Concert photographs – Page 13 – The Bald Heretic – Short, bald dude with a goofy beard

Small Stars

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Small Stars at the Continental Club on Saturday night. Always a good time as I have written before.
I experimented with some different techniques while shooting the show. I like what came out.

Landis Armstrong aka Richard Steele

Miles Zuniga - aka Guy Fantasy

The rest of the pics are here

Blowing off some steam

Prior to the announcement of the buyout I had made plans to see Southern Culture on the Skids at the Continental Club on Thursday. This band is hard to describe but imagine a trailer park version of the B-52’s and you come close. I make it a point to see them each year when they pass through town and they never disappoint.

As it turned out, the evening was a great chance to unwind and de-stress quite a bit. Plenty of good people in attendance and some I had not seen in a long time.

The show was as good and better than I had hoped.

SCOTS

More pics of the show in the gallery

Small Stars @ Rudyard’s

Saturday night I broke routine and followed my musical nose to the upstairs of Rudyard’s to catch The Small Stars.

Imagine, if you will, seven caricatures from some cheesy out of the way casino/lounge act in Reno, Nevada and you will begin to understand what The Small Stars are all about.

It’s pure “shtick” and they do it well. In fact, they do it VERY well. You see, they’re not just a bunch of hacks with a comedic idea, they are each skilled musicians and what they accomplish as an ensemble is nothing short of flabbergasting.

Featured in the band is Austin guitar legend Landis Armstrong (aka Richard Steele) from such noteworthy musical projects as McLemore Avenue and The El Orbits.

Cynthia jokingly suggests I have a big ole’ man crush on Landis. I suspect she’s right. He’s a nice guy and an amazing musician and whenever he performs in town I try to make it a point to go see him.

Oh Landis, if only someone could tame him…

The front man for The Small Stars goes by the stage name of Guy Fantasy. His real name is Miles Zuniga and is most famous for the song “The Way” he wrote and performed with the one hit wonder band Fastball in the 90’s. He’s incredibly funny and reminds me is subtle ways of a musical Bill Hicks.

On of the more entertaining characters is Vic Odin, the “manager” of the band who has some GREAT songs he sings and cracks me up when he’s running around the performance venue with his bullhorn.

All in all, a very enjoyable evening.

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Reelin’ in the years

The Flying Fish Sailors had a very humble, yet ambitious beginning. This is a photo from one of our first live performances (circa 1988) at what was then known as The Wellington Stone on W. Alabama in the Montrose area of Houston.

Left to right: Jay Lee, Greg Henkel and Joseph Linbeck.

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It’s hard to imagine that we are coming up on 20 years of performing together.

Son, you’re gonna’ drive me to drinkin’ If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod Lincoln

Saturday night at the Continental Club was Jesse Dayton’s Honky Tonk and Hot Rod Music Festival. The show featured one of my favorites, Jesse Dayton and the Road Kings along with two of my other must see performers, Telecaster legend Red Volkert (Red was lead guitarist for the great Merle Haggard for many years) and Two Hoots and a Holler.

Red Volkert

Also on the bill was a band I was not familiar with. C.C. Adcock from Lafayette, Louisiana.

C.C. Adcock put on an amazing show. Jesse Dayton even joined them on stage and the two guitar players had at it and it was a rockin good time.

I had to take a flash shot of CC Adcock’s bass player to better show the pepto-pink upright bass.

Uhhh, yea…

All in all a pretty spectacular evening.

It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder

Beats of Basquiat at the Museum of Fine Arts here in Houston, TX wasÂ a monthly event that was hosted to celebrate the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Each month there would be live music and Dj’s.

Last night was the final event and the headliner was Grandmaster Flash.

Grandmaster Flash

I must say, it was pretty awesome show, in a “I remember the 80’s” kinda way. Lots of good people and a very nice time.

Colored lights can hypnotize

Our instore performance at Sig’s LagoonÂ went very well. There is a photographer who shoots at the Continental Club and uses a lot of pro-gear. He shot our performance and sent me some of the results. I like this one the best.

He did some other cool shots in black and white and one where he left my shirt in color. You can see those in the Flying Fish Sailors gallery.

Good times

The show last Friday was very nice. We had an awesome turn out for the evening as we were joined by new friends and old. It was reminiscent of our shows back in the days when were were playing regularly at Munchies.

My friends Theresa and Albert came and gave us hand painted gnomes that matched each of the band members costumes worn at the Ren Faire. That was super kind of them and quite unexpected.