DJ Is NOT a DJ

J Lebowitz on the Bruce Latimer Show (Photo by Hali McGrath)

my recent encounter with the demented
genius of punk piano playing

d j l e b o w i t z, who bills himself as"the rockinest piano player in the world," has a regular gig entertaining the lunch diners in the lobby of the Rincon Annex Office building next to the Post Office.

A typical show might feature playing songs like "They Won't Stay Dead," "Breathe on Me," "The King of Happiness," "Greedy Little Monsters," "Let's Lynch the Landlord," "My Humble Home," "Bedtime Tears," "Lousy Personality," "Airplane," and other classic punk or original DJ Lebowitz pieces.

I asked him to play "Disgracing the Family Name," by Skafish, and he readily obliged. After the gig we retired to a place called Power Source around the corner where DJ feasted on barley and wheat grass juice made by the two gracious women who run the juice bar.

NOT AN AD--POWER SOURCE is located at 81 Fremont St., in SF(415) 896-1312.

Read the SF Weekly review of him playing Haight Street's Club Deluxe. You may contact DJ at djlebo@earthlink.net

*Note from DJ --"At Rincon Center, I rarely do my own tunes. If I do an original there, it's an instrumental version. So everything I play at Rincon is an instrumental version of tunes by a variety of artists. See my website for a description.

"I plan to do more vocal performances, hopefully by the end of the year, but these would most likely be in a nightclub, and not at Rincon Center. The vocal performances would, of course, include DJL originals, and probably some cover tunes, too."