Engine 88’s first two full-length albums are now available on iTunes.
Flies and Death & Stuff has been available there and elsewhere for a while now.
Big thanks to Nick Clift and everyone at Caroline for making it happen!
ZZ Topless opens for Pop Rocks at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco. This will be a great show.
Pop Rocks / ZZ Topless
Fri, September 28, 2012
8:00 pm (we hit shortly after doors open)
Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street, SF
$10.00 – $12.00
Hitting with the Bumpies and a few special guests.
Friday July 20 2012
Jupiter, Downtown Berkeley
8PM / FREE
It’s feast or famine around here.
ZZ Topless
Stork Club – 2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Weds 5/30/2012
with Radio Nowhere and MILF
Curtis Bumpy
Disco Volante – 347 14th Street, Oakland
Thurs 6/7/2012
ZZ Topless
Rockit Room – 406 Clement Street, San Francisco
Sat 6/9/2012
with Bond Girl and Rue 66
Always nice to see that Engine isn’t completely forgotten. Nice mention in SFGate this week in Best Bay Area Bands from the 90s. We’re on page 22, rubbing shoulders with some good company. A nice honor to be included, and as always with lists like this there are criminally-absent bands I can think of like the Mo’fessionals, Overwhelming Colorfast, Van Gogh’s Daughter, the Sneetches, and on and on. Still, it’s fun to page through. http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2012/05/21/1990s/
I have not been to more than a couple of open mic/blues jam type affairs, but have wanted to find a good scenario with a high level of musicianship without a lot of attitude. The Pro Jam run by Timm Walker at Vinnie’s Bar & Grill in Concord, CA seems to fit that bill pretty well, and the other night they had a super cool special guest: Tommy Castro. I was fortunate enough to land a slot late in the evening just when Tommy returned to the stage to close out the night, and as if I wasn’t already lucky enough, they picked Sex Machine. Doesn’t get a whole lot more fun than this for me. Tommy Castro on guitar and vocals, Timm Walker on bass, Byron Cage (of Tommy’s band) on drums, Simon Russel on keys and vocals, and yours truly on chicken scratch and shouts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEl_4AAfkxwOk, so I have been getting a little behind on announcing shows on this blog.
And a couple of retroactive archives to add, as meager as my gigging schedule has been over the last few months:
Playing catch up. Missed a listing for our last hit at Pier 23, which went down on June 26 2011. Was fun! We had Latrice and Jerry in the house.
Got a few more Bumpy shows lined up too:
Stay tuned for details.
A slightly guitar-heavy edition of the Curtis Bumpy show this week at Jupiter. Jordan’s at a bachelor party. We’ll be rockin’ with some Jerry Kennedy and the rest of the boys at the (hopefully re-musicked) Jupiter in downtown Berkeley. Free, 3 sets from 8-11PM.
Just because it will get lost in the MyFace/SpaceBook continuum… in reference, to my general query posted to the community — to wit:
Fuzz.
Discuss.
I think the following applies:
Shoe-gazer, navel-gazer, or Paul Glaser?
You had to be there.