Slim's, San Francisco
Sat. Nov. 20, 1999, 7 PM

The Flying Other Brothersd for Box Set on a Sat. night at Slim's, the famous nightclub owned by Boz Scaggs. Slim's is at 333 11th St. at Harrison St. )

COMDEX, Las Vegas
LVCC Parking Lot, Wed. Nov. 17, 1999, 5 PM

The Flying Other Brothers played for FREE at the annual Las Vegas COMDEX show, in the parking lot outside of the Las Vegas Convention Center, just as the show let out.

SEPTEMBER 1999

Wed. Sept. 22, 1999 - BEA Party, Tech Museum, San Jose.

FOBs at the Tech!
The FOBs play an internal launch event for BEA Systems at the Tech Museum in San Jose, featuring a new song based on the Who's "My Generation" (Tony Bove is an employee of BEA). Closed (for BEA employees only).

Friday, Sept. 17, 1999 - Al Gore Benefit, Los Altos, CA. With Bob Weir and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead

A Friday night benefit performance for Vice President Al Gore (at a Los Altos home), with Bob Weir and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead joining us for both sets! And of course, Tipper Gore once again joined us on percussion -- for the "Women Are Smarter" (Harry Belafonte) -- "Iko Iko" jam.

JUNE 1999

Sat. June 18, 1999 -- Fillmore Auditorium, Geary & Fillmore, S.F. CA.

At mid-afternoon the line of tie-dyed hippies stretched around the block from the will-call window. This was a special night in which the FOBsd for Bob Weir's band Ratdog. A benefit for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and featuring Woodside as theng act, followed by the Raving Daves), the FOBs took the stage in front of a sold-out audience of real Deadheads, and played an energetic set that ended with a very special appearance by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, who jammed with the FOBs on "Uncle John's Band" and an extended, improvisational "Uncle John" jam.

MAY 1999

Monday, May 10, 1999 -- Nickie's BB

In the Haight-Ashbury (actually Fillmore) section of San Francisco (460 Haight Street n. Fillmore, S.F. CA). Nickie's has a "Deadhead night" every Monday night in which Grateful Dead tapes are played. This particular night included a special performance of the FOBs doing, of course, Grateful Dead songs! An excellent night sweetened by the aroma of S.F.'s finest medicine. Highlight: The FOBs do the Dead's magnum opus, "Terrapin Station".

APRIL 1999

April 6, 1999 -- Gore2000 Benefit Featuring Bob Weir and Mickey Hart

The Flying Other Brothers enjoyed a tremendous evening at the Gore2000 Northern California kick-off party, a fund-raiser for VP Al Gore. For the second set, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart (formerly of the Grateful Dead) joined the band. Tipper Gore sat in on percussion for Queen Jane.

NOVEMBER 1998

OCTOBER

Can you believe it? The FOBBsd for Beck and Devo at the Silicon Planet event, Oct. 10, at the FMC Defense Factory in San Jose. Lots of people showed up for this one, which took place in what appeared to be a gigantic empty shell of a tank manufacturing facility. According to Bill Graham Presents, which put on the show, the FMC factory will be torn down soon, so there are not likely to be any more concerts at this venue, which featured such an amazing amount of reverb that no one could really hear the comedian, David Spade, who performed between acts.

For more information about Silicon Planet, see: http://www.siliconplanet.com

June 1997 - EFF Party at the Fillmore -- FOBs play with Merl Saunders

PREVIOUS GIGS

The FOBBs headlined the Seybold/Live Picture party at the Sound Factory, 525 Harrison (near First and Harrison), San Francisco, on Sept. 2, 1998, coinciding with the Seybold Publishing Conference at Moscone Center. Sponsors included lead sponsor Live Picture plus Microsoft, Informix, Corbis, and ZDNet. Lots of publishing/Internet VIPs were on hand to snack on the free food, listen to Kate Mitchell and John Sculley talk about Network Publishing, and dance to the FOBBs. The theme, set by Live Picture: Rock 'n Roll 'n Zoom. The FOBBs played from 7:30 p.m. to about 11. Highlights included the first-ever live performance of "Revolution" (Beatles), the second side of Abbey Road, and Tony's rendition of "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane).

Before that, we played the amazon.com family picnic near Seattle. This is truly a GenX town, evidenced by the attitude of our waiter at a family restaurant who suggested to the eight of us to order "a buttload" of food to share. Despite a few cries for songs from The Cure and other bands we'd never heard of, the songs went over quite well with the amazon crowd, who were playing stickball (so hard that the CEO had a large cut on his head).

Before that we played the famous Troubadour club in London (actually South Kensington). This club was a folk club in the 1950s and early 60s (when Bob Dylan played there), and a jazz club for a while (when Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was in the house band), then became a Swinging London club for the scene-makers and rock royalty of London. Now it is still as small as it ever was, holding about 100 people, with a stage even smaller than the cave at the Cavern where the Beatles started. Aided by drummer Chris of the Rockhoppers, we played four hours! Three encores! The Brits were enthusiastic about the songs, especially the San Francisco sound ("White Rabbit" and "The Music Never Stopped" were particularly popular).