psychobilly saturday night

this was truly a rocking good time, I'm chagrin that it has taken until Tuesday to do the write up of the show--but alas busy holiday weekend and all; hopefully better late than never serves us here--opening the show was Lexington's own (I think they are from Versailles really, but it's all Lexvegas to me) The Yes people, playing in one of their first couple of shows out--and we're left wondering where have these guys been and when can we see them again--this mop topped trio power punk popped their way right into our hearts--at first listen they are almost straight punk, tight catchy simple songs, but as they warm up we realize they are much more adventurous than that--these boys aren't afraid to let their simple songs build and they take the time to let it happen--suddenly they will slow tempo and make a sonic slide from 1 peak to the next--I kept thinking of a skater push, push, pushing, catching air for just a minute before they continue hellbent down the sidewalk--so much fun--and speaking of fun, how about the goddamn gallows--real life psychobilly--what we used to call in the day cowpunk--country twang and power cords--another 3 piece, this time with stand up base, a much lower drum kit than I am used to seeing, and the cat who sings on lead guitar--these guys have amazing interpersonal energy and they play (as Stan Ridgeway would say) like men on fire--punk rock stand up base, what more can you want--and at times almost soulful, real country lament, makes you think of the gunslinger and the lonely road--one more point about these seriosly tatooed obviously well traveled rockers from the great state of Michigan--they hung out after the show and they really couldn't of been nicer guys--proof you can stay on the road and keep your soul--lastly closing the show the man the myth the legend--the Mosquito Bandito--the 1 man band--he plays the guitar and sings all by his lonesome on that stage--raw jaw dropping talent--make sure you put all 3 of these bands in the must see column--which brings me to the 1 bummer of the evening--we had these national level fantastic acts and Lexington did not come out to support at all--not to be a lecturer, this is how it is, we can't keep having these shows if noone comes--so please fight inertia, fight pattern energy-start a new habit--the shreiking shack eagerly awaits you--that's all for now--let's keep rocking

quick introduction

well, on many levels, it has taken me far too long to reach this point-a small scale example, just now, it took me almost 45 minutes to get to the blog spot, I had to call Hunter and ask him to come over help, so since I can feel this amazing Sunday afternoon slowly passing me by I will be brief here, in an attempt to, as Hunter says, get the ball rolling--this blog was birthed of a conversation with Darin a couple of days ago-we were going over the lineup to the summer solstace festival (which of course is going to be great-3 days-I don't know off the top of my head probally 30 bands) and he was trying to explain to me which band was which and we were trying to remember who played with who at a show back in November and even with the two of us working in tandem (so much for community in action) we couldn't remember the show-so I thought it would be a good idea to keep a historical journal of the shows, who played, where they were coming from, what the show is like-I'm not going to attempt to critically analyze the musicianship (or bother with punctuation or run-on sentences evidently) I just want to record the event and of course a show is an extremely subjective universe--but to back up and introduce ourselves--we are a intentional community minded collective house (you could say commune, you could just say a family) consiting of Darin and Lauren, whom I'm sure you probably have met, the shows are pretty much their baby (siblings of 3 actual kids of course), and let's face it you (hypothetical reader) probably linked to this blog from their myspace page, then there's me the fly on the wall, and our good friend John--Darin's older daughters are with us about half the time, my kids on the weekends, and all the time Danali who just celebrated his 3rd birthday, and this kid is a rocker I kid you not--so it's a family affair--we believe in the power of music to be the center point of a social event--we are trying to save rock and roll from the bar scene--our shows start early, we try to always be done well before our local noise ordinance goes into effect by 11--we usually have at least 1 touring band and 1 local act, the local act (who are the true heroes of the scene) play for free and the door goes to the touring musicians to keep them afloat and (hopefully) to the next gig, as somebody pointed out really all of the money goes to oil executives in the end, but ain't that america--so that's it for now, stay tuned and I'll tell you about last night's psychobilly show, and of course we have our all acoustic folk by the firepit show tonight--so come on by and let's keep rocking.

Upcoming show

    On Saturday May 24th the Shreiking Shack presents a three band event featuring Mosquito Bandito, The Goddamn Gallows and The Yes People.  The cost for the show is $5 at the door.  Mark this one on your calender folks its going to rock.  Check Mosquito Bandito's My Space page here.  And The Goddamn Gallows here. The Yes People's page is here. Trey will be online blogging after the show is complete and providing his perspective based upon 33 years following the local music scene.