Fan video from our show at Pappy & Harriet’s. Thank you!
See that white spot at the top of the picture taken at our show at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace? That’s Venus, pal. No doubt about it, they were watching us from Venus.
We had a great time at the show, which also featured The Bullfighters, Gram Rabbit, and Sons of the Lawless. I’ll say that we had the prime time slot, though, as the desert twilight transitioned into night during our set.
Maybe we got our shoes dusty (I’m definitely buying some cowboy boots the next time we play there), but that was a great venue and and an even better crowd.
When Robert Plant wanders in the desert, let’s say to find inspiration for “Big Log 2: Even Bigger Log,” he takes the stage at Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace. That is where Fogelfoot will play June 19.
Pioneertown was founded as a vast western movie set in 1946 by Hollywood investors including Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and more than 50 movies were shot there before the nation lost its heart to “Free Willy.” Pioneertown simply couldn’t compete. But now the town is a vibrant piece of meta-Americana and Pappy’s, which opened as a cantina in 1972 has been host to hundreds of acts, including Plant, Cracker, and Eagles of Death Metal.
The occasion is a benefit for Roy’s Desert Resource Center and four bands will be playing, including Fogelfoot and Sons of the Lawless, a band whose drummer is Jake Busey.
I said to Jake Busey, I said: “If your band kicks the fraction of ass you and Michael Ironside did in ‘Starship Troopers,’ well, it’s gonna be a good show.”
Now Pappy and Harriet’s is one of those places with license plates covering the walls, sawdust covering the floors, and an enclosed, open air performance area that resembles a rectangular bullfighting ring, with the stage at one end and a bar (Thank God) at the other, with Joshua Trees on either side, coyotes in the distance, and the California stars wheeling overhead. Also? An even bigger log.
The group is staying in nearby Desert Hot Springs for a vision quest.
The show begins with a band called The Bullfighters at 6:45. Suggested donation is $10.
These Fogelphotos were recently snapped by our good friend Paulina Merekiova.
Fogelfoot is a new band, despite its international stardom and influence, and we are always looking for documentation of our existence. These photos were sent to us by Cheri Elliott, a photographer from Santa Barbara, who saw us at Jensen’s Mainstage.
What is odd is that Ms. Elliott is something like 4′10″ and Fogelfoot as a band is something like 19 feet tall, so I’m not sure if she was trying to photograph us or keep from being crushed.
Despite what we can only imagine as the abject fear we inspire in those who attempt to capture our image, the show was great.
For the Friday, April 30 show at Jensen’s in Santa Barbara (the opening night soiree of the Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival), we are debuting our version of the Stagger Lee legend, told so well by everyone from Ike & Tina Turner to Wilson Pickett to Nick Cave. Ours has the Stag going to space and becoming a constellation.
Here is the demo of the song. You have to imagine it with castrati choir, theremin, Thera-Flu, and chain gangs.
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Constaggerlation
See also: Jensen’s, Santa Barbara Minute
Like Mother Abigail in “The Stand” – and yet absolutely not like Mother Abigail in “The Stand” – Fogelfoot makes a desert journey to the famous Pappy and Harriet’s in Pioneertown on June 19, where it will play its haunting murder ballads, horror pop, and alternative history ditties on a bill that also features Sons of the Lawless, Rabbit And Riutherford, and the Bullfighters.
We’re very excited about this show, the proceeds of which benefit the Desert Resource Center, because we need to return some peyote.
See also: Pappy And Harriet’s
We had a great time and great show at Club Fais Do Do last week. Fan Jamye Waxman sent us this iPhone video of “Ann & Hope” in which, most significantly, we acknowledge Lance Crow’s singularity among Los Angeles drummers.
While we are fans of all viral video, our talent and sound seemed to overwhelm the iPhone’s tender sensibilities. Still, viewers can get an idea of our sheer majesty, both onstage and in the hearts of people like Waxman who, as you will see from the video, is multidimensional in her affections.
Satan/Songwriters Fogelfoot returns to the glorious and exotic Club Fais Do Do this Friday for a very special evening of whimsy, despair, chicken licks, time travel, and emotional ambiguity. Featuring RAY MAVERVORL, LANCE CROW, BOOM SANDFLY, and ERIK PETRAITIS, FOGELFOOT will pop little aneurysms of joy with their touching renditions of “Lady And the Man,” “Show Me the Way to Indianapolis,” and “I Jerked Off Instead.”
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Fais Do Do is where we played our first gig back in ought-9. The club has great food and a liquor license that includes the substance Soju, from which surprisingly good margaritas can be concocted. I was at first skeptical of these, but now I am a convert. I believe Soju is made from rice but I lack the motivation to research further. It could be made from people for all I care; I’d still drink it.
We will have some new songs and even a new horn in Friday’s show. Both additions are occasions of special excitement.
Come at 8:30 for the best seating. We go on at 9. At midnight either the band or the person Ralphy takes the stage. I have not seen him/her/it and cannot direct you to a website, but rest assured Fais Do Do books quality entertainment.
Club Fais Do Do
5257 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90016 [map]
For your listening pleasure, please enjoy this demo of “Show Me the Way to Indianapolis.”
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Show Me the Way to Indianapolis
Fogelfoot will headline the opening night party of the Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival on April 30 at Jensen’s Music.
Film has been an integral part of Fogelfoot’s history, as that medium has captured the band robbing gas stations and convenience stores around the country. That is why we are proud to lend our prodigious talent to the Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival, which showcases and rewards filmmakers for making the most of their limited attention spans.
And we are happy to be back in Santa Barbara, as Lance is 1/3 Chumash and as the sainted Fr. Junipero Serra was the inspiration for “I Jerked Off Instead.”
See also: Jensen’s, Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival
In 1806 a ship was lost off the coast of Block Island – an actual island – which was itself off the coast of Rhode Island, which you can be damn sure is a peninsula. The ship was the Ann And Hope.
Starting in the mid-1950s, the Chase family of Rhode Island opened what would become a string of discount stores in New England, naming them after the doomed boat for reasons similarly lost to time.
Perhaps by the contrivances of Satan, the Gibb family of England moved to Brisbane, Australia around the same time the first Ann & Hope opened in Cumberland, RI. The three eldest boys, Maurice, Barry, and Robin, would help form the Bee Gees, which in the late 60s and early 70s perfected the style that influences today’s song.
The Bee Gees had two distinct sounds in their career; this folky, plaintive balladeer style resonant in “Words,” “Massachusetts,” and “Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You,” and the bass-heavy disco sound that started with 1975’s “Jive Talkin’” and continued through the phenomenal success of the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.
The Bee Gees affected this monumental shift without a significant change in personnel. It is not as if they added Michael McDonald, Peter Cetera, Phil Collins, or Sammy Hagar to their lineup. They were not the Doobeegee Brothers.
When Fogelfoot retires, we want to re-record all the Bee Gees’ folk hits in the disco falsetto and all their disco hits as folk songs. We will call the album “Saturday Night Mining Disaster.”
“Ann & Hope” mixes the time-honored themes of public transportation, stalking, and frotteurism and adds the elements – never before employed – of posthumous narrators and discount stores with ampersands to create the Greatest Song of All TimeTM.
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Ann & Hope
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Our cover of “Words” from 2004
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