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

[madcaddy]

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

One side: Greg Oblivian -- I, personally, am only so much of a fan. I think a few Oblivians songs are GREAT. A few classics. a few I would pass on to other people as fantastic rock and roll. the rest? eh. the reigning sound? *yawn*. I mean, he puts on a pretty energetic show, but it's, like, the songs just aren't there. his thing with the detroit cobras only cements the fact that he's willing to do whatever these days..

The Mary Weiss side: The Shangri-Las are one of the best rock 'n roll bands ever. I know they're girl group...but her voice is easily one of the best ever, and if you can't appreciate 60's girl group, why like rock 'n roll? I don't know..

Anyway, diamondc sent me a link to one of her norton records tracks a couple months ago. I'm really not a fan of anything reigning sound, i think greg oblivian oversteps his bounds a lot, and mary just, really, couldn't deliver a song like she used to be able to. the current song was gravelly and hoarse, where it used to be high-pitched and whiney to no end (when it was great).

I think she just hooked on to whatever hip artists would promote her shit, but I'm really sad to hear that she just doesn't sound like she can be great like she was. Of course, continuing to be one of the BEST EVER ROCK 'N ROLL voices would be pretty tough.

I'll wait until I (somehow) hear the rest, but I'm really sad so far..