Woo hoo! What a weekend of amazingness we just had. As predicted in last week's edition, my highlight was definitely the Blues Traveler show last Thursday in San Jose. Recently, I unearthed a couple of boxes of board recordings from their shows, mostly '97-'99. What am I gonna do with stacks of DATs?
Wouldn't the world be a better place if those recordings were released into the wild, for Blues Traveler to post them to their website where everyone can listen to them? So, before the show, I gave the band all that was unearthed so far, knowing there is more treasure to be discovered in my many storage boxes down the road. I did, however, keep a promo cassette from '88 and a cassingle from '93 to listen to in the car on the way there (yes, I proudly have a working cassette deck in my car!). Between the singalong on the way there, the old swag I dug up to wear, the sharing of those DATs & seeing the usual suspects from the BT family upon arrival (band included), I was feeling pretty nostalgic by the first note of the set... And I kept dancing enthusiastically until the last note!
All that being said, I am pretty stoked for myself and all you BISS listers since we get TWO Blues Traveler shows this Fall. On November 14th & 15th, they return to The Fillmore in celebration of their 30 years as a band! That's not all we at BISS List celebrate over those two days. Coincidentally, the 15th is also the birthday of one of their long time crew members who passed away in 2015 and who happens to have been Mr. BISS aka Robert "Bo" Mahoney for just as many years... I heard they added the second show on the 14th after they sold so many tickets for the 15th. BISS hopes to have possible contest giveaways as those shows approach, so stay tuned and start spreading the word!
#Celebrate #30years #BluesTraveler #Bo
It's not only those two BT shows at The Fillmore that I am looking that far ahead at on the musical calendar of the Bay Area (aka BISS List)... I have been scouring the listings coming up at all of our favorite venues to find the best that you don't want to miss. Over the next three weeks, I plan to help you stuff your music calendars with so many rocking shows that maybe you won't even notice if I miss a week here and there while working my favorite Nor-Cal Summer fest, For The Funk of It (8/11-8/13 in Belden, CA) followed closely after by the annual Burning Man extravaganza (pre, burn and post)...
So, while I juggle BISS & prepare for travel and adventure, I ask you all to please check the BISS List Google Calendar (http://bit.ly/bisslistcalendar ) and let me know what you think I might have missed in the coming months. If you email anything of specific worthiness to me (subject to MY approval) and I list it, you may be eligible to win tickets to an upcoming show. So, get busy. Why? Because I Said So!
Since you are doing what I say Because I Said So... DO THIS! Read the latest BISS List Interview with John Craigie by BISS Contributing editor Josh Danson! If you are going to The Greek tonight for Jack Johnson, you are going to want to get there early to catch him opening!
On to the upcoming music in the SF Bay... Here's this week's BISS List Picks of the week followed by just a few of the highlights of the highlights of the BISS List.
BISS LIST PICKS OF THE WEEK
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7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HIGHLIGHTS
*for more details, check http://bit.ly/bisslistcalendar*
August
September
October
November
December
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Why?
B.I.S.S.!!!
#seeyouattheshows
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Live music is a gift... We give back by being there to accept it... dance, cheer, sing along, show up & did I already say dance?
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HOW TO WIN TICKETS
CHOOSE ONE or more of the contest questions below and send your answer(s) in an email to biss@bisslist.com with the show & date for the show you want to win in the subject line.
*Be sure to request a show that says **WIN TICKETS** next to it.
*Ticket winners are selected & notified via email the week of the show based on BEST responses.
1) Why do you subscribe to The BISS List?
2) Send us one email address for a new subscriber. It must be a NEW subscriber. And they must WANT to be added!!
3) Why should you represent for BISS crew at this show?
4) Participate in the DIGITAL STREET TEAM: Share & repost shows from the BISS List related pages on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Most & best posts could win you a pair of tickets!! (based on visibility, tags, content)
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Disclaimer: BISS list is not an objective news source, but we do discriminate equally. If you would like us to post an event, please send us all of the information via email and in text format to biss@bisslist.com at least two weeks prior to the event.We will do our best to include all submissions and list them correctly, but please be patient as we are a small operation and highly imperfect. Thanks for your continued support! B*I*S*S
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