Archive for July 16, 2007
SPACEMAN JACK’S LAST SHOW USHERS IN FIRST FOR LAKE ELSINORE
July 16, 2007 by PT Rothschild.
PART 1 – THE BAND
Menifee, CA - We all laugh, standing outside in the warm southern California night drinking cold beers at the ‘after party’, when someone mentions SpaceMan Jack and their ‘final’ show. “What is this, your 10th ‘last’ show?” a voice asks Ian, the tall, dusty complexioned frontman of the group, SpaceMan Jack. The fact that there have been a number of ‘last’ shows demonstrates the longevity of the band which started before there was a MySpace, or MySpace B.C. “We were a pioneer band,” says Ian, meaning that when they started playing, it was at places like the pizza shop across from the Shell station on Los Alamos, with kids crowded all the way out the door to listen to them, which is how I came to know them. In those days I was doing screen print jobs and the pizza shop owner told me of the reception the band had and said they would probably need some T-shirts done. Last night (7/14) at the Trevi Entertainment Complex (see accompanying story, “Holy Bellagio Batman, This Is Lake Elsinore?”) Ian’s brother Nathan was wearing one of the shirts I printed, the ‘flying saucer’ design, and a tear came to my eye. I flashed back to the ‘lake house’ days or ‘daze’, when there would be upwards of 200 people at a SMJ after party, chilling on the balcony that overlooked Elsinore’s lake, with the moonlight reflecting off the water’s surface, or inside the house on one of the long couches or many chairs, partying, talking politics and religion. In those days the band numbered six people and a 3-song EP was released that featured a tune called ‘Sweet Memories’. Indeed they were.
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