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Re: Boz Scaggs at Mountain Winery
« Reply #60 on: July 17, 2005, 09:47:27 PM »
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I say you owe it to yourself sometime to catch a show there.  Perhaps the most intimate and beautiful place I've seen.

Sounds wonderful. My first Mtn. Winery experience is going to be next Wed. 27th for Mark Knopfler. I can hardly wait!
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Re: Boz Scaggs at Mountain Winery
« Reply #61 on: July 17, 2005, 10:37:23 PM »
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I say you owe it to yourself sometime to catch a show there.  Perhaps the most intimate and beautiful place I've seen.
Sounds wonderful. My first Mtn. Winery experience is going to be next Wed. 27th for Mark Knopfler. I can hardly wait!

I can hardly imagine how nice that could be.  I did see Dire Straits in an even smaller venue twice, The Old Waldorf.  It was pretty freakin' awesome to see their first American tours in such a small club.
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #62 on: July 18, 2005, 10:55:28 AM »
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Moving the discussion of where to meet before next week's Percy Party to the Concert board.

Another thought: Pacific Coast Brewing Co. It's about 10 blocks from the theatre, but great beer and the last time I was there the food was good. 9th & Washington, just off Broadway, an easy walk from 12th St. BART.

http://www.pacificcoastbrewing.com/


It seems unlikely that Sharlene will arrive early enough to do too much before the show.  More likely we could meet in the bar area downstairs a little before the show starts...

This pacific coast brewing place sounds good, though...


Just to confirm -- is this the plan?  We'll meet in the bar area downstairs at the P'mount 7:30-7:45'ish?
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #63 on: July 19, 2005, 09:18:03 AM »
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Just to confirm -- is this the plan?  We'll meet in the bar area downstairs at the P'mount 7:30-7:45'ish?


I'll try to be there about then.  Doesn't look like Sharlene will be with me, and my buddy Dave is somewhat anti-social...
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #64 on: July 19, 2005, 11:04:48 AM »
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More likely we could meet in the bar area downstairs a little before the show starts...

This pacific coast brewing place sounds good, though...


Just to confirm -- is this the plan?  We'll meet in the bar area downstairs at the P'mount 7:30-7:45'ish?


Yep, sounds like the most feasible at this point. May head down there between bands too. (There is an opener, yes?)
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #65 on: July 19, 2005, 11:23:14 AM »
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Yep, sounds like the most feasible at this point. May head down there between bands too. (There is an opener, yes?)


presumably an opener but I have no idea who -- his website was no help.
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #66 on: July 19, 2005, 11:42:12 AM »
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Yep, sounds like the most feasible at this point. May head down there between bands too. (There is an opener, yes?)


presumably an opener but I have no idea who -- his website was no help.


Neither was the Paramount's, nor Ticketbastard. But according to the Another Planet site, the opener is Little Axe. Whoever that is. Gaz? Any help?
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #67 on: July 19, 2005, 11:56:52 AM »
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Yep, sounds like the most feasible at this point. May head down there between bands too. (There is an opener, yes?)


presumably an opener but I have no idea who -- his website was no help.


Neither was the Paramount's, nor Ticketbastard. But according to the Another Planet site, the opener is Little Axe. Whoever that is. Gaz? Any help?


Little Axe is Skip McDonald, guitarist of the original Sugar Hill Gang (and of the "house band" for the Sugarhill record label, he played on most of their early rap singles):

http://www.skysaw.org/onu/artists/littleaxeskipmcdonald.html
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Re: Pre-Percy pub crawl
« Reply #68 on: July 19, 2005, 12:23:30 PM »
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Little Axe is Skip McDonald, guitarist of the original Sugar Hill Gang (and of the "house band" for the Sugarhill record label, he played on most of their early rap singles):

http://www.skysaw.org/onu/artists/littleaxeskipmcdonald.html


little axe has a fab instrumental entitled, "blue." i may have copied it on mshray's computer at the last shindig. a funny opener for percy, but i bet it will work!
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« Reply #69 on: July 20, 2005, 09:59:21 AM »
Best I could do on short sleep. (The subject, that is.)

As Rod said, the show was pretty good. A healthy helping of Zep tunes (over half the set, safe to say) but most had been reworked from their more familiar, Zep-ified incarnations (so that's where he came up with "The Mighty Rearranger." And none were newer than Houses of the Holy. Opened with a very Middle Eastern-inflected No Quarter. Other high points: Whole Lotta Love (the finale, think he saved his voice for this one); That's the Way, Gallows Pole, and When the Levee Breaks. Also did Black Dog, Heartbreaker and Hey Hey What Can I Do, for those keeping score at home.

Two covers were also offered up, both of which had reference to local musicians: Morning Dew (which he intro'd as having been written as a Canadian protest song, later performed by the Grateful Dead) and, by way of a tribute to the Bay area bands that influenced him "when I was a kid" a fairly straight ahead version of White Rabbit.

As Rod said, his voice sounded pretty good, although I don't think he's got the range he once did. He seemed to be keeping things in a lower register than he did in the good ol days, but he did let loose for Whole Lotta Love.

And alas, the best laid plans: didn't meet Mike & Rod preshow, as I didn't get into the theater until after 8. I'd met some other friends and ended up eating (and drinking) in the bar at Broadway and Grand and next thing I knew it was nearly 8. Sorry guys. I did see Rod later, as he was sitting about 4 rows ahead of me, but didn't spot Mike.
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Re: Post Plant postulating
« Reply #70 on: July 20, 2005, 10:02:26 AM »
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a fairly straight ahead version of White Rabbit.


< Gaz hyperventilates >

< thunk >

< bump-da-de-bump-da-de-bump >

< THUNK >

That was me falling down the stairs in disbelief.
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The Concert Thread
« Reply #71 on: July 20, 2005, 10:56:55 AM »
Nothing more to add to the Plant comments, but I did like Little Axe quite a bit -- a little Hendrix, a pinch of Living Color and a lotta slow bluesy stuff. And the crowd really seemed to like 'em.  I give them bonus points for starting EXACTLY at 8pm and finishing EXACTLY 30 mins later -- if only all opening acts could be that well-timed.
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Re: Post Plant postulating
« Reply #72 on: July 20, 2005, 10:58:47 AM »
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a fairly straight ahead version of White Rabbit.


< Gaz hyperventilates >

< thunk >

< bump-da-de-bump-da-de-bump >

< THUNK >

That was me falling down the stairs in disbelief.


They're gonna turn it into a new Viagra campaign: "One pill makes your Percy larger..."
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The Concert Thread
« Reply #73 on: July 21, 2005, 01:35:30 PM »
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The Concert Thread
« Reply #74 on: July 21, 2005, 08:53:17 PM »
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Aidin Vaziri give thumbs down to Em & Fitty:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/21/DDGLKDQGFN1.DTL


Yet again the question arises: Why would you send someone to cover a concert who doesn't like the artists playing it (and probably doesn't like the genre)?  Vaziri didn't review the concert, he reviewed the (salacious and violent) records that Eminem and 50 Cent have made over the years.  Vaziri's mission wasn't to advise whether Em and Fiddy gave him the show he wanted, it was to advise whether they gave the crowd the show they wanted.  But because Vaziri thinks himself superior to the crowd, the mission was aborted.  Just as his writing career probably should be.

I mean, seriously, folks.  Y'all know my biases.  Do you think any publication worth its salt would ask me to review a Jimmy Buffett concert?  Or a Verdi opera?  Or a Christian Abstinence rally?  That selfish twat Aidin should only be writing about those things for which he can take himself out of the picture for Five Friggin' Minutes and actually prove some hard information to justify his snark.

(rant over)
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