Tag Archives: Live Music Video

Kelley Stoltz – Ah! (etc) ! Team Earth recruitment drive live at Great American Music Hall

Kelley Stoltz in Concert
Kelley Stoltz in concert at Great American Music Hall

While the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown threw many musicians for a loop and reassessment while away from the rigors of the road, Kelley Stoltz managed to stay focused mixing and making music, and get multiple vinyl releases out, even with pressing plants backed up. One such release was his Agitated Records release “Ah! (etc)” which starts strong with track one Team Earth and then piles on Stoltz penchant for poppy post punk eighties influences heard developing on his past releases.

At the majestic Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Stoltz recently highlighted tracks from the underrated “Ah! (etc)” album and here are two clips from that release I shot of the performance using about 5 cameras I snuck into the venue.

First up is the aforementioned Team Earth

Kelley Stoltz – Team Earth (Ah! (Etc) Live!)

#KelleyStoltz invites you 2 join #TeamEarth …video caught live in action behind the barricades at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco November 19th 2021

Kelley Stoltz 20th Anniversary Celebration of “Antique Glow”
feat Kelley Stoltz on vox Allyson Baker on gtr Russell James Miller on drums Doug Hilsinger on gtr / doodads and Corey Largent on bass

Posted by Lil Mike’s Vidiocracy on Saturday, 20 November 2021

The next song I captured from the set is the third tune on the “Ah! (etc)”album called Never Change Enough …

Kelley’s music is available from all the usual streaming and download sites, but if you want to buy physical copies direct from the musician, I can attest he is a prompt shipper! In the USA check out his bandcamp page at https://kelley.bandcamp.com/album/kelley-stoltz-ah-etc to order what’s in stock . UK/European buyers may wish to purchase his Ah! (etc) album from the Agitated Records bandcamp site at kelleystoltzagitated.bandcamp.com/album/ah-etc … and save on shipping, as they are based in UK.

percentages of enablers

The Percentages

enablers is :

Goldring & Thomson – guitars

Ospovat – percussion

Simonelli – words

Recorded Jan 7 2016

The Make-Out Room SF CA

studio version of “the percentages” also is currently available as a pay what you can single:

more enablers downloads including the companion album The Rightful Pivot here: http://enablers.bandcamp.com/

the album was released 07 February 2015 Recorded and Mixed By Desmond Shea and Joe Goldring May/June 2014
at Coast Recorders S.F.

 

LTD vinyl edition is available below in handprinted jackets / digital downloads are also available

 

 

 

Chuck Prophet – The Hurting Business (Live 2000)

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

The BellRays “I Don’t Wanna Cry”

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For Those In Dire Need Of Some Funk Punk Rock & Soul

Here are the amazing   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 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” with Jane Wiedlin’s Elettrodomestico

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!