Category Archives: San Francisco

Cover Songs, Live at Slim's, San Francisco

Uke-Hunt’s Depeche Mode Tribute Tune

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Spike Slawson, leads Atom Ellis, Jamin Barton and Prairie Prince through a version of Depeche Mode’s classic “Enjoy The Silence” while performing at Slim’s on 11th street in San Francisco’s South of Market nightlife district.

Recorded live in concert at Slim’s, Uke-Hunt were appearing on a bill with Spike’s old band The Swingin’ Utters. The song was originally released by the British electronica group Depeche Mode as the second single from Violator, their seventh studio album, that was issued on Mute/Sire records on January 16th 1990.

Yo! pero esta versión de “Enjoy the Silence” merece su atención. Spike Slawson no es un cantante muy conocido, al menos fuera del círculo punk que es tan cerrado. Es el cantante de Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (grupo conformado por Slawson, Fat Mike de NOFX y el vocalist of Lagwagon, guitarrista de los Bad Religion and others) una banda que se dedica a hacer covers punk de canciones pop. Spike nee Sean Slawson performs Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy The Silence” with his lounge-core band Uke-Hunt at Slim’s featuring members of the much maligned but eminently lovable touring band The New Cars.

80's Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Heros, San Francisco

The Dicks – Sidewalk Begging

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A rock concert video shot at big bear-like vocalist Gary Floyd’s ersatz 21st Anniversary Dicks celebration at the late great Paradise Lounge on 11th Street along Folsom Gulch in San Francisco.

Unable to bring together the Texas lineup for another year or so, this was a locals only version of the band featuring an all San Francisco citizen lineup. This song featured here, “Sidewalk Begging”, a caustic indictment of the SF Bay Area’s infamous yet still shocking urban poverty problem, first emerged on The Dicks 1985 album, “These People”, recorded and released on Alternative Tentacles records. Lynn Perko who plays drums on this live track, was in the later Dicks lineups with Gary ( as well as Sister Double Happiness), after moving to the region from Reno NV

The reunion here was really with Lynn Perko-Truell on drums, also recruited for the eve guitarist Matt Margolin ( R.I.P. Matt also played in Smoking Rhythm Prawns & Gary’s Black Kali Ma band) …plus Ed Cagnacci (later of Dirty Power, and now in PDX) on bass… This show was taped May 16th 2001 from the Paradise Lounge large room balcony… show was so loud it overloaded the lil’ microphone on my Sony Digital Video Camera…

The club this was shot at was originally known as Febe’s back when it was a South of Market gay biker bar in the 70’s and 80’s down the street from the original Stud location, in the late 80’s it was purchased by the late Robin Reichert and renamed the Paradise Lounge.

The bar grew from a small 50 person capacity joint to a multi-level club with many staircases, and even a large annex next door called the Transmission Theater. Eventually Dicks singer Gary Floyd was employed there in the mid 90’s after Sister Double Happiness deal with Warner Brothers dried up and the band members started to need some side money between gigs , and Gary often would be found working the door on many nights.

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Fat Wreck Chords, Pop Punk, San Francisco

Teenage Bottlerocket “Stay Rad!” Record Release Party – Little Kid (acoustic version)

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Teenage Bottlerocket “Stay Rad!” Record Release Party live acoustic set at Fat Wreck Chords HQ in San Francisco

Ray Rocket , in from Wyoming, and on his way to Disneyland with his son, stops by Fat Wreck Chords HQ to sing” Little Kid”. The occasion as to celebrate the release of the new Teenage Bottlerocket album Stay Rad! . This album marks the return of the band to the label after a brief hiatus, and is the band’s eighth full length LP in all. “Stay Rad!” also is the first new album since of original material since the sadly sobering drug related death of drummer Brandon, Ray’s twin brother, back in 2015.

Teenage Bottlerocket are no longer teenagers, and in fact are proudly punk rock “dad rock”. Stay Rad! closes out with the track featured here “Little Kid.” A somewhat somber song, that explores the minefields of memory, reflective no doubt on the loss of Ray’s brother and the changes that fatherhood has brought. When Ray Rocket achingly yodels “I can’t figure out how to be a little kid again,” it’s impossible not to feel tinges of his grief, if not some sadness of our own childhood’s being gone for good as well.

Covered Wagon Saloon, Hard Rock, Indie Rock Icons, Live Concert Videos, Music History, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Heros, San Francisco

The Gits – Absynthe

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The Gits – Absynthe

Beloved and feisty Seattle band whose path to punk rock glory was cut tragically short…

Here they are performing in a rare clip of a show I shot at the Covered Wagon Saloon in San Francisco in February 1993.

Electronica, Live at the Eagle, San Francisco

Maus Haus – Night Shift (Live)

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Maus Haus – Night Shift (Live video at SF Eagle)

  1. Lysergic Electro Sensations Maus Haus Captured Live In Vaporous Action At The SF Eagle Performing Their Hit Track “Night Shift” from their album Light Noise. Look for their latest EP release on Danger Mouse’s 30th CenturyRecords label


    #SFEagle #MausHaus #NightShift #LavishHabits #LightNoise #30thCentury #LiveInConcert #SanFranciscoMusic #ElectroBoysNoise

Chuck Prophet, Live at Bottom Of The Hill, Live Concert Videos, Live Music Videos, San Francisco

Chuck Prophet – The Hurting Business (Live 2000)

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Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express shot live at The Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco during the recording of their Cooking Vinyl Live Album “Turn The Pigeons Loose”

Dedicated to Iron Mike Tyson, this is the title track of Chuck’s 1999 album, The Hurting Business. This is footage I shot live in August 4th 2000 in San Francisco at The Bottom Of The Hill during the making of the live album “Turn The Pigeons Loose”.

This is my unofficial raw non EQ’d camera mic room recording heard maxing out on the audio channel occasionally. A properly mixed & mastered version of this song recording appears on the Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express official live album “Turn The Pigeons Loose”.
Accept no substitute for the real thing, and support the artists & labels that bring great music to life! The full length live album is available and released through Cooking Vinyl, available for download at this link : http://tinyurl.com/2ourwo
Dream Pop, Live Concert Videos, Power Pop, Punk Rock Heros, San Francisco

“Love Me From A Distance” with Jane Wiedlin’s Elettrodomestico

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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!

Bloodshot Records, Folk Rock, Live at Make-Out Room, San Francisco

Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls – I Thought He Was Dead

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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
Punk Rock, San Francisco

Ruleta Rusa – Divina ProvidenC.I.A.

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Ruleta Ruse perform the song Divina ProvidenCIA at the Elbo Room in San Francisco

A studio version of this song can be found on the 2017 LP Viviendo Una Maldicion through Sorry State Records, and the seven song Ltd Edition Pressing 2015 Euro Tour 12″ EP on Trabuc Records available here https://ruletarusa.bandcamp.com/

Live at the Elbo Room in San Francisco,
these Ruleta Rusa lyrics are inspired by the deadly political power struggles in El Salvador particularly throughout the 1980’s by the government against the FMLN opposition movement. El Salvador’s right wing military death squads, backed by the country’s banks and elites, as well as United States government, went after indigenous activists, Jesuit Priests, aid workers, students and civilian intellectuals. At the peak of the conflict, the death squads wiped-out entire villages when hunting opposition guerillas, including over 1,000 people in the village of El Mozote in 1981. 

During the height of the war, United States aid to the repressive government averaged $1.5 million dollars a day.  The U.S. finally ceased support of the regime only in 1990 after tens of thousands of civilian deaths and the United Nations became involved in the human rights crisis. After U.S. Congressman Moakley raised issues about the atrocities and coverups by the military, eventually some military members were prosecuted for the kidnapping, torture, rape and murder thousands of unarmed civilians.

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