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Charlie Hunter Trio on Fog Town Network Charlie Hunter Trio on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 478 seconds

Year: 1993. Sax: Dave Ellis. Drums: Jay Lane. City: San Francisco. Event: Urban Jam. Song: "Dance of the Jazz Fascists".
Those are the facts. Do they describe the experience of hearing young Charlie Hunter's performance that night? Only if the fact he was a piano player is sufficient to describe Duke Ellington.

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Cake on Fog Town Network Cake on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 385 seconds

A studio recording of "Jolene" performed on Fog Town Network in 1994 several months before it was released on CD. (Or was it cassette tape back then?) I'm happy to see on other YouTube videos that they're still rockin'!

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Richard Buckner on Fog Town Network--\"The Worst Way\" Richard Buckner on Fog Town Network--"The Worst Way"
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Video duration: 242 seconds

Melodic and melancholic Richard Buckner http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Richard_Buc kner offers this touching perfomance on FTN#15 from 1994.

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Mandy Gorsche\ Mandy Gorsche' on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 312 seconds

Mandy's enthusiasm for belly dancing was exceeded only by her, ah, credentials. She performed live on FTN#21 in 1994. Some in attendance asked, "Is it getting warm in here, or is it me?"

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Jim Cert on Fog Town Network-\"Everybody\ Jim Cert on Fog Town Network-"Everybody's Smoking Marijuana"
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Video duration: 209 seconds

hella far out . . .

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Jim Cert on Fog Town Network Jim Cert on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 276 seconds

For Czech singer Jim Cert, the emotional territories of torment and rage, despair and defiance have no borders. Hear him conduct vocal forays all over this landscape. From FTN#2 in 1993.

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Lavay Smith on Fog Town Network Lavay Smith on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 240 seconds

Fog Town Network was a San Francisco variety tv show. FTN#26 was broadcast live on April 30, 1995. Here is Lavay Smith & the Red Hot Skillet Lickers performing "Between The Devil & the Deep Blue Sea". This Arlen-Koehler classic was charted by Cab Calloway in 1931 and Louis Armstrong in 1932, followed by many others.

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Pamela Z on Fog Town Network--\"Pearls\" Pamela Z on Fog Town Network--"Pearls"
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Video duration: 350 seconds

First aired on FTN#16 in 1994. As noted on her website, Pamela Z is an "artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology." One day we'll upload her performance of "Bald-Headed Boyfriend" with the Qube Chix featuring onstage head-shaving!

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Pele Juju on Fog Town Network--live at Slim\ Pele Juju on Fog Town Network--live at Slim's
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Video duration: 421 seconds

Introduced by Wavy Gravy as "the wild women of World Beat", Pele Juju appeared on FTN#34 in 1995. http://www.pelejuju. com/ Also appearing on the bill at Slim's was Box Set. See their FTN performance on this channel. Hearing Wavy Gravy http://www.wavygravy .net/ at Slim's was for me a drier experience than the last time I heard him--after a downpour at Woodstock in 1969.

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Slough Feg on Fog Town Network Slough Feg on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 265 seconds

You want rare? The Lord Weird Slough Feg in a tv studio is as rare as it gets. Tiki lamp flaming! Fog machine huffing! Painted body baring! Tympanic membrane shattering! Sabre-tooth necklace rattling! Broken-bone drumskin pounding!
Dare you to check it out--the rest of you go watch American Eyedull. http://www.sloughfeg .com/ FTN#25, 1994.

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Kitka on Fog Town Network--2 songs Kitka on Fog Town Network--2 songs
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Video duration: 275 seconds

Kitka, a vocal ensemble specializing in the music of Eastern European women, performed acapella at the Noe Valley Ministry in 1993. This recording from FTN#4 was one of our earliest efforts and we might do things differently today. But we won't fret over the past. VHS and 8mm tapes are disintegrating, daylight is burning, the universe is expanding--and the music is timeless.

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Richard Buckner on Fog Town Network--\"22\" Richard Buckner on Fog Town Network--"22"
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Video duration: 240 seconds

In this remarkable Richard Buckner composition, listen closely to where the narrator is telling his story from.

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Box Set on Fog Town Network--\"I Am Easy\" Box Set on Fog Town Network--"I Am Easy"
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Video duration: 490 seconds

Box Set was introduced by Wavy Gravy at this 1995 San Francisco performance. His enthusiam for the group mirrored that of their many fans. What happened to this fine band? Perhaps former member Jim Brunberg has the answer. (http://www.jimbrunb erg.com/)

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Those Darn Accordions on Fog Town Network Those Darn Accordions on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 181 seconds

That darn Elvis Costello dId NOT appear on Fog Town Network and sing "Pump It Up"--but Those Darn Accordions DID!
From FTN#23 in 1994.

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Paula West on Fog Town Network--with Ken Muir Paula West on Fog Town Network--with Ken Muir
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Video duration: 272 seconds

Paula's star was rising when she appeared on FTN#17 in 1994. We joined those early fans and critics who were knocked out by that rich voice. Here, in the lobby of San Francisco's Ritz Carleton with Ken Muir on piano, she sings Louis Armstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On". (http://www.sfjazz.o rg/concerts/2007/spr ing/artists/PaulaWes t.asp)

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Eric McFadden on Fog Town Network--\"Mr. Toyhead\" Eric McFadden on Fog Town Network--"Mr. Toyhead"
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Video duration: 249 seconds

Eric McFadden's exceptional musicianship and invention, displayed here on FTN#35, will always be welcome on the show. If on the other hand Mr. Toyhead offers to babysit, something tells us not to leave him alone with the kids.
http://www.badrep utation.fr/artiste?i d=6

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Regina Maria Pontillo on Fog Town Network Regina Maria Pontillo on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 188 seconds

San Francisco's favorite tv variety show broadcast this 1995 performace by Regina Maria Pontillo and the All-Stars (Tony Marcus, Bobby Black, Jim Campilongo, Bing Nathan, Brian Godchaux, Billy Lee Lewis).

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Club Foot Orchestra on Fog Town Network Club Foot Orchestra on Fog Town Network
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Video duration: 255 seconds

Buster Keaton's classic "Sherlock Jr." is one of the silent movies scored by Club Foot Orchestra. http://www.clubfoot. com/ A cd with the same title was released in 1995. The tunes "Moonlight" and "In the Theater" from that cd previewed on FTN#7 in 1994. Video of Club Foot Orchestra seems hard to find!

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