Concert photographs – Page 14 – The Bald Heretic – Short, bald dude with a goofy beard

My own private Idaho

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Got to see Aqua Velva a few weeks ago. A new music project featuring Mark and David Beebe, Allen Hill, Steve Candelari and two girls who’s names elude me.
They are a straight-up B-52’s cover band and they pull it off remarkably well.
Mark Beebe does a convincing Fred Schneider and David plays a mean 4 string guitar.

Stopped by Sig’s Lagoon last Wednesdays after the radidio show.
Los Skarnales was doing an in-store performance.
Not bad.

Saturday night

A pleasant evening at the 3700 S. Main Entertainment Megaplex.

Got chill with Mitch Pauls, England James and Peter King of the Light Rock Express at the fabulous Sig’s Lagoon before their set at The Big Top.

Thomas has created such a cool space. That’s him in the second pic with Trey standing to his left.

The main attraction was Sharon Jones performing with The Dap Kings at the Continental Club. Old school funk. It was a very nice groove and a heck of a Saturday night.

Saturday night

In 1965 Roy Head’s song “Treat Her Right” was at the top of the charts.
While back-to-back Beatles hits kept Roy Head out of the number one spot, “Treat Her Right” was a worldwide hit.

Archie Bell’s “Tighten Up” topped both the pop and R&B charts in 1968.

On Sept 3rd, 2005 these two musical legends appeared at the Continental Club with The El Orbits as the opener followed by The Allen Oldies Band and then a mix of the members of both served as the house band for Archie Bell and Roy Head.

I didn’t get pics of the El Orbits but here is a great shot of Allen Hill getting goofy with The Allen Oldies Band. All those great 50’s rock and roll songs set the mood for the evening.

That’s Landis Armstrong on the far left, Mikey Trafton on the bass, Allen Hill on vocals, my good friend Jim Henkel playing the sax (that guy can play ANYTHING!), Joe Earthman also on sax and David Schoenbaum playing the Farfisa organ. Invisible behind Allen is the one and only David Bebee on the drums.

Guess what? Allen’s got a fever! And the only prescription..

You guessed it! MORE COWBELL

Before long the stage was reset and the band was in place for Archie Bell.

Notice the very talented Allen Hill has switched to the bass guitar.

He did not disappoint. This Houston native still had a ton of soul and put on a most memorable performance.

His set was followed immediately by Texas’ own Roy Head.

You will note that Jim has moved to the guitar, his primary instrument and it’s none other than the Dazzling Pete Gray playing the piano.

40 years later Roy Head still knows how to put on a show! Incredible energy!

The climax of the evening was when Roy Head and Archie Bell teamed up to sing “Got My Mojo Workin'”.

To top off all the great music there were some good friends in attendance who hung out, shared drinks, sang along, danced and just generally contributed to the good vibe of the evening’s festivities.

And now the obligatory picture of myself and the performers.
I look just a tad insane in this one. I’m just crazy for live music!

Road Trip!

There are maybe 5 or so artists on my “must see at any cost” list.
Right up there at the top is Adrian Belew.

Adrain Belew is a phenomenal guitar player. He has performed with some of my favorite bands and musicians; Frank Zappa, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, King Crimson, The Tom Tom Club, Jean-Michel Jarre, Laurie Anderson and Paul Simon.

I’ve seen him play with King Crimson and with Zappa on the Sheik Yerbouti tour. The last time I saw him was with The Bears at Rockefellers many years ago.

When my band mate and friend Joe told me Adrian had formed the Adrian Belew Trio with Mike Gallaher on bass and Mike Hodges on drums I was quite excited. When we found out he was touring plans were set in motion.

At the time we checked his tour schedule his only date in Texas was at The Granada Theater in Dallas.

Granada Theater

This meant one thing…ROAD TRIP!

Tickets were purchased on line and we got second row center seats. On Sunday Morning Joe and I took off for the show.

The Granada is a great place to see a live show. It’s small, cozy and intimate. Our seats were spectacular.

There was an opening act called Bagg. A local Dallas jam band similar to Moses Guest and Drop Trio here in Houston.

Bagg

They were good. I know they must have been very excited to share that particular stage this night.

But the main attraction was what we were all here to see. It was worth the drive and the wait. Adrian Belew did not disappoint. He played some of his new and older solo work as well as a few very choice King Crimson songs including Three of a Perfect Pair and Thela Hun Ginjeet.

Adrian Belew

After the show Adrian signed autographs, talked to his fans and mugged for the cameras.

Adrian Belew and me

What a great night!

Musical time travel

Seeing Beetle at the Big Top last night had the look and feel of what it might have been like to see The Beatles at the Cavern in Liverpool back in the day.

The Knitters put on a fine show at The Continental Club which also hearkened to a bygone musical era.

Gosh, I recall listening to X way back in the early 80’s as I was sowing the seeds of my musical dissidence.

Saturday night

Los Skarnales at the Continental Club

More pics here.

Rather random encounters

It was most unexpected to see my friend Sahira open up for Beans Barton and the Bipeds at Dan Electro’s on Saturday.
She’s a great dancer and member of Urban Gypsy.

I think my favorite was a duet dance she did with another member of the troop that was set to tune of Dueling Banjos.

The King is dead, long live The King!

Last night was a bit of a treat.
Arrived at the Continental a bit early and had a nice chat with Bill Shirley.

On the bill at the CC was Ted Roddy’s King Conjure Orchestra.
The evening was a tribute to the Elvis of the 50’s.

I am not a huge Elvis fan, but something about a 11 piece orchestra with a horn section and female backing vocals kicking out the jams in that space made me a fan for the night.

It was a great crowd. The cool thing was that, while they played Elvis songs, Ted Roddy was not an Elvis impersonator. He did, however, sing in the 50’s Elvis style. It was a true rock and roll party.