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Rose Bites Man
Jun 27th
Who knew that Guns N Roses are back touring? I had no idea until this story crossed by Yahoo News page. Axl is still stupid after all these years. Someone warm up the padded cell. Axl Rose is going to need it.
From the AP here:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -
Axl Rose was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg in a hotel scuffle, police said.“He was deemed too intoxicated to be questioned right away,” Hagg told The Associated Press.
It was unclear what caused the fight, but Swedish tabloids said the guard tried to intervene when the 44-year-old rocker started arguing with a woman in the hotel lobby.
In May, Rose and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger capped an evening out at a new club called The Plumm in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood with midnight fisticuffs.
The scuffle reportedly started after Rose moved the drink of Hilfiger’s girlfriend. According to Rose, Hilfiger, 55, smacked him in the arm and told him to put the drink back.
If tickets are on sale for any US dates, you may wish to hold off on purchasing them pending the upcoming nervous breakdown.
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Loading ...Ann Coulter is a Deadhead?
Jun 26th
Yes, and a raging one at that. Ann Coulter, the author of the best selling Godless, recently gave an interview to Taylor Hill at Jambands.com here, and she claims that she has been to 67 Dead shows.
I liked the interview because I’m a big AC fan, and having married a hippy who is introducing me to the jamband scene, including camping trips to music festivals, I was able to see lots of parallels between what Ann was saying and how it jibes with my own experiences.
Here are some great highlights from the Interview-
TH: Are there any other jambands you like?
AC: All the usual String Cheese Incident, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, New Potato Caboose. There s Jet, Cake, Outkast, 50 Cent, Black-Eyed Peas, Lord Alge, Beck, Kanye West (I like his Jesus song), Missy Elliot, and Eagles of Death Metal.
TH: What exactly do you love about the Grateful Dead?
AC: I really like Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads. You always felt like you were with family at a Dead show a rather odd, psychedelic family that sometimes lived in a VW bus and sold frightening looking veggie burritos. But whatever their myriad interests, clothing choices, and interest in illicit drugs, true Deadheads are what liberals claim to be but aren’t: unique, free-thinking, open, kind, and interested in different ideas. Also, excellent dancers! Watching a Deadhead dance is truly something to behold.
TH: What’s your favorite Grateful Dead show, and why? Were you there?
AC: They were all my favorites especially the shows at Shoreline. It’s a beautiful outdoor amphitheater, the Dead’s home field, with California chardonnay for sale by the glass (in addition to not being a pot-smoker, I’m not much of a beer-drinker), and I often ran into my college Deadhead friends there. We’d go sailing during the day and see the band at night.
TH: It’s time to name names. Who are the other Deadheads who have infiltrated the conservative movement?
AC: As a Deadhead and a freedom-lover, I am wounded to the bone that you think the two do not naturally go hand in hand. The Deadheads I just met casually and not through conservative politics were almost always right-thinking, whatever they called themselves. Deadheads believe in freedom not a government telling people how much water they can have in their toilets or where they can smoke or whether they should be allowed to own a gun. (Remember the photos of Jerry testifying before some Congressional committee while chain smoking? Yeah, he’d really bond with Henry Waxman.)
One of my Dead friends I met at Vail made candles for Grateful Dead merchandizing. His daily routine consisted of waking up, smoking a bowl, and turning on the Rush Limbaugh radio show while he made his candles. (It’s true. He’s so far out there he practices this weird, freaky ritual known as commerce. Don’t try telling me pot is harmless!)
After Jerry died, U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) gave an incredibly touching tribute to Jerry Garcia and the good work the Dead’s Rex Foundation had done promoting the arts privately in contradistinction to millionaire actresses standing up in $50,000 gowns at the Oscars and demanding that hardworking waitresses and truck drivers be forced to support the arts through government taxation. You can look it up in the Congressional Record.
The idea of sailing in the day and taking in a show at night sounds like a very excellent day indeed.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Tom Petty
Jun 12th
I had the great pleasure of seeing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert at Nissan Pavilion in Manassas on Saturday Night. The show was incredible, and Tom Petty played just about every song from his Best Of album. Petty entertained the huge crowd like the veteran showman that he is, and it made for an absolutely unforgettable night.
Stevie Nicks sang for two songs, one of which is the famous duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” and she stuck around onstage to play tambourine and sing backup.
It was my first time at Nissan Pavilion, and I was very impressed with the size and the quality of the venue. From the lawn seating, it is almost impossible to make out who is onstage, but the jumbotrons highlighted the onstage performances with excellent videography and directing.
My only complaint is the exhorbitant prices on the beer- 10 Bucks for a tallboy Budlight seemed criminal. Tailgating at Nissan is a must if you want to avoid paying the beer prices.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Heather Mills McCartney: Well Paid 1-Legged Whore
Jun 6th
Heather Mills stands to earn four-hundred million dollars by divorcing ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. Now it comes out that she has a lot of nude photos in a German Porno book.
From Yahoo Here:
Nude Heather McCartney Photos Published In Tabloid
Pornographic photos of Paul McCartney’s estranged wife, Heather Mills, have surfaced in the British tabloid The Sun and on newspaper’s website, www.thesun.co.uk. The photos were taken for a hardcore German book titled Die Freuden Der Liebe–The Joys Of Love in 1988, five years before the motorcycle accident in which Mills lost one of her legs.
The extremely explicit photographs reveal Mrs. McCartney posing nude, slathered with baby oil, as she engages in sexual acts with an unnamed male porn star. Other photos involve handcuffs and other bondage gear, strawberries and cream, and sex toys.
Heather and Paul McCartney announced last month that they were ending their four-year marriage. The former Beatle has since taken great pains to defend his future ex-wife, insisting that she is not a gold-digger as the media has claimed. (Heather could win as much as $400 million in a divorce settlement, as the couple had no prenuptial agreement in place.)
The Sun did not report if Paul McCartney had yet commented on the photos.
I can only imagine Sir Paul’s comments. How about “Gormless Sodding Tart!”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...SoundQuilt
Jun 4th
Camping
I hadn’t been camping since I was a teenager, and I faced this challenge with a bit of FUD, but everything went great. I spent the first day mostly setting up camp and trying to stay dry. We had a great setup, which included a nice portable shelter. The first day was a little light on the music, mostly due to intermittent rain and the occasional downpour. But we stayed mostly dry, had plenty to eat, and when there was music, we listened.
The Soundquilt Music Festival
The festival was located at the beautiful Campgrounds of The Cove in the mountains of Gore, Virginia. The festival is the brainchild of Walnut Grove Band’s Mark Stewart, and he rallies some really good bands from around Virginia, Maryland and the DC area. Walnut Grove Band played on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. I have a prior review of their music here, and they were even better at the show that they headlined.
Not all of the bands were to my liking, but I did enjoy all of the music. Below are some notes about some of the music that really stood out to me.
On Saturday was an authentic bluegrass ensemble, the Orchard Boys, which hail from Frederick, MD. They have a great sound, and do an incredible cover of Green Day’s music, except they do it with a banjo and an upright bass.
Family Tree also impressed me. They are a progressive rock band from the Norfolk, VA area, which features an electric violin as an accompanying instrument. They have a rich, mature sound and the music is vibrant and fun.
Laidback is a Reston, VA based band with an expert sound that is marked most vividly by its percussion section. They have the widest range of original music that is a blend of jazz, groove and funk.
Each of the bands, even those not mentioned,helped make for a great and fun weekend, and thanks go out to Mark and Becky for all of their hard work in pulling off a great event.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: Steam Powered Airplane
May 20th
Steam Powered Airplane is an excellent four-piece bluegrass band. They consist of four vocalists who play guitar, banjo, full upright bass and mandolin. What makes this bluegrass band a bit odd is the fact that they come from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which is not necessarily associated with bluegrass as much as Shenandoah cities, but their sound is pure and authentic.
The band members are Uriah Price with lead vocals and superb skills on the mandolin, along with Tucker Smith on the banjo. Cody Walters plays the full upright, and can really bang on those strings during solos, much to the pleasure of the crowd. “Tall” John Degrew plays guitar like a virtuoso and adds his instrument’s beautiful voice to this band to round out the quartet.
My wife and I were lucky enough to catch this band during a stopover on their East Coast tour, where they played at the Buffalo Wings House in Herndon, VA. For a band that is used to the larger crowds of music festivals, they maintained a professional demeanor with the very small crowd, and they played most of their original music along with a few requests.
The music was awesome. They had a clean performance with crisp notes, accurate rhythm, and a smooth blend of their instrumental voices, despite the 2nd tier microphones, mixing equipment and speakers of the venue.
This band can really work a crowd too with pleasant and humorous banter among the band members to weave a story around their music. They told a hilarious musical story about Ebaying a washing machine and how one of the band members missed the familiar, rhythmic drone of the washer while he was sleeping. They had the small crowd cheering and wishing for more.
I grabbed a copy of their current CD, which features a female ex-band member who played the fiddle and performed lead vocals. While the violin adds much to the current roster of musicians, I daresay that the Steam Powered Airplane has more stage presence without her. Their music is no longer marked by a feminine quality, but is now more akin to a bad-boy fraternity of young rogues. They make bluegrass fun again.
They are winding up their tour of the East Coast, but if you are near Wyoming, you can keep track of their appearances on their official website.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: Walnut Grove Band
May 6th
The Walnut Grove Band is a four-piece group that has combined rock and roll with a neo-70′s funk sound with driving bass lines, electric guitar melodies, and a great harmonic sounds from their former drummer, who is now playing second guitar.
The lyrics, written by lead singer and guitarist Mark Stewart are clever, albeit often anti-war and pro-marijuana. His tenor vocals are excellent, if not too quiet. Perhaps it was his microphone at the venue, but he should definitely turn it up so the fans can hear his voice.
Together, the band has a mature sound with clean transitions and excellent use of dynamics to get their musical ideas across to the fans. I look forward to hearing them again.
There is an excellent video of their song “Cheap Guitars” here, and it features a rapper which nicely rounds out the song, and highlights this band’s versatility.
The venue, however, could use a little bit of polish to clean it up and make it more enjoyable for the customers. My wife and I saw them at “Balls Bluff Underground” in historic downtown Leesburg. Accoustically, the square wood panelled walls caused the snare drums to buzz when certain chords were struck. Structurally, the bar needs some work on its broken ceiling and floor tiles, if for no other reason, to avoid the appearance of the place being run down. And I’m sorry to say, the place smelled AWFUL, like rotten vegetables, beer and puke.
Walnut Grove Band has produced four commercially available CD’s containing all original music, and you can get it from Amazon and Tower, or by showing up at one of their gigs. They are also headlining at an upcoming music festival, the SoundQuilt Festival.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Tasia and Jimmy Lee Still Rock
Apr 29th
They have only three instruments- two voices and a guitar- and they sound absolutely incredible.
I caught them again last night at a local venue and they put on a terrific show. See my prior review here, and check out their latest schedule at http://www.jleelive.com/
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: The Big Mighty
Apr 16th
The Big Mighty is a four-piece band that hails from Virginia Beach, and is comprised of lead singer and guitarist Brandon Bower, Bassist Levi Pulaski, drummer Jason Neal and Saxophonist Mark Sleister. The four of them together can make some great music that is described as having a jam-band feel, but upgraded to a mainstream sound thanks to the addition of the great saxophonist and innovative guitar sounds.
We saw the band on Saturday night, tax day, at GoodFella’s in Downtown Hampton, which is one of the very best venues to hear live music every week. The band opened with covers of Dave Matthews, and they also played their own original music. They covered Phish and Eric Clapton, and brought their own interpretation to those covers, creating an energetic sound that really kept the listeners dancing and yearning for more. At one point, after the band was coming back from a set break, they brought a cute female fan to the stage and handed her the bass guitar and taught her exactly three notes and told her when to play them. With the fan on the bass, playing the 3-note bottom rhythm, Brandon began to perform an awesome stylized rendition of Dylan’s Knocking on Heaven’s door that continued to evolve, jam-band style, into a guitar wailing crescendo that had the whole place cheering.
These guys are good.
But they are not without their problems. Each band member really likes their cigarettes, and they often smoked during the songs. Its not that I’m an anti-smoking nut; far from it, I’m a huge advocate for smoker’s rights, but the drummer often had an inch-long ash hanging from a butt between his lips and it looked like his face was on fire. The band’s sets were only 45 minutes long at the most, and they could have done without the nicotine if they wanted to. The fact is that they were using cigarettes as a prop, and they looked ridiculous.
The band has another major problem, and that is the out of control behavior of their lead singer, Brandon. Right at the onset of the first set, Brandon had a couple of beers and a shot of Jaeger. He played fine, but he interrupted a song to talk into the microphone about how truly important his lyrics were. It was annoying, but forgivable because they played so well. Even when Brandon mugged for the audience, and galloped through the bar spanking his ass like he was riding a pony, with his shirt soaked through with sweat, I thought, well, this guy is eccentric.
At the second set, I watched Brandon do shots of tequilla, and I thought to myself, “this is going to get interesting.” He ordered a black and tan from the bar and performed a brilliant rendition of the Dylan song as mentioned earlier. But then he kept interrupting his songs to give “spoken word” renditions of lyrics that really touched him deeply. Myself and other members of the crowd were beginning to get annoyed. Brandon had progressed from “eccentric” to “jackass.”
After the second set break, Brandon proceeded to do another shot and have another beer, and I thought that things were going to get truly messy. When the third set began, the crowd began to thin out a little, and Brandon was wobbly on stage and sweating profusely. He muffed an entrance to one song, forgot the lyrics to a second, and then the funniest thing happened. He lost a contact lens. Brandon quit playing, and drunkenly tried to gaze at the dimly lit stage floor to find the contact, and the drummer was riffing with one hand and pointing to the lens with a drumstick in the other. Brandon failed to locate it and just left the stage, leaving the remaining members to perform a jazz rift. Brandon finally returned to the stage, and the drummer had picked up the contact and handed it to Brandon, and Brandon proceeded to hit the wall.
Literally. He had to use the wall to hold himself up, and when he jumped up to sing, he banged his forehead into the microphone. It was around this time that I got the check and left.
If The Big Mighty can keep their lead singer sober and under control, I’m certain that they can be a great band. But if its happy hour and Brandon has been doing shooters, avoid paying the cover charge if you can.
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(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 6) Loading ...Music Review: Automatic
Apr 10th
On Saturday Night, I stopped by Sully’s in Chantilly and caught the last two sets of Classic Rock Cover Band, Automatic.
It was my first time seeing this band, and they blew me away with their classic rock covers such as Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water, the Guess Who’s No Time and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way.
The lead vocalist, Lloyd has an amazing vocal range, and does a dead-on cover of Jim Morrison from the Doors. Rick, the Bass player, also performs lead vocals on some songs, and together, the two of them provide the perfect voices to cover most of the classic favorites.
The lead guitarist lives for his solo performances, and performs these like a virtuoso.
Automatic thrilled the audience, had everyone dancing, and when the lights came up for last call, there were some boos of disappointment and chants for one more song. I will be seeking out a future performance of Automatic, and if you get a chance to see them, you should. Check their website for dates.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: “Traffic on the Backbone”
Mar 18th
I brought my wife, my brother and my sister-in-law to the Wings House in Herndon tonight to just get together and get some food and catch up on each others’ lives. I had no intention of writing a music review.
But God help me, these guys sucked so bad, the world needs to be warned not to listen to their music. I haven’t seen a doctor yet, but I think the music gave me a staph infection in my navel. Yeah, it was that bad.
My brother is traumatized too. He watched me choke on a chicken wing, and when I was violently coughing, a broken chicken bone accidentally became wedged in the soft part under my tongue. I pulled it out after a struggle and some blood and tendon membrane came with it. When he finished gagging at the horrifying scene, he asked if it hurt bad. I replied “It burns, it burns, but it doesn’t hurt as bad as having to listen to this band!”
The name of the band is “Traffic on the Backbone” and is no doubt a play-on-words for a bunch of network geeks that work for a local ISP who have formed a start-up garage band. The music is supposed to be modern rock, but they butcher the music by playing off key, forgetting the lyrics to the songs, and skipping important parts to the songs- like bass lines, percussion, or even whole verses. Sometimes the band tries to mix it up a little by skipping lyrics to one song, a bass line to another, and sometimes, they get creative and skip all of them at once!
The lead singer, Jody Barry, lists his biggest influences as Farrah Fawcett and Susan Lucci from All my Children. Nothing says “Rock Star” to me more than a strung-out actress and a soap star. He also says the Fonz taught him how to score with Babes. I wish I was making this up. William Hung has more vocal range than Jody, and has been closer to fame than Jody will ever be. More untalented goodness can be found at their MySpace Page!
I guess you could color me “Not a fan!” I was completely relieved when they stopped for the night at 11:00 PM. I thought it was curious, however, that the band had a 14 piece percussion set and, I counted them- 9 guitars, including a cute tie-dyed guitar- and yet, somehow, they redefined the term “you suck” on a deeply personal level for me. It just goes to show that you can buy the most expensive drum sets and equipment, and it won’t make you sound professional. In fact, in the few moments that they sounded practiced and promising, the mixing and amplification sounded terrible. There was either overpowering bass or screeching offkey lyrics. A professional soundman may have been able to assist with the mixing to tone down the extremes, but face it- you can’t fix stupid.
They closed the performance with a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “You gotta Fight for Your right to Party.” You only need three chords for this song along with lyrics shouted in rhythm to the beat, but somehow the band messed this one up too.
You can get this band for your own party, bar or celebration. But stock up on Neosporin. Your navel will need it to ward off the staph infection. 
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Taisia and Jimmy Lee Rocks!
Mar 4th
Taisia and Jimmy Lee is a relatively new duet band which consists of an electric accoustic guitar and two great voices. The musical selections range from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin, to Nirvana, with a unique “unplugged” sound. Jimmy Lee can really make this accoustic guitar rock like a three piece set, and Taisia’s perfect alto vocals create a great female compliment to the Tom Petty lyrics, and can equally nail a dead-on acapella tribute to Janis Joplin’s Bobby McGee.
My wife and I saw them at a local venue tonight, and they were so impressive and energetic! If you like classic rock, you have to check them out in the Northern Virginia and Richmond Areas. You can find the latest schedule at http://www.jleelive.com
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...KT Tunstall Rocks
Feb 20th
She has been all over VH-1 for several days now, and featured several times per day when the station actually gets around to playing videos. Her hot hit right now is Black Horse and the Cherry Tree from her album Eye to the Telescope. You can check out a live performance of this at VH-1 here. The disc is only 10 bucks, and the upbeat songs are well worth the price. Out of the 13 tracks, 5 are real solid and potential hits.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Reading a New Book
Feb 16th
My wife is a HUGE Beatles fan. I got her the Bob Spitz biography on the Beatles for Christmas. For some reason, I am reading it instead of her. So far, I think its a little on the pretentious side, but I’m going to stick with it and see where it goes. Will this band of mop-headed teens from Liverpool UK make it big in the music biz, or will they go bust? I’m more than a bit curious to see how it all turns out.
You can get a copy of the book from Amazon here-
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Kanye West is Sex Addict and Porn Addict
Feb 14th
Kanye West doesn’t care about women. To him, women are sex objects to be enjoyed many times per night in pursuit of his porn-addled fantasies. West is supposedly a devout Christian, but he is unmarried and has been bragging about his love of pornography and how he has to use women many times each night. Devout Christians do not have these issues, and they certainly would not brag about it in public if they did.
He also admits he cannot hold down a relationship due to his sexual compulsions.
From Independent News Here:
Kanye West has confessed he is a sex addict – who carries porn with him at all times.
The rapper, a devout Christian, says he has to make love four times a night, then again in the morning.
He is quoted in Britain’s The Sun newspaper as saying: “I think I have a sexual problem, a sexual addiction. I want to do it all the time.
“My only drug is porn. I have porn with me all the time.”
The Brit nominated hip-hop star also confessed he plays X-rated movies when women visit his home, in the hope they’ll enjoy it.
He said: “If she wants it turned off, I tell her I don’t know who left it
on.“But if she says, ‘Hmmm, what’s this?’ then I keep it playing.”
And then from ContactMusic, they go on to explain how this relates to Kanye’s inability to keep a girlfriend-
Rapper KANYE WEST struggles to hold down a relationship because he’s addicted to sex.
The ALL FALLS DOWN hitmaker admits he never goes anywhere without a stash of porn magazines and thinks about sex all the time, which is why he has problems being monogamous.
He explains, “I think I might have a problem, a sexual addiction.
“Lust is part of the reason I’ve been out of relationships… I just want to do it all the time. All the time. Like four times a night. And then in the morning.
“Those addictions and afflictions are what make me a great artist… My biggest problem is lust, looking at girls with big booties.”
As a rapper, Kanye’s biggest risk is getting shot. Let’s face it, rappers don’t have a long shelf life, and they attract bullets like a no-pest strip attracts flies.
But here is a bold prediction- Kanye will be accused of rape very soon, and it will put his career in jeopardy. Kanye is not a smart man, and neither was Mike Tyson, who also had a vicious sexual appetite. Kanye, like Tyson, will be accused of rape. And with boasting statements like these, I think the accusations will stick.
Kanye is a little dude too, which will not help him much in the slammer. The World Heavyweight Champion cannot be raped in jail. A little rapper who likens himself to Jesus Christ, however?
Don’t drop the soap, Kanye.
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(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 6) Loading ...Check Out Gogol Bordello
Jan 22nd
I went to the CAKE concert last night at the 930 club in Washington DC. CAKE was on their “Unlimited Sunshine Tour”, featuring Gogol Bordello and Tegan and Sara.
First, the 930 Club, which gets some great bands, is a facility that has cruddy accoustics, and is located in the middle of urban blight central in Washington DC. The buildings surrounding the club are either condemned or SHOULD be. Once inside the club, you are met with darkness, extremely high priced beer, and a balcony section that provides a pretty good view of the band. However, the same balcony would become a firetrap in an emergency since there is only a narrow staircase as an exit for the thousand-plus patrons that they allow upstairs.
CAKE was excellent. It would have been nicer if they were amplified a bit more. I had to struggle to hear them over some very loud drunk women who were chatting it up as if the concert was a mere social setting such as the neighborhood Applebee’s rather than a rare appearance in the region by this band.
Tegan and Sara were okay. There were many technical flaws to their performance, but this was due to the lousy accoustics and what seemed to be a rookie soundman at the mixer board. Sara’s microphone was way too low, and her guitar was way too loud, and the reverb off of the walls really muddled their sound. I am not a big fan of their music, but they did cover their hits.
The biggest surprise was Gogol Bordello, which put on a great show, with great music, and a fabulous stage performance. Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy Punk Rock Band. What is so gypsy about it? Along with all of the usual instruments- drums, bass, electric guitar- throw in an accordian and an electric violin, a stand-up bass drum, and even some washboards, and you have the East European sound of Gogol Bordello.
As stated earlier, the accoustics and the sound mixer was bad, but it didnt stop me from enjoying the great music these guys generated. The violinist was snapping his bow strings across his fiddle, and gypsy girls danced, sang, and beat on the standup bass drum while the lead singer was crowd surfing, and singing in a mix of english and Ukranian. The music was vibrant, the performance was fun, and the band is a must see. Check out their tour dates, and if they come to a town near you, you chould check it out.
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