"DISCO DADDY DOES L.A.!" W/ DJ BUS STATION JOHN (SF) +SPECIAL GUEST VICTOR RODRIGUEZ / SATURDAY MAY 23 MEMORIAL DAY WKND 9-2 @ AKBAR!

***Memorial Day Weekend*** "DISCO DADDY DOES L.A.!" w/ SF's DJ Bus Station John SAT MAY 23rd @ AKBAR 4356 W. Sunset Blvd 9pm-2am / $5 All Nite :) RSVP/Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1085502311466114/ With Special Guest: VICTOR RODRIGUEZ (Cub Scout / Bears In Space) Yer Host: Birthday Boy MARC SANCHEZ + On The Door: PRINCE WOLFE ********************************************************** Hey, DISCO QUEENS Of The Southland! Direct From The Decks Of The SF Eagle, San Francisco's Own Warm & Fuzzy "Disco Daddy" Himself DJ BUS STATION JOHN (The Tubesteak Connection) Is Takin' His Show On The Road, As "DISCO DADDY Does L.A.!" Memorial Day Weekend! Join Him As He Brings You The Best In Both Classic & Underground BALLS-OUT DISCO & Hi-NRG! ********************************************************** "DISCO DADDY!" Celebrates The Vintage Soundtrack Of Gay Liberation, Featuring Choice Cuts From '70's & '80's Artists/Icons Like: Karen "Hot Shot" Young, Geraldine Hunt, Three Degrees, Linda Clifford, Carrie Lucas, Loleatta Holloway, Debbie Jacobs, Gwen McCrae, Teena Marie, Amii Stewart, Foxy, Kat Mandu, Voyage, Odyssey, La Flavour, Ferrara, Gino Soccio, Kano, Rose Royce, Stargard, Edwin Starr, George McCrae, Jimmy Bo Horne, Rufus feat. Chaka Khan, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Amanda Lear, Grace Jones, Cheri, Musique, Eartha Kitt, Stephanie Mills, Cheryl Lynn, Diana Ross, Suzi Lane, France Joli, Madleen Kane, Sharon Redd, Divine, Lime, Abba, Sylvester, Bobby "O", Paul Parker, Loverde, Patrick Cowley, Boys Town Gang, The Flirts, Roni Griffith, Voggue, Lisa, Jeannie Tracy, Carol Jiani, Kelly Marie, Viola Wills, Claudja Barry & MANY, MANY MORE! ********************************************************** MORE ABOUT THE PARTY: Having thrown the first "DISCO DADDY!" as a one-off event in NYC back in 2009, BSJ revived the party in June 2013 as the first-ever tea dance at the San Francisco Eagle, where two years later it continues to bring together the 3rd & 5th Sundays of each month a happy, diverse, attitude-free, inter-generational crowd of disco & Hi-NRG lovers, representing all age-, waist- and hair- lines.... Elders relive the happy soundtrack of our youth, while disco-fledglings are turned on to great vintage tracks they might not have heard before--- and together we make beautiful music, both on and off the dance floor... ;) ********************************************************** "DISCO DADDY!" Sez: This Night Is All About Connecting With The Music, And With Each Other, Live, In The Flesh, & In The Moment---Just Like In The Good Old Days! So Please, No Cell Phones On The Dance Floor---Thanks! :) "DISCO DADDY!" Also Sez: We Are A YMCA/Funkytown/McDonna-Free Zone---Yer Welcome! ;) ********************************************************** ABOUT BUS STATION JOHN: Since he first started creating mixtapes for homosexual house parties back in 1997---subsequently becoming a full-fledged DJ in 2001---San Francisco's pioneer underground disco revivalist Bus Station John has been a man on a mission: to rescue from musical oblivion late 70's/early 80's bathhouse-era dance classics & curiosities, the soundtrack to what he calls the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS "Golden Age of Gay." An incorrigible vinyl addict with a passion for "lost" dance music, BSJ adores taking older gay men on a trip down memory lane while simultaneously inspiring new generations of queer ears. His sets are a trademark blend of rare gems unearthed from such genres as disco, hi-NRG, funk, soul, R&B, "boogie," electrofunk, euro/italo disco, new & no-wave, and encompass sounds from San Francisco's famed cha-cha palace Trocadero Transfer to Manhattan's legendary Paradise Garage---and well beyond.... Bus Station John currently rules the decks at his popular Tenderloin dance party / Thursday night institution The Tubesteak Connection, which recently celebrated its 11th anniversary at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, making it SF's longest-running GLBTQQIXYZ weekly. It features b&w xeroxed decor & vintage vids incorporating a mixture of antique gay erotica & old Hollywood camp in homage to such retro-homo icons as Divine, Grace Jones, Candy Darling, Amanda Lear, Peter Berlin, Joan Crawford, & Mae West, as well as a renowned "no cell" policy which liberates the crowd to enjoy the music, and each other. BSJ's latest club creation, DISCO DADDY!, is a festive, inter-generational tea dance where he spins classic disco & hi-NRG ("the music of our people") at the first-ever dance party to be thrown at the venerable SF Eagle (3rd & 5th Sundays, following the beer bust) https://www.facebook.com/pages/DISCO-DADDY-SFO/571612756235881 DJ Bus Station John was a recipient of the San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE award in the field of music, as well as named "Most Original DJ" by the SF Weekly in its Best of San Francisco Issue. BSJ has spun in honor of or appeared on the same bill as Pierre et Gilles, Keith Haring, Joey Arias, Ann Magnuson, Cindy Sherman, Flawless Mother Sabrina (star of 1968's "The Queen"), Bambi Lake, John Cameron Mitchell, Glass Candy, Mark "S'Express" Moore, Soft Pink Truth, The Presets @ Folsom Fair (though he's still not sure who they are, ha ha) and The Hot Boxxx Girls featuring the late, legendary Miss Vicki Marlane, spreading his old-school gospel from the gutters of the Tenderloin to the heights of Grace Cathedral---and back again. He has also played in support of a wide variety of causes, ranging from advocating for LGBT youth & seniors to safe sex, an issue especially close to his heart: "About 95 percent of what I spin is on used vinyl. Sometimes I look at my records and wonder about their previous owners. So many were gay men---DJs and disco-lovers lost to AIDS---whose music ended up in thrift stores and bargain bins, their collections broken up and scattered like ashes to the wind. I'll their find names stamped or handwritten on the labels. I think of these men and try to honor them. I believe part of them is resurrected every time I play their songs...." "Bus Station John single-handedly launched the current vogue of retro-underground bathhouse disco....nothing can quench the fire in his disco-driven soul."---San Francisco Bay Guardian BSJ is looking forward to sharing his music with you, requesting that you refrain from using your hand-held electronic devices on or around the dance floor. Unplug from your phones & into the music...the moment...each other! :) ********************************************************** SOME WARM FUZZIES FROM THE MEDIA: "[With] a counter-cultural vibe that's getting harder and harder to find, Tubesteak Connection provides a vital link to a San Francisco that once was. The party also provides one of the best examples of good DJing this city has to offer in Bus Station John's mind-blowing four-hour sets. [He] has developed a unique style of DJing that relies more on feeling than rhythmic precision...injecting a fallible and human element into his sets that's a far cry from the unfortunately widespread bland perfection of software and laptop DJing. The de-emphasis on the mix allows the tracks he's playing to stand out, breathe, and speak for themselves...every song that he played seemed to fit the moment perfectly." ---SF WEEKLY "...serious early dance music without any sense of self-seriousness....showing the disco dorks and the disco-devoid a perfect place to hook-up: the dance floor." ---STYLUS MAGAZINE "[DJ Bus Station John] brings wallflowers to the dance floor...." ---DEVON DIVINE / HARD FRENCH CREW "In a city where club nights come and go...Bus Station John is proof that when you celebrate and share what authentically moves you, people will come." ---BAY AREA REPORTER "For the past decade, a glorious, gloryhole-ious little Thursday night party in the Tenderloin has been the soul of San Francisco. There, on Aunt Charlie's Lounge's carpeted dance floor, festooned with vintage homophilia memorabilia and twinkling holiday lights, you'll be transported to the classic sounds of the gay disco underground. Tubesteak Connection...has become an international destination for DJs and party people, and it's now the longest-running queer weekly in SF...." ---SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN ********************************************************** SELECT PRESS: The San Francisco Bay Guardian: http://www.sfbg.com/2010/11/02/goldies-2010-dj-bus-station-john The SF Weekly: http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/09/26/tubesteak-connection-supplies-a-red-tinted-iphone-less-good-time-at-aunt-charlies The Bay Area Reporter / BARtab: http://www.edgemedianetwork.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=Davssaint&id=115524 Bottom Forty Blog Interview: http://bottomforty.com/exclusive/dj-bus-station-john-haunts-seattle-oct-25-26/ ********************************************************** Feel Free To Share This Invite With Yer Fellow Disco Lovers (And With The Disco-Curious... ;) ) Cheers & See Y'All On The Dance Floor! XOX BSJ