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*WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR
*REPORT FROM THE FIELD:VINCE BELL & BLAZE FOLEY GIGS
*REPORT FROM THE FIELD:VINCE BELL & BLAZE FOLEY GIGS
*WONDERJAM IN AMSTERDAM - If you want to join us in
Amsterdam, the time to act is NOW!
Call Darren at 512-921-4977
What an exciting time. Last week's gigs, filled with great performances with old friends, were heartfelt, heartwarming, dynamic and musical!
Who could ask for more?
I didn't - but my plate is still overflowing because...
WE ARE GOING TO PLAY IN AMSTERDAM!
Carolyn Wonderland and Darren Fisher have asked us to participate at WONDERJAM IN AMSTERDAM this year (www.wonderjaminamsterdam.com), and The New Jack Hippies will perform on two of the four nights (November 10, 11, 13 & 14)! Yay! We'll close out Thursday night, and play before Carolyn on Saturday!
We're working on finding a way to show film of Wonderjam 2003 on Friday night, too! We're working on all kinds of stuff to get ready for the trip.
It should be a cool week, featuring seven (that I know of, so far) Texas acts performing at MALOE MELO (www.maloemelo.com) over four nights.
If you want to join us in Amsterdam, the time to act is NOW! Call Darren at 512-921-4977 to get on with Carolyn's group. The package price is $1190, and includes airfare, accomodations, VIP entry to all events, and more.
Marlo and I went with the Wonderland group last year, and it was a hoot - and highly recommended!
In the meantime, as you may guess, this is an expensive trip for us. The money we will take in will not equal the money we have to shell out. We're hoping that the work we're doing now will grab enough appointments and attention to put us together with interested European promoters, labels or bookers.
MArlo and I have got ourselves covered. Patrick Brink, our great trumpet player, is doing well enough in Las Vegas, that he has sprung for his and Jerald Gray's expenses, too! MArlo borrowed some money to purchase everyone's tickets, and she's reserved a boat for us to stay on the canals in the city.
We could use your help!
If you can afford to help us out (as many of you have in the past - thanks!), please help sponsor a musician or two. Anything - from $10 to $1600 will help! Carlos is halfway there, finding his own sponsors to cover the cost of his expenses, and I'm asking all of you to help sponsor Leesa Harrington-Squyres and Roger Tausz! There are free CDs and our eternal gratitude for your contribution! Any financial help we can get now, will allow us to do more promo, and set up more opportunities for the band and our music. If you can help, call Marlo at 832-439-9517 or email to marlo@...
In the meantime, we're wrapping the Wonder Jam movie in time to show it there, getting our promotional materials translated into Dutch, German & French, manufacturing the new CDs (the CD art is very cool), designing posters & flyers, telephoning, emailing, making reservations and looking for opportunities we can connect with while in Amsterdam... whew!
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REPORT:VINCE & BLAZE GIGS
Musical Weekend for Me!
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I arrived at Anderson Fair to find Vince Bell feeling out his guitar and the stage in a beatiful rust-colored sport jacket. Haven't seen Vince in a sport jacket since we were kids. That handmade Pawless guitar of his was sounding as beautiful as ever. It's an amazing instrument, and when combined with Vince's finger picks and finger-pickin' style, it produced more sound that any acoustic guitar I've ever sat next to. Someday, I hope to have enough scratch that I can have Vince Pawless make a guitar like that for me!
The opening act was Julie Smith, from Virginia. She was this years 'new folk' award winner at Kerrville. She was a great performer, with well thought melodies and something to say. The crowd enjoyed her stuff, and I was in her debt for the loan of her electronic guitar tuner.
Joe Lindley showed up with several exquisite guitars and a dobro.
"What? No mandolins?", thought I. <g>
Joe has a great collection of acoustic instruments, and one never knows exactly what he'll bring. He had asked if he could sit on Vince's right side, where I usually stay. That means that he would be in position to read Vince's hands whenever in doubt (and I wouldn't). I gratiously allowed this, knowing that between Vince's tuned down guitar, open tunings and multiple capos, it was impossible to read his hands anyway! <g>
We began conservatively, with Vince calling some of his better known songs which were easier to remember or follow. It sounded great! We were playing together from the onset, so Vince quickly went into more adventurous material and encouraged some extended jams. The crowd was into it. Pam Nolin was there. Bob Axelrad was there, as was Bruce Bryant! Always cool to have familiar friendlies out there.
Steve Fromholtz showed up at the intermission, and he's looking great, too! After each of their near-death experiences, Fromholz, Eric Taylor and Vince have decided to try doing some shows as THE FLATLINERS. They'll try it out at Anderson Fair in February (probably the same weekend as my 5th Annual Bluesguy's Birthday Jam), and if people come and enjoy, a tour might be in the offering later, with support musicians (like me), too!
Next we headed for Austin. Taking three vehicles from Houston, The New Jack Hippies met up at Schoebel's Restaurant in Columbus. If you've never been there, there is a lunchtime buffet that kills. American food all the way, including god's own fried chicken, meat loaf, pie, salad and great fresh veggies like Mom wanted to make! If you are chicken-fried steak maven - order from the menu!
We rode as a caravan the rest of the way, listening to the Astros on the radio and occasional taking in a roadside park. Too bad about the Astros, but they did make a great run at it, going 7 games to the team with the best record around. Anybody know how we can get to Carlos Beltran and encourage him to stay?
At Ruta Maya in Austin, the event was just starting when we arrived. That made for a small crowd, but good parking spaces for us. We brought gear inside and heard Max Myers do a set full of Blaze Foley tunes. That's what we were all there for - BLAZE FOLEY. It was a Blaze Foley Tribute, and a Blaze Foley OVAL ROOM CD release party, and a homeless benefit. Blaze was usually homeless, in the vagabond troubadour sense.
For those who don't know of Blaze and his music, I'll digress...
Blaze Foley was probably the best serious songwriter I ever played with. He may have been the best I ever knew, but one can't be certain of such things. Once you're as good as Vince Bell, Billy Joe Shaver or Billy Gibbons, it's hard to tell who is better. It get's soooo subjective!
Blaze wrote all sorts of songs on his acoustic guitar. Happy, sad, blues, rock, political, topical - nothing escaped his thoughts, and therefore, his lyrics.
Blaze had no money, but was one of the richest characters of any of my old or new friends. Richness of character. He was righteous, self-rightious and uncompromising. He would stand up to anyone for the side of RIGHT, whether he was directly involved in a situation or not. If a friend or stranger was jiving themself through something, they could fool themself, but they couldn't fool Blaze.
His dedication to his craft was second to none. Blaze wouldn't have his own place, because he knew that every moment chasing rent money was a moment when he wasn't busy becoming a better songwriter. So, Blaze slept on a lot of couches, and wrote a lot of great songs.
Blaze's fingerpicking style will probably be the subject of a guitar book someday. I say that because it seems that the legacy work being done for Blaze is succeeding. His friends have made certain that he's not forgotten.
What is legacy work, you ask?
It's something us geezers concern ourselves with, especially if we have no multi-national corporation doing it for us. Hell, they do so little of it nowadays, that even Bob Dylan is doing his own. Bob 'adopts' a talented younger artist here and there, and works with them from time to time. After making sure the time is right, he'll contribute his time and talent to a recording of songs from his catalog by these younger artists, knowing that the artist's career will be helped, and that the audience of that younger artist will then be turned onto Bob Dylan (as if they haven't...).
Legacy work helps insure that the music survives the musician, and the song survives the songwriter. Even if one's songs and music can survive the test of time, there's no guarantee that it will. If you've had hits, your songs are more easily remembered, but are still forgotten a generation later (unless rerecorded or used in another medium). If you haven't had hits (and many GREAT ARTISTS haven't), it's much harder.
I do legacy work of my own from time to time, by creating a short film to remember Bil 'The BONEMAN' Gonce, recording my songs with younger artists like Heath Spencer Philip, or by collecting footage of my friends who have never been documented well. New Jack Hippies like Little Joe, Jimmy Deen, Gloria Edwards and Jerald Gray (and me 'n' Roger) will only live on in our friends and children's memories, if the documentation isn't done now. I certainly don't have as much footage on guys like Kinney Abair or Joe Hughes as I wish I did.
Well - the Blaze Foley legacy work is being done well. Blaze had a lot of friends who continue to perform his music. Two post-humous CDs have been produced by Lost John Casner and Gurf Morlix. Both CDS are diamonds-in-the-rough, using Lost John's cassette recordings of Blaze at The Austin Outhouse in 1989, before he was killed.
Blaze was killed by a friend - a drinking buddy. No one who wasn't there knows, but it seems that they were drunk, and some point was being made, and Blaze stood up to make a self-rightious point (probably with a LOT of emphasis!).
Blaze was big and tall. When he got into your face to make a point, he could certainly be intimidating. Eventually, one intimidated drunken friend got scared enough to pull a gun out of his pants, out of his house, out of rage, or out of a feeling of self-defense. However it happened, he pulled the gun from somewhere and shot Blaze Foley to death.
Blaze liked to be drunk. He was the subject of Lucinda's 'Drunken Angel'. We all knew that there was a lot of pain in there.
Blaze liked to be right, and he usually was. This time, though, right wasn't enough... it was too much.
While Blaze was still alive, Merle Haggard recorded Blaze's song, 'IF I COULD ONLY FLY' and it was a hit. Merle said that Blaze was the best songwriter he'd ever heard. Dunno if that was true. Merle says a lot of things...
It WAS a nice thing to say.
The new OVAL ROOM CD is great. It contains some of Blaze's most poignent songs, and some of his funniest. Gurf Morlix has added guitars, bass and slide to some of the tracks, and brought in others to add drums and more on a couple, too. Mostly, it's just Blaze, but on the embellished songs, it's really hard to tell that the other stuff was recorded over a decade later. Good job, Gurf!
It looks like the legacy work is working, too. Gurf told me that John Prine is doing one of Blaze's songs in his performance set. We always gave Blaze a little poke about how CLAY PIDGEONS sounded just like a John Prine song. Prine says, "I can't remember writing that song, but I know I must have!"
Also, Merle Haggard says that he's now planning to do an album full of Blaze's songs.
Blaze might have been proud. I hope he would have been proud. He was pretty proud anyway.
Lost John Casner, who put this thing together and acted as stage manager (good job, John!), performed acoustically for a couple songs, as did Mandy Mercier's band and George Ensle. Each handled Blaze's songs with care, and performed them beautifully. Each of them brought up the Texana Dames to sing with them. Family thing, you know...
George Ensle was someone I didn't know before Sunday night. Seemed like a nice guy. Good finger-picker!
Next, it was Gurf Morlix' turn. The room had grown more crowded, and they were silently waiting for Gurf's every note. The respect that the room gave Gurf was quite impressive.
It was Gurf who had hired me to play bass with Blaze in the late seventies (and again later with B.W. Stevenson). I'm very proud of his successes, and the respect he's attained in the music world. He performed Blaze's songs very much like Blaze did, something the rest of us missed as we put our various styles and interpretations to these great songs. The sound of his Gibson J-45 guitar was crystal, and women in the audience were overheard commenting about how he keeps getting better looking... Wow!
It was our turn next. Gurf told me, "I brought an electric guitar!", and I took the hint. Max Myers loaned us his Fender Twin and the New Jack Hippies cranked it up with our newest Hippie grinding out pure tone, right between Roger and I.
Kevin Triplett, the film maker who is putting together a Blaze film, threw lyrics to Oval Room onscreen, so we could have an audience sing along. It was fun!
There were a lot of Austin music people there who didn't really know us. Many of them only knew that we had been bumped from the Blaze Tribute last year, and that Gurf had expressed his feelings about that in a more expressive manner than Roger or I. Since they never heard us play, and knew we were friends of Gurf, they assumed (by association) that we were good, too - you know - like Gurf. Maybe Gurf felt that, too. All I know is that he had his electric guitar, and was ready to jump onstage to help us live up to the rumours that probably existed only in our minds.
Marlo said it was a great set. It felt great! I'll watch and listen to the tapes when we get home from Europe.
The Waddell Brothers played house band for Brad Brobinsky and the great Calvin Russell, but we were off to The Saxon Pub, where carolyn Wonderlad did a special midnight show, at a place which usually closes Sunday at midnight. Gurf and Brende didn't follow. The anticipated appearance of The String Cheese Incident was enough to convince them to head home to quieter pastures.
It was clearly the best show I've seen her and the band do. The crowd (and it WAS a crowd) lined the walls and dance floor. Half from Houston, half from Austin, this was a crowd that had been together for The String Cheese Incident three day extravaganza. Carolyn had actually been onstage with SCI the night before, fronting the band and playing guitar for a couple songs. The crew and business guys from String Cheese actually did show up on Sunday, but the band was fast asleep at the hotel. Still, The Saxon Pub felt and smelled like Woodstock, and Carolyn rocked. What a night!
As we tried to leave, there was a young hippie with long blonde dreadlocks looking for a ride to Alabama. He was on his own tour, dilligently following SCI around the country. He had loved Carolyn's performance, but it was time to head to Alabama.
Roger and Leesa followed Marlo and I to the Freeway (Carlos & Chaz had left from Ruta Maya). We got a room and the rhythm section hit the road to Houston.
Thanks for offering the place to stay, Rhett. Maybe next time, if we don't stay out so late.
BTW - we ate at The Last Concert Cafe on Tuesday, and the touring hippie was there, waiting for Carolyn's regular Tuesday night gig.
"What happened to Alabama?", I asked.
"I'm following Carolyn now!"
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WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR
Courtesy of The Blueshound & KPFT
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22nd
Acadia Sports Bar - X-XL
Anderson Fair - Tom Kimmel
Asbury's 60's Bar & Java House - Fidelity Maxx
Austen's - open mic
B & B Bar & Grill (Magnolia) - Bucko Ruckus
Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) - E=MC2
Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) - American Past Time
Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) - Bad Boyfriend
Balinese Room (The) (Galveston) - H88
Bareback Bar (The) - String Benders
Big Easy (The) - Rick Lee & the Night Owls
Blanco's - David Brake & That Damn Band
Blue Dolphin (The) - Benny Valerio & Texas Thunder
Bojangle's (Seabrook) - Mike Zito
Borski's - Matt Minor
Bossa (610 Main St.) - Mark Towns Salsa All-Stars w/Rudy Rincon
(ongoing)
Brian O'Neill's - Plump
Cactus Moon Blues Café - Zu Zu Mud
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson (9 pm)
Cardi's - Transonic/Trademark Ending/The Remnants
Chances - Shiela
Cocktails (Galveston) - Becca Ryan (5-7 pm)
Continental Club (The) - Molly & the Ringwalds (7 pm); The Asylum
StreetSpankers (11:30 pm)
Cosmos - 900 lbs
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - Phil Johnson & Rush Hour (8 pm)
Curly's (Hitchcock) - Bad Habits
Dan Electro's - The Hoyle Brothers/Joe New
Einstein's Pub - Spiffingtons
Emily's (Seabrook) - Eric Tatum
Engine Room (The) - Insane Clown Posse/Anybody Killah/Mack 10
Fenders (LaMarque) - CC Rider (9 pm)
Firehouse Saloon - Texas High Life/Phil Pritchett
Fitzgerald's (down) - A+ Machines/Unified
Fitzgerald's (up) - The Gourds
510 Club (Katy) - Sonny Boy Terry
Froggie's Saloon - Hit 'N' Run
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Houston Area Acoustic Music Society
Hideaway (The) - Spare Parts
Jack's For Cocktails - The Convertibles
Java Jazz Coffee House - Seize The Day/The Black
Ties/Westborn/BrainStorm/Last Born/Buxton
JP Hops Houses - Foscoe Jones & the Distractions
Last Concert Café - Delta Nove/Sean Nelson & the Ramblers
Lone Star Saloon (Richmond) - Steve Downing
Magnolia Bar & Grill - Dave Nevling & the Blues Kats (6 pm)
Mary Jane's Fat Cat - The Dealers/Sonic Red
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Jesse Dayton (9 pm)
Mercury Room (The) - Primal Funk
Mo's Place (Katy) - Derringer
Molly's (Wilcrest & Westheimer) - Scott Sileo
Muddie Waters Coffee House - Easy Living Trio
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - Burchfield & Johnson
Next Door Coffee House (The) - open mic (7 pm)
19th Hole (The) - Podunk/Space City Kings/Back Porch Mary
Noah's Ark (Bacliff) - LaDon Lavalle & Shadow Play
Numbers - Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance/Quick Fix
Kills
Oz Bar (The) - Checkered Past
Papa's On The Lake - The Mark May Band (8 pm)
Pennison's (Copperfield) - Spiffingtons
Pennison's (Sugar Land) - Deuces Wild
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - The Tony Vega Band
Radisson Hotel (The) (I-10 & Beltway 8) - Mirror Image (8 pm)
Red Cat Jazz Café - Dean James
Rhythm Room (The) - The Mighty Orq/Matt The Electrician (CD
release)/900 lbs
Ringside @ Sullivan's - Rapture (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Garcia y Reyna
Riverside Inn (The) (Channelview) - Scott McGill & Old Dog Mac
Rowdy's - Steve Garcia
Rudyard's - The John Sparrow/Phonocaptors/The Good Looks
Sambuca Restaurant - Shape Shifters
Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) - Magazine
Sands Restaurant & Bar (The) - Herman's Hermits featuring Pete Noone
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - Big Red Sun
Shakespeare's Pub - Eugene Moody Blues Band
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - The Reds
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - Jawbreaker
Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) - Head First
Sidecar Pub (The) - Ian Moore
Splash II (Dickinson) - The Joe Valentino Show
SRO Sports Bar (Northwest Mall) - Steady Grind
Stag's Head Pub - Pete Scafidi
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - Janet Z (6-10 pm)
Terrace Café (Kemah) - Luther & the Healers
Tubby's Ice House (LaMarque) - Down To Earth
Verizon Wireless Theatre - Alter Bridge/Crossfade/Submersed
Vintage Bar (The) - Chris Collins
Walter's on Washington - Through The Discipline/A Thousand Falling
Skies/The Adacia Strain/The Kidnap Soundtrack/Far From Jane/Yuma
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - Texas Johnny Brown & the Quality
Blues Band (7 pm)
Wunsche Bros Café - Randy Meadows
Yaga's (Galveston) - Grupo Fantasma
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23rd
Acadia Sports Bar - Rue Bourbon
Al's Sports Bar #1 - King Fridy
Al's Sports Bar #2 - The Stone Kings (CD release party)
Anderson Fair - Peter Case
B & B Bar & Grill (Magnolia) - Bucko Ruckus
Baja Beach Club (Galveston) - Bad Habits
Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) - American Past Time
Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) - E=MC2
Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) - Pete Scafidi
Balinese Room (The) (Galveston) - Bert Wills Band
Bareback Bar (The) - Bitter Creek
Big Easy (The) - Tommy Dardar
Big John's Sports Bar - jam
Borski's - traditional country jam (1-6 pm); Jody Booth
Breakers - Papa Joe's Ultimate Blues Machine
Brian O'Neill's - Soul Remedy
Cactus Moon Blues Café - The Tony Vega Band
Cactus Music & Video - in-store performances by Drop Trio (1
pm);Buddhacrush (3 pm)
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson
Cardi's - Zike/And They Will Meet God/To Scale The
Throne/Condemned/Gates of Ednoch
Continental Club (The) - Hilary Sloan (9 pm); Marti Brom (10 pm);
Wanda Jackson (11:30 pm)
Cosmos - The Dukes of Houston
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - Bare Necessity
Cruiser's Ice House (Santa Fe) - Rex Griffith
Cullen Performance Hall (University of Houston) - Marcel Khalife
Downtown Aquarium - Chameleon (5-9 pm)
Einstein's Pub - Surface
Engine Room (The) - Del tha Funkee Homosapien/Aceyalone/Abstract
Rude/Micah 9/Zion I/Bukue One
F2 (306 Main Street) - The Dudes (ongoing)
Fenders (LaMarque) - Fuzzy Side Up (9 pm)
Firehouse Saloon - John Evans (CD release party)
Forgetta'Bout It - Distant Thunder/Mercury Down/Vesperian Sorrow
Forgetta'Bout It Too - Scare The Monkey/Band of Freaks
Froggie's Saloon - Joe Miranda & the Wildcatters
Helio's - jazz jam w/The Trade
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Kimberly M'Carver
Hickory Hollow (Magnolia) - Liberty (6:30 pm)
Hideaway (The) - The Chevys
Houston Blues Society 4th Annual Founder's Day Picnic (3322 Sampson
St. in Third Ward) w/Steve Krase & the In Crowd/Jimmy “Louisiana”
Dotson (3-7 pm)
Howling Coyote (The) - DNA
Java Jazz Coffee House - Panik/The Last Goodbye/Taylor Turner
Trio/The Elliot Project/Alaska Is For Players/The Abico Effect
JP Hops House - Chris Collins/Jen Rathbun/Annie Benjamin (In The
Round)
Kirby's Steak House (Woodlands) - Mark Town's Latin Jazz Quartet
Lake Conroe Bar - Al Casey & the BB's
Lance's Turtle Club (Seabrook) - Phil Johnson & Rush Hour
Last Concert Café (The) - Vibe Committee/Drop Trio (CD release party)
Lone Star Saloon (Richmond) - David Brake & That Damn Band
Mary Jane's Fat Cat - Slivered/Gorch Fock/Bleach
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Ray Wylie Hubbard (2 shows, 8 & 10 pm)
Mercury Room (The) - Bayou Funk Experiment
Mo's Place (Katy) - Matt Mead
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - Hip Shots (benefit & fun run for Ricky
Craft;10 pm)
Next Door Coffee House - Jack in the Pulpit
19th Hole (The) - Magistral
Noah's Ark (Bacliff) - 4-Barrel Ramblers
Numbers - Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance
Oxford Hall - “Concierto De Guitarra” w/Kelly Lancaster/Gary
Seber/Ricardo Sweatt-Rodriguez
Oz Bar (The) - Just Got Lucky
Papa's On The Lake - Leonard “Low Down” Brown (8 pm)
Pennison's (Copperfield) - Crowded Minds
Pennison's (Sugar Land) - Morgan Steep
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - Constant Buzz
Red Cat Jazz Café - Dean James
Rhythm Room (The) - Go Girls Rock w/Skinny White
Chicks/Symplisity/Something for Jess/Irrational Fear
Ringside @ Sullivan's - The Flyers (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Garcia y Reyna (8 pm; ongoing)
Rookie's - Bad Boyfriend (acoustic)
Rudyard's - Dixie Witch/Amplified Heat
Sambuca Restaurant - Shape Shifters
Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) - Volumizers
Sands Restaurant & Bar (The) - The Fab 5
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - 646
Shakespeare's Pub - Dikki Du & the Zydeco Crew
Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) - Jawbreaker
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - The Reds
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - Surface
Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) - A-Rival
Sidecar Pub (The) - Bleu Edmondson Band/Matt Davis Band
Stag's Head Pub - Giancarlo & the Big Stick
Super Happy Fun Land - Porter Davis/Carrie Ann Buchanan
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - Rhythm Kings (6-10 pm)
Terrace Café (Kemah) - Luther & the Healers
Time Out Sports Bar #1 - Nervous Rex
Time Out Sports Bar #3 - Blue Corner
Tut's (Conroe) - Diunna Greenleaf
Uncle Albert's - Head First
Verizon Wireless Theatre - Brian Wilson
Vintage Bar (The) - Big Lizard Boys
Walter's on Washington - Los Skarnales/Change Up/The Too
Toos/Bleach/bGorch Fock/O'Doyle Rules/The Yetis
West End Pub (The) - Benny Valerio & Texas Thunder
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - What Is Hip (7 pm)
Wunsche Bros Café - Randy Meadows
Yaga's (Galveston) - Shark Attack
Zebo's Coffee House - open mic w/Michael Pope (7:30 pm)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24th
Big Easy (The) - Willie T & the Zydeco Posse
Big Top (The) - Glover Gill (9 pm)
Bill Mraz Dance Hall - Liz Talley & TNT Country (3-7 pm)
Birraporetti's - jazz brunch (10:30 am-3 pm)
Borski's - blues jam (3 pm)
Cosmos - Johnny Dyson's Big Band (7 pm)
Cruiser's (Santa Fe) - blues jam (4-8 pm)
Dean's Credit Clothing - Sunday Session (8-11 pm)
Engine Room (The) - The Casualties/Lower Class Brats/Monster Squad
Etta's - Grady Gaines & the Texas Upsetters
Fat Cat's - Bring Back The Guns/Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Frank's Trip On Inn - Symplisity (ongoing; 4 pm)
Grand 1894 Opera House (The) (Galveston) - Scott Bumgardner (2 pm)
Gully (The) (Crosby) - The Joe Valentino Show
Haak Vineyards & Winery - Howl-O-Wine Fundraiser for the Animal
Coalition of Texas w/Funksion (5-9 pm)
Hawg Stop (The) - Roger Creager
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Mary Christian
Java Jazz Coffee House - O Ghost Who Walks/While You Were
Gone/Elseworth/Breakdance Vietnam/Obscure Movie Reference
JP Hops House - NSAI open mic w/T.C. Smythe (6 pm)
Lance's Turtle Club (Seabrook) - Jazz Toonz (6-10 pm)
Last Concert Café (The) - Fahl & Folk (6-9 pm)
Meridian (The) - Dillinger Escape Plan/Zao/Every Time I Die
Mr. Gino's - I.J. Gosey (4-7 pm)
Mulligan's & More - jam
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - jam (4-8 pm)
19th Hole (The) - Brad Absher
Numbers - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Papa's Ice House - jam w/Crossroads (4-8 pm)
Ponderosa - O'Bear & the Las Vegas Band (8 pm; ongoing)
Poor Michael's On The Strand (Galveston) - jam (8 pm)
Red Cat Jazz Café - LaLa Wilson/Raymond Chambers/Danni Watkins (4-8
pm)
Reno's (Gulf Frwy @ Nasa Road 1) - David Brake & That Damn Band
Rhythm Room (The) - Goodtrain Sessions jam (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Harry Sheppard
Ronnie's Ice House (Dickinson) - jam
Rowdy's - open mic
Rudyard's - Irish session music (6-8 pm); The Medicine Show (11 pm)
Sambuca Restaurant - dinner w/Blue Monks
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - Active Radio/The Reckoning
Shakespeare's Pub - blues jam w/Spare Time Murray
Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) - Acoustic
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - Acoustic Villians
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - original showcase
10 Downing Street - The David Craig Band (8:30 pm)
What's Left (Tomball) - jam (2-6 pm)
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - Mack Hayes (4 pm)
Acadia Sports Bar - X-XL
Anderson Fair - Tom Kimmel
Asbury's 60's Bar & Java House - Fidelity Maxx
Austen's - open mic
B & B Bar & Grill (Magnolia) - Bucko Ruckus
Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) - E=MC2
Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) - American Past Time
Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) - Bad Boyfriend
Balinese Room (The) (Galveston) - H88
Bareback Bar (The) - String Benders
Big Easy (The) - Rick Lee & the Night Owls
Blanco's - David Brake & That Damn Band
Blue Dolphin (The) - Benny Valerio & Texas Thunder
Bojangle's (Seabrook) - Mike Zito
Borski's - Matt Minor
Bossa (610 Main St.) - Mark Towns Salsa All-Stars w/Rudy Rincon
(ongoing)
Brian O'Neill's - Plump
Cactus Moon Blues Café - Zu Zu Mud
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson (9 pm)
Cardi's - Transonic/Trademark Ending/The Remnants
Chances - Shiela
Cocktails (Galveston) - Becca Ryan (5-7 pm)
Continental Club (The) - Molly & the Ringwalds (7 pm); The Asylum
StreetSpankers (11:30 pm)
Cosmos - 900 lbs
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - Phil Johnson & Rush Hour (8 pm)
Curly's (Hitchcock) - Bad Habits
Dan Electro's - The Hoyle Brothers/Joe New
Einstein's Pub - Spiffingtons
Emily's (Seabrook) - Eric Tatum
Engine Room (The) - Insane Clown Posse/Anybody Killah/Mack 10
Fenders (LaMarque) - CC Rider (9 pm)
Firehouse Saloon - Texas High Life/Phil Pritchett
Fitzgerald's (down) - A+ Machines/Unified
Fitzgerald's (up) - The Gourds
510 Club (Katy) - Sonny Boy Terry
Froggie's Saloon - Hit 'N' Run
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Houston Area Acoustic Music Society
Hideaway (The) - Spare Parts
Jack's For Cocktails - The Convertibles
Java Jazz Coffee House - Seize The Day/The Black
Ties/Westborn/BrainStorm/Last Born/Buxton
JP Hops Houses - Foscoe Jones & the Distractions
Last Concert Café - Delta Nove/Sean Nelson & the Ramblers
Lone Star Saloon (Richmond) - Steve Downing
Magnolia Bar & Grill - Dave Nevling & the Blues Kats (6 pm)
Mary Jane's Fat Cat - The Dealers/Sonic Red
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Jesse Dayton (9 pm)
Mercury Room (The) - Primal Funk
Mo's Place (Katy) - Derringer
Molly's (Wilcrest & Westheimer) - Scott Sileo
Muddie Waters Coffee House - Easy Living Trio
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - Burchfield & Johnson
Next Door Coffee House (The) - open mic (7 pm)
19th Hole (The) - Podunk/Space City Kings/Back Porch Mary
Noah's Ark (Bacliff) - LaDon Lavalle & Shadow Play
Numbers - Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance/Quick Fix
Kills
Oz Bar (The) - Checkered Past
Papa's On The Lake - The Mark May Band (8 pm)
Pennison's (Copperfield) - Spiffingtons
Pennison's (Sugar Land) - Deuces Wild
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - The Tony Vega Band
Radisson Hotel (The) (I-10 & Beltway 8) - Mirror Image (8 pm)
Red Cat Jazz Café - Dean James
Rhythm Room (The) - The Mighty Orq/Matt The Electrician (CD
release)/900 lbs
Ringside @ Sullivan's - Rapture (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Garcia y Reyna
Riverside Inn (The) (Channelview) - Scott McGill & Old Dog Mac
Rowdy's - Steve Garcia
Rudyard's - The John Sparrow/Phonocaptors/The Good Looks
Sambuca Restaurant - Shape Shifters
Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) - Magazine
Sands Restaurant & Bar (The) - Herman's Hermits featuring Pete Noone
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - Big Red Sun
Shakespeare's Pub - Eugene Moody Blues Band
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - The Reds
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - Jawbreaker
Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) - Head First
Sidecar Pub (The) - Ian Moore
Splash II (Dickinson) - The Joe Valentino Show
SRO Sports Bar (Northwest Mall) - Steady Grind
Stag's Head Pub - Pete Scafidi
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - Janet Z (6-10 pm)
Terrace Café (Kemah) - Luther & the Healers
Tubby's Ice House (LaMarque) - Down To Earth
Verizon Wireless Theatre - Alter Bridge/Crossfade/Submersed
Vintage Bar (The) - Chris Collins
Walter's on Washington - Through The Discipline/A Thousand Falling
Skies/The Adacia Strain/The Kidnap Soundtrack/Far From Jane/Yuma
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - Texas Johnny Brown & the Quality
Blues Band (7 pm)
Wunsche Bros Café - Randy Meadows
Yaga's (Galveston) - Grupo Fantasma
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23rd
Acadia Sports Bar - Rue Bourbon
Al's Sports Bar #1 - King Fridy
Al's Sports Bar #2 - The Stone Kings (CD release party)
Anderson Fair - Peter Case
B & B Bar & Grill (Magnolia) - Bucko Ruckus
Baja Beach Club (Galveston) - Bad Habits
Baker Street Pub (Rice Village) - American Past Time
Baker Street Pub (Sugar Land) - E=MC2
Baker Street Pub (Willowbrook) - Pete Scafidi
Balinese Room (The) (Galveston) - Bert Wills Band
Bareback Bar (The) - Bitter Creek
Big Easy (The) - Tommy Dardar
Big John's Sports Bar - jam
Borski's - traditional country jam (1-6 pm); Jody Booth
Breakers - Papa Joe's Ultimate Blues Machine
Brian O'Neill's - Soul Remedy
Cactus Moon Blues Café - The Tony Vega Band
Cactus Music & Video - in-store performances by Drop Trio (1
pm);Buddhacrush (3 pm)
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson
Cardi's - Zike/And They Will Meet God/To Scale The
Throne/Condemned/Gates of Ednoch
Continental Club (The) - Hilary Sloan (9 pm); Marti Brom (10 pm);
Wanda Jackson (11:30 pm)
Cosmos - The Dukes of Houston
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - Bare Necessity
Cruiser's Ice House (Santa Fe) - Rex Griffith
Cullen Performance Hall (University of Houston) - Marcel Khalife
Downtown Aquarium - Chameleon (5-9 pm)
Einstein's Pub - Surface
Engine Room (The) - Del tha Funkee Homosapien/Aceyalone/Abstract
Rude/Micah 9/Zion I/Bukue One
F2 (306 Main Street) - The Dudes (ongoing)
Fenders (LaMarque) - Fuzzy Side Up (9 pm)
Firehouse Saloon - John Evans (CD release party)
Forgetta'Bout It - Distant Thunder/Mercury Down/Vesperian Sorrow
Forgetta'Bout It Too - Scare The Monkey/Band of Freaks
Froggie's Saloon - Joe Miranda & the Wildcatters
Helio's - jazz jam w/The Trade
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Kimberly M'Carver
Hickory Hollow (Magnolia) - Liberty (6:30 pm)
Hideaway (The) - The Chevys
Houston Blues Society 4th Annual Founder's Day Picnic (3322 Sampson
St. in Third Ward) w/Steve Krase & the In Crowd/Jimmy “Louisiana”
Dotson (3-7 pm)
Howling Coyote (The) - DNA
Java Jazz Coffee House - Panik/The Last Goodbye/Taylor Turner
Trio/The Elliot Project/Alaska Is For Players/The Abico Effect
JP Hops House - Chris Collins/Jen Rathbun/Annie Benjamin (In The
Round)
Kirby's Steak House (Woodlands) - Mark Town's Latin Jazz Quartet
Lake Conroe Bar - Al Casey & the BB's
Lance's Turtle Club (Seabrook) - Phil Johnson & Rush Hour
Last Concert Café (The) - Vibe Committee/Drop Trio (CD release party)
Lone Star Saloon (Richmond) - David Brake & That Damn Band
Mary Jane's Fat Cat - Slivered/Gorch Fock/Bleach
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Ray Wylie Hubbard (2 shows, 8 & 10 pm)
Mercury Room (The) - Bayou Funk Experiment
Mo's Place (Katy) - Matt Mead
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - Hip Shots (benefit & fun run for Ricky
Craft;10 pm)
Next Door Coffee House - Jack in the Pulpit
19th Hole (The) - Magistral
Noah's Ark (Bacliff) - 4-Barrel Ramblers
Numbers - Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance
Oxford Hall - “Concierto De Guitarra” w/Kelly Lancaster/Gary
Seber/Ricardo Sweatt-Rodriguez
Oz Bar (The) - Just Got Lucky
Papa's On The Lake - Leonard “Low Down” Brown (8 pm)
Pennison's (Copperfield) - Crowded Minds
Pennison's (Sugar Land) - Morgan Steep
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - Constant Buzz
Red Cat Jazz Café - Dean James
Rhythm Room (The) - Go Girls Rock w/Skinny White
Chicks/Symplisity/Something for Jess/Irrational Fear
Ringside @ Sullivan's - The Flyers (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Garcia y Reyna (8 pm; ongoing)
Rookie's - Bad Boyfriend (acoustic)
Rudyard's - Dixie Witch/Amplified Heat
Sambuca Restaurant - Shape Shifters
Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) - Volumizers
Sands Restaurant & Bar (The) - The Fab 5
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - 646
Shakespeare's Pub - Dikki Du & the Zydeco Crew
Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) - Jawbreaker
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - The Reds
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - Surface
Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) - A-Rival
Sidecar Pub (The) - Bleu Edmondson Band/Matt Davis Band
Stag's Head Pub - Giancarlo & the Big Stick
Super Happy Fun Land - Porter Davis/Carrie Ann Buchanan
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - Rhythm Kings (6-10 pm)
Terrace Café (Kemah) - Luther & the Healers
Time Out Sports Bar #1 - Nervous Rex
Time Out Sports Bar #3 - Blue Corner
Tut's (Conroe) - Diunna Greenleaf
Uncle Albert's - Head First
Verizon Wireless Theatre - Brian Wilson
Vintage Bar (The) - Big Lizard Boys
Walter's on Washington - Los Skarnales/Change Up/The Too
Toos/Bleach/bGorch Fock/O'Doyle Rules/The Yetis
West End Pub (The) - Benny Valerio & Texas Thunder
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - What Is Hip (7 pm)
Wunsche Bros Café - Randy Meadows
Yaga's (Galveston) - Shark Attack
Zebo's Coffee House - open mic w/Michael Pope (7:30 pm)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24th
Big Easy (The) - Willie T & the Zydeco Posse
Big Top (The) - Glover Gill (9 pm)
Bill Mraz Dance Hall - Liz Talley & TNT Country (3-7 pm)
Birraporetti's - jazz brunch (10:30 am-3 pm)
Borski's - blues jam (3 pm)
Cosmos - Johnny Dyson's Big Band (7 pm)
Cruiser's (Santa Fe) - blues jam (4-8 pm)
Dean's Credit Clothing - Sunday Session (8-11 pm)
Engine Room (The) - The Casualties/Lower Class Brats/Monster Squad
Etta's - Grady Gaines & the Texas Upsetters
Fat Cat's - Bring Back The Guns/Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Frank's Trip On Inn - Symplisity (ongoing; 4 pm)
Grand 1894 Opera House (The) (Galveston) - Scott Bumgardner (2 pm)
Gully (The) (Crosby) - The Joe Valentino Show
Haak Vineyards & Winery - Howl-O-Wine Fundraiser for the Animal
Coalition of Texas w/Funksion (5-9 pm)
Hawg Stop (The) - Roger Creager
Hickory Hollow (Heights) - Mary Christian
Java Jazz Coffee House - O Ghost Who Walks/While You Were
Gone/Elseworth/Breakdance Vietnam/Obscure Movie Reference
JP Hops House - NSAI open mic w/T.C. Smythe (6 pm)
Lance's Turtle Club (Seabrook) - Jazz Toonz (6-10 pm)
Last Concert Café (The) - Fahl & Folk (6-9 pm)
Meridian (The) - Dillinger Escape Plan/Zao/Every Time I Die
Mr. Gino's - I.J. Gosey (4-7 pm)
Mulligan's & More - jam
Neon Moon Saloon (LaPorte) - jam (4-8 pm)
19th Hole (The) - Brad Absher
Numbers - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Papa's Ice House - jam w/Crossroads (4-8 pm)
Ponderosa - O'Bear & the Las Vegas Band (8 pm; ongoing)
Poor Michael's On The Strand (Galveston) - jam (8 pm)
Red Cat Jazz Café - LaLa Wilson/Raymond Chambers/Danni Watkins (4-8
pm)
Reno's (Gulf Frwy @ Nasa Road 1) - David Brake & That Damn Band
Rhythm Room (The) - Goodtrain Sessions jam (9 pm)
River Café (The) - Harry Sheppard
Ronnie's Ice House (Dickinson) - jam
Rowdy's - open mic
Rudyard's - Irish session music (6-8 pm); The Medicine Show (11 pm)
Sambuca Restaurant - dinner w/Blue Monks
Scout Bar (Clear Lake) - Active Radio/The Reckoning
Shakespeare's Pub - blues jam w/Spare Time Murray
Sherlock's Pub (Clear Lake) - Acoustic
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - Acoustic Villians
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - original showcase
10 Downing Street - The David Craig Band (8:30 pm)
What's Left (Tomball) - jam (2-6 pm)
Wrecker's Grill & Bar (San Leon) - Mack Hayes (4 pm)
That's it for now. See you where the live music is!
-Guy Schwartz
Texaans muzikant, songwriter, bandleader, producer, filmmaker, auteur
HIPPIES TV - Gratis webvideo's op www.hippies.tv
Houston, Texas, VSA 001-713-721-0093
Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies
"De meest toonaangevende bluesrock hippie jam band van Texas"
Texaans muzikant, songwriter, bandleader, producer, filmmaker, auteur
HIPPIES TV - Gratis webvideo's op www.hippies.tv
Houston, Texas, VSA 001-713-721-0093
Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies
"De meest toonaangevende bluesrock hippie jam band van Texas"
-Billy Block (Western Beat)
10 cd albums verkrijgbaar bij www.CDbaby.com/hippies
Meer dan 30 cd albums verkrijgbaar bij www.bluesguy.com/shop
"Die Guy Schwartz weet pas hoe muziek écht moet!"
-Rusty Young, Nashville (medeoprichter van Poco)
10 cd albums verkrijgbaar bij www.CDbaby.com/hippies
Meer dan 30 cd albums verkrijgbaar bij www.bluesguy.com/shop
"Die Guy Schwartz weet pas hoe muziek écht moet!"
-Rusty Young, Nashville (medeoprichter van Poco)
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