Good medicine: South Bay’s civic spirit remains healthy amid coronavirus pandemic
Musician Justin Panariello does double duty sanitizing gear during Sunday’s South Bay Stream-a-thon, which raised money for musicians put out of work by the spread of coronavirus. Photo About half way through the band Zeal’s Sunday afternoon set, a man in a white surgical gown, his face obscured by a respirator mask, threaded his way between an amplifier stack and a drum kit to apply some disinfectant. His feet were wrapped in sanitary plastic, and he walked with the deliberate slowness of a man navigating a patch of black ice. Keyboarder Steve “Shag” Aguilar tapped a few notes on his keyboard while he waited. Drummer Nick Hughes rustled the snare. Once the man in white retreated, singer Zeal Levin, satisfied that things were properly sanitized, launched into the next round of song. The surreal scene unfolded for a tiny, socially distanced audience handling lighting and the soundboard, and for a much larger audience watching at home on screens of all kinds. The South Bay Stream-a-thon, as the event was known, was an attempt to help the area’s sizable community of musicians affected by the slow-down in social life caused by the novel coronavirus. The free stream included a link to…
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