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Cathryn Beeks: Vocals www.myspace.com/cathrynbeeksordeal

Sven-Erik Seaholm: Vocals, Guitars, Bass www.svensongs.com

Bill Ray: Drums www.billraydrums.com

HERE’S THIS WEEK’S NEW “OVERHEARD” ----------

Rock Around Town Tonight: Live Music

The Blokes
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Hennessey's Tavern - Carlsbad
NOFX
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
House of Blues
The Eagles of Death Metal
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Belly Up Tavern
Al DiMeola
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Anthology
Underminer
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Casbah
Ronnie Lane & the Twisters
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Patrick's II
Mike Gardner
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Cheers
Piano Bar
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Jack's La Jolla - Ocean Room
Charlie Blue
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Round Table Cocktail Lounge
John Cain
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
Shooters Bar and Grill

DJ Events

Trans Am Tuesdays
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
9:00 p.m., Beauty Bar
DJ Famous Dave
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
9:00 p.m., Whiskey Girl
Friends Chill
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
9:00 p.m., Whistle Stop Bar
Big Sonic Chill
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009
11:30 p.m., Air Conditioned Lounge
Deep House Nite
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009
9:00 p.m., Bar Dynamite

ALSO:

Eamon Caroll - The Field Irish Pub and Restaurant

Doug Allen - The Kraken

The Shawline Expression - Red Fox Steakhouse

Live R&B and Jazz - Riley's

Bdub's Jazz Jam Session - Rosie O'Grady's

Music & Memories - Welk Resorts Theatre presents a return engagement for Wayland Pickard's musical portrayal of Liberace, candelabra on the piano, bejeweled costumes, and legendary showmanship. More

CATHRYN BEEKS’ WEEKLY LISTEN LOCAL HOTSHEET

Wednesday, February 4th: Backstage at The Bitter End downtown at 5th and F, no cover!

8:00 Victoria Rose, 8:30 Melissa Vaughan

9:00 Mark Jackson Band, 10:00 Dave Perskie and Session 73

11:00 Jacqueline Grace

 Artist of the Week:

Friends, hear me now: DON’T MISS Jacqueline Grace this Wednesday night,

Backstage at The Bitter End, 11pm. She’s the real deal pop star with great

songs and a bad ass band. She mixes pop, r&b and latin creating irresistible

songs, you’ll be dancing all night. Hear a song or two, see you there.

No Cover!

 Our pals at The Oasis House Concerts 
are at it again and Gregory Page is telling stories this Thursday, 
February 5th at 7:00 p.m. 
$20 suggested donation, reserve your seats HERE.  
If you have any other questions, contact Martha 
([email protected]) or Charlie ([email protected]). 
 
 Like your jazz eclectic? 
The Seedy Trio featuring Chris Clarke on mandolin and vocals, 
David Bandrowski on guitar and Doug Walker on upright bass play every 
Monday night at the Turquoise Cafe Bar Europe in North Pacific Beach 
from 7 to 10:30. You’ll hear everything from Django to Jelly Roll to 
Garcia/Grisman and some new original material written for guitar & mandolin…. 
good stuff this.
 
 Many of you commented on the song 
SKINNY MINNIE that I have posted on my Myspace.com. 
The song was written by Marti Amado and John Jorgenson 
of Nashville. Marti is an amazing composer/producer who 
was super fun and easy to work with. 
Check out her new site! 
 
HEADS UP
 
2/14 - Don't miss the Valentine’s Day Mixer at 
The Cottonwood Golf Club, Saturday Feb. 14th.  
Bring your sweetie or find a new one while you're there.  
Got a service to offer or just want to get out and meet 
the people in our little scene?  Join us and bring all your 
friends (all ages and family friendly) for a night of music 
and all the good stuff that goes with it.  Full bar, good 
food, new friends.  
6:00 Roxanne 
6:30 JJ Morin 
7:00 The Castners 
7:30 Paul Cannon 
8:00 Fold Mr. Lincoln 
8:30 Kenny Eng 
9:00 Carlos Olmeda 
9:40 BVioliln 
10:10 Reverend Stickman 
10:40 Ephraim Sommers 
11:10 Rob Deez 
11:40 David Hermsen
 
The Cottonwood Golf Club is in Rancho San Diego and, though they don't 
normally stay open past early evening, they've decided to try having music 
on random weekends.  The club is very family friendly, there is a full bar 
and they have a pretty extensive bar menu.  Besides a large dinning room 
where the bands play, they have a huge permanent outdoor tent perfect 
for weddings, cd release parties and festivals.  Since there aren't a lot of 
places for live music in that area, my plan is to try and bring a nice mixture 
of local music (Americana, some rock and acoustic acts) to the folks in 
East County.  The shows will be free to attend and all ages, family friendly.  
 
 
Sunday 2/22 - THE GAME - Backstage at The Bitter End: 
Local songwriters all compose a tune based on a single 
song title.
 
THE GAME is happening again on February 22nd, 
Backstage at The Bitter End. 
The title is BIG PICTURE.  Yes, I know I agreed that Big Package would be 
the next title at the last game; however, I was drinking. BIG PICTURE is 
much better. Sorry to anyone who already wrote a song to the title 
Big Package, please feel free to play it on the 22nd. Thanks to everyone 
for participating and keeping THE GAME alive.
 
Want to play THE GAME? Just write a song to the title BIG PICTURE and 
show up to play it on 2/22 at 9pm. All styles/abilities, full band (full backline)
welcomed. No cover, 21+
ABOUT THE GAME........ 
It started when Jeff Berkley, Steve Poltz, and Gregory Page toured Australia. 
They'd make up a song title, and then the next night, each of them would 
have to play a song based on that title.
 
We now invite ALL locals to have a whack at instant songwriting for a 
live audience, so far attracting players like Sven-Erik Seaholm, Mark DeCerbo
and others. 
 
Three sample lyrics from a previous Game, where the song title was "Quick": 
Joe Rathburn: "A picture's etched on my brain, of them taken by that hur'cane / 
They were gone just...that...quick." 
Bart Mendoza: "You want the stars, the sun, the moon / 
all yesterday, if not that soon." 
Mark Jackson: "So if you're gonna quit me, baby, be quick / 
And don't you try to burn me with your witch's candlestick."

Link of the Week: We're proud to announce that

TakeLessons.com is a new Listen Local partner, offering

voice and instrument lessons and helping teachers find

students, too. Visit the site and let them know

Cathryn Beeks and Listen Local sent you!

I'm going to be more proactive about promoting my own
band, The Cathryn Beeks Ordeal. We're begin work on
the new album at Berkley Sound and we have some great shows
coming up...Pretty exciting stuff happening...
Join The Cathryn Beeks Ordeal's mailing list and be part of the family!
www.myspace.com/cathrynbeeksordeal
MORE CATHRYN BEEKS ON THE READER SITE: Musician Interviews (Dec. 30, 2004),
Musician Interviews (April 5, 2007), Blurt (March 26, 2008),
Hometown CD Review (Oct. 15, 2008)

CATHRYN BEEKS MP3S:
Desert Music - Add to playlist
Drive America - Add to playlist
Good To Be - Add to playlist

Keep Walking - Add to playlist
www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/cathryn-beeks-ordeal
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Not So Quiet on the Set - Bart Mendoza

Not So Quiet on the Set While much is being made of pop stars Beyoncé and Mos Def portraying music icons Etta James and Chuck Berry in the movie Cadillac Records, several San Diego artists have also had stints impersonating hit-makers of the ’50s and ’60s.

In 1989, Mojo Nixon made his film debut in Great Balls of Fire, portraying James Van Eaton, drummer with Jerry Lee Lewis (played by Dennis Quaid) and other ’50s-era Sun Records artists. Nixon, a proficient drummer, spent several weeks studying vintage TV clips and changed his drumming style to match that of Van Eaton. However, as it turned out, the skills of Nixon and movie bandmates John Doe and Jimmie Vaughan were never utilized. The actors mimed Lewis’s original Sun Records recordings.

A decade later, blink-182’s Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus portrayed ’60s surf duo Jan and Dean in the 1999 CBS-TV mini-series Shake, Rattle & Roll. Their musical input in the program was minimal, singing a bit of “Dead Man’s Curve” in a scene set around a publisher’s piano.

In 2004, Jason Mraz portrayed Dion DiMucci of Dion and the Belmonts fame on NBC-TV’s teen drama American Dreams. Set in the ’60s and based around Dick Clark’s music-TV show American Bandstand, the plotline included Mraz as a guest on the show crooning his own take of DiMucci’s “Ruby Baby.”

Only one local group has been re-created for cinematic purposes — Rosie and the Originals. The part of Rosie Hamlin was played by Jeanette Jurado of vocal trio Exposé. Jurado and actors playing the band sang Rosie and the Originals’ lone hit, 1962’s “Angel Baby,” during a scene of an early ’60s teen dance in the 1995 film My Family.

According to Nixon, attention to detail in Great Balls of Fire was important to his role, but only to a point. “Van Eaton told me he used to put his wallet on his tom drum to deaden the sound. When I did it for a scene, the producer told me not to bother, since you probably couldn’t see it on the screen anyway.”

Nixon spent a month in London and three months in Memphis working on the film and cites his time between takes as the most exciting. Although the band was miming, the equipment was real, so the musicians would jam whenever the cameras weren’t rolling. The ad hoc band even managed to squeeze in a few gigs. “We were staying a block off Beale Street, so we went and borrowed equipment from one of the bands playing in a bar there. The crowd wouldn’t let us pay for our drinks, and we got to play rock ’n’ roll where it all started. Does it get any better?”

Though Nixon is now semiretired from music and concentrates on his Sirius Radio show, The Loon in the Afternoon, if the opportunity arose, he would jump at the chance to play ’50s rocker J.P. Richardson — the Big Bopper. The singer of 1958 hit “Chantilly Lace” died in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and has been portrayed in several films, including The Day the Music Died, due February 3. Nixon considers his own booming voice and larger-than-life personality a perfect fit for the part. “That’s a role I was born to play,” he laughs.

An additional bonus to Nixon’s acting in “Great Balls of Fire” was getting co-star Winona Ryder, who played Lewis’ 15 year old wife in the movie, to spend a little of her movie off time co-starring in his video for “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two Headed Love Child.” Naturally partner in crime at the time, Skid Roper also makes an appearance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92QcjT6vDY&NR=1

Debbie Gibson commented on Nixon’s song in an interview, claiming to have written a response song to the tune. It remains unheard. :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz1YGBCFNiI&feature=related

Mojo Nixon as 50’s era Sun Session / Jerry Lee Lewis drummer James Van Eaton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDo6EkJtKqs&feature=related

Blink-182 as 60’s surf duo Jan & Dean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCFRcAl7ys

Jason Mraz as sixties icon Dion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtnSTpkWfo

Rosie and the Originals recreated in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYknTY6u4A

And just because I’m a completist, here’s two more role playing clips from locals:

Blink-182, collectively, as sixties TV show icon Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, in this “Leave it to Beaver” parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgPhdGPaZM

And very minor indeed, but Jewel appears in the Judy Garland role of Dorothy in this stage production of “The Wizard of Oz”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNntXzI1EkU

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THIS WEEK'S NEW MUSICIAN INTERVIEW: MARY DOLAN

In Bloom - Singer-songwriter Mary Dolan — a fixture in the San Diego music scene in the ’90s — was off the local radar for several years. “Our son Jack was born in November 2004, the day before my ...

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Today's Local MP3 Downloads

West Indies - ADAMNT for President
Anna Troy - Ain't No Man
Willovealot - Alittle for Alot
West Indies - All Eyes On Us
Astra Kelly - All I Got
Chad Cavanaugh - All I Have To Give
Brandon Rice - All That We Live For
Nature of the Beast - All Time Greats featuring Qwel
D.R. Auten - Angela
J03L - Architect's View
Vanja James - August
Matt Commerce - Back in the Game
Ryan Vernazza - Barely a Scream
Vanja James - Beautiful Mess
Nature of the Beast - Bench to the Bus Stop
Bill Molch - Billion Watt Bulb
Hocus - Bipolar Girl
Howls - Black Gold
Agave - Blown Out Day
Young Mass - Blue Skyy -- Remix/Radio Edit

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"Pussycat Theaters - When 'Cathouses Ruled California" -- for the first time, the detailed inside story of the west coast Pussycat Theater chain of adult moviehouses, which peaked in the '70s but later died out. Told by those who actually ran the theaters! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/dec/26/pussycat-theater-history-when-cathouses-ruled-ca-5/

"Before It Was The Gaslamp: Balboa's Last Stand" - Cover story 6-21-07: In the late 70s/early 80s, I worked at downtown San Diego's grindhouse all-night movie theaters, for the owner of the Pussycat Theatre chain, Vince Miranda - this detailed feature recalls those dayz, the death of the Balboa Theatre, etc.

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/jul/23/before-it-was-the-gaslamp-now-with-50-more-content/

"Battle Of The Peeps" - feature article about a weird gig I had in the mid-'80s, running a strip club called Jolar, for the nation's second biggest pornographer, Harry Mohney (Deja Vu Showgirls founder).

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/oct/23/battle-of-the-peeps---an-insider-history-of-san-di/

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MidnightHeaderFnl PhantomParadise

"Midnight Movies - the '80s Part 1" - The Fine Arts Theater, the Unicorn, the Guild, the Academy, the Loma and La Paloma, the Ken Cinema, the Strand in OB - for a time, the midnight movie crowd was its own sort of stoner subculture. Several historic cult movie events happened right here in SD, including the first-ever audience participation performance along with Phantom of the Paradise.... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/nov/09/more-on-brick-by-bricks-new-hip-hop-showcase-plus-/

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"Why Jackson Browne Hates Former Reader Contrib Richard Meltzer" - The first time Jackson Browne was profiled Rolling Stone [June 22, 1972], Richard Meltzer did the interview. When Meltzer called the singer "one hell of a prototype sex symbol for the gay rock underground," Browne was VERY unhappy.... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/nov/09/more-on-brick-by-bricks-new-hip-hop-showcase-plus-/

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EbayTreasuresLogo "Collecting Local Music" - an encyclopedia and price guide of local music collectables through the years. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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locals2 "The Day Happy Hare Got Ritchie Valens to Play Clairemont High" - Legendary local DJ reveals a lost chapter in the Valens story, when the rising rocker played the opening ceremony at Clairemont High. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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tube2 "Do Venues Need Permission to YouTube Your Band?" - Yet another reason to stress about intellectual property rights on the internet. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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tube9 "Revenge Club Does Vegas" - And lives to tell! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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off50moogsystem55 "Vintage Synth Collector" - John Goff of Aspects of Physics is always in the mood to Moog - he's got a jones for classic electronics, and he plays a mean bagpipe, too! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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off21 "Local Woman Illustrates David Bowie Storybook" - She bought the rights to an obscure old album, and built a Bowie book from it! Even comes with a Bowie CD ------ http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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tube10 "Secret (Crime)Story of a Band Name" - the felonious tale of local badboys Bad Sticky Ant Gas ------ http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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nay1 "Neighbors From Hell" - and you thought living next door to an unemployed drummer was bad. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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nay4 "Bart Mendoza's Old Guitar" - Shambles/Manual Scan guitarist's old axe takes on a new life. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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RokTalesSTP "Stone Temple Pilots Comics" - STP, cool or no? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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"Courtney Love's 12-Step Plan For Stardom" - The comic that got me fired by Larry Flynt at Rip Magazine! How was I to know they'd just hired Love to play his wife in a movie? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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"Prong Comics" Hand colored, none of that computer crap. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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"Rob Zombie Comics" Hand colored, none of that computer crap. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/27/collecting-local-music-price-guide-part-3-plus-stp/

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Like this blog? Here are some related links:

OVERHEARD IN SAN DIEGO - Several years' worth of this comic strip, which debuted in the Reader in 1996: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/galleries/overheard-san-diego/

FAMOUS FORMER NEIGHBORS - Over 100 comic strips online, with mini-bios of famous San Diegans: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/galleries/famous-former-neighbors/

SAN DIEGO READER MUSIC MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/sandiegoreadermusic

JAY ALLEN SANFORD MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/jayallensanford

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Rock Around Town Tonight: Live Music

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ALSO:

Eamon Caroll - The Field Irish Pub and Restaurant

Not So Quiet on the Set - Bart Mendoza

In Bloom - Singer-songwriter Mary Dolan — a fixture in the San Diego music scene in the ’90s — was off the local radar for several years. “Our son Jack was born in November 2004, the day before my ...

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