“Hello you beautiful people! …so began an email plea from my friends that run the SF Make-Out Room, amidst all the worrisome news related to the covid-19 panic was the news that a few dozen fine people I know, and the businesses they work for are desperately struggling during to the efforts to stem the spread of some “novel” virus…
It continued “I hope everybody is holding up OK and staying safe during these unprecedented times. As many of you know, once we are free to go back to our day to day lives, the city of San Francisco, and many of our favorite bars and venues, wont be the same, if they are even there at all.”
Then came the call to action…
“That’s why the Make Out Room and the Latin American Club need your help. And why I am begging you to donate anything you can. ”
-click to read more at link below from my friends on the Make-Out Room Staff hard hit by the Corona Virus lockdown and if you can, help support them while their jobs are in limbo…
Make-Out Room & Latin American Club Staff Go Fund Me
Or as my pal Pat Thomas (a multipurpose culture vulture whom you can see talks with here) put it more succinctly: “In 1997, my band Mushroom played their first ever gig at the Make Out Room in San Francisco. Our most recent gig (August 2019) was there too. Over the past decades for many of us – the Make Out Room has been a home away from home. Not only a place to play, but a place that has had weddings and funerals for members of the Bay Area music scene. I encourage every San Francisco musician who has ever graced the stage, every fan who attended a show, every drinker who got wasted there to donate even just $10-20 dollars – if we all do it, we can save Marty’s sweet succulent ass. click on the link here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-make-out-room-and-latin… “
Here below are some linked videos I shot to give ya an idea of the type of recent music related events the Make-Out Room has hosted over just the past 5 years… the club also hosts numerous gigs, “Writers With Drinks” & “Litquake” spoken word events, comedy, burlesque, DJ music and many other types of community gatherings ranging from birthday parties and political benefits to cumbia dance nights.
I donated instantly because music seems about main thing that makes my life worth living, and there is no where else left in SF that would serve as a clubhouse people like this… it is a creative concentration camp of affable alcoholics, cantankerous cranks, dapocaginous DJ’s, hirsute hipsters harboring bad bourgeois beards, musical misfits & morose mopers amidst the last of the loquacious & lovely ladies that all should know better. This injustice will not stand…this too shall pass. Vive La MakeOut! There’s links below to two dozen some videos of various live music I’ve edited from the Make-Out over the past few years fer yer perusal
Dig into the video links below…
Caroleen Beatty & Doug Hilsinger’s Enorchestra – Golden Hours (live @MakeOutRoomSF) from LilMikeSF on Vimeo. This song from Brian Eno’s…
Long Jon Fanglord joined by musical compatriots John Szymanski, Tawny Newsome, and Bethany Thomas, onstage at The Make-Out Room in…
Mark Eitzel escapes his erudite ecologian elfen escape hatch to rejoin the downtrodden denizens of the Mission District to deliver the…
An incest inspired chart topping fave from the 1964 film of the same name, Spike Slawson ( of Uke Hunt…
Virginia Dare perform a song from their latest magnum opus album “Message From the Watery Machine” live in January 2018…
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…
Greg Dale singing Greg Dale joins Kid Congo Powers for a live version of a song from the Gun Club’s…
The annual Gibbsmo Xmess Craptacular wouldn’t be complete without the classic “Fairytale Of New York” as delivered by our husband…
Bob Reed is seen here singing a soulful rendition of a classic composition by Stax songwriters William Bell & Booker…
Here is the first clip I’ve had time to edit from the annual Xmess Craptacular at the Make Out Room…
Here’s a two song video clip from the opening salvo of the Chuck Prophet Official annual two night stand at The Make-Out…
There was a unique Roky Erickson Birthday Tribute earlier this week by several local musicians of note in San Francisco….
A Tribute to Elvis Costello featuring loud mouth blabbering Blag Dahlia, HeWhoCannotBeNamed playing with his organ & Salt Peter putting…
Veteran touring rockers David Immergluck, Victor Krummenacher, Greg Lisher, Chris Pedersen of the Camper Van Crows hit the road once…
A Tale Of Highways And History From Four Lost Souls found ambling onto the stage Live at The Make-Out Room…
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