2009
MOJOS MARCH: MATT BEN JACKSON, SILENCE INSIGHT, FUNK SHUI, EYES WIDE OPEN
AVENUE LIVE@MOJOS ~ THE REUNION!
MARCH 28, 2009
MOJOS ACOUSTIC NIGHT ~ CODY DEW PERFORMING 1/23/09 & THE SHOW 1/24/09, SWEATBAND 1/24/09, SOLOMON GRUNDY 1/17/09
JANUARY 10, 2009 LIVE@MOJOS SHARK THAT GOT HER, AND EMBERS RISE, LOOM, THE DESERT AND THE MEADOW~ FULL MOON JANUARY. OUR OFFICIAL NEW YEARS EVE BASH!!! CHECK OUT ALL THE ORBS PARTYING WITH US ON THIS FULL MOON!
2008
PRIVATE PARTNERS LIVE@MOJOS
2007
MOJOS 3RD ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BASH ON OCTOBER 27, 2007 WAS THE BIGGEST YET WITH OVER 350 FOLKS HOOTING AND HOWLING WITH 13 OF MOJOS FINEST BANDS: OMNIPRESENT, CALIBRA, RAZE, JUSE, AVENUE, ERRATIC EROTICA, SKULL CAPTAINS, HARBOR NOTHING, NARWHAL CRISIS, THE DISTANT, APRILS REVENGE, GOOD MORNING REVENGE AND BLU STORK. WHAT A BASH!!!
BASIN FUGITIVES LIVE@MOJOS. BRAD GARDNER AND JAKE SMITH ON WEDNESDAY ACOUSTIC NIGHT.
S4G- SOJAS FOR GOD ON HIP HOP NIGHT LIVE@MOJOS.
FUNK SHUI of Ogden Valley AND FIN RIGGINS, ( ) from Idaho rockin out Mojos.
DESOLO STRAGES AND SDC- SOUTHERN DEATH CULT ROCKIN OUT MOJOS.
DEVIANCY, MADHOUSE AMERICA AND CORPORATE INVASION ROCKIN OUT MOJOS!
DARLIN BROADS, HORSE FACE, THE LIONELLE & SILVER ANTLERS LIVE@MOJOS MARCH 16, 2007.
FUNK SHUI PERFORMING LIVE@MOJOS SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007.
ERRATIC EROTICA LIVE@MOJOS Thursday, March 8, 2007
OPERATION WRONG LIVE@MOJOS Saturday, March 3, 2007
LOST CAUSE AND FRIENDS ROCKIN TO MOJOS AND LISTENING TO MASONS JAR OF JAM. Mojos rockin on fire big Saturday night.
NARWHAL CRISIS performing LIVE@MOJOS Saturday, February 17,2007
JUSE ON FIRE, LIVE@MOJOS! Twinkies Birthday party February 16, 2007
Twinkie and Portia of X96 at his BIRTHDAY PARTY at Mojos February 16, 2007 (top left). Loving Dead (top right) and VAN BUREN BOYS rockin' for their debut show at MOJOS (bottom).
OPERATION WRONG LIVE@MOJOS, Thursday February 15, 2997
MOJOS NEW BANDS NIGHT FEATURING MOJOS NEWEST SUPERSTARS FROM KAYSVILLE, UTAH PLAYING LIVE@MOJOS FEB.8,2007.
NARWAHL CRISIS (left) and SUMMER LIGHTS (right). WATCH OUR CALENDAR TO SEE WHEN THEY PLAY MOJOS NEXT!
AVENUE ROCKIN' OUT MOJOS ON FEBRUARY 3, 2007
OMNIPRESENT, DESOLO STRAGES AND BLACK VOLTA ROCK OUT JANUARY 27, 2007 FOR ANOTHER RECORD NIGHT LIVE@MOJOS!
TRULY ANOTHER OMNI NIGHT! ORCHATORIUM & AEORICA ALSO PLAYED LIVE@MOJOS!
2006
INVISIBLE RAYS, SKINT, ONCE UPON A TIME, CHASING DAYLIGHT LOST CAUSE AND RIFF ROBBERS ALL REGULARS AND LIVE@MOJOS! DECEMBER 2006.
FUNK SHUI, ONCE UPON A TIME, OMNIPRESENT, CALIBRA, MEDICINE CIRCUS AND DROP DEAD JULIO LIVE@MOJOS!
ANGEL TREE fundraiser sponsored by WSU students raised funds at Mojos to sponsor families in need for Christmas.
Performing are The Management of SLC (top), Super Hero (bottom left) and Gorgeous Hussies (bottom right) on Sat. Nov. 18, 2006.
ULYSSES Live@Mojos November 11, 2006. Rick Gerber of Tanglewood with bandmembers debut at Mojos.
MEAN MOLLYS TRIO ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
First time on the Mojos stage and MMT first show ever... one year ago November 10, 2005! Happy Anniversary MMT!
Mean Mollys Trio: Tim Gehart (BigDaddy), Mark Young (Uncle Elvis) & Clint Stanger (Stank)!
SPIKES GRAND OPENING ~ Next door to MOJOS! Local band cd's, t's, merch. Levi's, leathers and t's and stuff. Village Vintage and Collectibles.
SARAH JONES, a Mojos gal regular modeling her newly acquired 50's vintage dress from SPIKES CLOTHIERS from the Village Vintage Collection! >br>
Cecil Bullard of JUSE sporting a Village Vintage Collection 40s tuxedo jacket (left) and Dave Lindblad, Weds singer songwriter acquires a 50s twead sports coat from VV Collection (right) from SPIKES CLOTHIERS.
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MOJOS ON THE VARD in downtown O-Town! SATURDAY Night ~ MOJOS Battle of the Bands, October 21, 2006.
A night to be remembered. Local Ogden music history being made.
Photo by Steven Hansen, Filthy Duck Studios
MOJOS BATTLE OF THE BANDS Saturday, October 21, 2006. Over 300 rockin' O-Town folks listening to 16 bands! YA!
Sponsored by: Mojos Caffe & Gallery, Phoenix Alliance, Guitar Center, X-96, WSU fm88.1, Spikes Clothiers & Sparc Records.
Photo by Sparc
Cecil Bullard of JUSE performing LIVE@MOJOS at Mojos Battle of the Bands, 1st Place winners of People Choice (left).
Kyle Coleman of IPSWICH places fourth in judges choice performs for over 300 for the Mojos Battle of the Bands Oct. 21, 2006 (right).
Photos by Braden Van Wagoner.
WINNERS:
Judges Choice:
1st Place: AVENUE
2nd Place: TOM BUTLER BAND
3rd Place: RIF' RAF'
4th Place: IPSWICH
Peoples Choice:
1st Place: JUSE
2nd Place: DESOLO STRAGES
3rd Place: SECOND DEPTH
4th Place: AVENUE
Full stats on the Battle of the Band posted below under MOJOS STATS:
AVENUE - Jeff Clemmons, Simon Langford, Josh Vallejhos & Micah Hassit.
Winners of MOJOS First BATTLE OF THE BANDS!
Influences
Everyone who graces Mojo's Caffe has a stong influence on the atmosphere of our wonderful coffee shop and Live Music Venue.
Sounds Like
Who-ever is currently playing. Every night is live music at MOJOS! The sound depends on the night. Every night is rockin and full of magic! Check out many of our regulars in our "top friends" section!
LOCAL BANDS WHO HAVE PLAYED AT MOJOS:
(Ogden & the Wasatch Front)
AJ, Afum, Amazing Cactus Pricks, After The Party, A.K. Charlie, And I Love Her, And So Tune, A Natural Disaster, Anesty, Animus Grin, Autobiography, Avenue, Avait, Bad News Bears, Barry Magick and the Ghouls, Basic Accomplishement, Black Friday, Black Tie Affair, Bleary, Blue Fix, Brio Se, Burning, Burning Down Paris, Caesura, Calibra, Catalyst, Causeway, Cheneys Lesbian Daughter, Choose to Lose, Chronic Layover, Civil Difference, Closeout, Composition B, Cory Mon, Corporate Invasion, Cosmonots, Crazy Like Kylie, Darlin Broads, Desolo Strages, Deviancy, Dharma, Die Panda Die, Dimension X, Dulce Sky, Eleventh Hour, Encore, Euclids Crashed, Extended Play, FCU, Flocked Cows, Four Weevles, Fox Van Kleef, Fry Sauce, Funk Council, Gramercy Street Trio, Gundhi, Harbor Nothing, Hasenpfeffer and the Bomdiggity, Hey Mary Kelly, Hi Fi Murder, Illuminati, Invisible Rays, id, In Train To London, Intamachine, Ipswich, Its Name Frantic, Jebu, Joe McQueen Band, John Paul, Juse, Justice Against the Adversary, Kap Bros, Kevy Kev, King Tree, Knights of Thor, Krak'd, Krucial Keyes, Korene & Co., Lamer Face, Life on Titan, Lions Circle Paw, Loiter Cognition, Lost Cause, Loving Dead, Madhouse America, Management, Maricopa, Mean Molly's Trio, Medicine Circus, Mifune, Milan Conference, Monarch, Monikers, Monsoon Season, Mordecai, Morlocks, Mundane Indore, My Own Funeral, My Valkyrie, Nesta, Never Cast Anchor, New Holland, November in Red, Offered No Escape, Omnipresent, One More Down, Operation Wrong, Orchatorium, Orpheum, Orphic, Our Constant Divide, Paledrone, Paper Cranes, Quasi-Stellar Radio, Random, Red Bennies, Reply, Rif'Raf', Robot Strong, Rock Bandits, Rosetta, Ruka, Sackcloth and Ashes, Same Old Story, Seamus, Second Depth, Serenity, Serio Comic, Shaky Trade, Sikkema, Skint, Sonic Boom, Sons of Mourning, Soul Shakers, Smooth Like James, Space Between, Spearit, Spitsofrantic, Split to Differ, Straight Up, Stifface, Sunhouse Healers, Super Hero, Super So Far, Tanglewood, Til She Bleeds, Tom Butler Band, True or False, True Story, Tuff Like Me, Two and a Half White Guys, Ulysses, Upstarts, Voodoo Science, Viewers Like You, Volition, War Ensemble, WeBeFew, What People, Wood Carver, Woodly Bog, X-Marks, Young Prodigy, Your Basic Band, 1100 East Band and many more...
LOCAL MUSICIANS SINGER/SONGWRITERS WHO HAVE PLAYED AT MOJOS:
Melissa Yearsley, Alex Castle, Kris & Christian, Caleb Wendt, Ryan Sherman, Gordon Greenwood, Damien Midknight, Roy Sawyer, Rick Gerber, J.D. & Megan, Maxemill, Q Stands For Q, Iberis, Corey Chapman, Tom Hughes, Luke Garcia, Keon Taylor, Bob Finnegan, Irma Hernandez, Evil Daniels, Spartacus, Dave Carter, Rich & Riley, Gevorg & Freeman, Bryce Whear, April, Eric & Marlin Jenkins, Artur Javador, Bill Pollett, Nick Borrego, Vaden Thurgood, Apryil on Piano, Georgia Borretto, Adam Kozlewski, Greg Downs, Jon Pinney, James King Tim & Nick Kapp, Joe Goike, Eric Newey, Thys Pendley, Hans Greenwood, Greg Mann, Cole & Jeff Godwin, Chris Benoit, Clint Stanger, Jeremy Harper, Matt Geary, Lori Kelly, Cody Powell, Jason & Blitzen, Backwords Moon, Kirk Wydner, Jake Smith, Jed Keip, John Crocker, Beilbys Ball, Sue Favero, McCall Ericson Luke Edelmeyer, Mike Falleroni, Stratten, Daybreak and many more...
NATIONAL TOURING BANDS WHO HAVE PLAYED AT MOJOS:
ABSENCE OF GRACE
ABSOLUTE RULER (Portland, ORE)
ADDISONS GHOST (Boise, ID)
AGAINST THE SEASON (L.A., CA) 5x
ALRIGHTS (Duluth, Minnesota)
ALL CAPITALS (Denver, CA)
AND THEN I TURNED SEVEN (Duluth, Minnesota)
ARCTIC TURTLES (Boise, ID)
ART OF ABANDOMENT (York,PA) 2x
AUTISTIC YOUTH (Portland, ORE)
BANGKOK FIVE (Los Angeles, CA) -
BEILBYS BALL (Flint, MICH)
BRASKEY (Sacramento, CA)
CAMPO BRAVO (Phoenix, AZ)
CASUAL LUST (San Francisco, CA)
CHRISTOPHER DALE (San Diego, CA) 3x
CORPORATE INVASION (Evanston, WY)
DAYBREAK ENDS (Los Angeles, CA)
DEATH AND REVENGE
DIVIDED LIKE SAINT'S (Atlanta, GA)
ED MUSHI (France)
FACING NEW YORK (San Francisco, CA)
FIVE DAYS DIRTY (East Bay, CA)
GEISERT 8 BAND (Peoria, ILL)
GLIMPSE (Tacoma, WA)
GOLDFISH DONT BOUNCE (Las Vegas, NV)
HARDIN STORE ROAD (Houston, TX)
HIT THE SWITCH (Los Angeles, CA)
INTERFUSE
KINETIC (Nampa, ID)
LEFTOVER (Los Angeles, CA)
LOCKED & LOADED (Los Angeles, CA)
LOSERS BEAT WINNERS (Nashville, TN)
LOWLIGHTS (NM)
MEMPHIS BELLE (Los Angeles, CA) - 2x
MIGGS (San Francisco, CA)
MORNING KENNEDY WAS SHOT (Phoenix, AZ)
NEW TOMORROW (San Luis Obispp, CA)
NOISE ATTACK (Los Angeles, CA)
OLD SCRATCH REVIVAL SINGERS (Iowa)
ORRIS (Los Angeles, Ca)
RAINING JANE (Los Angeles, CA)
RENO DIVORCED (Denver, CA)
ROTAWAYS (Whitefield, NH)
SARA SOFTICH (Deluth, Minnesota)
SCOTT HELLEND (New York City, NY)
SEX TAPE SCANDAL (Sacramento, CA) - 2x
SWEATER CLUB, Seattle, WA
TEN CENT WONDER (Boise, Idaho)
TIME WELL SPENT (Denver, Colo)
TOP OF THE FAIR (CT)
TRACTOR OPERATOR (Portland, Oregon)
VICTORIA VOX (Balitmore, MD)
WALK SMALL (Phoenix, AZ)
MOJOS ROCKS! THANKS TO OUR LOCAL BANDS WHO FIND MOJOS HOME!
MOJOS IS OGDEN UTAH'S LOCAL ALL AGES LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Open Friday & Saturday 7:30 PM - midnightish. Music begins at 8pm
Six to eight bux cover, depending on the show.
MOJOS BY VADEN THURGOOD
AVENUE WINNERS OF THE JOHN LENNON TOUR BATTLE OF THE BANDS. VIDEO WON TAPED AT MOJOS. 5/08 Plane Ride
PRIVATE PARTNERS DEBUT LIVE@MOJOS 8/8/08 8pm- 1
PRIVATE PARTNERS DEBUT LIVE@MOJOS 8/8/08 8pm- 2
THE SHOW LIVE@MOJOS April 2008
LIVE@MOJOS produced by SPARC RECORDS - Best of... series. COMING SOON!
MOJOS Talent & Booking - Placing local talent all over Ogden - Ogden Amphitheater - sponsor of Thursdays Jam Night, Egyptian Theater, WSU Waldopalooza, Historic 25th Street Farmers Market, Ogden Arts Festival, Harvest Moon and other festivals, parties and weddings. Call 801-399-1166 if you are need of incredible talent, all local Ogden area based musicians.
LIVE@MOJOS CD COMPILATIONS PRODUCED BY SPARC RECORDS TO HIT THE STANDS NOVEMBER 2006. Sparc Records has recorded hundreds of hours of local music at Mojos of over fifty bands and forty singer/songwriters. We are now in the process of choosing the songs and compiling them into our first compilation cds LIVE@MOJOS. They will be available for a small price at Mojos Caffe and also at Spikes Clothiers, next to Mojos at 2212 Washington Blvd.
SPIKES CLOTHIERS & STUFF. Local band and musican cd's, t's, merchandise available as well as vintage clothes and collectibles.
MOJOS CAFFE & GALLERY
Ron Atencio is the owner of Mojo's Caffe and is also the owner and operator of Street Magazine, Ogden's local Magazine (check it out at www.streetogden.com or the archives at www.Streetmagazine.net) and the upcoming SPIKES Clothiers & Stuff, VILLAGE VINTAGE & Collectibles and SPARC RECORDS - all in the same building as MOJOS Caffe & Gallery, the Village Building in historic and beautiful downtown Ogden, Utah at 2212 Washington Blvd, Ogden.
A cast of colorful characters take on the nightly duties of serving coffee, running the soundboards, and watching the door. (Bouncers are not needed as Mojo's is a place filled only with good energy.)
If you have any helpful ideas for this site please message us here on myspace or at mojosogden@aol.com
MOJOS STAFF - Special Thanks!
RON ATENCIO - Manager and Owner
TRIP - Asst.Manager/Security
MIKE YOUNG - Barista & Coffee Counter Chief
JUSTIN SPRINKEL - Sound Technician
JACE - Sound Technician
KALA - Assistant back door band checkin
LUMPY GARCIA - Head Sound Technician
IGOR - Back Door Specialist
KYLE KOBERNA - Maintenence
CURRENT STAFFERS:
Trip super bad front door gal and Asst. Mngr with Mojos for over 2 year.
Justin Sprinkel of Raze sound technician for 2 years.
Papa Ron aka mister mojos man aka rockinron aka sparc... founder, owner and manager.
PAST STAFFERS: Thanks for all your help in making MOJOS what it is today!
JOSH EDELMEYER worked two years as Head Barista and right hand dude at Mojos until May 2007 when he went to Germany . Best of luck and thanks for the fun times.
Flip Doogan aka Mike Klein of fm88 Shift Crashers brought his sense of humor and music passion to Mojos and helped set up Spikes.
Lumpy aka Bud Garcia, Ron's best bud since high school which we will not date helped for over a year before going to Bangkok, Thailand with his company. He helped set up the sound to perfection. We miss you come back soon.
Brady Phillips, Ben with Josh Edelmayer during the first year of Mojos 1985, back in the day. Alot has happened since then and we are most appreciative of your contribution in Mojos infancy.
Jamie Peterson, Matt Olson and Colin.
Jeff Clemmons of Avenue, Barista extrardanaire on Saturday nights.
Kevin Donkin and Justin both security of back and lots with Matt Olson.
MOJOS GALS
KAYCEE & SUNI (4th year anniversary at Mojos April 2009. First came into Mojos 4 years ago this month ~ Happy Anniversary Mojos Gals).
MOJOS BABIES: Incubated and Rocked out in Mojos
1. Corey Chapman with Iris. Corey and Lori met at Mojos in year 1 1984
2. Timm of Mean Mollys Trio and wife with baby boy rockin out at Mojos. He spent his entire incubation coming to Mojos and now comes to many of Dads shows.
3. Shawenessy and baby boy Matai rockin' out regular at Mojos. She and her Mom bakes our cakes and she has been coming to Mojos since 1985.
4. Johnnie born March 2009 to Candice/Kookie & Cole of Riff Robbers. Met at Mojos in 2006.
MOJOS MISSION STATEMENT: Mojos is about art and music. We are about coming together in a creative and freely open space to share and build a safe atmosphere of friendship, acceptance, creativity, freedom of expression, beliefs, expression of our own uniqueness and divinity here at home. We believe that each person does make a difference and when brought together the energy and positive vibration will add to the universe in a way that does matter for healing, peace, happiness and joy for all mankind. All through expression of art and music and friendships and total acceptance of each other. Everyone matters and it is done through the sparc of imagination expressed in art and music and coming together and sharing that common denominator of humanity: love, respect, peace and joy in all things and eachother. It is about having fun and enjoying life and oneself and others. Please join us and add your special uniqueness to Mojos and take away something with you, of being home with your brothers and sisters of planet Earth!
"KEEP ON RISIN...."
MOJOS HISTORY: Many people have asked how and when Mojos happened. That is a long story but the short version is this if you have the patience, interest and time to read it.
Owner and founder Ron Atencio came up with the name while on a three week trip from Utah to revisit his past of places he had lived in the previous decades. May of 2002 he journeyed to San Francisco first and spent a week, Monterey/Santa cruz and spent another week then onto Las Vegas where he has family and friends there as well for yet his third week. What a trip! This was a special trip as he touched his past as if going back to past lives and rejoining and merging them all into the present. As he drove this route in the four legs/spurts in his beloved red Toyota Celica equipped with numerous cd's to play, he found that only one was played, although not intentionally: DOORS-THE BEST OF! Over and over Jim Morrison and The Doors played all their timeless and classic songs, never tiring of any of them but always looking forward to each one as it came on again. This was not planned, it just happened. Ron had always known that one day he would have a caffe/club/music venue/gathering place. When or where was never really known. But one thing that did happen on this trip amongst many other magical moments, after hearing L.A. Woman over and over again numerous times that "mister mojo rising, keep on rising" rang true in his head and heart. He could see it clearly. He knew that this would one day be the name of his caffe he would one day create. And soon. MOJOS for short of Mister Mojo Rising. In honor of one of his favorite artists and visionaries of past, Jim Morrison, the name and theme was discovered and established clearly as if it had already been and meant to be.
Morrison does look onto the main room over the stage as each musician, artist and poet express themselves to an open and always receptive and unique audience. This is called magic. What ron had envisioned did come to fruition and reality even beyond his own imagination at times. Jim does live on in his shrine: MOJOS. Also known as Mojos Caffe & Gallery of Ogden or to ron, Mister Mojo Rising. The spirit of Morrison does linger in Mojos along with many other special beings that visited our planet for a short time and left so much for us that after more then three decades his message is even more true now then before. Almost like many other masters that walked this planet Earth.
A month after the 9/11 ordeal, as many others, Ron did some serious soul searching. How quickly life can just be snuffed out without a seconds notice and how easy to get away from what really matters to each of us. He worked at AOL call center in Ogden, which to him was a miserable and confining experience. Total corporate world with rules and regulations at every breath within a caged "pod". What a difference from life's he had lived in Monterey, San Francisco, Seattle, Honolulu, Las Vegas and beyond. How did he end up here? Well, family and friends and the need for touching home brought him back to Ogden, Utah as well as the mountains and some great folks. Fear was the mantra at AOL. Freedom was what he craved as he had known so many times before. Freedom to express and create and sparc others to do the same.
One night at the very brink of his wits end, knowing he needed the income he layed awake all night saying to himself what can I do to get out of this prison. All night he tossed and turned. And just before daybreak knowing he needed to go to work just hours away and needed sleep as he toiled over his situation something remarkeable happened. A voice went off in his head: WHAT ARE YOUR PASSIONS? It was as if someone was shouting in his head. He sat straight up while chills ran all over his body and through his soul for what seemed eternity. To this day he hears it loudly and plainly. He sat up and stared blankly as he answered the question: art, music, history, writing, freedom and bringing people together. In a flash the question was answered. He got out of bed and began writing on his trusty iMac (which sits in Mojos for internet use now) and wrote the business plan for Mojos Caffe and Street Magazine. Both which have become reality and the birth a month after 9/11 on 10.11.01. A true paledrone. It has been five years. A special day indeed. The rest is history, or lets say present. With all of this, as the slogan which came in the night just like the question and used as the theme for Street Magazine , truly applies to Mojos as well: "Where the Past meets the Present and the Future is NOW!" Come to Mojos and you will see that it all does come together as there is no time at Mojos. There is not a clock in Mojos. We all call it MOJOS TIME: timelessness! And Magic!
MOJOS BOOKING POLICY:
MOJOS has a great desire to feature as much local, regional and national acts for the Ogden market as possible. We are proud to have had so much talent grace our stage from the local area and the entire U.S. See our statistics on this site. Mojos puts local area bands on Thursday nights for starters and then from there can move to Friday or Saturday nights. Wednesday is acoustic singer/songwriter night and has really become a very popular night for many. We are booked about two months in advance on all these nights.
Mojos does pay out bands on Friday and Saturdays if they bring a draw, but not Weds or Thurs as our door charge is minimal. However, on weekends, Friday and Saturday we charge $5 cover, which $2 of it goes to the bands if we meet our minimum required and to the band who actually brings people out. We book four bands on weekends and the top three could get a cut off the door, whoever is headlining or who brings in the most draw. One half of the bands total goes to the headliner and the other two split the other half or which band brings the crowd. There is a minimum of fifty people in the door before this equation comes into effect in order to cover the costs of operating each night. This is the fairest and most equitable means to share with the bands through experience, especially those who also work at getting a good attendance and build a fan base. Most bands and musicians are here to play and share their life's work with others as there are very few venues out of love for their god given talents. We prefer to work with those who have this attitude in mind and let the money roll as it should. Nobody is or has gotten rich yet but richness is measured in many more ways at Mojos then mere dollars. Having a great time for the band and those in the room that night is the most important. It is about making magic and sharing it. Those who work the hardest get the most, obviously, and we will promote the show too. This applies to touring bands as well. We always have a magical night at Mojos no matter how many attend.
TOURING BANDS:
Mojos does not offer a guarantee nor do we charge a percentage for your merchandise that you sell at MOJOS. Nor do we charge you to play here which is being done in some venues locally and around the nation. We welcome you to sell as much merchandise to our local audience as possible. If you are good, they will buy it. Also, we will not book two touring bands/musicians in the same nights if at all possible. But we love having you here. We have had many great shows come our way from talent traveling through and beyond. You can see the full list right here on our myspace site.
MOJOS SUPPORTS MUSICIANS AND LOVES HAVING YOU PLAY FOR US. We realize that perhaps you aren't yet known in our parts and the intention of your tour is to get known and share your music. We are happy to particpate with that but if you are depending on the local bands to bring the draw it is only fair that you get to play to their audience and benefit by potential sells of your merchandise. All cases are unique and individual and the basic idea is that you will sell merchandise to an already established audience. There are cases that the touring band will get a good share of the door depending if it is evident that they have done their work as well and brought some local people out to see them and we have a good night in general but the locals get first priority. We are getting repeat visits now from touring bands who call Mojos home and we have seen that they are truly building a local following here and they all love playing at Mojos. We welcome you, but just want for you to understand our policies on the subject. Thanks for your interest to play at MOJOS and please remember us when you get big and maybe do a show here as well as the big arenas locally in Utah.
LOCAL BANDS:
We specialize in our local home grown talent and especially fond of start up bands coming right from the garage or basement to our stage and watch them grow and stretch their creative wings to the world. Many have and are launching right from our stage to the next step in their growth and progression. Mojos is proud to be part of that and to be recognized as home and the start for many young bands who are now moving onto the big world and getting known and appreciated. They got their start right here at Mojos. You will see their names on our bands list right here on our myspace site. Any day one of them is going to fly all the way. Many are already making movement around the region and moving out even further in their branching. Some have come right from their connections and networking and fan base builidng that they got right from Mojos. They always fly home to visit and/or perform however and we are happy about that and we hope Mojos will always be home and a touch stone for them. We are proud of the great bands and musicians we have right here in our own valley of Ogden, Utah and the Wasatch Front!!!
Mojos has featured bands at all levels of experience and acclaim both local and national. We are proud to have these bands call MOJOS home. We are especially proud of the local bands who came to us right from their basements, garages or who were performing in parking lots and many began on MOJOS stage. Many have had their very first show on MOJOS stage. We have seen many talents grow and become well established in the local area and get better and better each time they perform. We take pride in being a home to young local talents who utilize MOJOS as a springboard to better their crafts. We have had several bands and musicians launch fom our stage to touring, cd's, battle of the bands winnings, local followings and much success. We know these bands will always come home and play at MOJOS for us all here again and always for fans, friends and famiily.
WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
The best way to book is through email on this myspace site or through our website: www.mojosrocks.com or email: mojosogden@aol.com. If you agree with these terms herewith, please contact us. Keep in mind that we are always working months in advance and we book up fast. We would love to have you grace our stage also and be a member of the MOJOS FAMILY. Thanks!
FROM OUR FRIEND ADAM KROLAK:
February 2006
Morrison believed the lizard had some magical power locked away in our collective unconscious that inflamed something within us. The lizard incites fear in our animal consciousness. Morrison likened the peristaltic motion to the life movement thus connecting us to the snake and lizard. Therefore, the Lizard King is a special, archetypal image. It's the epitome of all we fear and all we long for. It has a will-to-power control as we see the snake as powerful, the serpent as worthy foe for a human hero. As in one of Morrison's songs where he says, "I'm the crawling King snake and I rule my den." Like many of Jim Morrison's works he isn't focusing on the temporal, he wants to resonate with something deeper, and metaphysical. The Lizard King is the high-society's scapegoat and the common folk Dionysus put together. Nowadays Marilyn Manson may be the modern version, someone testing the boundries, somebody on the edge of the perimeter above middle-class laws and values. It's a transcendent idea. It's Freud's idea of the life-wish and the death-wish. Morrison lived as if each day was his last because he was so open to both these drives, and so transparent to transcendence. Jim would have us all be Lizard Kings as Jesus of Nazarene would have us all be Christs but in neither case was it totally understood at the time, and in both cases there still is a whole lot of mystery. That's the legend of Jim Morrison. He is the Lizard King. He is mysterious because he focused on the subconsious, between reality and spirituality. Jesus is the Christ, Buddha achieved nirvana and Jim Morrison became the Lizard King.
"There are things known, and things unknown. In between are The Doors" (2006)
FROM OUR NEW FRIEND DAN
Mar 13, 2006 4:23 PM
Morrison looks over Mojos
Frozen as a beautiful young god
From a psychedelic poster over the stage.
The insanity burned out decades ago
We sing along to the old tunes
And dream young dreams again.
(2006)
FROM: Mojos Wednesday Night Chick- KOOKIE aka Candice Ortiz
May 12, 2006
I love it here in this mish mash of jock straps and dread locks
Where on any given night the place smells like grandma's basement
After hippie weed, and perfumed teenage magazines
Where you sit inside all winter and stand outside all spring
The doorman waits for victorian lamps
And x-mas lights to shine supreme
You smoke 10 feet from the door at 15 years old or more
In sister's pants with devil's locks
Beneath the bodelo's shadow we all have walked.
Where Jessica Rabbit has graced the lane
Where lil'lee and the hop scotch play.
Then we all sway with mohawks and hip hop
Mosh pits for punk rock
And there in golden glow Jim Morrison
Our rising god will show your mind something brand new...
Where the artist is praised and hung about the room
I-macs with coffee thrift store sitting
Kitty corner from mormon meetings. (2006)
FROM: VICTORIA KERNS, local Ogden writer.
Published writer in STREET Magazine
April, 2006
MOJOS
Living Room
Relax, hang out
Tables and chairs
Hard and straight
Tufted and benches
Lights and mics and artifacts
Speakers and beakers,
Speakers and players/games and gamers
Books and buckets and a telescope
Toys and boys, art displays cappuccino
Come or go, Mojos
Mirrors vases, shelves
Figurines, mannequeins and skulls
Hippe/hipster
Goth and punk
Disco ball-fans
Fans and bands
Poets/friends
Blocks, no clock?
Masks and masks
Wood, brass, ceramic, plaster, formica, glass - Incense
Tradition, abstraction, representational, pop
Ancient, modern, eclectic, rock
Worn, retro, guitars, congas, beat
Geometric shapes - Internet
Rotary phones and cell
Talent sharing everywhere
Old/young impromptu
Patriot yes, but - no.
(2006)
MOJOS REMEMBERED
By Titus
Found July 2008. Not sure when it was written.
Four years ago I discovered Ogden, or I should say Ogden found me. A wayward bay area ex-mormon I was living off 30th with a pot dealer named "Stonie" who was never home and whose house was under foreclosure. The house was a dump but because Stonie was always rough necking in Wyoming. I hardly had to pay him rent. Gay Bruce who was my Dad's age liked to find the new hetero "artistic" guys in town usually at Brewski's and talk about the new woman designer shoes he picked up at "Roxy's Resale". One day Bruce told me of this cool coffee shop I should check out off 22nd called Mojos. Bruce was the ambassador of Ogden. He knew the non mormon artsty intellectual circles of Ogden being that he was retired from UDOT (where he was known as "Titch" ("did you get any this weekend Bruce? Oh I got a titch"). Bruce would spend his days wandering the 25th street, Weber State and other cultural interests in town. Being that I was starving for more then Beatnik's Friday night Fry Sauce shows as an outlet for my bay area spirit I ventured to Mojos. Back then Ron ran STREET Magazine, a cool, yet Ogden propoganda (curtsy to the Mayor's agenda) quarterly *(see editors note below). This was Mojos before the loud high school garage band days. Before the days when the mean age was 16. Every Friday night a group of closet musicians would venture out of the closet for a night and come together to jam under the leadership of Dr. William "Bill" Pollet to try their hand at Beatles tunes or an Eagle song from time to time. This group of 10 to 15 musicians would later form the nucleus of F.A.C.E. (Foundation of Artistic creative endeavors) who still "jam" every Wednesday night at Universe City Gallery up the street from Mojos. I had no instrument to play yet Bill pushed me to create. I had an old flute that had not been touched in 15 years. "Go bring it" was Bill's command, so I did and would play the three key's I remembered, (C,D,G). Trying to follow the other musicians. I loved Mojos then, it was a hip alternative to Grounds on 30th and the Brewski's sword fights on any given night. Ron had the start of something good here. I remember Corey, Brady and Eric and some other faces while names I forget. We wanted to help to make this place. It was our clubhouse then. We wanted to share with the rest of the state of Utah and the city of Ogden. Ron started recruiting local bands like Gundhi, Invisible Rays, After the Party, The Amazing Cactus Pricks, Jebu, Tanglewood, Fry Sauce and new bands showed up like Spearit, Xmarks, Juse and Omnipresent and many more. I ran the door and made the coffee. I told Ron how my life dream was to be a barista, so he let me barista. The crowd grew and on any given weekend night it was standing room only. I would introduce the bands back then making sure their coffee demands were met and I would make sure the bands were appreciated. It was always an all night event with the doors often closing at 3 or 4 or 5 a.m. Those days we who ran Mojos would often find a couch and crash at dawn's first light. Here I sit again listening to an aspiring band playing for their friends and cronies remembering what this place meant to me and how this place changed me. Thank you Ron for the opportunity to be a part of this place. I hope that this place lives on like it's DOOR's namesake to guide people to find their voice in a world and state with so few places for such voices.
This note was found among our many art pieces left behind at Mojos in which we collect each night and sort to go on the "art wall of fame" or the "the mojos art book". This is a reflection by an original Mojos jammers from 2004 before we actually opened officially. He was one of the original baristas when we finally did open Feb. 5, 2005, "back in the day". We found it reflective and worth adding on our website here as it did take us back in time after almost four years of wave after wave of creativity and music and people as wondeful souls come and go leaving their impressions and reflections as new souls enter and share their self with all of us. All good! You will find the original in "the book". Thanks Mike/Titus for taking us down memory lane and for your contribution among many others in making Mojos then and what it has become now to many people. It was fun. As it was then, as it is now.
*Publisher/editor Ron of STREET magazine does not entirely agree with Titus on the impression of being the Mayors propoganda voice. I can see why he says this however. We did try to take a positive approach to the happenings of Ogden in our magazine rather then a negative and critical stance on the revitilization of Ogden in which we are enjoying now (Junction, Salomon Center, Megaplex etc). We did share the vision. The Mayor was a columnist in the issues and he did share his vision with our readers. We did however tackle controversial issues and did share both sides. We still believe in the good in Ogden and the New Street monthly coming out this fall will also reflect all that is good in Ogden again for our readers.
Thanks again for your reflections Titus. Enjoy!!!! Ron
MOJOS FLYERS AND POSTERS
See them in our photos album. WE moved them from here as there were just too many!
It seems that Christmas time is here once again, and it is time again to bring in the New Year. We wish the merriest of Christmas to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the year ahead. Yola
MOJO'S KICKS SOME SERIOUS ASS!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting us play at your fine establishment, we are very excited to play there again soon. Mojo's is sweet. Thanks A lot HWB
Hey MoJo's! Me and N.U.P.I were wondering if you could add us to your top? It would help people to get to know us more. If you could do that we would appreciate it.
Feel free to use what photos you see suitable for you page. Thanx for having us play! MOJOS REALLY DOES ROCK OGDEN! Hit us up whenever you have an opening and we'll be there......
Hey Ron, its the guys from Emily Rose, thought we would let you know we had a lot of fun last night! And also cause we have so many new members we're changing the name to Consumed By Silence, just so you know ahead of time and don't cancel that December show haha. By the way thank you for giving us a headlining show, you're awesome!
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