Location : LMC
Time/Length : am / 30
Rating : **
Performance : *
Board : 95
Notes : Clunky junky and funky. plus crowded hell getting out. couldn’t connect so called it quits after a half hour and two so so rides. late night with tom roy Loney tribute show at The Chapel:
Show was really great – one for the ages. Tom did a great job playing and co-ordinating a rock and roll army from 12 to 75+. Seemed sold out. Lots of really old tyme SF rockers in the audience. Here are my numbered highlights. Had some questions so maybe Tom can weigh in with some answers:
- Evening started with a cool video tribute to Roy. I had no idea he was such an accomplished stage actor.
- MC Tom Kenny [ who kept things moving thru the night during the changeovers] introduced Roy’s 12-year-old niece who did a really poignant violin piece – seemed smarmy but it was really great and touching. Might have been Bach or Mozart.
- Roy’s band phantom movers come out led by Tom and rip thru some numbers. Tom made a good point about how Roy was a San Franciscan thru and thru and what he meant for the City. Then up comes Chuck and Stephanie who work thru two Roy numbers that were really good. Jelo Biafra was next and he actually was also good. Told a touching story about growing up in Colorado a freak and really identifying with Loney – especially how Loney was humorous. Biafra did a number called love is a spider. Then some guy that is now fronting sky Saxons bad the seed came up. He looked like he stepped off the inside booklet of one of those “60’s Nugget Compilations” Black silver buttoned pea coat , plastic sunflower in the lapel- and a big ole bob/bowl haircut. It was like he stepped out of a time machine from 1968 Haigh Ashbury- he was really good. I saw him upstairs later and told him he was great, and he said: “I’m a Roy Boy.”
- Then up came the flaming groovies with CVS on guitar. They did the hits slow death and shake some action. Cyril (looking more and more like a rock and roll version of Mitch McConnell) told story that he and Roy went to visit friends in Detroit – when they got there they found out they all had either overdosed or landed in prison. They went back to there flea bag hotel and wrote slow death. They did a song called whiskey woman – amazing blistering solo work by CVS.
- Change over and Scott McCaughey and young fresh fellows came up with Peter Buck – they were also really good. [Tom – who was the guy singing stage right without an instrument – he looked a little like the singer from The Hold Steady}
- Ira and Georgia came up with Phantom Movers/Tom. They were great capstone. Ira was super good on vocals real rock and roll. Complete change from the NYC show where I though his vocals were kind of meek and subdued.
- I counted two people with serious AV equipment on the floor and in balcony, so show seems to be well documented.
I had to leave before the finale and likely big encores – so it probably just got better. Backstage must have been INSANE with the rock and roll stories…
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