Manny’s Living Room Sets - David Gans/ DEADJACENT

Living Room Sets are intimate electro-acoustic performances held in the cozy back room at Manny’s.

- Looking for local music, but also like to be in bed by 10 PM watching Jason Momoa’s new show on Apple TV+, or similar activities?

- On the hunt for the sleekest new songwriters in town, with an aux perc entourage, sipping double espresso at 8 PM?

This is the place! It’s music in the round; a boxing match of sorts. I play some songs, you play some songs. Don’t overthink it, just show up.

Curated by Cole Bettles

About The Musicians -

David Gans delivers literate, improvisational folk-rock with looping in a “solo electric” setting. A solo Gans show is likely to consist of several elements: country-blues-style fingerpicking; loop-based improvisations created live in the moment; sweetly-sung ballads, original or borrowed; Grateful Dead songs reinterpreted to suit his voice and guitar; wry observations of the music-festival subculture and the larger world; soulful and passionate political commentary; favorites from the folk-rock canon of the last 50 years. Mix and match – it’s never the same show twice, but it’s always worth a listen.

Joshua Raoul Brody is best known for his work accompanying improvisational theater (among other things, he is music director for BATS Improv).He has also accompanied artists as wide-ranging as Robin Williams, The Residents, Lily Tomlin, TomWaits, Nina Hagen, and Florence Henderson. He is a regular member of Tango No. 9, Orchestra Nostalgico, and leads a "live karaoke" show called Plays His Favorite Beatles Songs AND Accompanies YOU On YOURS! twice a month.

Joe Kyle Jr. cut his musical teeth in the early 1990s in San Francisco, when entry-level gigs were plentiful and taxicabs were large enough to accommodate a double bass. His musical education began in the trenches and the barrooms and dance halls of the Greater Bay Area, and continues to this day. Joe has become an in-demand performer and session player known throughout the land for his superb feel, musical agility, adaptability and propensity for slap bass and tragicomic asides. He may be the only bassist to have played with pianists Martin Denny, Al Kooper, AND Pinetop Perkins, although not with all on the same session, sadly. Joe can frequently be seen and heard performing, recording and merrymaking with many Bay Area groups, including Americano Social Club, HowellDevine, the Cottontails, FRIENDO, Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Aki Kumar, New Squatoolas, and The Waybacks.

Cole Bettles Is kind of obsessed with San Francisco; obsessed with the history, what’s hip-and-in, what’s out-and-never-to-be-back-on-the-rebound, the political landscape, avocados, what jazz tunes are being played on the circuit, zoning maps, produce markets, new coffee shops, Chinatown, burritos, wanna-be techy techs, bringing the high-speed rail into North Beach; the whole deal kind of fascinates him dearly. So much so that he’s willing to go crazy over the whole matter, and often does, but don’t fear, he also tries to keep it clean and organized through hard work, commitment, etc., etc. He reads the fine print, and meditates over things (jacuzzi at least twice a week at the country club… doesn’t even feel the need for a cold plunge). He doesn’t do social media (except radio interviews) and divulges government secrets for bitcoin and is bullish about the future of sports gambling. It’s all confusing, but come find out some more at his live show where he plays songs…

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