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Fri. August 24, 2012
The Mermen / Red Meat | San Francisco, CA |
Presented By Great American Music Hall
Minimum age for this event is: 6+
Venue Information:
Great American Music Hall (MAP)
859 OFarrell St
San Francisco, CA
US 94109
415 885-0750
Tickets go on sale:
Sunday, May 6, 2012 @ 10:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
*Ticket prices subject to change
Price for show only: $15.00:
Price for show with dinner: $39.95
Fee (show only) $4.00 (each);
Fee (dinner & show) $5.00.
Gen. Admin Seating Limited
Doors @ 8:00 PM
Event @ 9:00 PM
THE MERMEN:
"The best rock and roll is poetry in motion, with or without words — and some of the best records of the year came without. The Mermen play an extreme brand of surf music; the trebly turbulent and black minor chord moods of guitarist Jim Thomas are like a rough ride on the icy seas of the mid-Atlantic. Hints of Dick Dale filter through the cracked sidewalk wave forms of Sonic Youth. Thomas sounds more like Neil Young at the wheel of the good ship Crazy Horse." --David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"The Mermen and particularly guitarist Jim Thomas, has morphed surf music into a new age. He's doing it first and so far the best." Raoul Hernandez, The Austin Chronicle
RED MEAT:
Red Meat began in a Mission District garage in 1993. But they trace their musical roots much farther back – to the hard honky tonk songs of their youths in Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Ohio, as well as the rock music of the 60s and 70s that they grew up with. Throw in the Ozark gospel harmonies from Scott Young's childhood, and you have the basic backbone of the Red Meat sound. It was this sound that they unleashed on an unsuspecting San Francisco still reeling from the demise of a strong 80s punk rock scene. And in a city known for its unusual music and its off-kilter bands, Red Meat did the craziest thing yet: they returned to their roots, writing and performing hard Bakersfield-style country music to sometimes dumbfounded early audiences.
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—Bob
