Oy! A goyim is going to a Jewish rock concert!

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I'm a big Perry Farrell fan so I've been looking forward to this show for a while, but now I've learned more about it and it sounds even cooler.

https://www.jweekly.com/2018/11/26/90s-rocker-perry-farrell-chabad-big-h...

Am I mashugana???

From the link:

"Afterward, he’s set to perform at the debut “Bill Graham Festival of Lights” benefit concert at the Fillmore, playing music inspired by his interest in messianic prophecies and the end of days as foretold in the Torah."

 

Sounds like a fun night. I would love to catch this. 

Yarmulke optional?

If necessary, if you invert your Giants baseball hat rally-cap style, you might pass.

Job says, don’t fuck with Lucifer

he’ll treat you lig a rag doll

Am I mashugana???

By virtue of being on this dbmb, yes. That doesn't make you a bad person and, of course, you should go to the show. Pretty much anything Perry Farrell does is worthy of checking out. Jealous that it's not in my neck of the woods. 

We have a cool JCC near me -- saw Hot Tuna there last night. 

"While Kaukonen’s guitar skills are legendary, few people know that he bought his first electric guitar by cashing Israel Bonds he received from his Jewish grandmother. 

So you’re half Jewish and you didn’t really have a Jewish upbringing, but I’ve read that if things went differently you could have been Orthodox?

Interestingly enough, my father’s parents came over from Finland in the 1800s and my mother’s came over from Russia. So I’m Jewish on my mother’s side, which of course makes me Jewish. But my grandparents were a really interesting pair of people. My grandmother was a very, very secular Jew, even though she was a lifelong member of Hadassah and all that kind of stuff. And my grandfather, had he not been married to my grandmother, would have been an Orthodox Jew, but that’s not how it played out.

My dad was in the service during the Second World War, so I grew up with my grandparents a lot – and everything in their world was completely Jewish. I just didn’t know much about the religion. They either spoke Hebrew, Yiddish or Russian, especially when they didn’t want us to know what they were talking about – which worked really well by the way.

And your great-grandfather was a Torah scribe?

In Ellington, Conn., there’s a shul that one of my great-uncles helped design when he was 15. And my great-grandfather Shmuel actually — I don’t know the correct word for this — but he actually scribed the Torah himself. When I was up there seven or eight years ago, my mom’s last living first cousin was still alive, and she said “Would you like to see the shul?”

Now I just happened to have a yarmulke in my pocket. I put it on and she goes: “You’re such a good boy.” I’ll never forget that. We went in and they had a number of Torahs, and there was a small one that my great-grandfather had done."

https://www.jta.org/2015/02/27/default/jorma-kaukonen-from-jefferson-air...

Pic of Jack and Jorma from last night:

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(kidding, kidding...)

ENJOY THE SHOE!

 

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"Farrell said he firmly believes in the prophecies around the messianic era and the end of days — and he thinks he’ll see it in his lifetime."

oh, great.

I was thinking the same thing, Turtle. Last thing we need is more religious fanatics running around convinced that the end is nigh. Fuck that shit. I like Perry Farrel and the things he does, but I so not into people so wrapped up in their religion that they are convinced that we are all going to walk down their magical path to wherever, together. Sorry Perry, you got crossed off my list of cool people and I know how much that hurts your feelings! laughlaughlaugh

Show opener Jerry’s Kosher Deli is a jam band comprised of veteran San Francisco players Jordan Feinstein, Ben Bernstein, Byron Rynes, and Greg Anton. They are the house band for the Bill Graham Menorah Day celebration in Union Square, as well as other Grateful Yid events. Playing a mix of Garcia, Carlebach, Reggae and Traditional Jewish tunes, Jerry’s Kosher Deli is “Home of the Jamwich!”

show @ Union Square Menorah lighting 4:30pm...

Blues For Challah sammy?

Saw Matisyahu last year.  His band was really good but his voice was a little on the annoying side.   He had ditched the locks and Hasidic trappings and looked more like a rapper.

A lot of reggae bands get all preachy with that spiritual religious stuff.