62 San Diego Reader July 21, 2016
Coyote Bar & Grill: Thursday, 6pm — Terribles Friday, 6pm — The Brokers Band Saturday, 6pm — More Sol Sunday, 5pm — Billy Watson Wednesday, 6pm — 63Eatles
Crazy Goose Bar & Lounge: Sunday, 10am — Mimosa Deep House Brunch
Dana Hotel on Mission Bay: Saturday, 7pm — Justin Newman Sunday, 10am — Mariela Contreras Sunday, 7pm — Casey Turner
Dani P’s Cork and Tap: Friday, 8pm — Blown Fuse
De Oro Mine Co: Friday, 8pm — The Scavengers Saturday, 8pm — The Routine Monday, 6pm — Dave Booda
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club: Friday, 5pm — Cold War Kids and OttoPilot
Dirk’s Niteclub: Friday, 8pm — The Hips Saturday, 8pm — DJ Alex
Dizzy’s: Friday, 8pm — The Bi-National Mambo Orchestra Saturday, 8pm — Trio de Janeiro
Don’s Cocktail Lounge: Friday, 8:30pm — The Boogie Brothers
Downtown Café: Friday, 8pm — Get Groovin’ Saturday, 6pm — United Country
Draft: Tuesday, 6pm — Aquile
Duck Dive: Wednesday, 7pm — Raelee Nikole
Ellen Browning Scripps Park: Sunday, 2pm — The Mighty Untouchables
Farmer & the Seahorse: Thursday, 5pm — Rebecca Jade Friday, 5pm — Steven Ybarra
Ferry Landing Marketplace: Saturday, 2pm — Johnny High Hat
Sunday, 2pm — The Ideas Rock & Roll Trio
Field Irish Pub and Restaurant: Monday, 8:30pm — The Brian Jones Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival
Firefly: Friday, 7pm — David Shyde
Fletcher Cove: Thursday, 6pm — Tower 7
Gordon Biersch Brewery: Sunday, noon — Ryan Hiller
EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
Bryan Deister — jack of all trades,
master of none By Ted Burke
Publicity materials for Bryan Deister assert that he’s a student at Berklee School of Music and that he has extensive experi- ence in studying and performing music of all sorts, be it clas- sical, jazz, straight- ahead rock, funk, or sounds of the more experimental, spare, minimalist sort. Prom- ising, yes, and one did approach his debut album, Spines of the Heart, with anticipa- tion. Might this one- man band be a new maverick to bring elements together in unexpected ways and give the world a new sound? Not the case. Spines of the Heart might be said to be ambitious, as there are 21 songs
Harry Griffen Regional Park: Sunday, 6pm — Big Band Ambassadors
Helix Brewing Co.: Friday, 6pm — West of 5
Heritage Park: Sunday, 4pm — Karaoke With DJ Justin Hoke & Debbie Simon
Hideout: Tuesday, 8pm — Altocamet and Cellars
Hooleys Irish Pub & Grill La Mesa: Saturday, 9pm — King Taylor Project
Horton Plaza Park: Saturday, 2pm — KeySlayer
House of Blues: Thursday, 8pm — Slayer Thursday, 6:30pm — Alexander
and the album clocks in at over 90 minutes, but the ambition seems to be to sound as close to influ- ences as possible. Those who regard Radiohead, middle-period Pink Floyd, or the entire length of Tales from Topographic Oceans as the centerpieces
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The ambition seems to be to sound as close to influences as possible.
of art-rock might find something amusing here. What there is, I find, is an overkill of mid- tempo minimalism, a ponderous sadness Deister wallows in with a voice that suggests a cross between Jon Anderson and Tweety Bird, and a lethal lack of variety. Monotony overrides what- ever eventual tone he wanted to achieve. One track, though, catches my ears and catches them again on re-listens, “Seven Eight,” a reference to the song’s time signature. Vaguely Zappa-like with an angular tempo, Deister changes the mood and brightens the session with a manic vocal that manages to sound both bemused and angry, and there is a tastefully off-kilter organ solo that hopscotches over the colliding rhythms nicely.
One wishes there was more of this, that there was more in Deister ‘s bag of musical styles. Rather than swing for the fence, he settles for competence, and that does not make one interested in what future efforts he will offer his audience.
Billy Joel played his only 2016 California show at Petco Park. Joel started the show with “Miami 2017” and the crowd of 42,000 sang and danced along as the hits kept coming until about two and a half hours later when Joel ended his first appear- ance in San Diego in over a decade with “Only the Good Die Young.”
In between, Joel played all of his hits, including “Pres- sure,” “Allentown,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “Say Good- bye to Hollywood,” “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” and “Piano Man.”
Joel threw a few covers into his set. There was a brief reference to his co-headlining tour with Sir Elton John — the last time he was
Joel dedicated “The Entertainer” to GOP nominee Donald Trump.
in San Diego back in 1995 — when he played a snippet of “Your Song.” He also covered the Eagles’ “Take It Easy,” pop classic “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and he had one of his road crew come out and sing AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell.”
Joel dedicated his hit “The Entertainer” to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, say- ing that the candidate had been at the least very entertaining the past few months. After a brief intermission, Joel came out for an encore starting with “Uptown Girl,” fol- lowed by “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me,” “Big Shot,” “You May Be Right” (performed with a Padres-jersey-clad Jason Mraz), and closing the show with “Only the Good Die Young.”
Concert: Billy Joel Date: May 14 Venue: Petco Park Seats: PCE row 2, seat 4
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and B.C. Jean Saturday, 11am — The Aquabats and Nerf Herder Sunday, 5pm — Hopped Up: Tap Takeover with Pizza Port Brewery Tuesday, 7pm — Robin Henkel
Humphreys by the Bay: Thursday, 8pm — Straight No Chaser
Industry: Saturday, 6pm — Retaliate and Downpresser Tuesday, 6pm — Peace in Terror and Stoic Wednesday, 6pm — Terror, Power Trip, Harms Way
Infinity Dance Arts: Friday, 7pm — Brown Sugar
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Tuesday, 1pm — Rob Ely’s 1950s Elvis Show
Irenic: Thursday, 8pm — Autolux and Eureka the Butcher
Jacobs Music Center: Thursday, 8pm — Final Symphony: Final Fantasy Concert Experience Friday, 8pm — The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses - Master Quest
Karl Strauss Brewing Company: Saturday, 5pm — Art & Amps: Little Hurricane
Kate Sessions Park: Sunday, 4pm — Siers Brothers Band
Kava Lounge: Sunday, 8pm — Comic-Con Club Works
Kraken: Thursday, 8pm — Country Rockin’ Rebels
L’Auberge Del Mar: Friday, 7pm — Tolan Shaw Sunday, 10:30am — Mike Officer
La Jolla Playhouse: Saturday, 6:45pm — The David Borgo Trio
Lake Poway Recreation Area: Sunday, 5:30pm — The Fabulous Ultratones
Lestat’s Coffee House: Friday, 8pm — Tyler Boone Sunday, 8pm — Robin Henkel
Loews Coronado Bay Resort: Friday, 4pm — Mariela Contreras Saturday, 4pm — Jesse Johnson
Main Tap Tavern: Saturday, 9pm — Black Market III
Manhattan Cocktail Lounge: Friday, 8pm — Terrans Saturday, 8pm — The Merge
Martinis Above Fourth: Sunday, 8pm — Ria Carey & Don L.
Merrow: Thursday, 8pm — Yidhra and Attalia Friday, 8pm — Disciples of the Canyon and KD the Beast
Molly Malone’s: Saturday, 9pm — Del Rio
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