San Francisco 1999

Greetings! This episode originally aired 11-28-25 as a musical interlude for the week,   Yours truly and potential guests were on holiday. So, I compiled a little mix of live recorded music from Playground. My band/project started in the late 1990s and put me and the group in the middle of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene at the turn of the millennium.   I unpublished this episode because it...

In this episode, Part 2 of a conversation with Jason Williams a.k.a. JasWho? Jay has been foundational on the music scene of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1990s. Whether performing as a multi-instrumentalist in Bay Area and International music groups, performing his legendary solo live House music sets, releasing original vinyl on the label Soulmine records that he co-founded with Eile...

In this episode, Part 1 of a conversation with Jason Williams a.k.a. JasWho? Jay has been foundational on the music scene of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1990s. Whether performing as a multi-instrumentalist in Bay Area and International music groups, performing his legendary solo live House music sets, releasing original vinyl on the label Soulmine records that he co-founded with Eile...

11-21-25 This week's SF 1999 podcast episode features a conversation with dj/promoter/producer Sep Ghadishah a.k.a. DJ Sep , founder of the legendary Dub Mission SF, that ran every Sunday night for over 2 decades at The Elbo Room on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and featured all of the greatest international dub/reggae/jungle djs, producers, and live acts.  DUB MIS...

Happy Saturday (Yes, I promised new episodes on Fridays but here we are)! Today we feature a conversation my homie, Gabriel Harris! In the late 1980s, Gabriel began his African drumming tutelage with the legendary Babatunde Olatunji ,  We'll be talking with him about that and how he found a community of dedicated students, teachers including Mabiba Baegne , and performers of African drumming...

November 7th 2025 Today's conversation is with the legendary DJ M3 "Makes Me Move," Manny Alfarez. Manny's San Francisco history is a continuum of musical successes. He is the co-owner of monarchsf.com and thegreatnorthernsf.com - two of SFs most popular dj and live music destinations. He's an internationally reknowned House Music DJ. He's one half of the House duo, S...

This episode features a conversation with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney: Artist/Ritualist/Musician/Teacher/Master of Ceremonies Since the late-1980s, Jeffrey has been an integral part of the Reclaiming Collective (which began in SF) and through ritual, music, drumming, and performance art,  he teaches and facilitates self-transformation and community-connection, across the U.S., Canada, and Australia....

A conversation with Long time SF Bay Area DJ, Vinnie Esparza about being a music director at KZSC, his Spanish Grease show on KUSF, Love N' Haight and Ubiquity record labels, Groove Merchant Records, Djaying in SF Bars and Clubs in the 1990s and early 2000s, the multi-genre music scene in SF, and a shout out to our brother Randall Kress a.k.a. DJ SoulSalaam. Vinnie and his wife (a renowned pa...

We are joined in conversation once again with Jonathan Youtt talking about CELL Space 's history in the context of San Francisco Community Art Spaces. Moreover, and entirely relevant to current events, Jonathan reflects on the integral role that CELL Space maintained in the cross section of Art and Activism (Artivism) at the turn of the Millennium, both before and after 9/11/2001. Youtt recal...

Today's guest is John Schroeder: multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer (synthesizer, sax, flute, clarinet, guitar, bass, etc), filmmaker/documentarian, writer, painter, international music educator, and one of the founders of Jingletown Gallery, an artists' warehouse space in Oakland in the late 1990s.  John shares some stories about the what and whys of the artists "warehouse mov...

Here we go!  Welcome to the very first episode of San Francisco 1999. Thanks for tuning in! Today we are in conversation with Jonathan Youtt , Co-Director of PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, CA   “A public serving experiential learning center showcasing and fostering sustainable living practices, urban gardening & homesteading, community resiliency & preparedness, social justice, f...

San Francisco 1999 is a show featuring conversations about Arts and Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area from roughly 1995 to 2005. Each episode, different special guests will recollect what it was like living, creating and converging in the city in the last days before smart phones, silicon valley and social media. You can follow me at IG @neiel7 and get updates about the podcast at SanFran99.co...