greetings from San Francisco. took the usual drive up the I-5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco last night. saw the usual panorama of redneck towns and slaughterhouses. smelled the usual fragrance of cow manure. a starving musician’s salary affords me not airfare.
the bay area music scene has matured vastly since i’ve last lived here (union city, born and raised). when i lived here last, electronic music was the name of the game here, as it had been for a good decade. bad house and acid jazz seemed to be the only music coming out of san Francisco. things have changed. the number of good rock bands are ol’ plenty, as bands like Rogue Wave, Two Gallants, Birdmonster, BRMC, and Film School (there are many more) carry the banner for bay area rock and roll. there are also many solid Asian-American fronted bands like The Morning Benders, Scrabel, From Monument to Masses, and Mike Park who continue to produce good work.
Monolidic is looking to rock the bay soon. stay tuned.
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The Bay Bridged blog provides a fantastic survey of music in the Bay Area.
have a nice trip home allen. can you bring back Zackary’s pizza from Berkeley?
more importantly, when is the monolidic north america tour?
just noticing a lot of capital M’s in these asian bands.
love your pictures and the new website really rocks!
posted on March 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pmawesome picture. where was it taken from?
posted on March 17th, 2008 at 7:10 ami ripped off the photo from some site, since i don’t have access to a helicopter. perhaps i should have credited them. although, you can get an even more impressive view from the 10th floor of the de young museum (its a 360 degree panoramic view). you can see every square foot of sf from there..not to mention all the bridges, pacific ocean, oakland etc.) the view is worth the price of admission alone.
posted on March 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pm