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Black Friday with Old Californio

Wes — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:03:35 +0000

The Sundowners and Mister Nervous at the Old Towne Pub

Old Californio: music that could have only been created in Southern California? (photo by Roman Cho)

Is it currently OK to mention New Riders of the Purple Sage, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Spirit or The Grateful Dead in polite conversations about WestCoast music and still seem reasonably cool? Like I care. These OLD CALIFORNIO guys have that 1970 thing going, fer sure, but with their own updates and personal flavor. The band rocks with the mild mannered authority and breezy casualness that can turn a stage into a back porch. I defy you to listen to some of the tunes on their playlist there (Mother Road f’rinstance) without getting that desert vista/top down/cruisin’ in the sunshine feeling.

"Indignant playing and spirited drinking" (photo by Didier Chevalier)

2009's Westering Again

OLD CALIFORNIO: Westering Again

What we’re talking about here are really great songs (remember those?). There’s no real dross or dead weight on this ambitious work. It’s a melodically complex and accomplished effort, hard set with a blast-furnace production that reveals the considerable talents of the band’s membership.

What we’re talking about here is bright guitar-driven melodies with complicated and earthy arrangements, mixed in with a little down-home country twang and dovetailing instrumental jams, providing ample evidence that they also have a tacit understanding of what made those great classic rock outfits of yore so exhilarating and memorable in the first place. -Bryan Thomas, February 2009

OK THEN: So by now it’s pretty clear we’re lookin’ forward to sharing the Old Towne Tavern stage with these fellas and our good friends THE SUNDOWNERS (about whom I’ve often expressed my admiration: HERE for example)

We had a great time introducing new song CRYSTAL GIRL at the Airliner show so we’re natch-er-ly gonna be doin that again along with some selections from DRAMA an all… we’re up first @ 9pm followed by the prides of Pasadena N Alta Dena and summa the nicer folks you’ll ever meet. You should probably come…

Strike that if yer NOT comin what’s WRONG with you?

Nah, just kiddin…

Come anyway.

FRIDAY NOV 26th

Mr. Nervous 9:00
Old Californio 10:30
The Sundowners 12:00

Old Towne Pub
66 N. Fair Oaks
Pasadena, CA 91103
Enter through the alley on Holly Street
21+ - $5.00

Mister Nervous: November 16th @ the AIRLINER

Wes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:19:59 +0000

We’re heading back to Lincoln Heights to play at THE AIRLINER next week.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16th
2419 N Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031
We’ll be up first on the main stage upstairs (doors open @ 8pm – we won’t keep you out late – unless you wanna be out late…).
We’ll be playing selections from the DRAMA cd and a new song too!

We’d sure like to see you there.

The Sundowners play the Unknown Theater

Wes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:48:41 +0000

The Sundowners do what they please

There’s nothing quite like a SUNDOWNERS show. The songs this band plays are completely their own and influenced (as lead singer and guitarist Dennis Stahl says) by,”…all the good shit from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. This is not a contrived sound for the masses, it’s a heavy psychedelic, spiritual blues sound:100% organic and designed to open the mind. There are a lot of acts out there, yes, but only a few bands. What this means is three guys and a lady who play together and off of each other. We don’t cater to any particular audience, just those interested in good rock and roll from every era.”

From the hills of Alta Dena where the air is justa little clearer and the altitude justa little higher their music will probably remind you of a lot of things but it’ll never sound even slightly derivative. And live the band projects an atmosphere of affection and whimsy that makes it feel like you’ve been invited into a happy house-party with your new favorite slightly bent friends.

Michael Harpel and Dennis Stahl

On SKELETONIZE , their second album, the songs pull from an even wider landscape of sounds and moods than on their sprawling two disc debut cd. Just when you think you know where the journey is headed the band’ll switch it up and take you to some new unexpectedly wonderful place…as Dennis recently remarked “we’ll do uptempo and downtempo in the same song”. This flies in the face of the current trend of easily pigeonholed cookie-cutter compositions many groups use to try to zero-in on their currently chosen demographic target, which naturally makes this unaffected take-us-as-we-are crew very near and dear to Mister Nervous’ heart.

And so we are pleased beyond words to say the Sundowners are opening up our Mister Nervous record release party this Thursday!

The Sundowners love you and they're your new best friends!

THURSDAY MARCH 18th

THE UNKNOWN THEATER
1110 Seward St.
Los Angeles CA 90038

(with MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS and MISTER NERVOUS)

Doors open at 10pm
$10 at the door (however: drinks are very reasonable!)

MARCH 18th ONE MONTH FROM TODAY: SAVE THE DATE!

Wes — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:26:30 +0000

Because on Thursday 3/18 @ 10pm the doors of THE UNKNOWN THEATER (1110 Seward St. Los Angeles CA 90038) will open on the RECORD RELEASE PARTY for our new album DRAMA.
We’ll be performing the album with some special guests, and MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS and THE SUNDOWNERS will also be performing.
You can pick up the new disc, grab a Mister Nervous t-shirt, or just hang out and say HI (awww, c’mon, you NEED the cd, DON’TCHA?). This is kinda BIG for us and we sure would like to see YOU there!