The San Diego Reader recently featured a write up by Jay Allen Sanford on the new "Christmas with Pacific Records" compilation with a name check for The Shambles "Warm This Winter."
Read here: www.sandiegoreader.com/ChristmaswithPacificRecords
Meanwhile, Classic Rock History.com featured "The Top 10 Hoodoo Gurus Songs," with Manual Scan name checked in the entry on "Like Wow Wipeout."
Read here: www.classicrockhistory.com/top-10-hoodoo-gurus
A selection of vintage flyers featuring Manual Scan, circa the mid 1980's, including shows in San Francisco, Reseda, Tustin, Los Angeles and San Diego. Lots of other notables from the era also show up including The Tell Tale Hearts, The Jetset, The Untouchables, The Crawdaddys, The Question, The Trebels, The Rumble, Corporate Humour, etc.
A vintage flyer featuring The Plimsouls, Manual Scan and Joey Harris! Circa 1983
According to Setlist.fm,True Stories played an 11 song set at The Casbah last night, opening up for Marujah and The Zach Guiterrez Trio. The lineup was Bart Mendoza, Greg Smith, Scott Mathiasen, Mark DeCerbo, Alicia Previn, Billy Tisch:
www.setlist.fm/setlist/true-stories/2022/the-casbah-san-diego-ca-12262022
A new ad from Pacific Records, featuring six new releases, including "Christmas with Pacific Records" which features The Shambles version of "Warm This Winter" alongside tracks from The Tourmaliners, Laurie Beebe Lewis and Audrey Callahan. Also pictured are albums from The Tourmaliners, The Spice Pistols, Seawall Prophet and Slack Key 'Ohana and Laurie Beebe Lewis's single "Mary Did You Know?"
The artwork for the Christmas album is by Micheal Buchmiller, while The Spice Pistols graphics are by comics / animation legend Scott Shaw!
In his job as a music journalist, Bart Mendoza attends many concerts each year, often hitting multiple venues a night. He recently posted his favorite shows for 2022 on Facebook:
"So many great shows in 2022! Here are my dozen + favorites for the past 12 months."
Here are a pair of promo photos, taken circa 1991, of The Shambles, taken in La Jolla, Ca. The band included Bart Mendoza, Kevin Ring, Mark Zadarnowski and Ray Brandes. This is the lineup that recorded Staring at the Sun Volume 1, Sympophony and the "(She's Used to Playing With) Fire" single. Photos by Anne Ring.
An outtake from a 1987 Manual Scan photo session in Downtown San Diego - this is at Horton Plaza, l-r Bart Mendoza, David Anderson, Kevin Ring, Ron Friedman
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The Shambles "Warm This Winter (Remaster)," as featured on the new, Christmas with Pacific Records EP, is now on Youtube!
Bart Mendoza has produced a new Christmas EP for Pacific Records. The precursor to an album release next year, Christmas with Pacific Records features tracks from Laurie Beebe Lewis, Audrey Callahan,The Tourmaliners and The Shambles, with art from Michael Buchmiller.
Listen here: https://album.link/i/1657842347
Discogs info: www.discogs.com/Various-Christmas-with-Pacific-Records
Bart Mendoza's latest for the La Jolla Village News / Beach and Bay Press includes concert spotlights on: Mission Bay Music's Winter Concerts at Mission Bay High School with JP Balmat, Patrick Yandall at Humphreys Backstage Live, The Tourmaliners at Tio Leo's Lounge, Poncho Sanchez at The Conrad, Sabbath After Forever at the 710 Beach Club and a Holiday Jam at Pechanga Arena San Diego with Jody Watley, The Covergirls, JJ Fad and more
Read here: www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego
Bart Mendoza's feature on jazz legend Harold Land has been reprinted in the current edition of the San Diego Troubadour
Read here: www.sandiegotroubadour.com/harold-in-the-land-of-jazz
The latest edition of Music Scene SD includes:
An interview with Ariel Levine
Read here: www.issuu.com/MusicScene4dec_2022/23
A spotlight on Swive at Navajo Live and a look at the Tom Waits / Napoleone's Pizza House connection
Read here: www.issuu.com/MusicScene2dec_2022/24
A news roundup featuring: Jonathan Karrant, Switchfoot's new Christmas album and tour, The Loons new EP + Ugly Things Magazine, Seawall Prophet, San Diego Music Awards, Six String Society's Mardi Gras Cruise with Euphoria Brass Band, Marie Haddad, Jason Mraz, Sue Palmer, Spice Pistols, Pierce The Veil, The Tourmaliners, Robert Walters / Roger Waters / The Greyboy Allstars, Blink 182, Sophie Webber, Bri Schillings, Rebecca Jade, Country Dick's Pleasure Barons and more! So much happening in San Diego's music community!
Read here: www.issuu.com/MusicScene3dec_2022/26
Concert spotlights on Jonny Tarr at Navajo Live, Roni Lee at Rock and Roll San Diego, Sara Alexandra Petite's Loretta Lynn Revue at the Belly Up and Joshua Taylor at the Casbah + New release news, including The Universe Channel (Ted Stern), Pierce the Veil, Jamal St.Cyr and many more
Read here: www.issuu.com/MusicScene1dec_2022/25
Two promo photos, circa 1984, of Manual Scan's Kevin Ring and Bart Mendoza. These were taken by Anne Ring and were later used in booklet for the bands "Plan of Action" CD compilation from Spain's SNAP! Records
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Bart Mendoza's latest FYI column for the San Diego Troubadour includes: A chat with Colin Blunstone of The Zombies, news on the San Diego Music Awards & Videos, The Tourmaliners Holiday Party at Tio Leo's Lounge, plus reviews of The Beatles "Revolver" and Simple Minds "Direction of the Heart"
Read here: https://sandiegotroubadour.com/FYIColinBlunstoneSDMATourmaliners
