Like Mad Max rising from within the desert floor, a bit of the old San Francisco arts scene appeared unexpectedly the past week when I found an old forgotten camcorder tape in a box. It contained 33 minutes of an June 2001 evening at the Ace Auto Dismantling aka Ace Junkyard featuring, among other entertainments, Survival Research Labs and the debut of their new pitching machine which fired two by four studs at 200 mph. I edited it down to about 10 minutes which you can watch below. It really brings me back to what it felt like to be in San Francisco in that glorious time between the dot com booms.
Ace Junkyard, June 8 2001 from Dav Yaginuma on Vimeo.
The full footage has been donated to the Ace Junkyard documentary in the works called Ace in the Hole. I highly recommend clicking that link and watching the 10 minute trailer for it! Hopefully it get completed some day, because it really was a special place in San Francisco arts history.
BTW another performance featured briefly in my found tape was Attaboy and Burke, mainstays on the local scene at that time. Attaboy pointed me at this other music video they made also featuring some footage from that show:
A final recommendation is to subscribe to Attaboy's current project Hi Fructose Magazine, both their print edition and a great instagram account @hifructosemag.
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