MOJOS ROCKS Ogden!!!

MOJOS CAFFE & GALLERY
2210 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Utah 84401
801-603-6737.
www.mojosrocks.com
email: [email protected]
MOJOS IS OGDEN UTAH'S LOCAL ALL AGES LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Open Wednesday - Saturday 6:00 PM - 1:00 AM. Music begins at 8pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Five dollar cover on Thurs-Sat and three on Weds.
MOJOS WEBCAM & MOJOS RADIO ON MOJOS WEBSITE!
www.MojosOgden.com or www.MojosCaffe.com or www.MOJOSROCKS.com
MOJOS WEB CAM LIVE 24/7 on Website -- Check it out!
MOJOSRadio - All of Mojos bands and musicians on MOJOSRadio.com 24/7.
LIVE@MOJOS PODCAST ON I-TUNES. On itunes: subscribe to podcast and enter Liveatmojos. Free subscription and weekly changes with new local Mojos bands playing Live@Mojos. Or enter: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LiveAtMojos. SPECIAL THANKS TO SOLAR SHOCK PICTURES, Matt Ellis, Flip Doogans, and Davey Jones.
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, other festivals, parties and weddings. Call 603-2031 if you are need of incredible talent, all local Ogden area based.
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 grand opening party Friday, November 3, 2006. Special party at Mojos and Spikes with lots of local music. Mike Fletcher's artwork will be on exhibit. 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.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.
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.)

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MOJOS STAFF - Special Thanks!
RON ATENCIO - Manager and Owner
JAMIE PETERSON - Asst.Manager
MATT OLSON - Barista & Coffee Counter Chief
JEFF CLEMMONS - Barista & Coffee Counter Chief
MICAH HASSETT - Sound Technician
JUSTIN SPRINKEL - Sound Technicican
TRIP - Front Door/Security
LUMPY GARCIA - Head Sound Technician
IGOR - Back Door Specialist
KYLE KOBERNA - Maintenence
JUSTIN & KEVIN DONKIN - Back Door Security
CURRENT STAFFERS:
Jamie Peterson, Matt Olson and Colin.
Trip super bad front door gal with Mojos for over a year.
Justin Sprinkel of Raze sound technician for a year.
Papa Ron aka mister mojos man aka rockinron aka sparc... founder, owner and manager.
Jeff Clemmons of Avenue, Barista extrardanaire on Saturday nights.
Kevin Donkin and Justin both security of back and lots with Matt Olson.
PAST STAFFERS: Thanks for all your help in making MOJOS what it is today!
JOSH EDELMEYER worked two years until May 2007 when he went to Germany as Head Barista and right hand dude at Mojos. 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.
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.
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 eachother. 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!
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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: [email protected]. 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 FLYERS AND POSTERS
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