Local All Stars Play Annual Halloween Sabbath Tribute Show at Make-Out Room

By Dave Pehling

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A group of established Bay Area musicians keep their annual Halloween tradition alive this weekend, coming together to perform as preposterously named Black Sabbath tribute band Bobb Saggeth at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco's Mission District Saturday.

Conceived during a 2009 rehearsal break by members of SF band Citay -- singer Meryl Press (who performs with soundtrack specialists the Red Room Orchestra and soul revue Marc and the Casuals), her drummer husband Warren Huegel (Tussle, 3 Leafs, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Musk and the late Gong singer Daevid Allen's University of Errors) and guitarists Josh Pollock (3 Leafs, the Lake Millions, Annie & the Flight, University of Errors) and Sean Smith (Twin Trilogy, LFZ) -- Bobb Saggeth has been playing its spot-on versions of Sabbath classics for nearly a decade.

The group plays occasional non-Halloween concerts, but it's their annual performances in late October that find the band dressing up in outlandish costumes; in past, the quintet has played dressed as Kiss, the Star Trek crew, zombies and members of the Blue Man Group. While longtime bassist Carson Binks (Parchman Farm, Saviours, Dirty Ghosts, Wild Eyes) left the band a couple of years ago, his shoes have since been ably filled by Victims Family/Jello Biafra's Guantanamo School of Medicine/Brubaker bassist Larry Boothroyd.

Unfortunately, guitarist Pollock will not be on hand for this early pre-Halloween show at the Make-Out Room Saturday night, but Bobb Saggeth will be joined the Cinnamon Girls, a Neil Young tribute band featuring a number of local scene luminaries including Doug Hilsinger (Enorchestra, the Barneys) and Kelley Stoltz performing Young classics in drag.

Bobb Saggeth
Saturday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. $12-$15
The Make-Out Room