I'm Coming to San Francisco...

have fun!

not sure why there has not been more of a mermen interest in this forum over the years?

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

Super jealous.  That will be a fun evening. 

I love it that I probably knew some of you SF based music heads in the last century. Or at least recognized friendly faces at the local venues. Small world. Good times. Glad you guys are still kickin.

When parking became unbearable - and you only met your neighbors on street sweeping mornings --- I moved north to Sebastopol

Alan R (85-98 Mid-Haight > Richmond District) 

The winds of the Future wait
At the iron walls of her Gate,
And the western ocean breaks in thunder,
And the western stars go slowly under,
And her gaze is ever West
In the dream of her young unrest.
Her sea is a voice that calls,
And her star a voice above,
And her wind a voice on her walls
My cool, grey city of love.

~ George Sterling

Yay for you, sounds like fun. 

I too am looking forward to my little trip south, been a long while since I've been south of Arcata and Oregon!

Hiking the botanical gardens in Berkeley and also out to Land's End are at the top of my list before music begins.

"Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. You go there as a snarky New Yorker thinking it's politically correct, it's crunchy granola, it's vegetarian, and it surprises you every time. It's a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it's dirty and nasty and wonderful." ~ Anthony Bourdain

"I was married once in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which means that earthquakes aren't always bad." ~ W.C. Fields

"San Francisco has only one drawback: 'tis hard to leave." ~ Rudyard Kipling

"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time." ~ Jack Kerouac

"You wouldn’t think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight here, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills... And all the people are open and friendly." ~ Dylan Thomas

"I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved." ~ Mark Twain

"What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States." ~ H.L. Mencken

"It's an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco." ~ Oscar Wilde

"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality." ~ Paul Kantner

"One day if I go to heaven... I'll look around and say 'It ain't bad. But it ain't San Francisco.'" ~ Herb Caen

You really can't go wrong with a Mermen meetup point. 

Tempting!

The Mermen would be fun but its scheduled the same exact time as the Terrapin Roadshow is San Rafael.

My preference is outdoor amphitheater Dead music.

If you come down to Big Sur LMK.

Have a great visit!

welcome back...

2 cool events at the Haight Street Art Center:

7/19 2-6pm 

Special event: In conjunction with The Buck Started Here, the Haight Street Art Center will host a special event on Saturday July 19, from 2 to 6 p.m., featuring seven musicians who played the Matrix, followed by the premiere of a film made of footage Balin shot between 1968 and 1970. The program will begin with a “Matrix Musicians” panel moderated by music journalist Joel Selvin.

Panelists will include Peter Albin and Dave Getz of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers, George Hunter and Richard Olsen of the Charlatans, and Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish. Also joining the panel via Zoom will be Steve Miller, whose first paying gig in San Francisco was playing bass for Lightnin’ Hopkins at the Matrix.

After the panel, which will include time for questions from the audience, the lights will dim for “In the Mansion,” an hour-plus film directed by Marty Balin, compiled from video he shot in Jefferson Airplane’s mansion at 2400 Fulton Street, as well as a few other locations in and around San Francisco. This will be the first public screening of “In the Mansion,” which captures a unique moment in San Francisco rock history. Drinks and snacks will be served!

and 

7/31 4-9pm

Art at the Edge of Magic will open July 24th and run through September 21st, and is free to all museum visitors during regular hours.  Join us for an epic opening celebration on July 31 from 4:00pm–9:00pm—the evening before Dead & Company kicks off three sold-out shows in Golden Gate Park, honoring the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition show poster, a collaboration between Mickey Hart, Je Noodle, and legendary poster artist Stanley Mouse.

https://haightstreetart.org/

was just at the GAMH today picking up Axial Tilt tickets for 8-3.

also Holly Bowling is playing the tiny Henderson Lab room at the SF Jazz Center Thurs-Fri

going thurs late show...

https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/2025-summer/summer-at-sfjazz/holly-bowling/

another option Thursday is the monthly Alex Jordan jam at the Club Fox in Redwood City

a great venue and chill vibe...

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grateful-thursdays-walex-jordan-friends-tickets-1450869382379?aff=oddtdtcreator

Mooookie

hope to bump into you at one of these events.

I'll be wearing a tie-dye... Ha

Turtle- the Mermen are awesome. Maybe they could play sometime other than 3:00 in SF when there's an outside Terrapin show in San Rafael. Who does their bookings?