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Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins To Play Five Southern California Shows In January

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Happy new year, beautiful people!

I’ve got a new album coming out in February, and we’re going to do some shows to celebrate that.

The album is called The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat, and I’ll be back here soon with some pre-order information about it so you can buy the thing online.

But, if you should happen to be in Southern California for any of the following shows, you can buy the CD at the merch table several weeks before the official release date. Plus you get to see a smokin’ Beer For Dolphins show.

Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins for the purposes of these January 2023 shows consist of:
Mike Keneally
Rick Musallam
Pete Griffin
Joe Travers
(with a special appearance by Griff Peters at the Escondido gig on Friday the 13th).

Bryan Beller is unavailable to perform for secret reasons. I am immensely grateful that Pete is willing to learn a LOT of hard bass parts in order to make it possible for me to do these shows.

The Escondido show will be the official Album Release Party gig for The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat. There will be a Q + A period, and I will dance with merry abandon in celebration of the fact that the album is finally coming out!

Friday Jan. 13th: the official Album Release Party gig for The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat

We are playing songs from all twelve of my major albums (hat., Boil That Dust Speck, Sluggo!, Nonkertompf, Dancing, Wooden Smoke, Dog, Scambot 1, Wing Beat Fantastic, You Must Be This Tall, Scambot 2, The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat – the primary canon, not counting bonus discs and live albums and the like) at these shows, the closest thing to a retrospective show I’ve ever presented.

The wonderful Travis Larson Band will be with us on all of the dates, I’m delighted to say!

The five dates are these:
Jan 13 – The Grand Ritz, Escondido (record release party/concert for The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat) – 7pm | Tickets
Jan 14 – Alvas Showroom, San Pedro – 7pm | Tickets 
Jan 15 – Alvas Showroom, San Pedro – 4pm | Tickets
Jan 16 – The Siren, Morro Bay – 6:30pm | Tickets
Jan 17 – The Baked Potato, LA – two sets, 8 and 10pm | Tickets

MIKE KENEALLY & BEER FOR DOLPHINS TO PLAY FIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHOWS IN JANUARY

The Zappa Band at Progstock and The Baked Potato this month

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We got a few things happening…this Friday we’re playing at ProgStock, a three-day festival in Rahway, NJ. We’re headlining the first night, Oct. 7. It’s gonna be good to play again! Been a few months right? I’ve spent the last week brushing up on all my parts, trying to even more extensively micro-analyze all the details, so if you hear any increased authority and/or authenticity in what I have to deliver, I shall know ‘twas not for naught.

(Separate from Zappa Band happenings but relevant to ProgStock, on Sunday Oct. 9 at the same dang festival I’ll be sitting in with the absolutely marvelous Rachel Flowers on her set, playing on two of her compositions as well as on an ELP classic. Joe Travers mentioned in an email to me this week that Rachel is “inspiring.” This is absolutely correct and I’m very happy to finally, for the first time, share a stage with her.)

ProgStock! Here!: www.progstock.com/2022/tickets/
(some of the other artists appearing: Stick Men! Adam Holzman! District 97! Pattern-Seeking Animals! Matt Dorsey! Dave Kerzner! Lots of other luminaries! Come on!)

At the end of this month we will continue what appears to be shaping up as an annual tradition – four nights of The Zappa Band at the Baked Potato, Oct. 28-31. Halloween, as y’all know, is a major Zappa holiday, and last year’s Halloween Potato run was so much freaking fun…two sets a night (set one will be different from set two every night), so there’s eight opportunities for you to be there with us.

Halloween at the Baked Potato with The ZAPPA Band

Baked Potato! Here!: www.thebakedpotato.com/events-calendar/
(scroll down and you’ll find all four nights)

Thank you!
Thank you!

Mike

Progject at Alvas in San Pedro this weekend, Sep. 24 and 25

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It is true, I swear to you it’s true, that Alvas in San Pedro has been home to some very memorable performances in my life. San Pedro in general has exerted an energy throughout my life which is unique in my existence. It is somehow fish-related and it has strong family undercurrents and it claims a hold on my consciousness which is true and somehow orange-hued. Anyhow, that’s the first paragraph, I hope you liked it!

But the reason I’m here right now, typing this whilst also reeling from delighted exhaustion and gleeful overwork, is because this very weekend I’m doing two shows at ALVAS SHOWROOM with my dear pals in the entirely-too-entertaining band PROGJECT. I’m here in LA this week rehearsing with these guys. I can’t even express how exhilarating and just plain fun it is to be playing these prog ‘70s classics – just song after song after song that I grew up loving so much when I was a kid – and playing them with these dudes that I enjoy hanging out with so much, it’s just such a treat. These rehearsals have been frankly fantastic and I’m very excited about these gigs.

I know some of this energy will be making its way to the people in attendance at these two shows, and I hope circumstances allow for you to be one of them. This is my solemn desire! I know it’s true because I just typed it with my own dang ten dang fingers! (I really need to sleep – let me wrap this up…)

Progject at Alvas in San Pedro this weekend, Sep. 24 and 25

Here! These are the ticket links that will allow you to gain admittance to see
MICHAEL SADLER
PETE GRIFFIN
JONATHAN MOVER
RYO OKUMOTO
and yours truly, Clyde Crashcup…I mean
MIKE KENEALLY

at Alvas on either Saturday or Sunday this weekend. Or both! Go for it!

THESE ARE THE TICKET LINKS!:

Saturday Sep 24 at 8pm https://alvasshowroom.com/event/progject/

Sunday Sep 25 at 4pm https://alvasshowroom.com/event/progject-2/

Thanks pals!

Mike!