Hello and welcome to our latest blog ...im writing this only hours after our show...@ Halloween Spookfest & Carnival Oct 29th Saturday Night 2011 ...
The gig went well from a muscians standpoint the music flowed very well indeed...all three of us Noe G on Bass guitar..Eloy Valles on drums, vocals and Texas Joe Valles on guitar and vocals...went out on a limb on certain songs and stretched out and jammed into and out of and inside most of the songs...we started things off with a new song called ..Thankful for The Harvest...in instrumental form...it sounded really good..and then into Dancing Bears..followed by WitchTree..(which we have on video) and almost 2 minutes of Mook Lay Ans ...also on video...Mari...Who is It..? Butterfly Woman..rocked very hard....Landing Amongst The Giant Mushrooms..went very well.....and we ended things off with our rocker songs...Hearts Garden & Thick N Thin was our last number...the set went very very well from a musical stand point the songs getting better and better in performance as we go along..everybody felt at ease..and very focused..we all smiled at each other..and our gear sounded excellent ...! special thanks to Tommy Vasquez ..our sound engineer for the night ,,,from VOXQUEZ ENT. this guy had a brand new P.A. system with a English ..Allen & Heath Mixing console...no wonder everything sounded so clear and ..articulate...he is an excellent M.C and and super cool sound guy we will work again with him in the future great guy !
And for the buggy problems..seems like all the bands scheduled to play..Spookfest tonight cancelled out...of the gig...were told this as we arrived..only becuse Eloy asked at random.....the only band that played this free bee gig..was Valles Flying Machine...intresting huh..?...I guess people wanna get paid to perform.....???.....after we got off stage a lone country solo act went up..maybe a last minute add on..?.but we left before he started....very few people in attendance...were we too early..? hardly anybody clapped...wtf..? is wrong with people...? no food...no beers or sodas for the band...nobody running the carnival came up to say thank you..nothing ...seems to be alot of ungrateful s.o.b.'s running around these days...and to top it all off it was a freebee gig....seems like alot of people dont give a fuck about rock bands around ...here...its looking pretty clear ...in that dept..but why..? why cant people appreciate our art..? and our work..to put on a show..? does moron and idiocy come to mind..? lack of respect..? our culture going to the tubes wholesale..? cant decipher bad from good..? alot of questions...we keep asking ourselves about locals and local gigs...we play because we love to rock and roll...should we expect this to be the norm from now on..? its an intresting predicament...to be in...freebee gigs like this one...wind up costing us money in the end...what to do..? funny thing is as i was mulling this over in my mind some kid walks by me from one of the taco stands..and said ..you guys rocked ..your really good I liked it alot..! you guys are bad ass ! ..I just smiled and thanked him...he smiled back.....I hope God hears me...we need a break ! bad..in that break we need alot of money rolling in also...to help defray costs...so plz help us ! its getting very hard to keep this up at this juncture in time...
if it was not for the practice we are getting honing in our jamband values...and our posisitve vibes....on a huge stage with a super clean and loud P.A.system...it sure as hell would not have been worth it...we have to thank Melissa Mendoza....for getting us the gig..we hope to get some better gigs out of all this....and we pray something very good comes from all this...because doing things like this for free can really hurt you financially in the long run ! so we are ..being extra careful from here until the end of the year as far as freebee gigs...2 more....coming up and both are paying gigs...so we will see how things go...in the meant time...dont be a caga palo...seriously buy some of our songs here..
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
and give us some love and support if you really like our band..or as friends...thank you
sincerely
texas joe valles
sometime in the wee early morning hours of Sunday Oct 30th 2011
as allways we Thank God for letting us rock and roll..and being very good at it !
pix below...
below Halloween Spookfest & Carnival Brownsville Texas Oct 29th2001 Saturday
one of our 1st songs of the set Mook Lay Ans more than likely....
Below Eloy and Noe G clowning around during an old 1950's rockabilly song on P.A. Chuck Berry..or Gene Vincent...was a kool song !
Below..Texas Joe Valles happy he got his gear up and running fast this time ! usually he is the last one ready ! even while bumping his knee really bad with a Tube Screamer pedal..! ouch !
Below...Eloy Valles and Tommy Vasquez getting drum mics ready...
Below...Noe Gonzalez getting ready his new Warwick Bass guitar sounds amazing..very sweet Pawnshop find ! new cool peace sign t shirt dont hurt either ! ha ha !
Below...Texas Joe loves ferris wheels to bad he didnt have a sweet girlfriend to ride..round and round with on it ! maybe next time ! using his #12 Sleepwalker Guitar with .T.V.JONES pickups beautiful guitar ! also new Dollar Store find... a very kool 1968 vintage repro..Grateful Dead T shirt...1 st time wearing it live !
Below Texas Joe Valles with Tommy Vasquez veteran rocker from The R.G.V. he has a very kool sound system and a great guy to work with ! hope to do more gigs with him in the future great cat !
Below...Noe G very happy with his tone....Tommy V laughing at one of our goofball jokes...
Below ...Valles Flying Machine ..with our buddy Noe G subbing in for our Bro...we really pushed the music pretty far this night...! it was a great gig ! as far as playing music goes.......
Below pictures are an experiment ..with taking slides out of our Flip Camera..they are 720 d.p.i. shots and it worked out pretty good...for only having about less than 2 minutes of footage from Mook Lay Ans....!
ELOY VALLES BELOW ...
eLOY vALLES TEARING IT UP !
TEXAS JOE & ELOY VALLES ..LOVE THE WAY THE AMERICAN FLAG AND TEXAS FLAG CAME OUT IN BACKGROUND !!!
SOME GOOFY STUFF GOING ON OVER THERE..!
eLOY AND NOE G IN MIDFLIGHT ! TEXAS FLAG VERY KOOL !
The gig went well from a muscians standpoint the music flowed very well indeed...all three of us Noe G on Bass guitar..Eloy Valles on drums, vocals and Texas Joe Valles on guitar and vocals...went out on a limb on certain songs and stretched out and jammed into and out of and inside most of the songs...we started things off with a new song called ..Thankful for The Harvest...in instrumental form...it sounded really good..and then into Dancing Bears..followed by WitchTree..(which we have on video) and almost 2 minutes of Mook Lay Ans ...also on video...Mari...Who is It..? Butterfly Woman..rocked very hard....Landing Amongst The Giant Mushrooms..went very well.....and we ended things off with our rocker songs...Hearts Garden & Thick N Thin was our last number...the set went very very well from a musical stand point the songs getting better and better in performance as we go along..everybody felt at ease..and very focused..we all smiled at each other..and our gear sounded excellent ...! special thanks to Tommy Vasquez ..our sound engineer for the night ,,,from VOXQUEZ ENT. this guy had a brand new P.A. system with a English ..Allen & Heath Mixing console...no wonder everything sounded so clear and ..articulate...he is an excellent M.C and and super cool sound guy we will work again with him in the future great guy !
And for the buggy problems..seems like all the bands scheduled to play..Spookfest tonight cancelled out...of the gig...were told this as we arrived..only becuse Eloy asked at random.....the only band that played this free bee gig..was Valles Flying Machine...intresting huh..?...I guess people wanna get paid to perform.....???.....after we got off stage a lone country solo act went up..maybe a last minute add on..?.but we left before he started....very few people in attendance...were we too early..? hardly anybody clapped...wtf..? is wrong with people...? no food...no beers or sodas for the band...nobody running the carnival came up to say thank you..nothing ...seems to be alot of ungrateful s.o.b.'s running around these days...and to top it all off it was a freebee gig....seems like alot of people dont give a fuck about rock bands around ...here...its looking pretty clear ...in that dept..but why..? why cant people appreciate our art..? and our work..to put on a show..? does moron and idiocy come to mind..? lack of respect..? our culture going to the tubes wholesale..? cant decipher bad from good..? alot of questions...we keep asking ourselves about locals and local gigs...we play because we love to rock and roll...should we expect this to be the norm from now on..? its an intresting predicament...to be in...freebee gigs like this one...wind up costing us money in the end...what to do..? funny thing is as i was mulling this over in my mind some kid walks by me from one of the taco stands..and said ..you guys rocked ..your really good I liked it alot..! you guys are bad ass ! ..I just smiled and thanked him...he smiled back.....I hope God hears me...we need a break ! bad..in that break we need alot of money rolling in also...to help defray costs...so plz help us ! its getting very hard to keep this up at this juncture in time...
if it was not for the practice we are getting honing in our jamband values...and our posisitve vibes....on a huge stage with a super clean and loud P.A.system...it sure as hell would not have been worth it...we have to thank Melissa Mendoza....for getting us the gig..we hope to get some better gigs out of all this....and we pray something very good comes from all this...because doing things like this for free can really hurt you financially in the long run ! so we are ..being extra careful from here until the end of the year as far as freebee gigs...2 more....coming up and both are paying gigs...so we will see how things go...in the meant time...dont be a caga palo...seriously buy some of our songs here..
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
and give us some love and support if you really like our band..or as friends...thank you
sincerely
texas joe valles
sometime in the wee early morning hours of Sunday Oct 30th 2011
as allways we Thank God for letting us rock and roll..and being very good at it !
pix below...
below Halloween Spookfest & Carnival Brownsville Texas Oct 29th2001 Saturday
one of our 1st songs of the set Mook Lay Ans more than likely....
Below Eloy and Noe G clowning around during an old 1950's rockabilly song on P.A. Chuck Berry..or Gene Vincent...was a kool song !
Below..Texas Joe Valles happy he got his gear up and running fast this time ! usually he is the last one ready ! even while bumping his knee really bad with a Tube Screamer pedal..! ouch !
Below...Eloy Valles and Tommy Vasquez getting drum mics ready...
Below...Noe Gonzalez getting ready his new Warwick Bass guitar sounds amazing..very sweet Pawnshop find ! new cool peace sign t shirt dont hurt either ! ha ha !
Below...Texas Joe loves ferris wheels to bad he didnt have a sweet girlfriend to ride..round and round with on it ! maybe next time ! using his #12 Sleepwalker Guitar with .T.V.JONES pickups beautiful guitar ! also new Dollar Store find... a very kool 1968 vintage repro..Grateful Dead T shirt...1 st time wearing it live !
Below Texas Joe Valles with Tommy Vasquez veteran rocker from The R.G.V. he has a very kool sound system and a great guy to work with ! hope to do more gigs with him in the future great cat !
Below...Noe G very happy with his tone....Tommy V laughing at one of our goofball jokes...
Below ...Valles Flying Machine ..with our buddy Noe G subbing in for our Bro...we really pushed the music pretty far this night...! it was a great gig ! as far as playing music goes.......
Below pictures are an experiment ..with taking slides out of our Flip Camera..they are 720 d.p.i. shots and it worked out pretty good...for only having about less than 2 minutes of footage from Mook Lay Ans....!
ELOY VALLES BELOW ...
eLOY vALLES TEARING IT UP !
TEXAS JOE & ELOY VALLES ..LOVE THE WAY THE AMERICAN FLAG AND TEXAS FLAG CAME OUT IN BACKGROUND !!!
SOME GOOFY STUFF GOING ON OVER THERE..!
eLOY AND NOE G IN MIDFLIGHT ! TEXAS FLAG VERY KOOL !
