Chuck Prophet: Strings In The Temple (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024
- Buy Chuck Prophet Strings in the Temple: Live with Orchestra at the Great American Music Hall
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If you’re to believe what you read, today's San Francisco is under siege by predatory tech nerds and drones, plutocrats, wiz kids and opportunistic real estate developers. People have reacted in different ways to this onslaught. The Occupy Movement for one. You may have heard of people laying down in front of google buses in protest or smashing google glasses on the sidewalk.
There’s also the path of art. . . In 2012, I released Temple Beautiful - an open love letter to San Francisco and it’s history and characters. After two years of performing the songs across the U.S and the globe, in late 2013, my band and I delivered the 12 song cycle Temple Beautiful with a string octet (scored and conducted by Brad Jones) in our hometown of San Francisco.
We had one chance to get it right. And this film is a document of the twists and turns in the road that brought us to that one-night-only sold-out performance at the Great American Music Hall (Itself a former bordello and a deco SF institution).
The songs performed that night include characters like Willie Mays, martyred supervisor Harvey Milk, Cain & Abel porn kings Jim & Artie Mitchell, mythic oddball "Red Man," preacher/Svengali Jim Jones, politician-turned assassin Dan White, and Emperor Norton, with cameos by Laffing Sal, Carol Doda, Bill Graham, and Fatty Arbuckle. Locations also play a key role, including the Castro and Mission Districts. One song is devoted to the White Night Riots, sparked by the light sentence received by the assassination of Milk and Mayor Moscone.
Some will have you believe that technology is the new culture. Then again, how can technology equate culture? Can Rock and Roll build community? Can songs connect people to the world? These are the questions explored in Strings In The Temple.
-Chuck Prophet
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Great discovering you. You helped me relive my 1978-1995 San Francisco years. San Francisco 2.0 is not where its at.. but you are
Chuck could sing and play anything and it would still sound coolio. He deserves every single penny he earns.The alternative orchestral arrangements worked great, especially on "He Came So Far Way (Red Man Speaks), Museum of Broken Hearts, Left Hand Right Hand (thought it was going to turn into 'Reggae' at one point with dat bass!) 'I felt LIke Jesus' 'Who Shot John? and 'No Other Love'. But I enjoyed the whole lot. Anyways, I'm off to bandcamp to download this which will give Chuck a few more pennies whilst he's in enforced isolation (with some dodgy apples) due to the obvious. Every fan of his should do the same if they can. This pandemic will cost Chuck and his record label, Yep Roc, a shit load of lost revenue and I would hate a musical world where Chuck isn't part of it anymore. We all need to help one of the most talented guitar players there has ever been in order to keep those six strings of his ....r i n g i n g
On board. Beautiful idea GFL.
Ain’t music just beyond great..?!✌🏼❤️
Brilliant, just brilliant. Smiled for 1 hour and 5 minutes. Wishing all the best to everyone from Scotland, the land of no toilet paper or pasta.
LOL. No TP should be no problem for a rugged Scotsman. No pasta, that's a different story!
Chuck is the real deal. Great songs, guitar playing, frontman and a big old heart.
OH yes the real deal he is !!!
just plain old beautiful. I wanted to see and hear this so bad but I figured I never would. thank you Chuck and everyone else.
Just what I needed. We're on light lock down...Remember seeing the tour and buying my wife the pink shirt. Who knew that would be a "simpler time?"
Stellar performance ~ Chuck has much heart and soul and joie de vivre ~ wonderful
I was fortunate enough to be at this beautiful show. Thanks for uploading Chuck!!
Sitting here looking out the window at the blue gum trees, sun on the creek and listening to this.Transported away from "that virus" into bliss and happiness.Thank you Chuck. Magic!!
If there is any sort of silver lining to this chaotic, screwball of a mess we are in, it is stuff like this seeing the light of day. Goddamn great.
So great, the joy on the stage really comes through, an amazing tonic for the soul .
Thanks in thousands, Chuck. What a fantastic show at that fantastic spot in SF
Thanks for posting this unique show, Chuck! Wait impatiently for your new (already ordered) CD
greetings from Belgium , The Land That Time Forgot ... I mean Corona forgot for 65 minutes thanks to this fantastic performance
Marc Pathé
So great thank you Chuck!!
Absolutely lively and lovely.
Gawd dawg, Chuck! Thank you so much! Guy Neal is smiling through his vodka-soaked tears right now.
Masterful performance, Chuck and band! Thank you. Looking forward to when I can see you at Hopmonk again.
Thanks so much for the diversion Chuck! Hope to see you in Sebastapol and Sacramento in May. Take care.
Mays played in the National League (NL) between 1951 and 1973 for the New York/San Francisco Giants and New York Mets. Mays is the oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Superb !
With just an acoustic guitar or a full strings section these songs sound wonderfull ! What a great songwriter you are M. Prophet ;)
I can’t wait for the new LP in may.
All the best to you and the Mission Express.
Such great memories. So glad to be included in this. Wonderful job to the documentary team.
Thanks Sarah! You and Rebecca were my favorite string players to cut to, always smiling and grooving to the music. What everyone did with only a few hours of rehearsal together really blew me away! Very happy that we finally released this wonderful performance.
Darrell
saw this at green river fest it was awesome!
Thanks for sharing, Chuck!
Thanks Chuck (and Steph!). Fantastic performances, per usual. Just what I needed in these stressful days. See you next time you play in Seattle.
LOVE THAT ROOM...BEST IN USA! gamh IS TEMPLE BEAUTIFUL! njoY
Great show Chuck, brightening my day. See you in Bury next year now. Looking forward to the next record and your book
Thank you, what a gift!
Great show, great film! Thanks Chuck
Most Excellent
Thanks for this. It was excellent! Hoping to see you in Sacramento soon!
This is glorious, aurally and visually. Thanks so much for this smooth and easy listen on a rocky day!
Awesome! Thanking you for posting. Please post more "safer at home" videos!
Is that Kevin in the shadows playing the stand up? This should be a road show but OH the logistics!
Just great!
really fantastic. thanks chuck for putting a smile on my face during these turbulent times.
Heartfelt thanks maestro.
Thanks Chuck... fantastic as always!
Incredibly Awesome and just feels so good.
Brilliant, thanks. Saw you onstage when you toured for the album, @ Bukowski's, San Sebastian. Going onstage through the ''crowd'' you stopped and talked for a minute with my wife and I, we mentioned Roy ...
I recall that
@@chuckprophet1282 Niiiice ! I remember you talked a lot about surf between songs, now that we're confined and cannot surf in France or Spain (or elsewhere...) time spent watching this video is priceless, thanx again, so much.
Magisch, jetzt kann nichts mehr schief gehen...
This is great! Thank you!!!
Fantástico, gracias
Thanks for posting this, Chuck! Any chance you release that upcoming album early just in case some of us don't make it until then!? :)
Wonderful! Great idea and show. Thanks.
Can we please get a mastered audio album of this performance?
Chuck should go down as one of the decade's greatest writers.
Outstanding! When is the debut of the musical?
What Guitar is Chuck playing on???
Thank you! Just in time for shelter in place here in Illinois.