Born Sept. 23, 1943, in San Bernadino, Calif., he had been a . Absolutely not. Timothy O'Connor Stanton Timothy O'Connor Stanton, born in Ottawa, Illinois on March 3, 1951, passed away June 2, 2008 after a lengthy and courageous fight. "I'm dealing with the agents on both venues and putting the show where they'll be best presented. 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. Thomas Morton OConnor, 78, passed from this life on Oct. 7, 2010 in Austin, TX. Its been renovated once again and is currently renting out for private parties. Turns out O'Connor had shot a label executive with CBS Records, with whom Nelson had just signed. Audiences were either pin-drop quiet or bouncing off the walls. Timothy F. O'Connor Obituary. "I didn't take direction very well.". It may take up to 1 hour for your comment to appear on the website, Bobbie "Cole" OConnor, 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. Comfort the family with flowers or a sympathy gift. And yet, Attal says he's not waiting in the parking lot for O'Connor to show up with the paperwork. After roughly 26 months in an adoption facility, he was adopted and given the surname O'Connor. 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. In the Eighties, he owned and operated the Austin Opera House, while co-founding Star Tickets and staging hundreds of large-scale festivals and benefits, from No Nukes concerts to Farm Aid. He was king of the roadshow in town for a quarter century, from 1977 until his protege Charlie Jones and Charles Attal took over in 2002 with the Austin City Limits Music Festival and aggressive bookings all over town. Let others know about your loved one's death. OBITUARY Gail Elizabeth O'Connor November 10, 1952 - October 20, 2018. . California Consumer Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information, California Consumer Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Sign up for service and obituary updates. "Instead of coming to work with machetes, we tried a pencil and pad. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Christopher Joseph O"Connor on this permanent online memorial. I met Tim the very first morning I spent in Austin on July 14, 1972, in front of a small folk club he owned called Castle Creek. 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. Travis Heights wouldn't be free of O'Connor until 1990. Tim pulled off what I consider to be one of the world's greatest public relations miracles. Timothy is survived by his son, Zachary OConnor and his wife, Natalie; daughter, Taffany Kanmore; grandchildren: Chase Thomas OConnor, Moriah and Mason; his father; Timothy Patrick OConnor, I; his mother, Diane Bowden; brothers: David OConnor, Richard OConnor, Steven Pee Wee OConnor, Gary Robertson, Bill Walden, Donald OConnor and Brian OConnor; sister, Renee Flores and a host of extended family and friends. According to its website,Bobbieis just a little over two years old andYoyois about four months old. He didnt have to say no anymore, just Why dont you run it by Tim?, Read more about Castle Creek, Spellmans, Alamo Lounge, emmajoes. you are the only one i can imagine to put all this into words of love and reality and yesteryear succinctly and soufully. 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. Id sure like to play your joint, said Willie, who was growing out his hair and looking for new audiences. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this . Like our page to stay informed about passing of a loved one in Austin, Texas on facebook. Austin Owen O'Connor, 66 of Loogootee, was called home at 9:33 a.m. Friday, December 4, 2020 at Loogootee Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. That was unique, and I think a lot of that came from working with Willie. They did. Although O'Connor admits there's still "conversations at different levels" about how the deal might be salvaged, he says a group of well-financed smaller promoters could perhaps team up to purchase the Backyard. Receive a notification when services are updated. He grew up in Jackson, NJ, and attended Jackson Memorial High School, followed by Belmont Abbey College . Ann Richards in shorts, reading the. According to the website, Bobbie Nelsonis just over 2 years old. Not only did it allow Direct Events to lure agents and acts with the promise that they could move through their ranks, it kept the overall business operating 12 months a year, not just the seven months it was safe to stage shows at the Backyard. Maureen Margaret O'Connor, age 75, of Austin, Texas passed away on Friday, February 24, 2023. The deal Willie made with Terrace Motel owner Dude McCandless included 14 acres on South Congress at Academy for just over a million dollars. "For the first time in my life I knew I had to put my faith somewhere. 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. "I realized long ago that music was the nighttime job and that you had to be making money during the day," reveals O'Connor. He went on to receive and Associates Degree from TSTC. 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. "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. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austins independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the communitys political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. It's a move that gives Attal year-round booking clout and has already resulted in both La Zona Rosa and Stubb's paying lower prices for shows. He was a 1972 graduate of Barr Reeve High School. "Every other time we'd get behind in taxes or I'd miscalculate someway, I'd call Willie and he'd come in and play five dates. On others, it was a place for hell raising, hooting and hollering.". Willie is the Muhammad Ali of white people, yet running in tandem with his crowd is a something a lot of people can't do.". ", "People that had been to the first round of shows there because perhaps they knew I was the same guy behind the Backyard, would come to me on the streets afterwards and cuss me out," he says. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "When I was there, my goal was to mediate and to make sure everything made money," says Hauser, a booking agent at the William Morris Agency's Nashville office. His draw often kept the doors open.". Why don't we wait a little while and maybe we'll catch up with you. Moreover, O'Connor has also long been Austin's king of the private party, hosting as many 200 private events a year at his three venues. I'd like to pass through whatever time I have left in this industry and in my life and be able to sit back in the rocking chair, should I get that opportunity, and say 'Tim, you didn't do too bad.' In the press release, APA! To share your memories of Tom, please visit www.cookwaldenchapelofthehills.com. "Instead of fighting each other for the same piece of pie, we were cutting the pie up.". They were blessed with two children, Thomas Michael and Anita Loraine. After roughly 26 months in an adoption facility, he was adopted and given the surname O'Connor. "He's always held most of the cards, and I've always been the guy fighting to get a few of them.". "The screaming, the reputation, a lot of that was a front," asserts Gonzalez. 2023 SCI SHARED RESOURCES, LLC. "I do think it's going to work to the consumer's benefit," reasons Attal, who now shares office space with Jones. While both sides had worked through 98% of the differences, SFX's plan to expand the Backyard clashed with O'Connor's vision of how he wanted to leave the facility. "I may not know him as well as Charlie [Jones], but I'm certain it's not the money that drives him anymore. When OConnor returned in 77, he started the Southern Commotion partnership with Willie to run, as a classier Armadillo. using a new Instagram account, Austin Pets Alive! If producing five nights at Madison Square Garden wasn't experience enough, O'Connor found himself immersed in a contact sport; By working closely with artists like Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne for charitable causes, he was rapidly building a national network of artists, managers, and booking agents. Then came the mall that swallowed our idyllic music setting. O'Connor may have entered the Nineties knee-deep in debt to the IRS, but at least the Eighties were behind him. Perhaps it's all of the above, although he denies there's any real motive at all. REX/Shutterstock. Let others know about your loved one's death. "We had a lot of fun, a lot of drinking," says O'Connor, who ran for his freshman class vice-presidency and won. OConnors best decade was the 90s, when his Direct Events opened the Backyard in 93, the Austin Music Hall in 94 and revived La Zona Rosa in 97. 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. Separated from his wife, the couple later returned to Kansas to try and make the marriage work. He was born in Clinton County, Missouri, Nov. 10, 1931 to B. T. and Agnes OConnor. But lastly they'd say, I hope, 'I've had a lot of dealings with the guy, and while he's a tough negotiator and a lot of time you can't figure out what he's up to, he's honest. Late last year, however, SFX's purchase of the Backyard was a week away from being completed when it was called off. Jones started answering phones for Direct Events in 1993, and just three years later was La Zona Rosa's general manager. The deal Willie made with Terrace Motel owner Dude McCandless included 14 acres on South Congress at Academy for just over a million dollars. Example video title will go here for this video, AUSTIN, Texas Tim OConnor, owner of The Backyard, Austin Music Hall and other live music venues in Austin, died on July 30 from Hodgkin's lymphoma. Local obituaries for the Austin, Texas area 7,977 Results Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Add Photos Add a Memory Tommy Joe Adkins Tommy Adkins's passing on Friday, February 24, 2023 has been. He let me spill everything out for him and then I asked, 'What do you think?' When O'Connor passed away from Hodgkin's lymphoma in July 2021 at age 76, the music community went into mourning. "Clubs might argue over one act, once a year or so," he says. Over the last few years, we've been killing ourselves.". During his career he was Sr. Like Lance Armstrong, O'Connor just couldn't walk away from the action, and suffered the consequences. Midway through producing the second Farm Aid, at Manor Downs in 1985, O'Connor got the news his daughter had passed away. Omni also repo-ed the original Backyard building. He passed in his sleep on April 5 in his longtime home . You, Lt. Weinberg? Timothy Joseph O'Connor (July 3, 1927 - April 5, 2018) was an American character actor known for his prolific work in television, although he made only a few appearances after the early 1990s. Gail O'Connor's Celebration of Life will take place on Sunday, March 3, 2019 from 5:30 to 9:00 pm at The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th St. , Austin, TX. Thanks also to Seton Medical Center Austin for the care given the many, many times he was a patient there. We are sad to announce that on March 18, 2021 we had to say goodbye to Timothy F. O'Connor of Big Flats, New York, born in Niagara Falls, New York. Tim O'Connor believes his funeral will be like many other events he's staged: well-attended. His mission was always to bring entertainment for Austin, not bring Austin entertainment just because it worked in Houston or Dallas. But he had a special connection with the pit mix Bruiser, the oldest and scrappiest of the bunch. Memorial services will be held on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 1 p.m. in the Hilco Event Center of Itasca. It may take up to 1 hour for your comment to appear on the website. Unfortunately, O'Connor almost didn't get an opportunity to use his new Rolodex entries. "It wasn't by design, but it worked out that way.". "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. Two dogs, Bobbie and Yoyo, remain. "I really cut my teeth in neighborhood negotiations back there -- in all the wrong ways.". The Nelsons reached out to Austin Pets Alive! Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. With over 1,900 locations, Dignity Memorial providers proudly serve over 375,000 families a year. A special thanks to Dr. Michael Watkins, Dr. Robert Canby and staff at Texas Cardiac-Arrhythmia and Dr. Stuart McKennon for their excellent care in the past 20 yrs. "I think a fair amount of folks will come," he says. And yet, even after being yelled at by $25-a-day roadie, Nelson answered with typical calm. I know what I'm going to pay and that's it. He was born on June 14, 1983, in Santa Rosa, California. He had a whole pack of big, beautiful canines on his ranch far west of Austin. 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. 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