Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Night PLUS Gentle Cycle - Live
- When
- Wed Nov 28, 2018
- Where
- Cafe Stritch
- Time
- 9pm
- Tags
- Music, Live Music Bars, Jazz
Description
Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Night with Bologna Helpless and a LIVE PERFORMANCEby The Gentle Cycle! Yes, they are back for tonight only...
Speaking with Derek See and Maxwell Borkenhagen, guitarists for local psych rock quartet The Gentle Cycle, it seems that place may be the chief bonding agent in their music’s winding lysergic chain.
Of course, as retro revivalists and old-school gear fanatics, they’ve always had plenty to talk about when they aren’t busy trading fuzzy, reverberant licks. But scanning their rehearsal studio—from the generations of equipment to the exposed brick and massive, smoke-stained windows overlooking South First Street—a broader aesthetic identity comes into focus.
See, a veteran songwriter and bandleader from San Jose (The Careless Hearts, The Bang), initially connected with Borkenhagen over vinyl. The two were the resident DJs at Café Stritch’s weekly Wax Wednesday party, spinning soul, psychedelia and more—all on LPs, 7-inches and 45s. From there, they moved on to “nerding out over vintage amps and guitars,” Borkenhagen explains. Only upon completion of this elaborate hipster courtship ritual did the two endeavor to jam.
All Ages Welcome.
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