"We have signed everything -- shoes, hats, posters, stomachs," said Jordan Price, who goes by the name Groovy Tuesday in the group.
Gap, in its 86th Street store, took the lead with a summer installation featuring a tableau similar to that of its swing-dance television ads, in which a group of groovy people live it up.
(Chinen) MARC RIBOT TRIO (Tonight) Mr. Ribot, whose jangly electric guitar has recently been called into service by Tom Waits and the spirit of Albert Ayler, heads in a groovy direction with this group, featuring Shahzad Ismaily on guitars and percussion and Ches Smith on drums.
(Sinagra) LIVING COLOUR (Tomorrow) The virtuoso guitarist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Vernon Reid's most famous band's intelligent and at times groovy heavy metal took the group well beyond the small bar scene in the late 1980's.
8 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212 997-4144, $17 in advance, $20. (Sinagra) LIVING COLOUR (Tonight) The virtuoso guitarist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Vernon Reid's most famous band's intelligent and at times groovy heavy metal took the group well beyond the small bar scene in the late-80's.
9 p.m., Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201 653-1703, $7. (Sinagra) DIGABLE PLANETS, J LIVE (Thursday) Digable Planets, the groovy mid-90's "hip-hop bebop" group, couldn't weather the changes wrought by the decade's dominant rap styles.
Also convening at the hotel is an EST-style couples encounter group, and nerdy young Peter is propositioned by a groovy older couple, who try to seduce him by "freeing" him from the strict confines of computers and chess.
Bill Graham picked them to open for a then-new group called the Band, and Jimi Hendrix, upon returning to England, sang their praises ("I heard some groovy sounds last time in the States, like this girl group, Ace of Cups").
This eccentric funk-dance group from Philadelphia promises hectic theatrics directly at odds with their jam-roots musical foundation; it's a strange, groovy alchemy.
The eccentric funk-dance group from Philadelphia promises hectic theatrics directly at odds with their jam-roots musical foundation; it's a strange, groovy alchemy.
