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Amoeba Hollywood World Music DJ Series Starts Sunday

 I am very proud to be a part of Amoeba Hollywood's very own World Music DJ series. Worldwide Underground starts this Sunday from noon to one p.m. Every Sunday we will explore a different sound from across the world. Most of the DJ's participating make their living spinning at various hot spots around Los Angeles. Worldwide Undergound is a chance for you to check them out playing music that is near and dear to their hearts. All of us participating will attempt to cross every musical & cultural border possible.

Below is a description of the series, the DJ's biographies, as well as links to their websites and the clubs they spin at.
Amoeba’s World Music DJ Series! Beginning on June 15th, Gomez Comes Alive! brings Worldwide Underground to Amoeba Hollywood! The sounds start at noon and include everything from Afro-Beat to Turkish Psychedelia to Reggae en Espanol and beyond. Special guests and surprises galore!


EVERY SUNDAY BEGINNING AT NOON
AT AMOEBA MUSIC HOLLYWOOD

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Posted by Gomez Comes Alive! on June 12, 2008 at 11:54pm | Post a Comment

Gomez Comes Alive!, DJ Ant. Valadez & Kutmah

Odds & Ends 4/20/08
This was my first night at Footsies spinning @ Ant. Valadez's Odds & Ends. DJ Kutmah also joined in and along with Ant they simply rocked the place. Here are some photos of the evening festivities:


 DJ Ant. Valadez with Sasha Ali & John Lee Hooker looking on.



 DJ Ant & Amoeba's own Miguel.



Kutmah: ones and twos.



 Raul y Daisy + friends.



 Footsies ace bartender Jeanna.



Posted by Gomez Comes Alive! on April 21, 2008 at 03:35am | Post a Comment

Gomez Comes Alive! & DJ Ant. Valadez

Sunday April 20th @ Footsies
A while back I wrote about DJ Ant. Valadez Sunday night DJ sessions at Footsies. I am honored to join him this Sunday. Come on by, have a drink (or several) and listen to us play whatever we feel. Maybe the vato used in the flyer will be there. You can only be so lucky.

Sunday, April 20th
@ Footsies
2640 N. Figueroa
Highland Park
9 p.m. Free
Orale.






Posted by Gomez Comes Alive! on April 19, 2008 at 01:41pm | Post a Comment

Roy Ayers, Tony Allen & J.Rocc @ The Crash Mansion #2

Part Two: The Music

DJ  ANT. VALADEZ STARTS OFF THE NIGHT

 NAJITE BEFORE TONY ALLEN JOINS IN

 JAZZ GREAT PHIL RANELIN PERFORMING WITH  TONY ALLEN & NAJITE

TONY ALLEN
 
 J.ROCC ROCKS THE MAIN STAGE
WHILE...

 JEREMY SOLE HAD EVERYONE DANCING IN THE BAR
Once again, it was so packed when Roy Ayers went on I couldn't get any good shots of the band. Sorry.

Posted by Gomez Comes Alive! on March 30, 2008 at 02:20am | Post a Comment

What To Do on A Sunday Night in Los Angeles

Footsie's In Highland Park

"Gawd daamn!' I said to Richard, my co-worker and Amoeba Hip-Hop specialist,  thinking I was Ice Cube for a moment. "This bar reminds me of...'
"The Short Stop" he replied.
"Yeah," I replied. "But when it was still a cop bar" By now the tequila in my drink hit me pretty hard.
"It's because it is the same owner...'' he answered as my thoughts trailed. What was worse? A bar full of corrupt Rampart police or lame hipsters? To me, it's all the same

Footie's was part of the hipster's exodus fromthe Silver Lake/Echo Park area and into Highland Park. The first steps occured at Mr. T's Bowl back in the early 90's, followed by such places as The Cave. The Cave is now a bar full of annoying 20-somethings that wished they lived in the 80's. The latest gentrified bar is The York, located on York near Ave 56. It is so tame and boring there that it might as well be located in Pasadena.

For all my shit-talking, I have to say I like Footsie's. It still retains some of  that neighborhood hole-in-the wall appeal that it once had. DJ Ant, or Antony Valadez, spins there every other Sunday night. He is one of L.A.'s many underrated DJ's.  All the clubs know about him because he can flat out rock a club. In fact, The Little Temple has him on lock down every Friday, along with fellow Deejay, Sloe Poke, for the very popular, Resident Fridays. It's a mean pick-up spot if you are newly 21-years old . It's the night they play the commercial shit for the ADD generation...with a slight slant to throw them off, just a tad.

Posted by Gomez Comes Alive! on January 21, 2008 at 12:46am | Comments (1)