Mission Bar Pays Week-Lengthy Tribute to Beloved SF Punk Promoter – CBS San Francisco
By Dave Pehling
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The San Francisco music scene lost one of its hardest-working and beloved champions last month when punk promoter Scott Rogers (aka Scott Alcoholocaust) died after an intense 18 month battle with metastatic prostate cancer.
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Rogers was an essential cornerstone of the live music scene in the Bay Area for a quarter of a century, tirelessly promoting punk and metal concerts at venues on both sides of the bay – often organizing multiple events on the same night – under his pseudonym (Alcoholocaust Gifts) and presented his banner for deep loading.
In 1988, Rogers moved from Nevada City to San Francisco, rushed into booking concerts in 1995, and devoured enough money to support himself in the first few months of a passionate project that didn’t make him much financial gain, but the promoter made a wealthy man in terms of friends, admirers, and good times in the decades that followed.
Rogers was diagnosed with cancer in February last year, just a month before the COVID-19 pandemic would close all venues where he would put on shows, effectively cutting off his livelihood. A GoFundMe campaign quickly raised tens of thousands of dollars, and eventually raised over $ 140,000 from friends, fans, and supporters who were desperate to put on Rogers’ benefit concerts but couldn’t.
While promoting shows at dozens of San Francisco and East Bay venues over the years, Rogers has probably spent more time knockouting in San Francisco’s Mission District than anywhere outside of his own home over the past decade. Fittingly, the dive bar and live venue will host a series of tribute concerts in memory of Rogers and his great service for punk and metal fans in the Bay Area.
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Starting on Tuesday evening with a show in the SF noise pop outfit Pardoner, the concert series includes a number of bands that have performed regularly at Alcoholocaust / Depth Charge, including the twangy Swamp Garage punk crew Whatglades, the artistic, edgy trio Rip Room (both on Wednesday) and hectic, disturbed local punk outfits Warp, Grosero and Bruja (all on Thursday).
Friday night things turn towards metal with chugging Oakland headbangers Moses accompanied by SF mud veterans Hazzard’s Cure, up-and-coming punk / metal crew Glowing Brain and corrosive Oakland crust metal band AnsiA.
While the plan called for friends of Rogers to gather at El Rio across the street for a memorial service on Saturday lunchtime, followed by a procession back to the knockout for more live music, organizers prompted concerns about the spread of COVID-19 to be canceled these plans. Instead, there will be an informal meeting at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park on Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Further details can be found on Facebook.
Sunday closes the series of tribute shows with rock en espanol punks Deseos Primitivos from Oakland, the goofy pop punk band Whoosie What’s It’s and the song stylings by Spike Slawson (Me First & the Gimmie Gimmies, Swingin ‘Udders ) away. Unfortunately the gypsy jazz band King City had to cancel. Please visit the Knockout website for more information.
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Scott Alcohol Ocaust Remembrance Week
Tuesday-Sunday, 20.-25. July, times vary; $ 7 (Saturday afternoon show free)
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