When you try to tell a lie, you look down into your shoes...

[evditchpig]

First good garage show in who knows when, this Friday at the Magic Bag:

? & the Mysterions (? benefit show)
Nathaniel Mayer
Fortune & Maltese
The Henchmen

A few others too, but that lineup alone sounds pretty fucking awesome to me. About time.

Comments

[kimkat126]

so how is the mary weiss record????

[evditchpig]

Overall pretty "meh." The song mentioned above is the only one I like a lot on it. Most of the others put me to sleep.

[madcaddy]

I'm really sad about the Mary Weiss record, seeing as how (from what I've heard) she just...can't sing anymore. Her voice in the Shangri-Las was one of the truly great things in rock 'n roll.

I missed the ? and the Mysterians show in Chicago, too. Goddamn if I see anything these days..

[evditchpig]

I missed this one too, even though I'd been looking forward to it. Depression got the best of me and I didn't even set out that night.

Is "Mary can't sing anymore" pretty much the conventional wisdom regarding the record? I ask because I don't know anyone else who has it, or who's commented on it. It certainly doesn't seem to me that she's lost her voice; from my perspective, it looks more like the song selection left a lot to be desired. Greg's vocals aren't usually -- especially in Reigning Sound -- the highlight of the songs, or if they are, it's mostly because of the way they're layered in the music. When switched to center stage (quite the opposite of Too Much Guitar) a lot is left desired. I think that's the main problem with this one.

I found this CD problematic for many of the same reasons as Home For Orphans or whatever it was called.

[madcaddy]

Well, there's two sides to it, I think

[angellofdeath]

I still haven't heard this but my friends out here who like that stuff, LOVE it.
p.s. i think the new Detroit Cobras is awful. I loved the last one, but this is...blah.