Hello and welcome back to our blog...only a few more gigs to go and it will be the end of the year ! ..as far as gigging for The Valles Flying Machine's 2011 itinerary...of shows...tommorrow we are suppose to play at The Brownsville Spooktacular Halloween Carnival on Alton Gloor Road...but it depends on the weather and some very iffy production values as far as the people putting on the show so we will see....its a 50/50 chance we might or might not play.....
Last night at Misty's Blues & Rock Bar in McAllen Texas ...a 100 mile round trip..from Brownsville Texas...by the way....was one of those nights where everything went very smooth...and we as a band played very very good...we were on it no one in the band seemed worried...and we all played to the best of our abilities.Eloy Valles was in top form on drums...Noe Gonzalez was excellent on bass guitar...and Texas Joe Valles pushed the limits on his lead guitar playing ...and even on his vocals ! ...the gig was an excellent performance from our point of view..and the 15 or 20 people in the audience seemed to enjoy our songs.....very small turn out as the club easily holds 100 people......we sold some cd's so thats good...but we also covered our butts on that angle...people dont seem to want to spend any money..but ..we came up with a plan...we now have 10 dollar Witch Tree cd..(our brand new one) we have our old cd's from 1998 & 2001 for 5 dollars...and we have a.... what I call a "welfare" homemade cd-r..for 1 dollar...! ha ha ! well last night we sold out our 1 dollar cd's and sold some of our other cd's ! so we are very happy..! thank you to all the people who bought them...In these very difficult times you have to be prepared as a band for difficult challenges ! the "welfare" budget cd is a good idea...people just dont wanna spend or dont have money to spend ..so you have to be prepared with what goes on...during your shows and you have to adapt ! we were very lucky..in that sense...! so now to making more homemade cd-r's for our next gig ! gotta be ready..!
ok folks pictures up soon...and we hope tommorrows gig at Spooky Carnival goes down on Alton Gloor...in Brownsville Texas ...pictures up very soon...of show...
my pride and joy Wire Instruments 12 string Moon Ray guitar I love the sound of this thing ! that blue light was a trip all night long !
Below Angel of Sunfish Productions and his soundman Dave..we got a killer sound cuz of these guys great people great sound !
Eloy getting drums ready above Oct 27th 2011
Noe G getting bass amp adjusted above..
Texas Joe and Eloy talking over certain songs Oct 27th 2011 Misty's in McAllen Texas
Texas Joe Valles getting pedals and volume adjusted for what turned out to be an excellent gig !
take care
texas joe valles
rock on !
Last night at Misty's Blues & Rock Bar in McAllen Texas ...a 100 mile round trip..from Brownsville Texas...by the way....was one of those nights where everything went very smooth...and we as a band played very very good...we were on it no one in the band seemed worried...and we all played to the best of our abilities.Eloy Valles was in top form on drums...Noe Gonzalez was excellent on bass guitar...and Texas Joe Valles pushed the limits on his lead guitar playing ...and even on his vocals ! ...the gig was an excellent performance from our point of view..and the 15 or 20 people in the audience seemed to enjoy our songs.....very small turn out as the club easily holds 100 people......we sold some cd's so thats good...but we also covered our butts on that angle...people dont seem to want to spend any money..but ..we came up with a plan...we now have 10 dollar Witch Tree cd..(our brand new one) we have our old cd's from 1998 & 2001 for 5 dollars...and we have a.... what I call a "welfare" homemade cd-r..for 1 dollar...! ha ha ! well last night we sold out our 1 dollar cd's and sold some of our other cd's ! so we are very happy..! thank you to all the people who bought them...In these very difficult times you have to be prepared as a band for difficult challenges ! the "welfare" budget cd is a good idea...people just dont wanna spend or dont have money to spend ..so you have to be prepared with what goes on...during your shows and you have to adapt ! we were very lucky..in that sense...! so now to making more homemade cd-r's for our next gig ! gotta be ready..!
ok folks pictures up soon...and we hope tommorrows gig at Spooky Carnival goes down on Alton Gloor...in Brownsville Texas ...pictures up very soon...of show...
my pride and joy Wire Instruments 12 string Moon Ray guitar I love the sound of this thing ! that blue light was a trip all night long !
Below Angel of Sunfish Productions and his soundman Dave..we got a killer sound cuz of these guys great people great sound !
Eloy getting drums ready above Oct 27th 2011
Noe G getting bass amp adjusted above..
Texas Joe and Eloy talking over certain songs Oct 27th 2011 Misty's in McAllen Texas
Texas Joe Valles getting pedals and volume adjusted for what turned out to be an excellent gig !
take care
texas joe valles
rock on !