CLICK TO SEE SIGNONSANDIEGO'S FANTASTIC VIDEO PIECE ON THE NOONTIME PERFORMANCE

Phew.  We ended the busiest month Cover Me Badd has ever had with this fantastic day of getting three stories high and rocking downtown with Beatles songs whether they wanted them or not.  It took us hours to get all of our equipment elevated and running.  We set up just in time to start around noon and only then could we relax enough to see how many friends and strangers had come out on such a beautiful January day.  The Beatles were so cold that they couldn't feel their fingers and borrowed their wives' coats (possibly an old wives tale) but San Diego was 78 and sunny.  I love this place.

The Beatles US are the best, most modest and least rehearsed Beatles coverband on earth.  True to form, we surprised even ourselves by not ruining England's finest exports on just three rehearsals and no monitors (eek).  Laura Jane from the Tighten Ups helped tons and sang the hell out of "Dig A Pony", complete with John Lennon commemorative lyricsheet/clipboard. We kept waiting for someone to complain about the noise but it wasn't until much later that we found this young Bob Dylan-hating officeworker bitchin' on Yelp. Signonsandiego did a beautiful job of capturing what a great afternoon it was and had this awesome video up online just a few hours after we played.  The baby at the end is none other than Dylan's latest creation, Stella PRUDENCE Martinez. Afterwards, it was off to House of Blues, who were nice enough to send our flyer out to their 10,000 Myspace friends and feed us for being do-gooders after they'd fed 600 people in just two hours at the premiere of their new lunch buffet (thanks, Natalie!). 

We took turns babysitting equipment and resting at home (some of us more than others, sorry guys) and regrouped for the 8pm set to find an international incident brewing. An interesting soul who had claimed to be the soul of John Lennon and dangled off of the balcony at noon had offered to return at 8pm with his security guard co-workers and pretend to haul us off. Sounded good to us until we found out that he'd actually been terminated from said job early that morning and when he called his former fellow-employees about getting into our act, they told their boss who had come down to the mall looking for him. It was wackiness straight out of A Hard Day's Night but with a screw loose (if you're reading this now, please don't kill us, Mr John Winston O'Boogie).

The nighttime set was even bigger and better than the noontime blast.  All of the people who couldn't ditch work and get downtown showed up in droves.  Plus we had superstars Josh Smith and Emily James-Kanis sitting in with us from the San Diego School of Rock and Emily's dad Jon Kanis sang one too even though he spells his name without an H.  The highlight of the day came when hundreds of bicyclists from Critical Mass came pedaling through Broadway Circle and cheered as Adam serenaded them with Queen's "Bicycle Race".  Thank god, someone we don't know got video and posted it:


A fantastic day and night we'll never forget plus $160+ was thrown in a bucket for the Tighten Ups. Go see them play and give them lots of money. It'll be instant karma, we promise. Thanks to everyone who helped, played, cheered and heckled us!  Rebecca from Horton Plaza, you are AMAZING for letting us do this.  Tyler, you are awesome for letting us use that bass!  Thanks to everyone who put the word out: BeatleNews.com, San Diego City Beat, the Walrus, SDReader.com and especially SignOnSanDiego!

We might just have to make this an annual event.

SETLIST:
I've Got A Feeling/Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Don't Let Me Down
One After 909 (Backbeat not Grateful Dead style)
Dig A Pony (Laura Jane singing)
Get Back In The USSR
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Bad Boy (for everyone who ditched work)
Across The Universe (Family Cat style)
Don't Let It Be In Anger (Fauxasis mashup)
(why not do a few songs more than once like the Beatles did for the late folks?)
I've Got A Feeling/Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Don't Let Me Down
Get Back In The USSR


COVER ME BADD'S BEATLES U.S. PERFORMS DOWNTOWN FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEATLES' LEGENDARY ROOFTOP SHOW
SECRET LOCATION: maybe Westfield's Horton Plaza at Broadway Circle, downtown San Diego
SECRET DATE: probably 40 years after January 30, 1969
SECRET STARTING TIMES: rhymes with "moon" (plus 8pm for those who won’t ditch work)
SECRET REASON WHY: Because when someone breaks into your friends’ rehearsal space and steals thousands of dollars worth of equipment, you learn Beatles songs and take to the skies.

This Friday, forty years later to the minute (minus the eight hour time difference), San Diego legends Cover Me Badd are bringing back their famed Beatles U.S. act to celebrate the anniversary of the Beatles' last semi-public performance. In the spirit of the Fab Four playing a rooftop lunchtime set to an unsuspecting London, the Beatles U.S. will play the same songs that John, Paul, George, Ringo and organist Billy Preston played on January 30, 1969. Though the exact time and location is being kept under wraps, several clues were divulged at a recent secret press conference that no one was invited to. According to singer Adam Gimbel, "People should head to Horton Plaza and be sure to bring their ice skates. When they see that the ice skating rink has been taken down for the season and look skyward in disappointment, they might just see us." When questioned about what time the set will take place, Gimbel inexplicably yelled out the name of Herman's Hermits singer Peter Noone exactly twelve times. He then bragged about how the Beatles never did encores but they might be doing one at 8pm.

The everchanging Cover Me Badd formed The Beatles U.S. two years ago for a Beatlesque installment of the Tribute! concert series at Safari Sam's in Los Angeles. Though the show was barely attended, two videos from the band's set ended up on Youtube and have been viewed over 35,000 times. Two of the group's main members, Adam Gimbel and Dylan Martinez are no strangers to having thousands of people watch them play the Beatles online. Their "real" band Rookie Card played "Back In The USSR" outside of their album release show several years ago just as a plane flew overhead in a bit of incredible timing. A video of the performance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJIrHKkkEw) was mentioned in a San Diego Reader coverstory and has become the stuff of legend. The group vowed to reform when the time was right and the time was right several months ago when they insisted on playing the first event on the roof of the newly re-opened 10th Avenue Theater in San Diego's East Village. Noticing that the 40th anniversary was just a few months away, they vowed to find somewhere right downtown to play on January 30th.

Gimbel inquired with almost every building that has a roof in downtown San Diego about hosting the event but they all had either tented for winter, had never heard of McCartney's pre-Wings material or wanted $15,000. Luckily, the kind folks at Westfield's Horton Plaza stepped forward to give the band a place to play, so that they too could be part of something so historic. When the Beatles were trying to come up with a place to film their last performance for the film that eventually became Let It Be, they talked about doing it on a boat, at the Royal Albert Hall in London and even in Africa. Strangely enough, there are rumors of an outtake from the movie where John Lennon turns to Yoko Ono and mumbles something about "an MC Esher styled shopping mall that smells like cinnamon buns in San Diego....near Broadway and 3rd Street." Rather than play on a roof where no one could see them, the Beatles US decided to comply with Lennon's wishes and play somewhere a bit more retail oriented. Ever charitable, the band is playing FOR FREE while requesting donations for their friends, local soul/funk outfit The Tightenups, who recently had their rehearsal space robbed of several thousand dollars worth of equipment.

Though world-famous Beatle coverband the Bootleg Beatles played the same famous fifth story roof that the Beatles played at 3 Saville Row in London ten years ago, local council and police have cancelled this year's recreation due to "health and safety reasons". Not surprisingly, all eyes have turned towards a shopping mall in San Diego, California for the next best thing. Those seeking 100% faithful renditions, fake accents, period-perfect costuming or even an actual roof need not attend. Like all Cover Me Badd acts, the Beatles US puts more of a twist (and a shout) on things than most Beatle copycat bands.

An elevated time is guaranteed for all.

So, as Blasphemous Guitars started to work Cure songs into the set a couple of years ago, we brought back Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name Of..." just because it's fun to put a song that isn't angry over it.  "Killing An Arab" fit perfectly and usually got the best response in our set, even though I always was waiting for the wrong person to hear it the wrong way.  Well, a few months ago some "gray hairs" asked for their money back at the Belly Up, possibly because of the song.  We never found out exactly why.  My dad was there and said there was no way we should be doing it, despite my continually lengthier explanations before we'd play it.  Even though he's the last person who'd get what made the mashup great, it made me think hard about doing it, knowing some folks might've been so offended that they asked for their money back.  If you walked in on the middle of it and there was a Jewish guy onstage screaming about killing arabs, I could see how one just might not see the hilarity of the context.

I thought doing it at U31's Feel The Noise was a fairly safe bet.  It was, by far, the audience with the most people who'd know the Cure song that we'd played to in a long time.  It got a huge response but right after our set, our friend Karen told me that there were some people that wanted to kill me because of it.  Apparently, she'd tried to calm a guy behind her down mid-song by explaining the song's origins coming from Camut's The Stranger.  I would've loved to have seen that.  Slowly, ALL of my friends started asking me if I'd seen the guy freaking out and giving me the finger through the whole song.  I hadn't.

When I got outside, some friends stopped me to talk and I realized someone was hurling insults at me from a few feet away.  His friend came over to talk to me and soon I was getting "constructive criticism" from two non-Arabs, mostly that we shouldn't do the song because of what's going on in the middle East right now.  Fair enough, even though there hasn't been a time in over 60 years (600?) when there wasn't something awful going on.  They had a valid point but they were drunk, so validity turned to stupidness more than a few times and the main guy even threatened two innocent bystanders at one point.  My favorite part was probably when the friend kept repeating that we were a good coverband so I asked Angryguy if he'd liked us before we played the song and he didn't have the guts to tell me no.  I had to beg it out of him but he said that U31 is supposed to promote independent music and that they shouldn't ever have coverbands play there (sorry Dottie!). 

Afterwards, tons of strangers were coming up to us and saying how great it was and screw that guy.  Yeah, freedom of speech blah blah blah but just because these guys weren't even really sure why they were offended doesn't mean someone more articulate couldn't and shouldn't be. The song is ridiculous anyways so I don't mind cutting it from the set, which most everyone is finally admitting is probably a good idea.  Even Robert Smith now changes it to "Kissing an Arab" (laaaaaaaaaaame). I did get Angryguy to smile when I told him we might change it to "Grilling Of A Bagel".  Score one for the Jews!

Sadly, the "Arab" part of the Cure medley didn't make this video because Angryguy distracted the cute cameragurl but enjoy part 2:




See if you can pick out parts of Lovesong ("I will always love you"), Hot Hot Hot and Friday I'm In Love. Filmed in extreme darkness cos that's how we roll.  Thanks to the other 99.8% of the hundreds of folks who seemed to like us just fine and Gabe & Saul for having a sense of humor enough to invite us. We won't be posting our semi-rehearsed medley of MGMT's "Kids" & Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize" but people seemed to appreciate the effort.

THE BEST & WORST IN SAN DIEGO
A lot of people ask us what local music thangs we like.  The answer is simple.  The ones that come to our monthly MUSICAL PURSUIT trivia night (last Monday of every month at the Whistle Stop) are awesome.  Everyone else obviously doesn't know a damn thing about music and should be avoided like the plague.  They'll say they have a class or a DJ night or have to get up early but it's really because they don't know a guitar from a butterknife.  For over two years now, they've been talking about how they'll like totally win if they ever show up and they have this friend who would destroy everyone, if they had the social skills to leave the house.  These people talk big.  Let's see how big they talk now that they've been banned by the sixth largest city in the country.

MUSIC STUFF YOU SHOULD REALLY CHECK OUT:
BANDS: And His Trusty Goat, Drew Andrews. the Barnacles, Bartenders Bible, Cover Me Badd, Deere Johns, Divided By Zero, Emery Byrd, the Ex-Friends, Marie Haddad, Immovable Objects, Inigo, Jon Kanis, Mike Kennealy, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Lights Out, Listening To Rocks, the Loons, Louis XIV, the Mistits, Moonlife, No Knife, Optigonally Yours, Pinback, Plural, Red Pony Clock, Rookie Card, Roxy Monoxide, San Diego School of Rock, Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra, Sven-Erik Seaholm, Secret Seven, Seventh Day Buskers, the Shambles, Jose Sinatra (who then boycotted, claiming it was too easy to cheat because you could be in cahoots with whoever grades your paper...CUCKOO), Spazboy, Static Halo, Swedish Models, Sweetness, Team Abraham, the Truckee Brothers, Via Satellite, the Yiffs
CLUBS: The Ruby Room, the Whistle Stop
DJ's: DJ Claire, Dividedbyzach, Kipper, DJ Riko
MUSIC PUBLICATIONS & WEBSITES: Dancetastic, Piratepods, ThePunkBoard.com, San Diego Citybeat, SDDialedIn.com, Treblezine.com
MUSIC STORES: Tecolote Guitar Works
MUSIC WRITERS: Seth Combs, Caley Cook, Troy Johnson, David Rolland, Kelly Davis
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Eric Rife
RADIO STATION PROMOTION DIRECTORS: 94.9FM's Owen Salerno
RECORD STORES: Lou's Records, Off The Record
ROLLER DERBY TEAMS: San Diego Derby Dolls
TRIVIA NIGHTS: Kipper's Trivia Night, OB Drink n Think
THE WORST OF THE WORST:
BANDS: Bad Credit*, the Baja Bugs, Billy Midnight*, Bunky, the Dennis Borlek, the Cankles, the Cured, Dirty Sweet, Dust n Bones, the Johnny Eager Band, the Go Duo*, Irradio, Rick Lyon*, Manganista, Anya Marina, John Meeks, Joanie Mendenhall, Mex, Organika, Gregory Page, Pure Milk, Reeve Oliver, Republic Of Letters, Rocket From TheCrypt, Scarlet Symphony, Secret Appolo, the Gary Shuffler, Skelpin, the Soft.Lightes, Swim Party, Greg Vaughan, Raven White*
BURLESQUE PROFESSIONALS: Savage Sultry Burlesque
CLUBS: Belly Up Tavern, The Casbah, Kava Lounge, Ken Club, Lestats, U31
DJ's: Edgartonic, Gabe Vega, Junior The Disco Punk, DJ Krassy, Markalan, Morgan Young
COMEDY GROUPS: The Honking Geese
MUSIC PUBLICATIONS & WEBSITES: Blogsandiego, Catdirt Sez, Chickrawker, Holiday Matinee, It's Too Sunny Out Here, ListenLocalSD, mtraks.com, SD Music Matters, The San Diego Reader, San Diego Serenade, Slacker.com, the Troubadour, UT Street, Yelp
MUSIC STORES: Guitar Center, Guitar Trader, The Repair Zone
MUSIC 'WRITERS': Nathan Dinsdale, Maya Kroth, Ken Leighton, Jay Allen Sanford, Will Schilling, AnnaMaria Stephens, George Varga
PEOPLE WHO WEAR BLACK: Gothic Volunteer Alliance
RADIO STATIONS: 91X, 94.9's whole staff (except Owen), KGB, KPRI, KyXy, Rock 105
RADIO PERSONALITIES: Chris Cantore, Mike Halloran, Hilary, Tim Pyles, Robin Roth, Steve West
RECORD STORES: Black Wax, Blue Meanie, CSL, MTheory (& Hi-Speed Soul Records), Mojo Sounds, Music Trader, Record City, Sam Goody, Second Spin, Spin Records, Taang, Thirsty Moon
STUDIOS: Earthling Studios
TV PERSONALITIES: Craig Slike

*performed at Name-That-Tune but doesn't have the balls to actually play
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING MUSIC RELATED THAT SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST OR IF WE PUT SOMETHING IN THE WRONG PLACE, PLEASE LET US KNOW. 
Thanks again to everyone who has continued to boycott Blink 182 and Depeche Mode copycats/namestealers Blasphemous Rumours, whether you know you're doing it or not.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Most coverbands can only dream of playing onstage with the bands whose songs they steal. Well, us old men got to share the stage with those nice boys from Weezer. Here's how it happened....

On Weezer's latest tour, they're having local radio stations round up local musicians to play onstage with them for two songs, so we thought we'd resurrect Geezer for 94.9's auditions. We hadn't done it in a couple of years and only did two shows when we did. We really weren't really thinking about playing with the band, we just thought it'd be fun to crash the auditions, pass out some Worther's and show the youth who's still boss. Our old bassist Kevin "The Kid" Gossett was unavailable (RIP 1871-2007) so Zach "Babyface" Goode stepped in to learn all of the songs we'd forgotten. Then 94.9 called us and asked us to help host and be the backing band for everyone who wanted to audition an hour beforehand. Oy vey!! So, we fudged our way through a verse, chorus and solo of "Island In The Sun" and "Beverly Hills" about 357 times at the House of Blues and saved the day. They were so thankful that they let all four of us be part of the onstage fun with a dozen or so other lucky musicians!! We volunteered to play in their booth at the show and they said they'd be happy to host us as long as we had proof of life insurance. We couldn't get a policy that quickly, so we convinced Zach's young girlfriend Marissa to be our nurse. As shy as she is, she accepted our offer and found a dress the size of a postcard to wear.

So we braved Friday traffic and SDSU parking to meet all of the lucky Weezer Hootenanny folks, which ended up including Kelsey (harp) and Joseph (mandolin) from the Wrong Trousers, Sean (git) and Gorney (cajon) from Fevercrotch and Paul (recently of Rafter's band) on sax. We were ushered downstairs into the womens basketball team's dressing room where we all got in a big circle with the other musicians drafted by 94.9 and 91X. Roadies led us through the two songs and Weezer guitarist Brian Bell came in to join us. He kept looking and smiling at us geezers with our toy pianos and slide whistles or maybe it was our nurse, it's hard to tell with our prescription glasses. It sounded really great with such a crazy combo of marching band & acoustic thingamajigs and Brian said it was the most fun rehearsal they'd had yet. Oh, I bet you say that to all the ladies.

As soon as we got back up to the 94.9 booth, we fired up the Lite Brite with our logo (+pink triangle) and started playing Blue Album classics and random covers (Zep, Clash, Ramones) for anyone that would stop which, by the end of the night, totalled at least 13 young whippersnappers. These young kids today just don't know how to respect their elders! Still, there were a few nice ones and we gave them candy and brand new =G= pins (thanks to Little Devil Buttons for doing them so quick and making them look so great!!!!!). Also a HUGE thanks to everyone from 94.9 for letting us play, watching our stuff, mentioning us on the radio and honoring Pulp's plea to help the aged.

Before we knew it, that Blink 182 lad that sounds like he's got something stuck in his nose was done and it was time for Weezer to warm up the crowd for us. After a little pork, beans and hash, we went downstairs and lined up for our big arenarock debut. We got to watch sidestage as the band did that Pink Floyd song from Wizard of Oz and somehow got separated from Zach and our nurse, who they seemed to want centerstage. I can't imagine why they'd want a six foot blonde in a standard medical profession micromini and heels to be somewhere more visible than a bunch of old men. Kids today!


On we pranced as the crowd roared for us (57 seconds into the above video, someone yells "Adam Gimbel!") and Adam passed out fresh baked cookies in his "such a day i've had had" apron and ovenmitts. While everyone set up, Rivers the singerboy came over to say hello.
Rivers: ...what the heck? Cookies!
Adam: Such a nice boy (pats Rivers on cheek and extends cookie tray)
Rivers: Thank you. (eats) Mmmm!
Adam: Are they alright?
Rivers: Yeah, they're good...delicious! Cookie's gonna inspire me on this next track, I can feel it.
Then (at 2:41 in the above video) he asked our nurse to play her hand accordian too.


Here's another good angle for "Island". So you can find us: Adam points to Scott's hiphip at the very beginning, Nasr is just to his left on the yellow xylophone, Dylan is to his right in the red ballcap on slidewhistle and kazoo and of course Zach is next to Marissa on lead walker and blue toy piano. Check out more pics here (click).

Us Hootenanners sounded great on "Island In The Sun", especially the flute solo, and made their biggest hit sound better than it ever has. In between songs, Rivers came over to interview our friend Matthew from Bad Credit about his cajon hand drum, while Adam switched from slide whistle to lead guitar pinata. Unfortunately, senility had prevented him from tuning down a half step so everyone kept looking at him funny throughout "Beverly Hills". By the end, he was so frustrated that he smashed it at the edge of the stage and tossed it along with the inevitible candy into the crowd. Luckily, a fantastic trombone solo and Rivers' moustache distracted all of the onlookers.

(photo by =V=. Karina Anaya)

The crowd gave us a huge sendoff and the band loved us so much that they decided to come back and do an encore in our honor. As we hobbled outside to play for the exiting masses, the band crooned "Grandma take me home" just for us. Thanks, boys! The only thing that could've made for a better ending would be getting shut down by the coppers outside, which is exactly what happened.

It's a night we'll never.....um, where am I?

CHECK OUT NURSE MARISSA'S AMAZING ONSTAGE PICS!!!

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE MORE VIDS OR PICS, WE'D LOVE TO SEE 'EM! Feel free to post links in the comments.

Nope.  Just a band who has trademarked their name.
RADIOSTAR
That's ok. We weren't really doing that anymore. What's the sincerest form of flattery again?

In a bit of an anti-climax, only one of the 8 quarterfinalists bothered to show up for the year end finals at Kava Lounge on Sunday. To his credit, 3rd quarter "champ" Sammy sent Larisa, a girl he met last week in a bar, in his place, complete with a fake-bling necklace with his initials that she wore. The judges hastily decided to scrap the wildcard round completely. That meant that ALL of the wildcard hopefuls found themselves in the final round before they'd spelled a single word. Host Kipper kept the capacity crowd in stitches by totally eclipsing the heart of karaoke and then using one of Adam's 1st grade spelling tests for the first round. Yes, the word goldenrod was really on there. In the end, it came down to new karaoke diehard Paloma and Blasphemous Guitar shredder Roger Morrison, who had been in several previous bees. Paloma talked smack and showed off by spelling some of her words backwards AND forwards (soliloquy was impressive) but missed gonorrhea. Don't we all? Roger came out victorious thanks to piranha and winning word bougainvilles(!). He took home a vintage School Is Hell book plus five songs of his choice for us to add to the Too Cool For Karaoke songbook:
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
"Kid Creole &Coconuts": Annie I'm Not Your Daddy
Lennon, John: Mother
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play
Rainbow: Since You've Been Gone

See Paloma's pics here (click)
Metalmania karaoke contest report

NEXT UP:
ThuDec27 Yearend winner-take-all Musical Pursuit trivia at Whistle Stop
SatDec29 Too Cool For Karaoke at Casbah with Sweet & Tender Hooligans
SunJan06 Too Cool For Karaoke at Kava Lounge with Girls Just Wanna Sing Songs contest and Operation Rescue, our first song vote (voting one song off and one song onto the Dreaded Ten list) NOMINATE NOW!

Thanks to everyone that came. We raised $215 that is going to help fire victims instead of the usual trivia nerds and greedy musicians we raise funds for.

Team Jean Claude Van Wham (Michael & Kristi Rennie, Pete Bayard, Jason and whatshisname) won a very close game, only possibly helped by a drunk team member asking people outside "Hey, who sings that one song from Sixteen Candles?" Reports say that no one would help him and they would've won anyways. Pete became the first person to be on two winning teams. Huey Lewis & The Jews won best team name and Suzanne's Cry Baby t-shirt won best dry t-shirt. Sam's punk round was way fun (congrats to Drew Kalomaris who won).

People ID'd high school photos of dead rock stars, questions with the word "scary" in it, famous musicians death details and LOTS of songs about fire, The final tough 5 point question was to name all of Oingo Boingo's 6 studio albums. No one could. In a perfect world, no one could. To help them think about the final question, one last "fire" song was played in its entirety. Enjoy the video.....

That's the fire!

Wish I could get this to work on this computer....
At least I can hear it...

NEXT MUSICAL PURSUIT:
Thursday November 29th (NOT Thanksgiving!)
with RAVEN WHITE (myspace.com/ravenwhiteband) doing Name-That-Tune!

Good times, guys. Thanks to everyone for comin' out for Musical Pursuit, which I keep forgetting to call it. Someone on the Punk Board recently joked that the last trivia nite was going to be all Rookie Card trivia. Damn you! I'd had the idea for awhile to have a whole quiz with questions about me, my life, my loves.... Categories included Rookie Card lyric references, bands we've opened for and a ton of stupid questions relating to my life. My favorite part was the big laugh/groan when I pointed out that the first letters of the bands in the photo quiz spelled A-D-A-M-G-I-M-B-E-L. Anyone know the guy who yelled out the answer to the final question** and then ran out of the bar? Left me speechless.

The winning team was Kick Astley, Molly, Suzanne, Sven-Erik Seaholm and Matt Gagin. As easy as Name-That-Tune was (Dallas & Gorney were hysterical, especially when they kept singing the answers), they got 39 out of 40 points and then got both bonus questions. The t-shirt of the night was a Biz Markee shirt that said "You got what I need" and the team name of the night was New World Michael Vick Order because they were the only ones that cheered loudly for themselves.

Kipper was awesome as spelling bee host but didn't notice that Sammy changed his answer when he had him repeat the winning word. Cheating Indian! I think we'll let Matt be in the finals too. Next semifinal in November. Year end finals with Molly, Andrew, Matt & Sammy in December.

Next trivia nite's a fundraiser for SD Music Awards & music education for kids. Bellyup & Casbah have donated tix for it already. Thursday September 27th! Don't forget the Clash benefit at the Casbah in just two weeks!!!

Sat September 15th 08:00 PM
mTraks/Cover Me Badd's 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah benefit
2501 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, California 92101
mTraks and Cover Me Badd presents the 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah, a benefit for the San Diego Music Awards. How could we NOT do something at the Casbah for this!? Starring Manganista, the Heartaches, Rookie Card, Billy Midnight, Crash Encore, Gadfly and more. Plus a special preshow singalong with the Lil Strummer Allstar Orchestra (folks from Blasphemous Guitars, Skelpin, the Ex-Friends, Society, Billy Midnight, the Bipeds, 7th Day Buskers, the Handsome Devils and more). DJ Edgartonic spins in between bands!

**The question was "What song did I get up and sing onstage on my 21st birthday?" After an endless namedropping story of meeting Marky Mark and Harry Shearer the same night, I gave the clue that it was a song that was a number 1 song of the year on 91X and someone yelled out "What year?" I figured no one would get it from that so I said it was 1984 and before I could say that Mick Jones from the Clash played guitar on it, some guy yelled out "Tenderness!" and ran out. Too funny.

Last night, Cover Me Badd's Blasphemous Guitars played their final puppet show, headlining a packed concert at the San Diego House of Blues. Promoter Rick Ortiz didn't "personally greet" us as promised and introduced us by saying "If you believe in God, make some noise!" (perfect intro for a band called Blasphemous Guitars). Other than that, his attention to detail was unbelievable. Well, he also never did recognize Adam as the singer of that Rookie Card band that he once came onstage to kick off with a wireless microphone. We love Rick! It was a little crammed on the tiny 5th Avenue stage but we filled the room, which felt great. We've played to more people but this was probably the most people that had ever come out just to see us. We had a blast carefully rocking, quitting and firing each other throughout the show.

Sweaters 'round waists!

For those who never got to see us, you'll never get it. That was kind of our downfall. You really had to see us to realize our brilliance. Explaining it was just too tough. Still, we'd like to reveal our final setlist , with many faves that we've kept secret. Use your imagination and try to picture what these might sound like:

Set 1
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN/WAR PIGS
EVERYTHING COUNTS/NUMA NUMA
FIRST OF THE GANG TO BEAT IT
ENJOY THE PRECIOUS CLARKSON
PARANOID BOYS DON'T CRY
SOLO
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (LET ME GET WHAT I WANT)
(thanks to Butch, an actual black man, for spontaneously helping with the James Brown bit)
BLASPHEMOUS RUMOURS
SMITHS MEDLEY (ELLIOTT, PATTI, ROBERT, WILL, AERO)
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE

Set 2
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN/WAR PIGS
WE WILL ROCK YOUR GIRLFRIEND INTO A COMA
(picture this with Heart's Barracuda brilliantly thrown in too)
SMELLS LIKE BILLIE JEAN (BG REMIX)
ENTER SHARONA/PERSONAL JESUS
THIS CHARMING IRON MAN
SOLO
WHOLE LOTTA LOVECATS
BOOTIE MEDLEY (PROFESSOR BOOTY/BOOTS WERE MADE WALKIN/BOOTYLICIOUS/FAT BOTTOM GIRLS/BIG BOTTOM/BABY GOT BACK/SHAKE YOUR BOOTY/RUMPSHAKER)
KILLING AN ARAB IN THE NAME OF (FUCK YOU IT'S FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE)
encore
GIRLS (Beasties power ballad request)
NEVER LET ME FREEBIRD AGAIN

Thanks for letting us go out feeling so loved. Now, go away! Seriously, we look forward to losing at the San Diego Music Awards next month and maybe one day, we'll reunite. Thanks again to everyone who ever came to see us play, told a friend how great we were or got in on our act. Thanks to every club and soundguy who ever had the guts to have us play and our apologies to everyone who we blew off the stage. You suck. We rule.

Blasphemous Guitars 2005-2007
We saw a million faces and we rocked them all.

Keep an eye out for future Cover Me Badd fun:
• Monthly music trivia at the Whistle Stop
• 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah benefit on SatSep15
• .38 Specials Education (classic ska debut covered in its entirety, coming in 2008)


Someone is looking for the cute girl in the green. Contact us.

Thanks for the fotos, Kim!