THIS SHOE IS MADE FOR WALKING!

Hey, our Dec. 29, Post Holiday Depression Extravaganza just walked over to Beyond Baroque in Venice, at 681 Venice Blvd., if you don't know. Same SHOE time, Same SHOE price=FREE!

cool gif. of BSP's bass boss and vocal coach

TAD DERY,

by Eric Ahlberg

BLOW YOUR POST HOLIDAY BLUES AWAY!

Gerry & the Jets return to the Talking Stick on Sunday night, Dec. 29th, at 7 pm., to wish you all a crazy fun holiday season, up close, live, and personal. Here's Paulie Dee leading, and warmly interpreting "Merry Christmas Baby"

Put the Shoe back on, Oct. 29th, at the Talking Stick

In the unlikely event you haven't seen the Black Shoe Polish neon dirigible languidly floating in the skies above Venice, they're back at the Talking Stick on Tues., Oct. 29th. Free, as always, in so many ways, stop in, get funked up, and tell the Talking Stick how much you love them! Even if you're only crushin'...Until then, check out this article that appeared in Venice Life Magazine.

COME OUT TO THE TALKING STICK, THURSDAY AUGUST 22!!!!

Here's a couple of numbers from the July 30th show. See you 8/22!

A couple of Venice poems from the June 30th show:

Next Show June 30, 7:30pm at the Talking Stick

the Talking Stick

TOOTH HURTY SEZ "YOU'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO SCREAM"

Support devastating political satire by DEES

PAULIE DEE WAILS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE RICHIE HAVENS

From the 4/30/13 show.

LIKE OLD TIMES...

When I came to Black Shoe Polish at SPONTOS, it was free music and spoken word. Leader Gerry Fialka recently suggested in a rehearsal, "Let's get back to our roots." Here's a couple of made up spots from the April 30th (Beltaine) performance at the Talking Stick Venice.

BSP at Gerry's Iggy Fest

Back to Beyond Baroque, this time for Gerry's Iggy Pop Fest. BSP finds the Repo Man during a Night In Tunisia, only to end up in the stanky swamps of Evil California. We also wish Happy Trails to Joseph Weidinger, featured here on piano, relocating to Alaska. Deep Inspiration to you always.

TOO LONG IN THE CAR, TOO MANY BURRITOS, TOO LITTLE SLEEP

No, not a new Judd Apatow movie, it's BSP's Gerry and Joe, Fialka and Weidinger, on their Southwestern Sojourn. Having morphed into Super Nova Nudge, Fun Funk Key faithfully recreates some road dementia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh6VJHM6u0

Is that Conlon Nancarrow on piano?

And on Imfm2rSuCs, the full impact of the trip turns Gerry into the unholy image of KoKo the Klown:

https://www.youtubecom/watch?v=dqFnv5etPws



Be Very Afraid!

YOGI TIMES PUBLISHES "WHOLE WORLD EYE"

Thanks to the good people at Yogi Times for this posting:

http://www.yogitimes.com/article/yoga-poetry-whole-world-eye-rex-butters/

scroll down to see BSP perform it live at the Talking Stick!

2/12 SHOW CLIPS!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday, 2/12 to dance and listen to our crazy show. Don't forget,

WE'LL BE LIVE AT THE TALKING STICK AGAIN ON APRIL 30th. 

Mark those calendars...

bottom feeder

what a chorus

bottom feeder

millions and millions of dollars

change hands everyday, today

these hands, people who live

here on wind sandy cliffs

warm wind tickled ice plant

and spring flowers wave back

while the ocean patiently claws

away/undermines

fragile hillside slide

Monday afternoon

beach deserted/homes empty

their occupants labor

wasting the day to pay the mortgage

I steal their view

today, through this chaos of light

I see Australia on the horizon

from the Encinitas coast

broke/rent late

laughed at/rejected/spurned

I eat lunch with the Sun

my heart

a sharp-eyed low flying gull

    wings spread

speed/stillness

    hunger

Whole World Eye

whole world eye

living jewel

life source orb

growing chi pulsation

electric magnetic kinetic

water protein mineral matrix

primordial stew that made you

energy ocean surfer, fer sure

you forgot Her

like this meat blood bone

came together on its own

while you were busy on the phone

instead of the sacred temporary loan

she makes us

we wander your surface

altering the crust

till it no longer supports us

changing your skin on a whim

arbitrary borders fences and boundaries

we picture you with bad tattoos

we’re ants with explosives

clumsily spilling corrosives

fracking hacking attacking

anything that moves

separate desperate tricked into

dancing to death grooves

your rich damp dark 

fragrant grainy squeezy through my fingers

she who is all we see

we feast on your radiance

lust after your luminescence 

absence of force connects us to the source

she gladly feeds us when

we ignore them that bleeds us

the cycle continues within us

and without us

Bacon Fat

Paulie Dee oozing with cool,

and, you know...

Got to Get Out

Missouri Mesmerism

as it was meant to be:

GCD & JAM

alls we got is time...

February 12th Show!

C'mon down to the Talking Stick in Venice on Lincoln's Birthday, Tues. February 12, at 7pm for another fitting of the Shoe. Black Shoe Polish will have songs of love and emancipation, and it's free. Don't forget to stick around for Eric Ahlberg's always cool Jazz Workshop at 8:30. Mid week fun as it was meant to be.

BSP's Paulie Dee performs a warm arrangement of Charles Brown's Holiday Classic, "Merry Christmas Baby," at the Winter Jazz Funk Fest.

























The band's interpretation of Babs Gonzalez' "Be Bop Santa."