Bill Murray ditches pebble beach to San Francisco

Bill Murray is used to taking trips to North California around this time of year after spending years as a star attraction on A&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. But when the tournament was in the process of far fewer amateurs and far more benefits, Murray still came to the region – to play some music.

Bill Murray shook out with Blood Brothers band For two nights this week at San Francisco’s great American music hall, an intimate, historical place in Tenderloo. The performances were part of the last week of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, which fills the back half of January and ends this weekend.

Across 100 minutes Thursday night, the group jumped around the blues and rock ballad genres, from Pat Travers’ Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) “To” Shotgun “by Junior Walker and All Stars. For these songs and mostly Of the night, however, Murray was parked at the back of the stage, cycling through a series of instruments – tamboures, shaking, bongos and even a cowbell. by Tune) Reproduction of “Like A Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan.

Even with as many as 10 people on stage with him at one point, it’s hard not to look away from the 74-year-old, which we have known for decades for his deadpan comedy and willingness to make themselves silly to Our entertainment. Murray came out for the show wearing a black trucker hat with “Bona Fide” in sparkling gold letters and carried it forward, sideways and even backwards for a flash before he ditches it 20 minutes. His facial expressions all night, especially after a brief moment of eye contact with someone in the crowd was as enchanting as they were silly.

These funny fan moments have typically happened down in Carmel-by-The-Sea and throughout Monterey County at the event that was Originally started by Bing Crosby. PGA TOURS decision to get the annual Pebble Beach to stop for a “signature event” before last year’s pro-am drastically reduced the amateur side, and many longtime staples like Murray, which had been a regular since 1992, has not returned (even as PGA Tour continued to use His earlier moments on Pebble to build hype for this year’s event on social media).

Murray has not publicly commented on the changes on Pebble and spoke only to the audience for 45 seconds at the start of the show – though a man may have given him a reminder by shouting “Come in the hole!” On Murray at the time.

But when the legendary actor gets further into the 70s and Continuing to go into depth further into Music sceneThe most gripping moment came when his bandmates took their turn to tear solos on the keyboard, saxophone and guitar. Murray stayed in the back and held the rhythm with his tambourine and saw his fellow musicians with awe.

After a lifetime of entertaining the masses, the man who seemed most captivated by the musicians, Murray himself. And 470 of us on the sold out show was just happy to go with him on the trip.