Just days after completing a Mexican Tour, Colin Jerwood configured his US touring version of Conflict, and started from Phoenix, bringing the band up to Oakland, for this pit stirring set conclusion shot at the non-profit Oakland Metro venue at Jack London Square 5 20 2019, presented by Numbskull Shows. Joining vocalist and band founder Colin in this US touring lineup in this video is William Faith on guitar, Preston Maddox on bass and Andrew Sole on drums. Special thanx to touring bassist Preston from Austin TX for the setlist
For Those In Dire Need Of Some Funk Punk Rock & Soul
Here are the amazing @TheBellRays doing the song “I Don’t Wanna Cry” from their album Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 1 in a live video that I shot at @TheeParkside in February of 2019. With the BellRays there is no conscious effort to ‘combine’ rock and soul because they don’t see them as divided in the first place. Blues is teacher. Punk is the preacher, and The BellRays were always listening.
I first heard the voice of Lisa Kekaula come booming out of the speakers at Red Devil Records in Petaluma about twenty years ago. I asked the proprietor is this was an old soul record I was unfamiliar with, and he said no, it was a new group called the Now Time Delegation, featuring former Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr. It turns out he’d poached Lisa and her husband Bob Vennum to work with him in a special configuration that did some touring to promote their only release on the In The Red label circa 1998. (I’ll link you to some footage I shot from that tour when I get time).
Fast forward twenty years, and Lisa and Bob are still holdin’ down the fort and take it on the road as their main band The BellRays, mixing up hard rock, funk and soul into a fierce blend that is best caught live.
Join their mailing list at http://TheBellraysRock.com so you can stay up to date on their next run through your town. Chances are you won’t hear the BellRays on the radio, but you’ll hear ’em in your head and feel ’em in your loins!
Love Me From A Distance” a live version of a song from the Elettrodomestico album If You’re a Boy or a Girl.
Shortly before the Hemlock Tavern shut down for good in San Francisco, I was privileged enough to attend an evening’s show where Jane Wiedlin (formerly of the Go-Go’s) was giving her latest musical project a chance to test it’s club rock legs. Featuring her latest songwriting collaborator, Pietro Straccia on guitar, plus some local pedigreed rockers like Dawn Richardson of 4 Non-Blondes on percussion and and longtime Tom Waits’ guitarist Joe Gore playing bass, they put a great intimate show in a tiny sweaty club that has since been torn down.
Jane Wiedlin is still an energetic vital musical force and her talented backing band Elettrodomestico is living proof she’s still got it going on decades after the music industry certified her platinum!
Caroleen Beatty & Doug Hilsinger’s Enorchestra – Golden Hours (live @MakeOutRoomSF) from LilMikeSF on Vimeo.This song from Brian Eno’s Another Green World album was reinterpreted musically live at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco 4 /6 / 2019, Doug Hilsinger & Caroleen Beatty are backed by Bruce Ducheneaux on drums, Dusty Jermier on bass, Steve Perrone & Sunny Haire on additional guitars.
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
the Four Lost Souls layin the langorous Langford lyrical harmonies on thick at the Make-Out Room
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.
That time Neko Case was out promoting her wonderful first new album in five years calledm called Hell-On , on -Anti and you slept through her super duper moving live musical appearance of heres “Last Lion Of Albion” on CBS This Morning Saturday edition because it aired at 5 something AM…
(sorry this video recorded in September 29th 2018 is cut in two parts for now, because only sub 3 minute CBS news video content embeds are supported and the track runs longer…)
