Left Coast Live

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for the truth of the matter, read this article, not the BS the mercury news fed everyone.....Sal Pizzaro is friends with the failing Left Coast Live promoters....

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President of San Jose's Orloff/Williams Advertising & Publicity, Orloff is also the co-founder of San Jose Rocks, a valiant attempt to shine some limelight on local musicians in a hall of fame-style format. Over the course of two inductions, San Jose Rocks has anointed many....

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As I slink away from the Booker T show like a CSI detective taking notes, I give Dan Orloff a call on the cell to inform him of the woeful turnout for the evening's headliner. "That absolutely sucks," says Orloff, busy setting up his drum kit for local cover band Black Pearl's warm-up set for South Bay legends Count Five.

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The panel, along with some of the 15 onlookers, floated a few possible answers to the burning question: Why does San Jose fail to attract nationally known, mid-level touring rock talent? It's either the fault of local print-media or an overly-aggressive police force, suggest the participants. San Jose Mercury News pop-music columnist Shay Quillen scoffs at the idea that press non-cooperation was in any way responsible for the paltry turnout. He said they ran 4 stories in the SJ MErc

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The history and future of rock." As Groucho Marx once said, "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member."

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But this has been a long-standing problem in San Jose, the Bay Area's largest city (over one million residents in a recent head count): getting butts in the seats and attracting acts that will bring people out at night. Left Coast Live may have been doomed from the start when they asked me to serve on a panel at the Gordon Biersch restaurant that tried to unravel the thorny question: "Does San Jose know its way?

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By the time iconic Hammond B3 electric organist Booker T. kicks things off at the head-scratching early hour of 6:15 in the evening, the crowd has swollen to maybe 150 hardy souls. Booker T. drew twice that many just last week at the Independent, a medium-sized San Francisco night club.

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They've thought of everything but the main ingredients for a successful rock festival: Where are the music fans to fill this cavernous space? And where are the name acts to attract those warm bodies?

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BY JUD COST

It looks like a scene from Stanley Kramer's 1959 post-nuclear annihilation film On The Beach, right in the heart of downtown San Jose. They've cordoned off an entire city-block of South First St. at both ends to allow Booker T. plenty of elbow-room as the headline act for the first-annual Left Coast Live festival. Sidewalks are lined with porta-johns, two cops are talking to each other and a few radio-station booths are handing out flyers you don't want.

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blurt online review to follow

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what exactly was ignited? Booker T's desire to NOT return? The night before he played in SF and 300 people showed up in a club....you guys sold tickets for $20 to see all these "great bands"....what great bands? The VENUE SUCKED MAN!! Two guys trying to get popular off of being in the METRO, lame if you ask me....