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PB comes in a wide variety of sizes; from 5 peoples thru 20 depending on the size and stylistic needs of the event or venue. Our last show featured 15 people; including a live video crew that shot live footage which was then manipulated live and projected back on to the screen in real time.
Friday night Nov. 15, 2002 8:30 pm at Jupiter 2181 Shattuck Ave , Berkeley CA
This is very close to the BART (central Berkeley station). PB will be a quartet of Click Dark-drums, Mike Abraham-guitar,Nate Pitts-bass, and Will Jhun-tenor sax.
Come check out PB outback in the Patio, no cover. Special guest Video mixologist Satsi! Oh Boy!
(recent past gigs)
Click Dark and President's Breakfast will appear live on the street, most Sundays starting May 26th 2002.
Locations include:
The corner of Market and Embarcadero (near the Valencourt fountain, May 19).
The corner of 23rd and Valencia (June 2nd 2PM)
June 16 and 30th locations to be announced. For information please call 415 - 664 - 9702
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Selected Gigs (in chronological order )
New Performance Gallery, March 20, 1988
The Lab, November 8, 1988
Koncepts Kultural Gallery, December 2, 1988
CBGB's (NYC), November 16, 1989
Kommotion, April 21, 1990
Olive Oils, January 24, 1991
Paradise Lounge, November 25, 1991
Slim's, December 29, 1991
El Rio, August 1, 1992
ELBO Room, September 30, 1992
DNA Lounge, July 8, 1993
Yoshi's, January 3, 1994
I-Beam, February 8, 1994
DNA Lounge, January 25, 1995
Cafe Du Nord, May 18, 1995
Making Waves Festival, Market Street SF, June 21, 1995
Coco Club, August 18, 1996
Gone Fishin', 1997 thru 2000 (for more info. about the "lost years" see entry in About Click Dark entitled: After Doo Process)
Sundays On The Street, July, Aug. and Sept. 2001
Jupiter, September 5, 2001
ELBO Room, January 22, 2002
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Artists Now Appearing (11/15):
Click Dark
Mike Abraham
Nate Pitts
Will Jhun
and others
Video mixologist:
Satsi
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Live review
Nov 14, 1990 Bay Gaurdian
The high-brow blowing and monstrous grooves we heard Thursday night came courtesy of President's Breakfrast, as the ultra-hip po' mo' band brought its deconfunktionist take on dance music to the Lab for an all-too-rare appearance.
Led by drummer, composer and sample whiz Click Dark- himself a genre-melding mixture of TV's Gilligan and Funkmeister Dennis Chambers- the seven-piece outfit rocked beats like Tackhead, used dubs like Aswad and played changes like Steve Coleman, all the while throwing ample doses of crickets, bowling alleys and street sounds into the mix.
On "Nastified," keyboardist and Anthony Braxton collaborator Dred Scott created an eerie ambience with sampled cricket sounds, while Dark kicked in with a huge two-and-four backbeat on the snare. Tenor saxist Francis Wong wove out-ish lines throughout the chugging, industrial groove, building to a screaming climax and then -in a truly Ton Waits-ish move - becoming a kind of moaning Illinois Jacquet as the band dramatically ground to a bone-shattering halt.
Throughout its set, the Breakfast, which also boasts the "Big Thumb" of bassist Steve Horowitz, used basic but mighty Funk as a foundation for aural collages that, at their best, were truly mesmerizing.
Probably the most fully realized example of this hallucinogenic groove thoery came on the ending medly, when Dark stepped from behind the drums to assume his alter ego, lounge singer Moe Dark. As Moe, Dark crooned "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" over a crashing melange of twisted guitar noodlings, thudding sample beats and sax lines that alternated between shrieks and melodic lines from the ballad.
The effect was very much as Dark later told me he intended it, sort of like standing on a city street corner, listening to passing cars booming Rap and a nearby Mexican restaraunt blasting Salsa. "With all these sounds in your head," Dark explained, "you walk off the street and into an elevator only to hear Tony Bennett. You can't control it all, so you might as well dig it."
With challenging concepts like these, a blase stage manner and some lofty credentials (last year it was picked for the prestigious New Music America) the band came off as more cerebral than Dark, a longtime Funkster, probably intended. Maybe with the coming release of its new records "Love Posse" and "Doo Process", President's Breakfast will get its "super-low, ultra-heavy, bass-type oscillations" out on the dance floor.
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