Thursday, December 27, 2012

D Note Love Letter New Year's 2013 edition

Happy Holly D,

Once upon a time there was you. And that's where our story begins.

Lots of GREAT music this weekend. Gypsy Flamenco into Tom Petty Tribute band on Friday night! and a night curated by Mark Sundermeier of the Toad Tavern on Saturday night sure to please. Also on Fri, early is a fantastic songwriter Sterling Witt from Kansas City. Worth making the trip out for all by himself. (Check him out on sterlingwitt.com)

We have a rocking NYE on Monday night w/ Daniel Lawrence Walker, Broke Bridge Bluegrass and Musketeer Gripweed. From Musketeer Gripweed's website, "Self-described as an “American Revival Stomp Shake Ass Holla” band, Musketeer Gripweed is equal parts roots rock, Delta blues, and performance art, a Musketeer Gripweed performance transports audiences to a world long past – one crisscrossed with dusty country roads and populated by highway bandits, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans.This experience is centered on front man Jason Downing, who transforms on stage into the charismatic Reverend Monkey-Paw Patterson. A wild-eyed pioneer preacher armed with gasoline, straight razors, and hellfire, Rev. Patterson leads shows with all the energy and hunger of a prairie fire.Crowds at a Musketeer Gripweed concert are whipped into a near-religious frenzy, and can often be seen shaking their own “monkey paws” (an open hand with fingers clenched) in time with the beat.The album cranks the tempo and energy level of Gripweed’s music to the next level, creates a modern day music revival that pulls rock up from the roots, and also features the soulful slide guitar work of Luther Dickinson of The North Mississippi All Stars and The Black Crowes."  Only $10 and includes the great Dan Walker and Broke Bridge Bluegrass opening.


Dec 28

[5:00p]
Sterling Witt (Singer/Songwriter)

[7:00p]
Tito Malaga (Flamenco/Gypsy/Mediterranean)

[9:30p]
Legendary Hitchhikers (tribute to Tom Petty) $5

Dec 29

[7:00p]
Eric Coffman

[8:00p]
Mark Sundermeier (Sad Star Cafe)

[9:00p]
Dusty Radio

[10:00p]
Bailout

[11:00p]
Red Fox Run. $5

Dec 30

[10:00a]
Free form yoga lead by Nicki Viera

[2:00p]
Baby Boogie, bring your kids into dance!

[8:00p]
Salsa Dancing (lesson at 8pm, music at 9pm) $8

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[5:30p]
Dan Walker

[7:45p]
Broke Bridge

[10:15p]
Musketeer Gripweed


Under and in,

D scribe

Extra Credit: Here's one for the New Year from the great Scottish poet Robert Burns? First the original, for the sound of it, then the "translation" for the sense.

AULD LANG SYNE
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp !
and surely I’ll be mine !
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We twa hae run about the braes,
and pu’d the gowans fine ;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn,
frae morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
and gie's a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.


OLD LONG SINCE
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old long since?
CHORUS:
For old long since, my dear,
for old long since,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for old long since.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for old long since.
CHORUS
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since old long since.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for old long since.

Friday, December 7, 2012

love letter 12/7/12


D lovelies,

Big ups in the cray cray dizzo...

Great music this weekend, from the smooth pop rock aesthetic of Drew Schofield, to the Velvet Underground sound of Sub Sleep to the Indigo Girls sound of Dear Marsha to the real deal Zydeco of Dikki Du from New Orleans. We're excited.

Dec 7
No Cover All Night [5:00p]
Folk Ragout

[7:00p]
Drew Schofield Band CD Release, w/ Lexi Shanley. $5

[10:00p]
Sub Sleep. $5
Dec 8

[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[5:30p]
Free Horizon Montessori's Choir and Jazz band. $5

[7:00p]
Dear Marsha. $5

[9:00p]
Dikki Du and The Zydeco Krew. $10


That's the weekend, plus Zumba, yoga, baby boogie and SALSA! Check dnote.us for the rest of the scoop. Also, if you don't already have NYE plans, we have a really fun band from Ft. Collins called Muskateer Gripweed that night that will fully deliver the goods. Keep us in mind...

Yours,

D coy


Extra Credit: Here's a poem from our friend Darin Stevenson


Perfect Kind

A perfect kind of desperation.
Any drop of water knows it.
Falling, in flight, thrown by circumstance.
Or accident. Nothing duplicitous.
This isn’t theater.

Thrown into and through the interval.

A thread of moments traversing an abyss.
Will I manage to become a bird?
Whose eye shall I moisten?
Whose mouth?
Such intimacies as every droplet knows.

By heart.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Love letter 11/15/12


D notables,

Hey! Been trying to meet you...

Maybe this weekend?

Nov 16
No cover all night!

5:00p

Jazz Gem
[7:00p]
Jennifer Leigh Cress, Brave Song Combo

[10:00p]
Volunteer Funk Dept.

Nov 17

[4:00p]
Music Train Family Concert Series: Johnny Barber and The Rhythm Razors $7 adult/$3 kids

[7:00p]
Deborah Hill and The Sugardaddies $5

[9:00p]
The Duke Street Kings  $5


Yours,

D Script

Extra Credit: Today is the great poet Ted Berrigan's 78th birthday. So here's a great poem by the man himself.

Last Poem

Before I began life this time
I took a crash course in Counter-Intelligence
Once here I signed in, see name below, and added
Some words remembered from an earlier time,
'The intention of the organism is to survive.'
My earliest, & happiest, memories pre-date WWII,
They involve a glass slipper & a helpless blue rose
In a slender blue single-rose vase: Mine
Was a story without a plot. The days of my years
Folded into one another, an easy fit, in which
I made money & spent it, learned to dance & forgot, gave
Blood, regained my poise, & verbalized myself a place
In Society. 101 St. Mark's Place, apt. 12A, NYC 10009
New York. Friends appeared & disappeared, or wigged out,
Or stayed; inspiring strangers sadly died; everyone
I ever knew aged tremendously, except me. I remained
Somewhere between 2 and 9 years old. But frequent
Reification of my own experiences delivered to me
Several new vocabularies, I loved that almost most of all.
I once had the honor of meeting Beckett & I dug him.
The pills kept me going, until now. Love, & work,
Were my great happinesses, that other people die the source
Of my great, terrible, & inarticulate one grief. In my time
I grew tall & huge of frame, obviously possessed
Of a disconnected head, I had a perfect heart. The end
Came quickly & completely without pain, one quiet night as I
Was sitting, writing, next to you in bed, words chosen randomly
From a tired brain, it, like them, suitable, & fitting.
Let none regret my end who called me friend.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

11/1/12 News

D friends,

We've been playing with ways of seeing the letter D for a decade now. As a prefix it is a reversal, as in "de-friend". As a preposition it may mean "of" or "from", as in "de amor". One might argue that these two meanings of the word are themselves opposites. There is a kind of yin and yang here, the "reversal" leading to the opposite, toward another "of", toward a new "from". The shape of the letter D is thought to derive from the pictogram for Door. It does indeed look like a Door. When you enter in through this Door you reverse your "of" and find yourself within the frame work of a different "from". Ahi estas de la amistad.

Come through our Door this weekend and find out what we're talking about.

Nov 2

No cover all night!
[5:00p]
Alice Frisch (folk)

[7:00p]
Sterling Edge (pop)

[8:15p]
The Greenbelt Rascals (bluegrass)

[9:45p]
Coral Reef (reggae)

Nov 3

[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[6:00p]
Denver Family Institute benefit w/ Clusterfunk and more (rock and roll dance covers). $10 suggested donation.


That's what we're talking about.

See the website for the rest of the scoop.

Next Wednesday we are going back to a blues jam format hosted by Todd Johnson. Our thanks to Farm Jazz for filling in over the summer!

Extra Credit: Here's a powerful poem of understanding, one to remember, by Martin Espada
Solil­o­quy at Gun­point”
for José
I sat in the car,
win­dow down in the sum­mer,
wait­ing. Two boys
from the neigh­bor­hood
peered into the car
and did not rec­og­nize me,
so one opened his gym bag
and flour­ished a revolver
with black tape on the han­dle,
brush­ing the barrel’s tiny mouth
against my forehead.
I sat calm as a burn­ing monk.
The only god in my med­i­ta­tion
was the one who splices the rib­bon of the film:
a screen of gun­men with sleepwalker’s gaze,
con­fi­dent detec­tives in silk neck­ties,
the coo­ing of hostage nego­tia­tors,
solil­o­quy at gun­point
recited with­out stuttering.
I spread by hand
as if to offer salt
to a lick­ing dog.
The script said give me the gun,
so I said give me the gun.
And he did.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Happy Halloween!

D masks,

Happy Halloween weekend! Halloween has always been the D Note's favorite fholiday. There's just something about all that imagination unleashed during this time that really floats our goat. The theme this year is "Bees and Flowers" and Diandra and the crew have put up giant bee hives to decorate. We have 6 halloween events this year starting with a Best303Sounds Halloween show tonight featuring Syke96 (formally Synergy). Tomorrow afternoon we have Music Lessons Of Westminster garage band halloween show. Tomorrow night we have an all halloween set by Slo Children, featuring D Noters Adam and Jeremy DeGraff, Adam Ferrill, Alejandro Castano and Jax Delaguerre. Following Slo Children is Angus Mohr doing their awesome scottish bagpipe rock and roll thing. Sunday day bring your kids in dressed up for baby boogie. Sunday night is our 9th annual D Note Halloween salsa party and costume contest. Then next Wednesday (halloween proper) Quillion is playing at 10p (after Farm Jazz). OK! Come out, come out, whoever you are!



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BEST303SOUNDS HALLOWEEN SHOW $5

[6:00p]
The Atomiks

[7:00p]
Discount Cinema

[8:00p]
The Guests

[8:45p]
Syke 96

[9:40p]
Taking Canyon

[10:40p]
Dimmer Switch
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[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[1:00p]
Music Lessons Of Westminster Garage Band Halloween Show. $5

[7:00p]
Slo Children Halloween Show

[8:30p]
Angus Mohr Samhain and Halloween Show
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[10:00a]
Free form yoga lead by Nicki Viera w/ live music by Melissa Ivey, Adam DeGraff and friends. Donations accepted for local charities.

[2:00p]
Baby Boogie, bring your kids into dance!

[8:00p]
Salsa Dancing (lesson at 8pm, Sabor de la Calle at 9pm) $8
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[7:00p]
OPen Stage hosted by Turtle (6:30p sign up)
30

[8:00p]
The World Record (from L.A.)

[9:00p]
Perfect Like Me
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[7:30p]
Swing Dance lessons with Larkin, $5

[8:00p]
Marlo & Farm Jazz

[10:00p]
Quillion Halloween Show


We've got spirit, yes we do, we've go spirit, how 'bout you?

D fang

Extra Credit: How about a creepy bee poem by Sylvia Plath to fit our halloween theme this year?

The Arrival of the Bee Box

I ordered this, clean wood box
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
I would say it was the coffin of a midget
Or a square baby
Were there not such a din in it.

The box is locked, it is dangerous.
I have to live with it overnight
And I can't keep away from it.
There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there.
There is only a little grid, no exit.

I put my eye to the grid.
It is dark, dark,
With the swarmy feeling of African hands
Minute and shrunk for export,
Black on black, angrily clambering.

How can I let them out?
It is the noise that appalls me most of all,
The unintelligible syllables.
It is like a Roman mob,
Small, taken one by one, but my god, together!

I lay my ear to furious Latin.
I am not a Caesar.
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs.
They can be sent back.
They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner.

I wonder how hungry they are.
I wonder if they would forget me
If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree.
There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades,
And the petticoats of the cherry.

They might ignore me immediately
In my moon suit and funeral veil.
I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

D Note love letter 10/11/12

D band

Remember, when life hands you lemonade, make lemons. Life'll be all like, "WHAAAT?"

There are some terrific things happening this weekend starting with In Due Time's EP release on Friday night. In Due Time is just one of our favorite bands, very very fun and we are excited they are having their release at the D. And of course the halloween hafla is a highlight every year. This one will be packed so come early if you want a seat. The band playing afterward is a terrific surf/reggae band from Orange County California called The Originalites. These guys need a place to stay, so if anyone has room for four surfers let us know. Below you will find the rest of the scoop for the weekend...


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[5:00p]
Jeremy Dion

In Due Time's EP Release Party
[8:00-8:45p]
Hot Cheeze Soup

[9:00-9:45p]
Tickle Mafia

[10:00-10:45p]
Petals of Spain

[11:00p]
The fat lady sings: In Due Time
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[10:30a]
Zumba $8

7pm Topsy Turvy Spooktacular Halloween Hafla: w/ several dance troupes performing themed routines followed by the band Yallah!

10pm The Originalites. Hot surf reggae band from Orange Country, CA. $5
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[10:00a]
Free form yoga lead by Nicki Viera w/ live music by Melissa Ivey, Adam DeGraff and friends. Donations accepted for local charities.

[2:00p]
2pm Benefit for I Can Jam Studios w/ Mute:Man's:Microphone, Twin Flame, Julio Perez, Dustin Moran & Katie Rose. $5-$10 suggested donation

[8:00p]
Salsa Dancing (lesson at 8pm, Conjuntos Colores at 9pm) $8

That weekend is just what the doctor ordered!

Yours

Doctor D

Extra Credit: A gentleman came and read at the D Note's 100,000 Poets For Change event a few weekends ago named Dale O. McCoy. He told us he had written a poem at the D Note a few years ago and gave it to us. It's a sweet one. Here it is.


D NOTE Angel


An evening at DNOTE my wife at my side

Settling in for music, food and drink to imbibe

Surveying the scene people sitting, talking

Laughing enjoying the fare

My eyes rest on a young woman nearby

In a wheel chair

Lovingly attended to by her family

From the back nondescript and unremarkable is she

She turned with wide open saucer shaped eyes

Looking around with inquisitive wonderment

Her face opened and gazed upon me

An angelic aura mesmerized me instantly

Framed by dark brown hair with eye brows to match

I am struck by the beauty of this face

Natural, unadorned beauty radiating

Innocent serenity from within

A smile disarming, sweet and sincere

Our eyes met I smiled said hello and nodded her way

With nary a word she had her say

She turned back to the affairs of her family

Giving me pause to reflect and appreciate

How blessed was I to have this face gaze upon me

A child of God full of innocence and grace

Brought momentary calm to this busy, noisy place

Thursday, September 20, 2012

love letter 9/20/12

D forest

This week we want to send a shout out to bartender Kyle Dreas. Kyle has been with us for six years now and has been a rock, to use one metaphor, or a root, to use another, or roots rock reggae, to use yet another. Thanks, Kyle! We love and appreciate all you do.

This weekend,

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No Cover Friday
5pm Josh Meyers
[7:30p]
Watertower (bluegrass)

[9:30p]
Useless objects (psychedelic bluegrass)
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[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[4:00p]
Sentimental Sounds (big band). Free

[7:00p]
Private Party

[9:30p]
Stealth Hippo, Host Band $5
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[10:00a]
Free form yoga lead by Nicki Viera w/ live music by Melissa Ivey, Adam DeGraff and friends. Donations accepted for local charities.

[2:00p]
Baby Boogie, bring your kids into dance!

[8:00p]
Salsa Dancing (lesson at 8pm, Sabor de la Calle at 9pm) $8


What's that? You've been wanting to learn to salsa, but just haven't yet for whatever reason? Do it! Best time investment ever...


Yours,

D flower


Extra Credit: Here's a beautiful poem by our friend Truck Darling...




THE LONG GOODBYE

Puffing on Camels as we cut through
the wind, with valiant defeat, I
forsake a model of absolute control

for a model of absolute love. I am
a man who loves life & wants to live
in dignity, but I’m limping with spurs

in the midst of another declinist panic
while Hail Mary book sales bloom like
algae in the summertime. Holiness is

what unites us, not distinguishes us.
Our diversity as humans is what we hold
in common. Hold me, I’m crapping alone.

I’m ripe for the illusion of resolution
in this delicate social ecology where
I’m shy on testosterone-drenched

bleachers. My whole lyfe has been
performative until now. To embrace
my self portrait as victim is to deny

my agency. The Dorito dust settles &
I’m dirty rich in love, having rehearsed
what is right with me. Restore my vision

just enough to form a glowstick cortege
in the cruisy wooded district, a halo
at the mixer. Blanching & the needle

dances on justice’s plethysmograph. He wore
a camelhair wifebeater. He was a forebrother.
He won the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence

when I was whiskered with blood. He ate locusts
& said, “Honey, we know.” Dorito-tan Brother,
sleepwalk with me tonight. God knows what

just happened to the other broken. You
cannot make it better with the lights
turned on. Fold your heart open again

like a suitcase of clothes. Stuffed
with pageantry & peacocking, the vast
ethical grey area stirs to life. It’s

a terrible love & I’m walking in starlight.
Because we live a dream anyway,
because this is New York.