George Varga at the San Diego Union-Tribune just published a piece about the new inductees to the San Diego Music Hall of Fame this year, and they include two musicians with strong ties to Ocean Beach.
One is being honored posthumously -- and that is San Diego blues godfather Tomcat Courtney, who died in January 2020 at the age of 91. Tomcat used to play regularly at a bar on Voltaire Street in OB during the seventies.
Also being inducted is the well-known Grateful Dead tribute group the Electric Waste Band, whose weekly Ocean Beach gigs regularly featured basketball legend and avowed Deadhead Bill Walton as a guest percussionist before his death in May. Electric Waste Band this year celebrates its 35th anniversary.
Of course, OB doesn't have to look too far to find other connections to the event for it was OBcean Jefferson Jay who launched the San Diego Hall of Fame in 2018 as a labor of love.
George Varga at the San Diego Union-Tribune just published a piece about the new inductees to the San Diego Music Hall of Fame this year, and they include two musicians with strong ties to Ocean Beach.
One is being honored posthumously -- and that is San Diego blues godfather Tomcat Courtney, who died in January 2020 at the age of 91. Tomcat used to play regularly at a bar on Voltaire Street in OB during the seventies.
Also being inducted is the well-known Grateful Dead tribute group the Electric Waste Band, whose weekly Ocean Beach gigs regularly featured basketball legend and avowed Deadhead Bill Walton as a guest percussionist before his death in May. Electric Waste Band this year celebrates its 35th anniversary.
Of course, OB doesn't have to look too far to find other connections to the event for it was OBcean Jefferson Jay who launched the San Diego Hall of Fame in 2018 as a labor of love.