"I've never had a customer tell me I should cut down a 400-year-old oak tree because the sightlines would be better," he says. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. Then there are those that "respect" him too much to dredge up the past, those content with allowing O'Connor to spin his own story, particularly considering he's on the cusp of retirement and still recuperating from triple-bypass surgery. Bobbie Elizabeth O'Connor. Although O'Connor did some settling in before utilizing similarly strong-arm tactics in Austin, his arrival was still relatively splashy. So, Willie Nelsons family stepped in to help. By sixth grade, he was sent to a boy's school in Arkansas for three years. O'Connor isn't serious, but given his thoughts of retirement and recent run of heart troubles, he's indeed been spending time pondering his legacy. ', "I thought I had done well, but what I was really doing was screwing every relationship he'd established in every little town in Texas and Louisiana. It may not have cost him his friendship with Nelson, but O'Connor's stray bullet came with a hefty price tag -- having to leave Castle Creek. "Tim wasn't a real easy person to get along with in those days," remembers Ramsey. It doesn't take much asking around for folks to recall the first time he screamed at them, or the first time they witnessed him either stand on his desk to make a point, or clear it with the sweep of an arm. And if you're always looking out for your town and its fans, look what happens. More importantly, the Opera House provided an alternative to the Armadillo. Before moving to California, he lived on an island in the middle of Glen Wild Lake, located in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, 30 miles from Manhattan. And to some degree, it's also about admitting what I've done wrong. 2023 SCI SHARED RESOURCES, LLC. After the conviction, O'Connor says state authorities recommended he leave the state and not return. He loved to watch him run things with the other dogs. I might be tattered and torn up, and a lot of people may be lying behind me, but my attitude is, if you're not helping, get out of the way. In the press release, APA! He's been zealously drug- and alcohol-free ever since. Charlie is preceded in death by his parents Felix Durward . And despite the fact that Direct Events had grown nearly 300% in 1994-95 and was on the verge of bankruptcy, O'Connor agreed to buy La Zona Rosa in 1996. "He called me into his office and said, 'Tim, I just want to let you know I think you did a great job, but I think you're maybe just a little ahead of us. Tom married his high school sweetheart, Beverly Ford, on July 5, 1952, and they enjoyed 58 years devoted to each other. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. Perhaps it's all of the above, although he denies there's any real motive at all. Some still fear him. He graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1949, and farmed with his father until he joined the US Air Force in 1952. "Tim and Willie were an odd couple," says Arlyn's Freddy Fletcher, Nelson's nephew. If youre not prepared to put half your money in a suitcase and throw it off the tallest building, kid, you dont have what it takes to be a concert promoter.. Download it here. "My first thought would be that they'd say, 'That's that old guy that's been around forever. Three words that changed O'Connor's life. Sign up for service and obituary updates. I wanna work your joint.'". On those nights it was a listening room. Please, Like Lance Armstrong, OConnor just couldnt walk away from the action, and suffered the consequences. What O'Connor didn't know at the time was that many shows at Houston's legendary Gilley's dancehall ended with more people onstage than in the crowd. When the lease ran out on the other half in 2008, the Backyard closed and work soon-after started on a bigger, better Backyard about a mile west on TX 71, on land bought by billionaire John Paul DeJoria. Willie's hippies may have gotten along with the Opera House staff, but promoters running in tandem with O'Connor often found the going difficult, to say the least. cover story that year. So much so, in fact, that Attal has pried a sizable amount of shows away from Direct Events. With income he'll only say was "not legal," O'Connor took ownership of 13 bungalows and a bar he named the Lift. What's done is done. It started with a love of music. Attal co-owns and books both the restaurant's small inside room and Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater, a Backyard-style outdoor venue. right now i got tears in my eyesi sat with tim's ashes with connie.i really dont know what to say but thank you michael. When Attal was paying for his own meet-and-greet trips to the coasts, Jones was meeting agents on O'Connor's dime. Like our page to stay informed about passing of a loved one in Austin, Texas on facebook. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Christopher Joseph O"Connor on this permanent online memorial. The Backyard had about 10 good years until the Shops of the Galleria began encroaching, eventually eating up most of the parking by its 2005 completion. He was surrounded by family and friends. "We had the town in a headlock," Ramsey says. The last act to play La Zona Rosa under OConnors ownership was Prince at SXSW 2013. They are afraid of strangers and are unwilling to leave OConnors property. The promoter shouldve retired in 2001, a move he contemplated in an. That arrest led the state of California to declare him an emancipated juvenile; he could now be tried for adult crimes. Separated from his wife, the couple later returned to Kansas to try and make the marriage work. SFX. "There would be many times we'd be screaming across the table at each other, and 20 minutes later it would be hugs and kisses. On deadline. Once again, the good times didn't last -- local authorities asked him to leave town. While they appear to be getting along famously, neither side denies their relationship is still a house of cards. O'Connor is the first to admit the combination of Pace's deep pockets and his own long-term connections represents a serious hurdle for competing Austin venues. "I wanted a fight.". After staying out drinking until 4am the evening before a three-day blues festival at the Opera House featuring Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan, O'Connor says he realized he had two choices. Born Sept. 23, 1943, in San Bernadino, Calif., he had been a . "I thought that was the way it was done, but Ms. Martinez at the IRS totally disagreed with my position," says O'Connor of the six-figure penalties he accrued. The Nelsons reached out to Austin Pets Alive! January 1993, they bought 13 acres in Bee Caves and began work on the Backyard and its Live Oak Amphitheater, a nearly 3,000-seat outdoor venue. We're talking about a concert promoter 30 years later. He does it because he loves music and loves the game.". This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. Backed by the national clout of Pace, now part of the larger SFX group, O'Connor believes he's been able to bring more shows to town at competitive prices. Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. Through an introduction from Jim Ramsey, O'Connor was brought in to consult on a club called the River's Edge, located at Second and Nueces. Send a note, share a story or upload a photo. "The way to make money is to offer a drive-through viewing. Tim O'Connor The Backyard Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area 337 followers 337 connections Join to connect About Established 1993 Activity I recently found out one of my songs which is a. This is the first real obit Ive read. Timothy "Tim" O'Connor, 55, of Yulee passed away Sunday evening, July 12, 2020 at Baptist Medical Center in Fernandina Beach. What it boiled down to was simple: the collective could pool connections and resources to produce bigger and better shows with more frequency then they could on their own. Or, he hints, he could wind up settling for less money to merely close the venue and sell the property outright if he can't find the right buyers. He had a whole pack of big, beautiful canines on his ranch far west of Austin. There will be a reception following the service. I'll never forget Willie's answer. "The acoustics were horrible, and it was just this terribly hot, smoke-filled room.". AUSTIN, Texas Tim O'Connor, owner of The Backyard, Austin Music Hall and other live music venues in Austin, died on July 30 from Hodgkin's lymphoma. When OConnor returned in 77, he started the Southern Commotion partnership with Willie to run, as a classier Armadillo. Character actor Tim O'Connor, best known for his role as Elliot Carson in 1960s prime time soap Peyton Place, has died. No non-musician has had more impact on the Austin scene than Tim OConnor- and he had to leave town for two prime years in the 70s. Although it's been mostly by his own design, the great irony of Tim O'Connor's career is that it took 30 years for his story to reach his customers -- the people of the city he loves catering to. Young told him it was a bird nest on the ground -- he'd only need to pick up the eggs. The venue was charmed from the start, with Leonard Cohen, Jimmy Cliff, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Everly Brothers, Little Feat, the Allman Brothers and a Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic that first summer. "Why I am I here? Watching football and repairing anything that needed it were among his favorite things to do, as well as playing cards with many of their friends. Travis Heights wouldn't be free of O'Connor until 1990. He'd bought Nelson out two years earlier, just before the singer's tax situation got messy, but it wasn't long before O'Connor himself wound up in a bit of IRS trouble; since buying the Opera House in 1977, he'd been filing corporate taxes, but not personal taxes. AUSTIN, Texas An integral part of Texas history, Tim O'Connor, the creator of Austin Music Hall, Austin Opry House and more, passed away this summer of Hodgkin's lymphoma. He saw the acts being booked at the Creek- John Prine, Guy Clark, Steve Goodman, Steve Fromholz, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, etc.- and knew his songs were right for the room. If you didn't know what you were doing there, he didn't either. I'd made concessions to the tune of some serious dollars.". "I think he likes the game too much to really be trying to get out," maintains Attal. ", When the Armadillo finally ended its storied, decade-long run in late 1980, the Opera House was seen by many locals as the last gasp of "Old Austin. "We all found ourselves together one day," says O'Connor. "Tim ended up ruling the whole roost.". "The screaming, the reputation, a lot of that was a front," asserts Gonzalez. "Something clicked," says the 56-year-old promoter today. The other rooms he rented. "He's always held most of the cards, and I've always been the guy fighting to get a few of them.". When my lawyer got done kicking me in the leg, that's when things really went downhill," recalls O'Connor. While it's a poorly kept secret that Attal and his partners are entertaining offers to sell Stubb's, O'Connor's retirement is more likely the deal breaker. "There was an incident in front of the Alliance Wagon Yard," states O'Connor. Almost immediately it became the place to not only see roadshows such as John Prine, Jackson Browne, and Bonnie Raitt, but the cream of Austin's burgeoning singer-songwriter scene: Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Stephen Fromholz, and Delbert McClinton. Aesthetically, [the Opera House] and Liberty Lunch were the only ones to carry over the Seventies vibe into the Eighties decline.". "Not controlling your own destiny is a distinct disadvantage," says O'Connor. worked with TRAPRS, a trapping, rescue and pet recovery service, for the rescue operation. Bobbie was preceded in death by her husband, Curly O Connor in 1974; her son, Arvel Franklin; and her parents, Frank and Louise . 's website. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. When OConnor bought the building at 208 Nueces in Sept. 1994, the Austin Music Hall was its fourth venue that year. Since O'Connor and Jones both describe their relationship as "father-son," the latter equally close friends with Attal, Jones has been the architect of what could be the new Ivory Tower collective -- a centralized effort from Stubb's, MiddleMan Music, and Direct Events. TRAPRS has been taking care of Bobbie Nelson and Yoyo Nelson over the past few weeks, arranging the dogs boarding, rehabilitation and training. There was other drama as well: He'd been caught attempting to steal a WWI cannon from the town post office. At a benefit in Monterey, O'Connor collapsed onstage. Overestimating access and parking capabilities also marred the second Backyard in Bee Cave, about a mile west of the original. He's maybe a little crusty,'" laughs O'Connor. and yea.the gun.timc/s, This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. For his part, O'Connor admits he wishes he'd swallowed his pride and called Attal sooner. "I'm open to the possibility we can do something collectively that we can't on our own -- to protect the Austin market," reasons O'Connor. He went on to receive and Associates Degree from TSTC. Join Receive a notification when services are updated. What nobody expected, Jones included, was O'Connor's recent invitation for Attal to begin booking La Zona Rosa. Like Lance Armstrong, O'Connor just couldn't walk away from the action, and suffered the consequences. It didn't, and at 22, he moved to Colorado while his family left for Atlanta. He left behind his two dogs,. We were going to see what we could work out together, as opposed to being at each other's throats.". "I'll tell you the three things I never want you to be: cold, wet, or hungry.". "It wasn't by design, but it worked out that way.". California Consumer Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information, California Consumer Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. According to its website,Bobbieis just a little over two years old andYoyois about four months old. Their profiles are up on APA! Timothy leaves. With over 1,900 locations, Dignity Memorial providers proudly serve over 375,000 families a year. here. Bobbie "Cole" O Connor, age 73, of Austin, lost her courageous battle with cancer and left the struggles of this life on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Bobbie was born March 9, 1933 in Manor, Texas. His warning shot ended up going through a mobile recording trailer on the street and hitting the leg of a Columbia Records executive inside. In 1960, after eight months of marching with a weighted backpack and an M-1 rifle, O'Connor and several other cadets broke ranks, literally running away and leading police on a manhunt. Maureen Margaret O'Connor Obituary. During the same period, he rented Laguna Beach High's gym for $50 and threw a concert featuring a semi-popular local band. When O'Connor passed away from Hodgkin's lymphoma in July 2021 at age 76, the music community went into mourning. Others have let bygones be bygones. Leave a memory or share a photo or video below to show your support. ", Several months later, the landlord offered him the chance to do just that; after tearing down the wall O'Connor opened the Austin Music Hall with a sign that said "Phase 1. ", "It was the holdout," says Henry Gonzalez, who first worked at the Armadillo and later stage-managed the Opera House. With the $60,000 those lots sold for, the Austin Opera House was up and running. Before long, Georgetown's "Only a Conversation Away" slogan became the Backyard's "Only Three Songs Away. Memorial services will be held on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 1 p.m. in the Hilco Event Center of Itasca. His goal was to come out of a negotiation less battered than the other guy. Skeptics, on the other hand, said concertgoers wouldn't drive that far for a show, particularly from North Austin. I'd like to think I was one of the architects of trying to make this town's concerts more professional.". O'Connor is survived by his wife Sheila MacLurg O'Connor, his son Timothy O'Connor, and three stepsons. A year earlier, in Nov. 2007, a rebuilt, 4,400-capacity Austin Music Hall debuted to bad reviews over the sound, which was always the bitch about 208 Nueces. In the mid-Eighties, Austin's most powerful promoters shared office space at 411 Barton Springs Rd. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. Find an obituary, get service details, leave condolence messages or send flowers or gifts in memory of a loved one. Its a job for a streetfighter mentality and that was Tim. And while monopolies are generally bad for the consumer, in the concert business, they tend to work to the ticket buyer's advantage: Promoters paying less for shows typically pass it on to the consumer to increase attendance and thus increase alcohol sales and other ancillary revenue. Log in, Steel Guitar Forum LLCPO Box 237Mount Horeb, WI 53572 USA. But even after all that, OConnor refused to retire, working on a venue in Driftwood until that deal fell through. O'Connor recalls that only one friend, Texicalli Grille's Danny Young, believed it would work. By flying around the country to meet with agents and sending follow-up packages of barbecue, Attal has earned a reputation within the industry as a dedicated player. "I didn't have much fear and figured I didn't need to take much guidance from anyone else.". They did. Hospice Austin, or the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Austin, TX. He let me spill everything out for him and then I asked, 'What do you think?' But it's time to clear the air and say the driving force I have at this point is merely wanting to grow old gracefully. Nelson and O'Connor were in business, 50-50, for a mere $10,000 up front. It was there in the former Chequered Flag folk club on Lavaca, that OConnor met new Austin resident Willie Nelson. This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. In the offices of Direct Events, the production company that runs his venues, associates call him "Crazy Ivan," a reference to the brash and unpredictable submarine captain in Hunt For Red October. "It got me thinking.". It was there in the former Chequered Flag folk club on Lavaca, that OConnor met new Austin resident Willie Nelson. Visitation for friends and family will be held from 6:00 pm 8:00 pm on Friday, June 2, 2006, at Wilke-Clay-Fish Funeral Home. After Travis Heights homeowners blamed him for cigarette butts left nearby, O'Connor found a commercially zoned lot that bordered the neighborhood and briefly put in a petting zoo. During his career he was Sr. Chef Jeff Blank found it and originally partnered with OConnor, but it turned out to be a much better venue for 3,500-capacity outdoor concerts than fine dining inside, so Blank refocused on Hudsons-on-the-Bend (and the chicken cone that would redefine festival eating.). Search Austin obituaries and condolences, hosted by Echovita.com. What O'Connor didn't know was they'd since befriended another fledgling band, Buffalo Springfield, and as word of the two bands' association spread, the show sold out on the belief Stephen Stills and company would show up to jam. TIMOTHY O'CONNOR OBITUARY. Comfort the family with flowers or a sympathy gift. Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Comfort the family with flowers or a sympathy gift. Over the last few years, we've been killing ourselves.". Customer Engineer Specialist and Sr. Attempted burglary charges led to 27 days in jail, a trial in Salinas, and six years of probation. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this . Along with Wilson's Armadillo, and the One Night, Soap Creek, Split Rail, and Broken Spoke, there was the Checkered Flag, a fledgling beer joint on Lavaca owned by future Kerrville overseer Rod Kennedy and his partner Allen Damron. We're not bidding shows up 30-40% anymore.". By sixth grade,. "When the Armadillo went down, all the other clubs started disappearing. Three years later, O'Connor's life changed again, this time by his own choice. Although O'Connor believed he could build a venue that reflected "Old Austin," his venue was at least 15 minutes away from downtown. What few of these people will do, however, is tell these stories on the record. When OConnor returned in 77, he started the Southern Commotion partnership with Willie to run the Austin Opry House as a classier Armadillo. to the Family. Funeral Home Se. Nelson repeated. *Please note that the service will not be at a Keever facility, so please have flowers sent directly to the Hilco Event Center in Itasca.*. Tim O'Connor, longtime club owner, music entrepreneur and erstwhile promoter of Austin music, partner of Willie Nelson as a director of the famed Fourth of July picnics, has died. According to the website, Bobbie Nelsonis just over 2 years old. It started with a love of music.James Timothy OConnor, his adopted name, came to Austin in 1972 to open Castle Creek with his Colorado buddy Doug Moyes. O'Connor's contract with one of the country's largest promoters is due to expire in December. "I always wanted to sit behind my desk and be able to tell some artist that had me pulling all the red M&M's out of the bag that he'd never play in this town again.". I have very little patience for people that fool around in this business or just want to make a buck.". Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. OBITUARY Maureen Margaret O'Connor . Check out the rescue video: https://t.co/HdqwH1zKJo Help out today by donating to their rescue and care: https://t.co/H4ndUa1g7M pic.twitter.com/PBL0nIXOWm, Willie Nelsons daughters and OConnors goddaughters, Paula and Amy Nelson, were able to find homes for four of them. Help tell the story of your loved ones unique life. He left behind his pack of dogs. "But to get a major company to sit down and have the same general plan -- a plan that doesn't compete with the city or the design of the developments around the facility -- is very challenging. He also volunteers that he's probably amassed as many enemies as friends. No services are scheduled at this time. "When Willie and I needed to deal with banks, we'd be sure to pull up in front with the bus," explains O'Connor. If you did your job and something went wrong anyway, Gonzalez says O'Connor would protect you from angry promoters or artists. It started out as Acropolis dance club, then was Blind Alley for a couple months, and then saw the return of promoter Jim Ramsey with Rivers Edge. It's obvious that you get economy of scale working with them.". Amy captured the rescue on video. "Instead of fighting each other for the same piece of pie, we were cutting the pie up.". That O'Connor quickly became known as the best "operator" in town paid off quickly. Who's gonna do it? But he had a special connection with the pit mix Bruiser, the oldest and scrappiest of the bunch. "You have to create a niche that's so protected and specialized that it doesn't draw too much attention. Although the Backyard wound up proving Austinites would indeed go out of their way for atmosphere and talent, O'Connor's next move brought him downtown. By then it was just a live music club with a dogleg, and a 1,500 capacity that gave Direct Events more flexibility for acts not ready for AMH or the Backyard, both at twice the capacity. Soon married with a baby, he returned to California, where he eventually wound up laying drainage pipe in the Mojave Desert. That and inadequate AC: was that shit even on? Then, AMHII was torn down in 2016 to make room for a 28-story office building called Third + Shoal. He knew he'd been sick for some time, but blamed it on exhaustion. "He was apt to go off, which was a sign of the times, but we were always a little more laid back.". you are the only one i can imagine to put all this into words of love and reality and yesteryear succinctly and soufully. There was a time when Tim O'Connor didn't have to worry keeping the Opera House's doors open. Then again, once a drifter, always a drifter; this time, O'Connor settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and hooked up with a friend from his Colorado days, songwriter Tom Campbell. As Austin's most successful concert promoter, O'Connor has earned and lost several fortunes, ridden deals to the edge of bankruptcy, and played chicken with the IRS since his arrival in town during the early Seventies. "I realized long ago that music was the nighttime job and that you had to be making money during the day," reveals O'Connor. O'Connor's fuse may be longer these days, but one crossed signal could end the deal. I've made some mistakes and enemies, but the other side is I hope I've made some friends and made a little bit of difference in the presentation and the quality of music that comes to Austin. That OConnor had 13 very good years in that former chili factory was remarkable. At the time, musicians such as Jimmie Vaughan and Rusty Wier began stopping at the restaurant on their way to Winter Park. "Clubs might argue over one act, once a year or so," he says. Better yet, while studying the plots they'd just bought, O'Connor found an additional 13 lots they'd inherited through a sale the bank hadn't covered in the mortgage. mother Elizabeth (Penny) O'Connor, 2 brothers, Tim O'Connor, Argyle, Texas and Kevin O'Connor and wife Laura, New Mexico, three nephews, Ryan, Matt and Jeffrey O'Connor . He was the Wanderers' cardigan-wearing lead vocalist, and he landed them gigs at area sock hops and talent shows. October 14, 1949 - April 16, 2015, Timothy O'Connor passed away on April 16, 2015 in De Pere, Wisconsin. You have to build a base on a fixed income so if you lose it on the concert side you don't go bust.". Maureen Margaret O'Connor, age 75, of Austin, Texas passed away on Friday, February 24, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Beverly, of Austin; son Michael OConnor of Houston; Olive OConnor of Houston; daughter, Loraine Moulder and husband Jim of Cedar Park; three grandsons, Brian Poolman of Austin, TX; Daniel Poolman of Austin/Houston; Sean Poolman of San Marcos, TX; Granddaughter, Melanie Diggins, Great-Granddaughters Adrienne Diggins and Alix OQuinn; a brother, Donald OConnor ( Helen), of Plattsburg, MO; four sisters, Loretta Broderick (Tom), Plattsburg, MO, Juanita Thornton (Jim), Liberty, MO; Charlene Swope (Emerson) of Joplin, MO, Peggy Evans (John) of Smithville, MO; twelve nieces and nephews, all of Missouri, and several cousins, living in the Midwest.. Timothy F. O'Connor Obituary. Is he showing his hand to lull competitors into a false sense of security, or is coming clean part of a public relations campaign designed to repair his reputation before he eases into retirement? 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