BSO Meeting Friday

[tsedivy]

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Blues Society Meeting
7:30pm FRI 8/17/07
McKenna's Blues Hall
(Back room of McKenna's, 74th & Pacific)
Meeting Attendees can enjoy BF Burt's 9pm show FREE.
Topics to be covered at meeting include:
BSO Financial Status, Discussion of Best use of BSO funds and New Year's Eve Bands.

You can hear cuts of BF Burt here: http://www.myspace.com/kevinbfburt

Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King play back to back matinees in Linoma: Wed 8/15 at 6pm at the Zoo Bar, $10 cover and TH 8/16 at 5:30pm at Murphy's Lounge, $8 cover.
Blues Revue has stated, "King's jazzy guitar work is the perfect foil to Kubek's more incendiary style. They are simply the best guitar tandem on the scene today." Guitar One magazine observed, "King's jazzman style and soulful vocals have proved the perfect complement to Kubek's full-bore guitar attack and fat, natural tone."

Willie Houston and The Blues Prowlers play The Prestige on Thursday night and Duggan's on Friday night. This veteran Bluesman visiting from CO is the real deal. Check him out live!

Saturday 8/18 is the fourth of five Playing with Fire concerts on the Riverfront. Headlining is The Yardbirds:

By now, everyone knows the Yardbirds legend, if not their music; the band graduated three of the great Ph.D.s of rock guitar: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They created hard rock out of standard twelve-bar blues, doubling the tempos and whacking the amps up to ten. On the British club scene, the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones ruled the stages. The Yardbirds expanded the range of the electric guitar, experimenting with feedback, sustain, and fuzztone. They also coined and popularized the rave-up, a kind of free-for-all where you jam long and hard, not as soloists, but in a tandem, until you reach an epiphany about 10 or 20 or 30 minutes later, a shuddering climax of decibels and pure energy, and then—back into the song for one more boom-boom chorus. The Yardbirds were the bridge between the tributary white R&B of early-sixties London and the pastures of fuzz-toned psychedelia and power-chorded heavy metal plowed much later in the decade and throughout the seventies. Yes, the Yardbirds laid the groundwork for Rock Guitar As We Know It.
Canadian Harpman and vocalist Jerome Godboo and Omaha rockers Anonymous American will follow The Side Effects' and Blues Explosion's opening sets. Get all the info at www.Bluesgroup.com
BTW, The Side Effects won last weekends Battle of the Bands that The Fremont Tribune hosted for area high school bands. Congrats!!!
Hope to see you all Friday at McKenna's at 7:30pm for the meeting. Get out and get into it.
Terry O'Halloran
BSO Prez and emailer.

[ElMeffico]

Yo, Terry!

Would you please shoot me your email address? I'd like to send you some info on my band, Shaky Ground. Thanks!