The Temple Beautiful Band has a twist, a San Francisco Bay Area Punk Rock cover band with its own twisted roots.
The band is the brainchild of one of the original promoters who staged events at Temple Beautiful, Geoffrey Pond.
Songs in the set list are "hits" from bands that played at the original Temple Beautiful between 1978-79 and that are no longer performing their own material. That covers a lot of music because Temple Beautiful was a significant venue for many prominent and up-and-coming local bands.
The musicians all have serious local cred in the performing arts and know how to put on a show that summons the spirit of the age.
2021
In the late 1970's in San Francisco, the new forms of music referred to as either Punk Rock, New Wave or WTF... were in the air like spray paint, cross pollinating with the other arts known for their social conscience, biting wit and ability to work with nothing, all primarily supported in one of two ways;
kids who bought the precious few songs on vinyl in the few local record stores that had them
kids who went to venues to learn to be interested in the records and maybe score a t-shirt.
The Temple Beautiful was such a venue and for a time between 1977-1978 Paul Rat and Geoffrey Pond produced bedrock Punk Rock events that both supported the existing acts, local and touring, and launched notorious new acts, Flipper being the obvious one to name drop in this context.
Now there's The Temple Beautiful Band, a collection of local Bay Area musicians performing songs from a cross selection of OG Punk bands that performed at 1839 Geary St. but are no longer around to perform their own music, now that it's known that their work mattered in a big picture that endures. It certainly adds an air of authenticity that much of the band now used to be in the mosh pit then or paying the venue to make it all possible in the first place.