Hello Merry Christmas we hope this blog finds you well and happy for the Holidays ! its Sunday Dec 18th 2011 and we are writing this blog about our show Friday Dec 16th 2011 at Copz Lounge..! 1st of all we would like to thank Arron and the really nice staff @ Copz Lounge for having us play there ,these people are really nice and very proffesional...and know how to run a club...also special thanks to Chris Hardcastle for video taping us at the show and to our super beautiful and sexy friend Jenn...for showing up and supporting us at the show also to the open minded people of Harlingen Texas and surrounding areas who braved the bad weather (cold and rain) and surprizingly enough stayed all night from like 9.00 p.m. to 2 a.m. !!! and partied and jammed out and supported the Valles Flying Machine...all night long there was tons of people at Copz Lounge ...totally supporting and rockin out with us..! it was a very happy and Festive Mood ! ...we ...played 3 sets of almost all original music...all our own music and we only did 4 covers..... 2 y The Jimi Henderix Experience...and 2 by The James Gang....people loved our covers and yelled and cheered and ..they really loved our NEW SONGS ! it was a really nice time ! Arron and the staff of Copz Lounge were so impressed with our...music immidiately after the gig offered us ....another show for February 10th 2012....right on!!!! Copz Lounge ...we will be there !
Olivia Reber opened the show with her own songs @ 9.45p.m. and rocked it out for one hour...her last 6 songs Eloy and Noe G supported her on Drums and bass guitar...so this was the 1st time Olivia ..played to a large audience with a back up band...the people loved it cheering and clapping after every song ...video up on You Tube soon..! Olivia Rocked it out !
@ 11.00 p.m. Valles Flying Machine took the stage and didnt let up until 1.50 a.m. the club was still full of people at that time ..rockers wanna party all night ha ha ! we started the show off with a new song called...Thank Full for the Harvest..did 3 sets of about 8 songs each set......and ended the night with Shes The One...one of our oldest songs dating back to the 1980's ! ha ha it was great even on our last notes people were cheering and clapping it was so kool !
of note..in the "seen it all before catagory...when your a rock band as long as we have been doing it...nothing comes as a surprize..then you do get a surpzize ! well as we loaded in to the club...it was raining outside...but we had a nightmare of a problem inside...the toilets backed up...just as we were loading our very 1st batch of gear into the club and a ton of water came rolling from under the walls ! as we were walking in !!!!..we had to grab 3 giant mops and luckly they had them...!!!...slop up the mess..and it was alot of work......nearly one third of the floor was covered in water mess ! .............as we arrived only one bartender was there he was able to shut the water off the latreen...but we had to mop up tons of water...about....half an industrial yellow/wheeled pale full ! we were so pissed off..but then laughed it off..while we were mopping..this could have caused an electricution..to us..or the patrons..! this had never happened to us..1 st time we have ever had to" rock the mop"..ha ha ! at a club..! we didnt want our gear full of water...or get electrecuted ! a side note some very sexy looking girls were trying to get to the ladies bathroom..and one slipped in her high heels but got her balance on the wall....another girl in high heels Texas Joe had to help her as she slipped and almost fell down in the water and muck ! luckly something bad was averted..she thanked Texas Joe ...and we cleaned it up as fast as possible ..chalk that up to a new experience !!! ha ha ! ..Copz Lounge Dec 16th 2011 was fantastic ! great gig ! also the 1st time and 1st gig we finnally use a banner ! see pictures !
For the rest of the Holiday Season we will play it cool and just work on Mermiad Blues ..and recording the songs for this album.....no gigs in the near future....but big plans lay ahead for us....our friends in England have some shows lined up for us..next year and we are gonna do them !!!
ok..make somebody hapy buy some of our songs here
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
Happy Holidays ! pictures of the show below....
Olivia Reber on her 1st song of the night Dec 16th 2011 Copz Lounge Harlingen Texas ..she looked great and sounded even better ...video up on You Tube soon !
Olivia Reber was amazing great song selection !
Valles Flying Machine...rockin out Dec 16th2011 Copz Lounge Harlingen Texas ..great Christmas show !
Pulling off a lead guitar solo..on his 12 string guitar...Texas Joe in midflight...Eloy pretty happy..Noe G uses his new SWR bass amp to great effect ! loud ! and new banner for Valles Flying Machine we have never had one in the past 1st time we use one ! it worked..!
Happy to be jamming happy to get paid for rockin our own songs ! Valles Flying Machine..our time is now !
have a great day everybody !
Texas Joe Valles Happy Holidays !
Olivia Reber opened the show with her own songs @ 9.45p.m. and rocked it out for one hour...her last 6 songs Eloy and Noe G supported her on Drums and bass guitar...so this was the 1st time Olivia ..played to a large audience with a back up band...the people loved it cheering and clapping after every song ...video up on You Tube soon..! Olivia Rocked it out !
@ 11.00 p.m. Valles Flying Machine took the stage and didnt let up until 1.50 a.m. the club was still full of people at that time ..rockers wanna party all night ha ha ! we started the show off with a new song called...Thank Full for the Harvest..did 3 sets of about 8 songs each set......and ended the night with Shes The One...one of our oldest songs dating back to the 1980's ! ha ha it was great even on our last notes people were cheering and clapping it was so kool !
of note..in the "seen it all before catagory...when your a rock band as long as we have been doing it...nothing comes as a surprize..then you do get a surpzize ! well as we loaded in to the club...it was raining outside...but we had a nightmare of a problem inside...the toilets backed up...just as we were loading our very 1st batch of gear into the club and a ton of water came rolling from under the walls ! as we were walking in !!!!..we had to grab 3 giant mops and luckly they had them...!!!...slop up the mess..and it was alot of work......nearly one third of the floor was covered in water mess ! .............as we arrived only one bartender was there he was able to shut the water off the latreen...but we had to mop up tons of water...about....half an industrial yellow/wheeled pale full ! we were so pissed off..but then laughed it off..while we were mopping..this could have caused an electricution..to us..or the patrons..! this had never happened to us..1 st time we have ever had to" rock the mop"..ha ha ! at a club..! we didnt want our gear full of water...or get electrecuted ! a side note some very sexy looking girls were trying to get to the ladies bathroom..and one slipped in her high heels but got her balance on the wall....another girl in high heels Texas Joe had to help her as she slipped and almost fell down in the water and muck ! luckly something bad was averted..she thanked Texas Joe ...and we cleaned it up as fast as possible ..chalk that up to a new experience !!! ha ha ! ..Copz Lounge Dec 16th 2011 was fantastic ! great gig ! also the 1st time and 1st gig we finnally use a banner ! see pictures !
For the rest of the Holiday Season we will play it cool and just work on Mermiad Blues ..and recording the songs for this album.....no gigs in the near future....but big plans lay ahead for us....our friends in England have some shows lined up for us..next year and we are gonna do them !!!
ok..make somebody hapy buy some of our songs here
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
Happy Holidays ! pictures of the show below....
Olivia Reber on her 1st song of the night Dec 16th 2011 Copz Lounge Harlingen Texas ..she looked great and sounded even better ...video up on You Tube soon !
Olivia Reber was amazing great song selection !
Valles Flying Machine...rockin out Dec 16th2011 Copz Lounge Harlingen Texas ..great Christmas show !
Pulling off a lead guitar solo..on his 12 string guitar...Texas Joe in midflight...Eloy pretty happy..Noe G uses his new SWR bass amp to great effect ! loud ! and new banner for Valles Flying Machine we have never had one in the past 1st time we use one ! it worked..!
Happy to be jamming happy to get paid for rockin our own songs ! Valles Flying Machine..our time is now !
have a great day everybody !
Texas Joe Valles Happy Holidays !