Everybody’s Going Wild.
"I DO like Mondays. We’ve survived another weekend and we still get to have fun and hang out. C’mon and hang out! Fun & friends & eclectic tunes. Bowie, Jonathan Richman, Detroit Cobras, Toni Basil, Lynn Redgrave! Keren Ann, Three Thirds, Dai & The Ramblers, Rasputina, Dread Zeppelin, King Floyd, Ruth Brown, & tons more! Party like it’s Monday! See you soon at The Velvet!"
JAZZ. "From the Cellar’s events calendar:
DJ YoYo brings his unique mix to The Cellar; ‘Cool’ Jazz, Bebop & more, from the 50s, 60s & beyond! Riding on 10 years of DJing in SL (and 15 years prior to that as a community radio DJ in the San Francisco Bay Area), YoYo happily shares his eclectic curiosity, enthusiasm and love for music with everyone who stops by!"
Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Charlie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders, Chico Hamilton, Roland Kirk, Dr. Seuss (?!?) and so many more. Enjoy!
This Is How We Walk On The Moon
"We did it! Survived another weekend, again! We get to hang out and enjoy ourselves, again! With MUSIC! Again! Time for tunes, fun & friends. Looks like a slightly oddball mix, perhaps. Loud/soft, oldish/newish, sweet/snotty, melodic/dissonant. Here goes somethin’?? David Byrne, Leon Bridges, Dan Deacon, Sergio Mendes, Yat-Kha, Yaphet Kotto (RIP), Prince, Built To Spill, & others & ‘nothers! Party like it’s Monday! See you soon at The Velvet!"
"YOU are invited to THEORY, another DJ event at our friend Fling’s lovely new club! We are celebrating the weekend, celebrating Spring Equinox, celebrating being together and being alive. Another fun & rambling, raucous and relaxing pile of music, as we hang out and dance under the trees, and babble near the brook… Bring a friend and see you soon!"
More big fun, with a fabulous group of 'invitation-only' attendees and their plus-ones & twos, flowing in. Rowdy, full o' beans. Another little 'warming-up' sequence of tunes toward the beginning of the set, getting rolling, checking the mic, getting settled in before the main event. As with all of my mixes here, everything I say in a mic break is less than half of the story. Asides from the group-chat text conversations happening throughout. A few song requests wrangled. References to the day everyone was having, including our club-owner/hostess Fling being enough of a maniac to schedule an online party at the end of her real-life day of moving house AND getting her new interwebs all set up. Success! - - All the way around.
The End Is Not In Sight.
Let’s do it all over again! It’s that time. Time for tunes and fun. Another big mix of sweet & sassy & soulful, Some spirited and some chill: Gil Scott-Heron, Billy Gibbons, The Meters, Bobbie Gentry, Joni, Willie, SCOTS, Jill Sobule & John Doe, Chris Difford, Dinah Washington, Buddy Holly, and bunches more!
Stops pulled, a ruckus raised. Another early ramp-up, arriving early and 'vamping' with classic garage tracks before the main event and people wandering in off of the beach for 'the real deal'.
