By Ron (Ron) on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 11:09 am: EditUpcoming Firehouse DJ schedule:
Ron: Aug 30th
Meeshi: Sept 6th
Ron: Sept 13th
Ron: Sept 20th (Meeshi at SF exchange)
Meeshi: Sept 27th
Ron
Meeshi
etc.
| By Ron (Ron) on Monday, August 27, 2001 - 11:09 am: Edit |
Upcoming Firehouse DJ schedule: Ron: Aug 30th Meeshi: Sept 6th Ron: Sept 13th Ron: Sept 20th (Meeshi at SF exchange) Meeshi: Sept 27th Ron Meeshi etc. |
| By Gene (Gene) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 01:07 am: Edit |
Wow, Goofy Swing Night to go along with my goofy dancing, what a match! Ron, will you be playing some Richard Cheese? |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 10:59 am: Edit |
Dick Cheese?! |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 01:46 pm: Edit |
This should help Krista - http://www.shine.net.au/shinemag/girls/default.htm |
| By David Midnight Patrone (Crooner) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 03:00 pm: Edit |
Hey, I never knew that particular part of the body wasn't sensitive! And all these years I thought I was really missing something! What a relief! Did you read that part about the cutucle scissors? DAMN! Dr. Patrone Head Urologist Benevolent Order Of Patrones (BOoP) Clinic |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 03:08 pm: Edit |
SO NASTY!!!!!!! |
| By Gene (Gene) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 07:04 pm: Edit |
Oh my God, Shawn! You are one sick pud!! No Krista and yes, that is his (stage)name. He and his 3 piece band(Bobby Ricotta on piano, Gordon Brie on bass and Buddy Gouda on skins) have a CD out called "Lounge Against The Machine"(Oglio Records) and he does popular "Alternative" music renditions a la "lounge style" with pretty funny results; songs like Limp Bizkits' "Nookie", Offsprings' "Come Out and Play" and Sublimes' "Wrong Way" to name a few. Some of these songs you can actually lindy to. You can actually balboa to Nirvana's "Rape Me". Here's their website: www.loungeagainstthemachine.com I'll bring it tonight. Hope Ron can play a tune or two. |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 11:41 pm: Edit |
Pics of tonight at the Firehouse. New camera = new toy   Am I Steve, or am I . . . (Hmmmm) |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 11:56 pm: Edit |
Next  Do I go under there? |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:07 am: Edit |
 Check her out! (Gene giving pointers to Eeevil Dennis look-a-like) |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:12 am: Edit |
 Oh, baby, Oh baby, OHHHHHH!!! Get on down there! Go Shawn, Go Shawn! (Shawn and Aletha) |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:19 am: Edit |
 Now, how do I do that Shadow Charlie pose? (Steve) |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:26 am: Edit |
Evil Dennis! It's like the lone gunman photo. Is it Dennis? Is he evil? Form a comission! Make a bad fictionalized movie! |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:28 am: Edit |
 Aaaaaaaa, I'm the Fonze. (DJ Ron in the booth) |
| By Vindicator (Chris) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:34 am: Edit |
 Yeah, we're the cool girls. |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 10:54 am: Edit |
Yeah! That's right!! |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 11:49 am: Edit |
Remind me of the name of the woman in the foreground please! |
| By David Midnight Patrone (Crooner) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:19 pm: Edit |
Damnit!! I tried to get there last night but my gig didn't end until 12:30 You guys need to have an After Hours dance until 6am!! I drove by and the place was packed up tighter than a Nun on a Government Cheese Diet. Speaking of Cheese, aHHHHH!!! I just burned my grilled cheese sandwich! and I'm out of butter! Damn, you guys distracted me again! David Patrone Janitor Benevolent Order of Patrones (BOoP) School of the Arts |
| By David Midnight Patrone (Crooner) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:22 pm: Edit |
Did you ever notice that you rarely ever burn two sides of the same grilled cheese sandwich? David Patrone Beancounter Benevolent Order of Patrones (BOoP) Culinary School |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:27 pm: Edit |
Carina. I second the need for an after hours place to dance. |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 02:18 pm: Edit |
Mmmmmmm. Cheese. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 03:10 pm: Edit |
Sometimes we run the Firehouse til 12:30, if the crowd seems big enough, and one of us wants to stay DJing. The crowds aren't often big enough, though. But 12:30 is early by other standards, definitely not "late-night"... |
| By Laura Beth Kaplan (Vintagelbk) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 09:59 pm: Edit |
Third! |
| By Ron (Ron) on Sunday, September 02, 2001 - 04:14 pm: Edit |
For my Firehouse DJ shift on Sept. 13th I'm going to play a 2-hr Ella Fitzgerald tribute set. I have enough variety of songs to keep everyone reasonable happy. I have fast, early Ella from her years with Chick Webb. I have slow, groovy Ella from her later years recording on Verve. I have Ella with Basie, Ella with Duke, Ella with Billy May. I have fast Ella, I have slow Ella. I have Ella in duets with Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, and Joe Williams. I've played a lot of these songs before, but not together. Songs like: "Ac-cent-tu-ate the Positive" (119), "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (142), "Cheek to Cheek" (125), "Deed I Do" (120), "Don't Be That Way" (121), "Duke's Place" (157), "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (115), "Jersey Bounce" (132), "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (120), "Them There Eyes" (170), "Too Young for the Blues" (140 BPM), "I'm Just a Jitterbug" (185), "T'ain't What You Do" (165), and "Undecided" (198). I'm going to be giving away a couple of the Ella compilations that I make for the set, so don't miss it! |
| By Ron (Ron) on Sunday, September 02, 2001 - 04:16 pm: Edit |
Ella Fitzgerald (singer; born April 25, 1918, Newport News, Virginia; died June 15, 1996) Considered the first woman of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald continuously extended the boundaries of American popular music throughout her career. Her voice posessed eternal youth and still transcends time, never going out of style. Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, on April 25, 1918, but moved to the New York suburb of Yonkers with her mother and stepfather. She never knew her real father. Her formal music education included piano lessons, when her family could afford them, and a high school course. Her mother enjoyed singing around the house, particularly by the jazz-influenced Boswell Sisters. Fitzgerald began her career singing with Chick Webb's swing band, based at the Savoy Ballroom. When her mother died, Webb became her legal guardian, and under his guidance, she quickly transformed from the band's girl singer to its star attraction. In 1935, Fitzgerald made her first recordings, but her first big hit came in 1938 with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," a swinging improvisation of a nursery rhyme that went straight to the top of the charts. The song has since been enshrined into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Fitzgerald insisted on singing ballads as well as swing and blues. Mario Bauza, music director of Webb's band, once said, "In those days, the recording company didn't want Negroes to sing ballads. . .This lady opened the door for everybody else." After Webb died of tuberculosis in 1939, Fitzgerald became the band's leader for two years, until she embarked on her solo career. During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie helped her make the transition from swing to the new bebop style. The songs she recorded for Decca included fast jazz tunes, such as "Flying Home," "Airmail Special," and "Oh, Lady Be Good." These types of tunes helped her sharpen her skills at the wordless, improvised vocalizations known as scat singing. After World War II, Fitzgerald joined Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, a partnership that allowed her to improvise with wuch jazz greats as Charlie Parker and Lester Young. In 1956, Granz signed her on to record for his new Verve label. He reunited her with Armstrong and teamed her up with the Ellington and Basie big bands, making her an international star. Granz also decided to record her concerts, demonstrating for all, her free-form scat singing ability. With Granz, Fitzgerald also recorded the "songbook" albums, including collections devoted to the works of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, George and Ira Gershwin and Johnny Mercer. She recorded nearly 300 songs for these albums. Ira Gershwin remarked, after listening to the five-LP Gershwin songbook, "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." Throughout her career, Fitzgerald has received almost every honor a performer could dream of winning, including the Kennedy Center Honor (1979), the National Medal of Arts (1987), France's Commander of Arts and Letters (1990), and 14 Grammy Awards. On her 75th birthday, in 1993, two retrospective compilations of her work were released: "75th Birthday Celebration," made up of her Decca recordings, and "First Lady of Song," drawn from her best Verve work. Fitzgerald died in 1996 at the age of 78. |
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