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The Shotgun Wedding Quintet with Joe Bagale
Live at the Paradise Lounge in San Francisco
Thursday, June 4th
Doors at 9pm/ 21 + with ID - NO DRESS CODE
Fireplace, Bottle Service, Giant Fuzzy White Coat and Go Go dancers!
for advanced ticket info,VIP and Guest list concerns please Call Ryan Greene on his Cell:510.938.6314

Paradise Lounge
www.paradisesf.com

1501 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 252-5018
Get directions

Joe Bagale
This 25-year-old Oaklander’s distillation of vintage soul, funk, and R&B has a patently modern sensibility: it refuses to settle in one sound and can feel as gritty as it does slick. -East Bay Express

Shotgun Wedding Quintent
“What separates this quintet from the rest is the hugeness of its sound, which is layered with horns, strings, and woodwinds for a Nelson Riddle/Lalo Schifrin orchestral vibe.” -SF Weekly.

RYAN GREENE INTERVIEW 05/22/09 at the Shattuck Down Low Jazz Mafia Show in Berkeley:
Random Chick in club: Who the hell are you and why are you wearing that fuzzy coat?

Ryan Greene: I’m Ryan Greene.  I’m definitely just trying to stay warm ’cause there are some motherfuckas on stage that’s just too, too cold! (Laughs) On the real though… Adam Theis just gave me a text an hour ago and told me about the show but I’m hoping to sit in with them tonight and rap and sing some James Brown tunes.  I had no idea it was a 20 member band tonight though!  and now that I see Joe Cohen is back in the band I’m REALLY tryin’ ta get on stage.  On the real though, I’m really here to promote the show that I’m doing, with the shotgun wedding quintet and Joe Bagale.  I’ve also hired my long time friends DJ Aspect MacArthy and E Da Boss for that same night.  Should be very funky!

Random Chick in club:  How much do you go out and where are you going out too these days?

Ryan Greene:  I’m definitely trying to see at least two to three shows a week.  I go to Mojito’s, DNA Lounge, Paradise Lounge, and the Mezzanine primarily.  And then in the East Bay I go to Shattuck Down Low, Larry Blake’s, and the Uptown.  I’m usually at a lot of open mics at Café Royal on Grant and Green across from Mojitos, and sit in with bands like the Park, Bucho, Jazz Mafia, Felonious and Raw Deluxe.  I try to out do the bands with coats like this but it never seems to work.  (laughs) This here is a XXXXXL 6 inch white fur hoodie jacket that I can fit myself, and two skinny girls in.  I’m still looking for the girls.  But don’t tell Jersey….

Random Chick in club:  I’m going to finish the interview from inside your coat, OK? (Laughs) You seem like a scenester, what is this live hip hop scene about?

Ryan Greene:  Live instrumentalists playing hip hop, jazz, funk and soul.  I want bay area bands, clubs, and investors to refocus on unity.  The bay to me has always been more about the live element that gets created by some of the world’s best musicians.  When Santana comes to town, he calls the Jazz Mafia sometimes.  When Galactic goes on tour, the crown city rockers go with them.  When Felonious puts on a hip hop play in the city of SF it sells out every show.  But all of these things are happening too slow and too quietly for my taste.

Random Chick in Club:  Are you primarily staying in one scene?  Or what are your other interests and scenes you are checking out?

Ryan Greene:   I like the independent rock scene in SF.  I would like to see more of that type of fan and club support happen in the hip hop community.  Especially the hip hop groups with live instrumentation.    I’m also into Tribal Techno and burlesque scenes that are happening at DNA Lounge and Temple in San Francisco is the bomb.  I went into Temple one night with the clubs manager and he showed me how they were staying true to SF’s green ethics and liberal ideologies.  I think I saw the Buddha  there when I was high. The manager Mike is cool as fuck and he’s showing videos to the new breed of ravers that encourage us to literally save the planet and change the way we live and think.  Plus I’m pretty heavily involved the hydroponics community and the cannabis club scene.  Oaksterdam has seen my face a few times, and I definitely am found in the lower height at the upper playground, and at Harputs Addias in the Fillmore, taquerias late night in the mission.  I guess you could say that I’m a social Butterfly.

Random Chick in club:  Are you a performer for a living?

Ryan Greene:  Although I am a professional performer, I also have 4 day jobs.  It’s a new economy. I called Obama last night though and he said don’t worry, Half blacks will do alright….(Laughs).

Random Chick in Club:  What kind of day jobs?

Ryan Greene:  I’m a graphics designer and multimedia artist, as well as a promoter/night club security manager as well as a bamboo salesman.

Random Chick in Club:  Ryan Greene that’s crazy….How do you do it all?

Ryan Greene:  Well from 11-7 4 days a week I work at a hydroponics company which has started a bamboo division.  They were sponsors of my band Golden Shelltoes which is an all-star band with best of the bay award winning artists.   Jason and Eddie the owners, have given me thousands of dollars to help solidify the hip hop scene.  If my day job wasn’t so supportive, I could never link all four of my jobs together. Paul Lamb at my old job is still the homie in my book. I was at Rocket Postcards for allmost ten years. That’s how I got into all the scenes, hangin all over town crashin’ into clubs, shows and parties for sport just to see if we could. I was just a follower and now I’m trying to lead some parties. We need more quarterbacks in the bay.

Random Chick in Club:  What’s your connection with the jazz mafia?  Was that you in the new publicity shot for jazz mafia 50 piece symphony?

Ryan Greene:  Yes I believe I am an official member.  And even Dublin himself had to ask how that happened at the photo shoot.  I sit with them quite a bit.  And use to be a full fledge member with the Brass Mafia with Emily Schmidt.  I drink Jameson which seems to be the Jazz Mafia’s choice of beverage.  I do their graphic design work in lue of any Mafia dues and Rap on command without hogging the MIC.. so….

Random Chick in Club:  How was the Jazz Mafia’s Beat’s Bows and Brass show at the Palace of Fine Arts? Did you get to perform with them?

Ryan Greene:  It was very cool, but no I didn’t sit in that time.  I was asked to, but then Lyrics Born came on board and had more time for rehearsals and more of a draw.  But I was at the show out front in this very same coat promoting.  I think LB shooshed me when I was in the audience for shouting out “LB!”. That night my boss Jason couldn’t make it, so I was hawking a ticket too.  When the Jazz Mafia’s manager Ben Yonas from Yonas Media saw me promoting, he was very happy.    The show was sold out, and the after party went until 6 in the morning.  There must have been 6 or 7 standing ovations.  Pretty much one after every song.  You should see the photo’s online.  They were so classy…..

Random Chick in Club:  What’s next for your all-star band Golden Shelltoes?

Ryan Greene:  Adam Thies and I along with Jamie Way (Press Rewind/Grifter City) are about to start working on that project and a few others now that he is done writting arranging, performing and rehearsing with the big 50 piece orchestra. Jamie promised me fame and fortune and even though he has a girlfriend now that he lives with we meet like twice a week.

Random Chick in Club:  Tell me more about the Paradise Lounge.  I thought that place was closed? That’s where the show is June 4th right?

Ryan Greene: Yes, it’s on a thursday! They actually reopened 7 months ago under new management.  They are open to lots of different promoters and they are starting to do more live shows.  I work there Fridays and Saturdays and people keep asking for that live hip hop funk shit.  That place use to be the spot from as long as 25 years ago.   And they’re trying to bring it back to big status.  Electro, Funk, Techno, Gay Nights, and VIP bottle service by the fire place all seem to round out that place pretty nicely.  I love working there, but more than that, I love seeing DJ Centipede and Laser Sword on a hot Friday night freak out Marina chicks and lower haight kids alike.    It just seems to me that they really need to become more of a live music venue.  Especially now since the Paradise Lounge just won that Bay Guardian Readers Poll award.

Random Chick in club:  And what about Fat City and Studio Z?

Ryan Greene:  Those two nightclubs that are right on either side of the Paradise Lounge are actually owned by the same club owners.  I think they have big plans for the summer.

Random Chick in club:  What are YOUR plans for the summer?

Ryan Greene:  I’m going to try to keep by weekly shows poppin’ on Thursday nights at the Paradise Lounge for now.  I just need to have this show go very very well.  I kinda put all my eggs in one basket.  So please, PLEASE come !!!!
Random Chick in club: Only if you bring this coat…..(Laughs)

510.938.6314
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