hi there i'm slim critchlow and this is the open mike documentary tonight right side of the red devil lounge open mike it's the one year anniversary let's go inside and see what's going on oh into what it is now it was kind of a conversation that i will have and you host another one finnegan's over in nevada yet we've done that for several years yeah that's in the votto every monday night and this november will be five years actually  you're ever going to come this is the one to be i mean a lot of the i'm hoping to see or very i can i see a couple people who have been maybe for a few weeks i'm coming out the woodwork and coming together because really the idea is to have a good time share music but also make friends and make you know a family kind of out of it a weekly gathering and so hopefully tonight will be just kind of one going back together for the end of your originally from missouri i'm from columbia missouri and when did you get out to san francisco i moved out to the bay area i year later november sixth i i lived in the auto for a while and there was honestly not a whole lot happening for local musicians so instead of complaining about it i just decided to start an open mike and and you and you have your  own label casey turner presents yeah i'm a i'm a local promoter that's what that's my daytime job is i put on shows and various venues and i host a house concert series that's really kitchens and some people's attention yeah i think the house concert series was the first and it wasn't the first house concert i've done but it was one of the larger named household name artists i hosted it which is right so i mean any time you have some people on the radio that's there it's like wow how's this guy getting the radio people all the people  are really really nice i mean you should talk to them because i would probably love what you're doing is in probably support you like by telling people about it because they're a really great family there especially the morning show crew and the the newest music director there dennis constantine totally has their they had their hand on the pulse of global scene and i don't i mean i don't know exactly how we first met but it happened and they're the nice people and so we work together on anything to do to help the same school of music because yes the end goal thought i'm here tonight interviewing donovan a plant donovan has some great songs and i worry one of them you know find out a little bit more about his to i've been to the rocket room or rock and i haven't played it yet and mostly you've been here and then mostly what do you think about the san francisco music scene i think it's amazing i think there's a lot of scene to take in and i'm looking you know just a little motivation what in your career is something that you came across and thought oh wow if i would have known that it would have been so much easier to you know i think just  the what's the near future hold for you when i'm supposed to be going to germany in november to record a new album oh you've just finished one album you're going to record another one reported e p this year and we're going to go on to go back hopefully in november to record a whole album with my producer fabian gorg and he lives there in germany yeah great how did you meet him via the b m i website songwriter want to one dot com i recorded with a lot other songwriters around the world and one of them are following you so i mean that's kind of how i've got for to all these different open mics i went to one i found the people i really like became friends with them and then i said well where you guys go there's this other open mike that we go to on tuesdays or fridays  definitely so and i'm glad i came down here because this seems to be one of the most happening open mics if not the most out of the hotel utah is really good but this place is really really smoking to a lot of people i mean i saw tonight i saw  eight or ten people that i've originally known from the hotel you don't know obviously they know what's happening and they're coming on yeah anyway we're talking with donovan plant if you get a chance check him out do you have a website that i do on w dot donovan plant dot com ok there you go donovan plant dot com check him out he's got some good stuff and you'll see later on in the show if you i'm standing next to tiki house men who's the first in line oh my god what time do you have to get here i'm really embarrassed to say slim because it's going to show people how much time i have on hand it's like ok you got here really early yes i got here early to be in line for this  what's your what's your background in music and why i come from musical family my great played violin for the sacramento symphony she was first chair and she also played for elvis and frank sinatra she actually got decide to pick up the bases actually probably when i was probably twelve or thirteen i'd been playing violin and classical guitar before that and you know that was the first thing that really s me and that's when i knew i'd found my instrument and interesting so you're here with the one year anniversary with everybody else in this line and i make just making sure that you play before because i'm sure it's going to be huge it's already he says others are going to one thirty i'll not stay until one thirty i'll probably be here till midnight maybe getting everybody but anyway good talking you have to go down and see everybody else in the line