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But the big red bird that lives under the city doesn’t give a damn about me and it dies every night. By burning a light. — Andrew JacksonJihad, “Big Bird”
brother and then broke up, to be forgotten until some nerd finds their eight track in an attic, much like that Detroit band, Death. Sort of. Maybe they’ll get back together when they’re re-discovered. Oh wait, I forgot. They’re totally a band right now. They live in Phoenix and the drummer plays like Mo Tucker and the dude that does the noise stuff has like thirteen kids or something. He total- ly needs you to buy this record, probably.
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bizarro tendencies, which are all very cre- ative and brilliant anyway. “Ode to Sophia Lo- ren” is like John Belushi is still alive, in a toga again and fronting, well, this crazy f*cking band that do funky, dancy, soulful, jazzy op- era/rock/r and b?
To put it yet another way: the energy of Gogol Bordello with the technical skill of Rush? I remember Lydia Lunch once telling me that she’s sick of guitars. Where’s the tu- bas in rock n roll, she said. Well, Lydia, here you go. Don’t get scared.
Good Friends Great Enemies
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Really smoking electric blues guitar psyched out with wah pedals and an occa- sional horn section. Wanky to the extreme, but that seems to be the point. If you can sound young and super super enthusiastic, which you can, this has that appeal all over the place, which can pretty much make up for anything. Which in this case would be the classic case of the unevens, Ian MacKaye. “Au- tumn Leaves” is a vastly superior song to the tracks that proceed it. The end of “Staying at Home” is totally awesome as well, though that song isn’t so hot. “Strength” has some cool stuff going on, including the horn sec- tion and the throwback to fellow Phoenixi- ans, My Feral Kin in guitar sounds and energy and weirdness. Ender, “City Woman” is very nice almost straight up blues rock with some stupid wanky guitar. (Stupid=Holy Christ on a popsicle. Did my face just melt off?)
Those crazy kids and their Led Zeppelins and Peter Greens and Eric Claptons and what nots. What’ll they think up next?
— Chipotle Frank
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Dirty Bourbon River Show
Volume Four
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Nutso New Orleans music featuring a big red fish. Captain Beefheart? Preservation Hall never sounded like this. You can tell from the cover they are a little crazy. And the song ti- tles. You can also tell from the song titles. The opener is called, “Ballad of the Oompa Soca Man and the Orangutan Factory,” it’s less a ballad than a short epic, not unlike “A Quick One While He’s Away” by the Who. Of course, I have no idea what the DBRS circus rock op- era is about. Maybe it’s also about doing the milkman while your soldier husband is MIA, I don’t know. But that’s a really good song and Pete Townshend is really smart for writing it. The song changes in these songs are even less predictable than that song, in which my favorite parts are the cowboy, horse plod- ding kind of part, and of course when it kicks in at the end, “You are Forgiven!” Sometimes, that gets stuck in my head for days, and I can just see Moony going apesh*t on those drums.
What does the Who have to do with this band? They both have four people. Or may- be they don’t. They definitely don’t. I can count. This has quite a bit more to add than the usual gypsy circus thing that people go lovey dovey for. This is like if Queen was into that gypsy stuff. Or Frank Zappa would be far more accurate. I like “Dear Grandma” a lot. Should I compare it to George Gershwin or Dr. John or Jethro Tull? I could compare it to all three of them. Stick em in a blender. That’s a lot of blood, funk, and gross stuff. Don’t do that.
There’s enough boozy fun to more than make up for the very strange changes and
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