My lady and I hit a random show at the Doubledoor last night. I'd never seen any of these bands before and had only heard one Dead Confederate song (The Rat)
J Roddy + the Business: The opener. We only caught the second half of their show, but these guys throw down some old school rock and roll, straight up. Lots and lots of energy. Soon after we arrived, J(?) pulled a piano to center stage and banged out the rest of their act on that, bringing to mind the Blues Brothers scene with the ratty old piano they buy from Ray Charles. I've only seen a very *few* people look cool playing a piano/keyboard on-stage and this guy was one of them. They started off with a Little Richard cover which is the OneVideoPerShow I recorded, then continued rockin out and taking us back to, I imagine, what a Jerry Lee Lewis concert could've been like back in the early 60's.
((Unfortunately, after reviewing the video, the file was corrupted somehow, causing the sound to go twice as fast as the video and be un-synced for the whole thing. If I get really crazy with some video editing software and somehow fix this, I'll let you know))
Dead Confederate: So, first of all, the lead singer does in fact look like he's on his way to being dead... But music is about the sound. From what I'd read and heard of that song my gf has (the Rat), I expected DC to be sort of alt-country, kinda like Drive-By Truckers. Not so! These guys have a shoegazey, distorted, ocean of haunting sound they're drowning in. It was, imho, too loud, but I may have survived if I'd brought earplugs. I rather enjoyed it, despite my ears' pain, because the singer (whose name is not on wikipedia OR their website and I'm disinclined to search any further) brought the introspective, personal emotion out in force. After a while, however, my ears were hurting and it started to blend together... all that droning, distorted, LOUDness... and I took a break. The bass player's amp was feeling it too, and cut out during the song I recorded. I felt a little bad, but rules are rules... OneVideoPerShow! They handled it rather unceremoniously too... knocking over a mic stand and doing a lot of hand-wavy bitching... check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFaIpuchtg4
Alberta Cross: Billed as a sort of new version of Neil Young, and myself being a huge Neil Young fan, I had high hopes for Alberta Cross. The lead singer Petter Ericson Stakee has an interesting, skeletal face and some enthusiastic dance moves. The whole band was pretty enthusiastic. They sang a song about Chicago that about half the audience seemed to know... Honestly, it was a little generic, I thought. Maybe I was tired, but halfway through the set their songs all kinda ran together. Have a look at this song which I recorded and see if you know what I mean....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNoOMPbLOKg
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