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Watching this YouTube video of Oingo Boingo on the Joan Rivers show, I realized that Steve Bartek looked like Ron Swanson with that moustache!!
Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party - October 29th, 2011, in Long Beach for the Zombie Walk at the Historic Press Telegram building.
San Diego Comic-Con
July 22, 2010
Danny Elfman panel
The panel celebrated the 25th anniversary of his collaboration with Tim Burton, and Warner Records announced that they will release a 14-CD box set around Christmas to mark the occasion.
San Diego Comic-Con
July 22, 2010
Danny Elfman panel
Danny signed autographs after the panel, creating quite the melee as you can imagine.
Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party - October 29th, 2011, in Long Beach for the Zombie Walk at the Historic Press Telegram building.
I always had a hard time deciding which album cover I liked best by them, this one or Nothing to Fear. I chose this one since Dennis already had the other one on his list. Art by Lane Smith.
Jeff of the Exploding Fifis. Reunion concert, Pig Out in the Park, Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington.
Dead Man's Party and Strangelove performing at Pacific Amphitheatre, July 22, 2017. (Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Courtesy of OC Fair and Event Center)
Expressing his gratitude for having just received a very special gift. In his hands are gloves used in space to handle the American Flag.
Gene will be the first person to open the container and expose the gloves to our atmosphere.
Despite getting the date wrong for my friend's birthday party, driving to Pasadena, realizing my mistake and driving the whole way back for the event that was taking place 2 blocks from my home, I made it on time. "On time" being relative in these contexts....
Johnny Avilla (of Oingo Boingo and now Mutaytor among many things) turned 50 and his friends threw him one hella deserving jam bash of a party at Smashlabs. As one can imagine, the music was beyond belief. These are the musicians that other musicians come to see. People from bands he had played with 20 years ago showed and it was virtually a non-stop jam of the best live players I've seen in a long time if not ever...especially that close. I think I could safely say that there wasn't any better music going on anywhere in the city. It was an honor to be there.
And John, despite all of his success, is one of the most genuine and down to earth people I have met. He radiates gratitude and a child-like joy that is infectious. He camped with us at Burning Man and you couldn't get the grin off his face with skill saw. Buck shared my now favorite story of how John got hooked up with Mutaytor. He had come to see them play and left his number in Buck's notebook, which Buck then circled with the note "He doesn't know it yet, but this man is going to be in the band."
A side note on gratitude...those of genuine success have it in abundance.
Happy Birthday, Johnny....
Pics are HERE
Karl of the Exploding Fifis. Reunion concert, Pig Out in the Park, Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington.
Hidde of the Exploding Fifis. Reunion concert, Pig Out in the Park, Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington.
Rick of the Exploding Fifis. Reunion concert, Pig Out in the Park, Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington.
Taken at a Halloween party in West Hollywood in 1995. Elfman was the founder of the musical group "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo" (which later morphed into "Oingo Boingo" and was headed by his brother Danny. Richard wrote and directed such films as FORBIDDEN ZONE and SHRUNKEN HEADS. Photo by Denise Dumars, photo manipulation by Todd Mecklem.
John was a great guy to meet. Talked to him for a good while. Somewhere there is a picture of that conversation.
Dead Man's Party and Strangelove performing at Pacific Amphitheatre, July 22, 2017. (Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Courtesy of OC Fair and Event Center)
Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party - October 29th, 2011, in Long Beach for the Zombie Walk at the Historic Press Telegram building.
Black vintage faux-jet (it's plastic!) pendant suspended by two glow- in the dark skeleton arms. Hand-stitched black velvet choker with black and metallic green ruffle trim.
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Social Sound System
LINK TO VID PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1FA6C2D6A5B36EC6
The Burning of Rome (http://www.myspace.com/theburningofrome )is the other band at Speakeasy Studios. Their drummer, Lee, owns the place and we rent a side room from him. Their sound is kinda like death-pop. I read a review that classified them as gypsy vampire punks (something like that). Well, I've been talking out my ass for months saying that we were going to come to their shows. Well, Evan (band mate in The Gents) and I finally made it out. They opened for Dead Man's Party (an Oingo Boing tribute band). It was a really great show for them with a good size crowd. They have lots of energy, noise, and stage presence. Really energized with great harmonies singing some dark-comedy-esque lyrics. Really glad I made it out to show some love!
Dead Man's Party was great as well (http://www.myspace.com/deadmansparty). People often overlook Oingo Boingo's contribution to music when thinking about great bands of the 80s. Too bad. Dead Man's Party puts on a great performance. All members really perform. Horns = AWESOME!!! Their singer is so good too. Really gives it his all for Danny Elfman!
So yeah... Another concert for me.