Manual Scan / Pacific Records

Pacific Records has just posted their official Manual Scan page in advance of the release of "Shooting Stars"! Other artists with releases on the label include Southside Johnny, O-Town, Sandollar, Sprung Monkey, The Tourmaliners, Slack Key Ohana and many more! You can find it here: https://pacificrecords.com/artist/manual-scan

Manual Scan feature in the San Diego Reader!

In advance of the forthcoming Manual Scan EP, Shooting Stars, The San Diego Reader has published a feature on the band and the new release!
Read here: www.sandiegoreader.com/2023/jun/29/manual-shambles

Manual Scan EP Release Show! September 2 at The Casbah

Tickets are on sale now - Manual Scan will perform at the Casbah on September 2! The event will be both Secret Society's 30th Anniversary Party as well as Manual Scan's EP release show! Adding to the fun, it's Bart Mendoza's Birthday weekend, making this an extra special event. Also performing will be 16 Again and The Others, with accompanying scooter ride!

Advance Tickets Available Here!:
https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Manual-Scan16AgainTheOthers/Casbah

True Stories Set List: June 25 Navajo Live with Nathan Raney

Guitarist Nathan Raney (The Farmers etc) joined True Stories for two songs during their show at Navajo Live on June 25.

Here's what they played: www.setlist.fm/setlist/true-stories/2023/navajo-live-san-diego-ca

Bart Mendoza, Nathan Raney, Scott Mathiasen. Photo by Donna Daly.

Clouds All Day
In Your Arms
Who Will Play Us In The Movie?
I’ve Just Seen A Face
After Awhile
You Still Take My Breath Away
All Sorts
Dizzy
She’s Magic
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
Route 66 w/ Nathan Raney
Hi-Heel Sneakers w/ Nathan Raney

True Stories Set List: OB Street Fair June 24

On June 24, True Stories played an hour long set at the Ocean Beach Street Fair!
Read here: www.setlist.fm/setlist/true-stories/2023/ocean-beach-street-fair-ca-san-diego

Photo by Donna Daly

Route 66 (soundcheck)
Clouds All Day
In Your Arms
Who Will Play Us In The Movie?
I’ve Just Seen A Face
After Awhile
You Still Take My Breath Away
All Sorts
Eight Days A Week
Problems of Her Own
She’s Magic
Dizzy
Hi-Heel Sneakers
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Better Days
Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
Handle With Care

Concert Spotlights: Quino, Slapbak, Gustavo Romero, Riston Diggs and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News includes spotlights on Quino & Friends at Humphreys Backstage Live, Band Overboard at Campland on the Bay, Gustavo Romero at the Athenaeum, Slapbak at Beaumont's, The Rockin' Aces at Tio Leo's and Songs of the Sea with Riston Diggs at Dizzy's.
Read here:  www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-26

Floyd Armstrong Interview!

Bart Mendoza interviewed singer Floyd Armstrong (The Fifth Dimension) for the June issue of all Local Umbrella newspapers.
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/simply_local_coronado_june_2023_24/22

True Stories at Navajo Live Sunday June 25!

True Stories, with special guest Nathan Raney, will be opening for A Month of Sundays at Navajo Live on Sunday June 25! A Month of Sundays includes bassist Sppike Mike Muellenberg.

New! Top 5 Concerts: Blue Oyster Cult etc + Free Summer Concerts + New Releases!

Bart Mendoza's latest for all Local Umbrella Media Newspapers includes concert spotlights on: Blink 182, Fred Benedetti Celebrates Paul McCartney at Dizzy's, the OB Street Fair, Blue Oyster Cult and the Turtles / Gary Puckett / The Cowsills at Humphreys + Who's playing at this summer's free "Concerts in the Park" events around the county, including Coronado, Santee, Point Loma, La Jolla etc (Cassie B, The Sully Band, The Dreamboats pictured) + New Releases: Swive, Bloodstone the Street Preacher, Black Market III, Sloat Dixon, Marujah and more
Read here: www.issuu.com/docs/june_2023/Concert Updates_/16

Pacific Records Tour Dates!

 

Interview with producer Josquin des Pres

Bart Mendoza's latest edition of Music Scene SD includes an interview with producer Josquin des Pres of Track Star Studios. Read here: https://issuu.com/josquindespres

New Music Scene SD! Jeff Beck / Eric Clapton, Liquid Blue, Tamar Berk, Alison Brown, Iron Butterfly and more!

The latest edition of Music Scene SD, in all Local Umbrella newspapers, features a San Diego Music News Roundup with info on: Sven-Erik Seaholm / Jeffrey Joe Morin / Charlie Loach, Tamar Berk, Mike Stax / Ugly Things 40th Anniversary Party, Adam Lambert, Liquid Blue, Hemisphere, Gangbusters, Laura Chavez, Alison Brown, Garrison Bailey, Iron Butterfly, Jeff Bloom, Surfdog / Eric Clapton / Jeff Beck, Black Market III, Switchfoot, Dave Mustaine, Yale Strom, Blues Camp and more!
Read here: www.issuu.com/musicscenesdjune2023

Upcoming True Stories Dates and more!

Here's a list of upcoming appearances from True Stories and Bart Mendoza. Look for Manual Scan dates to be announced soon!

June 24 True Stories @ The OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off
June 25 True Stories @ Navajo Live w/ A Month of Sundays

August 02 Bart Mendoza @ Navajo Live w/ Jeremy Morris
August 10 Bart Mendoza guest on Theory Thursday (online)
August 18 True Stories @ tba
August 19 Bart Mendoza Emcee at Fallbrook Live / Laurie Beebe Lewis & Electric Underground
August 20 True Stories @ Standley Park

September 23 Bart Mendoza guest tba / Temecula

October 14 Bart Mendoza Emcee at Ritz Theatres Escondido / Laurie Beebe Lewis & Electric Underground

Bart Mendoza recording at Blitz Studios, early 1990's

Bart Mendoza listening to a playback at Blitz Studios during what became the "Sympophony" compilation album sessions, circa the early 1990's

New Concert Spotlights: Sabbath After Forever, Fred Benedetti Plays Paul McCartney, Pompatus of Love with Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band) etc

Bart Mendoza's latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News, with concert spotlights on the Robert Bush Fundraiser at Tio Leo's with Gilbert Castellanos, Mike Wofford, Mikan Zlatkovich and more, Pompatus of Love with Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band / Greg Kihn) at Humphreys Backstage Live, The Fred Benedetti Trio Celebrates Paul McCartney at Dizzy's, Scott Silven at the JAI, Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke at the Athenaeum plus Sabbath After Forever at the 710 Beach Club
Read here: www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-25

True Stories Beatles Fair Set List!

Here's what True Stories played at their annual San Diego Beatles Fair appearance. The bands lineup for this show was Bart Mendoza, Greg Smith, Mark DeCerbo, Scott Mathiasen, Alicia Previn and Billy Tisch.
www.setlist.fm/setlist/true-stories/2023/queen-bees-san-diego-ca

Eight Days a Week / The Beatles
Bad to Me / Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
Handle With Care / Traveling Wilburies
Crippled Inside / John Lennon
No Matter What / Badfinger
I'm the Urban Spaceman / Bonzo Dog Band
It Don't Come Easy / Ringo Starr
Dizzy / Tommy Roe
I'll Cry Instead / The Beatles
Bad Boy / Larry Williams
Slow Down / Larry Williams
I've Just Seen a Face / The Beatles
Jet / Wings

Bart Mendoza / True Stories at The OB Street Fair June 24

Bart Mendoza / True Stories will perform at The OB Street Fair on June 24 at 1:30 p.m. on the 92107 Stage, located at Newport Avenue and Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Free, All Ages! Other artists set to take part include Falling Doves, Seawall Prophet, SM Familia, Suede Radio, Amanda Cogan, The Dave Gilbert Band and more! www.oceanbeachsandiego.com/attractions/annual-events/ob-street-fair-chili-cook

Beatle Fair June 3 / San Diego Reader - True Stories and more!

The San Diego Reader has a terrific article about Beatles Fair, by Jay Allen Sanford, out this week. Included are interviews with Cavern Club owner John Keats, Falling Doves frontman Chris Leyva and Bart Mendoza, who will co-host the event with organizer, Alma Rodriguez. Meanwhile, True Stories is set for 6 p.m. on the Beatles Fair main stage.
Read here: www.sandiegoreader.com/jun/01/cavern-club-collaborates-beatles-fair

New FYI: Guitar Workshop Plus + Sly Beats, Derrick Anderson, Sidney Merritt (Swive), Nathan Raney (The Farmers) and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for the San Diego Troubadour includes talk with Brian Murray about Guitar Workshop Plus, taking place on June 25-30 at the Sheraton / Mission Valley and share a batch of new Strange Stage Stories from John Hernandez (Revelation 69), Rick Walker (Sometimes Julie), Derrick Anderson (The Bangles etc), Sidney Merritt (Swive), Sly Beats, Jefferson Jay, Kamaka Mullen (Slack Key Ohana), Nathan Raney (The Farmers) and Catherine Barnes.
Read here: https://sandiegotroubadour.com/23433-2

New! Jimmy's Buffet, 2 Guns Drawn, Wayne Riker, Floyd Armstrong, San Diego Beatles Fair and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for all Local Umbrella Media newspapers includes: 

A spotlight on Chris Maddox's (Graceland) new band, Jimmy's Buffet + A spotlight on hip-hop duo 2 Guns Drawn (Olivia Fentress)
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/17

An interview with singer Floyd Armstrong (The Fifth Dimension)
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/16

A feature on guitarist Wayne Riker's return to teaching, plus Top 5 Concert Spotlights / Beatles Edition, including Fiesta Del Sol with the English Beat, B-Side Players etc., Ringo Starr at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, San Diego Beatles Fair at Queen Bee's, the Fred Benedetti Trio's Paul McCartney tribute at Dizzy's and the Second Annual Julian Town Square Music Festival with The Farmers, Sea Monks etc. + new release info from Sara Petite, Cattle Decapitation, Story and Tune, The Album Leaf and more!
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/18

San Diego Music News, with info on the Spice Pistols, Blame Betty, Mike Stax and Cindy Lee Berryhill at the Nuggets tribute, Sandi King's Nikka Costa tribute at Humphreys Backstage Live, Slightly Stoopid, Skyler Lutes, Rogues of Chaos (Julian Jerry Flack of The Cardiac Kidz), Mike Ruggirello's Rotten Cabal, the California Music Hall Of Fame with Gary Puckett and Jason Scheff - and more!
Read here:  www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/19

 Print copies are always available - FREE! - at Rock and Roll San Diego!

New Concert spotlights: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Joshua White, Taryn Donath, Fleetwood Max and more

My latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News, with spotlights on Rodrigo y Gabriela at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, Joshua White at the La Jolla Community Center, Hey! Ho! Let's Go at Campland on the Bay, Taryn Donath at Tio Leo's, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds at Beaumont's and Fleetwood Max at Humphrey's Concerts By the Bay. Read Here:
www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-24

At NAMM 2023 with Greg Douglass, The Spice Pistols, Alicia Previn and more

A selection of photos taken at NAMM 2023 in Anaheim, California.

Bart Mendoza, Alicia Previn, Jim Price

Bart Mendoza, M Florentino Buenaventura (Enter Talk)

Sandra Castillo, Bart Mendoza, Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band)

Bart Mendoza with The Spice Pistols

Nick Hanick (16 Again), Bart Mendoza

Photos by Kiki Cadiz

A selection of photos by photographer Kiki Cadiz. They include Bart Mendoza in various locations around San Diego. Used with permission.

Glynis Ward, Bart Mendoza, Richard Whig at the Whistle Stop, South Park

Scootermania at Geppetto's in Coronado

At Taang Records

In Balboa Park's Spanish Village Art Center

at Rock and Roll San Diego

At the Whistle Stop

at Rock and Roll San Diego

New Concert Spotlights: Fred Benedetti, Brian Levy, Frankie Valli and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News, with spotlights on Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, The Mission Bay High School Honors Concert with JP Balmat, Fred Benedetti at the La Jolla Community Center, The Soul Persuaders with Larry Grano & Philip Lenud  at Tio Leo's, Brian Levy with Gilbert Castellanos & Mikan Slatkovich at Dizzy's, and the First Friday Music Club Showcase at 710 Beach Club with Hold My Beer, Fender Junkies, On the Rox, The Openers, Mothers of Intention, and The Eclectic.
Read here: www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-23

New Demo Recordings!

On May 8 Bart Mendoza went into the Pacific Records studios to lay down two acoustic demos, an original and a cover.

"You're Gonna Miss Me" (Mendoza)
"Outdoor Miner" (Newman / Lewis)

The latter is a Wire cover. Brian Witkin produced the session with Billy Tisch contributing flute to "Outdoor Miner."

New FYI with Steve Rosenbaum, Riston Diggs, Joel Kmak, Allison Adams Tucker and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest FYI Column for the San Diego Troubadour, features: Five Questions for Steve Rosenbaum Music (Big Stir Records) and I ask ten area musicians: "Who Would You Like to See a Bio-Pic Of?" with Riston Diggs (The Gravities), Allison Adams Tucker, Joel Kmak (The Beat Farmers, The Hitmakers), Catherine Barnes, Patrick Yandall, JT Moring, Rick Walker (Sometimes Julie), and more.
www.sandiegotroubadour.com/23243-2

Session Photo April 20 Pacific Beat

Here's an end of session photo taken at Pacific Beat Recording Studio on April 20.
L-R Alicia Previn, Mark DeCerbo, Bart Mendoza, Scott Mathiasen, Alan Sanderson and Billy Tisch. Greg Smith not pictured. Photo by Sandra Castillo.

 

New Spotlights: Peter Sprague, Burt Brion, Fred Benedetti, Motley 2, Supercool and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News includes spotlights on Peter Sprague Plays The Beatles at the La Jolla Community Center, Motley 2 at the 710 Beach Club, Allison Adams Tucker at Tio Leo's, Acoustic Evening's at the Athenaeum with Fred Benedetti, Trails and Rails + MohaviSoul, Burt Brion at Humphreys Backstage Live, and Supercool! at the the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd
Read here: sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-22

Pacific Records at the 2023 San Diego Music Awards

Four artists from the Pacific Records artists roster were honored at the 32nd annual San Diego Music Awards, including Bart Mendoza, The Tourmaliners, Sandollar and Jonny Tarr!

Bart Mendoza receives Industry Achievement Award!

On April 25 Bart Mendoza received the Industry Achievement Award at the 32nd Annual San Diego Music Awards.

Fox 5 TV / SDMA's

Bart Mendoza was a guest on Fox 5-TV on the morning of April 25, discussing the San Diego Music Awards with Shally Zomorodi and a musical performance from Shane Hall.

San Diego Music Awards Preview! Joshua Taylor, Jonny Tarr, Tamar Berk, Taz Taylor and Dakota Ringer

Bart Mendoza's latest for all Local Umbrella Media newspapers is a San Diego Music Awards feature, with words from Joshua Taylor (pictured with Sandi King) of the King Taylor Project, Jonny Tarr, Tamar Berk, Dakota Ringer of The Naked I and Taz Taylor. Free copies are available of the latest issue at Rock and Roll San Diego's front counter! The San Diego Music Awards take place on April 25 at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay.
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/bay_park_april_2023_lite/16

True Stories Recording with Grammy Winning Producer Alan Sanderson!

True Stories spent the evening of April 20 recording with producer Alan Sanderson! The track "She's Magic," a co-write with singer Lori Wilson of the Electric Underground, was completed, with the exception of a pending keyboard overdub from David Fleminger. The song joins over a dozen tracks currently being considered for an EP to be released this fall.

True Stories

“She’s Magic”
(Mendoza / Wilson) Original Tangent BMI

April 20, 2023 / 6:45 – 9:30 p.m.
Pacific Beat Recording Studio

 

Produced / Engineered by Alan Sanderson

 

Bart Mendoza – vocals, acoustic guitar
David Fleminger - keyboards
Greg Smith – drums, backing vocals
Scott Mathiasen – bass, backing vocals
Alicia Previn – violin, tambourine, backing vocals
Mark DeCerbo – electric guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Billy Tisch – flute

additional backing vocals: Sandra Castillo

L-R Scott Mathiasen, Alicia Previn, Alan Sanderson, Bart Mendoza, Billy Tisch 

Photo by Sandra Castillo

San Diego Music Awards Bart Mendoza Fox 5 TV April 25

On April 25 Bart Mendoza will represent the San Diego Music Awards on San Diego's Fox 5 Morning show, with nominee Shane Hall performing, in the 9 a.m. hour.
Watch here: www.fox5sandiego.com/on-air/live-streaming

Concert Spotlights & New Releases: Gator by the Bay, Adams Avenue Unplugged, Opera 4 Kids, Patrick Yandall, Seawall Prophet and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for all Local Umbrella Media newspapers includes concert spotlights on Gator By The Bay, Earth Day Fest at Humphreys Backstage Live with Donna Larsen and Messengers, Anthony Cullins etc, Opera4Kids with Victoria Robertson at Balboa Park's Spreckel's Organ Pavillion, Adams Avenue Unplugged with Dave Alvin, and Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum with Fred Benedetti and MohaviSoul + New Release News with Seawall Prophet, Be Reilly, Patrick Yandall and many more.
Read Here: https://bay_park_april_2023_Top 5+New Releases/18