The Bruce Lee of Rock, Scott Pemberton rings in the new year at Tep’s Villa Roma in South Lake Tahoe. The Connor Party gets the musical feast started at 8 p.m. $20. With a penchant for keeping the laces on his black high-top basketball shoes untied and wearing faded jeans around his skinny legs fastened at the waist by a belt buckle with the initials “S.P,” Pemberton is a hippie superhero known as the Timber Rocker. His kryptonite is a guitar strap, so he plays his ax on a stool. He jams like Jerry Garcia, is as funky as James Brown and as quick as the Rip City’s Trailblazers point guard Damian Lillard.
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