Sat, August 2
Chuck Prophet - Performing "Temple Beautiful" With Strings
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Chuck Prophet / Temple Beautiful with Strings - BIO
San Francisco is once again under siege by predatory tech nerds and
drones, plutocrats and wiz kids. With no real culture. TECH DOES NOT
EQUAL CULTURE.
People have reacted in different ways to this onslaught. The Occupy
Movement for one. And you may have heard of people laying down in
front of google buses in protest. etc.
But there’s also the path of art. . .
So after two years of performing the Temple Beautiful across the U.S
and the globe, in late 2013, me and my band delivered the LP start to
finish in sequence with a string octet (scored and conducted by Brad
Jones) in a one-night-only filled to capacity performance at the Great
American Music Hall (Itself a former bordello and a deco SF
institution). (The show and the rehearsals leading up to it were also
filmed for an upcoming movie)
The songs performed that night include characters like Willie Mays,
martyred supervisor Harvey Milk, Cain & Abel porn kings Jim & Artie
Mitchell, mythic oddball "Red Man," preacher/Svengali Jim Jones,
politician-turned assassin Dan White, and Emperor Norton, with
cameos by Laffing Sal, Carol Doda, Bill Graham, and Fatty
Arbuckle. Locations also play a key role, including the Castro and
Mission Districts. One song is devoted to the White Night Riots,
sparked by the light sentence received by the assassination of Milk and
Mayor Moscone.
Now we’re taking it on the road.