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Pop: Hot Ticket
By GINA VIVINETTO
© St. Petersburg Times, published May 3, 2001
Smooth and bayside
The Smooth Jazz on the Bay festival returns to the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront Saturday and Sunday, highlighted by headliners Boney James and Bobby Caldwell.
Gates open at 1 p.m. Saturday with guitarist Chuck Loeb and saxophonist Kim Waters kicking off the music at 2. David Benoit takes the stage at 4, followed at 6 by saxophonist James.
Another saxophonist, Steve Cole, leads the Sunday bill, beginning at 1 p.m. Trumpeter Rick Braun, who collaborated with James last year on Shake It Up, plays at 3. Singer-guitarist Caldwell closes out the festival at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $20-$100 each day, $35-$200 for a two-day pass. Children 12 and younger are admitted free. Vinoy Park is at Fifth Avenue NE and North Shore Drive, just east of the Renaissance Vinoy Resort. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster at (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100.
Hot sounds from the Go to Hells
The Go to Hells, from St. Petersburg, scored big then the band nabbed the opening slot for the mighty Iggy Pop concert later this month at Jannus Landing. But drummer boy Hunter Oswald seemed confused about it.
"We're opening?" Oswald asked. "I totally misunderstood Iggy when he called." Yuck, yuck.
Back at Gibbs High School, where Oswald was a music student in the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, he and I knew each other only vaguely. After all, he was a freshman when I was a senior. So, you can imagine how strange it is for me to see Oswald, second from left in this band pic: Facial hair? Tattoos? Is that a cigar, young man?
Yes, Oswald and his Go to Hell homies are punk rockin' men. He describes the band's raunchy sound as "Georgia Satellites meets the MC5." See for yourself Saturday as the band celebrates the release of Rock and Roll America, its brand spankin' new album on Vagrant. The Go to Hells will play a free in-store performance of what Oswald dubs "stripped down Jumpin' Jack Flash-style stuff" at daddykool.com record store. There will be door prizes for the first 10 fans to arrive.
Later that night, the band plays a bona fide gig, "the full-blown rock show," at the Emerald.
The Go To Hells perform for free 1 p.m. Saturday at daddykool.com record store, 671 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, (727) 822-5665, to celebrate the release of Rock and Roll America. Also Saturday, the band plays at 10 p.m. at the Emerald, 550 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. (727) 898-6054. Admission is $3.
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