad Tucker
• Red Cat Jazz Café – Michael Ward
• Redfish Bar & Grill (Hitchcock) – Prime Time
• Rock Wine & Blues (Humble) – The Allstars w/Ms. Vanessa
• Rowdy Buck's Saloon (Crosby) – Cecil Shaw & His All Stylz Variety
• Rudyard's – Dertybird
• Sambuca Restaurant – Shape Shifters
• Sammy's – Faye Robinson & the Midcity Players
• Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) – The Grangers
• Scott Gertner's Sky Bar – The Scott Gertner Band
• Scout Bar (Clear Lake) – Faceplant/The Crisis/Ethylene
• Shakespeare Pub (The) – Leonard “Low Down” Brown
• Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) – Rat Ranch
• Sherlock's Pub (Humble) – The Reds
• Sherlock's Pub (River Oaks) – Electric Gypsies
• Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) – Adrenaline
• Spring Tavern (The) (Spring) – Bourbon Street
• Super Happy Fun Land – Sideshow Tramps/Tyagaraja/Piano Vines/Free Press Clutch-time Orchestra/Studemont Project
• Time Out Sports Bar #1 (Fuqua) – Falskye
• Time Out Sports Bar #3 (Pasadena) – The Slags
• Tommy's Steakhouse (Clear Lake) – Thomas Helton Trio (7:30-10:30 pm)
• Tommy's Steakhouse (Westheimer) – Matt Lemmler Trio (8 & 10 pm)
• Tut's (Conroe) – Jimmy Joe Long & the Little York Road Band
• Uncle Albert's – Mystic Toys
• Vintage Pub – Infinity's Twin
• Walker's Bar-B-Que – Lady “D”
• Walter's on Washington – Litost/Forests/Via Linda/Unlikely Heroes
• Warehouse Live – Cobra Starship/Metro Station/We the Kings/The Cab (7 pm; The Studio) (SOLD OUT)
• West Alabama Ice House – Wayne Hubbard (4 pm)
• Wild Wing Café (Katy) – 3 Peace

SUNDAY February 24

• Big Easy (The) – National Zydeco Foundation Monthly Jam
• Bub's (Alvin) – Dave Nevling & the Blues Kats (4 pm)
• Bugle Boy (The) (LaGrange) – Kellye Gray (4-6 pm)
• Continental Club (The) – Mid-Life Crisis & the Hot Flashes (7 pm)
• Cruiser's Ice House (Santa Fe) – blues jam w/Adam Burchfield (4-8 pm)
• Gravity Bar (Galveston) – Marc Twyman's One Man Band (2-7 pm); open mic (9 pm)
• Howling Coyote (The) – The Nationals/The Blue Threads/Pale (Paul Heeth's birthday bash; 4-9 pm)
• JP Hops House – NSAI meeting (4 pm); open mic hosted by T.C. Smythe (6 pm)
• Katie's Bar & Grill (Bacliff) – jam w/The Amigos (7-11 pm)
• Last Concert Café – jam (12-5:30 pm); Fahl & Folk w/Chaz Nadege (6 pm)
• McGonigel's Mucky Duck – Tom Faulker/Danny Everitt/Robert Frith (6 pm)
• Meridian (The) – Emery/Mayday Parade/As Cities Burn/Pierce the Veil/Cry the Afflicted (7 pm; Red Room)
• Mink (The) - Gunshy
• Mother's Speakeasy (Bacliff) – Over Drive
• Mr. Gino's – I.J. Gosey (5-9 pm)
• Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) – jam w/Chris Elliot & the James Brothers (6 pm)
• Notsuoh – blues jam/open mic
• Poor Michael's on The Strand (Galveston) – jam w/Skip Devlin (8:30 pm)
• Prego's (Rice Village) – Mickey Mosley & Ray Wilson (6-9 pm)
• Sambuca Restaurant – Blue Monks
• Shakespeare Pub (The) – blues jam w/Spare Time Murray
• Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) – Jedi Ninjas From Outer Space
• Sherlock's Pub (Humble) – Acoustic Villains
• Sherlock's Pub (River Oaks) – The Underground
• Super Happy Fun Land – Jucifer
• West Alabama Ice House – Snowshoe & Lewis (4 pm)

That's it for now! See you where the live music is!