Free Shows at my Favorite Bar

Delicious drinks & rad music in a classy bar with a big window…. LA secret: Local, the restaurant next door will bring your food into The Thirsty Crow if you ask them to!

We play a lot of covers that we play nowhere else here.

2/20 – Holland Greco Trio at 2:30 and 4:00pm
+ special guest: SCROTE at 3:15
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+ special guest Mat Koehler on Rockabilly guitar

Free. Doors at 2pm. Goes to 5pm officially…could go later…

NEXT WEEK:

2/27 – Holland Greco Trio at 2:30 and 4:00pm
+ special guest: The Quick Hellos at 3:15

If u wanna perform, send me a message or approach me at the bar. This is meant to be a fun hang for everyone. I would love some surprise guests – what i’m saying is that it’s sorta OPEN MIC too…..

Thanks to Joshua Lopez for bringing his great band & performing at Week 1. Click here to check out or buy his music.

It’s our first show tonight & we got some kind press..!

Live Debut Tonight at The Bootleg Theater? L.A. Times Buzz Band? E.P. forthcoming? Band Pictures & everything?

Yes, it’s all true.

Show tonight at 9pm.

Dan Crane – guitar / uke / vocals

Glen Martin – guitar / uke  / vocals

HG – uke / percussion / vocals

Glen Messelbeck – bass

Joachim Cooder – drums

With Heather Porcaro & The Heartstring Symphony, Whispertown (solo), and Jake Bellows (Neva Denova).

Here’s the flier for the show tonight. All info here. Click to make big.

Click Here to Read:

L.A. TImes Buzz Band Article by Kevin Bronson

The Quick Hellos Official Blog

The Quick Hellos on ReverbNation

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Gail Zappa invited me to do a cover of a Frank Zappa song.

I chose “Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance”

The recording was released today on the Frank Zappa Birthday Bundle.  It’s available at on iTunes: CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!

Other artists on the Birthday bundle include Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Ahmet Zappa, Jared Lee Gosselin, Talib Kweli, Mix Master Mike, Macy Gray, Chloe Trujillo, and more!!!

Hooray for the legacy of Frank Zappa!  Thank you to Starvon Washington for helping me record this track.  Here are the full credits for my version of TYCOWYD:

“Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance” by Frank Zappa
Artist: Holland Greco
Ukulele / Vocals / Kazoo / Bells – Holland Greco
Drums – Andy Sanesi
Tracking Produced by Joe Travers, UMRK
Engineered by Richard Landers
Additional Recording, Engineering, and Synths by Starvon Washington at S1V Music Studios
Mix by Jared Gosselin

Special thanks to Gail Zappa, Diva Zappa, Melanie Starks, Antonio, and the Zappa Family Trust.

I have the extreme pleasure of singing background vocals with Sara Stranovsky and Sophie Holt in the California presentation of Anais Mitchell’s HADESTOWN.

This is a very special event and album.

Hadestown–the folk opera by Anais Mitchell (and recorded collaboration with Ani DiFranco and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver) is coming to California, and special California guests are teaming up to make it happen in LA, Santa Barbara and SF! Featuring Thao Nguyen, Sean Hayes, John Elliott, Šara Stranovsky, Holland Greco, Sophie Holt, and the Hadestown Orchestra/Michael Chorney Sextet.

Anais Mitchell has been working on this project for several years, and has been presenting some tantalizing glimpses in her previous tours. It is a music concert that tells a story from beginning to end and has been delivered to critical acclaim. Finally, we can experience it live in all its twisted, gleaming genius. This classic tale of sinners, Hell, love and redemption denied, interpreted by Anais Mitchell and company.

More on Hadestown: http://www.righteousbabe.com/artists/anaismitchell/hadestown/

Come to the intimate theater of McCabe’s in Santa Monica before it heads up the coast to bigger theaters of the Lobero and Great American Music Hall!

McCabe’s tickets: $16
http://store.mccabes.com/home.php?cat=249

RSVP at the Facebook Event Page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121609034569473

Scrote’s Album Cover Image is the work of John Baldessari. “Two Figures: One Leaping (Orange): One Reacting (with Blue and Green), 2005.

YO!  I’m super stoked to announce that I’ll be playing keys, glockenspiel, percussion, and singing bvs for SCROTE this upcoming Monday (S.F.) and Tuesday (L.A.).  The music and musicians are top notch.  I’m extremely happy to be involved.

Here are all the details.  Read on.  These shows are going to be really special.  Actually, Scrote taught me a new tactic to save energy for a special day.  He said to minimize it….for example, I could say…These shows are going to be totally ho-hum, no big deal.  It’s basically delayed emotional ejaculation.

The shows & lineups are as follows:

Mon, 11/15, 10pm
at
The Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-1150
(415) 552-7788 /   $7
http://www.elbo.com/

The band at the Elbo Room will be:

Scrote – vocals, guitar
Myles Boisen – guitar
Holland Greco – backup vocals, glockenspiel, keys, & percussion
Tarik Ragab – bass
Kevin Stevens – drums
plus guest saxophonist Jamison Smeltz

special guests The Stripminers (http://www.thestripminers) featuring Brett Anderson of The Donnas & Paul Stinson of The Radishes who will be sitting in with my band for a few songs & giving away their new CD single.

then

Tues, 11/16, 9pm
at
Molly Malone’s
575 South Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036-3128
(323) 935-1577 / $8
http://www.mollymalonesla.com/

The band at Molly Malone’s will be:

Scrote – vocals, guitar
Tim Young – guitar
Holland Greco – backup vocals, glockenspiel, keys, & percussion
Brett Simons – bass, backup vocals
Kevin Stevens – drums
plus guest saxophonist Ron Dziubla

special guests The Stripminers (http://www.thestripminers) featuring Brett Anderson of The Donnas & Paul Stinson of The Radishes plus DJ Bonebrake from the band ‘X’. they’ll all be sitting in with my band for a few songs & giving away their new CD single.

opening this show at 8pm is the fantastic LA group The Youngs.

the Molly Malone’s show will be filmed by uber-director Doug Freel as well as a 24 track live audio recording.