Saturday, March 5, 2022, 8:00 pm
| INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC2 |
 Our yearly music party oscillates between two epochal episodes that largely defined our generation: the flame-out of the mass fest at Altamont in ’69, and the brave outreach of NorCal punks at Napa State Mental Hospital nine years later in ’78. Mike Plante‘s We Were There to Be There on the infamous appearance of the Mutants and the Cramps with the Napa patients is back by popular demand. AND Rick Prelinger‘s miracle lab-floor find of a silent S8mm reel shot at the Alameda County rock extravaganza re-sees the light of day with a loose re-tracking by OC Studios. Between these low and high points percolates over a dozen rockin’ anomalies that will serve to open up sidereal spaces both before and after the 70s. The Beatles are represented both in Ready Steady Go and in David Sherman‘s Yoko 1-5. The Space Lady has a presence, and quite possibly Omer Travers too. We got b/w 16mm footage of the Avengers in SOMA around the same time as the Napa event, and we got Christian Marclay‘s vinyl immolation at the legendary Club Generic on July 4, 1980. ALSO Oscar Bucher‘s short doc Getting Lucky features our dear friend Pierre Merkl! PLUS Spike Jones, Heino, Liberace, Auroratones, Soundies, Scopitones, Banjo, Babalu, and Hula Music.*$8 |