The building was built in the early1870, the mission in SF is actually older, but the house was the center of any town, built on ancient native burial shell mounds, first place too vote, all the ancient trees in oakland went out my back yard where the bay used too be before they pushed it back a half kilometer and made a artificial barrier island all out of grabage and scraps...the railroad and highway sealed the deal!MEGAMIKE wrote: love the hunted bordello story,how old is the building? ...
Mark twain and aleister crowley have both hung here and probably gotten laid! I know crowley read cards in the bar, all solid oak and white marble saloon! Dancehalls, mazes of stairs and corridors! Built on a leyline on the san andreas fault! I ran the ivory tower, two victorian apartments that had original oak floors and high ceilings with rounded corners...vinyl sounds epic in the place! The tallest man in the world used too live in my rooms! Old 8'10" norwegian firefighter! Tons of ghosts and spooky stuff, crazy basement to shiver the bones of the toughest...I could go on and on...in fact im 10,000 words into a chilling novel about it!
Goa Gill trance in the 90s-hip hop- tecno-present day dubstep and back to burlesque...Im friends with a bunch of painters and fashion designers and musician, circus freeks, ect! Im a performance artist(magician/juggler/dj)deadhead burner punkrock bluegrass tango kinda guy, i mix pink floyd into dubstep, into minimal, back to the cure, into congolese voodoo, back to drum and bass, into bob marley....on three 1210s, strictly vinyl! I have tons of laptop dj/producers/serato djs to actual vinyl purests who dj and produce, plus several bands, that im friends with, so I just made a bussiness card and went to some parties and said hi to my mates and bam....lots of clients! The cuts sound great and the last a long time! Im about to move my studio again into this super pimp pad with a killer view of the bay! Im lovin my decision to listen to my inner voice and become a vinyl cutter!
I thank all the masters that kept this alive when the corporate mindfunk almost stamped it out (no pun intended!) to be replaced with a cd!
But we needed to come full circle on alot of stuff in this life to make it all work out!
Aloha,
sinister minister