Reply With QuoteThelma will be performing as well as signing Cd'sOriginally Written by ol'skinflint
@ Aomeba Music, San Francisco
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in my neighborhood this Saturday, October 20th, promoting her new release. I'm thinking about checking it out but I've seen entertainers signing autographs in this store before and it gets packed with people. I've never seen her in person before and wonder if she plans on performing....
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How was the show?
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Ameoba in store? You have to stand in the record rows, but for her??.of course I would.
I miss SF somtimes...
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I was too tired to drive that day. But watching performers in that store is very uncomfortable anyway, I've done it several times. People who want to watch the performers simply stand and block the isles, and people squeeze past you to look in the bins and give you dirty looks. There's a small stage for the performers but no comfortable place to stand and see them, but you DO get fairly close to them. I've seen George Clinton and an artist called Badly Drawn Boy, but the stores in my area usually host local acts.
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I wasn't able to make it to Ameoba but I did make it to Medium Rare Music (my all time favorite CD store, especially for classic disco), where Thelma went later in the afternoon. She was fabulous! She looked great and was as sweet as can be. She not only signed her new CD for me (which I love), she signed my original "Anyway You Like It" vinyl and the 12" for "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning".
It's always so nice to meet an artist that you've admired for so long and find out what gracious and down to earth people they really are.
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you probably don't miss THAT part of San Francisco. It's half a block from Golden Gate park and a haven for homeless people, criminals and drug users (they say parts of the park are littered with used hypodermic syringes). And parking? ForGET it...there's so little parking in that area that it's even hard to find an ILLEGAL place to park. When I thought about having contact with all that to see Thelma, I decided to stay home and listen to "The Devil In Me" instead. And by the way, I shouldn't have used the words "my neighborhood". I don't actually live in San Francisco but in the next county.
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Ol'skinflint,
ha ha yes...
I used to go to raves at the Amoeba building when is was still Park and Bowl (Pack a Bowl..haha). Yeah, I was thinking about it today actually...I hate the upper Haight. A Gap on Haight and Ashbury, come on now. I like the Lower Haight a lot better, and the Mission (where I grew up) of course.
-Ian
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