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Page 1: CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 8/20/2003 MO E 1 Arts‘‘They would say we were from San Francisco because they didn’t know where San Jose was,’’ remembered Roy SOUTH BAY DESERVES

SJMN Operator: NN / Job name: XXXX0100-0001 / Description: Zone:MO Edition:Revised, date and time: 05/26/29, 01:37Typeset, date and time: 08/19/03, 15:16082003MOAE0E001 / Typesetter: IIIOUT / TCP: # 1 / Queue entry: #0109

CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 8/20/2003 MO E 1

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WEDNESDAYSAN JOSE MERCURY NEWSAUGUST 20, 2003

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Arts &Entertaınment

www.mercurynews.com/entertainment

1,2,3Go!

SHOTGUN PLAYERS

Trish Mulholland, left, andJohn Thomas.

Three reasons to seethe Shotgun Players

in Brecht’s ‘Mother Courageand Her Children’

1. Bertolt Brecht was the father of modern politi-

cal theater.

2. First produced in 1938, ‘‘Mother Courage and

Her Children’’ is an anti-war classic that speaks di-

rectly to the state of the world today.

3. This is a rare opportunity to see Brecht in the

park. And (a fourth reason!) it’s free.

4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at John Hinkel Park,

Arlington and Southampton avenues, Berkeley,

through Sept. 14. (510) 704-8210 or

www.shotgunplayers.org

— Karen D’Souza

Inside | Dear Abby . . . Page 4E Comics . . . Pages 6E, 7E Movie times . . . Page 5E Television . . . Back Page

SUE HUTCHISON

Returns Friday

Looking to get recorded on a discand help a charity? The Walk forAIDS, Silicon Valley, is looking to putout a CD of local talent with the pro-ceeds going to AIDS relief. They willweed through applicants to find greatlocal bands, pick some songs for an al-bum collection, and then sell the al-bums on the October AIDS walk andin area record stores.

You get a jump-start on your career,and you help a worthy cause.

Mail digital, CD or tape submissi-ons to Randy Robinson at Box 54010,San Jose, Calif. 95154.

MORE MARKETING POWER: Whenit comes to making money off fans, noone compares to Kiss and Aero-smith.

On their current joint tour, whichcomes to Shoreline Oct. 10, Kiss plati-num club members can pay $1,000 forseats in the first five rows, a meet-and-greet and backstage tour with themembers in full costume, souvenirguitar picks and photos with the band.Go to www.kissonline.com for de-tails. Amazingly, these have sold out.

Their Boston counterparts offer asimilar deal for $600, called ‘‘the Vel-vet Rope.’’ (www.aeroforceone.com).

I don’t know what’s more amazing:that someone would think of market-ing at these prices or that anyonewould pay them.

BENEFIT: Austin songwriter andguitarist Alejandro Escovedo can-celed his summer tour because ofcomplications from hepatitis C. Nowhe has begun expensive treatmentsand has no health insurance.

A group of musicians across thecountry who love his work is stagingbenefits. Escovedo, the much youngerbrother of former Bay Area resident

bradkavapop music

Disc offers youa shot at fame,

helps fight AIDS

See KAVA, Page 3E

By Mark PurdyMercury News

Injustice is never pretty,even when it’s psychedelic.

A few years ago, local attor-ney Kenn Ellner visited theRock and Roll Hall of Fame inCleveland. He sat down toview a movie tribute to SanFrancisco’s ‘‘Summer of Love’’in 1967. In the film’s openingseconds, a distinctive fuzz gui-tar and harmonica riff floatedacross the soundtrack.

‘‘Hey,’’ Ellner thought.‘‘That’s our song.’’

The tune was ‘‘PsychoticReaction,’’ recorded in 1966 bythe Count Five, a band Ellnerhelped form — in San Jose,not San Francisco. In fact,none of the Count Five mem-bers ever lived in San Francis-co. So how dare the Rock Hallof Fame falsely proclaim themto be a San Francisco band?

Surely, you know the an-swer. The situation was no dif-ferent 35 years ago when theCount Five rode their song —which reached No. 5 on theBillboard chart — to appear-ances around the country.

‘‘They would say we werefrom San Francisco becausethey didn’t know where SanJose was,’’ remembered Roy

SOUTH BAYDESERVES MUCHOF THE CREDITACCORDED S.F.

FOR ’60S BANDS

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN GRIFFIN —MERCURY NEWS

KEY LOCATIONSWhere it all happened. PAGE 2E

K COUNT FIVE

Where: The Edge, 260 S. California Ave.,Palo Alto

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Tickets: $20; (650) 321-6447

See ROCK CITY, Page 2E

Grateful Dead, 1967, clockwisefrom left: Jerry Garcia, BillKreutzmann, Ron ‘‘Pigpen’’McKernan, Bob Weir, MickeyHart; Phil Lesh in the center.Jefferson Airplane, 1960s,from left: Jack Casady, JormaKaukonen, Grace Slick, MartyBalin, Spencer Dryden, PaulKantner.Smash Mouth, 2001, from left:Greg Camp, Steve Harwell, PaulDe Lisle, Michael Urbano.Syndicate of Sound, 1965,from left: Larry Ray, JohnDuckworth, John Sharkey, DonBaskin, Bob Gonzalez.Doobie Brothers, 1971, fromleft: John Hartman, TomJohnston, Dave Shogren, PatSimmons.

For more things to do, see PAGE 2E

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2E WWW.MERCURYNEWS.COM SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 20032E WWW.MERCURYNEWS.COM SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2003

Chaney, the band’s bassist.Makes you want to smash

some guitars, doesn’t it? Ev-eryone knows that San Jose’sinferiority streak can rundeeper than Keith Richards’wrinkles. In this case, thereis a legitimate beef.

Say it loud: We’re AreaCode 408 And We’re Proud.San Jose’s rock ’n’ roll histo-ry is as thick and as signifi-cant as any city in America.But few people realize this,because nobody makes mov-ies or television specialsabout it — or writes newspa-per stories about it.

Time to correct the error.Friday night, the Count Fivewill play its first show in 16years, a reunion gig at TheEdge nightclub in Palo Alto.What better occasion to stepup and scream about San Jo-se — and the South Bay’s —neglected rock ’n’ roll reputa-tion?

There is a ridiculousamount of screaming to do.Two of the alleged ‘‘SanFrancisco’’ bands — theGrateful Dead and JeffersonAirplane — were populatedmostly by South Bay musi-cians. In fact, the GratefulDead’s first appearance un-der that name happened in1965 in downtown San Jose.Bob Dylan played a show inSan Jose before he ever sangin San Francisco. Half ofCreedence Clearwater Re-vival attended San JoseState and honed some chopsthere. Influential groupssuch as the Syndicate ofSound, People, ChocolateWatchband and Harpers Bi-zarre had South Bay roots.

And that only covers the1960s. During the 1970s, theDoobie Brothers smokedthemselves out of a house on12th Street to sell millions ofrecords. Stevie Nicks, anoth-er former SJSU student,gave Fleetwood Mac thewitchy pathos to sell millionsof records. More recently,Smash Mouth broke out ofthe South First Street barsto gain international fame.

So which city is it, again,that deserves to be called the

Bay Area’s capital of rock ’n’roll procreation? Tourists inSan Francisco routinely visitHaight-Ashbury to gaze atthe Grateful Dead’s ‘‘birth-place.’’ Maybe they would beinterested to know that JerryGarcia and Bob Weir first be-gan plucking guitars at PaloAlto music stores and coffee-houses.

Granted, today’s live musicscene in San Jose is strug-gling. But cycles repeatthemselves, and the younglocal musicians could doworse than study their an-cestors. The reconstitutedCount Five at Friday’s showwill feature three membersof the original band — Ellner,Chaney and guitarist John‘‘Mouse’’ Michalski — alongwith guitarist Phil Indovinaand drummer Rocco Astrel-lo. Original drummer ButchAtkinson has died, and origi-nal guitarist John Byrne de-cided to decline a full-fledgedreunion but has been invitedto sing a few songs with theband Friday. Don Baskin, theSyndicate of Sound’s leadsinger, may also show up forsome guest vocals.

And don’t worry. TheCount Five’s trademark Dra-cula-style capes, worn by theband for a famous jacket-sleeve photo in front of theWinchester Mystery House,will also be on the bill. Mi-chalski kept the originalcapes in a closet at his house,ready for use when Chaneysparked the idea for a re-union before they get too old.

‘‘I just called up the guysand told them, ‘If we’re evergoing to do it, now’s thetime,’ ’’ said Chaney.

The idea, he said wasgoosed by a British companythat has just released a CDfeaturing the remasteredoriginal master tapes ofCount Five recording ses-sions. They’ll also be on saleat the show. In the compre-hensive CD liner notes,Byrne properly disses theSan Francisco bands by say-ing: ‘‘Those groups from thecity always looked down atthe South Bay and treated uswith disdain.’’

Not after today, they won’t.

COURTESY THE COUNT FIVE

In front of the Winchester Mystery House in 1966 were CountFive’s Roy Chaney, left, John Byrne, Craig ‘‘Butch’’ Atkinson,Kenn Ellner, John ‘‘Mouse’’ Michalski.

ROCK CITY l S.J., notS.F., was true locusof many ’60s bandsContinued from Page 1E

What’s up today Things to do in the Bay Area

THEATER

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. ByAlan Janes, Laurie Mansfield, RobBettison and Buddy Holly. Life story ofthe rock ’n roll legend who died in aplane crash with Richie Valens and theBig Bopper in 1959. 8 p.m. Open-ended.San Jose Stage Company. The Stage,490 S. First St., San Jose. $28-$38.(408) 283-7142.

Love & Taxes. By Josh Kornbluth. Aman tries to get himself out of debt afterventuring into the Hollywood studiosystem. Opens 8 p.m. Runs through Sept.14. Thrust Stage, Berkeley RepertoryTheatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley.$25-$40. (510) 647-2949.

POP

Joe Cocker. 8:15 p.m. Wente Vineyards,5050 Arroyo Road, Livermore.$79-$229. (408) 998-8497, (415)421-8497.

The Eagles. 8 p.m. Chronicle Pavilion atConcord. $63.50-$158. (408)998-8497, (415) 421-8497.

Earth, Wind and Fire. 7:30 p.m. GardenTheater, Villa Montalvo, 15400Montalvo Road, Saratoga. $70-$105.(408) 961-5858, (408) 998-8497,(415) 421-8497.

ATTRACTIONS

Computer History Museum.Thousands of artifacts from the earlydays of computing presented in a visiblestorage exhibit area. 1401 N ShorelineBlvd., Mountain View. Free tour at 1 p.m.Free. (650) 810 1010,www.computerhistory.org.

Cupertino Historical Museum.Displaying items relating to the historyof Cupertino. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. QuinlanCommunity Center, 10185 N. StellingRoad. Free. (408) 973-1495.

FARMERS MARKETS

Milpitas Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-2p.m. Town Center Drive and Calaveras.(800) 949-3276.

Santana Row Farmers Market. 4-8p.m. Winchester and Stevens Creek, SanJose. (800) 949-3276.

CIRCUS

Ringling Brothers and Barnum &Bailey Circus in Oakland. Clowns,stunts, juggling and animal tricks. 7:30p.m. Oakland Arena, Interstate 880 atHegenberger Road. $11, $16, $21 and$50. (408) 998-8497, (415) 421-8497,www.ringling.com

San Jose’s rock ’n’ roll historyGet a load of this nifty map toSan Jose’s legendary rock ’n’ rollsites. The list is incomplete, butas an introductory primer, it is agood start:

47 NOTRE DAME AVE.,SAN JOSEIt all began here. On July 7, 1956, thefirst rock ‘n’ roll riot in Americahappened here at the Palomar Ballroom.The facts were later documented in atreatise by San Jose State history Prof.Larry Engelmann. Fats Domino and hisband showed up two hours late for ashow, and a tanked-up crowd of 3,500began throwing beer bottles. Fightsbroke out. Firecrackers were set off.Chaos reigned. Eleven were arrested.Hundreds of other brawlers fled whenpolice reinforcements arrived. The nextday, accounts of the “riot” appearedfrom coast to coast, sparking a debateon whether rock music was evil andprovoked violence. In many respects,that argument continues today. Theballroom, which hosted many other1950s shows with rock’s pioneers, stillstands and is now the TropicanaNightclub.

970 S. FIRST ST., SAN JOSEIn 1965, this now-vacant storefronthoused Off Stage, a coffeehouse thatwas the epicenter of South Bay hipness.It’s where a local folk singer namedPaul Kantner (then working in a localcannery) first met a young acousticguitar player named Jerry Kaukonen(then attending Santa Clara University).That night, Kaukonen was playingbehind an unknown Texas singer namedJanis Joplin. Soon after, Kantner andKaukonen (who changed his first nameto Jorma) helped create JeffersonAirplane, as related in author JoelSelvin’s history of Bay Area music inthe ’60s, ‘‘Summer Of Love.’’ The OffStage was shut down after a pot bustin 1966. The building was last occupiedby a Vietnamese bakery.

70 W. HEDDING ST., SAN JOSEThis is the county Hall of Records, whereyou will not find Chuck Berry’s birthcertificate. In an early biography, Berrysaid he was born in San Jose, but itturns out to be a big fib. ‘‘He felt beingborn in San Jose made him sound moreunusual and exotic,’’ reports Bruce Pegg,who keeps Berry’s Web page. ‘‘He wasactually born in St. Louis in 1926.’’

SAN JOSE STATEUNIVERSITY CAMPUSStu Cook and Doug Clifford ofCreedence Clearwater Revival used tojam here at frat parties, as did earlyversions of the Doobie Brothers andPablo Cruise founder Cory Lerios. AndStevie Nicks was an SJSU student.

12TH STREET NEAR SAN JOSESTATE CAMPUSToday, this is a row of well-groomedhouses in the trendy Naglee Parkneighborhood. But back in the late ’60sand early ’70s, things were moreshaggy. Tom Johnston of the DoobieBrothers rented a place on 12th Streetwhile he attended San Jose State, heldjam sessions and wrote ‘‘Listen to theMusic‘‘ in the home’s living room.

145 W. SAN CARLOS ST.,SAN JOSESan Jose Civic Auditorium. Thedocumented site of Bob Dylan’s firstBay Area show. He played here inNovember 1964, two nights before hisinitial San Francisco concert. Manyother classic artists, including VanMorrison and the Faces (with RodStewart and Ron Wood) subsequentlyplayed the Civic, while U2 singer Bonofondly acknowledged the band’s showthere during a 2000 concert at HPPavilion.

UNKNOWN HOUSENEAR SAN JOSE STATE CAMPUSTalk about your classic ’60s mind fog.On Dec. 4, 1965, after a Rolling Stonesshow at San Jose Civic, author and LSDexplorer Ken Kesey handed out fliers

inviting concertgoers to the first public‘‘acid test‘‘ organized by his Day-Glohenchmen, the Merry Pranksters. Thewild affair was held at a large homenear SJSU, and it was on this occasionthat a band from Palo Alto formerlyknown as the Warlocks played its firstgig as the Grateful Dead. The episodeis related in Tom Wolfe’s book, ‘‘TheElectric Kool-Aid Acid Test.’’ Butfrustratingly, no address is mentioned.Surviving Pranksters Ken Babbs andLee Quarnstrom can’t remember wherethe house was, and Dead spokesmanDennis McNally doesn’t know either.McNally even contacted Carolyn“Mountain Girl” Garcia, who was at theparty, but she had no memory of thespecific location.

2780 EL CAMINO REAL,SANTA CLARAMoonlite Lanes, a bowling alley thatstayed open late, was a perfect spotfor a teen idol to escape the madmasses. Micky Dolenz, the Monkees’

drummer, would often visit his sisterin Los Gatos at the height of the group’sfame. He would slip away for somerecreation here, according to CountFive guitarist ‘‘Mouse” Michalski, whooften accompanied him. ‘‘We’d go atmidnight so he could have some peace,’’he said. The bowling facility still exists.

3369 UNION AVE., SAN JOSESite of the former Camden High School,breeding ground of the Syndicate ofSound. In the summer of ’66, whileSan Francisco was going all groovy, SanJose went spectacularly hormonal.Within three months, the city producedtwo Top 10 hits dripping withtestosterone lust. ‘‘Psychotic Reaction”by Count Five was one. The other was‘‘Hey Little Girl” by the Syndicate ofSound. Typically, while San Francisco

was navel-gazing, San Jose’s hard-perspiring teen punks were luring girlsto the drive-in with lyrics such as, ‘‘Heylittle girl, you don’t have to hide nothingno more. You didn’t do nothing thathasn’t been done before.’’

545 RACE ST., SAN JOSEIt’s now a parking lot adjoining a formercannery. But this corner was once thevery happening Kerosene Club, whereSan Jose State students Tom and DickSmothers created their nightclub act.(All right, so they were folk comedy,not rock, but Tom did play with JohnLennon on ‘‘Give Peace A Chance.’’)Trivia note: Mercury News columnistLeigh Weimers, as an SJSU student,once played the banjo at the KeroseneClub on a hootenanny night.

1584 ALMADEN, SAN JOSEThe immortal Cowtown bar, sincedemolished, was once located here. It’swhere rockabilly group CommanderCody and the Lost Planet Airmen

found their steel guitar player, BobbyBlack. He was working in the Cowtownhouse band circa 1971. The Lost PlanetAirmen, then living in Berkeley, alsoworked a fine scam at the Cowtown.Every Wednesday was talent night, andso each band member took turnstrekking to San Jose to win the $100prize. ‘‘By the fifth week, they’d figuredus out,’’ writes Commander Cody (a.k.a.George Frayne) on his Web site. Anapartment complex occupies the sitetoday.

840 GUADALUPE PARKWAY,SAN JOSEJuvenile Hall. For a while in 1982, itbecame the unwanted temporaryresidence of an 11-year-old LarsFrederiksen, a Campbell native whogrew up to become a guitarist in thepunk rock band, Rancid. Here’sFrederiksen telling the story to RollingStone magazine: ‘‘I had a friend whowas 16. One day we went to hisgirlfriend’s house in South San Josewhile she was in summer school. Weraided the liquor cabinet, startedsmoking some stuff, put chewing gumon the girl’s dog, and started gettin’ allmessed up. I went home and passedout on the floor. The police called andtold my mom to bring me back to thegirl’s house. My friend was tearing upthe place and he ratted me out. I endedup in ‘juvy’ for two weeks.’’

147 S. MORRISON ST., SAN JOSEThis modest and tidy home in the St.Leo’s neighborhood is where GregCamp, the songwriter and guitarist ofSmash Mouth, lived with his wifebefore the band became big stars. Campeven wrote a song about an annoyingformer neighbor on Morrison (‘‘Heave-Ho”), which appears on the first SmashMouth album. As of last week, the housewas for rent again.

400 E. CAMPBELL AVE.,CAMPBELLThe Gaslighter Theatre has been a rockvenue off and on during its long life,and in 1970, future Doobie BrothersTom Johnston and Patrick Simmonsmet there for the first time. Playing inseparate groups, a week later theydecided to combine forces and form anew band at the suggestion of drummerJohn Hartman, another friend. TheDoobies woodshedded at a number ofnearby Campbell bars.

1465 REVERE AVE. AND1470 REVERE AVE., SAN JOSECount Five’s musical crossroads, inBaja Willow Glen. Kenn Ellner’s housewas at 1465 Revere, and Byrne, whohad moved to San Jose from Ireland,lived across the street. The lyrics to‘‘Psychotic Reaction” were composedduring a rehearsal in Ellner’s living room.All five band members attended nearbyPioneer High School, and their hit songwas released the week of theirgraduation in 1966. After their 1969breakup, they didn’t play together againuntil their 20th high school reunion inthe school gym, surprising the crowdwith a brief reunion set — whilewearing those famous capes.

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