Had to call in a question to veteran Little Rock, Arkansans musical historian, Christopher Terry. He sometimes, or all the time that I’ve known him, goes by CT and has been a member of Rwake as far back as it goes. Anyway, I’m glad there are peers of mine that have the memories that they do. I’ve got the pictures dated as October 1, 2006, but looking it over, it also might have been September 30th.
Downtown Music in Little Rock, Arkansas was a magical venue. The amount of shows seen there, crammed in side by side against the sweetest but sometimes, stinkiest people you have ever met, more than 1 less than 1000. I am not being disrespectful because I’ve smelled like the hoagie to end all hoagies, but DTM(I’m lazy and call it that now) had me smelling some kind of some kind of…sorry I think I got a smell-mory.
The night in question, my dumb ass might have had a beer or two, so I’m not going to be able to give full on details. I remember shooting pictures and running a camera. Up first was Loss, from Nashville. Here was where CT rescued me, thank you sir.
Next up, were the men from the bayou, stone kings of The Crescent City , The Suplecs. Love’m , Love’m, Love’em. I did find footage I was able to process of Rock Bottom. (Anyone else remember staying up til 3 in the morning to see the Rock Bottom on MTv?)
And as we close that night, I’ve got a final picture. It’s of a friend of ours that we lost a few years back. He was in Damn Your Eyes, and when I find the pictures from that night I had to post it. Not to bring people down, but to remind us of how fucking wild we were, and some of us still might be.
At this time, we are going to piece together what was going on in October of 2006. The dates from the original files are marked with the time period of the 19th – the 23rd. On to the rememberancamblings of a lowly photographer in training.
Let’s start with a walk down Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee. From North to South,it’s not a long walk, but the amount of sheer waste of space at that time, was something I never really had seen. It’s no wonder all the Vulture Capitalists swooped in through the years and picked through the bones of the remains of the wreckage of the underwater city of Memphis.
The starkness of the Memphis downtown was always interesting to me, so I’m starking off with these pictures.
The Peanut Shoppe Memphis Main Street – October 2006 – Photographer George Hancock Chisca in 2006Shadow Pictures – Green Beetle -Memphis Tennessee -Photographer George Hancock – October 2006Really Red Yellow BlackOrange and Black and Yellow
Heading down I-55 with my buddy <NAME REDACTED>, we head to New Orleans. I assume we were going to show because <NAME REDACTED> and I don’t normally just vacation in a place hotter and more hotter than the hell hole I live in. If <NAME REDACTED> and I are going to New Orleans, we are going to New Orleans.
Here are a few pictures of the New Orleans area we drove through, post-Katrina October 2006.
Heading to New Orleans – October 2006 – Photographer George HancockNew Orleans Katrina Damage – Photographer George Hancock – October 2006 New Orleans Katrina Damage – October 2006 -Photographer George Hancock – Grocery StoreNew Orleans Skyline – October 2006 – Photographer George HancockSuperdome New Orleans October 2006 Photographer George HancockLet Love Rule – Post-Katrina New Orleans – October 2006 – Photographer George HancockAll I Had I Left
And now we jump forward a day. I will find whatever show pictures were shot that previous night. I can assure you that it was something that <NAME REDACTED> and I liked.
I digress, I work up early. Sad trait of mine. I bet I felt like warm shit spread on cold toast. I was walking around the Lower Garden District when I stumbled upon what looked like a movie theater front, but instead of movie posters, it was stuffed animals. Wet, sodden, sullied, stuffed animals. Not what I expected the evening after seeing some loud music and being up until you can’t read the time on your phone, but hey it’s New Orleans. Don’t go with any expectations….(I did my search and believe that in the area I was in, it was the Coliseum Theater. If I’m wrong, correct me and I’ll correct me.)
Theater of WhatTheater of WetABCs of LifeNot Until You Dry UpToo Hard Of A SmileOne Armed Shirts Still Cost The SameNew Orleans Is A Dry CountyAnd DrugsKiss That Arm GoodbyeHey LadiesFoot BuddiesFarm Animals On The WatchBear BackLadder Don’t HelpCave Dog
In the lineup was a red head. Ann, or something. Either way, addled, foggy brain takes aim. She’ll get her own gallery.
Red Eye GravyRed ChestedRed HandedRed LeggedRed HandededDark RedRed HeadedRed BreastedRed LegsRed in ReposeRed HerselfRed AloneRed Up FrontRed ReclinedRed Alone For Real
I think after this we may have had a show. I do know I saw The Prestige in the theater with a few New Orleans friends. After that, I think we visited another friend and I got all arty with some long shutter shots of the sunset and neon signs. Look smug picture of the photographer….
New Orleans Fire TreeHave You Been SeatedAnd Now You SpinFloating_CutsSelf Portrait – Photographer George Hancock – New Orleans October 2006
I started playing with HDR photography like every other photographer. My journey started in 2006. The process of taking multiple pictures of the same object and stacking them via software to get the most dynamic of range, was wild. It sure made everything dramatic, and that isn’t always the best case. But, I still tried it and still thought I could be some National Geographic photographer with the dramatic images.
On the morning of October 13, 2006 I must have been extra special and think I could document the First United Methodist Church fire that happened a week before. I got up early and took some pictures from across the street. I also made my way over to the Metro Shopping Plaza and got a picture of the sign for the fun of it.
First United Methodist Church FireFirst United Methodist Church Fire-2First United Methodist Church Fire-3First United Methodist Church Fire-4Metro Shopping Plaza – 1
Back in March I fell in lust with gel plate printing *. (If you haven’t seen the first post about my Untitled gel plate prints, feel free to detour for a few.) I have always loved screen printing, because you can make detailed works without having the ability to draw or paint. The major problem with screen printing is space. It takes space to do screen printing. Sure, you can do it in a cramped area, I did that shit from 2001-2007. Using the pressure washer from the car wash down the street in the middle of an ice storm is not something I want to get back into.
Back to the point, I found gel plate printing, all the satisfaction of screen printing process, with the chaos of abstract painting without having to commit to a canvas or have to have all the equipment to screen print. I watched a few YouTube videos on the subject and, well I’ve been printing for 6 months at the time of this rambling, and I don’t see me stopping. Ever.
Bad writer also forgets that you might need a definition of gel plate printing if you didn’t click the above link. Gel plates are just big pieces of gelatin. that instead of eating, you spread paint on them and then use paper to pick up the “image “design” from the pad. (I’m not going to get into the makeup of the plates, because it’s a waste. Do a search if you really want to get an adult perspective of the plate makeup.) You can use paint, ink, dirt, cat poop, anything you want, spread it on the plate, mess with it, put paper down, done.
Here are some of the multitudes of prints I made in the past few months, with more to come when I muster up the energy to take pictures.
You see a cat seated updsidedown or a frog in jincosSubtile by my standardsSnow CatPortrait of dog who bit me from behind a fenceMe breathing water on purpose instead of asking for helpLoosley based on my cats buttholeIf we can split 2 into 1s cant we slpit 1 into 2sHessian Smoke Workshop Work BreakFull Brag DuoCorey Saw Me Make ThisA reminder of presents past presentIm gonna follow you with this until at least November 2ndGrace and her dues have no clue aboutFuckin shit dudeCat fancyAssisting a tasty bud to pig heavenBut if he calls me why wont you answerits ludacris roll out
* I do not promote any specific brands or will have any type of affiliate link crap. I do not enjoy being sold to slyly, and will do my best not to sell to you. I don’t want your email address, a review, anything. I’m here to show some artwork that will be for sale, but I’m not going to shove the buy button up your ass. I used the link above because that video showed me the ways of the plate. Buy whatever kind you want, make your own, whatever. If you want to print on gel plates, do it.
Let’s start this not so magical photo tour in no particular order, just the order that the DVDs from the archives are in. April 8th and 9th of 2011, two totally completely different shows in completely different venues. Within that 24-48 hour period, however you’d describe two different shows with just a night of sleep in-between.
April 8th, 2011 at the Hitone, ex Sports Junction, ex first Hitone –Process of Suffocation. Memphis Black Metal that will literally fight you with machetes if it becomes necessary. My buddy and I did a video for them a few years later that you can find Process of Suffocation – El Libro Negro . Goatwhore was also on the bill, but I believe those photos are on another disk that is coming in the future.
Process of Suffocation PetProcess of Suffocation-04082011-1Process of Suffocation-04082011-2Process of Suffocation-04082011-3Process of Suffocation-04082011-4Process of Suffocation-04082011-5Process of Suffocation-04082011-5.5Process of Suffocation-04082011-6Process of Suffocation-04082011-7Process of Suffocation-04082011-8Process of Suffocation-04082011-9Process of Suffocation-04082011-10Process of Suffocation-04082011-11Process of Suffocation-04082011-12Process of Suffocation-04082011-13
April 9th, 2011 will find me at La Chardonnay on Overton Square with Richard James and Friends. I use “Friends” because I am unsure what iteration of Richard James this could be. He is joined by Anne Schorr on bass, and Ross Johnson on drums. At one point in the evening we get J.B. Horrell on guitar while Richard ran the bar.
Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 1Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 2Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 3Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 4Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 5Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 6Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 7Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 8Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 9Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 10Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 11Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 12Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 13Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 14Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 15Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 16Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 17Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 18Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 19Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 20Richard James and Friends 04092011 – 21
At the end of September 2006, I remember going back to a spot around the corner of Chelsea and North Watkins streets. It looks like it was where old Memphis trolleys, you know those magical hot dog shaped vehicles that took people up and down Main street, went to die. (Let’s not talk about the Madison Avenue trolley line that makes people with shit tires slide like an ice road trucker on speed.) Hot dog description aside, these trolleys looked old, weathered, and burned up. What idiot would think this is photo worthy?
The last two pictures are from somewhere off of Florida and East Carolina streets, well before all the condos had a ton of unprotected sex and exploded all over that landscape. Sure Memphis looked like how I felt Old Detroit did in Robocop, but I was Officer Murphy and no one was taking shots at me, so fuck it. Memphis, where huge shards of glass were wired to telephone poles. I’d work for Dick Jones in a heartbeat…
I posted over on the Memphis subreddit my intention for this page of nonsense to be in a somewhat annual format. While true, I’ll do my best to give you the dates and times of these photo crimes, it might not go literally linear from year to year, in order.
I also added the following information about some photos that I took:
studSears Tower – 10/20/2006Richard James, Anne Schorr, Ross Johnson at La Chardonnay – 04-09-2011
Studly Statue – 04-09-2011 Sears building – 10-05-2006 Richard James, Anne Schorr, Ross Johnson at La Chardonnay – 04-09-2011
Back around 2000, I started to take pictures and video of the bands that I got to see. I used to use a Nikon D90 and a Sony TRV-120 to document the shows I saw. Some times I went overboard with the drinking, but I still was able to shoot pictures and video at the same time. I will never attempt to add a number to the amount of shows shot, but lets say it was a few.
I started a YouTube channel around 2006 to get what I could of these shows online. It was a bit of work to get shit online back then, but that’s life. And so I dealt with all the fun issues of processing video on a computer that could barely run Minesweeper. A five minute clip would take around 12 hours to process and if it had any issues during rendering, it would start that 12 hour clock.
In May of 2010, my apartment flooded due to a giant rain storm that clogged all the storm drains in my complex. I lost a few posters and some other small things, but my entire collection of shows up until that point in time were gone. Underwater. So is life…
Here’s all the stuff I got online before it got sent to the muddy deep.
Welcome to I Noise Memphis. My name is George Hancock. I am a photographer/videographer/printmaker/terrible musician (both electronic and traditional instruments under the name of bckgrndnse )/jerk-of-all trades. I am currently based in Memphis, Tennessee.
This site will attempt to document all of the nonsense that I create. From beats, to gel plate prints, concert photography, and everything else that I come up with. Good, bad, in-between. If I put it up, I at least think it’s worth showing.
Here are some of the first gel plate prints I made in March of 2026. These are the first 20 of about a 250 set of prints. Various colors and paints and materials were used. I’ll be adding more and more as I get the prints photographed.
Untitled Artwork Series – 1Untitled Artwork Series – 2Untitled Artwork Series – 3Untitled Artwork Series – 4Untitled Artwork Series – 5Untitled Artwork Series – 6Untitled Artwork Series – 7Untitled Artwork Series – 8Untitled Artwork Series – 9Untitled Artwork Series – 10Untitled Artwork Series – 11Untitled Artwork Series – 12Untitled Artwork Series – 13Untitled Artwork Series – 14Untitled Artwork Series – 15Untitled Artwork Series – 16Untitled Artwork Series – 17Untitled Artwork Series – 18Untitled Artwork Series – 19Untitled Artwork Series – 20
