serenity now! at left coast live friday night 5/15

[Erik Fong]

The suite has been obtained, guitars restrung, friends alerted, Van Halen t-shirt washed and dried, downtown streets blocked off, authorities alerted, Pabst on ice.

It's Left Coast Live time.

http://www.leftcoastlive.com

The festivities start at 5pm and go till the break of dawn.  Serenity Now! will be on at 8:30pm at South First Billiards (420 S. First St., San Jose), and we'll be the meat in the rock sandwich.  We're on the same bill as a lot of great bands like Johnny Manak, Jade of Days, Usurper Vong, Point 3 and Rivals.  And then there are about 90 other bands all over downtown that should pique your interest as well.

LCL will be off the hook, so please come out.  A lot of great people have brainstormed over the last several years to put this event together, and they've stuck their necks out and put themselves on the line with city officials to create what I certainly hope becomes an annual party.  San Jose needs support for events like this.  Not just for our own band, and not just for the 100 bands that are playing, but we need to set the stage for other up and coming bands for the next 5 or 10 years.  The more noise we make, and the more alcohol that's purchased and consumed, the more club owners will realize that there is money in live original music, the more venues will be accepting of local bands, and the more opportunities younger artists will get.  This benefits all of us as a friggin' society.  No city on the planet has ever suffered from too much music (except Sunset Blvd. in the late '90s).    So if you don't do it for me, and you don't do it for the organizers, then do it for the kids.  And for me.

At the show, we will have new shirts to purchase, the albums will be available for sale and the band is hosting an afterparty at the Marriott in downtown San Jose.  Email me (eriki...@me.com) for details.  Swing on by after the music stops and if you're lucky, you can use our drummer as a body pillow.

Love,

Erik