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.
Located here.
Back in the East Bay, Curtis Bumpy will do the Jupiter as part of the Downtown Berkeley Music Festival 2010. Looking forward to the pizza and the brew.
Curtis Bumpy
Saturday, August 28 2010
Berkeley Music Fest
Jupiter Brewing Co. / 2181 Shattuck, Berkeley / www.jupiterbeer.com
PS. Happy Birthday, Dad!
Curtis Bumpy will be serving up the sauce at CODA, on a rare Thursday night appearance, Feb 25 2010. Come early and get some dinner, then hang out while CB starts cookin’ at 9:00.
While Latrice works on her latest and greatest project (hint: she and her man will be bringing home a new roommate soon), we’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with the illustrious Omega Brooks on vocal stylizings. She wowed us at the last CODA show, and she’s got some new tricks up those long sleeves. See you there.
Curtis Bumpy
Thursday 2/25/2010 9PM
CODA : 1710 Mission Street @ Dubose, SF | 415-555-CODA | www.codalive.com
Curtis Bumpy starts off 2010 with some work at CODA on Saturday, Jan. 16. Hopefully, we’ll be joined for at least a song or two by the amazing Latrice Barnett, who is about to take a leave of absence for a bit. We hope she can make her way back to Bumpy sometime soon. Meanwhile, we are hoping to have a new face or two in the crowd… come on and see what we’ve got that night.
Also, just to archive the show for my own satisfaction: our previous show was also at CODA, a month ago on Dec. 19, 2009. Mr. Jackson had a previous engagement, so we once again had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Eric Garland on drums for the evening.
From 10/10 to 11/11. Curtis Bumpy has the pleasure of playing the after-party for the night’s screening of Still Bill, a new bio-doc about the amazing Bill Withers. We rehearsed a few of Bill’s tunes last week at the BBR show last week, and will give them a good workout for the movie crowd. Free with tickets to the movie, $7 without.
WHO: Curtis Bumpy, baby
WHEN: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 \ 9:30
WHERE: The Boom Boom Room \ 1601 Fillmore, SF \ http://www.boomboomblues.com
Tickets can be picked up here.