Lots of gear on stage tonight. There were a lot of bands on the late bill, and the stage was like a Surrey pawnshop.
As for the show....where's the Mule when you need him? I'm sure he'd be able to give a pithy summary of the evening.
The thing with these kinds of blogs is that you want to be positive, but at some point it comes across as smileyfaced PR. Maybe it was just me, but there was a bit of a Team-Canada-playing-Switzerland-in-Turin vibe in the air.
21TR were drummerless, and though the formula has worked in the past, it seemed a bit laboured tonight. Shockk is pretty much indestructible in any guise, including Interior Design, which he offered up on this occasion. There was a jam at the end with A. Rojas on bass, Shockk on guitar, a Pronger-like WB on 2nd guitar, and Super on drums and vocals.
I've never been completely sold on drummers as vocalists. Ringo Starr would belt out the odd tune in the Beatlemania days, a gimmick that was reprised by Peter Criss and Kiss (although I think he generally stepped out from the kit for his balladeering). Then there was Don Henley, Triumph, and of course the guy from Night Ranger. I think Levon Helm pulled it off okay with the Band.
Of course the greatest vocal performance by a drummer took place a few years back at Cafe Du Soleil, when a black-fingernailed R. Hughes, playing in a trio called 'Restore' with Super and the Shockker, belted out his suburban anthem 'Fort' ("You couldn't find it, asshole, even if you tried!").
We could've used a bit of that tonight.
ACM.
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I think I was in a post-9/11 carpe diem frenzy, hence the drumming/singing thing. I patterned my Restore performance after Grant Hart and Dan Beehler of Exciter.
Sorry I didn't make it out to the Supper Show. I went out later that night with Smash to see A. Rojas w/ A Ghost to Kill Again at the Backstage. Total facemelt!!
Wouldn't smiley face PR be more like
"and there was such a great vibe in the club that night, a certain electricity in the air as the crowd could hardly wait for 21tr to appear, and when they did they did such an awesome job of channeling that energy back to the people with just a miraculous set. I epically liked the way Willingdon black showed such great veteran patience with the solo on Bay City Kitty, really holding off and then just exploding at the end taking a drooling audience with him."
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