We had an impromptu 313 in 503 night last night -- Kate Simko played at the Saucebox. They tried to reject me at the door due to it being a "private party." My response was, dude, you just don't understand, my office is two blocks from here and I went to this joint the week it opened in 1995. Kate's playing inside and ya gotta let me in. No dice.
Fortunately, Carlos Souffront came along (Carlos is actually in town for a cheese conference, no kidding, he works for Zingerman's you know :) and got us in. It turned out the big secret deal was an after party for the Pearl Jam/Sleater-Kinney concert down the street. Kate played a good set for about an hour and a half, and when the concert aftermob showed up we split and went over to Holocene and saw Tadd, er, Dabrye laying down the beatz with Kadence on the mic and a pretty decently large crowd for a Thursday night. They were getting ready to drive down to San Francisco for their show which is happening right now - that's a 10 hour drive, y'all. Anyway Tadd was definitely feeling good about the tour (see www.dabrye.com) but says the west coast has more mid-week turnout for some reason. He also said they readily played a couple Dabrye tracks at a strip joint he went into in Montana. We don't have any ghetto tech club culture out here, it's usually strictly 80s arena rock or country :) Guess I better get Carlos to come back to Portland more often, this is more excitement than we've had in many months :) Fred ----------------- >I doubt there's more than a handful of us on the list that are >from here in LA, but just in case, here's a few items of (313) >interest this weekend: > >Tonight, July 21st > >Jega - in downtown LA > >Go to http://www.iComplex.ORG/ for the details > >(313)'s very own Kate Simko is listed on the flyer; however, and >maybe she could chime in here - there's set times (Jega at 12:30 AM) >listed on that site, but she is not listed in the set times ... WTF? > >Tomorrow night, July 22nd > >Morgan Geist and Tadd Mullinix (in his James T. Cotton guise) >in downtown LA at the RE:UP magazine party - RSVP required > >(Tadd's also doing a gig as Dabrye earlier that night at Spaceland.) > >Details on the flyer: > >http://www.reupmag.com/images/la_flyer.jpg > >Sunday night, July 23rd > >Morgan Geist is supposedly also playing the Rooftop Bar at The Standard >Hotel downtown at 6th & Flower; I don't know anything more than that. > >http://www.standardhotel.com/ > > - Greg > >
