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11-11-11 is shaping up to be a big day around San Diego.
Eve Selis' new full-length Family Tree premieres November 11, with a release party in Sherwood Auditorium at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art on Prospect Street. The all-ages event will include Berkley Hart and Dennis Caplinger.
Selis used to be in the San Diego cover band Heroes, along with her friend Mattie Mills. Selis left the group in 1998 to go solo, though the band and Mills are still performing today. Selis and Mills later collaborated on a book and website, Forty Schmorty: Life Keeps Happening.
For years, Selis was involved in a government-related cover-up.
On September 9, 2000, she was to sing the national anthem at the America West Arena in Phoenix. The performance was supposed to be capped by an American bald eagle being released from a balcony to circle the arena and land on its trainer's wrist. However, the bird instead chose to land on top of Selis's head. She maintained her composure and even managed to bow for the audience, most of whom likely thought the landing had been planned that way.
Says Selis, "The trainer asked us not to speak of it, for fear of the eagle losing his congressional approval. This bird, which is an endangered species, was the only bald eagle sanctioned by the U.S. government to fly free at sporting events, rallies, military celebrations, etc. So we understood and kept it on the down low. We recently heard that the bird had retired, so what the heck. The truth must be told."
Selis says her music has been legally downloaded over two million times on the Internet due to her successful self-marketing. She's sold 35,000 CDs, her music is heard in four movies, and she has performed on CNBC, ESPN, and the BBC. She has opened for Travis Tritt, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Doobie Brothers, Joan Osborne, Heart, Dwight Yoakam, Garry Allan, Chris Isaak, and Hootie & the Blowfish.
The Selis band frequently includes "Cactus" Jim Soldi and Sharon Whyte who, along with Mark Intravaia (the Monroes) have their own band, Cactus Twang & Whyte. Soldi played with Johnny Cash for four years and Ricky Skaggs for two years. She's frequently seen around town playing with Tim Flannery and the duo Berkley Hart.
Her album Angels and Eagles was released in early 2008. She won Best Americana Or Country at the 2008 San Diego Music Awards, and Best Americana at the 2010 Awards. She's married to Tom Gulotta of Reelin’ in the Years Productions, a local video/film/DVD archive firm.
Also on November 11, Jefferson Jay's fifth CD, Gift to Be Alive, will debut at the Griffin, with For the Faint and Charbra on the bill.
Formerly known as Brainstorm, the Jefferson Jay Band has been playing around San Diego since 2001 and has opened for Jane's Addiction and Steely Dan. Jay - a Jersey native who moved to San Diego in 2000 - released a CD of children's music, Blue – a Kid's Album, in 2009.
He shortly thereafter released a dual-DVD set Jefferson Jay's 24 Hours of Free Music, commemorating a 24-hour marathon of acts at Portugalia the previous year. “A very special scene developed around my shows,” Jay states. “A close group of talented friends came together. I cherish the opportunity to share our experience and my music with anyone who is interested in these sorts of things.”
His fourth full-length Yellow was released in 2010, the third and final offering in his Primary Colors trilogy. The album includes tracks such as “Dawson,” a tribute to all people named Dawson, and “Intimate with Ludacris,” Jay’s response to the popular hip-hop artist. His fifth CD Gift to Be Alive was released in November 2011.
Jay founded San Diego Musicians Collective, as well as heading up a yearly Acoustic Evenings series at the La Jolla Athenaeum, an institution he once wrote a thesis about before earning his degree in history at SDSU. He also plays with Greens of Mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYh__ykc4I
11-11-11 will ALSO see the fourth studio full-length from Angels & Airwaves — Love Part 2, available in a variety of packages, including a deluxe version with the 85-minute Love movie on DVD; a package with a 128-page comic book based on the movie, or a limited-edition T-shirt; and a version limited to 25 sets with a signed TD Epiphone guitar similar to Tom DeLonge’s.
Now then, when famed Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel famously displayed his amplifier with settings that went to 11 in the film This Is Spinal Tap, he couldn't have guessed that 25-plus years later the world would celebrate Nigel Tufnel Day on 11/11/11.
Local spoof rockers Blasphemous Guitars have stepped up to pay tribute to Spinal Tap, performing in all their satirical splendor as the band they call Twelve.
When a Facebook group began rallying to make the date an official holiday over a year ago, the BGs took note and planned to do a Tap set on 11-11-11 at the Eleven club..
"Expect the usual blasphemy," says bandleader Adam Gimbel, "but with spandex, cucumbers, mimes, cloaks and, gasp, a keyboardist, Vista School of Rock instructor Jody Bagley. It will simply be the greatest re-creation of a band that never really existed. Ever. Or did they?"
Twelve is just the latest incarnation of Cover Me Badd, which mocks certain genres and bands with painfully faithful "tribute band" performances. Blasphemous Guitars, which spoofs '80s hair metal, was nominated for a 2007 San Diego Music Award as Best Cover, Tribute or Bar Band.
The jokers are headed by longtime Rookie Card frontman Adam Gimbel. Guitarist Greg Vaughn, a 1988 Patrick Henry High School graduate, studied under Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth. Vaughn won the 2005 San Diego edition of Guitar Center’s Guitarmageddon competition and tours as sitarist with music and belly dance troupe Danyavad and the Shimmy Sisters. As of 2011, he also fronts an REM tribute band called Murmer, as well as taking the part of a bat-winged guitar shredder in Blasphemous Guitars.
Finally, a Cathryn Beeks Appreciation concert happens 11-11-11 at downtown’s Hard Rock Café, with proceeds going toward her recent medical bills. Around 20 acoustic performers are expected, including Josh Damigo, Rob Deez, Jeff Berkley, Veronica May, Lindsay White, Astra Kelly, Lenny Morris, Kenny Eng, Tori Roze, and Summer Mencher.
“I’d been living in pain and without health insurance for about six years,” says Beeks, who nonetheless managed to promote over 500 local concerts during that time period. “I finally got insurance and had an MRI, which showed a fairly large, presumably benign tumor called a schwannoma growing on my spinal nerve, in and out of my L4 and L5.”
Beeks underwent surgery in late July to have the tumor removed.
“It took almost eight weeks for me to be able to walk normally again, but I’m getting better every day and am out of the horrible pain. I’m finally sleeping...back to work hosting my shows...and I’m looking forward to performing again in the near future.”
Among the many locals who contacted the Reader to offer praise for Beeks:
“Cathryn was the first person to give me a show outside the coffeehouse scene,” says Josh Damigo. “I was nervous and excited and probably stuck out like a nun in a strip joint.” Damigo has been a regular at the Game, Beeks’s frequent songwriter showcases where she provides a song title, around which anyone is invited to write and perform their own tune. “My set at the Hard Rock will consist of the songs I’ve written because of her prompting for the Game.”
Astra Kelly first met Beeks while camping in Colorado, eventually accepting Beeks’s offer to play a San Diego show. “A year later, I packed up a moving van and thankfully made my way to California, where Cathryn opened her arms and her heart and helped me get to know the local scene.”
“She’s the one person every beginning singer-songwriter has to know when they start playing music in San Diego,” says Kenny Eng, who began performing for Beeks’s events at downtown’s Dublin Square in 2007.
“She’s like the nice version of the Godfather. If she gives you her blessing, you’re good to go.”
11-11-11 is shaping up to be a big day around San Diego.
Eve Selis' new full-length Family Tree premieres November 11, with a release party in Sherwood Auditorium at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art on Prospect Street. The all-ages event will include Berkley Hart and Dennis Caplinger.
Selis used to be in the San Diego cover band Heroes, along with her friend Mattie Mills. Selis left the group in 1998 to go solo, though the band and Mills are still performing today. Selis and Mills later collaborated on a book and website, Forty Schmorty: Life Keeps Happening.
For years, Selis was involved in a government-related cover-up.
On September 9, 2000, she was to sing the national anthem at the America West Arena in Phoenix. The performance was supposed to be capped by an American bald eagle being released from a balcony to circle the arena and land on its trainer's wrist. However, the bird instead chose to land on top of Selis's head. She maintained her composure and even managed to bow for the audience, most of whom likely thought the landing had been planned that way.
Says Selis, "The trainer asked us not to speak of it, for fear of the eagle losing his congressional approval. This bird, which is an endangered species, was the only bald eagle sanctioned by the U.S. government to fly free at sporting events, rallies, military celebrations, etc. So we understood and kept it on the down low. We recently heard that the bird had retired, so what the heck. The truth must be told."
Selis says her music has been legally downloaded over two million times on the Internet due to her successful self-marketing. She's sold 35,000 CDs, her music is heard in four movies, and she has performed on CNBC, ESPN, and the BBC. She has opened for Travis Tritt, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Doobie Brothers, Joan Osborne, Heart, Dwight Yoakam, Garry Allan, Chris Isaak, and Hootie & the Blowfish.
The Selis band frequently includes "Cactus" Jim Soldi and Sharon Whyte who, along with Mark Intravaia (the Monroes) have their own band, Cactus Twang & Whyte. Soldi played with Johnny Cash for four years and Ricky Skaggs for two years. She's frequently seen around town playing with Tim Flannery and the duo Berkley Hart.
Her album Angels and Eagles was released in early 2008. She won Best Americana Or Country at the 2008 San Diego Music Awards, and Best Americana at the 2010 Awards. She's married to Tom Gulotta of Reelin’ in the Years Productions, a local video/film/DVD archive firm.
Also on November 11, Jefferson Jay's fifth CD, Gift to Be Alive, will debut at the Griffin, with For the Faint and Charbra on the bill.
Formerly known as Brainstorm, the Jefferson Jay Band has been playing around San Diego since 2001 and has opened for Jane's Addiction and Steely Dan. Jay - a Jersey native who moved to San Diego in 2000 - released a CD of children's music, Blue – a Kid's Album, in 2009.
He shortly thereafter released a dual-DVD set Jefferson Jay's 24 Hours of Free Music, commemorating a 24-hour marathon of acts at Portugalia the previous year. “A very special scene developed around my shows,” Jay states. “A close group of talented friends came together. I cherish the opportunity to share our experience and my music with anyone who is interested in these sorts of things.”
His fourth full-length Yellow was released in 2010, the third and final offering in his Primary Colors trilogy. The album includes tracks such as “Dawson,” a tribute to all people named Dawson, and “Intimate with Ludacris,” Jay’s response to the popular hip-hop artist. His fifth CD Gift to Be Alive was released in November 2011.
Jay founded San Diego Musicians Collective, as well as heading up a yearly Acoustic Evenings series at the La Jolla Athenaeum, an institution he once wrote a thesis about before earning his degree in history at SDSU. He also plays with Greens of Mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYh__ykc4I
11-11-11 will ALSO see the fourth studio full-length from Angels & Airwaves — Love Part 2, available in a variety of packages, including a deluxe version with the 85-minute Love movie on DVD; a package with a 128-page comic book based on the movie, or a limited-edition T-shirt; and a version limited to 25 sets with a signed TD Epiphone guitar similar to Tom DeLonge’s.
Now then, when famed Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel famously displayed his amplifier with settings that went to 11 in the film This Is Spinal Tap, he couldn't have guessed that 25-plus years later the world would celebrate Nigel Tufnel Day on 11/11/11.
Local spoof rockers Blasphemous Guitars have stepped up to pay tribute to Spinal Tap, performing in all their satirical splendor as the band they call Twelve.
When a Facebook group began rallying to make the date an official holiday over a year ago, the BGs took note and planned to do a Tap set on 11-11-11 at the Eleven club..
"Expect the usual blasphemy," says bandleader Adam Gimbel, "but with spandex, cucumbers, mimes, cloaks and, gasp, a keyboardist, Vista School of Rock instructor Jody Bagley. It will simply be the greatest re-creation of a band that never really existed. Ever. Or did they?"
Twelve is just the latest incarnation of Cover Me Badd, which mocks certain genres and bands with painfully faithful "tribute band" performances. Blasphemous Guitars, which spoofs '80s hair metal, was nominated for a 2007 San Diego Music Award as Best Cover, Tribute or Bar Band.
The jokers are headed by longtime Rookie Card frontman Adam Gimbel. Guitarist Greg Vaughn, a 1988 Patrick Henry High School graduate, studied under Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth. Vaughn won the 2005 San Diego edition of Guitar Center’s Guitarmageddon competition and tours as sitarist with music and belly dance troupe Danyavad and the Shimmy Sisters. As of 2011, he also fronts an REM tribute band called Murmer, as well as taking the part of a bat-winged guitar shredder in Blasphemous Guitars.
Finally, a Cathryn Beeks Appreciation concert happens 11-11-11 at downtown’s Hard Rock Café, with proceeds going toward her recent medical bills. Around 20 acoustic performers are expected, including Josh Damigo, Rob Deez, Jeff Berkley, Veronica May, Lindsay White, Astra Kelly, Lenny Morris, Kenny Eng, Tori Roze, and Summer Mencher.
“I’d been living in pain and without health insurance for about six years,” says Beeks, who nonetheless managed to promote over 500 local concerts during that time period. “I finally got insurance and had an MRI, which showed a fairly large, presumably benign tumor called a schwannoma growing on my spinal nerve, in and out of my L4 and L5.”
Beeks underwent surgery in late July to have the tumor removed.
“It took almost eight weeks for me to be able to walk normally again, but I’m getting better every day and am out of the horrible pain. I’m finally sleeping...back to work hosting my shows...and I’m looking forward to performing again in the near future.”
Among the many locals who contacted the Reader to offer praise for Beeks:
“Cathryn was the first person to give me a show outside the coffeehouse scene,” says Josh Damigo. “I was nervous and excited and probably stuck out like a nun in a strip joint.” Damigo has been a regular at the Game, Beeks’s frequent songwriter showcases where she provides a song title, around which anyone is invited to write and perform their own tune. “My set at the Hard Rock will consist of the songs I’ve written because of her prompting for the Game.”
Astra Kelly first met Beeks while camping in Colorado, eventually accepting Beeks’s offer to play a San Diego show. “A year later, I packed up a moving van and thankfully made my way to California, where Cathryn opened her arms and her heart and helped me get to know the local scene.”
“She’s the one person every beginning singer-songwriter has to know when they start playing music in San Diego,” says Kenny Eng, who began performing for Beeks’s events at downtown’s Dublin Square in 2007.
“She’s like the nice version of the Godfather. If she gives you her blessing, you’re good to go.”