MoPo Live @ Outside Lands 08.07.22 Bay Area Beats 1959-2019

My live recording from Sunday August 7 in the Heineken House at Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. Blessed with my thirteenth consecutive performance at this seminal festival I set out to do something special. In keeping with the tradition of building the theme around the event’s headliner, I chose to make Green Day the focus but expanded it to encompass the entire history of Bay Area Music.

We start with Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck and move on through Bay Area hip hop, funk, soul, acid rock, pop, metal and disco. I probably spent more time on hip hop & Soul than one might expect although I think many overlook the Bay’s contribution in these genres, from Sly to Confunkshun to Sylvester through Quannum Projects, Hiero, Digital Underground etc. For the rock stuff it was easier since Santana, the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Metallica, Green Day are artists widely associated with San Francisco. Many might overlook folks like Steve Miller, Huey Lewis, Chirs Isaak, No Doubt, 4 Non Blondes, and Mike Patton/Faith No More (my personal favorite Bay Area artist EVER!).

Among the folks that I wasn’t able to fit in on this version were Tom Waits, The Luniz, DJ Zeph, Romanowski, Train, Counting Crows Third Eye Blind, Dan the Automator, and many others.

The set went over quite nicely and I am proud to share it with you here.