Walk The Plank is online. I'd like to thank Travis, Darren, Patrick, Matt, and Eric for all they do and did to make this finally happen. Team Walk The Plank is going strong. It's tough to work for six years and then start a webpage and try to show people what you have been up to in six years time. I hope you enjoy the site. We felt the need to get the site up but we're already working to improve it. More content will be added some old but mostly new. Also soon we'll have an online store so where can buy WTP gear and help to support your local music scene.
Enjoy! I'm off to see Bob Reuter, Joe Buck, & the Hooten Hallers at Roxy's in Columbia, MO. If you're anywhere near there you ought to do the same.
josh
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The official start of Walk The Plank Quincy
The official start of Walk The Plank Quincy was at Kix Club. It stayed at Kix Club until they closed their doors. I had heard they re-opened and kept the Kix name but I don't know enough about it to say for sure. We had some great shows there. Here's a short compilation video of those shows. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sunday nights at Mike's Corner Pocket..
In March of 2009 I had quit my salary position at a medical school in northeast Missouri and moved back to Columbia to run down my dreams. Walk The Plank was on the back burner and I wasn't even sure I was going to keep booking shows. I remember talking with Eric one morning while I was walking my dogs downtown and discussing the future of WTP (a few months before we put together the Quincy chapter).
Around that same time I had gotten a break, there was a venue in Jefferson City, MO (Mike's Corner Pocket) that was open to doing shows on Sundays. Here are images of those shows (in chronological order):
Around that same time I had gotten a break, there was a venue in Jefferson City, MO (Mike's Corner Pocket) that was open to doing shows on Sundays. Here are images of those shows (in chronological order):
Fail Inc. played a TON of shows for us in Jefferson City. Good guys and a HOLE lot of fun!!
Joe Buck loves playing in Jefferson City..
Captain Sean Wheeler on tour with Joe Buck.
Doc Heet representin' America!
Joe Buck and Cole of Fail Inc.
Ando Ehlers introducing Jeff City to Death Polka!
Henry Berger of SS Web
Evan Mitchell One Man Band (now performing a different act called, The Lone Rooster)
The first time the Goddamn Gallows rolled through they were brought in by .357 String Band member, Jayke Orvis. He was fresh out of 357, performing with the Goddamn Gallows and soon to release his solo album. This show was super bowl sunday in February of 2010 and my first introduction to the Goddamn Gallows but it certainly would not be my last. They made quite an impression. I set up shows in this area for them up until their recent switch to Atomic Music Group. They are now on tour with Reverend Horton Heat.
Mikey Classic doing his strange throat yodle thing..
Avery
Fishgutz
Baby Genius
This image is from their second and final show at Mike's Corner Pocket before it's closing. It was also chosen as the image for the back of their album Ghost Of Th' Rails (vinyl edition). Only three members performed that night. It was a dark time for them. Drummer was jailed and awaiting trial in Connecticut. It all worked out. Trumped up charges were finally dropped.
Columbia based, Hooten Hallers
Joe Buck performed the first and final Walk The Plank show at Mike's Corner Pocket. The place has since been remodeled into a sports bar and the stage was torn down. I get bummed out every time I walk by.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Meeting of the minds..
Another significant show for WTP was January 8th, 2009. Joe Buck played this little shit hole bar (shit hole of the shit holes I'm told) in Quincy, IL. Some people are even scared to walk in this area at night. At the entrance there was a car that had the hood dented, windshield was busted and it looked as though someone had been thrown at very recently. The show was Joe Buck Yourself and Ol' Red Shed.
This is the show where I met Eric Koenig. Neither of us realized the significance of this at the time but later in 2009 Eric and his cousin Matt began to operate a Walk The Plank chapter in Quincy. They do a GREAT job and are very well known in this music scene.
Here are a few photos from Joe Bucks set that night:
This is the show where I met Eric Koenig. Neither of us realized the significance of this at the time but later in 2009 Eric and his cousin Matt began to operate a Walk The Plank chapter in Quincy. They do a GREAT job and are very well known in this music scene.
Here are a few photos from Joe Bucks set that night:
Joe's home (he's got a much more economical home now)
Setting up
Jesus
Tunin'
Joe Buck Yourself Mother Fucker!!
Biggest night that shitty little bar had before or since..
The Transition
So WTP had been around for about a year doing mostly metal shows and I was totally comfortable where we were at. I had recently starting doing some work with a booking agency out of Memphis, TN and he sent me a band called The .357 String Band. The show was a flop. I tried to put these guys on as the headlining act and by the time they went on to play there were only a handful of us there to watch.
(In my defense this was promoted well. I had gotten them a radio interview at the local college station and everything. It was a Thursday night and in Kirksville that means "drinkin' with Lincoln" $5 bottomless cup across the street from the show).
These guys killed it though! They played traditional bluegrass instruments, really fast and with punk rock attitudes. They even played a Misfits cover. I think it was I want your skull. The guys were really cool too. My wife, Maggie had made 2 pots of chili earlier than evening (one vegan and one w/ meat) so we invited them to come stay with us, eat some chili, & drink some beers. From then on it was like family coming to visit whenever they would come to town.
That show turned me on to an entire underground of great music that was happening and neither me or Walk The Plank will be the same after that (thankfully).
(In my defense this was promoted well. I had gotten them a radio interview at the local college station and everything. It was a Thursday night and in Kirksville that means "drinkin' with Lincoln" $5 bottomless cup across the street from the show).
These guys killed it though! They played traditional bluegrass instruments, really fast and with punk rock attitudes. They even played a Misfits cover. I think it was I want your skull. The guys were really cool too. My wife, Maggie had made 2 pots of chili earlier than evening (one vegan and one w/ meat) so we invited them to come stay with us, eat some chili, & drink some beers. From then on it was like family coming to visit whenever they would come to town.
That show turned me on to an entire underground of great music that was happening and neither me or Walk The Plank will be the same after that (thankfully).
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Window
In order for the rest of this little journey down memory lane to make sense I feel as though you really have to know where I come from. Who I am and I got to this place to become who I am.
I grew up in central Missouri. I've lived life full and unapologetic. I'm a rebel. I picked up skateboarding at an early age. Back in those days it REALLY was illegal. My friends and I got more than our share of harassment. It was from every angle, jocks at school, cops, parents, teachers.. In those days you really had to love it to stick with it. It was LIFE period! My friends and I lived and breathed skateboards, punk rock, beers (when we could get our hands on 'em), and we all started smoking young. I don't smoke anymore. I quit at 24 as a college freshman with a 3 pack a day habit. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I don't skate much these days either. It's still in me. The free spirit, and the paradigm by which I still live my life.
I only briefly touched on that "punk rock" part of my youth. Let me back up for a second. This is the part that I think needs to be clear. As a skateboarder we all read thrasher magazines back in the day. In there they would have articles and pictures about the punk scene. Bands like the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, Black Flag, etc.. I soaked up as much of that as I could. It was a part of who I was, who I am.
I'm a photographer by trade. I worked in the corporate world for nearly a decade shooting mostly in the medical industry. It was fun at first but by the end I had a salary position, my evenings and weekends were booked without my say so, and I would be up early on Saturday mornings shooting photos of old rich guys shaking hands for the camera over a big generous donation to some old alma matter. I wasn't enjoying myself and I've never based my life choices on money. I wanted to be watching live music, drinking cheap beers, and wasting my life away with my boys. Doing what we do. What we've always done. I quit my salary job and now I work harder than I've ever worked in my life for money that doesn't stretch far enough. Everything in my life is great except for that.
I photograph the shows I put together. If you're interested you can see them here. (http://www.facebook.com/josh.bishop.photography)
I'll share the next piece of the puzzle tomorrow. If you read this far, thank you..
I grew up in central Missouri. I've lived life full and unapologetic. I'm a rebel. I picked up skateboarding at an early age. Back in those days it REALLY was illegal. My friends and I got more than our share of harassment. It was from every angle, jocks at school, cops, parents, teachers.. In those days you really had to love it to stick with it. It was LIFE period! My friends and I lived and breathed skateboards, punk rock, beers (when we could get our hands on 'em), and we all started smoking young. I don't smoke anymore. I quit at 24 as a college freshman with a 3 pack a day habit. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I don't skate much these days either. It's still in me. The free spirit, and the paradigm by which I still live my life.
I only briefly touched on that "punk rock" part of my youth. Let me back up for a second. This is the part that I think needs to be clear. As a skateboarder we all read thrasher magazines back in the day. In there they would have articles and pictures about the punk scene. Bands like the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, Black Flag, etc.. I soaked up as much of that as I could. It was a part of who I was, who I am.
I'm a photographer by trade. I worked in the corporate world for nearly a decade shooting mostly in the medical industry. It was fun at first but by the end I had a salary position, my evenings and weekends were booked without my say so, and I would be up early on Saturday mornings shooting photos of old rich guys shaking hands for the camera over a big generous donation to some old alma matter. I wasn't enjoying myself and I've never based my life choices on money. I wanted to be watching live music, drinking cheap beers, and wasting my life away with my boys. Doing what we do. What we've always done. I quit my salary job and now I work harder than I've ever worked in my life for money that doesn't stretch far enough. Everything in my life is great except for that.
I photograph the shows I put together. If you're interested you can see them here. (http://www.facebook.com/josh.bishop.photography)
I'll share the next piece of the puzzle tomorrow. If you read this far, thank you..
Monday, January 23, 2012
In the beginning..
Walk The Plank started out as a way to help out metal/ hard rock acts. They had no representation in our area and we wanted to create a place where those type of acts would thrive. We worked really closely with local musicians and anyone who was willing to help out. I made a TON of good friends. Here are some images of some of those first shows.
Left Hand Black, Bare Knuckle Conflict, Mass Mutiny, Ghost In The Machine, Sniffer Chief, Soul Descenders, Creaturezoid, Otto's Daughter, & Perfect Red.
Left Hand Black, Bare Knuckle Conflict, Mass Mutiny, Ghost In The Machine, Sniffer Chief, Soul Descenders, Creaturezoid, Otto's Daughter, & Perfect Red.
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