Photoshop Fun With Opie Hendrix
copyright 2005

I am now available to photograph your upcoming gigs in and around the Greater Houston area. Please email me at Mojo_peace4@yahoo.com well in advance of your upcoming gig to discuss my rates for coming out to take photos of your band onstage. More details at:

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Mike Farber
copyright 2005

New Merchandise!

Many people have expressed the desire to purchase durable goods featuring some of my "non-musician" art graphics. I'm proud to introduce my new online storefront at Cafe' Press! Please check it out at

http://www.cafepress.com/digitalmojo

Order now to insure prompt delivery in time for the holidays, and if you like what you see, please pass along the link to others.

Thanks and much love,
Joanie Maverick
(Dulcinea/Sharon/Moon/Mojo)

rituals
2005 SMT

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19th Annual Watermelon Festival 2005 at Last Concert Cafe' to benefit KPFT listener-supported radio 

"left" 2005 copyright Sharon Taylor  

Kennedy at the Tomball Intermediate School Talent Show---about to kick some serious butt.

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Self-conscious onstage, but with complete faith in the strength of her voice.

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She invited David from the Last Concert Cafe' to play with her, but the teachers said no ringers allowed. He was kind enough to drive all the way out, though, and endure all the typically excruciating talent-show fodder before Kennedy walked out and floored everybody with her performance.

What David didn't realize is that in Kennedy's mind, this was her chance to audition for him so that she can soon convince him to put together a lunch set with her, split the tips down the middle. She nailed the vocal.

Courage takes on many different forms.

Copyright and License Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

93.7 The Arrow's Wednesday Night Roadhouse Series Presents the legendary Herschel Berry with Roc Romano and Kenny Cordray, Wednesday night April 20 2005 at Dan Electro's. www.danelectrosguitarbar.com for upcoming Wednesday night events!

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tamale guy

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awesome

Herschel Berry

Rock Romano---he's told me his name is Roc,
Rock, Doc, Duck, and a couple of other names.
From the standpoint of a girl who never uses
the same name twice, I dig that.

wow

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Herschel

Doc

Chuck 3 in eXtreme black and white

03/10/05 - The Hightailers are HERE.
Potroast is HERE.
Carolyn Wonderland
Scott Daniels Band
56 Hope Road
Tracy Conover
Long Beach Short Bus
Drop Trio
Sunday acoustic 1 - January 23, 2005
Sunday acoustic 2 - January 30, 2005
Sunday acoustic 3 - February 13, 2005



03/07/05 - An album for the Hightailers has been stored on Ofoto, which made sense because many of us already use it through Texas-Tribe. I've gone ahead and deleted the shots from this site that I've got in the album so far, and between that and the Sunday jam at LCC photos the site loading is quite a bit faster. Next to be created will probably be Potroast, because of the equally giant amount of bandwidth they're using for the site (thanks, Cari, for graciously provinding me with proper names and spellings for the new site). Eventually, I'll pare this blogspot site to a few good pictures of each band with a link to their own album or gallery on Ofoto where you can go straight to the bands you want. There, Dogman, is that better?

Albert

Albert 2

Tall Cool One

Albert 4

Albert 5

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The Trinity of Soulful Blues: Lady Vee, Miss G,
and John Morris taking care of everything
way down below on the bass.

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blues jam

Very Teri Greene and Juan Abair

You know it's getting serious when the sax player kicks off his sandals!

sax guy

Barry, the keyboard magician!!!

blues jam ~ trumpet

blues jam ~ trumpet

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Lady Vee

Miss G

Two High

Two High

Two High String Band

Tommy Dardar 1

Tommy Dardar

Guy Schwartz and New Jack Hippies

New Jack Hippies

Roger Tausz

Lisa Harrington with New Jack Hippies

Norma Zenteno

Bobby Zenteno 1

Bobby Zenteno 2

Fondue Monks at Don Mac's benefit

Fondue Drums 1

Fondue Drums 2

Roz

Fondue Monks 3

Fondue Monks 2

Fondue Monks 2

Scott McGill with Old Dog Mac and Big Al Bettis at Dan Electro's

Scott and Big Al

Very Teri 2

Scott McGill (background Big Al Bettis)

Very Teri Greene

Tracy Conover, Dan Electro's Guitar Bar April 02, 2005

Mean Gene closeup

Tauszmaniac

Auta i lómë!

Tracy

Roger Tausz

With the great Teri Greene---wow!

Tracy's axe

Mean Gene K. 1

I like this photo a lot, but have I mentioned how very bad I am with names? Someone please let me know what this man's name is. Despite the fact that we've hung out a time or two, I drew a complete blank.

closeup 4

Don't forget to scroll down for photos from Carolyn Wonderland and Tracey Conover at Dan Electro's 02.12.05 show, along with last week's Hightailers, Scott Daniels Band, and 56 Hope Road shows at Last Concert Cafe'.

Last Concert Cafe' Sunday acoustic jam, February 13, 2005 ~ Okay, I might have mentioned to a couple of people that I got a new 128 mb memory card, so that gives me close to 200 great-quality shots per session. I ran out of card space on Sunday. This is about half of the shots from the acoustic jam, but I still have many more to upload so if you were there and don't see yourself yet, watch this space!

I love this photo of Greg.

William 7

Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys with Tracy Conover

Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, Friday, February 11, 2005

Tracy and Scott

Tracy Conover

T and C crowd shot (Hi, Lisa!)

Tuning

Scott and Carolyn

Scott and Tracy

Carolyn 2

Carolyn 1

Kind of interesting light and dark technique I've been playing with on the computer.

Carolyn laughing

Carolyn's other trumpet

Carolyn and Cole

warmup trumpet

Carolyn trumpet 2

Carolyn trumpet 3

original shot of the Carolyn image above

Los Lobos song

Los Lobos song 2

Cole 1

Cole 2

Lefty and Scott

Potroast, Wednesday Feb. 09, 2005 at LCC

Westside Johnny 3

Westside Johnny 2

Westside Johnny

Potroast 3

Potroast 4

Potroast 5

Potroast 6

Potroast 7

PR7

Potroast guy 8

Potroast

Potroast full band

harmonica guy 3

Potroast drummer guy

Dave and Johnny

Scott Daniels Band graphic

LCC

LCC 3

Calvin 2

Scott 2

Scott and Calvin 5

Scott and Calvin 6

Scott and Calvin 7

I think this is my favorite picture of Alan, ever.

56 Hope Road at Last Concert Cafe' Saturday night, February 05, 2005 - a kickass show from some really nice guys! For more info and sound files from this great band go to www.56hoperd.com ~ Thanks, guys, we had fun!

Steve 2

Steve (hue) 1

Steve (hue) 2

Steve and Tyler

Steve and Dave 2

Steve and Dave 1

Tyler - non flash with contrast

Tyler 2 (with flash)

Tyler 3

Tyler 4

Tyler 5

Tyler 6

Greg, Matt, and Chad

Greg and Chad 1

Dave 2

Dave 1

Greg 1

Matt and Tyler

Matt 2

Matt 1

Potroast shots from Wednesday night at the Cafe'

Potroast 6

Potroast 5

Keyboard guy from Potroast

Potroast 4

potroast 3

Hey, Kids ~ LBSB photos

I didn't go to Dark Star Orchestra at the Meridian, but I hope someone got some good shots. Meanwhile I've gotten behind in my posting and somehow have a few Potroast shots from Wednesday night I'll try to post later on. Also, a couple of people have asked about the Long Beach Short Bus show at Fitzgerald's in January, the long and short of it (ha, I've been dying to say that) is that I got some really great shots but I'm afraid to post them anywhere until I hear back from them whether or not they like them and don't have any legal problems with me doing so. Soon as I track down an email for appropriate permissions and stuff, I'll hope to post those shots from a truly intense, kickass show.

Scott Daniels ~ wandering troubadour? Or International Man of Mystery? Don't let the quiet ones fool you.

singing "Dead Goat Saloon"

Scott's Slide

Slide in motion

This was during a Hendrix song. Somebody had to take the solo---why not the banjo guy? I can assure you, it ROCKED!

April 3

Van Wilkes show at Dan Electro's, Jan. 29, 2005

Big Al and Van Wilkes

Big Al

Melissa at Dan Electro's

Lisa, P. Jeff, and April

April's beautiful smile

Sean

Jim, Greg, and David

Greg foreground 2

Phil, Greg, and David 1

Cari

Carrie 2

Greg and David 1

Greg and David 2

Greg and David 3

Phil and Chuck 2

Phil and Chuck 1

Phil 1

Carl 1

Jim 1

group 1

Drummer from Potroast. Now, I know the secret spot where you stand with your camera and the drummer gets all the magical light!

Marguerite (If I've horribly misspelled her name, please send corrections to Mojo_peace4@yahoo.com. Sorry, doing my best!)

This is how the art version of the photo of Calvin, below, appears in the Deviant Art gallery. You have to have a title for those entries, so it's called "Story To Tell."

Blurry Scott Daniels -cool effect and all, once. I wish some of you guys would hold still. Wait. No, I don't. *cheesy grin* Keep rockin,' sooner or later, I'll catch up.

Calvin and Scott

JP Conga

Danny with Tye Dye Productions / Sound.

A little fuzzy. Calvin Hall, Jr. with the Scott Daniels Band

I waited and waited for this shot. No flash.

Tinkering around with Calvin's profile.

Randy and Scott. Too blurry to use, probably, but I like this view, anyway.

Scott laughing - shot with flash

Another one that's too fuzzy.

Scott 3

Scott 2

Scott 1

Sky Pilot noodling / Alan Cunningham, your Wingman.

Zwee at Dan Electro's Saturday 12.08.05

Zwee ~ the kind of story...a brother and sister getting along and creating beautiful music together...that makes a mother want to cry. With envy.

Frank Zwee (Zweback)

Jessica Zweback 1

Jessica Zweback 2

Jessica Dancing

Original shot of Zwee Sax

Zwee Saxaphonist. On the CD, the name listed is Bobby Navarro. If this is not the same person, I apologize and please send corrections to: Mojo_peace4@yahoo.com. Thanks.

And isn't it ironic...don't you think?

Don't laugh, I still listen to Jagged Little Pill. Or, I would, except that on New Years' Day, someone walked past my car and swiped my entire CD collection out of my vehicle. Combined with being robbed at gunpoint some five days later, I'm wondering why 2005 has thus far been a year of attempts to divest me of my stuff. I don't think I've been particularly materialistic or covetous up to this point, so it might be a lesson in the opposite, since I am pretty irresponsible and careless with my own stuff. Maybe it's all about cleaning out the floorboards in my car and taking better care of the CDs I have left, I dunno.

I don't think 2005 got the drop on me in the right places, though. I read back over the words I wrote two weeks ago and I can only imagine and shudder to think that if I'd have corked it in the robbery, what a sappy fucking eulogy. But ya know what? It's fine. I meant every word. I'm clear on all that, it's the times we should have said "I love you" and didn't that may be the last things we ultimately remember. And man, that would suck. That's the lesson in 2005. That, and take better care of your shit or someone might just divest you of it.

More Potroast

guitar guy from Potroast 2

guitar guy from Potroast

Harmonica guy from Potroast at LCC

Scott Daniels

Original shot of Scott, again at the SDB Xmas Night Xtravaganza at LCC. I know, nobody's really that red.

Happy New Year and Thank You for 2004

Wow. What a long, strange trip it's being. Looking back all nostalgic-like and sappy-sentimental for the holidays, as 2004 draws to an end, it occurs to me that we have all grown so much and given so much love. I am forever grateful for the people who have pulled me through this year, supported me through some very uncertain career days, helped me navigate what it means to be alive and giving at a time in my life when I was extremely close to withdrawing altogether. I hope that I will always have the presence of mind to be touched when I think of the way my Last Concert and Tribe family has shared its music, love, visions, homes, and their kindness and downright largesse anytime I come around, no questions asked, just hugs and love. Not just the folks on the stage in the photos, either. Not by a longshot! The Tribe makes it all real, all happening. Last Concert Cafe' is one of those places you go when ya don't even know who's playing,, because you love the people who'll be watching whatever-it-is with you. And it always rocks.

I know that I won't always be so lucky. I'm sure there will come a time in my life when I can't find a soul to talk to; times in life when I can't buy a hug. Ups and downs are part of life, duh. I guess that's why I keep turning to my friends and loved ones and babbling, "We are so lucky. We're the luckiest people on Earth." There will come a day when photos of Carolyn, Scott, Cole, Screamin' Kenny, all those guys, will be tightly-controlled by the record companies or some fancy press agency, when nobody's allowed to tape under penalty of death and law. Yeah, yeah. I'm just grateful that they've been so indulgent of my little photography hobby, and I hope none of the shots that I think are most interesting are hated by their subjects. The art may be subjective, anyway, but my deepest gratitude is not.

Thank you, friends, for this amazing, kick-ass rock 'n' roll year.

*mwah*
Dulcinea/Moon/Mojo/Joanie/Sharon
...and a few other names I keeps to myself, amigos.

I call this photo "Don't Call Me Janis."

Last Concert Cafe' and Carolyn's Last Tuesday Night Revival Under The Moon ~ December 28, 2004

SDB Christmas Night 2004 at Last Concert Cafe'....doing that cool Earl Klugh thing to the Christmas song on guitar.

Carolyn in blue

Although it's fuzzy and the colors are whack, I love this photograph. She was singing the words "Peace On Earth" at this moment.

Original shot, non-flash

Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys
Christmas Eve 2004 at Dan Electro's

Marcos Melchor at Helios, Houston, Tx 12.06.04 SMT

Beans Barton and the Dancing Lightman

The Dancing Lizard Kid
Allowed to stay up late once a month for the Beans Barton show.

Raw Beans

Cool Beans

Scott Daniels SMT 2004

Carolyn & Trumpet

Mr. Calvin Owens, Nov. 2004

Most of my shots start out pretty bad because I try my hardest not to use flash at shows, because it's really obnoxious. If I can't get a real-looking shot, I go for the gusto and run a photosuite program to start tinkering with colors, hues, and textures. I could do digital photography all day if I got paid to just hang out and do art, but there's evidently no money in it. I guess I'd spend a lot more time trying to get seriously better at it if there were.

Last Concert Cafe' in blue

Last Concert Cafe' 1

monochrome - Ian

Ian of Drop Trio

art photo and stuff

B/W Cole and Carolyn 1

Carolyn and Cole

Scott Daniels and Carolyn

Soundman Alan Cunningham of Tye Dye Productions.
Don't tell him, but I've secretly started calling him
"Wingman, the Sky Pilot of Sound" on the Internet.
I told him I thought this picture made him look lonely.

MC, on drums and crazy vocals

PJ and Teri

PJ Space (Pam Whitehouse) and Teri Greene
at Goodtrain Sessions

Goodtrain Sessions (Randy Wall on keys, MC on drums, Westside Johnny
on bass). Ibelieve the name of the first guitarist is James Reese.
(email corrections to Mojo_peace4@yahoo.com)
The guest guitarist, against the far wall, is the legendary Teri Greene.

Blues Hounds SMT 2004

Little Joe and Chuck 2004 SMT

Rock Star poster SMT 2004

Scott and Carolyn 2004 SMT

Da Man Wit Da Plan -
Donny Mack at DanElectro's 2004 SMT

Carolyn at DanElectro's 2004 SMT

statue of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Austin, Texas

MMW 2004 SMT

Rock show photos and digital art
All photos taken at camera-friendly shows
Images copyright 2000-2004 Sharon M. Taylor and Mojo v3.0

Which one's Pink?

Just a really cool picture I took of Chuck playing along with Howlin' Wolf. I call it "Red-Hot Blues."

Patterson Hood/Drive-By Truckers

2004 SMT Mojo v2.0/v3.0

Wonderland