Sat, August 2

Chuck Prophet - Performing "Temple Beautiful" With Strings

Genre: Rock
Doors: 7:00PM
Show: 8:00PM

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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.