Author: Todd Bishop

View out the hotel window. I think all these buildings retain the original 1890’s lead-flake based paint, because this is exactly how the city looked on our first visit in ’98.  

God damn paparazzi took this. Or perhaps our Watsonville Patio-pal Greg Windell. I forget. This is the kind of “rock and roll” lifestyle we have here. Booze, broads and what-have-you. That’s McKinley violating my girlfriend. […]

Saxophonist Tim Willcox. 

Bill Athens, bass player. At a session at my house. Bill plays on the Queen of the West, and with Paxselin. 

Saul Cline hanging at the Blue Monk. Lomo. Saul was the bandleader on the Queen for a couple of years, and is one third of Lower Monumental. 

Sheep! Nothing to do with anything- my friend Jennifer and her boyfriend Blake have ajacent property on Sauvie Island. This is one of Blake’s primordial “hair” sheep.  

Rosebuds. I shoot these when I’m bored.  

Stage on the Empress of the North. 

I had this slide film in the Lomo for about a month and finally got around to finishing it.  

Stage at the Tugboat Brewery. This is the room in Portland where all the out shit gets played. Tonight it was Mary Sue Tobin’s group Paxselin, with Bill Athens and Ken Ollis and Chad Hensel […]