Some wild YouTube vids purporting to be shot at U31:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V102qI-lyWY --- Two girls kissing, one pulling down shirt and then feeling the other girl's boobs while guys film and cheer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB2_MT_M9CE&featur… --- Dancing and drinking set to music, girls grabbing their boobs and shaking them at camera (no actual flashing, tho a girl as 2:37 lifts up her dress and touches herself while licking the camera).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1itL667xZsQ&featur… --- Hot girls booty shaking, almost all drinking, girl at 3:19 sitting on bar with legs spread open (clothed), girl at 3:31 holding onto one (giant floppy) boob and shaking it at camera while holding a can of Pabst in her other hand. Yikes!
That's just the first few I looked at. I'm not saying this is what it's always like at U31, but that's how most online vids seem to portray the place. — November 20, 2008 3:56 a.m.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Some wild YouTube vids purporting to be shot at U31: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V102qI-lyWY --- Two girls kissing, one pulling down shirt and then feeling the other girl's boobs while guys film and cheer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB2_MT_M9CE&featur… --- Dancing and drinking set to music, girls grabbing their boobs and shaking them at camera (no actual flashing, tho a girl as 2:37 lifts up her dress and touches herself while licking the camera). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1itL667xZsQ&featur… --- Hot girls booty shaking, almost all drinking, girl at 3:19 sitting on bar with legs spread open (clothed), girl at 3:31 holding onto one (giant floppy) boob and shaking it at camera while holding a can of Pabst in her other hand. Yikes! That's just the first few I looked at. I'm not saying this is what it's always like at U31, but that's how most online vids seem to portray the place.— November 20, 2008 3:56 a.m.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
I view SD club footage all the time on YouTube, and I've never seen a venue with so many vids apparently centered on drinking and wild-acting women. Almost all local venue vids on YouTube feature music performances or intimate group of friends hanging out together and documenting via camera. With the U31 vids, it's mainly the same handful of YouTube users posting all the party vids, many of them set to secondary music overdubbed onto edited party footage, as opposed to the usual "point and shoot" recording. Edited thusly, they DO come across like a Girls Gone Wild At U31 advertisement!— November 20, 2008 3:51 a.m.
Rap-Rock, So ’90s
Loving the live links to related Reader pages!! And when you click to the POD page itself, there are more links, to past Reader stories about the band - collectively, the whole POD story seems to have unfolded in the Reader. Nice!— November 20, 2008 3:48 a.m.
From Beyond the Grave
Villodas actually knew Frank Zappa, whom he says he got to know through his mentor, former Zappa sideman Jimmy Carl Black (who just passed away - RIP, Indian of the Group). "Frank and I didn't get along at all," says Villodas. "One day, before the recording of Zappa's Bongo Fury LP with Captain Beefheart -- around '75, '76 -- I sparked up a doob as Frank and his band rehearsed, and he stopped the song mid-tune, spun around, aimed his guitar at me, and snarled. I love his music, but it sure was hate at first sight with me and him. He hated pot and I hate cigarettes."— November 13, 2008 10:49 p.m.
My Music, Real Music
Cut for space (but you lucky website browsers get the DVD-style director's cut): BEST BAND OF ALL TIME? “Led Zeppelin. Even if I’d only heard ‘Since I’ve Been Lovin’ You.’ they would still be my favorite band of all time, but obviously they wrote a couple of other decent songs as well.” FIRST BOOK YOU REMEMBER READING? “The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.” http://www.myspace.com/jac— November 5, 2008 1:37 p.m.
Great. Danny’s Here
According to Williams, “They even had a guy named Pricasso, who paints people’s portraits with his penis. I think he dips it in ink, but I really didn’t want to get too close a look.” Williams says the band hung out in the VIP area with fellow musical performers like the Genitorturers and a Canadian Motley Crue tribute band, Carnival of Sin. “They took it way too seriously. I mean, they had plastic surgery done to look like the guys in Crue, and the drummer had tattoos identical to Tommy Lee all over his body.” http://myspace.com/theburningofrome http://www.theburningofrome.com— November 5, 2008 1:19 p.m.
Rollers to Rock Again
Crabb's most famous and oft-requested line as the Little Green Sprout? “So THAT’S where baby peas come from!” “It’d be great if they put those old commercials back on the air,” says Crabb. “I’d start getting residual checks again.” http://www.myspace.com/ericcrabbmusic http://www.ianmitchell.com— November 5, 2008 1 p.m.
Glam Ghouls Spew Metallic Body Fluids
Page grew up in North Park and lives near Banker’s Hill. The Kearny High graduate (1968) tells the Reader “Iggy introduced me to Johnny Depp around ‘92, and Johnny put me in charge of throwing a band together with him, the Vipers. However, that project ended up clashing with his movie shooting, so that’s when I bailed on live road gigs, in favor of working at home, scoring for films.” Regarding other PassmoreLab 3D projects, Page says “We teamed up with rock photographer Bob Gruen, to convert his well-known iconic images to a format that can be viewed on stereoscopic displays.” Gruen was the personal photographer for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and served as tour photographer for the Clash and Kiss. His extensive photo archive includes the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Patti Smith, Bo Diddley, Blondie, Bob Marley, and the Sex Pistols. As for why PassmoreLab made the investment in a Semi Precious Weapons vid, Page says that - because of the production - "MGM came down from L.A. to meet with us...Warner Brothers followed in the afternoon. Yup, right here in sleepy lil Dago, they came to us. We're all about the art, about being a futuristic cutting-edge experimental lab, not a production company...We don't need no stinkin' badges. Or motives. Just like The Reader :-)"— November 5, 2008 12:32 p.m.
Downtown living
Interesting. I'm curious about a couple of things - is the music usually being performed live, or is it usually DJs/prerecorded? How close to the Ivy Hotel do you live? Finally, have you ever contacted noise abatement or someone else to come out and measure the dB sound levels? Anyone generating noise over the legal limit can be cited.— November 3, 2008 1:08 a.m.
Get It?
Knack singer/guitarist Doug Fieger RE the Knuke the Knack campaign: "I understand the idea in the Western world that you build up your heroes in order to tear them down, but I was a little surprised at the vehemence with which we were attacked. It seems to me it was all out of proportion to what it was that we were and what we attempted to do, which was to play well-crafted, well-written, well-performed, fun pop music, for an audience that might like it." (Phoenix New Times, September 17, 1998)— October 30, 2008 12:15 a.m.