Like any American classic, “Unfriendly Waters” finds different meanings for each new generation. Occupy Amity Island protesters have embraced it for its theme of speaking truth to Amity’s corporate interests who would rather see the beaches open and making money, even at the expense of bathers who may be injured.
See also: All That Jaws
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
LOS ANGELES—Responding to United Nation estimates that the world population has surpassed 7 billion, Fogelfoot today announced plans to rock them.
“Perhaps even rock the shit out of them,” Fogelfoot added. “If the venue has appropriate drainage.”
Since Bon Jovi’s 1990 song “Dead Or Alive,” in which Mr. Jovi reported that he had “seen a million faces, and [had] rocked them all,” the world population has grown by 2 billion.
And according to Fogelfoot, auto-hailed as America’s Alternate History Band, its appeal as an aggregator, synthesizer, innovater, and regurgitator of popular song trends casts a wider net than the band from New Jersey.
“Bon Jovi had better hold on to what they got,” Fogelfoot said, “because we are going to rock the faces of 6,999,999,000 more people than they.”
Fogelfoot, which recently played for an audience numbered “in the high 30s” in Sherman Oaks, California, estimates it will reach the 7 Billion Faces Rocked goal by 2317.
“By that point we expect the population to have stabilized back to a Book of Genesis-friendly 37,” Fogelfoot said, “so we’ll probably find some place in New Sherman Oaks for the show, outside the Sentient Bacteria Zone.”
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
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
Fogelfoot played at Skinny’s Lounge in exotic North Hollywood the other night, where these pictures were captured by promoter Rich Mercer from his video. Continue reading
In a place as lousy with talent as Los Angeles, it is often hard to build buzz, even if you are America’s Only Band. That is why it was such a treat when the Holy Spirit Himself caught Fogelfoot’s show at Skinny’s Lounge, bathing Brian in His otherworldly light. Continue reading
Fogelfoot is playing more gigs in the exotic San Fernando Valley, which is just fine by us. Life is simpler there, parking is plentiful, drinks are less expensive, and audiences are only 96 percent comprised of entertainment industry personnel.
Voted “Best Place to Chill Over the Hill,” (I’m assuming this is due to its laid-back vibe rather than the number of retirees), Skinny’s is a great club.
Fogelfoot will be performing around 10 p.m., and other bands on the lineup include Blaise Smith, Sheri Pedigo, and Alaina Blair with Bill Alexander.
Join your friends as you walk through the San Fernando Valley of the Shadow of FOGELFOOT. Performing their contagious, disturbing, whimsical, and often poignant brand of Satan/songwriter fare, FOGELFOOT will enchant you even as you quaff Skinny’s strong beverages.
Skinny’s Lounge
4923 Lankershim Boulevard
North Hollywood, CA
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.
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.