I’m standing backstage with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy frontman
Scott Morris doing a big fat double take.

The death-defying swing revival band just finished ripping
through Go Daddy-O takes of Cab Calloway’s “Hey Now, Hey Now” and “Tarzan of
Harlem” during soundcheck at the Napa Valley Opera House ” so I know it’s him.

But the usually swank and dapper dude may as well be naked:
No fedora to cover his chrome dome. No wingtips, instead trainers and white
socks. All topped off with a Beatles T-shirt and cargo shorts.

I ask about the famous wardrobe and he says, “I’ll show you
something funny,” leading me past the Stacy Adams wingtips and organic
crocodile belts to a hanging rack.

“This is a beautiful 1940s vintage double-breasted suit that
one of the members of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will be wearing tonight,” he says
before hanging it back on the rack and picking out another.

“And this is a 19 – no, 2000 Men’s Wearhouse suit that
somebody else in Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will be wearing on stage.”

He’s not naming names, but when the L.A. seven-piece ” still
going strong after nearly two decades ” headlines the Petaluma Wine, Jazz and
Blues Festival with a Cab Calloway tribute on Saturday, take a look onstage and
see if you can pick out the posers from the playboys. (Hint: Morris is safe,
the dude swears by La Rosa Vintage in The Haight.)

Kudos to Petaluma High music director Cliff Eveland for
taking the festival to the next level with The Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz
Orchestra (yes, with Sheila E.), Lydia Pense and Cold Blood and hometown fave
Peter Welker. It all goes down at noon Saturday on the Petaluma waterfront. $35-$45 tickets go to a
massive fundraiser for music education in Petaluma
schools. Check out www.pwjb.org.

To watch the GQ fashion interview with Morris and clips from
soundcheck, check out the latest 60-Second Weekend vodcast:

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‘Tis the season for school fundraisers: Sunday’s Rock for
River concert stages A Case of The Willy’s, Levi Lloyd and the 501 Band, The
Pulsators, Trailer Park Rangers and The Volker Strifler Band at The Tradewinds
in downtown Cotati. It starts at noon and $10 at the door benefits the River Montessori
Charter School,
billing itself as “the first tuition-free public Montessori elementary school
to open in Petaluma.”

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Last weekend at the Sonoma County Fair Elvis Contest, I ran
into an impersonator (er “tribute artist”) backstage who looked a helluva lot
more like Paul McCartney than The King.

Guess which one he is in this video:

So it makes perfect sense that the chameleonic Robert B+ (I
swear that’s his name) will be fronting Beatlesque for the “All Together Now”
sing-along at 7:30 Friday at the Glaser
Center in Santa Rosa. $12-$14. www.glasercenter.com.