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This year brought daily reasons to bury oneself in music, this miraculous thing that’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978141/deerhoof-quits-spotify-daniel-ek-700-million-military-ai-investment\">sapped of its monetary value by parasitic streaming services in order to fund AI warfare\u003c/a> but which still provides transcendence and joy, especially in a live setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to 38 shows in 2025, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">only reviewed some of them\u003c/a> for KQED. (After 30 years of writing about music, it’s a form of self-care to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969081/best-live-music-bay-area-2024\">go to a show as a fan\u003c/a>, and not for work.) So here — reviewed in just one sentence each, complete with bad photos from my phone — are 25 concerts that got me through the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1114\" height=\"1114\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984442\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM.jpg 1114w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Noelle & the Deserters\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Feb. 18, Brick and Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best country song about a city will forever be Waylon Jennings’ “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fJIFt9AsjqE?si=4Qwmvv7mlf3DT1iY\">Luckenbach, Texas\u003c/a>,” but when Noelle started singing “Taos,” her ode to the New Mexico town, I had to rearrange a mental list of runners-up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gillian Welch & David Rawlings\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>March 12, The Masonic, 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“6 In the Mornin’” until interrupted by the sight of the Mitchell Brothers Theatre, which inspired a speech about Nina Hartley; guy wearing an authentic vanity license plate around his neck reading “ICE T SF”; and the guy standing front row center, whom Ice-T eventually just pulled up on stage to be his hype man for the last six songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1182\" height=\"1182\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM.jpg 1182w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1182px) 100vw, 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mix Master Mike, Qbert and D-Styles \u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 19, SF Hip-Hop Festival, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t shake the feeling that the geniuses who make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952208/invisibl-skratch-piklz-filipino-djs-daly-city-san-francisco-turntablism-history\">Invisibl Skratch Piklz\u003c/a>, individually and collectively, will go down in history as visionaries who were ahead of their time, space and galaxy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Devo\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 19, from outside the fence, Oakland \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a year, one should \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listen to a show from outside a fence\u003c/a>, in the back alley or through the side door, like that “\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/in-the-bathroom-at-a-party-edits\">in the bathroom at a party\u003c/a>” TikTok trend from 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1174\" height=\"918\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984467\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM.jpg 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kreayshawn\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 20, Mosswood Park, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a good thing that, by and large, everyone in the Bay gives love to Kreayshawn, who weathered a rotten deal in both the media and the record industry only to emerge at Mosswood Meltdown after a 10-year hiatus stronger and tighter and funnier than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM-160x166.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM-768x798.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>La Gente SF\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 27, Juilliard Park, Santa Rosa \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to beat free music in the park, especially when you get Rafa Sarria Bustamante freestyling in Spanish about the Mission District over a live-band version of “I Got 5 On It.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>False Flag\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 30, Castro Theater, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The punks took over the sidewalk in front of the Castro Theater, and confused and enchanted random passers-by while a crowd of 50 or so smoked weed, drank beer and started small pits under the marquee of the beloved ex-movie palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nine Inch Nails\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Aug. 6, Oakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I am elected president, I will sign an anti-oversaturation bill limiting Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to one motion picture score per year (with more time for Nine Inch Nails tours as a welcome byproduct).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Jets\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Aug. 15, Golden 1 Center, Sacramento \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each every-decade-or-so wave of the ’80s revival has unfairly passed up the Jets, who performed “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8a2GfvPF0_8?si=0RIYJFzbOvR9NFSu\">Crush On You\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Dr1pZHPExlE?si=l3D2DKyQ-yAGQutJ\">You Got It All\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/UhrqvTUZQLo?si=pombtxW5WRUNPMEJ\">Cross My Broken Heart\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/K8LLF-46FN8?si=rNMQqNLBbVZUXYg5\">Make It Real\u003c/a>” as if no time has passed whatsoever in a nostalgia revue alongside performances by Lisa Lisa, Exposé, the Mary Jane Girls, J.J. Fad, Tag Team and one guy from Color Me Badd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Con Funk Shun\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 6, Mare Island, Vallejo\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felton Pilate, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927349/bay-area-hip-hop-1980s\">secret bridge between Bay Area funk and Bay Area rap\u003c/a>, led his tight-as-hell, five-decades-strong band in a jubilant hometown set after receiving an honorary street renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984462\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Louisiana Symphony Orchestra\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 11, New Marigny Theatre, New Orleans\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performing on the floor of a small church to five rows of folding chairs (Davies Symphony Hall, how we take thee for granted), this skilled and adventurous ensemble tackled two world premieres, a Florence Price piece, a tango and a Britten suite with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kermit Ruffins\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>Sept. 12, The Blue Nile, New Orleans \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Lovely Day,” “If I Only Had a Brain,” “What a Wonderful Word” — the hometown trumpet legend’s setlist was simply tremendous, complete with an oddly moving “Someday My Prince Will Come” that morphed into “The Star-Spangled Banner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2378\" height=\"2378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984455\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863.jpg 2378w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-2000x2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2378px) 100vw, 2378px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Buffalo Nichols\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 14, House of Blues, New Orleans \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d lost my mind the day before, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983190/juke-joint-sinners-filming-location-louisiana\">wandering through tall jungleland looking for the juke joint from \u003ci>Sinners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>; Nichols singing “How to Love” helped me find it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The New Trust\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 26, Henhouse Brewing Co., Santa Rosa\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to local bands that stay together for over 20 years and \u003ca href=\"https://thenewtrust.bandcamp.com/\">keep turning out exuberant songs\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucinda Williams\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Oct. 5, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edges of Lucinda’s voice are increasingly chiseled with a sawblade, and yet she still readily conjures an immediate peaceful bliss with \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9MVRXBftMxM?si=XZLT1yrXL9FOUSF-\">just the first three notes\u003c/a> of a song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Andre Nickatina\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Oct. 16, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smokin’, drinkin’, dancin’ — Nickatina’s fanbase is among the most unpretentious in the Bay, and the opener was a blues-playing former pimp from East Palo Alto with an out-of-tune acoustic guitar who sang songs about how we should all love one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dijon\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Nov. 6, Fox Theater, Oakland \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love Dijon’s album \u003ci>Baby\u003c/i>, and was warmed to see that he assembled a nine-piece band to recreate its strange brokenness, with a semicircle-and-sitting-down stage setup reminiscent of Miles Davis’ 1970s shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Too Short\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Nov. 9, History of the Bay, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an epic hour-and-a-half-hour panel discussion between Short, Spice 1, Rappin’ 4-Tay, CMG, B-Legit, D-Shot, Mistah FAB, Lord Rab, Dregs One and Davey D about the early years of Bay Area rap, DJ Cutso dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/OrUfz0AhQP0?si=pQDR3H7vnRii6x5Y\">Dope Fiend Beat\u003c/a>” for a perfect coda: Short delivering the nearly 40-year-old song and a stage full of peers-slash-fans, rapping along. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This week, we’re looking back on the best art, music, food, movies and more from the year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/best-of-2025\">See our entire Best of 2025 guide here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it wasn’t the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065196/3-out-of-4-california-families-with-young-kids-cant-afford-at-least-one-basic-need\">rising cost of living\u003c/a>, or the deaths of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970397/david-lynch-visionary-filmmaker-behind-twin-peaks-and-mulholland-drive-dies-at-78\">David Lynch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982372/dangelo-dies-at-51-soul-r-and-b-music-dead-oakland\">D’Angelo\u003c/a>, it was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">authoritarian regime\u003c/a>. This year brought daily reasons to bury oneself in music, this miraculous thing that’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978141/deerhoof-quits-spotify-daniel-ek-700-million-military-ai-investment\">sapped of its monetary value by parasitic streaming services in order to fund AI warfare\u003c/a> but which still provides transcendence and joy, especially in a live setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to 38 shows in 2025, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">only reviewed some of them\u003c/a> for KQED. (After 30 years of writing about music, it’s a form of self-care to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969081/best-live-music-bay-area-2024\">go to a show as a fan\u003c/a>, and not for work.) So here — reviewed in just one sentence each, complete with bad photos from my phone — are 25 concerts that got me through the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1114\" height=\"1114\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984442\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM.jpg 1114w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.31.48-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Noelle & the Deserters\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Feb. 18, Brick and Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best country song about a city will forever be Waylon Jennings’ “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fJIFt9AsjqE?si=4Qwmvv7mlf3DT1iY\">Luckenbach, Texas\u003c/a>,” but when Noelle started singing “Taos,” her ode to the New Mexico town, I had to rearrange a mental list of runners-up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.32.43-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Gillian Welch & David Rawlings\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>March 12, The Masonic, San Francisco\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Gillian Welch fan has their favorite songs, and while she and cosmic-folk guitarist extraordinaire David Rawlings didn’t play mine (“\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/MljrD0-DzqQ?si=rHSSMdb-ImhVvxES\">Wrecking Ball\u003c/a>,” a beautiful autobiography of life in 1980s Santa Cruz), their set at the Masonic still felt like a big, warm embrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.39.30-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1178\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.39.30-PM.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.39.30-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.39.30-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Subhumans\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>April 18, 924 Gilman, Berkeley\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow Greg Ginn is getting a ton of press for taking a half-baked “Black Flag” on the road with a bunch of new, young replacements, while the actually newsworthy punk-band lineup story is that the Subhumans have been playing with \u003ci>the same members since 1983!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.50.39-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"956\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.50.39-PM.jpg 956w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.50.39-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.50.39-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Flock of Seagulls\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>June 11, Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer your only two questions: no, he does not still have that haircut, and yes, they played “I Ran” (twice).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/pulp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/pulp.jpg 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/pulp-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/pulp-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pulp\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>June 14, O2 Arena, London\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was content to ignore the Oasis reunion this year and instead celebrate the true victors of 1990s Britpop, and on their home turf no less, a much splashier experience than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969081/best-live-music-bay-area-2024\">seeing them in downtown San Francisco last year for nine bucks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.47.34-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.47.34-PM.jpg 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.47.34-PM-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.47.34-PM-768x655.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.47.34-PM-1536x1311.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Clearfield Quartet \u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>June 17, Le Duc les Lombards, Paris\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jazz pianist Bud Powell famously left New York for Paris in 1959, at the height of jazz’s commercial heights; 60 years later, jazz pianist Rob Clearfield similarly left Chicago during its jazz renaissance for Paris, where at this small-club show the audience was very attentive and reverent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.46.37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1178\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.46.37-PM.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.46.37-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.46.37-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Beyoncé\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>June 19, Stad de France, Paris\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s been the worst year in my lifetime for feeling optimistic about America, I underwent a rare and sustained swell of hope while witnessing Beyoncé’s ambitious tour about our beautiful, injured country in the middle of a rapt European crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_5857.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_5857.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_5857-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_5857-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_5857-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ice-T\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>June 27, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Types of Guys You See at an Ice-T show in 2025: guy in the balcony sucking down blunt after blunt nonstop; guy holding up a chess board throughout the entire show; guy wearing a Prince medallion who goes to Paisley Park twice a year; Rappin’ 4-Tay, in better health, thankfully; Santa Claus-looking guy, trying to pick fights; Jello Biafra, on stage, curtsying for the crowd; guy in full-on pimp wardrobe, long coat, matching hat, jewels and a cane; guy on stage with a cane who was not a pimp but just old; guy walking up O’Farrell Street drunkenly reciting “6 In the Mornin’” until interrupted by the sight of the Mitchell Brothers Theatre, which inspired a speech about Nina Hartley; guy wearing an authentic vanity license plate around his neck reading “ICE T SF”; and the guy standing front row center, whom Ice-T eventually just pulled up on stage to be his hype man for the last six songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1182\" height=\"1182\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM.jpg 1182w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.48.58-PM-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1182px) 100vw, 1182px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robert Earl Keen\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 16, Hopmonk Tavern, Novato\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one time in Corpus Christi at age 19 I walked a few blocks down to the bay, drank a Shiner Bock, stared at the water — one of those moments when time slows down a little — and wouldn’t you know it, years later in the backyard of a home for the blind I saw Robert Earl Keen play “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hAvONDXOgxc?si=tAP0HK4etyUsCvb0\">Corpus Christi Bay\u003c/a>,” a perfect song, and my life has not been the same since. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6263-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mix Master Mike, Qbert and D-Styles \u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 19, SF Hip-Hop Festival, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t shake the feeling that the geniuses who make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952208/invisibl-skratch-piklz-filipino-djs-daly-city-san-francisco-turntablism-history\">Invisibl Skratch Piklz\u003c/a>, individually and collectively, will go down in history as visionaries who were ahead of their time, space and galaxy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6282-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Devo\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 19, from outside the fence, Oakland \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a year, one should \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listen to a show from outside a fence\u003c/a>, in the back alley or through the side door, like that “\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/in-the-bathroom-at-a-party-edits\">in the bathroom at a party\u003c/a>” TikTok trend from 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1174\" height=\"918\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984467\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM.jpg 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.54.57-PM-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kreayshawn\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 20, Mosswood Park, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a good thing that, by and large, everyone in the Bay gives love to Kreayshawn, who weathered a rotten deal in both the media and the record industry only to emerge at Mosswood Meltdown after a 10-year hiatus stronger and tighter and funnier than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM.jpg 1178w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM-160x166.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-9.55.58-PM-768x798.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>La Gente SF\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 27, Juilliard Park, Santa Rosa \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to beat free music in the park, especially when you get Rafa Sarria Bustamante freestyling in Spanish about the Mission District over a live-band version of “I Got 5 On It.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6598-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>False Flag\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>July 30, Castro Theater, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The punks took over the sidewalk in front of the Castro Theater, and confused and enchanted random passers-by while a crowd of 50 or so smoked weed, drank beer and started small pits under the marquee of the beloved ex-movie palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6829-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nine Inch Nails\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Aug. 6, Oakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I am elected president, I will sign an anti-oversaturation bill limiting Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to one motion picture score per year (with more time for Nine Inch Nails tours as a welcome byproduct).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_6977-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Jets\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Aug. 15, Golden 1 Center, Sacramento \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each every-decade-or-so wave of the ’80s revival has unfairly passed up the Jets, who performed “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8a2GfvPF0_8?si=0RIYJFzbOvR9NFSu\">Crush On You\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Dr1pZHPExlE?si=l3D2DKyQ-yAGQutJ\">You Got It All\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/UhrqvTUZQLo?si=pombtxW5WRUNPMEJ\">Cross My Broken Heart\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/K8LLF-46FN8?si=rNMQqNLBbVZUXYg5\">Make It Real\u003c/a>” as if no time has passed whatsoever in a nostalgia revue alongside performances by Lisa Lisa, Exposé, the Mary Jane Girls, J.J. Fad, Tag Team and one guy from Color Me Badd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7375-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Con Funk Shun\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 6, Mare Island, Vallejo\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felton Pilate, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927349/bay-area-hip-hop-1980s\">secret bridge between Bay Area funk and Bay Area rap\u003c/a>, led his tight-as-hell, five-decades-strong band in a jubilant hometown set after receiving an honorary street renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984462\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7547-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Louisiana Symphony Orchestra\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 11, New Marigny Theatre, New Orleans\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performing on the floor of a small church to five rows of folding chairs (Davies Symphony Hall, how we take thee for granted), this skilled and adventurous ensemble tackled two world premieres, a Florence Price piece, a tango and a Britten suite with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7656-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kermit Ruffins\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>Sept. 12, The Blue Nile, New Orleans \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Lovely Day,” “If I Only Had a Brain,” “What a Wonderful Word” — the hometown trumpet legend’s setlist was simply tremendous, complete with an oddly moving “Someday My Prince Will Come” that morphed into “The Star-Spangled Banner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2378\" height=\"2378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984455\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863.jpg 2378w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-2000x2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_7863-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2378px) 100vw, 2378px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Buffalo Nichols\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 14, House of Blues, New Orleans \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d lost my mind the day before, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983190/juke-joint-sinners-filming-location-louisiana\">wandering through tall jungleland looking for the juke joint from \u003ci>Sinners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>; Nichols singing “How to Love” helped me find it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8147-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The New Trust\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Sept. 26, Henhouse Brewing Co., Santa Rosa\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to local bands that stay together for over 20 years and \u003ca href=\"https://thenewtrust.bandcamp.com/\">keep turning out exuberant songs\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8280-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucinda Williams\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Oct. 5, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edges of Lucinda’s voice are increasingly chiseled with a sawblade, and yet she still readily conjures an immediate peaceful bliss with \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9MVRXBftMxM?si=XZLT1yrXL9FOUSF-\">just the first three notes\u003c/a> of a song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/IMG_8633-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Andre Nickatina\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Oct. 16, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smokin’, drinkin’, dancin’ — Nickatina’s fanbase is among the most unpretentious in the Bay, and the opener was a blues-playing former pimp from East Palo Alto with an out-of-tune acoustic guitar who sang songs about how we should all love one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image0-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dijon\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Nov. 6, Fox Theater, Oakland \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love Dijon’s album \u003ci>Baby\u003c/i>, and was warmed to see that he assembled a nine-piece band to recreate its strange brokenness, with a semicircle-and-sitting-down stage setup reminiscent of Miles Davis’ 1970s shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13984446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/image2-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Too Short\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Nov. 9, History of the Bay, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in his 50s wearing a polo shirt and beige shorts sits at a cluttered desk, his arm leaned upon a vintage analog tape machine\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-10-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy, founder of the Sacramento Music Archive, works among his collection of analog recordings of concert videos and cassettes in Orangevale, Calif. on July 24, 2025. Stacy has spent years digitizing underground music from Sacramento, the Bay Area and across Northern California, making rare recordings freely accessible online. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a suburban backyard outside of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sacramento\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, I open the door to a giant shed, step inside and get smacked in the face by floor-to-ceiling shelves of music history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VHS tapes. Cassette tapes. Reel-to-reels. DATs. Other formats I don’t recognize, and can’t pronounce. Nearly 20,000 of them, all filled with live shows, demo recordings and concert footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down a narrow path through this obsolete physical media, I turn a corner to find Shayne Stacy, 57, sitting at a desk with three monitors and occasionally fiddling with a nearby U-matic machine, an out-of-date piece of video hardware used by TV stations. On the screen, viewed for the first time in 40 years, is a 1980s new wave band performing on a long-lost cable access show from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day, this is where you’ll find Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/\">Sacramento Music Archive\u003c/a>. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the Bay Area and beyond that he’s gradually digitizing and sharing with the world, including rare \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1990/02/12/nirvana-cattle-club-sacramento-ca-02-12-1990-2-cam-mix/\">early footage of Nirvana\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1994/07/23/metallica-cal-expo-amphitheatre-sacramento-ca-7-23-94-xfer-from-master-tape-enhanced-live/\">Metallica\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1991/10/03/green-day-berkeley-square-10-3-91-xfer-from-master-vhs-tape-complete-show-enhanced/\">Green Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d think it’s like this big rock and roll party in here. It’s like this. It’s very quiet, with me working at a keyboard,” Stacy says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sacramento Music Archive began with Shayne Stacy’s own concert recordings of Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, Green Day, Christ on Parade and more, as pictured in Orangevale, Calif. on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I first became aware of Stacy’s work during the pandemic, when I noticed people posting video footage of punk shows held 30 years ago that I’d attended, or, even more irresistible, that I’d heard about but been too young to see. I soon found that for those of a certain age and musical bent, scrolling the Sacramento Music Archive was like watching one’s life flash before their eyes: a young \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1993/05/28/rancid-berkeley-square-berkeley-ca-5-28-93-xfer-from-vhs-c-master-punk-partial-set/\">Rancid finding their footing at Berkeley Square\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/NxQGByCjPdI?feature=shared&t=484\">Mr. Bungle covering Top 40 radio hits from 1989\u003c/a> in Guerneville, or \u003cem>Maximum Rocknroll\u003c/em> founder \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Pb5X2LrTpjs?feature=shared&t=385\">Tim Yohannon throwing pies at Screeching Weasel\u003c/a> at 924 Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for shows that had been uploaded before, like \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1989/05/28/operation-ivy-924-gilman-berkeley-ca-5-28-89-multicam-w-sony-d6-audio/\">Operation Ivy’s final show\u003c/a>? Stacy consistently seemed to have the best sources, and sometimes from multiple camera angles, too. What’s more, he had over 5,000 shows from all over Northern California from the past 50 years, by punk, metal, modern rock, funk, thrash and indie bands — famous names and obscure footnotes alike. And, remarkably, it was evident he still went out to shows, and filmed new bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who was this one-man Library of Congress for West Coast Gen Xers? I had to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preserving punk history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born in Auburn in 1967, Stacy had a typical 1970s childhood of watching \u003cem>Scooby Doo\u003c/em> and collecting sports cards. When he was 15, he went by himself to see Iron Maiden and the Scorpions at the Sacramento Memorial Stadium, in 1982, and he still remembers its impact. “As soon as I felt that sound pressure hitting my chest, I’m like, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever seen,’” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boxes of VHS tapes, reel-to-reels and cassettes at the Sacramento Music Archive may seem haphazardly organized, but Shayne Stacy keeps a reliable mental inventory of each tapes’ location. Particularly valuable masters are kept in a 1,000-lb. fire-resistant safe. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area was a cradle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10834160/five-of-the-bay-areas-raddest-metal-bands-from-the-80s\">thrash metal\u003c/a> at the time, with bands like Exodus, Possessed and Metallica just starting out. Soon, Stacy was bringing cheap tape recorders to shows, and sharing the results with other fans who traded tapes through the classifieds in the backs of fan magazines. In 1987, after witnessing the El Sobrante punk band Isocracy, who routinely threw heaps of garbage all over the crowd, Stacy had an epiphany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s paper all over the floor, and it’s just a chaotic environment, and I said to myself, ‘I have to buy a video camera to document this stuff,’” Stacy remembers. “I stopped all of my excess expenditures, making five bucks an hour, and saved for four months to buy my own video camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1988 and 1992, Stacy estimates, he filmed 240 shows, driving to venues in Sacramento or the Bay Area every weekend. Trading with others through the mail, he amassed even more tapes. But there was a downside: he began seeing his own footage, of shows by \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1989/08/26/primus-cattle-club-sacramento-ca-8-26-89-xfer-from-8mm-master-live-enhanced/\">Primus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvJQfgRl7o\">Nirvana\u003c/a> playing at the Cattle Club in Sacramento, bootlegged and sold by others for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, no fun anymore,” Stacy says. “This was supposed to be a hobby I enjoyed, and it turned into this point of frustration. And so I quit. I quit for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy started out recording metal bands, and once lost a valuable tape of him and a friend hanging out with Slayer backstage in 1988 at The Stone in San Francisco. Miraculously, thanks to the tape-trading circuit, he \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1988/08/12/slayer-backstage-the-stone-san-francisco-ca-8-12-88/\">got his hands on a copy of it again\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>YouTube brought him back. Stacy says it “liberated” everything: the fans didn’t have to pay $30 for a grainy VHS tape anymore, the copyright holders got paid — not enough, but something — and he got to enjoy his hobby again. He rushed out and bought the best cassette decks and VCRs he could find, and got to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who noticed the quality of Stacy’s work early on is Wayne Vanderkuil. “I work at Stanford in visual preservation, reformatting, and he had similar equipment to what we have here,” Vanderkuil says. “I was incredibly impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the tape-trading days, Vanderkuil amassed his own collection of metal bands playing at Ruthie’s Inn, Wolfgang’s or the On Broadway. They sat in storage for 25 years, untouched, he says. “I thought, ‘No one’s ever gonna hear these. I’ll drop dead tomorrow, and there goes history.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he donated his tapes to Stacy. Vanderkuil is now president of the board of the Sacramento Music Archive, newly incorporated as a nonprofit, which will allow Stacy — who worked at Intel for 27 years and recently accepted an “incredibly generous” buyout offer — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/c/sacramentomusicarchive/membership\">take donations\u003c/a> and apply for grants. Most importantly, it’ll set up his life’s work to continue into the future. As it stands, only about 5% of the tapes in the archive have been preserved digitally so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is clearly becoming a bigger project than I’ve got time left,” says Stacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy, founder of the Sacramento Music Archive, futzes with a vintage U-matic player in order to get a stubborn TV station cartridge of a Sacramento band to play correctly. ‘Sometimes you get to see me fight with this thing and curse a lot,’ he jokes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘He really is the go-to’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicity and word-of-mouth creates another problem: the piles are growing. Everyone, it seems, has old tapes they want to donate. Waiting to be digitized in the archive are 500 cassettes of free jazz, reel-to-reels of D.R.I. rehearsals at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/strangest-200-dollar-apartments-sf-history-20381556.php\">The Vats\u003c/a> and hundreds of videos and soundboard recordings from 924 Gilman. Stacy now has \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/collections/\">over 25 different collections\u003c/a> from DJs, sound engineers, record store owners, zine editors, promoters, cable access hosts and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Arica Pelino, who recently traveled from three states away to Stacy’s archive with a suitcase full of tapes. Pelino toured with Green Day in 1991, and filmed many of their early shows, along with dozens of other bands from the East Bay like Econochrist and Lungbutter. Her tapes sat in storage for more than 20 years, unseen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn’t meet Shayne, it would still be sitting in boxes,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13968840 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_03.jpg']She and Stacy spent two days going through her collection, including 22 early Green Day shows that no one had ever seen before, she says, along with \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1991/09/28/green-day-phoenix-theater-petaluma-ca-9-28-91-uncirculated-preshow-clip-xfer-f-vhs-master-enhanced/\">backstage footage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1990/01/01/sweet-children-green-day-billie-joes-tape-to-arica-demo-and-7-sessions-tape-complete/\">early demos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shayne really is the owner and the keeper for all of us,” Pelino says. “There’s no one I’d rather do it with. He does a great job, he’s extremely detail-oriented and he puts his all into cleaning up the audio and video. He really is the go-to archive for Northern California, and has captured a significant part of the music scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another donor, Rick Sylvain, who in his 12 years working at Berkeley radio station KALX helped start the long-running \u003cem>KALX Live!\u003c/em> show, with bands playing in the cramped studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of stinky sometimes — they spilled a lot of beer in there — but it was fun, and I taped everything,” he says. “Some of these little bands, it was their one big moment in the sun, and I wanted them to feel like they were stars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One little band that fulfilled that promise of stardom was AFI, who would go on to headline arenas. Thanks to the Sacramento Music Archive, Sylvain’s cassette of \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1994/10/07/afi-kalx-live-in-studio-berkeley-ca-10-7-94-xfer-from-pre-fm-master-cassette-a-fire-inside-a-f-i/\">AFI’s 1994 visit to KALX\u003c/a> is now the band’s earliest live recording on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy uploads videos twice a day from his growing collection in a cluttered, air-conditioned shed. ‘I promised my wife that I would digitize this stuff and then get rid of the tapes,’ he says, ‘and I’m having trouble doing that, to be quite frank.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Large companies and record labels have taken notice, and Stacy’s provided them with material for a Nirvana box set, a Pavement film, and various documentaries. He talks just as enthusiastically, however, about forgotten bands like \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/2000/04/12/donner-party-slims-sf-4-12-00-sam-coomes-from-quasis-early-band/\">The Donner Party\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1987/04/11/slambodians-sproul-plaza-berkeley-ca-4-11-87-xfer-from-master-vhs-tape-east-bay-punk/\">Slambodians\u003c/a>. He’s especially excited about a recent estate sale find of reel-to-reels from a member of Red Asphalt, the early punk band, who lived in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that brings him back to the original purpose of the archive, one it’s clearly outgrown: to legitimize and honor Sacramento as its own distinct music scene. He accepts that “Sacramento Music Archive” is a bit of a misnomer for a massive collection covering the the Bay Area and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he likes the name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always felt like Sacramento has always been the red-headed stepchild of California,” he says. “The Lakers make fun of the Kings, Southern California makes fun of Sacramento. It’s a cow town, right? So having something that’s culturally enriching, that has the Sacramento label on it, I’m fine with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Sacramento Music Archive can be found at its \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/\">official website\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@sacramentomusicarchive/videos\">YouTube channel\u003c/a>. Subscribers can \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/SacramentoMusicArchive\">join the archive’s Patreon\u003c/a> to vote which shows in the archive will get digitized or posted next, or to arrange filming a concert from scratch. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Stacy has spent years digitizing underground music from Sacramento, the Bay Area and across Northern California, making rare recordings freely accessible online. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a suburban backyard outside of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sacramento\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, I open the door to a giant shed, step inside and get smacked in the face by floor-to-ceiling shelves of music history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VHS tapes. Cassette tapes. Reel-to-reels. DATs. Other formats I don’t recognize, and can’t pronounce. Nearly 20,000 of them, all filled with live shows, demo recordings and concert footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down a narrow path through this obsolete physical media, I turn a corner to find Shayne Stacy, 57, sitting at a desk with three monitors and occasionally fiddling with a nearby U-matic machine, an out-of-date piece of video hardware used by TV stations. On the screen, viewed for the first time in 40 years, is a 1980s new wave band performing on a long-lost cable access show from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day, this is where you’ll find Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/\">Sacramento Music Archive\u003c/a>. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the Bay Area and beyond that he’s gradually digitizing and sharing with the world, including rare \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1990/02/12/nirvana-cattle-club-sacramento-ca-02-12-1990-2-cam-mix/\">early footage of Nirvana\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1994/07/23/metallica-cal-expo-amphitheatre-sacramento-ca-7-23-94-xfer-from-master-tape-enhanced-live/\">Metallica\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1991/10/03/green-day-berkeley-square-10-3-91-xfer-from-master-vhs-tape-complete-show-enhanced/\">Green Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d think it’s like this big rock and roll party in here. It’s like this. It’s very quiet, with me working at a keyboard,” Stacy says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SacramentoMusicArchive-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sacramento Music Archive began with Shayne Stacy’s own concert recordings of Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, Green Day, Christ on Parade and more, as pictured in Orangevale, Calif. on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I first became aware of Stacy’s work during the pandemic, when I noticed people posting video footage of punk shows held 30 years ago that I’d attended, or, even more irresistible, that I’d heard about but been too young to see. I soon found that for those of a certain age and musical bent, scrolling the Sacramento Music Archive was like watching one’s life flash before their eyes: a young \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1993/05/28/rancid-berkeley-square-berkeley-ca-5-28-93-xfer-from-vhs-c-master-punk-partial-set/\">Rancid finding their footing at Berkeley Square\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/NxQGByCjPdI?feature=shared&t=484\">Mr. Bungle covering Top 40 radio hits from 1989\u003c/a> in Guerneville, or \u003cem>Maximum Rocknroll\u003c/em> founder \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Pb5X2LrTpjs?feature=shared&t=385\">Tim Yohannon throwing pies at Screeching Weasel\u003c/a> at 924 Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for shows that had been uploaded before, like \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1989/05/28/operation-ivy-924-gilman-berkeley-ca-5-28-89-multicam-w-sony-d6-audio/\">Operation Ivy’s final show\u003c/a>? Stacy consistently seemed to have the best sources, and sometimes from multiple camera angles, too. What’s more, he had over 5,000 shows from all over Northern California from the past 50 years, by punk, metal, modern rock, funk, thrash and indie bands — famous names and obscure footnotes alike. And, remarkably, it was evident he still went out to shows, and filmed new bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who was this one-man Library of Congress for West Coast Gen Xers? I had to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preserving punk history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born in Auburn in 1967, Stacy had a typical 1970s childhood of watching \u003cem>Scooby Doo\u003c/em> and collecting sports cards. When he was 15, he went by himself to see Iron Maiden and the Scorpions at the Sacramento Memorial Stadium, in 1982, and he still remembers its impact. “As soon as I felt that sound pressure hitting my chest, I’m like, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever seen,’” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boxes of VHS tapes, reel-to-reels and cassettes at the Sacramento Music Archive may seem haphazardly organized, but Shayne Stacy keeps a reliable mental inventory of each tapes’ location. Particularly valuable masters are kept in a 1,000-lb. fire-resistant safe. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area was a cradle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10834160/five-of-the-bay-areas-raddest-metal-bands-from-the-80s\">thrash metal\u003c/a> at the time, with bands like Exodus, Possessed and Metallica just starting out. Soon, Stacy was bringing cheap tape recorders to shows, and sharing the results with other fans who traded tapes through the classifieds in the backs of fan magazines. In 1987, after witnessing the El Sobrante punk band Isocracy, who routinely threw heaps of garbage all over the crowd, Stacy had an epiphany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s paper all over the floor, and it’s just a chaotic environment, and I said to myself, ‘I have to buy a video camera to document this stuff,’” Stacy remembers. “I stopped all of my excess expenditures, making five bucks an hour, and saved for four months to buy my own video camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1988 and 1992, Stacy estimates, he filmed 240 shows, driving to venues in Sacramento or the Bay Area every weekend. Trading with others through the mail, he amassed even more tapes. But there was a downside: he began seeing his own footage, of shows by \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1989/08/26/primus-cattle-club-sacramento-ca-8-26-89-xfer-from-8mm-master-live-enhanced/\">Primus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvJQfgRl7o\">Nirvana\u003c/a> playing at the Cattle Club in Sacramento, bootlegged and sold by others for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, no fun anymore,” Stacy says. “This was supposed to be a hobby I enjoyed, and it turned into this point of frustration. And so I quit. I quit for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy started out recording metal bands, and once lost a valuable tape of him and a friend hanging out with Slayer backstage in 1988 at The Stone in San Francisco. Miraculously, thanks to the tape-trading circuit, he \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1988/08/12/slayer-backstage-the-stone-san-francisco-ca-8-12-88/\">got his hands on a copy of it again\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>YouTube brought him back. Stacy says it “liberated” everything: the fans didn’t have to pay $30 for a grainy VHS tape anymore, the copyright holders got paid — not enough, but something — and he got to enjoy his hobby again. He rushed out and bought the best cassette decks and VCRs he could find, and got to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who noticed the quality of Stacy’s work early on is Wayne Vanderkuil. “I work at Stanford in visual preservation, reformatting, and he had similar equipment to what we have here,” Vanderkuil says. “I was incredibly impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the tape-trading days, Vanderkuil amassed his own collection of metal bands playing at Ruthie’s Inn, Wolfgang’s or the On Broadway. They sat in storage for 25 years, untouched, he says. “I thought, ‘No one’s ever gonna hear these. I’ll drop dead tomorrow, and there goes history.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he donated his tapes to Stacy. Vanderkuil is now president of the board of the Sacramento Music Archive, newly incorporated as a nonprofit, which will allow Stacy — who worked at Intel for 27 years and recently accepted an “incredibly generous” buyout offer — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/c/sacramentomusicarchive/membership\">take donations\u003c/a> and apply for grants. Most importantly, it’ll set up his life’s work to continue into the future. As it stands, only about 5% of the tapes in the archive have been preserved digitally so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is clearly becoming a bigger project than I’ve got time left,” says Stacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy, founder of the Sacramento Music Archive, futzes with a vintage U-matic player in order to get a stubborn TV station cartridge of a Sacramento band to play correctly. ‘Sometimes you get to see me fight with this thing and curse a lot,’ he jokes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘He really is the go-to’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicity and word-of-mouth creates another problem: the piles are growing. Everyone, it seems, has old tapes they want to donate. Waiting to be digitized in the archive are 500 cassettes of free jazz, reel-to-reels of D.R.I. rehearsals at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/strangest-200-dollar-apartments-sf-history-20381556.php\">The Vats\u003c/a> and hundreds of videos and soundboard recordings from 924 Gilman. Stacy now has \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/collections/\">over 25 different collections\u003c/a> from DJs, sound engineers, record store owners, zine editors, promoters, cable access hosts and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Arica Pelino, who recently traveled from three states away to Stacy’s archive with a suitcase full of tapes. Pelino toured with Green Day in 1991, and filmed many of their early shows, along with dozens of other bands from the East Bay like Econochrist and Lungbutter. Her tapes sat in storage for more than 20 years, unseen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn’t meet Shayne, it would still be sitting in boxes,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She and Stacy spent two days going through her collection, including 22 early Green Day shows that no one had ever seen before, she says, along with \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1991/09/28/green-day-phoenix-theater-petaluma-ca-9-28-91-uncirculated-preshow-clip-xfer-f-vhs-master-enhanced/\">backstage footage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1990/01/01/sweet-children-green-day-billie-joes-tape-to-arica-demo-and-7-sessions-tape-complete/\">early demos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shayne really is the owner and the keeper for all of us,” Pelino says. “There’s no one I’d rather do it with. He does a great job, he’s extremely detail-oriented and he puts his all into cleaning up the audio and video. He really is the go-to archive for Northern California, and has captured a significant part of the music scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another donor, Rick Sylvain, who in his 12 years working at Berkeley radio station KALX helped start the long-running \u003cem>KALX Live!\u003c/em> show, with bands playing in the cramped studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of stinky sometimes — they spilled a lot of beer in there — but it was fun, and I taped everything,” he says. “Some of these little bands, it was their one big moment in the sun, and I wanted them to feel like they were stars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One little band that fulfilled that promise of stardom was AFI, who would go on to headline arenas. Thanks to the Sacramento Music Archive, Sylvain’s cassette of \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1994/10/07/afi-kalx-live-in-studio-berkeley-ca-10-7-94-xfer-from-pre-fm-master-cassette-a-fire-inside-a-f-i/\">AFI’s 1994 visit to KALX\u003c/a> is now the band’s earliest live recording on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250724-SACRAMENTOMUSICARCHIVE-28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Stacy uploads videos twice a day from his growing collection in a cluttered, air-conditioned shed. ‘I promised my wife that I would digitize this stuff and then get rid of the tapes,’ he says, ‘and I’m having trouble doing that, to be quite frank.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Large companies and record labels have taken notice, and Stacy’s provided them with material for a Nirvana box set, a Pavement film, and various documentaries. He talks just as enthusiastically, however, about forgotten bands like \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/2000/04/12/donner-party-slims-sf-4-12-00-sam-coomes-from-quasis-early-band/\">The Donner Party\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1987/04/11/slambodians-sproul-plaza-berkeley-ca-4-11-87-xfer-from-master-vhs-tape-east-bay-punk/\">Slambodians\u003c/a>. He’s especially excited about a recent estate sale find of reel-to-reels from a member of Red Asphalt, the early punk band, who lived in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that brings him back to the original purpose of the archive, one it’s clearly outgrown: to legitimize and honor Sacramento as its own distinct music scene. He accepts that “Sacramento Music Archive” is a bit of a misnomer for a massive collection covering the the Bay Area and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he likes the name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always felt like Sacramento has always been the red-headed stepchild of California,” he says. “The Lakers make fun of the Kings, Southern California makes fun of Sacramento. It’s a cow town, right? So having something that’s culturally enriching, that has the Sacramento label on it, I’m fine with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new Pedro Pascal movie \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Freaky Tales\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is a wild, over-the-top love letter to Oakland. It involves four interconnected stories, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">most of which actually happened in the East Bay in 1987\u003c/a>. And it’s packed with landmarks, cameos and easter eggs for Oakland locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, then, are 27 local references and hidden details in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, listed from A to Z.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Be warned: This glossary contains spoilers!\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1920x1436.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ji-young Yoo, as Tina, stares down Nazi skinheads outside the Grand Lake Theatre in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ Co-star Jack Champion wears a T-shirt for Corrupted Morals, the underground East Bay punk band which counted Primus’ Larry LaLonde and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as onetime members. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxriXHNuLcg\">Bitch Fight\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The character Tina can be seen wearing a T-shirt of this all-women punk band, which \u003ca href=\"https://razorcake.org/bitch-fight-all-we-wanted-was-everything-part-3-by-michelle-cruz-gonzales/\">moved from Tuolumne\u003c/a> to the Bay Area in 1987. Drummer Michelle Cruz Gonzales would later join Kamala & the Karnivores, drum for Spitboy and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=777\">write a memoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908540/remembering-la-filmmaker-david-lynch-and-his-lynchian-legacy\">Blue Velvet\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not so much a local reference, but filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden like to honor this David Lynch classic by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFEy3kWJ01B/?img_index=1\">sneaking references to it in their films\u003c/a>. It’s mentioned in passing in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/colonialdonuts/\">Colonial Donuts\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen on the clerk’s T-shirt in the video rental store, Colonial Donuts is an Oakland institution that abides by the three magic words: Open 24 Hours. With multiple locations, the beloved donut shop is just about the only thing “colonial” that Bay Area folks agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Danger Zone\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The stars of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ second chapter are Danger Zone, who perform “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” onstage with Too Short at Oakland hotspot Sweet Jimmie’s. The female rap duo of Barbie and Entice made their debut with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a warning to underage girls about predatory men. Too Short then brought them in the studio for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>,” and history was made. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Read the full backstory on Danger Zone here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/07/12/dicks-restaurant-gets-a-fresh-start-from-son-of-loyal-customer/\">Dick’s Restaurant\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A handful of scenes in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> were filmed at this now-boarded up San Leandro diner and adjoining sports lounge, which originally opened in 1969. This is not the restaurant’s first starring role — it also provided the setting for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt8AdNwTTUI\">Radiohead’s “High & Dry” U.S. music video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/el-cerrito\">The El Cerrito Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Where evil lives. In \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, the house of the Nazis is also where multiple scenes take place with Angus Cloud, Oakland’s son, in his final role. In real life, the house where filming took place is in the hills of El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-800x332.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1020x423.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-768x319.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1536x637.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1920x797.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis, as Sleepy Floyd, celebrates after his 29-point quarter at Giant Burger in Oakland in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sVoWIhUKg\">Sleepy Floyd\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Warriors point guard is played by Jay Ellis in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, but watch closely and you’ll see the real Sleepy Floyd make a cameo at a post-game hangout. (There’s \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=140\">a famous call by announcer Greg Papa\u003c/a> that shows up later in the film, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Too Short’s early rap partner is represented in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> as the character “Lenny G.” The rapper Stunnaman02, who plays Lenny, says that he tried to find Freddy B to get pointers for the role, but was unsuccessful. Too Short and Freddy B \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20160610000914/https://eastbayexpress.com/CultureSpyBlog/archives/2016/03/28/too-horts-30th-anniversary-show-couldnt-have-been-long-enough\">last appeared together onstage in 2016\u003c/a>, and according to reports, Freddy B is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyrepublic.com/lifestyle/from-drugs-prison-to-christian-missionary/article_fe8f3629-9338-5159-9b6c-22d9b247a425.html\">now a mission director\u003c/a> at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Giant_Burger\">1/4 lb. Giant Burger\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This Oakland institution — the one at Dimond and Macarthur — provides the after-hours meetup spot where Sleepy Floyd celebrates his record-breaking playoff performance with fans. (Hanging out among the people after a game \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIVF0KkEOU\">is a thing\u003c/a> for pro athletes from the Town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The venerable all-ages, all-volunteer punk club in Berkeley is the star of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ first chapter. And, because the filmmakers worked with Gilman volunteers past and present, they got a lot of details right: the basketball hoop, Big Wheels in the pit, the “Animal Liberation” graffiti, the “Meese is a Pig” poster. Gilman regulars like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">George Hated\u003c/a> are portrayed in the film, and logos of bands like Soup, Christ on Parade, Crummy Musicians, MDC and Sewer Trout can be seen. The set re-creation of the club was filmed in \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/d5hGHvyxTieJZD4H9\">a warehouse in East Oakland\u003c/a>, not actually at Gilman — but the \u003cem>feeling\u003c/em> is accurate, which is hard to do when depicting a regional punk scene in a Hollywood film. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Read about the real-life Nazi beatdown at Gilman here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen in several scenes, with the marquee advertising 1987 films \u003cem>The Lost Boys\u003c/em> and Elaine May’s famous flop \u003cem>Ishtar\u003c/em>. Host to the local premiere in March of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, the Grand Lake needs no introduction — it’s part of every Oaklander’s formative memories and serves as one of the Bay’s last remaining movie palaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13973907']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899154/sunami-review-san-jose-drain-gulch-show\">Gulch\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz hardcore band, now broken up, portrays the headlining band at Gilman after the Nazi brawl. (In reality, the band that played after the fight was \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\">MDC\u003c/a>.) Credited as “924 Gilman Band,” Gulch is shown playing songs by Black Flag and Negative Approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812623/tom-hanks-talks-trump-weinstein-and-america-at-city-arts-lectures\">Tom Hanks\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers have been trying to keep this cameo quiet, but the cat is out of the bag. Hanks, who \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/mYjw3B6K9qw?feature=shared&t=471\">worked as a concession vendor at the Oakland Coliseum when he was 14\u003c/a>, goes deep on nerdy film knowledge for a scene in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involving VHS rentals, and that’s all we’ll say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2880px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"Still shot from the 'Freaky Tales' trailer shows a "Late Night Video" storefront next to a braiding salon.\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM.png 2880w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-800x417.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1020x531.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-768x400.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1536x800.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-2048x1067.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1920x1000.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Telegraph Avenue, as seen in the ‘Freaky Tales’ trailer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972017/freaky-tales-trailer-oakland-too-short-pedro-pascal\">Jasmine African Hair Braiding\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This Telegraph Avenue standby is seen adjacent to a video rental store in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. The video store itself is in the former location of \u003ca href=\"https://hillsshoes1724.weebly.com/\">Hill’s Shoes\u003c/a>, which sold fine footwear to generations of Oakland residents for nearly 100 years before closing in 2020. (Also seen is the nearby sex shop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858579/rightnowish-nenna-joiners-inclusive-sex-toys-at-feelmore-adult-gallery-in-oakland\">Feelmore Adult Gallery\u003c/a>, which — oops — didn’t exist in 1987.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnHz8_BoUg\">Jewdriver\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, as the skinheads are getting ready to go out on the town, music reminiscent of the Nazi punk band Skrewdriver plays. But it’s not Skrewdriver — hilariously, it’s Jewdriver, the parody band from Oakland that wrote Jewish-themed lyrics to Skrewdriver’s racist songs. (Nazis getting beaten up \u003cem>and\u003c/em> denied sync royalties? Right on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3trBd6nsZ4\">Kamala and the Karnivores\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This band’s logo is seen on the back of Tina’s jacket in a diner scene. The band’s namesake, \u003ca href=\"https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/east-bay-punk-kamala-lyn-parks/\">Kamala Parks\u003c/a>, cofounded 924 Gilman, drummed for several bands, booked many other bands’ tours and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjlhlqcCTjM\">is too nice\u003c/a>. Kamala, drummer Michelle and singer Ivy all met with the \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> film crew and actors on set.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13959712/a-place-to-call-home-documentary-la-pena-cultural-center-murals\">La Peña Cultural Center\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not pictured in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, but it’s mentioned in one scene as the host of a hip-hop open mic, which have been a staple of the long-running community space. La Peña \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lapenaculturalcenter/\">celebrates its 50th anniversary\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13974106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13974106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and Macarthur. \u003ccite>(Flickr/Anomalous A)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loards.com/\">Loard’s Ice Cream Parlor\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sure, there are other Loard’s locations. But the film crew restored the classic look of the now-shuttered Dimond location on Coolidge and MacArthur for \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, to great effect. When it appeared onscreen at its Grand Lake premiere, it elicited gasps and cheers from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13836150/the-power-of-taking-up-space-at-marshawn-lynchs-oakland-rideout\">Marshawn Lynch\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yep, that’s Beastmode driving an AC Transit bus in a quick cameo for \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966077/inside-the-trial-that-overturned-californias-same-sex-marriage-ban-proposition-8-mike-johnson-lgbtq-rights\">The Mormon Temple\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen on the hill in a quick cut to Lake Merritt, this East Oakland landmark has been a shining beacon (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/master/1289408-Capital-Tax-Capital-Tax/image/SW1hZ2U6MjIwMTI5ODQ=\">photo shoot location\u003c/a>) to generations. Notably, the Mormon church excluded its Black members from priesthood ordinances in the temple until a 1978 reversal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene filmed at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13965624/oakland-as-last-game-songs-played-coliseum\">The Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The glorious concrete landmark provides the backdrop to a TV commercial for a new age mind-healing program called Psytopics. Director Ryan Fleck explained that Psytopics was based on “these weird spiritual centers that were all over the Bay Area” in 1987. “I just remember lo-fi commercials selling you this kind of spiritual wish fulfillment on television,” he said. The Oakland Arena, next door, can be seen in certain scenes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Operation Ivy\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The band that all but defined Gilman in the late 1980s is shown playing two songs in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, and guitarist Lint has a cameo in the film. The members of Operation Ivy also had some say in who got to portray them: the L.A. band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aphidsmusic\">Aphids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.corbettredford.com/\">Corbett Redford\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mustachioed director of the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\">Turn It Around\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is seen briefly in the movie’s opening scene — a nice nod, considering his documentary provided a roadmap for the Nazi brawl depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ first chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#mc-hammer-shoots-lets-get-it-started-at-sweet-jimmies\">Sweet Jimmie’s\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The site of the thrilling scene where Too Short and Danger Zone perform “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” and \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place to be in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s. As Luenell put it at the \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> premiere, “Sweet Jimmie’s was the hub — the music, the dancing, the food, the fellowship. It was \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.” Now known as the New Parish, the nightclub on San Pablo Avenue actually didn’t host rap shows in 1987, and certainly not Too Short shows. David “Sweets” Ward, the son of owner “Sweet Jimmie” Ward, says his dad was opposed to the profanity common in rap. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#mc-hammer-shoots-lets-get-it-started-at-sweet-jimmies\">MC Hammer recorded a music video at the club in 1988\u003c/a>, but of course, Hammer never swore in his songs.) Fun fact: because Saturday nights at Sweet Jimmie’s were broadcast live on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\">Soul Beat\u003c/a>, kids at home could watch their parents on TV, partying in real time. The club closed in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He narrates the movie. He’s portrayed by the rapper Symba. He’s an executive producer, and his nearly 10-minute song from 1987 provided the movie’s title. The day of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ release, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909460/movie-freaky-tales-is-a-love-letter-to-1980s-oakland\">came onto KQED Forum to discuss the film\u003c/a>. And yes, he’s got a cameo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/tower-of-power\">Tower of Power\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s music from Bay Area icons (Sly Stone, Metallica), punk bands (the Avengers, Black Flag) and ’80s freestyle artists (Stevie B, Pebbles) in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. This one’s special, though. How can you be mad when you hear “So Very Hard to Go” in the movie theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yeastiegirlz.com/our-story\">Yeastie Girlz\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The character Tina wears a T-shirt of this Berkeley-based feminist acapella rap group, whose 7” made such an underground splash that Pearl Jam’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxVpql6_JxrwEdAnCU5GUc1y87dwKcroda\">Eddie Vedder sang one of its songs onstage\u003c/a>; their song “You Suck” was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0xTqwKMOyk\">sampled by TV Girl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The new Pedro Pascal movie \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Freaky Tales\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is a wild, over-the-top love letter to Oakland. It involves four interconnected stories, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">most of which actually happened in the East Bay in 1987\u003c/a>. And it’s packed with landmarks, cameos and easter eggs for Oakland locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, then, are 27 local references and hidden details in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, listed from A to Z.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Be warned: This glossary contains spoilers!\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/TinaEtAl-EXT-Theater-1920x1436.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ji-young Yoo, as Tina, stares down Nazi skinheads outside the Grand Lake Theatre in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ Co-star Jack Champion wears a T-shirt for Corrupted Morals, the underground East Bay punk band which counted Primus’ Larry LaLonde and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as onetime members. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxriXHNuLcg\">Bitch Fight\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The character Tina can be seen wearing a T-shirt of this all-women punk band, which \u003ca href=\"https://razorcake.org/bitch-fight-all-we-wanted-was-everything-part-3-by-michelle-cruz-gonzales/\">moved from Tuolumne\u003c/a> to the Bay Area in 1987. Drummer Michelle Cruz Gonzales would later join Kamala & the Karnivores, drum for Spitboy and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=777\">write a memoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908540/remembering-la-filmmaker-david-lynch-and-his-lynchian-legacy\">Blue Velvet\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not so much a local reference, but filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden like to honor this David Lynch classic by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFEy3kWJ01B/?img_index=1\">sneaking references to it in their films\u003c/a>. It’s mentioned in passing in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/colonialdonuts/\">Colonial Donuts\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen on the clerk’s T-shirt in the video rental store, Colonial Donuts is an Oakland institution that abides by the three magic words: Open 24 Hours. With multiple locations, the beloved donut shop is just about the only thing “colonial” that Bay Area folks agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Danger Zone\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The stars of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ second chapter are Danger Zone, who perform “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” onstage with Too Short at Oakland hotspot Sweet Jimmie’s. The female rap duo of Barbie and Entice made their debut with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a warning to underage girls about predatory men. Too Short then brought them in the studio for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>,” and history was made. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Read the full backstory on Danger Zone here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/07/12/dicks-restaurant-gets-a-fresh-start-from-son-of-loyal-customer/\">Dick’s Restaurant\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A handful of scenes in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> were filmed at this now-boarded up San Leandro diner and adjoining sports lounge, which originally opened in 1969. This is not the restaurant’s first starring role — it also provided the setting for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt8AdNwTTUI\">Radiohead’s “High & Dry” U.S. music video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/el-cerrito\">The El Cerrito Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Where evil lives. In \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, the house of the Nazis is also where multiple scenes take place with Angus Cloud, Oakland’s son, in his final role. In real life, the house where filming took place is in the hills of El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-800x332.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1020x423.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-768x319.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1536x637.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyGiantBurger-1920x797.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis, as Sleepy Floyd, celebrates after his 29-point quarter at Giant Burger in Oakland in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sVoWIhUKg\">Sleepy Floyd\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Warriors point guard is played by Jay Ellis in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, but watch closely and you’ll see the real Sleepy Floyd make a cameo at a post-game hangout. (There’s \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=140\">a famous call by announcer Greg Papa\u003c/a> that shows up later in the film, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Too Short’s early rap partner is represented in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> as the character “Lenny G.” The rapper Stunnaman02, who plays Lenny, says that he tried to find Freddy B to get pointers for the role, but was unsuccessful. Too Short and Freddy B \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20160610000914/https://eastbayexpress.com/CultureSpyBlog/archives/2016/03/28/too-horts-30th-anniversary-show-couldnt-have-been-long-enough\">last appeared together onstage in 2016\u003c/a>, and according to reports, Freddy B is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyrepublic.com/lifestyle/from-drugs-prison-to-christian-missionary/article_fe8f3629-9338-5159-9b6c-22d9b247a425.html\">now a mission director\u003c/a> at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Giant_Burger\">1/4 lb. Giant Burger\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This Oakland institution — the one at Dimond and Macarthur — provides the after-hours meetup spot where Sleepy Floyd celebrates his record-breaking playoff performance with fans. (Hanging out among the people after a game \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIVF0KkEOU\">is a thing\u003c/a> for pro athletes from the Town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The venerable all-ages, all-volunteer punk club in Berkeley is the star of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ first chapter. And, because the filmmakers worked with Gilman volunteers past and present, they got a lot of details right: the basketball hoop, Big Wheels in the pit, the “Animal Liberation” graffiti, the “Meese is a Pig” poster. Gilman regulars like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">George Hated\u003c/a> are portrayed in the film, and logos of bands like Soup, Christ on Parade, Crummy Musicians, MDC and Sewer Trout can be seen. The set re-creation of the club was filmed in \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/d5hGHvyxTieJZD4H9\">a warehouse in East Oakland\u003c/a>, not actually at Gilman — but the \u003cem>feeling\u003c/em> is accurate, which is hard to do when depicting a regional punk scene in a Hollywood film. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland\">Read about the real-life Nazi beatdown at Gilman here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen in several scenes, with the marquee advertising 1987 films \u003cem>The Lost Boys\u003c/em> and Elaine May’s famous flop \u003cem>Ishtar\u003c/em>. Host to the local premiere in March of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, the Grand Lake needs no introduction — it’s part of every Oaklander’s formative memories and serves as one of the Bay’s last remaining movie palaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899154/sunami-review-san-jose-drain-gulch-show\">Gulch\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz hardcore band, now broken up, portrays the headlining band at Gilman after the Nazi brawl. (In reality, the band that played after the fight was \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\">MDC\u003c/a>.) Credited as “924 Gilman Band,” Gulch is shown playing songs by Black Flag and Negative Approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812623/tom-hanks-talks-trump-weinstein-and-america-at-city-arts-lectures\">Tom Hanks\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers have been trying to keep this cameo quiet, but the cat is out of the bag. Hanks, who \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/mYjw3B6K9qw?feature=shared&t=471\">worked as a concession vendor at the Oakland Coliseum when he was 14\u003c/a>, goes deep on nerdy film knowledge for a scene in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involving VHS rentals, and that’s all we’ll say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2880px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"Still shot from the 'Freaky Tales' trailer shows a "Late Night Video" storefront next to a braiding salon.\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM.png 2880w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-800x417.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1020x531.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-768x400.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1536x800.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-2048x1067.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-1.48.30 PM-1920x1000.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Telegraph Avenue, as seen in the ‘Freaky Tales’ trailer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972017/freaky-tales-trailer-oakland-too-short-pedro-pascal\">Jasmine African Hair Braiding\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This Telegraph Avenue standby is seen adjacent to a video rental store in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. The video store itself is in the former location of \u003ca href=\"https://hillsshoes1724.weebly.com/\">Hill’s Shoes\u003c/a>, which sold fine footwear to generations of Oakland residents for nearly 100 years before closing in 2020. (Also seen is the nearby sex shop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858579/rightnowish-nenna-joiners-inclusive-sex-toys-at-feelmore-adult-gallery-in-oakland\">Feelmore Adult Gallery\u003c/a>, which — oops — didn’t exist in 1987.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnHz8_BoUg\">Jewdriver\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, as the skinheads are getting ready to go out on the town, music reminiscent of the Nazi punk band Skrewdriver plays. But it’s not Skrewdriver — hilariously, it’s Jewdriver, the parody band from Oakland that wrote Jewish-themed lyrics to Skrewdriver’s racist songs. (Nazis getting beaten up \u003cem>and\u003c/em> denied sync royalties? Right on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3trBd6nsZ4\">Kamala and the Karnivores\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This band’s logo is seen on the back of Tina’s jacket in a diner scene. The band’s namesake, \u003ca href=\"https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/east-bay-punk-kamala-lyn-parks/\">Kamala Parks\u003c/a>, cofounded 924 Gilman, drummed for several bands, booked many other bands’ tours and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjlhlqcCTjM\">is too nice\u003c/a>. Kamala, drummer Michelle and singer Ivy all met with the \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> film crew and actors on set.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13959712/a-place-to-call-home-documentary-la-pena-cultural-center-murals\">La Peña Cultural Center\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not pictured in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, but it’s mentioned in one scene as the host of a hip-hop open mic, which have been a staple of the long-running community space. La Peña \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lapenaculturalcenter/\">celebrates its 50th anniversary\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13974106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13974106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Loards-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and Macarthur. \u003ccite>(Flickr/Anomalous A)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loards.com/\">Loard’s Ice Cream Parlor\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sure, there are other Loard’s locations. But the film crew restored the classic look of the now-shuttered Dimond location on Coolidge and MacArthur for \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, to great effect. When it appeared onscreen at its Grand Lake premiere, it elicited gasps and cheers from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13836150/the-power-of-taking-up-space-at-marshawn-lynchs-oakland-rideout\">Marshawn Lynch\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yep, that’s Beastmode driving an AC Transit bus in a quick cameo for \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966077/inside-the-trial-that-overturned-californias-same-sex-marriage-ban-proposition-8-mike-johnson-lgbtq-rights\">The Mormon Temple\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seen on the hill in a quick cut to Lake Merritt, this East Oakland landmark has been a shining beacon (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/master/1289408-Capital-Tax-Capital-Tax/image/SW1hZ2U6MjIwMTI5ODQ=\">photo shoot location\u003c/a>) to generations. Notably, the Mormon church excluded its Black members from priesthood ordinances in the temple until a 1978 reversal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene filmed at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13965624/oakland-as-last-game-songs-played-coliseum\">The Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The glorious concrete landmark provides the backdrop to a TV commercial for a new age mind-healing program called Psytopics. Director Ryan Fleck explained that Psytopics was based on “these weird spiritual centers that were all over the Bay Area” in 1987. “I just remember lo-fi commercials selling you this kind of spiritual wish fulfillment on television,” he said. The Oakland Arena, next door, can be seen in certain scenes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Operation Ivy\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The band that all but defined Gilman in the late 1980s is shown playing two songs in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, and guitarist Lint has a cameo in the film. The members of Operation Ivy also had some say in who got to portray them: the L.A. band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aphidsmusic\">Aphids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.corbettredford.com/\">Corbett Redford\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mustachioed director of the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\">Turn It Around\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is seen briefly in the movie’s opening scene — a nice nod, considering his documentary provided a roadmap for the Nazi brawl depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ first chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/230401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#mc-hammer-shoots-lets-get-it-started-at-sweet-jimmies\">Sweet Jimmie’s\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The site of the thrilling scene where Too Short and Danger Zone perform “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” and \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place to be in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s. As Luenell put it at the \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> premiere, “Sweet Jimmie’s was the hub — the music, the dancing, the food, the fellowship. It was \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.” Now known as the New Parish, the nightclub on San Pablo Avenue actually didn’t host rap shows in 1987, and certainly not Too Short shows. David “Sweets” Ward, the son of owner “Sweet Jimmie” Ward, says his dad was opposed to the profanity common in rap. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#mc-hammer-shoots-lets-get-it-started-at-sweet-jimmies\">MC Hammer recorded a music video at the club in 1988\u003c/a>, but of course, Hammer never swore in his songs.) Fun fact: because Saturday nights at Sweet Jimmie’s were broadcast live on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\">Soul Beat\u003c/a>, kids at home could watch their parents on TV, partying in real time. The club closed in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He narrates the movie. He’s portrayed by the rapper Symba. He’s an executive producer, and his nearly 10-minute song from 1987 provided the movie’s title. The day of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ release, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909460/movie-freaky-tales-is-a-love-letter-to-1980s-oakland\">came onto KQED Forum to discuss the film\u003c/a>. And yes, he’s got a cameo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/tower-of-power\">Tower of Power\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s music from Bay Area icons (Sly Stone, Metallica), punk bands (the Avengers, Black Flag) and ’80s freestyle artists (Stevie B, Pebbles) in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. This one’s special, though. How can you be mad when you hear “So Very Hard to Go” in the movie theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yeastiegirlz.com/our-story\">Yeastie Girlz\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was not your usual Wednesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Oakland’s movie palace in March, Hollywood actors made their way down the red carpet. Rap legends and punk OGs mingled beneath the marquee. Fans got on their tiptoes behind the line of TV cameras, jockeying for a glimpse of the film’s star, Pedro Pascal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Premieres at the Grand Lake are always exciting, but they’re extra special when the movie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">filmed and set in Oakland\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, from screenwriting and directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (\u003cem>Half Nelson, Captain Marvel\u003c/em>), is a revenge-fantasy flick that takes place in the year 1987. It’s filmed at Oakland landmarks, including the Oakland Coliseum, Giant Burger and the old Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and MacArthur. Marshawn Lynch and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong make cameos, as does Oakland rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>, who narrates and helped produce the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans crowd the sidewalk for the ‘Freaky Tales’ special screening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Pascal poses on the red carpet before the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s full, in other words, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">people and locations that carry name recognition for locals\u003c/a>. But nationally, Oakland has never quite received proper credit for its contributions to American culture at large. As rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921058/watch-rising-oakland-rap-star-symbas-tiny-desk-concert\">Symba\u003c/a>, who plays Too Short in the film, remarked on the red carpet, “People get their curations, their whole make-up, from things that we created here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, then, is a movie about a town with a permanent underdog complex — and, fittingly, it’s told through different chapters, interconnected by Pascal’s performance as a hitman, that have underdogs as their heroes. A ragtag bunch of pacifist punk rockers beats up a crew of Nazi skinheads. Two teenage girls in a rap battle rip to shreds a rapper known for objectifying women. A basketball point guard comes alive for a mind-blowing fourth quarter in a historic comeback win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freakiest thing of all? These are events that really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene outside the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the events depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involved people who are still around to witness what likely seemed impossible 38 years ago: a Hollywood movie with Oakland as its true star. Here are some of their real-life tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Punching Nazis: A punk love story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first chapter of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> follows young couple Tina (Ji-young Yoo) and Lucid (Jack Champion) as they navigate an increasing menace to their home-base punk collective of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>: neo-Nazi skinheads, who barge into shows, knock people to the ground, assault girls and women and destroy band equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a vote led by security guard Greg (LeQuan Antonio Bennett), the punks decide to fight back. During an Operation Ivy show at the Berkeley club, the Nazi skinheads return, but this time they’re met by a wall of punks armed with bats, chains and trash can lids. Battered in the ensuing brawl, the defeated Nazis pile into their smashed and dented pickup truck and drive away to the El Cerrito hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Nazi skinheads approaches punk club 924 Gilman in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1987, skinheads caused trouble at punk shows around the country, including at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, pictured. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minus a few details, the chapter is remarkably true to real-life events. Fleck and Boden had a good roadmap: the fight is recalled at length in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Gilman alum Corbett Redford, who came on as a technical advisor for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greg” in the film is based on George Stephens, a.k.a. George Hated, who in 1987 lived in West Oakland, sang in the band The Hated and served as head of security at Gilman. In an interview, Stephens, now 57, recalled walking out to the sidewalk that night and seeing Nondo, his friend who was also working security, lying in the gutter outside the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13974034']“And there were three Nazis standing over him, one holding a bat. So I grabbed the bat out of the guy’s hands and hit the three of them, got Nondo up, and got him inside,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any other night, that might have been the end of it. But just like in the film, the punks at Gilman had vowed to fight, and emptied into the street. Even Dave Dictor, the singer of “peace-punk” band MDC, who were headlining that night, joined in wielding an aluminum crutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people came out, and it turned into an absolute mess,” said Stephens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Stephens today, pictured in Alameda on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kamala Parks, who co-founded Gilman and drummed in several bands, remembered the nuanced deliberations about retaliating against Nazis among volunteers at the club, whose door rules stated “No Fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks who had previously taken a more pacifist standpoint had been convinced to fight back, mainly because skinhead violence had gotten more pronounced,” she said. (Parks herself had been punched in the face by a skinhead during a previous melee across town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the brawl outside Gilman, the punks had won. They even chased the Nazis across the street and smashed up their pickup truck before the skinheads sped away, fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1025px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-1020x1313.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-160x206.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-768x988.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from upper left) Kamala Parks drums with Cringer at 924 Gilman in 1990; the flyer for the show at Gilman on the night of the Nazi brawl, May 17, 1987; George Hated sings with the Hated at Gilman in 1992; rules posted at Gilman’s front door. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My heart was pounding right out of my chest,” Dave Dictor, MDC’s singer, recalled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363293-mdc\">his 2016 autobiography\u003c/a>. “Right after the battle it was time to get on stage and sing, but I was too numb to be able to change gears to talk about it from the stage. As I remember, we just plowed through the set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those mixed emotions were real, Parks said. “There was euphoria, but there’s dread, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You don’t know if they’re going to come back with a bigger group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks today, pictured in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks stayed on edge for a few weeks afterward. Amazingly, the Nazis never came back to Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Stephens points out, though, they never went away for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we live in America,” Stephens said. “It’s not surprising that the Proud Boys are back. That fringe has never really gone away in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You want a bit of danger, step into my zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Ryan will tell you, he’s been pitching me a version of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> for literally 15 years,” said Anna Boden, the film’s co-writer and co-director, in an interview. Her filmmaking partner, Ryan Fleck, grew up in Oakland; Boden in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he grew up listening to Too Short’s music and I did not. And so I was listening to Too Short’s music for the first time as a grown woman. And it was, like, a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> different experience for me than it was for Ryan,” she said of Short’s explicit and often misogynist subject material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too Short on the cover of his single ‘Freaky Tales,’ circa 1988; at right, Short’s early rap partner Freddy B in 1992. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music/Serious Sounds)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one song stuck out for Boden. In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>” from the 1989 album \u003cem>Life Is… Too Short\u003c/em>, Short trades verses with a female rap duo called Danger Zone, who insult his bankroll, poke fun at his bad breath and make repeated references to his size below the belt: “Do they call you Short because of your height or your width? / Diss me boy, I’ll hang your balls from a cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden knew she had found her entry to the story. “Hearing him allow himself to be taken down by these young women was kind of mind-blowing to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Barbie and Entice from Danger Zone are approached by Lenny G (the rapper Stunnaman02, in a role based on Short’s early rap partner \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>) to battle Short onstage at the Town’s hottest nightclub, Sweet Jimmie’s. Dubious of the proposition, but tired of being mistreated at their day job scooping ice cream, they accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song unfolds in a thrilling scene, verse for verse, with actor and rapper Symba portraying Short’s hunched gait and coy taunting. (Symba asked Short for pointers, “and he sent me four videos, and was like, ‘Just embody this, and you’ll be alright,’” he said.) Danger Zone, meanwhile, keep coming back with heat, and win over the crowd. By the end, Short daps up the girls, conceding a draw, if not defeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” came together in the studio, not on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tamra Goins is a talent agent in L.A. But in 1987, she was Entice — the 15-year-old East Oakland girl who linked up with her cousin, Bailey Brown, to form Danger Zone. They’d met Short through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934715/kimmie-fresh-real-freaky-tales-oakland\">the female rap pioneer Kimmie Fresh\u003c/a> years before recording “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” she said in an interview. Danger Zone had even been signed to Short’s Dangerous Music label, which released their song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a blunt warning to underage girls about predatory men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-800x685.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifteen-year-old cousins Bailey Brown and Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Barbie and Entice of Danger Zone, pictured in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Short’s manager, Randy Austin, pitched the concept for “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” to be included on Short’s next full-length album, Goins was hesitant, just like her character in the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re terrified, right? Because one, we’re kids. Two, Short was known to call people head doctors. I think I was still a virgin! So we just were terrified of what he could possibly say,” Goins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laying down the track at engineer Al Eaton’s One Little Indian studio in Richmond — essentially Eaton’s living room — Goins and Brown came for Short so viciously that the men present, like rappers Spice 1 and Rappin’ 4-Tay, kept laughing and ruining the take. “They’re running out of the house, cracking up, laughing,” said Goins. “We can’t even get through it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Co-director Ryan Fleck high-fives Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Entice from Danger Zone, ahead of the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Short was similarly unprepared for Danger Zone’s verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made the song, I did my two verses. And it was supposed to be about an old dude pullin’ up in his car flirting with these young girls,” Short explained on Nick Cannon’s \u003cem>We Playin’ Spades\u003c/em> podcast. “My verse was kinda nice. And they came back rippin’ me to shreds!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13934715']Short was rattled, but “I went home and listened to it, and I was like, ‘Damn, this is kind of cool … let me go back and talk a lotta shit about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>, and it’ll be a crazy song!’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After redoing his verses to match Danger Zone’s venom and adding Rappin’ 4-Tay to the track, the song grew to a ridiculous length of over 8 minutes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#kimmie-fresh-answers-too-shorts-freaky-tales-with-the-girls-story\">Kimmie Fresh had released her own eight-minute diss track to Short\u003c/a>, but this was men and women on the same song, a battle of the sexes on wax. Short knew it was gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1920x1164.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danger Zone’s Tamra Goins (Entice) at far left, and Bailey Brown (Barbie) third from left, in a group photo of the cast and crew of ‘Freaky Tales’ at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the song’s legendary status, Danger Zone never performed “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” live onstage with Short, as depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. (Goins and Short have done the song without Brown a handful of times at cruises and sorority events.) Brown, who later traveled the world as a dancer for MC Hammer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@getaroundwithbaileybrown\">currently lives in Ghana\u003c/a> most of the year, scriptwriting and producing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 53, Goins is proud of the song’s longevity among fans like Shaquille O’Neal, who lovingly \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/APrhXcftYPs?feature=shared&t=204\">goaded her into performing it on \u003cem>Sway’s Universe\u003c/em> in 2011\u003c/a>. But it comes with a dash of concern for her former 15-year-old self, rapping so brazenly amid the older pimps and players that inspired “Jailbait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’ll look back at the lyrics and I go, ‘Oh!’” she said. “I’m a mom now. I’ll be like, ‘And why was your name \u003cem>Entice\u003c/em>?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg 1427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-800x1056.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-768x1014.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1163x1536.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors’ Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers’ James Worthy during their playoff game at the Oakland Arena on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in a half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. \u003ccite>(Gary Reyes/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A warrior in more ways than one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ final chapter revolves around a story so well-known that it’s in the record books. In Game 4 of the 1987 NBA playoffs, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/warriors\">Warriors\u003c/a> were down 3-0 against the Lakers and trailed 102-88 going into the fourth quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd roared into action, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to propel the Warriors to victory. Game announcer Greg Papa, baffled and slightly hoarse, was moved to exclaim, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=135\">Sleepy Floyd is Superman!\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still stands today as the NBA postseason record for the most points scored by a player in a single quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd enters the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside the Grand Lake last month, Sleepy Floyd seemed surprised and humbled that his achievement is now part of a Hollywood film. Calling \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> “a love song to Oakland,” the point guard, now 65 and living in his home state of North Carolina, remarked that “just to have it centered around that game, truly I’m just blessed and honored to be a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd, who in the same matchup against the Lakers also set the record for the most points scored in a half of a playoff game with 39, is portrayed in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> by Jay Ellis (\u003cem>Insecure, Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em>). Without giving away too much, Sleepy Floyd becomes the star of the film’s climax, diverging drastically from real-life events, complete with supernatural samurai skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made me look a lot cooler than I actually am,” Floyd said with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Freaky Tales’ cast, with Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis at center, pose on the red carpet ahead of the Oakland premiere at the Grand Lake Theater on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gilman punks’ beatdown, Danger Zone’s dominance, Sleepy Floyd’s fireworks — \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> makes clear to a nationwide moviegoing audience what Oakland has always known about itself: this is a place of amazing people, events and stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Oakland on the red carpet at the Grand Lake premiere, Pedro Pascal put it simply: “It’s the raddest city in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Freaky Tales’ opens in wide release on Friday, April 4. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was not your usual Wednesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Oakland’s movie palace in March, Hollywood actors made their way down the red carpet. Rap legends and punk OGs mingled beneath the marquee. Fans got on their tiptoes behind the line of TV cameras, jockeying for a glimpse of the film’s star, Pedro Pascal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Premieres at the Grand Lake are always exciting, but they’re extra special when the movie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">filmed and set in Oakland\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, from screenwriting and directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (\u003cem>Half Nelson, Captain Marvel\u003c/em>), is a revenge-fantasy flick that takes place in the year 1987. It’s filmed at Oakland landmarks, including the Oakland Coliseum, Giant Burger and the old Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and MacArthur. Marshawn Lynch and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong make cameos, as does Oakland rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>, who narrates and helped produce the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans crowd the sidewalk for the ‘Freaky Tales’ special screening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Pascal poses on the red carpet before the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s full, in other words, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">people and locations that carry name recognition for locals\u003c/a>. But nationally, Oakland has never quite received proper credit for its contributions to American culture at large. As rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921058/watch-rising-oakland-rap-star-symbas-tiny-desk-concert\">Symba\u003c/a>, who plays Too Short in the film, remarked on the red carpet, “People get their curations, their whole make-up, from things that we created here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, then, is a movie about a town with a permanent underdog complex — and, fittingly, it’s told through different chapters, interconnected by Pascal’s performance as a hitman, that have underdogs as their heroes. A ragtag bunch of pacifist punk rockers beats up a crew of Nazi skinheads. Two teenage girls in a rap battle rip to shreds a rapper known for objectifying women. A basketball point guard comes alive for a mind-blowing fourth quarter in a historic comeback win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freakiest thing of all? These are events that really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene outside the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the events depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involved people who are still around to witness what likely seemed impossible 38 years ago: a Hollywood movie with Oakland as its true star. Here are some of their real-life tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Punching Nazis: A punk love story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first chapter of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> follows young couple Tina (Ji-young Yoo) and Lucid (Jack Champion) as they navigate an increasing menace to their home-base punk collective of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>: neo-Nazi skinheads, who barge into shows, knock people to the ground, assault girls and women and destroy band equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a vote led by security guard Greg (LeQuan Antonio Bennett), the punks decide to fight back. During an Operation Ivy show at the Berkeley club, the Nazi skinheads return, but this time they’re met by a wall of punks armed with bats, chains and trash can lids. Battered in the ensuing brawl, the defeated Nazis pile into their smashed and dented pickup truck and drive away to the El Cerrito hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Nazi skinheads approaches punk club 924 Gilman in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1987, skinheads caused trouble at punk shows around the country, including at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, pictured. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minus a few details, the chapter is remarkably true to real-life events. Fleck and Boden had a good roadmap: the fight is recalled at length in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Gilman alum Corbett Redford, who came on as a technical advisor for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greg” in the film is based on George Stephens, a.k.a. George Hated, who in 1987 lived in West Oakland, sang in the band The Hated and served as head of security at Gilman. In an interview, Stephens, now 57, recalled walking out to the sidewalk that night and seeing Nondo, his friend who was also working security, lying in the gutter outside the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“And there were three Nazis standing over him, one holding a bat. So I grabbed the bat out of the guy’s hands and hit the three of them, got Nondo up, and got him inside,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any other night, that might have been the end of it. But just like in the film, the punks at Gilman had vowed to fight, and emptied into the street. Even Dave Dictor, the singer of “peace-punk” band MDC, who were headlining that night, joined in wielding an aluminum crutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people came out, and it turned into an absolute mess,” said Stephens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Stephens today, pictured in Alameda on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kamala Parks, who co-founded Gilman and drummed in several bands, remembered the nuanced deliberations about retaliating against Nazis among volunteers at the club, whose door rules stated “No Fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks who had previously taken a more pacifist standpoint had been convinced to fight back, mainly because skinhead violence had gotten more pronounced,” she said. (Parks herself had been punched in the face by a skinhead during a previous melee across town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the brawl outside Gilman, the punks had won. They even chased the Nazis across the street and smashed up their pickup truck before the skinheads sped away, fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1025px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-1020x1313.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-160x206.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-768x988.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from upper left) Kamala Parks drums with Cringer at 924 Gilman in 1990; the flyer for the show at Gilman on the night of the Nazi brawl, May 17, 1987; George Hated sings with the Hated at Gilman in 1992; rules posted at Gilman’s front door. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My heart was pounding right out of my chest,” Dave Dictor, MDC’s singer, recalled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363293-mdc\">his 2016 autobiography\u003c/a>. “Right after the battle it was time to get on stage and sing, but I was too numb to be able to change gears to talk about it from the stage. As I remember, we just plowed through the set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those mixed emotions were real, Parks said. “There was euphoria, but there’s dread, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You don’t know if they’re going to come back with a bigger group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks today, pictured in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks stayed on edge for a few weeks afterward. Amazingly, the Nazis never came back to Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Stephens points out, though, they never went away for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we live in America,” Stephens said. “It’s not surprising that the Proud Boys are back. That fringe has never really gone away in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You want a bit of danger, step into my zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Ryan will tell you, he’s been pitching me a version of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> for literally 15 years,” said Anna Boden, the film’s co-writer and co-director, in an interview. Her filmmaking partner, Ryan Fleck, grew up in Oakland; Boden in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he grew up listening to Too Short’s music and I did not. And so I was listening to Too Short’s music for the first time as a grown woman. And it was, like, a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> different experience for me than it was for Ryan,” she said of Short’s explicit and often misogynist subject material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too Short on the cover of his single ‘Freaky Tales,’ circa 1988; at right, Short’s early rap partner Freddy B in 1992. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music/Serious Sounds)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one song stuck out for Boden. In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>” from the 1989 album \u003cem>Life Is… Too Short\u003c/em>, Short trades verses with a female rap duo called Danger Zone, who insult his bankroll, poke fun at his bad breath and make repeated references to his size below the belt: “Do they call you Short because of your height or your width? / Diss me boy, I’ll hang your balls from a cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden knew she had found her entry to the story. “Hearing him allow himself to be taken down by these young women was kind of mind-blowing to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Barbie and Entice from Danger Zone are approached by Lenny G (the rapper Stunnaman02, in a role based on Short’s early rap partner \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>) to battle Short onstage at the Town’s hottest nightclub, Sweet Jimmie’s. Dubious of the proposition, but tired of being mistreated at their day job scooping ice cream, they accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song unfolds in a thrilling scene, verse for verse, with actor and rapper Symba portraying Short’s hunched gait and coy taunting. (Symba asked Short for pointers, “and he sent me four videos, and was like, ‘Just embody this, and you’ll be alright,’” he said.) Danger Zone, meanwhile, keep coming back with heat, and win over the crowd. By the end, Short daps up the girls, conceding a draw, if not defeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” came together in the studio, not on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tamra Goins is a talent agent in L.A. But in 1987, she was Entice — the 15-year-old East Oakland girl who linked up with her cousin, Bailey Brown, to form Danger Zone. They’d met Short through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934715/kimmie-fresh-real-freaky-tales-oakland\">the female rap pioneer Kimmie Fresh\u003c/a> years before recording “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” she said in an interview. Danger Zone had even been signed to Short’s Dangerous Music label, which released their song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a blunt warning to underage girls about predatory men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-800x685.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifteen-year-old cousins Bailey Brown and Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Barbie and Entice of Danger Zone, pictured in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Short’s manager, Randy Austin, pitched the concept for “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” to be included on Short’s next full-length album, Goins was hesitant, just like her character in the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re terrified, right? Because one, we’re kids. Two, Short was known to call people head doctors. I think I was still a virgin! So we just were terrified of what he could possibly say,” Goins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laying down the track at engineer Al Eaton’s One Little Indian studio in Richmond — essentially Eaton’s living room — Goins and Brown came for Short so viciously that the men present, like rappers Spice 1 and Rappin’ 4-Tay, kept laughing and ruining the take. “They’re running out of the house, cracking up, laughing,” said Goins. “We can’t even get through it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Co-director Ryan Fleck high-fives Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Entice from Danger Zone, ahead of the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Short was similarly unprepared for Danger Zone’s verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made the song, I did my two verses. And it was supposed to be about an old dude pullin’ up in his car flirting with these young girls,” Short explained on Nick Cannon’s \u003cem>We Playin’ Spades\u003c/em> podcast. “My verse was kinda nice. And they came back rippin’ me to shreds!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Short was rattled, but “I went home and listened to it, and I was like, ‘Damn, this is kind of cool … let me go back and talk a lotta shit about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>, and it’ll be a crazy song!’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After redoing his verses to match Danger Zone’s venom and adding Rappin’ 4-Tay to the track, the song grew to a ridiculous length of over 8 minutes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#kimmie-fresh-answers-too-shorts-freaky-tales-with-the-girls-story\">Kimmie Fresh had released her own eight-minute diss track to Short\u003c/a>, but this was men and women on the same song, a battle of the sexes on wax. Short knew it was gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1920x1164.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danger Zone’s Tamra Goins (Entice) at far left, and Bailey Brown (Barbie) third from left, in a group photo of the cast and crew of ‘Freaky Tales’ at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the song’s legendary status, Danger Zone never performed “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” live onstage with Short, as depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. (Goins and Short have done the song without Brown a handful of times at cruises and sorority events.) Brown, who later traveled the world as a dancer for MC Hammer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@getaroundwithbaileybrown\">currently lives in Ghana\u003c/a> most of the year, scriptwriting and producing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 53, Goins is proud of the song’s longevity among fans like Shaquille O’Neal, who lovingly \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/APrhXcftYPs?feature=shared&t=204\">goaded her into performing it on \u003cem>Sway’s Universe\u003c/em> in 2011\u003c/a>. But it comes with a dash of concern for her former 15-year-old self, rapping so brazenly amid the older pimps and players that inspired “Jailbait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’ll look back at the lyrics and I go, ‘Oh!’” she said. “I’m a mom now. I’ll be like, ‘And why was your name \u003cem>Entice\u003c/em>?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg 1427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-800x1056.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-768x1014.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1163x1536.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors’ Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers’ James Worthy during their playoff game at the Oakland Arena on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in a half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. \u003ccite>(Gary Reyes/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A warrior in more ways than one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ final chapter revolves around a story so well-known that it’s in the record books. In Game 4 of the 1987 NBA playoffs, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/warriors\">Warriors\u003c/a> were down 3-0 against the Lakers and trailed 102-88 going into the fourth quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd roared into action, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to propel the Warriors to victory. Game announcer Greg Papa, baffled and slightly hoarse, was moved to exclaim, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=135\">Sleepy Floyd is Superman!\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still stands today as the NBA postseason record for the most points scored by a player in a single quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd enters the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside the Grand Lake last month, Sleepy Floyd seemed surprised and humbled that his achievement is now part of a Hollywood film. Calling \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> “a love song to Oakland,” the point guard, now 65 and living in his home state of North Carolina, remarked that “just to have it centered around that game, truly I’m just blessed and honored to be a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd, who in the same matchup against the Lakers also set the record for the most points scored in a half of a playoff game with 39, is portrayed in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> by Jay Ellis (\u003cem>Insecure, Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em>). Without giving away too much, Sleepy Floyd becomes the star of the film’s climax, diverging drastically from real-life events, complete with supernatural samurai skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made me look a lot cooler than I actually am,” Floyd said with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Freaky Tales’ cast, with Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis at center, pose on the red carpet ahead of the Oakland premiere at the Grand Lake Theater on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gilman punks’ beatdown, Danger Zone’s dominance, Sleepy Floyd’s fireworks — \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> makes clear to a nationwide moviegoing audience what Oakland has always known about itself: this is a place of amazing people, events and stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Oakland on the red carpet at the Grand Lake premiere, Pedro Pascal put it simply: “It’s the raddest city in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe it was the election anxiety. I went to see live music \u003cem>compulsively\u003c/em> in 2024 — over 50 shows, and that’s on top of another 20-odd plays, art exhibits, movies and events. Yes, it’s part of my job, but it’s also my connection to others, my spiritual practice, my therapy. And while I was able to review 15 live music shows for KQED by stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953284/nicki-minaj-review-oakland-arena-pink-friday-2-tour\">rap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">pop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955312/review-green-day-fillmore-photos-san-francisco\">rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951043/review-michael-tilson-thomas-mahler-5-san-francisco-symphony\">classical\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">jazz\u003c/a>, many others went unnoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of reasons for all of us to see live music, and to especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11027790/keep-listening-notes-on-turning-40-and-still-seeking-out-new-music\">seek out new music, no matter your age\u003c/a>. But in 2024, you’ll notice below, I also allowed myself the guilty pleasure of nostalgia. Here, then, are 30 shows I saw in 2024 which I didn’t review, now reviewed in just one sentence each — complete with bad photos from my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-800x613.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1020x782.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-160x123.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-768x589.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1536x1178.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan. 14\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>David Hegarty\u003cbr>\nCastro Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the double feature of \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Robocop\u003c/em>, I made a point of writing down the beloved organist’s setlist: “Consider Yourself,” “S’Wonderful,” “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” “A Wonderful Guy,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “That’s Entertainment” and, naturally, “San Francisco” (two weeks later, before a screening of \u003cem>2001\u003c/em>, he played “Also Sprach Zarathustra”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1126\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-800x696.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-1020x888.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-160x139.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-768x668.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Howard Wiley\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGod bless saxophonist Howard Wiley, who advertised a gospel music show and then opened his set with Ornette Coleman’s “The Face of the Bass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-160x133.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-768x636.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1536x1272.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>MDC\u003cbr>\nThe Ivy Room, Albany \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis San Francisco punk band once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12454758/bay-area-warehouse-scene-threatened-after-decades-of-incubating-art\">squatted inside the giant underground beer vats\u003c/a> of the former Hamm’s brewery on Bryant Street, just two and a half blocks from KQED’s current headquarters; at this haywire show, “Born to Die” still sounded tremendous, 43 years later. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1096\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-800x679.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-1020x865.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-768x651.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Deltrice\u003cbr>\nChris Club, Vallejo \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI want Deltrice to sing the hook on almost every Bay Area rap song I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/cellski.main_.jpg\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959762\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cellski with the Top Chefs\u003cbr>\nBrick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is nothing like a whole city turning out to shower love on one of its own, who performed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rqbZIraS_/\">every single song\u003c/a> from \u003cem>Mr. Predicter\u003c/em> for its 30th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png 1286w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lil Kayla\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDear Lil Kayla, I apologize on behalf of Sonoma County that only 85 people came to your show, hope you give us another shot someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 28 (and 31)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am not allowed to talk about Bruce Springsteen in public, because eventually someone spins their forefinger around their ear in the universal sign for “this guy’s crazy,” but suffice it to say, he opened with “Something In the Night” (!!) and when I got home I immediately bought a solo ticket to the second show. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"994\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danny Brown\u003cbr>\nRegency Ballroom, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpener Alice Longyu Gao bent minds with “Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire” and Bruiser Wolf melted hearts with “Momma Was a Dopefiend,” but it’s Detroit’s era in rap, and Danny Brown still brought the heat (speaketh the forefather: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv_OIFmLwg\">My hoe got tats on her face, sell me them cookies from Oakland\u003c/a>”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png 1715w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-768x734.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1536x1467.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>454\u003cbr>\nThe Independent, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLet us all have the energy of 10 bowls of Frosted Flakes before we bound onstage and bounce, weave, skitter and float about for 40 minutes of unfiltered joy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png 1526w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-800x726.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-1020x925.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-160x145.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-768x697.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 18\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Piner High School Band\u003cbr>\nRose Parade, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt should be considered cruel and unusual punishment to force high school music students into military marching rituals, and yet I, a former band kid, still felt a strange sort of pride to see my alma mater persisting against brutal budget cuts to public school music programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"1276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-768x755.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Too Short\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakland Is the Most Amazing City In the World, Chapter 3,276: Too Short agreeing to this free afternoon show on the shore of the lake for thousands of people on a random Tuesday … to promote \u003cem>voter registration\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1162\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-800x729.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-1020x930.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 29\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Alegres del Barranco\u003cbr>\nJuilliard Park, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is an attraction in \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listening to concerts from outside the fence\u003c/a> — and just a few nights after watching Los Alegres del Barranco’s norteño corridos through the chain link, my daughter and I stood outside City Hall in San Francisco to hear Skrillex’s set wafting through the nighttime air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1102\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969117\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-800x684.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-1020x873.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-768x657.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 9\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gary Bartz\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTruly (and I imagine guest trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire agrees) all of us can only hope to be one-tenth as funny and creative as Gary Bartz when we, too, are 83. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png 1722w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-800x615.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1020x784.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-768x590.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1536x1181.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Houston Person\u003cbr>\nTown Plaza, Healdsburg \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI played his version of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3K7msLNes\">Young, Gifted and Black\u003c/a>” for a week straight afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969116\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Standing on the Corner\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAcross a 13-song set of spaced-out songs like “Angel,” “Get Out the Ghetto” and “Genocide,” Gio Escobar recited original poetry, covered Chuck Berry and showed that New York, though it historically looks down on the Bay Area, has a bit of our experimental, political bent after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969121\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aug. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>X\u003cbr>\nGuild Theatre, Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI danced and danced and danced and danced and danced, and did not stop until an acoustic duet of John and Exene singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zfrW0F2K8\">See How We Are\u003c/a>,” and only because it rendered my knees too weak to move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"936\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-800x655.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-1020x835.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-160x131.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-768x628.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fifteen\u003cbr>\nArlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe lines “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fv5ZFuiGiXQ?si=UqRQ4WULyM6Qv2Gy&t=165\">I was born a little too late to see the dream that they called America / See I only wanna be a free man but it’s against the law to sleep on the ground in God’s land\u003c/a>” felt more relevant than ever after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision criminalizing camping on public property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"776\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png 1042w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Smoking Popes\u003cbr>\nGreat American Music Hall, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThey dropped a minute or so of the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” into the middle of “Gotta Know Right Now,” and I died right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1002\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-800x701.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-1020x893.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-160x140.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-768x673.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Future and Metro Boomin\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile Future isn’t a rap dinosaur by any means, when the transcendence of “March Madness” filled the arena, I had a sobering realization that the song is now nearly 10 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-800x550.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-1020x701.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 16\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pulp\u003cbr>\nBill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt was a Monday night, tickets on Stubhub were literally $9, and Jarvis Cocker talked about Richard Brautigan living on Geary Street before soaring through “This Is Hardcore,” a perfect song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969114\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Linda Lindas\u003cbr>\n924 Gilman, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPerhaps the most wholesome punk show I’ve ever seen; I lost count of how many parents I ran into in the packed crowd, bringing their children to Gilman for the first time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1146\" height=\"828\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969112\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png 1146w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 23\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Nicki Minaj\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI WISH I COULD QUIT YOU NICKI 🤷♂️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"770\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Built to Spill\u003cbr>\nThe Fillmore, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe new rhythm section shreds, the transition from “Twin Falls” into “Some” is better than hospital painkillers, and Doug Martsch’s beard has grown capable of knocking over tall buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"846\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-800x592.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-1020x754.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Billy Ocean\u003cbr>\nGraton Casino, Rohnert Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA very long-overdue show in the Bay Area; Billy Ocean basically has six hits, but they are really, really good hits, and he still has \u003cem>that voice\u003c/em> — let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 20 years for him to return. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1134\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png 1134w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-1020x729.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1134px) 100vw, 1134px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bladee\u003cbr>\nThe Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo years ago, with ecco2k, Bladee delivered a beautiful, joyful show at Complex in Oakland, and maybe fame really does curdle people, or else Bladee was simply leaning hard into the concept of \u003cem>Cold Visions\u003c/em>, because this time around, bleakness reigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1006\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-768x678.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>History of the Bay\u003cbr>\nThe Midway, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Area has an eternally deep well of unsung rap heroes, which means that as monumental as it is to get B-Legit, Kamaiyah, Souls of Mischief, Rick Rock and Mob Figaz on stage together, it still feels like a mere sliver of talent; shout out to Dregs One for playing the long game and building the history piece by piece. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"972\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-768x653.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>D.R.I.\u003cbr>\nNeck of the Woods, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo people got thrown out, girls crowdsurfed over the pit, someone fell asleep on the stage, and afterward, talking to singer Kurt Brecht with swirling thoughts of 500 things to say, all I could muster was “Thank you for the great art you have given the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"950\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-1020x849.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 27\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phoenix Halloween Show\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA classic Halloween-covers night, except this year at the Phoenix, Miss Minor’s insanely elaborate Britney Spears tribute — period-correct in wardrobe, set and choreography — capped the night, along with a giant balloon drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969133\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-800x712.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-1020x907.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-160x142.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-768x683.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nov. 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kirk Franklin’s Reunion Tour\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went for the Clark Sisters, but the surprise of the night was Yolanda Adams, who, at 63, sent shivers down the spine; meanwhile, Kirk Franklin only had to play two piano notes before a spontaneous mass acapella sing-along of “Silver & Gold” broke out around the arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1996\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-800x832.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Maybe it was the election anxiety. I went to see live music \u003cem>compulsively\u003c/em> in 2024 — over 50 shows, and that’s on top of another 20-odd plays, art exhibits, movies and events. Yes, it’s part of my job, but it’s also my connection to others, my spiritual practice, my therapy. And while I was able to review 15 live music shows for KQED by stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953284/nicki-minaj-review-oakland-arena-pink-friday-2-tour\">rap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">pop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955312/review-green-day-fillmore-photos-san-francisco\">rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951043/review-michael-tilson-thomas-mahler-5-san-francisco-symphony\">classical\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">jazz\u003c/a>, many others went unnoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of reasons for all of us to see live music, and to especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11027790/keep-listening-notes-on-turning-40-and-still-seeking-out-new-music\">seek out new music, no matter your age\u003c/a>. But in 2024, you’ll notice below, I also allowed myself the guilty pleasure of nostalgia. Here, then, are 30 shows I saw in 2024 which I didn’t review, now reviewed in just one sentence each — complete with bad photos from my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-800x613.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1020x782.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-160x123.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-768x589.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1536x1178.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan. 14\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>David Hegarty\u003cbr>\nCastro Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the double feature of \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Robocop\u003c/em>, I made a point of writing down the beloved organist’s setlist: “Consider Yourself,” “S’Wonderful,” “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” “A Wonderful Guy,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “That’s Entertainment” and, naturally, “San Francisco” (two weeks later, before a screening of \u003cem>2001\u003c/em>, he played “Also Sprach Zarathustra”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1126\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-800x696.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-1020x888.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-160x139.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-768x668.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Howard Wiley\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGod bless saxophonist Howard Wiley, who advertised a gospel music show and then opened his set with Ornette Coleman’s “The Face of the Bass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-160x133.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-768x636.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1536x1272.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>MDC\u003cbr>\nThe Ivy Room, Albany \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis San Francisco punk band once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12454758/bay-area-warehouse-scene-threatened-after-decades-of-incubating-art\">squatted inside the giant underground beer vats\u003c/a> of the former Hamm’s brewery on Bryant Street, just two and a half blocks from KQED’s current headquarters; at this haywire show, “Born to Die” still sounded tremendous, 43 years later. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1096\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-800x679.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-1020x865.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-768x651.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Deltrice\u003cbr>\nChris Club, Vallejo \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI want Deltrice to sing the hook on almost every Bay Area rap song I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/cellski.main_.jpg\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959762\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cellski with the Top Chefs\u003cbr>\nBrick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is nothing like a whole city turning out to shower love on one of its own, who performed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rqbZIraS_/\">every single song\u003c/a> from \u003cem>Mr. Predicter\u003c/em> for its 30th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png 1286w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lil Kayla\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDear Lil Kayla, I apologize on behalf of Sonoma County that only 85 people came to your show, hope you give us another shot someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 28 (and 31)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am not allowed to talk about Bruce Springsteen in public, because eventually someone spins their forefinger around their ear in the universal sign for “this guy’s crazy,” but suffice it to say, he opened with “Something In the Night” (!!) and when I got home I immediately bought a solo ticket to the second show. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"994\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danny Brown\u003cbr>\nRegency Ballroom, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpener Alice Longyu Gao bent minds with “Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire” and Bruiser Wolf melted hearts with “Momma Was a Dopefiend,” but it’s Detroit’s era in rap, and Danny Brown still brought the heat (speaketh the forefather: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv_OIFmLwg\">My hoe got tats on her face, sell me them cookies from Oakland\u003c/a>”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png 1715w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-768x734.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1536x1467.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>454\u003cbr>\nThe Independent, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLet us all have the energy of 10 bowls of Frosted Flakes before we bound onstage and bounce, weave, skitter and float about for 40 minutes of unfiltered joy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png 1526w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-800x726.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-1020x925.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-160x145.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-768x697.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 18\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Piner High School Band\u003cbr>\nRose Parade, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt should be considered cruel and unusual punishment to force high school music students into military marching rituals, and yet I, a former band kid, still felt a strange sort of pride to see my alma mater persisting against brutal budget cuts to public school music programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"1276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-768x755.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Too Short\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakland Is the Most Amazing City In the World, Chapter 3,276: Too Short agreeing to this free afternoon show on the shore of the lake for thousands of people on a random Tuesday … to promote \u003cem>voter registration\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1162\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-800x729.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-1020x930.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 29\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Alegres del Barranco\u003cbr>\nJuilliard Park, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is an attraction in \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listening to concerts from outside the fence\u003c/a> — and just a few nights after watching Los Alegres del Barranco’s norteño corridos through the chain link, my daughter and I stood outside City Hall in San Francisco to hear Skrillex’s set wafting through the nighttime air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1102\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969117\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-800x684.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-1020x873.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-768x657.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 9\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gary Bartz\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTruly (and I imagine guest trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire agrees) all of us can only hope to be one-tenth as funny and creative as Gary Bartz when we, too, are 83. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png 1722w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-800x615.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1020x784.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-768x590.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1536x1181.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Houston Person\u003cbr>\nTown Plaza, Healdsburg \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI played his version of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3K7msLNes\">Young, Gifted and Black\u003c/a>” for a week straight afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969116\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Standing on the Corner\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAcross a 13-song set of spaced-out songs like “Angel,” “Get Out the Ghetto” and “Genocide,” Gio Escobar recited original poetry, covered Chuck Berry and showed that New York, though it historically looks down on the Bay Area, has a bit of our experimental, political bent after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969121\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aug. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>X\u003cbr>\nGuild Theatre, Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI danced and danced and danced and danced and danced, and did not stop until an acoustic duet of John and Exene singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zfrW0F2K8\">See How We Are\u003c/a>,” and only because it rendered my knees too weak to move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"936\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-800x655.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-1020x835.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-160x131.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-768x628.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fifteen\u003cbr>\nArlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe lines “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fv5ZFuiGiXQ?si=UqRQ4WULyM6Qv2Gy&t=165\">I was born a little too late to see the dream that they called America / See I only wanna be a free man but it’s against the law to sleep on the ground in God’s land\u003c/a>” felt more relevant than ever after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision criminalizing camping on public property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"776\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png 1042w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Smoking Popes\u003cbr>\nGreat American Music Hall, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThey dropped a minute or so of the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” into the middle of “Gotta Know Right Now,” and I died right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1002\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-800x701.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-1020x893.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-160x140.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-768x673.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Future and Metro Boomin\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile Future isn’t a rap dinosaur by any means, when the transcendence of “March Madness” filled the arena, I had a sobering realization that the song is now nearly 10 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-800x550.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-1020x701.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 16\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pulp\u003cbr>\nBill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt was a Monday night, tickets on Stubhub were literally $9, and Jarvis Cocker talked about Richard Brautigan living on Geary Street before soaring through “This Is Hardcore,” a perfect song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969114\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Linda Lindas\u003cbr>\n924 Gilman, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPerhaps the most wholesome punk show I’ve ever seen; I lost count of how many parents I ran into in the packed crowd, bringing their children to Gilman for the first time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1146\" height=\"828\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969112\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png 1146w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 23\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Nicki Minaj\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI WISH I COULD QUIT YOU NICKI 🤷♂️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"770\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Built to Spill\u003cbr>\nThe Fillmore, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe new rhythm section shreds, the transition from “Twin Falls” into “Some” is better than hospital painkillers, and Doug Martsch’s beard has grown capable of knocking over tall buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"846\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-800x592.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-1020x754.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Billy Ocean\u003cbr>\nGraton Casino, Rohnert Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA very long-overdue show in the Bay Area; Billy Ocean basically has six hits, but they are really, really good hits, and he still has \u003cem>that voice\u003c/em> — let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 20 years for him to return. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1134\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png 1134w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-1020x729.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1134px) 100vw, 1134px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bladee\u003cbr>\nThe Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo years ago, with ecco2k, Bladee delivered a beautiful, joyful show at Complex in Oakland, and maybe fame really does curdle people, or else Bladee was simply leaning hard into the concept of \u003cem>Cold Visions\u003c/em>, because this time around, bleakness reigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1006\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-768x678.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>History of the Bay\u003cbr>\nThe Midway, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Area has an eternally deep well of unsung rap heroes, which means that as monumental as it is to get B-Legit, Kamaiyah, Souls of Mischief, Rick Rock and Mob Figaz on stage together, it still feels like a mere sliver of talent; shout out to Dregs One for playing the long game and building the history piece by piece. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"972\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-768x653.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>D.R.I.\u003cbr>\nNeck of the Woods, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo people got thrown out, girls crowdsurfed over the pit, someone fell asleep on the stage, and afterward, talking to singer Kurt Brecht with swirling thoughts of 500 things to say, all I could muster was “Thank you for the great art you have given the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"950\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-1020x849.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 27\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phoenix Halloween Show\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA classic Halloween-covers night, except this year at the Phoenix, Miss Minor’s insanely elaborate Britney Spears tribute — period-correct in wardrobe, set and choreography — capped the night, along with a giant balloon drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969133\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-800x712.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-1020x907.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-160x142.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-768x683.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nov. 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kirk Franklin’s Reunion Tour\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went for the Clark Sisters, but the surprise of the night was Yolanda Adams, who, at 63, sent shivers down the spine; meanwhile, Kirk Franklin only had to play two piano notes before a spontaneous mass acapella sing-along of “Silver & Gold” broke out around the arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1996\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-800x832.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-1020x1060.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-160x166.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-768x798.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-1478x1536.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stand at the back of a punk club like Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a> nowadays, and the entire crowd will invariably be lit up with a hundred little screens, all recording a moment in time to share online later. But at the primordial 924 Gilman of yesteryear, there was often just a single camera in the crowd, held in Murray Bowles’ hand flicking out far above his head, followed by a quick flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white crowd shot at a punk show. Photographer Murray Bowles, a bearded white man in a flannel shirt, is featured mid-frame with his camera raised above his head.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles’ signature ‘Hail Mary’ shooting style. \u003ccite>(Christian Larsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/products/hail-murray\">\u003ci>Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982–1995\u003c/i>\u003c/a> (Last Gasp; $39.95) is a sprawling, 270-page monograph of black and white photos representing a wildly creative and supercharged era of local underground music. If you attended any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/punk\">Bay Area punk\u003c/a> shows from the 1980s through the 1990s, you likely crossed paths with Murray, its de facto chronicler. Wrapped in a decidedly civilian package — an older man with floppy brown hair, bearded, and bespectacled — he looked more like a computer programmer than a punk (and, unbeknownst to many, he actually \u003ci>was\u003c/i> a programmer of note in early Silicon Valley). At first glance, one might be surprised to learn that this understated character was an essential contributor to the chaotic music scene that birthed bands like Operation Ivy, Blatz and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a black and white crowd photo of punk dancing at an outside show. The book title Hail Murray is in red font at the top.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995.’ \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the show had ended, while everyone else slept off their hangovers or rotted all night at the 24-hour donut shop, Murray would be hunkered down in the makeshift darkroom set up in his kitchen, spending hours developing pictures of bands. He would later gather up all of the prints and shove them into a shoebox to bring to shows to share and sell for 15¢ a piece, the cost of the paper. (This was later raised to a quarter. Inflation, y’all.) While rifling through Murray’s shoebox, eager eyeballs went on the lookout for pictures of favorite bands or secret crushes, but more than anything else, people were hoping to find a photo of themselves. Being captured in a Murray picture was a stamp of approval. It was a confirmation that you had indeed been there. That you belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manifestation of belonging takes on various forms in the punk scene. It doesn’t matter how shy a person is, or how lacking in musical ability. Everyone has a role. And while bands have always enjoyed the spotlight, they’re just one part of a complex ecosystem. There are zine editors, promoters, the people who feed and house the touring bands, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830408/going-strong-since-1990-this-low-budget-newsletter-is-a-punk-institution\">Steve List\u003c/a>, the volunteers who sweep the floors and clean the toilets. These often unsung community heroes are the reason the punk scene has been able to function and evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968882 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A young white girl with long brown hair plays a Gibson guitar\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squat, Nightbreak, San Francisco, 1995. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do this work that is neither glamorous nor rewarded? Sometimes community service is a calling. As Murray famously said, “I wanted to be more than just a spectator.” There are those people who see something that needs to be done and are compelled to do it. Surely no one embodies this more than Anna Brown, teacher, longtime East Bay punk, and Murray’s most bulldogged advocate, the person who consented to take on the monumental task of compiling, designing, and editing \u003ci>Hail Murray!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna first met Murray at a show in 1987; the next thing she knew, she was a regular passenger in his Rabbit Cabriolet, on the way to film screenings, art openings, punk shows and hikes. Murray was notoriously inscrutable, and didn’t often talk about himself. Anna, on the other hand, was articulate, outgoing and tough. Their personalities complementing each other, they became lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1277px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg 1277w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Brown with friend Aaron, 1993. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I ask Anna how long she’s been working on this book, she gets a faraway look in her eye. “I’d always wanted to make this book, ever since I was a teenager,” she tells me. “Murray was into the idea but he was very passive in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2010, the two began to tackle the project, mind-boggling in its scope. Murray took dozens of photos, every single weekend, for almost 40 years. What would a body of work of that magnitude look like? How could you even begin to catalog and curate it? They caught a break in 2017 when the documentary team behind \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/i> digitized thousands of Murray’s photos, but that still left thousands \u003cem>more\u003c/em> to sift through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13938024']Then in 2019, Murray Bowles died unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he died, I felt super guilty because we had this whole plan,” Anna tells me. The two friends had planned to spend Murray’s retirement years going around the country doing book tours and gallery shows, the culmination of a life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really bad that he didn’t get a chance to do any of that stuff, or to see the book,” Anna says. “So I became extremely determined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1428px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg 1428w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Ivy, Gilman Street, Berkeley, 1988. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anna transcribed interviews, received feedback, taught herself Photoshop and InDesign, solicited funding and found a publisher. Along the way, she experimented with different layouts, and how to best encapsulate the life’s work of her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of anxiety about these pictures that are sacred to our people,” she explains. “They mean so much to everyone. It felt like I was handling an incredibly fragile, delicate thing. I knew that everyone was going to have their own ideas about how they wanted the book to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13871151']In the end, Anna decided that Bowles’ aesthetic would be best captured as a monograph. Punk may be messy, but \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> is impeccably clean and gorgeous. Each 12” x 9” landscape page is devoted to a single black and white photograph, giving it ample space to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there’s a multitude of band photos in the book — from lesser-known entities like thrash band Sluglords to well-known groups like Rancid — many of its most compelling images are moments captured between friends. Young people sprawled on the hoods of cars, friends drinking beer on couches or hunkered down in a stairwell, girls carrying other girls through the pit, inexplicable configurations of body parts at a crowded house show where you’re not even sure where one person ends and the next person begins. There is an implied intimacy to the work, underscored by a minimalist approach to titles and descriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968877\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968877 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Punk band Special Forces plays at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. Orlando, a tall Black man with a mohawk, stands in front with a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special Forces, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, 1985. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the absence of elaborate captions or other explicit context cues, one might ask how \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> will be perceived by those outside of the community it chronicles. For punks, part of the excitement was digging through Murray’s photo box, scanning the faces in the crowd and wondering: “Am I in here?” But outsiders to the punk scene may be surprised to see themselves here, too, reflected in the universal quest for fun and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Murray’s work is ‘about’ anything, it’s about the joy of punk,” Anna says. “Going through his archives, you come away feeling that Murray’s mission, in simplest terms, was to celebrate the feeling of being there on any given night or afternoon — the collective energy of a singular moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles 1982–1995’ is celebrated in a release party with live music by Smokers and Nasty World on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. 4pm–9pm. \u003ca href=\"https://111minnagallery.com/event/hail-murray-book-party/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stand at the back of a punk club like Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a> nowadays, and the entire crowd will invariably be lit up with a hundred little screens, all recording a moment in time to share online later. But at the primordial 924 Gilman of yesteryear, there was often just a single camera in the crowd, held in Murray Bowles’ hand flicking out far above his head, followed by a quick flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white crowd shot at a punk show. Photographer Murray Bowles, a bearded white man in a flannel shirt, is featured mid-frame with his camera raised above his head.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles’ signature ‘Hail Mary’ shooting style. \u003ccite>(Christian Larsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/products/hail-murray\">\u003ci>Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982–1995\u003c/i>\u003c/a> (Last Gasp; $39.95) is a sprawling, 270-page monograph of black and white photos representing a wildly creative and supercharged era of local underground music. If you attended any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/punk\">Bay Area punk\u003c/a> shows from the 1980s through the 1990s, you likely crossed paths with Murray, its de facto chronicler. Wrapped in a decidedly civilian package — an older man with floppy brown hair, bearded, and bespectacled — he looked more like a computer programmer than a punk (and, unbeknownst to many, he actually \u003ci>was\u003c/i> a programmer of note in early Silicon Valley). At first glance, one might be surprised to learn that this understated character was an essential contributor to the chaotic music scene that birthed bands like Operation Ivy, Blatz and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a black and white crowd photo of punk dancing at an outside show. The book title Hail Murray is in red font at the top.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995.’ \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the show had ended, while everyone else slept off their hangovers or rotted all night at the 24-hour donut shop, Murray would be hunkered down in the makeshift darkroom set up in his kitchen, spending hours developing pictures of bands. He would later gather up all of the prints and shove them into a shoebox to bring to shows to share and sell for 15¢ a piece, the cost of the paper. (This was later raised to a quarter. Inflation, y’all.) While rifling through Murray’s shoebox, eager eyeballs went on the lookout for pictures of favorite bands or secret crushes, but more than anything else, people were hoping to find a photo of themselves. Being captured in a Murray picture was a stamp of approval. It was a confirmation that you had indeed been there. That you belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manifestation of belonging takes on various forms in the punk scene. It doesn’t matter how shy a person is, or how lacking in musical ability. Everyone has a role. And while bands have always enjoyed the spotlight, they’re just one part of a complex ecosystem. There are zine editors, promoters, the people who feed and house the touring bands, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830408/going-strong-since-1990-this-low-budget-newsletter-is-a-punk-institution\">Steve List\u003c/a>, the volunteers who sweep the floors and clean the toilets. These often unsung community heroes are the reason the punk scene has been able to function and evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968882 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A young white girl with long brown hair plays a Gibson guitar\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squat, Nightbreak, San Francisco, 1995. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do this work that is neither glamorous nor rewarded? Sometimes community service is a calling. As Murray famously said, “I wanted to be more than just a spectator.” There are those people who see something that needs to be done and are compelled to do it. Surely no one embodies this more than Anna Brown, teacher, longtime East Bay punk, and Murray’s most bulldogged advocate, the person who consented to take on the monumental task of compiling, designing, and editing \u003ci>Hail Murray!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna first met Murray at a show in 1987; the next thing she knew, she was a regular passenger in his Rabbit Cabriolet, on the way to film screenings, art openings, punk shows and hikes. Murray was notoriously inscrutable, and didn’t often talk about himself. Anna, on the other hand, was articulate, outgoing and tough. Their personalities complementing each other, they became lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1277px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg 1277w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Brown with friend Aaron, 1993. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I ask Anna how long she’s been working on this book, she gets a faraway look in her eye. “I’d always wanted to make this book, ever since I was a teenager,” she tells me. “Murray was into the idea but he was very passive in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2010, the two began to tackle the project, mind-boggling in its scope. Murray took dozens of photos, every single weekend, for almost 40 years. What would a body of work of that magnitude look like? How could you even begin to catalog and curate it? They caught a break in 2017 when the documentary team behind \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/i> digitized thousands of Murray’s photos, but that still left thousands \u003cem>more\u003c/em> to sift through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then in 2019, Murray Bowles died unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he died, I felt super guilty because we had this whole plan,” Anna tells me. The two friends had planned to spend Murray’s retirement years going around the country doing book tours and gallery shows, the culmination of a life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really bad that he didn’t get a chance to do any of that stuff, or to see the book,” Anna says. “So I became extremely determined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1428px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg 1428w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Ivy, Gilman Street, Berkeley, 1988. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anna transcribed interviews, received feedback, taught herself Photoshop and InDesign, solicited funding and found a publisher. Along the way, she experimented with different layouts, and how to best encapsulate the life’s work of her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of anxiety about these pictures that are sacred to our people,” she explains. “They mean so much to everyone. It felt like I was handling an incredibly fragile, delicate thing. I knew that everyone was going to have their own ideas about how they wanted the book to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the end, Anna decided that Bowles’ aesthetic would be best captured as a monograph. Punk may be messy, but \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> is impeccably clean and gorgeous. Each 12” x 9” landscape page is devoted to a single black and white photograph, giving it ample space to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there’s a multitude of band photos in the book — from lesser-known entities like thrash band Sluglords to well-known groups like Rancid — many of its most compelling images are moments captured between friends. Young people sprawled on the hoods of cars, friends drinking beer on couches or hunkered down in a stairwell, girls carrying other girls through the pit, inexplicable configurations of body parts at a crowded house show where you’re not even sure where one person ends and the next person begins. There is an implied intimacy to the work, underscored by a minimalist approach to titles and descriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968877\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968877 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Punk band Special Forces plays at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. Orlando, a tall Black man with a mohawk, stands in front with a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special Forces, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, 1985. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the absence of elaborate captions or other explicit context cues, one might ask how \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> will be perceived by those outside of the community it chronicles. For punks, part of the excitement was digging through Murray’s photo box, scanning the faces in the crowd and wondering: “Am I in here?” But outsiders to the punk scene may be surprised to see themselves here, too, reflected in the universal quest for fun and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Murray’s work is ‘about’ anything, it’s about the joy of punk,” Anna says. “Going through his archives, you come away feeling that Murray’s mission, in simplest terms, was to celebrate the feeling of being there on any given night or afternoon — the collective energy of a singular moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Kickstarter aims to raise $20,000 to fund the replacement of 924 Gilman’s existing side door with new doors that will nearly double the club’s capacity, as well as help make the venue more accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a project nearly 15 years in the making, says musician and longtime Gilman volunteer Alex Botkin — but the financial strain of the pandemic made the upgrade more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Keahey/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After coming back from being closed during COVID, we’ve seen a growing increase in costs just to keep the venue running,” says Botkin, noting that Gilman volunteers have been working with the City of Berkeley for the past seven months to get the proper permits in place. “We’ve always tried to operate within legal capacity, which has been 225, and for much larger shows that’s really difficult to accommodate. This will help with getting as many people in as possible.” The Berkeley Fire Department will determine the club’s new capacity following the renovation, but volunteers expect the new number to be 500 to 550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming up with rewards for donors, Botkin says volunteers were looking for something “authentically Gilman, that no one could misconstrue as corporate or sellout-ish.” They landed on “wall chunks.” Following the renovation, supporters who donated $100 will receive a four- to five-inch piece of the heavily illustrated and tagged interior wall that currently surrounds the existing door, along with a certificate of authenticity signed by a Gilman volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People come by Gilman from far-away places just to see a little bit of East Bay punk history, and they always talk about how amazing the actual building is,” says Botkin. “So this is giving people a chance to have a small piece of it in their home.”[aside postID='arts_13239750']“Also it’s just funny,” he acknowledges. “Like, can we sell people rubble?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedic value aside, the fundraiser speaks to the tenuous nature of Gilman’s existence in the year 2023. Known worldwide by punk fans, celebrated by legendary rock bands and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12978058/municipal-honors-for-924-gilman-punk-really-is-dead\">feted by the City of Berkeley itself\u003c/a> — something that would have been unimaginable 30 years ago — the club still teeters on the brink of unsustainability. As a DIY space in a fully gentrified Berkeley neighborhood, it relies on new generations of young people discovering it, putting in hours of unpaid work on it, tending to both its legacy and its day-to-day functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s always nostalgia involved when it comes to Gilman, says Botkin. But upgrades like these are about “the reality of keeping the place running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13939358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"a blank tan exterior wall of a building with a single door\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/image0-5-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman’s current side door. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alex Botkin/924 Gilman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the existing side door — the site of countless punk dramas, romances and smoke breaks over the past four decades — it will do what so many industry veterans do when they retire: head to Vegas. 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"content": "\u003cp>Murray Bowles, the photographer who chronicled the characters, chaos and energy of the Bay Area’s punk scene for over three decades, died at his home in Sacramento on Sunday. He was 68.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often seen in the middle of swirling crowds, one arm lifting his camera into the air, Bowles created tens of thousands of images that captured the close-up intensity of a punk show. Many of his photos became defining images, particularly in the East Bay punk scene, and his photos graced magazines, record artwork and film documentaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the great rites of passage of being a teenage Berkeley punk rocker was finally getting into one of Murray’s pictures,” said close friend Anna Brown. “It meant that you were \u003cem>in\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13232566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Joe Armstrong (third from right) sings with Operation Ivy onstage at 924 Gilman, circa 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13232566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie Joe Armstrong (third from right) sings with Operation Ivy onstage at 924 Gilman, circa 1988. \u003ccite>(Photo: Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bowles photographed thousands of bands, including many at Berkeley punk club 924 Gilman during the 1980s and 1990s. Along with bands like Crucifix, Filth, Crimpshrine and Fang, some of Bowles’ most iconic early photos capture young bands that went on to become globally known, like Operation Ivy, Neurosis, and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bowles preferred the warehouses and basements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles depicted on the cover of Green Day's album 'Dookie.'\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13871168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles depicted on the cover of Green Day’s album ‘Dookie.’ \u003ccite>(Richie Bucher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was right in there with the gritty basement shows, with kids, just sweaty, wild and free,” Brown said. “And I think that one of the things that’s so great about Murrays’ pictures is that sort of joyfulness. Even if was the most violent, negative band, the pictures came across as really sweet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowles was such a ubiquitous presence at Bay Area punk shows that he was included by artist Richie Bucher \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B51xw5phoJrsez1PWqTuOOzRAFGOnbtN0ESHKc0/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the cover\u003c/a> of Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough album \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>, in his signature point-and-shoot pose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, he’s the most important part of that drawing,” said Bucher, who initially wanted to include everyone in the Berkeley punk scene in the tableau, an impossible task. “I don’t know if I thought about it at the time, but I realize now that by putting him in there, I wasn’t leaving anybody out. Because everybody from our scene could connect to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Murray, you are a legend,” wrote Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B51rOYnHlA4/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram\u003c/a> on Monday. “I remember seeing your photos up on the walls at Gilman the first time I ever went there. Amazing photographer, musician. The nicest man and a great friend to the punks. East Bay punk has a heavy heart today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[See a giant collection of Murray Bowles’ photos \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005407748464&sk=media_set&set=a.211229612400629&type=3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future of Bowles’ archive have already been addressed. Brown said that, with Bowles, she’s planned for decades to publish a book of his photographs, a project she still hopes to see to fruition. Bowles selected all the images before he died, and helped with an outline for the book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett Redford, director of the documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, said that having access to Bowles’ archive was a crucial component to the film. “He was so generous to give [his archive] to us. We would not have a documentary if it was not for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles (R) with Very Small Records founder David Hayes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Corbett Redford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was through the making of \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em> that 25 years of Bowles’ photos were finally preserved. Redford tells the story of driving to Bowles’ San Jose home with fanzine editor Robert Eggplant and Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid. There, the three went through decades of old photos and negatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all gathering dust in his closet—30,000 negatives that were pretty disorganized,” Redford said. The three loaded all of Bowles’ negatives into the trunk, and drove back to Oakland to be cleaned and digitized over time by Caoimhe Carty, the film’s online editor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was driving back, I had what I felt was the Tiffany Diamond in the trunk,” Redford said. “I kept thinking, ‘Please don’t get in an accident. If I do, the entire history is gone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bowles was raised in San Gabriel, California, and learned photography from his grandfather. Upon graduating from UC Berkeley in 1976, he found work as a computer programmer in San Jose, but an assignment to photograph a show for the fanzine \u003cem>Ripper\u003c/em> got him hooked on the action of punk. “I started bringing my camera to every show I went to,” he told \u003cem>Maximum RocknRoll\u003c/em> in \u003ca href=\"http://maximumrocknroll.com/murray-bowles/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2009 interview\u003c/a>. “It was addictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowles initially distributed his photos by bringing a box of them to shows and selling them for 15 cents each to cover development costs, eventually raising the price to a quarter. It became a tradition among punks to scrape together change and buy pictures of themselves at shows from the week prior. In 1987, \u003cem>Maximum RockNRoll\u003c/em> published a special issue dedicated to Bowles’ photography, titled \u003cem>If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pit?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A stagediver at a GBH show in the early 1980s. \" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stagediver at a GBH show in the early 1980s, from ‘If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pit?’. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, Bowles maintained an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/murraybowles/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">active Instagram account\u003c/a>, posting pictures from shows along with his other hobbies: food, beer, bicycling, nature. He also played the viola for several bands, as well as the Peninsula Symphony and the occasional theatre pit orchestra. He worked for Dell Computers until his retirement, when he moved to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Brown said, he continued to go to underground shows up until the end, always taking photos. “He really captured this side of punk that was not cliché,” Brown said. “He really got it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles, playing his viola.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13871203\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles, playing his viola. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Corbett Redford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Saincome, founder of the punk satire site The Hard Times, remembered Bowles for his commitment and tenacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friends and I, we threw a show at a barn in Clayton when I was 16,” Saincome said. “There were 12 people there, out in the middle of nowhere, up this mountain, it didn’t even have an address. Absolutely no one came. No popular bands. And all of a sudden, Murray popped up. It’s me and 12 of my friends, and then him… His dedication to punk went so far that he wasn’t just going to a couple venues here and there. He said, ‘I’m gonna drive up this mountain in Clayton, to a barn with cows and chickens.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles at Sibley Park, in the East Bay hills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles at Sibley Park, in the East Bay hills. \u003ccite>(Anna Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saincome echoed the sentiment that Bowles chronicled people, music and moments that would otherwise be forgotten, with an eye for people’s humanity. “If you’re a Bay Area punk kid, you can go to \u003ca href=\"https://pbase.com/murraybowles/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his website\u003c/a> and watch yourself grow up in real time through his photos,” Saincome said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the fact that it was him taking your picture—it made you feel legitimate, and valuable, and part of something,” said Bucher. “I had trouble feeling part of anything. But if Murray’s there, then it’s hard not to feel included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Becca Bolo, a Gilman regular in the 1990s, put it, “Murray was an incredibly talented person who gave us the gift of seeing ourselves as the beautiful humans that we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Murray Bowles, the photographer who chronicled the characters, chaos and energy of the Bay Area’s punk scene for over three decades, died at his home in Sacramento on Sunday. He was 68.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often seen in the middle of swirling crowds, one arm lifting his camera into the air, Bowles created tens of thousands of images that captured the close-up intensity of a punk show. Many of his photos became defining images, particularly in the East Bay punk scene, and his photos graced magazines, record artwork and film documentaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the great rites of passage of being a teenage Berkeley punk rocker was finally getting into one of Murray’s pictures,” said close friend Anna Brown. “It meant that you were \u003cem>in\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13232566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Joe Armstrong (third from right) sings with Operation Ivy onstage at 924 Gilman, circa 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13232566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/BILLIE-JOE-SINGS-WITH-TIM-OF-OPERATION-IVY-1988-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie Joe Armstrong (third from right) sings with Operation Ivy onstage at 924 Gilman, circa 1988. \u003ccite>(Photo: Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bowles photographed thousands of bands, including many at Berkeley punk club 924 Gilman during the 1980s and 1990s. Along with bands like Crucifix, Filth, Crimpshrine and Fang, some of Bowles’ most iconic early photos capture young bands that went on to become globally known, like Operation Ivy, Neurosis, and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bowles preferred the warehouses and basements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles depicted on the cover of Green Day's album 'Dookie.'\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13871168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Richie.Murray-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles depicted on the cover of Green Day’s album ‘Dookie.’ \u003ccite>(Richie Bucher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was right in there with the gritty basement shows, with kids, just sweaty, wild and free,” Brown said. “And I think that one of the things that’s so great about Murrays’ pictures is that sort of joyfulness. Even if was the most violent, negative band, the pictures came across as really sweet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowles was such a ubiquitous presence at Bay Area punk shows that he was included by artist Richie Bucher \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B51xw5phoJrsez1PWqTuOOzRAFGOnbtN0ESHKc0/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the cover\u003c/a> of Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough album \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>, in his signature point-and-shoot pose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, he’s the most important part of that drawing,” said Bucher, who initially wanted to include everyone in the Berkeley punk scene in the tableau, an impossible task. “I don’t know if I thought about it at the time, but I realize now that by putting him in there, I wasn’t leaving anybody out. Because everybody from our scene could connect to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Murray, you are a legend,” wrote Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B51rOYnHlA4/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram\u003c/a> on Monday. “I remember seeing your photos up on the walls at Gilman the first time I ever went there. Amazing photographer, musician. The nicest man and a great friend to the punks. East Bay punk has a heavy heart today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[See a giant collection of Murray Bowles’ photos \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005407748464&sk=media_set&set=a.211229612400629&type=3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future of Bowles’ archive have already been addressed. Brown said that, with Bowles, she’s planned for decades to publish a book of his photographs, a project she still hopes to see to fruition. Bowles selected all the images before he died, and helped with an outline for the book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett Redford, director of the documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, said that having access to Bowles’ archive was a crucial component to the film. “He was so generous to give [his archive] to us. We would not have a documentary if it was not for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/DavidHayes.Murray.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles (R) with Very Small Records founder David Hayes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Corbett Redford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was through the making of \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em> that 25 years of Bowles’ photos were finally preserved. Redford tells the story of driving to Bowles’ San Jose home with fanzine editor Robert Eggplant and Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid. There, the three went through decades of old photos and negatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all gathering dust in his closet—30,000 negatives that were pretty disorganized,” Redford said. The three loaded all of Bowles’ negatives into the trunk, and drove back to Oakland to be cleaned and digitized over time by Caoimhe Carty, the film’s online editor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was driving back, I had what I felt was the Tiffany Diamond in the trunk,” Redford said. “I kept thinking, ‘Please don’t get in an accident. If I do, the entire history is gone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bowles was raised in San Gabriel, California, and learned photography from his grandfather. Upon graduating from UC Berkeley in 1976, he found work as a computer programmer in San Jose, but an assignment to photograph a show for the fanzine \u003cem>Ripper\u003c/em> got him hooked on the action of punk. “I started bringing my camera to every show I went to,” he told \u003cem>Maximum RocknRoll\u003c/em> in \u003ca href=\"http://maximumrocknroll.com/murray-bowles/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2009 interview\u003c/a>. “It was addictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowles initially distributed his photos by bringing a box of them to shows and selling them for 15 cents each to cover development costs, eventually raising the price to a quarter. It became a tradition among punks to scrape together change and buy pictures of themselves at shows from the week prior. In 1987, \u003cem>Maximum RockNRoll\u003c/em> published a special issue dedicated to Bowles’ photography, titled \u003cem>If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pit?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A stagediver at a GBH show in the early 1980s. \" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GBH.Bowles-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stagediver at a GBH show in the early 1980s, from ‘If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pit?’. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, Bowles maintained an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/murraybowles/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">active Instagram account\u003c/a>, posting pictures from shows along with his other hobbies: food, beer, bicycling, nature. He also played the viola for several bands, as well as the Peninsula Symphony and the occasional theatre pit orchestra. He worked for Dell Computers until his retirement, when he moved to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Brown said, he continued to go to underground shows up until the end, always taking photos. “He really captured this side of punk that was not cliché,” Brown said. “He really got it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles, playing his viola.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13871203\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayViola-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles, playing his viola. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Corbett Redford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Saincome, founder of the punk satire site The Hard Times, remembered Bowles for his commitment and tenacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friends and I, we threw a show at a barn in Clayton when I was 16,” Saincome said. “There were 12 people there, out in the middle of nowhere, up this mountain, it didn’t even have an address. Absolutely no one came. No popular bands. And all of a sudden, Murray popped up. It’s me and 12 of my friends, and then him… His dedication to punk went so far that he wasn’t just going to a couple venues here and there. He said, ‘I’m gonna drive up this mountain in Clayton, to a barn with cows and chickens.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Bowles at Sibley Park, in the East Bay hills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/MurrayBowles.AnnaBrown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles at Sibley Park, in the East Bay hills. \u003ccite>(Anna Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saincome echoed the sentiment that Bowles chronicled people, music and moments that would otherwise be forgotten, with an eye for people’s humanity. “If you’re a Bay Area punk kid, you can go to \u003ca href=\"https://pbase.com/murraybowles/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his website\u003c/a> and watch yourself grow up in real time through his photos,” Saincome said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the fact that it was him taking your picture—it made you feel legitimate, and valuable, and part of something,” said Bucher. “I had trouble feeling part of anything. But if Murray’s there, then it’s hard not to feel included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Becca Bolo, a Gilman regular in the 1990s, put it, “Murray was an incredibly talented person who gave us the gift of seeing ourselves as the beautiful humans that we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After watching the new documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>, I can’t help but think about a teenager named Jimmy Mahoney, who last year was \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/rC2zISCslcI?t=3m4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called up on stage by Billie Joe Armstrong\u003c/a> from Green Day for a dream opportunity: to play guitar with his favorite band in front of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band does this for a fan routinely, almost every night on tour, but on this night at the Oracle Arena, after two songs, Billie Joe unexpectedly gave Mahoney his guitar to keep, covered in stickers from early-’90s East Bay punk bands like Monsula, Econochrist and Spitboy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to wonder: Was the guitar intentionally decorated with those band’s stickers beforehand? As clues, perhaps, for its young new owner in a musical treasure hunt? Did Jimmy bring the guitar home and Google those bands, and discover the influence they had on his teenage heroes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Parks at a backyard show in Pinole, 1989.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks at a backyard show in Pinole, 1989. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turn It Around\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a 158-minute documentary produced by members of Green Day which opens May 31, is that same idea in extended cinematic form. Released during Green Day’s current world tour of sold-out arenas, it’s their way of telling the world: \u003cem>We didn’t do this alone. The East Bay is special. Here’s where we came from\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a job that tireless director Corbett Redford, 41, didn’t take lightly. “I know I’ve been tasked to represent a sacred history,” the musician, filmmaker and Pinole native says. “I spent four years of my life letting it consume me. But it had to be done right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Narrated by Iggy Pop and featuring commentary from 150 band members, zine editors, volunteers and more, \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em> is a massive, authoritative document of the scene around the Berkeley all-ages club 924 Gilman that would eventually change punk rock all over the world. Packed with previously unseen footage — Operation Ivy’s early rehearsals, Miranda July’s 1992 play staged at Gilman, unearthed images from photographer Murray Bowles’ vast archive — the film brings in perspective from observant outsiders like Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna and Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye on down to less-celebrated contributors like the drummer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgMQwmHRmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewer Trout\u003c/a> and that one guy who got too drunk once in Eggplant’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Director Corbett Redford interview Adrienne Melanie Stone of Spitboy for 'Turn It Around.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Corbett Redford interviews Adrienne Melanie Stone of Spitboy for ‘Turn It Around.’ \u003ccite>(Melissa Dale)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of this breadth and length, there’s no singular narrative driving \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>, no easy-entry character study for a mainstream public. It’s unlikely the film will have the same crossover success as, say, \u003cem>Searching for Sugarman\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Standing in the Shadows of Motown\u003c/em>, or other \u003ca href=\"http://www.twingalaxies.com/forumdisplay.php/406-The-King-of-Kong-Official-Statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looser documentaries\u003c/a> that don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s why it’s definitive. As someone who spent his formative teenage years going to Gilman, volunteering there and yes, even sleeping at the club during the years in the film (which, full disclosure, I’m seen in for a split second), I can’t find much that it omits. For others who were there, and for the growing number of kids worldwide interested in the era, there’s value in this. Redford says he originally cut a five-hour version from 500 hours of footage before the final two-and-a-half-hour cut, and with any luck, that extra footage will surface as DVD extras or on streaming services after this theatrical run. Ask anyone involved in the punk scene at the time, and they’ll tell you that it’s impossible to boil it down to one simple story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-800x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13243602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-800x354.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-768x340.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-1020x452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-1180x522.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-960x425.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-240x106.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-375x166.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-520x230.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film crew itself evinces a “by the punks, for the punks” philosophy: both \u003cem>Absolutely Zippo\u003c/em> editor Robert Eggplant and drummer and booker Kamala Parks served on the production crew, and the titles and illustrations were hand-drawn by \u003cem>Cometbus\u003c/em> editor Aaron Cometbus, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michaels. Before this, his first full-length film, Redford had mainly directed videos for his band, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That band name hints at the humor in the film, and also the idea, embraced by figures like \u003cem>Tales of Blarg\u003c/em> editor Janelle Hessig (and bands like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7MOxF5gz9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stikky\u003c/a>), that despite the East Bay punk scene’s impact, it isn’t to be taken too seriously. \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em>’s release during the current \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/04/12/de-young-summer-of-love-50th-anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50th anniversary bonanza for the Summer of Love\u003c/a> is a curious study in contrasts on how to commemorate a musical moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Armstrong, Murray Bowles, Robert Eggplant and Corbett Redford, sorting through Bowles' 30,000-strong photo archive. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Armstrong, Robert Eggplant, Murray Bowles, and Corbett Redford, after sorting through Bowles’ 30,000-strong photo archive.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’re not trying to do is mystify that time,” Redford says, citing the Chicago punk documentary title \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340142/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Weren’t There\u003c/a>\u003c/em> as an elitist idea he wanted to oppose. “We’re just trying to show how human or normal a lot of these larger-than-life figures were, how they did their best to try to make something good. We’re not saying, ‘This is the best scene ever.’ You know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the film doesn’t lack in context. It opens with then-California governor Ronald Reagan ordering gas to be dropped on protesting students at People’s Park in Berkeley, soon moving to \u003cem>MaximumRockNRoll\u003c/em> founder Tim Yohannon’s on-air argument about punk with rock promoter Bill Graham. Many cultural forces coalesced in the 1970s to guide Bay Area punk, and even Kirk Hammett from Metallica and Duff McKagan from Guns ‘N’ Roses attest to the notion of the 1980s San Francisco punk scene as the country’s strongest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Turn It Around' production crew packs for an interview, with Corbett Redford at left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Turn It Around’ production crew packs for an interview, with Corbett Redford at left. \u003ccite>(Greg Schneider)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was a bastard child of it all, a place where kids of hippies and college professors resisted trends. The film hits its stride with the founding of the Gilman Street Project, and its philosophical opposition to knuckleheaded thrash shows with drink minimums and violent pits. In fact, the pits at Gilman are decidedly silly: “geekcore” punks play leapfrog in a circle, or ride tricycles. The band Isocracy hauls in hundreds of pounds of garbage from dumpsters, and throws it on the crowd and themselves. Inexplicably, an odd trend emerges of stagediving into bushes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ZtNtiZrCc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an anthem for it\u003c/a> is written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilman goes through various changes, including an infiltration by skinheads (in an uplifting segment of the film, the geeks fight back), but a running theme is the folly of fame. Operation Ivy breaks up because they get too popular. Yohannon suddenly closes Gilman when he feels it’s achieved all it can. The insider nature of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE LIST\u003c/a>,” replete with “@:pit warnings” by veteran Steve Koepke, is lauded as a secret, pre-internet social network. When Gilman reopens, and Green Day starts packing in a more normal, preppy crowd than usually frequents the club, many diehards get nervous. By the film’s end, Green Day signs to a major label, a trenchant debate over what constitutes “punk” rages, Tim Yohannon passes away, and Gilman goes on to enjoy an influx — continuing to this day — of enthusiastic kids ready to start something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No punk scene is without its scandals, and \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em> conspicuously ignores them and other unsavory bits of lore: Jello Biafra getting his leg broken by crust punks; Sam McBride from Fang being convicted of killing his girlfriend; the Feederz throwing a dead dog into the crowd. (Readers can find these stories in Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/yellin-in-my-ear/Content?oid=2173776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excellent oral history\u003c/a> \u003cem>Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s intentional, Redford says, and ultimately, the film’s theme isn’t Do It Yourself so much as Do It Together. “The emergence of the Gilman Street Project is a pretty good example of the good things that can happen when people are nice to each other, when they decide to cooperate and build as opposed to destroy or backbite,” he says. “And again, our scene isn’t perfect, but I think that in the world today, places where outliers can converge are very important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-800x796.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando and Turner Babcock of Special Forces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-800x796.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-768x764.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-375x373.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando and Turner Babcock of Special Forces. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s evident in the diverse alumni of Gilman’s scene. Queercore groups like Tribe 8 and Pansy Division; feminist bands Spitboy and the Yeastie Girlz; black performers like the Beatnigs’ Michael Franti or Special Forces’ Orlando all weigh in. Stylistically, too, the music ranges from the Beatles-inspired harmonies of Sweet Baby to the nascent emo of Jawbreaker and the hardcore nihilism of Christ on Parade. Billie Joe, singer for one of the poppiest bands on the planet, saves his strongest words of enthusiasm for apocalyptic doom-punk overlords Neurosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that may be the underpinning lesson of \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em>: that it’s about something bigger than music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“East Bay punk to me was always just a thoughtful, heartfelt, intellectual kind of thing,” says Redford. “And it taught me that punk, as opposed to just a costume or spitting on authority, is about potentially being a better citizen of the world. You know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punk’ premieres on \u003ca href=\"http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=284925~50c99741-ceec-4bfa-94b4-b7d919a3c410&epguid=accf668f-e555-48ca-a4fc-f10c8aa7f53d&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wednesday, May 31\u003c/a>, at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater in San Francisco as part of SF DocFest. A Q&A with the director, an afterparty, and others from the cast and crew are all part of the premiere; \u003ca href=\"http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=284925~50c99741-ceec-4bfa-94b4-b7d919a3c410&epguid=accf668f-e555-48ca-a4fc-f10c8aa7f53d&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. A national theatrical run begins June 2. For more details and photos from the film, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After watching the new documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>, I can’t help but think about a teenager named Jimmy Mahoney, who last year was \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/rC2zISCslcI?t=3m4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called up on stage by Billie Joe Armstrong\u003c/a> from Green Day for a dream opportunity: to play guitar with his favorite band in front of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band does this for a fan routinely, almost every night on tour, but on this night at the Oracle Arena, after two songs, Billie Joe unexpectedly gave Mahoney his guitar to keep, covered in stickers from early-’90s East Bay punk bands like Monsula, Econochrist and Spitboy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to wonder: Was the guitar intentionally decorated with those band’s stickers beforehand? As clues, perhaps, for its young new owner in a musical treasure hunt? Did Jimmy bring the guitar home and Google those bands, and discover the influence they had on his teenage heroes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Parks at a backyard show in Pinole, 1989.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/KAMALA-PARKS-AT-A-SHOW-IN-PINOLE-CA-1989-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks at a backyard show in Pinole, 1989. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turn It Around\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a 158-minute documentary produced by members of Green Day which opens May 31, is that same idea in extended cinematic form. Released during Green Day’s current world tour of sold-out arenas, it’s their way of telling the world: \u003cem>We didn’t do this alone. The East Bay is special. Here’s where we came from\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a job that tireless director Corbett Redford, 41, didn’t take lightly. “I know I’ve been tasked to represent a sacred history,” the musician, filmmaker and Pinole native says. “I spent four years of my life letting it consume me. But it had to be done right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Narrated by Iggy Pop and featuring commentary from 150 band members, zine editors, volunteers and more, \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em> is a massive, authoritative document of the scene around the Berkeley all-ages club 924 Gilman that would eventually change punk rock all over the world. Packed with previously unseen footage — Operation Ivy’s early rehearsals, Miranda July’s 1992 play staged at Gilman, unearthed images from photographer Murray Bowles’ vast archive — the film brings in perspective from observant outsiders like Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna and Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye on down to less-celebrated contributors like the drummer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgMQwmHRmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewer Trout\u003c/a> and that one guy who got too drunk once in Eggplant’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Director Corbett Redford interview Adrienne Melanie Stone of Spitboy for 'Turn It Around.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Director-Corbett-Redford-interviews-Adrienne-Melanie-Stone-of-Spitboy-for-the-documentary.-Photo-by-Melissa-Dale-1-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Corbett Redford interviews Adrienne Melanie Stone of Spitboy for ‘Turn It Around.’ \u003ccite>(Melissa Dale)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of this breadth and length, there’s no singular narrative driving \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>, no easy-entry character study for a mainstream public. It’s unlikely the film will have the same crossover success as, say, \u003cem>Searching for Sugarman\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Standing in the Shadows of Motown\u003c/em>, or other \u003ca href=\"http://www.twingalaxies.com/forumdisplay.php/406-The-King-of-Kong-Official-Statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looser documentaries\u003c/a> that don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s why it’s definitive. As someone who spent his formative teenage years going to Gilman, volunteering there and yes, even sleeping at the club during the years in the film (which, full disclosure, I’m seen in for a split second), I can’t find much that it omits. For others who were there, and for the growing number of kids worldwide interested in the era, there’s value in this. Redford says he originally cut a five-hour version from 500 hours of footage before the final two-and-a-half-hour cut, and with any luck, that extra footage will surface as DVD extras or on streaming services after this theatrical run. Ask anyone involved in the punk scene at the time, and they’ll tell you that it’s impossible to boil it down to one simple story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-800x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13243602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-800x354.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-768x340.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-1020x452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-1180x522.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-960x425.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-240x106.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-375x166.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/TurnItAroundHeaderArt-520x230.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film crew itself evinces a “by the punks, for the punks” philosophy: both \u003cem>Absolutely Zippo\u003c/em> editor Robert Eggplant and drummer and booker Kamala Parks served on the production crew, and the titles and illustrations were hand-drawn by \u003cem>Cometbus\u003c/em> editor Aaron Cometbus, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michaels. Before this, his first full-length film, Redford had mainly directed videos for his band, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That band name hints at the humor in the film, and also the idea, embraced by figures like \u003cem>Tales of Blarg\u003c/em> editor Janelle Hessig (and bands like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7MOxF5gz9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stikky\u003c/a>), that despite the East Bay punk scene’s impact, it isn’t to be taken too seriously. \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em>’s release during the current \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/04/12/de-young-summer-of-love-50th-anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50th anniversary bonanza for the Summer of Love\u003c/a> is a curious study in contrasts on how to commemorate a musical moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Armstrong, Murray Bowles, Robert Eggplant and Corbett Redford, sorting through Bowles' 30,000-strong photo archive. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Tim-Armstrong-Murray-Bowles-Robert-Eggplant-and-Corbett-Redford-after-sorting-through-Murrays-photo-archive.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Armstrong, Robert Eggplant, Murray Bowles, and Corbett Redford, after sorting through Bowles’ 30,000-strong photo archive.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’re not trying to do is mystify that time,” Redford says, citing the Chicago punk documentary title \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340142/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Weren’t There\u003c/a>\u003c/em> as an elitist idea he wanted to oppose. “We’re just trying to show how human or normal a lot of these larger-than-life figures were, how they did their best to try to make something good. We’re not saying, ‘This is the best scene ever.’ You know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the film doesn’t lack in context. It opens with then-California governor Ronald Reagan ordering gas to be dropped on protesting students at People’s Park in Berkeley, soon moving to \u003cem>MaximumRockNRoll\u003c/em> founder Tim Yohannon’s on-air argument about punk with rock promoter Bill Graham. Many cultural forces coalesced in the 1970s to guide Bay Area punk, and even Kirk Hammett from Metallica and Duff McKagan from Guns ‘N’ Roses attest to the notion of the 1980s San Francisco punk scene as the country’s strongest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Turn It Around' production crew packs for an interview, with Corbett Redford at left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/The-Turn-It-Around-production-crew-pack-for-a-location-interview.-Photo-by-Greg-Schneider-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Turn It Around’ production crew packs for an interview, with Corbett Redford at left. \u003ccite>(Greg Schneider)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was a bastard child of it all, a place where kids of hippies and college professors resisted trends. The film hits its stride with the founding of the Gilman Street Project, and its philosophical opposition to knuckleheaded thrash shows with drink minimums and violent pits. In fact, the pits at Gilman are decidedly silly: “geekcore” punks play leapfrog in a circle, or ride tricycles. The band Isocracy hauls in hundreds of pounds of garbage from dumpsters, and throws it on the crowd and themselves. Inexplicably, an odd trend emerges of stagediving into bushes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ZtNtiZrCc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an anthem for it\u003c/a> is written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilman goes through various changes, including an infiltration by skinheads (in an uplifting segment of the film, the geeks fight back), but a running theme is the folly of fame. Operation Ivy breaks up because they get too popular. Yohannon suddenly closes Gilman when he feels it’s achieved all it can. The insider nature of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE LIST\u003c/a>,” replete with “@:pit warnings” by veteran Steve Koepke, is lauded as a secret, pre-internet social network. When Gilman reopens, and Green Day starts packing in a more normal, preppy crowd than usually frequents the club, many diehards get nervous. By the film’s end, Green Day signs to a major label, a trenchant debate over what constitutes “punk” rages, Tim Yohannon passes away, and Gilman goes on to enjoy an influx — continuing to this day — of enthusiastic kids ready to start something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/GREEN-DAY-AT-GILMAN-1990-PHOTO-BY-MURRAY-BOWLES-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day with first drummer John Kiffmeyer at Gilman, circa 1990. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No punk scene is without its scandals, and \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em> conspicuously ignores them and other unsavory bits of lore: Jello Biafra getting his leg broken by crust punks; Sam McBride from Fang being convicted of killing his girlfriend; the Feederz throwing a dead dog into the crowd. (Readers can find these stories in Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/yellin-in-my-ear/Content?oid=2173776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excellent oral history\u003c/a> \u003cem>Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s intentional, Redford says, and ultimately, the film’s theme isn’t Do It Yourself so much as Do It Together. “The emergence of the Gilman Street Project is a pretty good example of the good things that can happen when people are nice to each other, when they decide to cooperate and build as opposed to destroy or backbite,” he says. “And again, our scene isn’t perfect, but I think that in the world today, places where outliers can converge are very important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13243293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13243293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-800x796.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando and Turner Babcock of Special Forces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-800x796.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-768x764.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-375x373.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Orlando.SPecialForces.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando and Turner Babcock of Special Forces. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s evident in the diverse alumni of Gilman’s scene. Queercore groups like Tribe 8 and Pansy Division; feminist bands Spitboy and the Yeastie Girlz; black performers like the Beatnigs’ Michael Franti or Special Forces’ Orlando all weigh in. Stylistically, too, the music ranges from the Beatles-inspired harmonies of Sweet Baby to the nascent emo of Jawbreaker and the hardcore nihilism of Christ on Parade. Billie Joe, singer for one of the poppiest bands on the planet, saves his strongest words of enthusiasm for apocalyptic doom-punk overlords Neurosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that may be the underpinning lesson of \u003cem>Turn it Around\u003c/em>: that it’s about something bigger than music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“East Bay punk to me was always just a thoughtful, heartfelt, intellectual kind of thing,” says Redford. “And it taught me that punk, as opposed to just a costume or spitting on authority, is about potentially being a better citizen of the world. You know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punk’ premieres on \u003ca href=\"http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=284925~50c99741-ceec-4bfa-94b4-b7d919a3c410&epguid=accf668f-e555-48ca-a4fc-f10c8aa7f53d&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wednesday, May 31\u003c/a>, at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater in San Francisco as part of SF DocFest. A Q&A with the director, an afterparty, and others from the cast and crew are all part of the premiere; \u003ca href=\"http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=284925~50c99741-ceec-4bfa-94b4-b7d919a3c410&epguid=accf668f-e555-48ca-a4fc-f10c8aa7f53d&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. A national theatrical run begins June 2. For more details and photos from the film, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypunk.com/\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe it was inevitable. Those who grew up with punk are going to find some way to tie a bow on 30 years of wild and woolly music in an official sense, and that happened Tuesday night, when the Berkeley City Council took a moment at the start of its meeting to honor \u003ca href=\"http://www.924gilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, seriously. Check out this clip from the video the city makes available for public download. That’s Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin speaking first:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6Obyn20gg]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>924 Gilman, you’ll recall, is the music collective that helped birth \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenday.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Day\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://rancidrancid.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rancid\u003c/a> and a host of other East Bay punk bands, starting in the 1980s. At the time, its founders proclaimed it to be a safe, all-ages space without drugs, alcohol, or violence, and it’s managed to hang on to that credo through several generations of music lovers. Now 924 Gilman is a non-profit, and turning 30 — 30! — which means it’s middle-aged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty surreal,” says Jesse Townley, who became involved with 924 Gilman with his first band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/blatzpunk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blatz\u003c/a>. “This is the only time it’s happened to us in 30 years. It’s pretty great that we were able to gain recognition as a DIY underground space, run by a ragtag bunch of volunteers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Townley (who notes he speaks for himself and not the collective) says 924 Gilman had a testy relationship with local police back in 1989/1990, leading him to get interested in zoning politics. Around that time, a zoning board member called the club a “festering sore,” and 924 Gilman’s supporters readily adopted that as their nickname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Townley has since become a longtime, elected commissioner on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Rent_Stabilization_Board/Home/Meet/Contact_the_Board.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board\u003c/a>, and he says relations with the police have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As word of the city’s commendation spread on Townley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jesse.townley.3/posts/1599779710062720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> page, one Mark Grody affectionately commented “Did anyone tag the lectern?!!!??”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg\" alt=\"The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman.\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy 924 Gilman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All grown up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, 924 Gilman’s greatest threat these days is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/17/green-day-dookie-924-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gentrification\u003c/a>. There’s a Whole Foods two blocks away, and some of the club’s most stalwart supporters are raising money to buy it preemptively, even though the owner is also a longtime supporter of the club, and there are no imminent indications he’s considering any offers from condo developers yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the club continues to function as a safe space to appreciate punk music, for young and old alike. \u003ca href=\"http://offspring.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Offspring\u003c/a> have announced they’re going to play their classic 1992 album \u003cem>Ignition\u003c/em> in its entirety at a \u003ca href=\"http://dyingscene.com/news/the-offspring-to-play-the-entire-ignition-album-at-benefit-for-924-gilman-new-album-to-be-announced-soon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30th anniversary birthday bash\u003c/a> on April 13th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, indie distributor \u003ca href=\"http://abramorama.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abramorama \u003c/a>is \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/03/turn-it-around-the-story-of-east-bay-punk-green-day-abramorama-movie-1202054886/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teaming up with Green Day\u003c/a> to distribute \u003ca href=\"http://eastbaypunk.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a documentary directed by Corbett Redford and executive produced by the band. Iggy Pop narrates, naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Maybe it was inevitable. Those who grew up with punk are going to find some way to tie a bow on 30 years of wild and woolly music in an official sense, and that happened Tuesday night, when the Berkeley City Council took a moment at the start of its meeting to honor \u003ca href=\"http://www.924gilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, seriously. Check out this clip from the video the city makes available for public download. That’s Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin speaking first:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Lp6Obyn20gg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Lp6Obyn20gg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>924 Gilman, you’ll recall, is the music collective that helped birth \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenday.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Day\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://rancidrancid.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rancid\u003c/a> and a host of other East Bay punk bands, starting in the 1980s. At the time, its founders proclaimed it to be a safe, all-ages space without drugs, alcohol, or violence, and it’s managed to hang on to that credo through several generations of music lovers. Now 924 Gilman is a non-profit, and turning 30 — 30! — which means it’s middle-aged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty surreal,” says Jesse Townley, who became involved with 924 Gilman with his first band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/blatzpunk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blatz\u003c/a>. “This is the only time it’s happened to us in 30 years. It’s pretty great that we were able to gain recognition as a DIY underground space, run by a ragtag bunch of volunteers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Townley (who notes he speaks for himself and not the collective) says 924 Gilman had a testy relationship with local police back in 1989/1990, leading him to get interested in zoning politics. Around that time, a zoning board member called the club a “festering sore,” and 924 Gilman’s supporters readily adopted that as their nickname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Townley has since become a longtime, elected commissioner on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Rent_Stabilization_Board/Home/Meet/Contact_the_Board.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board\u003c/a>, and he says relations with the police have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As word of the city’s commendation spread on Townley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jesse.townley.3/posts/1599779710062720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> page, one Mark Grody affectionately commented “Did anyone tag the lectern?!!!??”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg\" alt=\"The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman.\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy 924 Gilman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All grown up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, 924 Gilman’s greatest threat these days is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/17/green-day-dookie-924-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gentrification\u003c/a>. There’s a Whole Foods two blocks away, and some of the club’s most stalwart supporters are raising money to buy it preemptively, even though the owner is also a longtime supporter of the club, and there are no imminent indications he’s considering any offers from condo developers yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the club continues to function as a safe space to appreciate punk music, for young and old alike. \u003ca href=\"http://offspring.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Offspring\u003c/a> have announced they’re going to play their classic 1992 album \u003cem>Ignition\u003c/em> in its entirety at a \u003ca href=\"http://dyingscene.com/news/the-offspring-to-play-the-entire-ignition-album-at-benefit-for-924-gilman-new-album-to-be-announced-soon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30th anniversary birthday bash\u003c/a> on April 13th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, indie distributor \u003ca href=\"http://abramorama.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abramorama \u003c/a>is \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/03/turn-it-around-the-story-of-east-bay-punk-green-day-abramorama-movie-1202054886/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teaming up with Green Day\u003c/a> to distribute \u003ca href=\"http://eastbaypunk.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a documentary directed by Corbett Redford and executive produced by the band. Iggy Pop narrates, naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Billie Joe Armstrong still has the date memorized: Sept. 6, 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the last time Green Day was allowed to play at 924 Gilman before signing to a major label — and consequently seeing their faces plastered on \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, their videos on MTV and their Warner Bros. debut \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> eventually sell a staggering 20 million copies worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> marked the point at which the band no longer belonged to us. Green Day swiftly belonged to the world, and the split was not wholly amicable: the punk scene around 924 Gilman, which already bred contempt for Green Day’s melodic music and “normal” fan base, was particularly damning. Branded sellouts, Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool were famously banned from playing the stringently anti-major-label collective that they once called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10669565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day returning to 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day returning to 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the last few years have seen a slowly shifting reconciliation. First, Armstrong’s other band Pinhead Gunpowder returned to play \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2008/02/11/pinhead-gunpowder-at-gilman-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pair of shows\u003c/a> at Gilman. Then a new sound system showed up at the club, \u003ca href=\"https://www.punknews.org/article/28003/pinhead-gunpowder-green-day-buys-924-gilman-new-sound-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid for\u003c/a> by members of the band. Finally, last year, the unthinkable happened: Green Day was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/05/18/live-review-green-day-plays-924-gilman-for-the-first-time-in-21-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcomed back to play a show\u003c/a> at Gilman — and in the wake of being inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the reunion continues when \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> is paid tribute by 15 different Bay Area bands in an epic tribute produced by UnderCover Presents at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Along with diverse acts like the Jazz Mafia, La Plebe, MC Rai and Goodnight, Texas, some not-so-secret special guests have been teased as headliners on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire show is a benefit for — you guessed it — 924 Gilman, to help the collective buy their modest little building in a Berkeley neighborhood that’s gentrifying faster than the rapid-fire drum fill that kicks off \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>’s first track “Burnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg\" alt=\"Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015. \" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Keahey/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Some Call it Slums, Some Call it Nice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“At this point, 30 years on, Gilman is accepted as a revered Berkeley institution, a cultural landmark,” says Jesse Townley, a longtime Gilman volunteer, as well as a musician, the general manager of record label Alternative Tentacles, and a member of Berkeley’s rent stabilization board. “Which is bizarre, considering at one point I watched a member of the [Berkeley] zoning board call us a festering sore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the challenges faced by the club in its 30 years in existence — struggles to make rent, skepticism and worse from neighbors and police, the inevitable personnel turnover and inefficiencies that come with any all-volunteer, collectively-run enterprise –the biggest threat to 924 Gilman’s continued existence has been the land it sits on. Or, rather, its potential value to developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building’s landlord Jim Widess, who runs the adjacent Caning Shop, has always been above-and-beyond welcoming to the club, says Kamala Lyn Parks — a longtime volunteer who, alongside Townley, is steering much of Gilman’s current fundraising efforts. (Both organizers are adamant that they do not represent the collective; they’re merely longtime friends of the club working to help stabilize it financially.) Widess’ hospitable attitude toward the club is the only thing that allowed Parks and her co-founders, Victor Hayden and \u003cem>Maximumrocknroll\u003c/em>’s Tim Yohannan, to establish 924 Gilman there in the first place, in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Townley (at left), fronting the band Blatz at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s.\" width=\"960\" height=\"782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-400x326.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-737x600.jpg 737w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-768x626.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Townley (at left), fronting the band Blatz at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the nicest landlord in the world can’t stem the tide of what organizers see as an inevitable tide of gentrification in West Berkeley, one of the last traditionally industrial areas in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it was the Pyramid Alehouse that proved the street’s viability as a commercial corridor. In 2013, a plan was drawn up to modify the zoning for all of Gilman from 6th Street to San Pablo Avenue as retail, according to Townley — a move that would have sent the rent per square foot at 924 Gilman skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I took two then-current collective members with me to talk to the mayor, to talk to city council members, and we said ‘If you do this, you’re going to be pricing out this iconic cultural resource. Don’t do this,'” says Townley, who’s become heavily involved in local politics over the course of his years advocating for 924 Gilman. “[Local government officials] know me by now; they know me as someone who came out of Gilman Street. And the proposal that moved forward to City Council excluded Gilman’s side of the street from 8th down to 6th Street. Just because we showed up to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the rezoning, characterized by Townley as “a wake-up call,” a Philz Coffee and Whole Foods opened just blocks from the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg\" alt=\"The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman.\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336197\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg 478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy 924 Gilman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of the neighborhood’s rapid changes, together with the club’s 30th anniversary this year and its newfound nonprofit status, 2016 seemed like a good year to launch efforts to buy the club. The ultimate goal, says Parks, is to raise $1 million, but if they manage $600,000 or $700,000, organizers will feel good about making Widess an offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing working in the club’s favor that certainly wasn’t the case 30 years ago: Rarely does anyone call it a “festering sore” anymore. After three decades of building relationships with neighbors, 924 Gilman has a widespread legacy of being, well, exactly what its founders proclaimed it to be: a safe, all-ages space that actively bans drugs, alcohol, and violence. A venue for young, outspoken bands who wouldn’t be welcomed at more traditional rock clubs. And as a community center for kids who might not feel they belong elsewhere, it’s more than proven its worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are generations that have passed through here,” says Parks. That “alumni” base means parent-teen teams doing volunteer shifts together; it also means, since launching the fundraiser, that Parks is hearing from former Gilman-goers as far off as New Zealand. “People are donating money, writing in to say ‘I moved away years ago, but…it’s still such a special place to me.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338819\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong.jpg\" alt=\"A fan sings along with Billie Joe Armstrong at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11338819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-400x510.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-471x600.jpg 471w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan sings along with Billie Joe Armstrong at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, it’s impossible to ignore the part of Gilman’s legacy that comes from having been the breeding ground for Green Day, who parlayed their popularity in the underground scene into widespread commercial success on a major label — a decision that the band made, Parks notes, while wholly understanding its consequences. Whether or not you find it ironic that \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>, the record that launched a thousand accusations of “sellout!”, would be the album around which the biggest 924 Gilman fundraiser ever would coalesce — well, that probably depends on your age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks is diplomatic in acknowledging the tension; she says organizers plan to touch on it during the live show. The record remains divisive after all these years, and she understands why some longtime Gilman people might be upset. And yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another real big thing that’s different now is a number of current Gilman volunteers got into punk \u003cem>through\u003c/em> Green Day,” she says. “You’re talking about a whole new generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Grasping to Control: Reinterpreting a Classic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336200\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover.jpg\" alt=\"Upon its release, 'Dookie,' and the multinational corporation which released it, were scorned by many Gilman regulars.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-768x564.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upon its release, ‘Dookie,’ and the multinational corporation which released it, were scorned by many Gilman regulars. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That very new generation speaks to a plain truth: Whatever the album originally meant to the scene around Gilman, out in the wild \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> resonated with teenagers everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Adam McCune was one of those teenagers, growing up on the East Coast in a household that played “either ultra-Christian music, or salsa-merengue-cumbia dance music.” After he came across the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video for “Basket Case”\u003c/a> on MTV, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> became the first CD that McCune ever went out and bought, lured by its themes of alienation, bisexuality, weed, boredom — essentially a laundry list of a teenage boy’s mind. “It was finally something that spoke to me at the verge of adolescence,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune is the guest musical director for this week’s \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> tribute, and at a time when note-for-note cover bands and in-its-entirety album tours are rampant with nostalgia for the ’90s on full blast, he’s done something very refreshing. Rather than validating fans’ teenage years by recreating \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>’s style, he’s urged the bands involved to drastically reinterpret the album’s songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"fb-root\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"/UnderCoverPresents/videos/vb.115819335144911/1030259520367550/?type=3\" width=\"670\" style=\"padding-left:200px;\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" align=\"center\">\n\u003cblockquote cite=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awesöme Orchestra Collective rehearsing F.O.D. with Tilt and Bill Collins. See it live on Friday, February 19th at The Fox! #Dookie2016\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/\">UnderCover\u003c/a> on Sunday, February 14, 2016\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in re-recording it,” McCune says. “They already did it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence, “She” becomes a barren minor-key desert ballad in the hands of Goodnight, Texas. “Longview” gets a completely dazzling, intricate \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choral arrangement by the Jazz Mafia’s Choral Syndicate\u003c/a>. “Chump” is a gospel-funk burner by Sal’s Greenhouse and “Welcome to Paradise” is a prog-rock fantasy by Moetar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of why I picked this album,” explains McCune, “is that the pop-punk idiom, by the nature of its deceptive simplicity, is a really strong springboard to jump off in any direction.” So while \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“F.O.D.” by Tilt with the Awesöme Orchestra\u003c/a> hews closer to Green Day’s original version, there’s also an “Arabic Urban Rai Fusion” version of “Sassafras Roots,” as well as the Fuxedos’ demented comedic reworking of “Basket Case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"fb-root\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"/UnderCoverPresents/videos/vb.115819335144911/966075010119335/?type=3\" width=\"670\" style=\"padding-left:200px;\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n\u003cblockquote cite=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Longview\" recording session at Fantasy Recording Studios with Jazz Mafia. Many thanks to Larceny Bourbon for keeping this choir loose. #Dookie2016\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/\">UnderCover\u003c/a> on Thursday, October 8, 2015\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s reassuring, too, that La Plebe and Love Songs, bands who have been house favorites at Gilman for over 10 years, are part of the action. McCune says that until taking on this tribute, he was unaware that \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> caused such fury at Gilman upon its release — and is glad to see some long-ago burned bridges being rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been really heartwarming to see how much people are making amends with the past, and are forgiving, and coming together to do something good,” McCune says. “That’s what music should do, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UnderCover Presents ‘A Tribute to Dookie’ on Friday, Feb. 19, at the Fox Theater in Oakland; \u003ca href=\"http://www.undercoverpresents.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here\u003c/a>. Ongoing support for 924 Gilman can be accessed \u003ca href=\"http://www.helpgilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Billie Joe Armstrong still has the date memorized: Sept. 6, 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the last time Green Day was allowed to play at 924 Gilman before signing to a major label — and consequently seeing their faces plastered on \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, their videos on MTV and their Warner Bros. debut \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> eventually sell a staggering 20 million copies worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> marked the point at which the band no longer belonged to us. Green Day swiftly belonged to the world, and the split was not wholly amicable: the punk scene around 924 Gilman, which already bred contempt for Green Day’s melodic music and “normal” fan base, was particularly damning. Branded sellouts, Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool were famously banned from playing the stringently anti-major-label collective that they once called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10669565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day returning to 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayMain-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day returning to 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the last few years have seen a slowly shifting reconciliation. First, Armstrong’s other band Pinhead Gunpowder returned to play \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2008/02/11/pinhead-gunpowder-at-gilman-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pair of shows\u003c/a> at Gilman. Then a new sound system showed up at the club, \u003ca href=\"https://www.punknews.org/article/28003/pinhead-gunpowder-green-day-buys-924-gilman-new-sound-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid for\u003c/a> by members of the band. Finally, last year, the unthinkable happened: Green Day was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/05/18/live-review-green-day-plays-924-gilman-for-the-first-time-in-21-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcomed back to play a show\u003c/a> at Gilman — and in the wake of being inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the reunion continues when \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> is paid tribute by 15 different Bay Area bands in an epic tribute produced by UnderCover Presents at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Along with diverse acts like the Jazz Mafia, La Plebe, MC Rai and Goodnight, Texas, some not-so-secret special guests have been teased as headliners on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire show is a benefit for — you guessed it — 924 Gilman, to help the collective buy their modest little building in a Berkeley neighborhood that’s gentrifying faster than the rapid-fire drum fill that kicks off \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>’s first track “Burnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg\" alt=\"Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015. \" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Ghoul-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghoul perform at 924 Gilman in 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Keahey/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Some Call it Slums, Some Call it Nice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“At this point, 30 years on, Gilman is accepted as a revered Berkeley institution, a cultural landmark,” says Jesse Townley, a longtime Gilman volunteer, as well as a musician, the general manager of record label Alternative Tentacles, and a member of Berkeley’s rent stabilization board. “Which is bizarre, considering at one point I watched a member of the [Berkeley] zoning board call us a festering sore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the challenges faced by the club in its 30 years in existence — struggles to make rent, skepticism and worse from neighbors and police, the inevitable personnel turnover and inefficiencies that come with any all-volunteer, collectively-run enterprise –the biggest threat to 924 Gilman’s continued existence has been the land it sits on. Or, rather, its potential value to developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building’s landlord Jim Widess, who runs the adjacent Caning Shop, has always been above-and-beyond welcoming to the club, says Kamala Lyn Parks — a longtime volunteer who, alongside Townley, is steering much of Gilman’s current fundraising efforts. (Both organizers are adamant that they do not represent the collective; they’re merely longtime friends of the club working to help stabilize it financially.) Widess’ hospitable attitude toward the club is the only thing that allowed Parks and her co-founders, Victor Hayden and \u003cem>Maximumrocknroll\u003c/em>’s Tim Yohannan, to establish 924 Gilman there in the first place, in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Townley (at left), fronting the band Blatz at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s.\" width=\"960\" height=\"782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-400x326.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-737x600.jpg 737w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Blatz-768x626.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Townley (at left), fronting the band Blatz at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the nicest landlord in the world can’t stem the tide of what organizers see as an inevitable tide of gentrification in West Berkeley, one of the last traditionally industrial areas in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it was the Pyramid Alehouse that proved the street’s viability as a commercial corridor. In 2013, a plan was drawn up to modify the zoning for all of Gilman from 6th Street to San Pablo Avenue as retail, according to Townley — a move that would have sent the rent per square foot at 924 Gilman skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I took two then-current collective members with me to talk to the mayor, to talk to city council members, and we said ‘If you do this, you’re going to be pricing out this iconic cultural resource. Don’t do this,'” says Townley, who’s become heavily involved in local politics over the course of his years advocating for 924 Gilman. “[Local government officials] know me by now; they know me as someone who came out of Gilman Street. And the proposal that moved forward to City Council excluded Gilman’s side of the street from 8th down to 6th Street. Just because we showed up to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the rezoning, characterized by Townley as “a wake-up call,” a Philz Coffee and Whole Foods opened just blocks from the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg\" alt=\"The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman.\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336197\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules.jpg 478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/gilmanrules-448x600.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rules posted at the entry to 924 Gilman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy 924 Gilman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of the neighborhood’s rapid changes, together with the club’s 30th anniversary this year and its newfound nonprofit status, 2016 seemed like a good year to launch efforts to buy the club. The ultimate goal, says Parks, is to raise $1 million, but if they manage $600,000 or $700,000, organizers will feel good about making Widess an offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing working in the club’s favor that certainly wasn’t the case 30 years ago: Rarely does anyone call it a “festering sore” anymore. After three decades of building relationships with neighbors, 924 Gilman has a widespread legacy of being, well, exactly what its founders proclaimed it to be: a safe, all-ages space that actively bans drugs, alcohol, and violence. A venue for young, outspoken bands who wouldn’t be welcomed at more traditional rock clubs. And as a community center for kids who might not feel they belong elsewhere, it’s more than proven its worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are generations that have passed through here,” says Parks. That “alumni” base means parent-teen teams doing volunteer shifts together; it also means, since launching the fundraiser, that Parks is hearing from former Gilman-goers as far off as New Zealand. “People are donating money, writing in to say ‘I moved away years ago, but…it’s still such a special place to me.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338819\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong.jpg\" alt=\"A fan sings along with Billie Joe Armstrong at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11338819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-400x510.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-471x600.jpg 471w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/GD.Singalong-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan sings along with Billie Joe Armstrong at 924 Gilman in the early 1990s. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, it’s impossible to ignore the part of Gilman’s legacy that comes from having been the breeding ground for Green Day, who parlayed their popularity in the underground scene into widespread commercial success on a major label — a decision that the band made, Parks notes, while wholly understanding its consequences. Whether or not you find it ironic that \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>, the record that launched a thousand accusations of “sellout!”, would be the album around which the biggest 924 Gilman fundraiser ever would coalesce — well, that probably depends on your age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks is diplomatic in acknowledging the tension; she says organizers plan to touch on it during the live show. The record remains divisive after all these years, and she understands why some longtime Gilman people might be upset. And yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another real big thing that’s different now is a number of current Gilman volunteers got into punk \u003cem>through\u003c/em> Green Day,” she says. “You’re talking about a whole new generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Grasping to Control: Reinterpreting a Classic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336200\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover.jpg\" alt=\"Upon its release, 'Dookie,' and the multinational corporation which released it, were scorned by many Gilman regulars.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-768x564.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Dookiecover-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upon its release, ‘Dookie,’ and the multinational corporation which released it, were scorned by many Gilman regulars. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That very new generation speaks to a plain truth: Whatever the album originally meant to the scene around Gilman, out in the wild \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> resonated with teenagers everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Adam McCune was one of those teenagers, growing up on the East Coast in a household that played “either ultra-Christian music, or salsa-merengue-cumbia dance music.” After he came across the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video for “Basket Case”\u003c/a> on MTV, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> became the first CD that McCune ever went out and bought, lured by its themes of alienation, bisexuality, weed, boredom — essentially a laundry list of a teenage boy’s mind. “It was finally something that spoke to me at the verge of adolescence,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune is the guest musical director for this week’s \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> tribute, and at a time when note-for-note cover bands and in-its-entirety album tours are rampant with nostalgia for the ’90s on full blast, he’s done something very refreshing. Rather than validating fans’ teenage years by recreating \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>’s style, he’s urged the bands involved to drastically reinterpret the album’s songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"fb-root\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"/UnderCoverPresents/videos/vb.115819335144911/1030259520367550/?type=3\" width=\"670\" style=\"padding-left:200px;\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" align=\"center\">\n\u003cblockquote cite=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awesöme Orchestra Collective rehearsing F.O.D. with Tilt and Bill Collins. See it live on Friday, February 19th at The Fox! #Dookie2016\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/\">UnderCover\u003c/a> on Sunday, February 14, 2016\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in re-recording it,” McCune says. “They already did it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence, “She” becomes a barren minor-key desert ballad in the hands of Goodnight, Texas. “Longview” gets a completely dazzling, intricate \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choral arrangement by the Jazz Mafia’s Choral Syndicate\u003c/a>. “Chump” is a gospel-funk burner by Sal’s Greenhouse and “Welcome to Paradise” is a prog-rock fantasy by Moetar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of why I picked this album,” explains McCune, “is that the pop-punk idiom, by the nature of its deceptive simplicity, is a really strong springboard to jump off in any direction.” So while \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/1030259520367550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“F.O.D.” by Tilt with the Awesöme Orchestra\u003c/a> hews closer to Green Day’s original version, there’s also an “Arabic Urban Rai Fusion” version of “Sassafras Roots,” as well as the Fuxedos’ demented comedic reworking of “Basket Case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"fb-root\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"/UnderCoverPresents/videos/vb.115819335144911/966075010119335/?type=3\" width=\"670\" style=\"padding-left:200px;\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n\u003cblockquote cite=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/videos/966075010119335/\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Longview\" recording session at Fantasy Recording Studios with Jazz Mafia. Many thanks to Larceny Bourbon for keeping this choir loose. #Dookie2016\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UnderCoverPresents/\">UnderCover\u003c/a> on Thursday, October 8, 2015\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s reassuring, too, that La Plebe and Love Songs, bands who have been house favorites at Gilman for over 10 years, are part of the action. McCune says that until taking on this tribute, he was unaware that \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em> caused such fury at Gilman upon its release — and is glad to see some long-ago burned bridges being rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been really heartwarming to see how much people are making amends with the past, and are forgiving, and coming together to do something good,” McCune says. “That’s what music should do, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“So, we come from this place called Gilman Street. It’s a club. It’s in Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how Billie Joe Armstrong characterized his band in \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/green-day-thank-vans-fans-rock-roll-at-hall-of-fame-read-the-speech-20150418?page=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a speech for Green Day’s induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame\u003c/a> last month. And last night, in an incredible, nearly two-hour set for less than a few hundred people, Green Day made a historic return to the stage at \u003ca href=\"http://www.924gilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">924 Gilman\u003c/a> — the all-ages, non-profit club that famously served as the band’s early home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before set opener “99 Revolutions,” Armstrong reiterated what he’s said over and over again about the venue: “I really think of this place as a very important place to me,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xQw8PHylw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intoned from the stage\u003c/a>, “and it’s in my heart forever.” (Earlier, bassist Mike Dirnt \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/2zQrP4NyyS/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred to Gilman as “church.”\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10669570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline1.jpg\" alt=\"Green Day at 924 Gilman\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline1.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline1-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Day at 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so Green Day’s set last night was more than just an ordinary show. Introduced by \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_Biafra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jello Biafra\u003c/a>, the band played a marathon setlist with plenty early material befitting the venue — deep cuts like “Paper Lanterns,” “2,000 Light Years Away,” “Only of You,” “Private Ale” and “Christie Road.” They brought up Tim Armstrong from Rancid for \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/2z4LUUSSbe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a faithful version of “Knowledge”\u003c/a> by Operation Ivy. They joked with the crowd and each other, they extended the microphone to let a few of the many crowdsurfers sing, they swapped articles of clothing with fans, and left everyone inside the small room with shirts drenched in sweat and ears ringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it was pretty much like a typical Green Day show at Gilman in 1993. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nZz_Za4vW8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Day playing at Gilman is special. It’s like Springsteen playing the Stone Pony. It’s like the Ramones playing CBGB. Except for one key difference: because of 924 Gilman’s longstanding ban on major-label bands, Green Day hasn’t been allowed to play the one place most dear to their hearts for the past 21 years. They’ve talked about it in interviews, they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOfynekLvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written songs\u003c/a> about it, and they’ve no doubt felt stung by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, early in the night, I happened to be standing by Gilman’s side door and witnessed Tré Cool denied admittance by a large security guard, who didn’t recognize him and slammed the door in the drummer’s face for not having a wristband for the show. Yes, it was funny (“I just got dicked! Did you see that?” he exclaimed to those nearby, chuckling at the scene), but it was also a metaphor for how the club has treated its most famous alumni for the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night was different — the show was a benefit for those affected by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/weeks-later-fatal-fire-in-west-oakland-still-hurts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the March 21 fire in West Oakland\u003c/a> that killed two residents, displaced 34 others, and severely damaged both \u003ca href=\"http://www.akpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AK Press\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.1984printing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1984 Printing\u003c/a>, publishing and printing companies well-known and loved in the punk scene. The membership of 924 Gilman voted to make a one-time exemption to the major-label ban for the benefit (a vote that “didn’t seem very controversial to the membership,” as Jesse Townley, long involved with the club, told me last night), and it was agreed that Green Day could play, billed as “Special Guests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, word got out on who the special guests were. So when tickets went on sale, at $20 each, they were gone in under 10 seconds. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1589768671240089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculation swirled\u003c/a> that the tickets had been bought by bots created by Silicon Valley developers, and that the show might be full of tech bros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10669571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at 924 Gilman\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2-400x560.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But no — it was still the classic Gilman atmosphere, with the crowd goofily chanting “Nick-el-back! Nick-el-back!” before Green Day went on. Gilman history was represented, too, in the opening bands. \u003ca href=\"http://bobbyjoeebola.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits\u003c/a> featured \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Ivy\u003c/a>’s Dave Mello on drums, and a reunited \u003ca href=\"http://www.punknews.org/review/1251/the-enemies-seize-the-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enemies\u003c/a> had \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neurosis\u003c/a>’ Dave Edwardson on bass; both bands had plenty of fans singing along. Behind me in line to get inside was Richie Bucher, the artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6ba-v_QgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">musician\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Cometbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Cometbus\u003c/em>\u003c/a> regular who illustrated \u003ca href=\"http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22020-where%E2%80%99s_angu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the iconic cover\u003c/a> of Green Day’s best-known album, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>. And in the crowd, as Armstrong noted between songs, there were far more punks with mohawks than there ever were at the band’s Gilman shows in the early 1990s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong also pinpointed the exact last show Green Day played at Gilman: “Sept. 6, 1993,” rattling it off like a memorized date from history class (and also commented that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uABXKwkYiLI&list=PL46D56D34AAAEE875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Day hopping onstage in 2001\u003c/a> to do some songs on another band’s equipment “didn’t really count”). And although Armstrong \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2008/02/11/pinhead-gunpowder-at-gilman-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has played Gilman\u003c/a> twice with his other band Pinhead Gunpowder since then, last night truly was a different kind of homecoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, during the show’s closing block of \u003cem>American Idiot\u003c/em> songs — culminating in the epic “Jesus of Suburbia,” which Armstrong dedicated to everyone in West Contra Costa County — it seemed a given they’d play that Grammy-winning album’s “Homecoming,” which ends with the repeated refrain: “Home / We’re coming home again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they encored with “Minority,” slapped some high-fives to the crowd, jumped off the stage and out the side door, and piled into a black minivan with tinted windows and drove away. Ever to return? Time will tell, especially with the club’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.helpgilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraising efforts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/924-gilman-streets-alumni-donor-retention-program/Content?oid=4278773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current negotiations about the future of the building\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Green Day — the prodigal sons of 924 Gilman — and for the few hundred people there to witness their return, it was a night to remember indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Setlist:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>99 Revolutions\u003cbr>\nHoliday\u003cbr>\nKnow Your Enemy\u003cbr>\nWelcome to Paradise\u003cbr>\n2,000 Light Years Away\u003cbr>\nPrivate Ale\u003cbr>\nChristie Road\u003cbr>\nPaper Lanterns\u003cbr>\nOnly of You\u003cbr>\nStuart and the Ave.\u003cbr>\nShe\u003cbr>\nGoing To Pasalacqua\u003cbr>\nBurnout\u003cbr>\nLongview\u003cbr>\nBasketcase\u003cbr>\nWhen I Come Around\u003cbr>\nAre We The Waiting\u003cbr>\nSt. Jimmy\u003cbr>\nAmerican Idiot\u003cbr>\nJesus Of Suburbia\u003cbr>\n–\u003cbr>\nMinority\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benefit Info.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for AK Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/1984printing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for 1984 Printing\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for Shipwreck Studios\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.helpgilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fundraising for 924 Gilman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Did you see that?” he exclaimed to those nearby, chuckling at the scene), but it was also a metaphor for how the club has treated its most famous alumni for the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night was different — the show was a benefit for those affected by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/weeks-later-fatal-fire-in-west-oakland-still-hurts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the March 21 fire in West Oakland\u003c/a> that killed two residents, displaced 34 others, and severely damaged both \u003ca href=\"http://www.akpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AK Press\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.1984printing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1984 Printing\u003c/a>, publishing and printing companies well-known and loved in the punk scene. The membership of 924 Gilman voted to make a one-time exemption to the major-label ban for the benefit (a vote that “didn’t seem very controversial to the membership,” as Jesse Townley, long involved with the club, told me last night), and it was agreed that Green Day could play, billed as “Special Guests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, word got out on who the special guests were. So when tickets went on sale, at $20 each, they were gone in under 10 seconds. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1589768671240089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculation swirled\u003c/a> that the tickets had been bought by bots created by Silicon Valley developers, and that the show might be full of tech bros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10669571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at 924 Gilman\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2-400x560.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/GreenDayInline2-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at 924 Gilman, May 17, 2015. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But no — it was still the classic Gilman atmosphere, with the crowd goofily chanting “Nick-el-back! Nick-el-back!” before Green Day went on. Gilman history was represented, too, in the opening bands. \u003ca href=\"http://bobbyjoeebola.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits\u003c/a> featured \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Ivy\u003c/a>’s Dave Mello on drums, and a reunited \u003ca href=\"http://www.punknews.org/review/1251/the-enemies-seize-the-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enemies\u003c/a> had \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neurosis\u003c/a>’ Dave Edwardson on bass; both bands had plenty of fans singing along. Behind me in line to get inside was Richie Bucher, the artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6ba-v_QgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">musician\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Cometbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Cometbus\u003c/em>\u003c/a> regular who illustrated \u003ca href=\"http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22020-where%E2%80%99s_angu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the iconic cover\u003c/a> of Green Day’s best-known album, \u003cem>Dookie\u003c/em>. And in the crowd, as Armstrong noted between songs, there were far more punks with mohawks than there ever were at the band’s Gilman shows in the early 1990s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong also pinpointed the exact last show Green Day played at Gilman: “Sept. 6, 1993,” rattling it off like a memorized date from history class (and also commented that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uABXKwkYiLI&list=PL46D56D34AAAEE875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Day hopping onstage in 2001\u003c/a> to do some songs on another band’s equipment “didn’t really count”). And although Armstrong \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2008/02/11/pinhead-gunpowder-at-gilman-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has played Gilman\u003c/a> twice with his other band Pinhead Gunpowder since then, last night truly was a different kind of homecoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, during the show’s closing block of \u003cem>American Idiot\u003c/em> songs — culminating in the epic “Jesus of Suburbia,” which Armstrong dedicated to everyone in West Contra Costa County — it seemed a given they’d play that Grammy-winning album’s “Homecoming,” which ends with the repeated refrain: “Home / We’re coming home again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they encored with “Minority,” slapped some high-fives to the crowd, jumped off the stage and out the side door, and piled into a black minivan with tinted windows and drove away. Ever to return? Time will tell, especially with the club’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.helpgilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraising efforts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/924-gilman-streets-alumni-donor-retention-program/Content?oid=4278773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current negotiations about the future of the building\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Green Day — the prodigal sons of 924 Gilman — and for the few hundred people there to witness their return, it was a night to remember indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Setlist:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>99 Revolutions\u003cbr>\nHoliday\u003cbr>\nKnow Your Enemy\u003cbr>\nWelcome to Paradise\u003cbr>\n2,000 Light Years Away\u003cbr>\nPrivate Ale\u003cbr>\nChristie Road\u003cbr>\nPaper Lanterns\u003cbr>\nOnly of You\u003cbr>\nStuart and the Ave.\u003cbr>\nShe\u003cbr>\nGoing To Pasalacqua\u003cbr>\nBurnout\u003cbr>\nLongview\u003cbr>\nBasketcase\u003cbr>\nWhen I Come Around\u003cbr>\nAre We The Waiting\u003cbr>\nSt. Jimmy\u003cbr>\nAmerican Idiot\u003cbr>\nJesus Of Suburbia\u003cbr>\n–\u003cbr>\nMinority\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benefit Info.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for AK Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/1984printing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for 1984 Printing\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Relief for Shipwreck Studios\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.helpgilman.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fundraising for 924 Gilman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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