Veteran touring rockers David Immergluck, Victor Krummenacher, Greg Lisher, Chris Pedersen of the Camper Van Crows hit the road once again as the Monks Of Doom in 2018 and I was lucky enough to catch their rare San Francisco matinee show at The Make-Out Room in the Mission District. They played a lengthy set of faves old and new and slipped in an off the cuff mid-set cover of Fleetwood Mac’s rockinest tune of all time “Oh Well”
Long before Ian Svenonius became known for his artistic sonic role playing in projects like Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, Weird War, Cupid Car Club, and Nation of Ulysses, even before he was crowned The Sassiest Boy in America, he was just a kid I used to hang out with on the church steps.
We weren’t particularly pious, unless you call catching screaming sermons from guys like John Stabb and Ian MacKaye akin to a religion. It was the early 80’s and we were just staright-edge DC punk teens waiting out the set changes between bands before we’d go back into the sweaty hot church basement for another slam pit.
It had been years since i’d seen Ian, but he was much the same, albeit older, still wacky, but also wisened. He is like a psychedelic sage, without the drugs…a seer, but not quite a believer…now he sells Esacpe-ism…or at least rents it out.
Caroleen Beatty & Doug Hilsinger’s Enorchestra – Golden Hours (live @MakeOutRoomSF) from LilMikeSF on Vimeo.
Doug, Caroleen, Sunny, Steve, Bruce and Dustin dusted off their unique guitar centric take on the 70’s era Brian Eno classics live at The Make-Out Room for a sold out Enorchestra + Mayya & the Revolutionary Hell Yeah! concert held Saturday April 6th 2019. This is but one of their many Enorchestra takes Brian Eno’s rock classics.
in 2004, Doug Hilsinger and Caroleen Beatty lovingly made a homemade cover version of Brian Eno’s second solo album, “Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)”, a wonderful record originally released in 1974 on the EG label. Brian Eno happened to hear the new versions of his old songs and was joyous, proclaiming “I like it very, VERY much!”.
And so it was released on cd by DBK Works label, with Brian Eno writing the liner notes. Two years later DBK went out of business and the cd is now out of print. if you want a CD with all the artwork, get in touch with Doug Hilsinger thru saucefaucet.com
Long Jon Fanglord joined by musical compatriots John Szymanski, Tawny Newsome, and Bethany Thomas, onstage at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco CA.
They perform a track from their debut Bloodshot Records label album that was recorded literally in “the Nuthouse” with Elvis Presley’s former bassist, Norbert Putnam down in Muscle Shoals Alabama
Mark Eitzel escapes his erudite ecologian elfen escape hatch to rejoin the downtrodden denizens of the Mission District to deliver the sacred holiday rendition of Bill Wither’s Lovely Day.
He is backed by Marc & the Casuals, featuring Pete Strauss on bass, Todd Roper on drums, Tom Ayres on the guitar towards the viewers left and Bart Davenport on the guitar seen to “stage left” with musical maven Marc Capelle holding it down in the back on the keys.
This video was shot at the annual Christmas Craptacular, from whence videos arrive every so often, so stay tuned. Feel free to also visit my YouTube page http://YouTube.com/LilMikeSF
where for over 10 years I’ve deposited digitized detritus including clips from past & present Craptaculars, as well as conflagrations of questionable content that have seen well over 2 million views.
An incest inspired chart topping fave from the 1964 film of the same name, Spike Slawson ( of Uke Hunt / Me First & The Gimme Gimmes) performs Kissin’ Cousins originally made famous by Elvis Presley.
Recorded at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco Aug 25th 2016 at an event organized by Eric Moffat paying tribute to the songs of both Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello and their many musical influences. A solo ukelele performance of an Elvis Presley classic at the tail end of The Almost Blue Revue Look for more videos from Elvis vs Elvis – Tribute to Two Legends! Songs from Almost Blue & Blue Hawaii! coming to this website soon!
Rumor has it in August of 2019, yet another Elvis tribute night will occur at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco , this time presented by Steve Indig.
Virginia Dare perform a song from their latest magnum opus album "Message From the Watery Machine" live in January 2018 at the Make-Out Room while appearing at the Jon Langford vs. Virginia Dare RAW FOLK smackdown
A Tale Of Highways And History From Four Lost Souls found ambling onto the stage Live at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco
