More Wallflowers gems from the Cyndie Jaynes Collection!
Besides some great offstage photos of bassist Paul Howland, guitarist Todd Lahman and vocalist David Rinck, this set includes a striking headshot of Dave performing al fresco at the Che Cafe, apparently at the same event where Cyndie caught up with the Tell-Tale Hearts. Could this be the legendary Dave Fest 3, site of the Wallflowers’ triumphant last stand?
Ooh! Lookin’ at photos of the Wallflowers at the Denver airport on my way to Austin. Gotta love technology.
That Che Cafe show had the TTH and one of Rich Coffee’s bands according to my photo album -- Thee Forgiven maybe? I do have a couple of Dave Fest flyers floating around, so it’s entirely possible.
Cyndie: “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Mod!” 🙂
Our handy-dandy performance history confirms Cyndie’s notes: Dave Fest 3 (July 20, 1985) included both the Tell-Tale Hearts and Thee Forgiven as well as the Wallflowers and other local luminaries. Mystery solved!
Dave R--please do a Wallflowers write up for the related bands section. I´m confusing a couple of line-ups. Dave E--get the Rockin´Dogs and Wild Desires pages going too!
By the way, Matt, what are the time perameters for this blog? Is ´87 or ´88 too late? The Che/517/Greenwich Village scene was dead by then, but there were a few interesting things happening here still.
Ray: I figure there’s no such thing as “too late” (or “too early”) as long as there’s a decent thematic connection to the creative incubator of early-’80s SD … After all, we’re posting plenty of stuff from the ’90s and later and from SF and beyond!
(For curatorial sanity, I’m holding the line at ’80 through ’85 in a few spots like the performance timeline and flyer gallery, but I hope that won’t dry anyone’s creative juices.)
I want to add my personal take on Dave Fest 3 -- I had to have non-emergency surgery that summer and was going to have to spend a few days in the hospital. My Mother (I was a minor) scheduled it for the day before Dave Fest. I was so upset, complaining to my friends that people would be talking about this show forever, and I was going to miss it. And here we are, 23 years later. Told you so, mom!
Ray: Here are Rockin’ Dogs and Wallflowers bios on the Reader’s online music encyclopedia. (Noise 292, too!)
>>I was so upset, complaining to my friends that people would be talking about this show forever, and I was going to miss it. And here we are, 23 years later. Told you so, mom!
Jeudi: We should send all the surviving musicians to your house now for a private make-up concert! (Didn’t Davy Jones do something like this on ‘The Brady Bunch’?) 🙂
These picturs are ’84 or ’85 I’m fairly certain. I do remember Thee Fourgiven playing Che 3 too.
I think Todd was trying to one-up Paul with the red hair. haha.
…and I think that photo of Dave R. singing wasnt Davefest3. Im pretty sure I remember them playing inside the building. I could be wrong…
No we played outside on the patio.
These pictures of Paul and Todd remind me of King Cobra, Jim Beam , Philip Morris Commanders, Chesterfields, La Posta Mexican food, french pressed coffee and Todds welfare/unemployment check paying for most of it.
“Man, the smoove done fooled my ass!”
Not sure how long I was a Walflower but I was. Would this be line up 2 and a half?
Any photo’s or recordings from my short Walflower time?
Mark: You were a GREAT Wallflower. I didn’t know how anyone could take up Aaron Daniels’ sticks, but you did a helluva job!
I’ve received no assets with you and the Wallflowers, but we’re getting stuff I never dreamed existed — so hold that thought. 🙂
Man, thanks for puttnig that photo of me up there. I was pretty handsome in those days… hahaah not I think these photos explain pretty well why the Wallflowers didn’t end up on Tiger Beat hahaa
Hey Marky, I wish we had some tape of you playing durms with us. I think you were there on some of the occasions that we recorded with Eric Camilo at Music Power. I asked him about it, but unfortunately he dosen’t have those tapes anymore, and I can’t find them either. Could everyone check their files and see what they have? I’d love to hear Mark and Tommy and Paul together, they were a great combo.
It would be cool to hear that stuff. I have thought about it for a while.
Dave, you look like the spawn of Chaka from “Land of the Lost” and Chaka Khan from “Rufus”. I remember that Ensenada trip you referred to elsewhere where that cow came out of nowhere, it was on the free road, up in the hills, just past La Mision. You were on the back of my white ’84 BMW R100. I think you had just split up with Lisa and were actually smoking cigarettes in my loaner helmet, you jerk. You were a wreck. You rule.
Oh yeah, I think you’re right. I was heartbroken at that time. Man, too bad we didn’t have a band together then, heartbroken guys are great songwriters.
We almost hit that cow, man and we were going fast!
Mark, just read your post weeks later. Thought I’d say my main concept of you was as a Wallflower. Even when you were a Morlock. I guess sometimes the point at which you arrive in someone’s story is often a key to their identity for you. Or something like that. But anyway, you’re well remembered as a member of the Wallflowers.
>>I guess sometimes the point at which you arrive in someone’s story is often a key to their identity for you.
Tom: I think you just articulated a crucial truth powering this site. All of our personal narratives have beginning and end points, and it’s amazing how differently different folks can perceive things.
E.g., arriving in this scene in spring 1983, the Tell-Tale Hearts seemed like an institution. I don’t think I ever realized how new they were when we were getting started. And I second your sentiment that I think of Marky as a Wallflower first, a Morlock second — just ’cause of when he and I got on the bus together.