SF is still coming to grips with the mournful death of Castro-centric Halloween. To help the community thru this bewildering void, this year we put on capes and saved Halloween by playing a house party at Shirey’s place in the Mission. Unfortunately we never set up the mic to record, and seems that hardly anyone took any pictures or video.

This video of a random stroll from the front driveway into the belly of the bash is about all we’ve seen for media from that night. Where are your secret video stockpiles people?

San Francisco gets high marks for its execution of citywide day-partying: Carnaval traverses the Mission, North Beach Jazz Fest invades 20+ bars, Love Parade takes over Market St and Civic Center, Blue Angels prompt bbqs on every rooftop, KFOG Kaboom is visible and audible from every vantage point and car stereo, Haight St Fair overflows into the panhandle and GG Park, Burning Man Decompression makes Dogpatch visible from the moon, etc. But Bay2Breakers is the one debaucherous day to rule them all, cutting literally and figuratively across the entire city’s topography and demography, creating the biggest, most-inclusive, and most definitive annual day-party in the city. If not the country.

Naturally, the RJX has tried to do its part to contribute…

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RJX loves Tahoe. Tahoe loves RJX. We played at Bar of America in Truckee close to 20 times between 2001-2004, but it’d been three years since we’d been there (on account of us not being a band anymore). Mike–visiting from NYC–provided the video camera, and thanks to our friend Peter for lending his impromptu professional photography sensibilities.

For some reason these remind me of a mid-career “back to the studio” type video that some bands make (Steely Dan comes to mind), but it’s just a live performance with really low lighting. And we seem unusually well-dressed and well-behaved. Okay maybe “old” is the word I’m looking for.

Skip ahead for complete mp3s of all 3 sets both nights. But first, seems appropriate the kick things off with the tune we wrote for the gig we’re playing, Truckee:

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