Kingtone

Sat. Sept 13 9pm $$
Starry Plough - 3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA
It seems I will be onstage all night…At the top of the bill, I’ll be backing up Mr. Dylan Champagne for the CD release of his fantastic new CD, New Equation. Before that I’ll be playing with the fab Val Esway & el Mirage and to start off the evening I’ll be sitting in with the talented Joni Davis.

Mon. Sept 15 9pm free!
Ivy Room Improv/Experimental Hootenany!
Kingman’s Ivy Room, 858 San Pablo, Albany, CA
It’s the second go round for this fun outside sound musician/fan hang with featured act Ross Hammond, Phillip Greenlief, John Hanes and Lisa Mezzacappa. I’ll be DJing between short sets curated by Mark Growden, Laurie Amat, Morgan Guberman, Herb Heinz/Mark Briggs, Jeff Hobbs, etc.

Sat Sept 20 6:30ish-late $5-$15 Sliding scale donation
2nd Annual Koi Pond Chili Cook off to Benefit the Mother Mary Ann
Wright Foundation. 140 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA
I’ll be doing a short set of my songs. you heard that right, songs not improv or noise.

I’ll be part of a gigantic minimalist piece for 200 guitars, A Crimson Grail by Rhys Chatham at Lincoln Center in New York City on Friday August 15. The piece was originally scored for and performed by 400 guitars, but this outdoor take should still be fairly impressive.

The piece is very expansive and meditative, waves of sympathetic tuned guitars taking on a choir like voice. Really quite beautiful - less jarring and noisy than Glenn Branca’s fantastic SYMPHONY NO. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 guitars I played in at the LA Philharmonic in 2006.

Other gigs:

Aug 22
Hexagon in Baltimore, MD
with The Expanding Man group, led by Carlos Guillen and will include David Grollman and LM this go round.

There is a possibility that MPG (Menegon, Price, Grollman) may make an appearance somewhere on the east coast this August…stay tuned.

There’s something about San Jose that is very beige. Jon Brumit’s South Bay Talent Center - part of San Jose’s Who’s on 1st public art program I had the pleasure of performing in - is not one of them, however.

It was my intention to present a solo ten minute version of the American Pied piece that I debuted at the Boise Experimental Festival (as a 30 minute conducted group improvisation). It met with limited success, but a super-cool spinet wurlitzer organ onstage saved the day, was incorporated into an old ICS song, The Day I Learned to Sell and, despite my rustiness on the keys, went over quite well.

Other talent demonstrations included a gal who spun yarn from her cat’s hair, a very interesting homeless guy named Red who played a penny whistle and told stories and a gal who held a headstand for 3 minutes - with whom I later collaborated on a sound piece as she played a contact mic with her head in a headstand. You know, Art.

However, the real fun started after the gig. We were joined by a few more friends and found ourselves at the Global Village Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant. Things quickly took on David Lynch overtones with curious menu items such as sizzings disk, grilled.com.veg.beef (which I ordered), several that were listed as being out of order and a very hands-on waiter/owner/husband and cook/wife team. The food was delicious, the company grand and the table conversation lively. We blew passed the time to go catch Batman - The Dark Knight at a real drive-in, paid our incredible $45 bill for eight people and hit Beige-town instead.

Highlights included visits to the Cesar Chavez public fountain sign pictured above, a lovely physics/sound exhibit that would have made Rube Goldberg happy, some not so great ‘Who’s on 1st’ public art exhibits and ended back at the Talent Center for an after hours jam. Things got pretty nutty and included some subtle work by the maestro himself (see vid). Fortunately, the San Jose Saturday night revelers walking by on the main drag paid us no mind. Ah yes. So very beige.

Thurs. June 12
Luggage Store Gallery, SF, CA 8pm
Sprit Rip trio (Jon Brumit, Wayne Grim, Lucio Menegon)

Sat June 20
Oakland Dance Festival 8pm
Dance/Music collaboration w/ Christina Braun

Fri July 11 - 6-9pm
Art Opening for Misty Gamble
Cricket Engine Gallery
499 Embarcadero Avenue, Building #3
Oakland, California
Myles Boisen & LM duo. There’ll be some guitar riffs fer sure.

Mon July 14
Experimental Music Hootenany!
Ivy Room - 9pm FREE
860 San Pablo Ave
Albany, CA
Come hang out and hear weird music in a nice comfy hipster lounge! There’ll be cool outside music, featuring Myles Boisen & John Hanes duo, DJ Scrote & Carnaki, SplitLip and lots of other folks trying out new collaborations and experiments.

I’ve got some SF Bay area shows and a short West Coast tour with two extremely talented NYC based players, Rob Price and David Grollman. Every time we’ve performed our brand of NY improv/noise it has really clicked.

Do come to a show - there are none planned beyond this, although some will pop up, I’m sure.

Sat May 10 - 2.30-5.30pm (FREE)
Lanesplitter Pub Anniversary Party
San Pablo & University, Berkeley, CA
I’m playing guitar in Joe Rut’s band and then with Val Esway & el Mirage.

Mon May 12 - 8.30p
Ivy Room
San Pablo @ Solano, Albany, CA
Strangelet (Suki O’Kane, Jonathan Segel and I) will make experimental noise with a groove (or not). This oughta be interesting considering the decor and vibe of the new ‘Kingman’s Ivy Room.’ I suggest you all come to see if we get kicked out.

Fri May 16 - 8pm
Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut
671 24th St, Oakland, CA
The Cinepimps (Keith Arnold, Al Alvarez, Suki O’Kane, et al) will unleash a barrage of film and music.

Price, Grollman, Menegon West Coast Tour

Tues May 27 - 8pm
21 Grand
416 25th St., Oakland, CA
w/ Suishou no Fune (Japan)

Wed May 28 - 8pm
JavaLounge
2416 16th Street, Sacramento, CA
also w/ Ross Hammond, Panic Opera (Reno)

Thurs May 29 - 9pm
Red Rock Bar
241 S. Sierra Street, Reno, NV
w/ Schitzopolitans

Fri May 30 8pm
Boise Experimental Music Festival
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho, Boise, ID

Sat May 31- 1.30p
Boise Experimental Music Festival
El Korah Shrine Center
1118 W Idaho, Boise, ID
Strangelet (LM solo)

Most of the shows are experimental/instrumental/improvisational in nature, but there are a few surprises in store. And since I’m moving my base of operations back east this fall, it’s officially a tour. So. if you are in any of these places on these dates, do stop by.

2007 Summer US Tour (see details at www.myspace.com/luciomenegon)

Wed July 25 Cleveland, OH
Thurs July 26 Ypsilanti, MI
Mon July 30 Minneapolis, MN
Fri Aug 3 Boise ID
Sat Aug 4 Seattle, WA
Sun Aug 5 Portland, OR
Mon Aug 6 Ashland, OR
Fri Aug 10 Healdsburg, CA
Sat Aug 11 Oakland, CA
Sun Aug 12, Berkeley, CA
Wed Aug 15, Berkeley, CA
Thurs Aug 16 Sacramento, CA
Fri Aug 17 Oakland, CA
Sat Aug 18 Berkeley, CA
Tues Aug 21 Oakland CA
Thurs Aug 23 San Francisco, CA
Fri Aug 24 Los Angeles, CA
Sat Aug 25 Los Angeles, CA
Tues Aug 28-Sept 1 Black Rock City, NV