Fast Film: DR. BOOGIE DOUBLE DOWN AND RIP IT UP LIVE!

In my car I played "Personal Matter," one of the new Dr. Boogie songs from their soon to be released album to Los Angeles scene chronicler/author of 8 music books Harvey Kubernik and he yelled "This is the best song you've played for me in 22 years! And with horns! Keyboards!" Well, yeah, they do sound like The Bigs, something of a mashup between The Faces (without the sloppy) and The Rolling Stones, groovesome, tight, with swagger. They fit right in with all the prior favorites on my iPod.

To hear this particular all-pistons-firing foursome is to transmogrify into an instantaneous admirer, to see them is to become a lifelong fan. They've been together less than a year but have had their songs played on mainstream radio in Japan (76.1 InterFM) and repeatedly on Hollywood's KROQ via Rodney Bingenheimer's Rodney On The ROQ show.

With reputation and cred growing exponentially, Dr. Boogie recently played two cool gigs: with pal Patrick French on harp in tow, 7.11.15 at Echo Park's Cafe Nela, a club which boasts a helluva inspired lighting technician (this vintage 1960s light show veteran loves shooting there consequently) and 6.27.15 at The Cochran Club, located at The American Legion Hall in Bell Gardens CA. The latter is so named because actual Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues," "C'mon Everybody") played there in the 1950s! Enjoy these visuals until you can see/hear/experience the real thing live...

PHOTO OPS, Cafe Nela:

Rock couturier Evita Corby, vintage/original clothier Nena Garcia and Dustin James with a background glimpse of Irene LoConto and Jeff Turpin; California Rocker editor Donna Balancia and Dustin.

THE COCHRAN CLUB at THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL