This is a repost of a one I mdae in SFBay Musicians.
I've been noticeing that there's a HUGE amount of seriously sick musicians around the North Oakland/South Berkeley area, and I'd like to see if we could maybe try to establish a certain spot to converge, like a bar or coffee shop or something where musicians can start hanging out on non-work/non-rehearsal/non-gig time and trade notes/chops/gigs, ideas.
In Boston, right on the edge of Southy there's this little hole-in-the-wall bar called Wally's, and it's THE spot for the cats to come get down. Almost every night of the week one or another band does a semi-open mike. It's open, but everybody's pretty smokin players, so you'd better have your shit together if you're gonna get up and play, or you get politely asked to give up your spot to somebody else. It's the place where the the cats who would back up the big names would come to play the real stuff after playing their business gig. (Touring for months playing Kenny G crap, night after night gets to ya and you gotta let it out somewhere somehow.)
There are plenty of punk places, and hip-hop joints, but I don't see too much for Jazz/blues/soul/R&B/funk players to hang out. I've got nothing against punk players, or hip-hop artisits, but most of that is cats who are just into being loud and angry, or making a few loops on an MPC. I'm looking for people who PLAY music.
It would be so nice to find just a beer and wine joint, and three different bands to host maybe Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night at some place, free to get in with your axe/mic, $2 for everyone else, and maybe like a dollar draughts special, maybe blues/funk/R&B one night, Jazz another, and rock another night.
I think some place like that would do a LOT for both the musicians and the audiences in the area. Oaktown used to be a SERIOUS hotbed for that sort of thing, and now it seems kinda ready for it again. Places like this make everyone grow stronger as players, and stronger as a musical community. We're ripe for it. Who's in? Who feels like helping? Who thinks this is a good idea?
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I've been noticeing that there's a HUGE amount of seriously sick musicians around the North Oakland/South Berkeley area, and I'd like to see if we could maybe try to establish a certain spot to converge, like a bar or coffee shop or something where musicians can start hanging out on non-work/non-rehearsal/non-gig time and trade notes/chops/gigs, ideas.
In Boston, right on the edge of Southy there's this little hole-in-the-wall bar called Wally's, and it's THE spot for the cats to come get down. Almost every night of the week one or another band does a semi-open mike. It's open, but everybody's pretty smokin players, so you'd better have your shit together if you're gonna get up and play, or you get politely asked to give up your spot to somebody else. It's the place where the the cats who would back up the big names would come to play the real stuff after playing their business gig. (Touring for months playing Kenny G crap, night after night gets to ya and you gotta let it out somewhere somehow.)
There are plenty of punk places, and hip-hop joints, but I don't see too much for Jazz/blues/soul/R&B/funk players to hang out. I've got nothing against punk players, or hip-hop artisits, but most of that is cats who are just into being loud and angry, or making a few loops on an MPC. I'm looking for people who PLAY music.
It would be so nice to find just a beer and wine joint, and three different bands to host maybe Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night at some place, free to get in with your axe/mic, $2 for everyone else, and maybe like a dollar draughts special, maybe blues/funk/R&B one night, Jazz another, and rock another night.
I think some place like that would do a LOT for both the musicians and the audiences in the area. Oaktown used to be a SERIOUS hotbed for that sort of thing, and now it seems kinda ready for it again. Places like this make everyone grow stronger as players, and stronger as a musical community. We're ripe for it. Who's in? Who feels like helping? Who thinks this is a good idea?
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