[Squishy] Re: [Moonbase-alabama] Spencer made the front page of the Bay Area Reporter!
kathryn aaker
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Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:55:35 -0800
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> "Best of all was when he rendered his own dazzling compositions,
> including a duet with the fabulous Trixxie Carr."
>
> I _really_ hope that was "Crack Whore"!
>
> How much do you reckon we'd have to pay him to get him to sing that
> at the Star Search finals?
i dunno, the audience-participation factor is much higher in "We Got the
Clap (clap clap clap)".
by the time they cut the electric piano, he'll have them going full-force.
get trixxie out there in her choir robe "Do you bllieeeeeeve in the
clap?"... it'll be fabulous.
oh, sf moonbasers and squishies: Looks like Lush Lounge is hosting a Star
Search party. Sounds like fun to me: 8pm Pacific Time. Don't forget to
vote (often!) at 5:45!
http://www.thelushlounge.com/spencer.htm
hey, will barney still be in town?
xx
k
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The Bay Area Reporter (local weekly gay rag) edition for 23 January
2003 has a front-page article about Spencer's wild ride on Star
Search. They have a web site, but all it says (and I do mean ALL it
says) is "Please look for BAR news and entertainment coverage in our
print edition." Incidentally, the BAR is in two sections, the second
being "Arts & Entertainment," but Spencer was on the front page of
the main (news) section, with the headline and picture visible in the
newspaper racks.
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Day charms America: SF vocalist on to 'Star Search' finals
by Mark Mardon, photo by John Ward
The lively Lush Lounge pinao bar on Post and Polk was packed Sunday
night, January 19, with revelers and well-wishers celebrating the
return to San Francisco of Spencer Day -- their favorite jazz
crooner, piano player, songwriter and band leader -- from his winning
appearances January 15 and 16 on CBS' Star Search, hosted in
Hollywood by Arsenio Hall.
Showing far more flair, vocal agility, and dashing charm than he
could possibly have put across to a national audience via his brief
Star Search appearances, Day, who is gay, and his bandmates at the
Lush Lounge rendered several lively sets of mainly jazz standards,
urged on by a hugely appreciative audience including Lush Lounge
co-owner Steven Black, who along with co-owner Kenny Meade has given
Day's singing career a huge push by offering him a great place to
play, along with an audience that Day has come to know as friends.
Moreover, it was Meade who urged Day to audition for Star Search,
thus setting in motion the 24-year-old San Francisco resident's
meteoric rise as Best Adult Vocalist in the Star Search semi-finals,
witnessed by millions of viewers. Day now gears up for the final
round of Star Search competition to air live (delayed for the West
Coast) on CBS on February 6. The winner receives $100,000 and a
recording contract with Sony.
For those who know and adore Day -- and the young singer has many,
many friends in San Francisco who have experienced his "Crimson Club"
performances at the Stud bar or have downed martinis at the Lush
Lounge as he played piano and sang his heart out -- his capturing the
victory in the Adult Singer category came as no surprise. In fact,
the surprise is that the American public -- voting from home via
e-mail during the broadcast -- apparently recognizes what "celebrity
judges" Naomi Judd, Ben Stein, and Carol Leifer, along with "guest
judges Lance Bass (January 15) and Tyrese (January 16), obviously
missed: Day is one of the great jazz/pop singers of our time.
The way it happened, with the celebrity judges' decision overturned
by "America," and Hall flummoxed over what to do about the apparent
tie in the first round, proved that America knows a winner when it
hears and sees one.
Any doubt about Day's talent was put to rest by his stellar debut on
January 12 and 13 at the elegant Plush Room, where he won over the
crowd with a smooth jazz set backed up by a top-notch band (Finn
Kelly on keyboard, Daniel Fabricant on stand-up bass, Bryan Carmody
on drums, and Wyatt Grant on sax). Day challenges his collaborators
to perform some of the freshest music stylings experienced locally in
a very long time. He possesses a worldliness and sophistication mixed
with an upbeat attitude that only a Cary Grant could carry off as
well. Vocally, he's a male Ella Fitzgerald. He gets the smokiness,
the smoothness, the highs and lows, the emotion behind the words.
Virtually everyone at Day's Plush Room gig agreed the performance was
breathtaking. Primarily self-taught as a singer, arranger, pianist,
and composer, and just returned from what he characterized as the
hell of Star Search, Day pulled off the Plush Room gig with amazing
confidence and conviction, putting his unique flair into such jazz
standards as "Willow Weep for Me," "Live Alone and Like It," "Viper,"
"Out of My Dreams and Into Your Arms," "Lullaby of Berlin," and "Bye
Bye Blackbird." Best of all was when he rendered his own dazzling
compositions, including a duet with the fabulous Trixxie Carr. At the
end, the audience gave Day and band a standing ovation, and everyone
knew a star had been born, regardless of the outcome next month on
Star Search.
Word has it a new Plush Room gig is in the making. Meanwhile, Day can
be heard Thursdays and Sundays at the Lush Lounge. Check
<http://www.thelushlounge.com> for details.
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