July 18, 2019 Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley, California
Doobie Decibel System Trio, Ace of Cups poster by Alexandra Fischer
A Midsummer Night’s Jam with Ace of Cups, Doobie Decibel System featuring Jason Crosby, Roger McNamee, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, and special guest David Nelson!
Artist Alexandra Fischer designed a dreamy gigposter for A Midsummer Night’s Jam with Doobie Decibel System featuring Jason Crosby, Roger McNamee, and Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, California with Ace of Cups.
This is Alex’s 26th poster in the Roger McNamee series, and every guest attending will receive a copy after the show.
If you can’t make this event, we invite you to watch the free webcast in HD provided by MoonTunes™ at Moonalice.com. Show time: 8:00 PM
All Ages – $20 Advance/$22 Day of Show (plus fees)
Poster Details
| Artist: | Alexandra Fischer |
| Performers: | Doobie Decibel System, Ace of Cups, David Nelson |
| Venue: | Sweetwater Music Hall |
| City, State: | Mill Valley, California |
| Date: | July 18, 2019 |
| Printer: | PsPrint |
| Dimensions: | 17.25 x 12.75 in. |
| Medium: | offset lithograph |
| Paper: | 14 pt |
| Series: | Roger McNamee R127 |
Notes
- DDS Trio: Jason Crosby, Roger McNamee, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz
- Listed in the art database at ExpressoBeans.com.
- Watch this show in HD at Moonalice.com.
Directions
📍Sweetwater Music Hall 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley
Doobie Decibel System
Jason Crosby, Roger McNamee, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz
Doobie Decibel System: Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, Jason Crosby on guitar/fiddle and Roger McNamee on guitar. Original and classic psychedelic. Acoustics with tight harmony.
Over the last decade, Jason Crosby has been a member of Robert Randolph and the Family Band and the Susan Tedeschi Band, among others. In recent years, Crosby has played with Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Carlos Santana, Pete Seeger, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews in various configurations. His discography is equally as impressive with appearances on Anastasia’s multi-platinum hit “Freak of Nature” as well as Tedeschi’s Grammy Nominated “Wait for Me”; and more recent releases from Phillip Phillips, Pretty Lights, Robert Randolph, Teddy Thompson and many more.
Roger McNamee performs more than 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he is the lead vocalist and plays bass and guitar. In Moonalice Roger pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live MoonTunes™ (streaming video) concerts, and the Moonalice Couch Tour™. The band’s website Moonalice.com enables fans to listen to any song or show and to watch every concert on a smartphone without an app. Moonalice is renowned for the quality of poster art associated with the band. Moonalice’s single, “It’s 4:20 Somewhere” has been downloaded more than 5 million times.
website: DDSband.com
Ace of Cups
In the summer of 1967, San Francisco’s first all-female rock band burst onto the scene. Despite making a big impact as a live act, and sharing billing with everyone from Jimi Hendrix , Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, the band stopped performing without ever recording an album of their own.
50 years later, they are finally releasing their debut studio album long overdue. Their songs lay buried in old scrapbooks, on unmarked home tape reels and in the collective memories of those involved. It’s a stunning collection that reflects their unique origins and deep life stories.
As the news began to spread that the Ace was recording, old friends and allies began to catch word and come by the studio to offer support and musical contributions. People like Bob Weir, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taj Mahal, Jorma Kaukonen, Jackson Browne and others. When the dust and smoke had cleared, 36 songs had been recorded, and what started out as a chance to set the record straight turned into a history-making second-act.
The story of the Ace has grown from a historical connection to their fans from the 60’s to a new following of millions who watched their recent documentary from KQED Arts about their story and the upcoming album. The ACE have a timeless ability to captivate. Think Beatlemania but cuter.
The original five young women of the Ace Of Cups were pioneers, dealing with issues that their male counterparts of the day did not have to. Even with the gender challenge of the day they brought a soulful, poetic sensibility to the stages of the psychedelic ballrooms and could fully hold their own with the gnarliest rockers in town. They were the first all female groups to be taken seriously enough to be given an equal share of the stage with their male peers. Legendary concert promoter Bill Graham went one step further, giving the Ace Of Cups the much-coveted spot of opening for The Band’s first concert, which he presented at Winterland in April, 1969.
The Ace of Cups started as Mary Gannon, Marla Hunt, Denise Kaufman, Mary Ellen Simpson and Diane Vitalich. The group stayed active in the Bay Area music scene for a full five years and during that time made musical contributions to albums by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and a handful of others.
George Wallace, president of High Moon Records knew of the Ace of Cups from a 2003 release of their live performances called It’s Bad For You But Buy It. Inspired by their music and their story he sought out Denise Kaufman to talk to her about a potential reissue of more of their old tapes. During his trip to California he had the opportunity to see them perform at a reunion concert for the SEVA Foundation and he decided to bankroll an album project after seeing the magic first hand.
Within weeks, four of the original five Ace – Denise Kaufman, Mary Ellen Simpson, Diane Vitalich and Mary Gannon Alfiler – had put their heads together and begun to witness years of restless creativity percolate from within.
The inspired choice of producer Dan Shea, who’s clients (Santana, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson) have sold over 150 million albums combined to handle production laid a bold and unpredictable path for the women to follow. Shea studied the recordings of vintage Ace, and his skill, patience and vision has taken these women and their songs to new heights.
Shea recognized the pure folk, blues and gospel moves that are the generational roots of the Ace, but he also chose to amplify the inherent pop sensibility in their songs, and encouraged both the thrilling energy of the garage band, and a delightful and wholly appropriate psychedelic sheen.
Most importantly, the producer has understood that the core essence of the Ace Of Cups is in fact the songwriting. Styles and formats may come and go, but a song is timeless, and the Ace had – and has – quality songs in abundance. Whether they are vintage tunes reinvented and reinvigorated, or more recent work that reflects their maturity and shared experience, everything exudes with the Ace Of Cups’ trademark, wide-eyed wonder at the powerful possibilities of communication through music.
Music – everything will be alright.
website: AceOfCups.com
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