Getcher shwerve on at O'Brien's Pub Tonight

2941 Main St. 90405
9:30-close. Free!

Go Bruins in the Holiday Bowl & Thank You Bill Walton

Info for UCLA Holiday Ball 12/26

Wednesday December 26th
UCLA Holiday Ball
at the San Diego Hall of Champions
2131 Pan American Plaza  San Diego, CA 92101

7pm-11pm.
Special guests will include UCLA Hall of Famers Bill Walton and Eric Karros along with music provided by the PCB!

We'll be back in LA and at O'Brien's Pub on Saturday.

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Viper Room Saturday with Unlimited Guest List

Saturday December 22nd
The Viper Room with the Black Marquee
8852 W. Sunset Blvd.West Hollywood, CA 90069
We go on right at 9pm and have an unlimited guest list.
Message me to get on it. The more the merrier.

Tonight we're playing in Ventura
The Tavern, 211 E Santa Clara St. Ventura, CA 93006
8-close. Free!

Pix from PCB XXXmas Party & Feast courtesy of the Roxy Theatre and Andaz Hotel at the Riot House 12/19/12 (titties n' beer!)

Rolling Stones Tribute at The Satellite tonight : Andaz Hotel Wed : Fri Ventura : Sat Viper Room

Rolling Stones tribute show at the Satellite with horns lotsa great bands.
We're on at 9:30 and it's free.
1717 Silverlake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Andaz Hotel, Wednesday 9pm December 19
For the Under The Covers sessions presented by the Roxy Theatre
8401 West Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California 90069

Friday December 21st
The Tavern, 211 E Santa Clara St. Ventura, CA 93006
8-close. Free!

Saturday December 22nd
The Viper Room with the Black Marquee
8852 W. Sunset Blvd.West Hollywood, CA 90069
We go on at 9pm and have an unlimited guest list.
Message me to get on it.

Band meeting at my mom's house. 12-15-12

the runaways stopped by for dinner

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we can do better

for each other. 

let's do that. 

take a deep breath, 

cry and live.

everybody understands an explosion : UCLA party 12/26 in SD : Brentwood Sat : Malibu Sun

Something really crazy happened at our quiet little afternoon show at Malibu & Vine on Saturday as evidenced by this 17 second clip...

A revisit of a song off the Get Up Get Out Get Gone Ep in video form...
Geographically Undesirable

December 26th we're playing a very coolio event for UCLA in San Diego with lots of UCLA heroes like Bill Walton and Eric Karros and PCB!
Last day to buy tickets for $60 is today. They go up to $75 tomorrow..

A couple of free kid friendly matinees this weekend...

Saturday December 15th
Brentwood Village Festivus
1:30-2:30
Santa will be there. And a petting zoo. So bring the kids.
Full band.
It's at Barrington Circle. The corner Just South of Sunset on Barrington in 90049.

Sunday December 16th
Malibu Cafe. 1pm-4pm.
327 S. Latigo Canyon Rd. Malibu, CA 
Full Band.
All Ages.
Dog Friendly.
Free!

Van got an upgrade courtesy of Shannon Dunn Kokanour.

Other notable upcoming shows:
New Year's Eve at The Tavern in Ventura
New Year's Day at Pappy & Harriet's

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geographically indescribable

this is how we do : Basement Tavern : Malibu & Vine : Primitivo

Ole man Dutch will be joining us for his Bi-Curious Semi-Annual Last Waltz Retirement Reunion Benefit Comeback Farewell this Saturday at the Basement Tavern. 

Our boy Stevie Tegel is working on a couple other projects this month.
Until further notice J-Sonic aka Jason Chesney will be on the bass.


Saturday afternoon, December 8
Malibu and Vine Bar & Grille, 901 Encinal Canyon Rd. Malibu, CA
1:30-4pm. 21+. Acoustic duo with Jon Niemann on piano

&

Saturday night

Basement Tavern from 9pm-close
2640 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Full Band
21+
Free!

&

Sunday afternoon

Primitivo Acoustic Brunch, 1025 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
$20 bottomless mimosas!
Noon-3. All ages. Acoustic duo with Niemann on piano

everything that brings us together breaks us apart...

New live video by Stephen Rowe

This is how we do...

show. O'Brien's. 11-24-12

hotel lobby

after party

after the after party

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everything that brings us together tears us apart

Settling a band disagreement with guns.

PCB Bandanas! : Pappy & Harriet's Friday & O'Brien's Pub Saturday

Get your PCB Bandanas at our shows or you can purchase online here.

Friday November 23rd
Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
Our annual post-Thanksgiving party.
8-close
Free & all ages!

Saturday November 24th
O'Brien's Pub, 2941 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Free. 21+

Our drummer Rich is back from helping clean up his family home in Seaside Heights, New Jersey the last couple weeks. Still a lotta work to do, but it'll be good to have him back. We had a great time playing with Denny Weston, Jr. and Travis Popichak in his stead on drums the last few weeks.

And our old buddy the infamous Dutch is filling for our regular guitarist Josh Norton who's gone back East to visit his family for the holiday weekend.

Gettin' the band back together, again!

Come say hi or heckle or join the party or all three.

Happy Thanksgiving!

gobble gobble.

Last week's lineup at the Basement. (L-R) Niemann, Denny Weston, Jr., PC, Stephen Tegel, Emperor Joshua Norton

PCB Bandanas! They are for sale at our shows or I can mail ya one.

Basement band from last week with some new friends.

This week's band lineup in a pic from 9/20/11 at the Peninsula Hotel. L-R: Dutch, Niems, Berardi, Chez, Mississippi Steve

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All the cool kids are doing it. PCB bandanas!

Shows this weekend & Pics of the week

Shows this weekend:

Saturday afternoon November 17
Malibu and Vine Bar & Grille, 901 Encinal Canyon Rd. Malibu, CA
1:30-4pm. 21+. Acoustic duo with Jon Niemann on piano

&

Saturday night

Basement Tavern from 9pm-close
2640 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Full Band.
21+
Free!

&

Sunday afternoon

Primitivo Acoustic Brunch, 1025 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
$20 bottomless mimosas!
Noon-3. All ages. Acoustic duo with Niemann on piano

Iron Door Saloon Review

Rogue Art Research & Writing Journal

November 5, 2012

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Pics of the week:

Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters, Brothers & Sisters,

I sense a certain distress in the world these days.
Animals and humans alike. Friends... loved ones... The population and the very planet itself.

Let us excise the cancer.
Exorcise the demons.
Open up our hearts.
Re-invest.
Double-down.
Cash out.
Walk away.
Whatever it takes.
Galvanize around each other. Around the future. It may look dire. It may look like we're going nowhere. Or worse, backwards.
Let this be the time, when in ten years, we look back and we remember the crossroads of today. Wherever we were. Wherever we find ourselves.
It could be the bottom of the barrel. A stagnation.
Or for all we know. These could be the salad days.
In that case, Relish. Revitalize. Resuscitate. Take it all in. Breathe deep.
Once and for all. Take the wheel, take the reigns. Take your finger off the trigger. Or just take everything and blow it the fuck up. Start from scratch. Only so that we can painstakingly, puzzle piece by puzzle piece, put it all back together. With each other in mind. All connected and absent the negativity. Lay down our arms. And open our hearts.

Let us open our hearts brothers and sisters.

Brothers and Sisters. Now is the time. Seize it with me now. Let us move forward in to a better tomorrow. And finish today off right.

Article About Our Show at Iron Door Saloon on November 3, 2012

Rogue Art Research & Writing Journal

November 5, 2012

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http://rarw-ca.com/CurrentIssue/page1.html#CeciN

Ceci N'est Pas L'Art
By Michelle Lepori


a-nom-a-ly
n. pl. a-nom-a-lies
1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
2. One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify: "Both men are anomalies: they have... likable personalities but each has made his reputation as a heavy" (David Pauly).
3. Astronomy The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.

With the alien eyed deer of Jennybird Alcantara's, Strange Fruit, fresh in mind I drove 20 mph on a two lane half mooned country highway alone. Winding up a cliff to Groveland, California, the signs warned of deer crossings and every once in awhile a monstrous lake would emerge out of the darkness to distract from the road with glimmering waves. The wide spaced eyes of lake folk and their mutant fish tongue after me. I drive with imagery of artist Scott G. Brooks forcing me to stay alert and push on. The merger of reality and fantasy had begun with a Bergamot Station visit to Copro Gallery for the Anomalies show. It was one long journey from LA to Sacramento and then back south to Yosemite.

Nothing like exhaustion and creative saturation to create perfect anomalies. I arrive at the state's oldest bar and rumored once brothel, Iron Door Saloon. It is Friday night and I am here to catch The Paul Chesne Band aka PCB. Stephen Tegel is on bass with his animal, deep from Satan's seed, psychic crow style. Denny Weston Jr. of the Kooks, sits in on drums wearing the mythological Bill Graham’s old party hat. John Niemann plays keys on a stacked Nord Electro 2 with a Korg VK7. From the shadows of stage, hipster Link Wray cowboy, Josh Norton, melanges his Fender Stratocaster with the group. The radio is playing KC and the Sunshine Band, "My Boogie Shoes." They riff off that old disco jam into a musical blend that makes as much sense as a paraplegic boy fishing with a pole for an arm. But it works and it works beautifully. Chesne stares out with the same intensity and face of artist Beau White's, The Angler. "How to Get to Sesame Street" melts into Tears for Fears, "Everybody wants to Rule the World", to a PCB original, "Off Shore Bank Accounts". Their set ranges from “I got Five on it” to "Dream a Little Dream". I heard The Pointer Sisters, Eminem, Adele, The Ghost Busters theme song and a most fitting rendition of "SAIL" by AwolNation. There is no apology.

"Maybe I should cry for help, maybe I should kill myself (myself). Blame it on my A.D.D. baby". Perhaps, but it is the tension of chaotic difference and exaltation that is creating such moving artworks in both gallery and stage performance. Paul Chesne is a hyper intelligent ass clown in a safety orange space suit, who jumps on the bar top with his battered guitar in hand. After several rowdy songs you might think this guy's a menace. But he always seems in control and perfectly observant of the mayhem he seeks to create. I feel I am in on a very good secret. The improvisational and elaborate sound creates an expansion of energy rocketing into outer space with commander and crew. Rap and folk rock classics are interspersed with original works, not only ignoring genre but avoiding the very idea of musical distinction. It is artistic mastery that allows experimentation found at Copro Gallery and PCB to be absorbed and congratulated. These artists are weird, but they are so good. Their uniquity and confidence lends encouragement, I too can pursue my art with reckless abandon. Wherever it leads me. This is why I drove an extra 200 miles in the dark. To lose judgement and watch layers of strange identity be formed with artistic bravado. To watch and emulate that strength of self.

I come home, this time in the daylight. I can see now, though the roads are still windy and misleading. Between the odd paintings and sculptures at Copro Gallery in Bergamot and LA based Paul Chesne band playing Groveland, I am a cultural tumbleweed. I was wowed by the precision and dedication to nose hairs in life sized Beavis and Butthead statues. I danced with a few-toothed young cowboy to Eminem played by a spaceman. As a naturally self conscious person, these artistic experiences taught a compassion for individuality that allowed me joy as I drove alone on unknown roads.

Anomalies at Copro Gallery
Bergamot Station T5
2525 Michigan Ave
Santa Monica, CA
310- 829-2156
http://www.copronason.com/bein/

The Paul Chesne Band
http://paulchesne.com/

Iron Door Saloon
www.iron-door-saloon.com
  

Holly would? Holly does whatever she puts her mind to. Psychic Thirsty Crow.

Holly G

 

Richie Update & 3 Shows With 3 Intriguing & Different Band Lineups This Week

Our buddy and drummer Rich Berardi's childhoold home and hometown of Seaside Heights, NJ were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. 

He flew there last week and has been helping his family try to cope and get back in. The house is still standing but was flooded under 4 feet of water during the storm. They get to go back for the first time for only a couple of hours on Saturday to get belongings and survey the damage.

Sending Rich, his family and all of our Eastcoasters all of my and the rest of the PCB family's love.

Thanks to all the drummers that have offered to fill in for him and all the love sent his way in this emergency.

Shows this week:
Thursday, November 8th
La Palapa, 4020 E Olympic Plz. Long Beach, CA 90803
6-9pm. Free. Lovely setting on the water. Excellent food and view.
Drummer Travis Popichak will be joining Jon Niemann, Josh Norton and I along with my brother from another mother J-Sonic Jason Chesney on the bass.

Friday, November 9th
The Tavern, 211 E Santa Clara St. Ventura, CA 93006
8-close. Free!
Drummer Denny Weston, Jr. will be joining Jon Niemann, Stephen Tegel, Josh Norton and I.

Saturday, November 10th
Cafe Boogaloo, 1238 Hermosa Ave. 90254. 
9-11pm. Free, 21+

Lineup will include:
Mark "Loveman" Pender on trumpet
Denny Weston, Jr. on drums
Josh Norton on guitar
Mississippi Steve Tegel on the bass

Pics from Yosemite last week...

Yosemite crew

Space Shuttle Vandeavour & Iron Door Saloon by Yosemite this Weekend

Our buddy and drummer Rich Berardi's childhoold home and hometown of Seaside Heights are under about 4 feet of water right now. He's going home for a few weeks to help his family and friends out. Sending Rich, his family and all of our Eastcoasters all of my love.

Friday November 2nd & Saturday the 3rd
Iron Door Saloon, 18761 Main Street  Groveland, CA 95321
It's the oldest saloon in California started "sometime before 1852."
9-close, free!

Happy Halloween!

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Vandeavour -- Mission 1

Ventura Friday : Echo Outpost with The Stripminers Saturday : Primitivo & Long Beach Sunday

Friday October 26th
The Tavern, 211 E Santa Clara St. Ventura, CA 93006
8-close. Free!

Saturday October 27th
Echo Country Outpost for The Stripminers CD Release Party and Halloween party!
1770 Glendale Boulevard  Los Angeles, CA 90026
Party starts early. I do an acoustic set at 9. And we do full band at midnight. The witching hour.

Sunday October 28th
Primitivo Acoustic Brunch, 1025 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice 90291
1-3pm. $20 bottomless mimosas
&
Sunday Evening
La Palapa, 4020 E Olympic Plz. Long Beach, CA 90803
5-9pm. Free. Lovely setting on the water. Excellent food and view.

Our new PCB buttons look excellent on Willie Chambers' hat.

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Photo by snapyourself.com at The Studio party on Saturday

Here's to Danny.

Kibitz bartender and great friend. Rest in peace buddy.

Info for shows this week

Friday October 19th
O'Brien's On Main, 2941 Main St. Santa Monica 90405
And we go all night and it's free.
21+
Full Band!

Saturday October 20th (afternoon)
Malibu and Vine Bar & Grille at Malibu Golf Club, 901 Encinal Canyon Rd. Malibu, CA
1-3pm. Excellent food, atmosphere and wine tastings.
Acoustic duo
21+,  free & open to the public!

Saturday Night
The Studio's 4th Annual Halloween Party.
You must RSVP via this Facebook invite or message me to get in.
It's free!
https://www.facebook.com/events/473263342697206/
6442 Santa Monica Blvd Studio 202, Los Angeles, California 90038
It's some great old friends from the Kibitz throwing it.
9pm-3am

Sunday Evening
Malibu Cafe at Calamigos Ranch 6-10pm
327 S. Latigo Canyon Rd. Malibu, CA 
Full Band.
All Ages.
Dog Friendly.
Call ahead for reservations: (818) 540-2400

Vanice

Bonnie

Endeavour

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