Category Archives: Gigs

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Kulak’s Woodshed—November 25

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We are very happy to be returning to the famous Kulak’s Woodshed on Laurel Canyon Blvd. in North Hollywood for a show that will be intimate in person but Altamont Huge due to a live web simulcast.

Tickets are just five dollars, and all proceeds benefit Fogelfoot.

Clicking here between 8 and 9:30 PST will allow you to see Fogelfoot in its splendor, along with special guest pianist Tanya Melendez. You can also email us during the show like it’s a telethon or something.

See also: Kulak’s Fogelfoot Webcast 8-9:30 p.m. PST 11/25; Facebook event page

Pig ‘n Whistle: Leave a tender moment alone

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It wasn’t until we were warming up on stage at Hollywood’s Pig ‘n Whistle last week that enigmatic longtime Fogelphile Tyrone Merriner told us we were living a lie.

“The old Pig ‘n Whistle shut down decades ago,” he said. “This whole place was a Numero Uno Pizza for years and years when Hollywood was skanky.”

We looked at the furnishings, the beautiful bar, the ornate draperies, and our own snazzy suits and felt a little sick.

“Yeah,” Tyrone continued, “they just reopened as the Pig ‘n Whistle a few years ago.”

“You mean Hollywood is just a big lie?” we asked Tyrone, who is at least a decade older than most people.

“Sorry to break the bad news,” he said.

Well, just like the Cormorant tells us, we must keep on keepin’ on.

Pig ‘n Whistle Hollywood: November 17

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Fogelfoot will be opening the show at Hollywood’s famous Pig ‘n Whistle Thursday, Nov. 17, at 8.

Do the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe and Bugsy Siegel still haunt the place? The food? IS THE GHOST OF MARILYN MONROE HAUNTING THE FRENCH FRIES AT THE PIG & WHISTLE?

We’re not parapsychologists. We’re musicians. And entertainers. Beloved entertainers. We can’t help you with whatever is manifesting itself in your appetizers.

Also on the bill Thursday are George Fierro, Vim Dicta, Haley Hendrickson, and Spero.

This is an 18+ show and admission is $6.

Also, we don’t know the rule governing apostrophes in words with two letters missing. You’d think it would be Pig ‘n’ Whistle, but apparently it’s not.

See also: Facebook invitation, Pig ‘n Whistle

The Oaks Tavern: November 3

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In its quest to probe deeper into the heart of the exotic San Fernando Valley, Fogelfoot is playing The Oaks Tavern in mysterious Sherman Oaks Thursday night, November 3.

As it is on Moorpark Blvd., however, the timid need not worry about going irretrievably into the Beyond.

It’s when we play Topanga Canyon that you’ll need to bring safari gear and a Sherpa.

Fogelfoot is excited to perform at this venue that is so highly rated on Yelp (“hot bartenders!”) by reviewers who don’t appear to also be employees.

The lineup is as follows:

Zac Roane
Nik and I (Nikki from Evil Twin and Nick Reiter from the Nick Reiter Band)
Michael Apple
Fogelfoot

The show is free, and we go on at 10:30ish.

See also: The Oaks Tavern

Now Playing: Ann & Hope (Is Painless)

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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 effected 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, after all.

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 (and the typographically time-consuming asterisks of “M*A*S*H”) to create the Greatest Song of All TimeTM.

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Ann & Hope

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Our cover of “Words” from 2004

The Annotated “Lonely Vaquero”

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Fogelfoot performed at the arty and mysterious Home Room recently, adjacent to the defunct but still menacing Lowenbraukellar on Beverly Blvd. We followed the brilliant but possibly possessed comedian Rick Shapiro, and were delighted that an audience that came for the comedians stayed for the band.

Here is an annotated version of “The Lonely Vaquero” for shut-ins and the home-schooled.

Comedy Crunch @ Home Room—October 6

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Fogelfoot joins the energetic Peter Pants following a night of comedy on Thursday, October 6 at Home Room, 3121 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Comedians include the great Rick Overton, David Feldman, Rick Shapiro, Duncan Trussell, Gabe Abelson, Heather Turman, Jesse Case, and Dave Sirus.