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Saturday Night in Hicksville!

A very special evening is coming up this weekend in West Marin at a longtime favorite Bay Area haunt, Rancho Nicasio. A great ensemble, “The Hot Licks”,  has been formed of some original Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks members, including Dan’s longtime lead guitar/band leader Paul Robinson.  Coming up to play in the Bay Area this Saturday after a remarkable gig opening for the Kingston Trio at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles last weekend, this dinner show at the Rancho is sure to be a classic that is a must-see for all Dan Hicks fans in the area.

A great menu with great food in a great room with a great band!

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“Echo, play Bruce Van Dyke Radio…”

Jive Co-Founder Bruce Van Dyke @ Pyramid Lake Sparks, NV

16sep23- It was a year ago today Bruce left the shores of his beloved Pyramid Lake and crossed the big muddy river. Luckily for us, back in the last century some goofball mechanics in Central Oregon paid a Reno putz to record thousands of hours of KTHX-FM off the air from 1993-96, including hundreds of hours of Bruce’s morning shows (6-10am). Reno volunteer Fred Ihlow has been painstakingly digitizing this huge VHS-tape library and we have cobbled it all together in what is now Bruce’s own channel in cyberspace: https://jiveradio.org/bvd/

What’s on Bruce Van Dyke Radio?

DAYTIME 8a-8p: BVD’s bucket of 4000 tunes he handpicked for Jiveradio from 2016-22. The Schizoclectic list ranges from Shpongle to James Brown with full Bruce voice breaks (sports, weather, commentary) from Xville at the top of every hour.

NIGHTIME 8p-8a: BVD’s KTHX TIME TUNNEL: His full morning shows (ads & all) from Xville circa ’93-’96.

For you with Amazon devices:  “…play Bruce Van Dyke Radio…”

The Night O’ The Deer @ The Dog

Longtime Nevadan, Reindeer Lodge innkeeper, impresario & rabblerouser Gary Schmidt is throwing himself an 80th Bday party and “Celebration of Life” for him and his roadhouse on the Mount Rose Highway, last known as The Reindeer Lodge.

Join us up on the Comstock for a night of stories & music with:

BARRY “THE FISH” MELTON, BANANA, ROY BLUMENFELD, PETER ALBIN & OTHERS TBA

HAVING PLAYED TOGETHER SINCE THE EARLY 1980s, THE BARRY “THE FISH” MELTON BAND CONTINUES TO UPHOLD THE TRADITION OF SAN FRANCISCO ROCK & ROLL THAT PUT THE BAY AREA ON THE MUSICAL MAP IN THE MID 1960s.  THEIR MUSIC IS BEST SUMMED UP BY A LINE FROM ONE OF THEIR SONGS “WHEN THE BAND STARTS PLAYING, I DON’T WANT TO STOP!!”

BARRY “THE FISH” MELTON– FORMER LEAD GUITARIST/SINGER WITH COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH, BARRY IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE DINOSAURS.  HE PERFORMED AND LED THE “NO RAIN” CHANT AT THE ORIGINAL WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL IN 1969.  

BANANA – FORMER KEYBOARDIST/GUITARIST/VOCALIST WITH THE YOUNGBLOODS, BANANA HAS RECENTLY BEEN A MEMBER OF LITTLE STEVEN & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL, AND THE BAND ZERO.

ROY BLUMENFELD – BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DRUMMING WITH THE LEGENDARY BAND THE BLUES PROJECT, ROY HAS RECORDED AND PERFORMED WITH SEATRAIN AND THE NICK GRAVENITES BAND.

PETER ALBIN – ORIGINAL MEMBER OF BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY AND THE DINOSAURS, HIS BASS GUITAR AND VOCALS BACKED UP JANIS JOPLIN.  THE GUITAR HE USED FROM 1965-1993 IS ENSHRINED IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME.

>>>DID YOU SEE THAT? – – – – GARY’S BUYIN’ PIZZA!<<<

Gratuitous Chuck E

hey, the new Gratuitous Echo, which drops Saturday night the 14th at 9, wants in on all this Chuck E. Weiss tribute jazz!  i mean, they don’t make em like Chuck E. any more, or, at least, not all that often.  so to pay proper respects to one of the all-time cool cats, the second half of Echo will be a six song tribute to ole Chuck, featuring some of his under appreciated and superb songs, like the amazing Bomb The Tracks, the awesome rocker where  Chuck comes out and asks Stalin, FDR, and Churchill why the hell you boys didn’t bomb the tracks that German trains were using to haul Jews to the Death Camps.  an incredibly powerful and heavy piece of work, unexpectedly coming from the usually easy-going and carefree Chuck E, and it’s delivered with Chuck’s sly offbeat and semi-surrealistic style.  it’s easily the best rock song i’ve heard in 2021, and it was released 7 years ago on Chuck E’s. “Red Beans and Weiss” cd.  better late than never!

so if you dig Chuck E., or if you wanna dig him…….get down and get widdit saturday night at 9 on Echo.  it’s half off night at the rebop shop, sucka!

 

Well, sumbitch!

Just got word from The Vector that our little KDAN got some ‘good ink’: HERE

As they say…stay tuned (up)!