$12 Same price online and at the door.
Doors at 4:00pm.
Show from 4:45-7:00pm with one intermission
Deb Grabien’s Relatively Brief History of The Sound Field:
Nic Grabien and I have been playing together for over forty years. We met at SIR in San Francisco, in December 1976. He was running the door and I walked in with my electric guitar and a desperate need to get a couple of songs I’d written during one of the darkest years of my life out of me and onto tape, before those songs devoured me from the inside out. I plugged in and began playing, and he heard guitar that tasted just like what he had been doing on bass for years. I finally noticed that he was standing in the studio doorway watching me. I lifted my shoulders at him: what? He asked where my band was, I told him no band, just me. He asked where my bass player was, I told him no bass player, just me. He asked if I wanted a bass player. By this time I was getting cranky and sarcastic and I said why, have you got one? Well – yes. It turned out he did. He plugged in. About five hours later, with my fingers throbbing, we stopped playing and stared at each other. At that point, we exchanged names, discovered we had the same birthday one year apart, and a musical partnership was born. Nor was that the only partnership. We got married in 1983. The Sound Field was born because, after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and years when I wrote books instead of music, I began writing songs again. I’d emerged from a self-imposed exile and invisibility from the local music scene that had been my life through the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, and begun tentatively playing again. In 2013, a drummer named Larry Luthi sat down and jammed with us at our place in San Francisco. He must have liked what he heard, because he began leaning on us to form a band. We did. The Sound Field has recorded three CDs (“The Bucket List”, “This Moment Of The Storm” and the upcoming “The View From Here”). We’ve been lucky enough to work with a spectrum of superb players, singers and storytellers, from Pete Sears to Jason Crosby, from Henry and Kathleen Salvia to Lauren Murphy. Oh, and David Lindley recorded a total of seven songs over the first two CDs. (He also called Deb a fabulous songwriter.) Note: we do very few covers, most material is original, but when we do, the cover is likely to be as eclectic as the original stuff.
http://www.soundfieldband.com/
Born and raised in San Francisco, Maurice Tani was too young for the Summer of Love, but was still profoundly influenced by the California culture that gave the world surf guitar, country rock and psychedelic to the singer songwriter types. Barely into his twenties and hungry for experience, he moved to central Texas to work the hardcore country, blues and rock circuit between Austin and Dallas, playing five sets a night, seven nights a week for months at a time, eventually making connections that led to his moving to New York City just as the punk rock scene of CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City was exploding in Lower Manhattan. By 1977 he was back in San Francisco as punk, power pop and new wave was taking hold in the Bay Area and began a stretch of five years and four critically acclaimed albums with ex-Flamin’ Groovies front man Roy Loney’s band, The Phantom Movers. Through the rest of the ’80s and ’90s, Maurice was the lead guitarist and a featured vocalist for Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra and Big Bang Beat, two large, 12-18 piece dance bands that gained worldwide exposure from a 2 hour PBS New Years Eve tri-mulcast (2 television stations with different views and FM stereo radio audio all broadcasting simultaneously) that was broadcast annually for many years on public TV around the US and Europe. Tani has spent the past 20 years as an active part of the California alt-country/Americana scene. Fronting his own bands, Calamity & Main, 77 El Deora, he has produced a series of albums for himself and others. Tani has constructed a repertoire of rye humor and darker romantic rumination often described as Oblique Americana and Twang-Noir, Tani calls it “Supercalifornographic”.
Recommended if you like: The Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention, and Patti Smith.
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The Lost Church Santa Rosa
576 Ross Street
- Santa Rosa
Price: $12.00