Billy Gibbons at Roky Erickson's 2008 Ice Cream Social - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - Staff Photographer |
by jeff barringer
club kingsnake staff
Gee whiz, another venue bites the dust. One of my favorites too.
This summer will be the last season for Austin's The Backyard, at least in it's present location. Tim O'Connor owner of The Backyard and Direct Events announced back in April that the venue would close at the end of the summer and that they are working with the City of Bee Cave to develop a new Backyard. Until then we have all summer to enjoy a bunch of neat shows.
First off will be ZZ Top this Thursday and tickets are still available. We have a request in to shoot the show so we've got our fingers crossed that we will be there. I got to shoot Billy Gibbons backstage at Rocky Ericson's Ice Cream Social during this years SXSW, but have been dying to shoot the whole band for a long long time, and this might be my last opportunity for a while.
On June 1st The Backyard will host The Steve Miller Band along with Joe Cocker, then 311 and Snoop Dog will be pulling a 2 nighter on August 2nd and 3rd. I got to shoot 311 at The Backyard last year and it was a great show. In fact I saw a bunch of great shows at The Backyard last year including
The Black Crowes,
Incubus,
Chris Isaac,
Dream Theater.
Redemption,
Into Eternity,
David Alan Coe, and
Widepread Panic. I will really miss The Backyard. For tickets to any of their upcoming shows see
http://www.thebackyard.net/
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