Re: Greyboy Live, Rap, KPOO, SF, Shirts

Nicolas Bamberski (nib@frame.com)
Fri, 23 Feb 96 09:24:04 CST


At 09:49 PM 2/22/96 -0800, Greg Beuthin - CompuMentor wrote:
>Talk about saving bandwidth here... :-)
>BTW- Since my email isn't obvious- it's me, DJ Billingsley (aka Greg
>Beuthin). And don't reply to this with "Hi Greg" as your sole message. ;-(

Hi Greg :P

>Finally saw Greyboy live at the Elbo Room Sunday night. Wicked ass
>music, man. I'm a percussion fan, and the drummer plays some wicked riffs.
>I haven't heard music that tight or funky live in AGES. I'd like to add my
>vote to the hundreds who have said amen to Greyboy Allstars. Two things
>tho: The sax player has some MEAN pecs... ;-) But why... why does he
>where a pager on stage? (I was the tall guy in black baggys and the KTUH
>t-shirt...)

tried to see them when I was in San Fran (re-:P) last week on friday night,
but they sold out before I got to the Elbo Room. It sounded good from the
line outside.

>For those of you in SF- 1) Don't say "San Fran" ;-), 2) *Do* check out DJ
>Kevin at Dalvas on Tue and Thur nites, *Do* check out Soulvation at Elbo
>Room Thur nites, and definitely check out Up&Down Club- upstairs *or*
>dowstairs. Those are the main ones I can vouch for first-hand. Also,
>for more international favor, Nickie's on Haight on Weds(?), and El Rio
>on Mission on Fridays. Despite what was said earlier- although these
>mellower a-jazz clubs are less "bridge and tunnel crowd" and less meat
>markets than the big dance shops (DV8, 1015 Folsom, etc), they still are
>places to see and be scene. I always feel a bit "unhip" when I go to
>Elbo Room- but that could just be me. :-) (The exception is El Rio-
>advertised as "Your Dive").

Actually, when I went to Cafe Mars last wednesday, it was kinda dead but the
dj (I think Paul from On The One) got me on the guest list for 1015 Folsom
(same night) and it was actually pretty good, at least upstairs the
downtempo groove was right on and the crowd very smooth. Had a good time. I
would probably think differently if I went on a week-end...

>I wish I could connect with all the SF scenesters out there- the 330
>Ritch and Cafe Du Nord people, Paul Lopes, etc, plus all the regular joes
>and janes like me. But if you ever see a guy with a Honolulu t-shirt, and
>he's about 6'3, looks like he might be part-Chinese (but isn't)- please
>don't be shy and say "The Smoking Goat Experience" and I'll *lose* it, I
>promise. :-) Or just say "Are you the guy...."

well, I'm pleased to announced that one of the companies that interviewed me
last week is flying me back to SF next friday (3/1) for a fourth and last
interview. I'll stay till sunday and definitely wanna hook up this time,
especially friday nite. All of you AJazzers in SF, how about early drinks at
330Rich (never got a chance to go there on my last trip). Saturday (3/2) I'm
definitely planning on going to the jungle night at The Top on Haight, cauz
it was pretty nice last saturday.

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