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called Ryde, which is about an Uber driver.” Then earlier this year
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sal Records, and moved to L.A. “When I got up there I discovered it was a bad deal. When I started meeting suc- cessful people in the music
Biggie Babylon took a seri- ous run at music. “I’m in my 30s. I can do acting forever. I think I only have a few more years to do music.” He hooked up with producer Josh Franks (Nick Can- non). Local station Z90 started giving airplay to his party tune “The UBER Song” and to “Small Town Girl,” his hip-hop version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” On November 1
Biggie can always act, “but I think I only have a few more years to do music.”
industry in L.A. they said they wanted to get in the weed business. I told them, ‘Been there, done that. I want to do music.’” Biggie also met some
people who convinced him “to take some acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. I met some producers who said I had a good look. I’m a big dude, Middle Eastern, with a bald head. I always wanted to act. I got on a TV commer- cial for King Games, makers of Candy Crush. I wrote, directed, and starred in my own low-budget short film
he takes off on an 11-city promotional tour. “I get inter- viewed on radio stations in L.A., San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield... I have an album out in
February called Mary Want Her Money. We’ll play the music on air and do an interview.” But he says the tour is not about selling his music. “I give it away. This is more about branding. My hope is to be a performer on a larger tour and build my brand. I’m starting a merch company with T-shirts and caps and cannabis-related items like grinders, lighters, and backpacks.” Biggie Babylon appears November 13 at Pure Plati-
num in Kearny Mesa. — Ken Leighton
The Lucy Ring’s spaghetti western. “We changed our name to the Lucy Ring because Sean Cox started playing with us, and he was so good, he quickly began singing some lead,” says bassist/singer David Hyman of the band for- merly known as the Sinclairs. “Over the next month or two, we realized that it was a very different project than it was before, although much of the material carries over.” With Hyman and singer/
guitarist Scott Seader the sole returning Sinclairs, Sean Cox soon quit Bandalier, switching from keys to guitar and vocals to join the newly christened Lucy Ring. In September, the trio was joined by drummer Adam Chini, with whom Cox previously played in the reggae group Social Green. “At this time last year, I never would have thought we’d have a totally new band, but life is funny like
that...some-
times you don’t even know you’re missing a piece of the puzzle until it shows up and changes everything.” Demos originally recorded
by the Sinclairs at Yoko Ono’s studio with Charlotte Kemp
and we also started a few new tracks from scratch, with him singing lead, recorded at our rehearsal space in North County. So, of the six tracks on our EP, Scott sings lead on four and Sean sings on two. Alan
film in Baja for their cinematic track “Make It Rain.” Says Hyman, “We’re all big fans of spaghetti westerns and also trippy filmmakers like Alejan- dro Jodorowsky [El Topo] and David Lynch, so we just brain- stormed and came up with a very weird, loose storyline.” The shoot found them
For their self-titled EP, the Lucy Ring recorded with Sean Lennon’s girlfriend Charlotte and shot a trippy western in Baja.
Muhl (girlfriend and band- mate of Sean Lennon) were repurposed for the self-titled Lucy Ring EP released October 28 on Yellow Year Records. “Sean added some vocals and guitars to some of the tracks we had done with Charlotte,
Sanderson at Pacific Beat in La Jolla mixed them and did a great job creating cohesion and matching what we had before with the new tracks.” To promote the release, the
band spent three days at the end of August shooting a short
doing stunts with Mexican bull riders and vaqueros. “None of the band was that comfortable on horseback, so the Mexican cowboys had a good laugh watching us struggle not to fall off and die. There’s a scene where we’re all galloping on the beach where you can see me almost eat it.” The Lucy Ring appears
November 16 at the Belly Up — Jay Allen Sanford
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CONTRIBUTORS Chad Deal, Dave Good, Dorian Hargrove, Mary Leary, Ken Leighton, Bart Mendoza, Jay Allen Sanford, David Stampone
Return of the Mountain Lion
Finnegan Blue with special guests (No Cover)
Friday November 4 Saturday November 5 “Brazilian Night Vibe”
Raggabond Jambless
In October 1983, a lion killed a domestic goat at a ranch near Julian; in November 1983, a dead lion cub was
found on the road near Santa Ysabel. In January 1984, at the Christian Conference Center near Mount Palomar,
a lion killed 20 goats. BY STEVE SORENSEN, AUG. 22, 1985
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