Straight from the Hi-ho's surf night to WTUL. A little notice here: I now have a regular-ish slot. First two weeks of the month at 2AM CST. Not ideal but whatev. If you have any thoughts on the show, even if it's about how you can't listen, please let me know and I might use them for the show's benefit at a later time.
The Sentinals - Exotica Wild Sammy & The Royaltones - Road Runner CC Adcock - Beaux's Bounce The New Dimensions - Taming of the Tube Telekrimen - Fra Diavolo Dr Frankenstein's Laboratory - She-Devil's Stroll Galaxy Trio - Lynch Mob
Atomic Mosquitos - Hand Scorpio Nite Caps - Wildcat The Fathoms - Flaming Arrow Deuce Coupes - Hayburner Ramblin' Ambassadors - Rat Creek
The Bills - Breaking and Entering The Frogmen - Underwater The Boogie Kings - Boogie Chillun The Weisstronauts - Banana Suit Enoch Light - Raunchy Dex Romweber Duo - Cigarette Party Los Plantronics - Hang 'em High
Piltdown Men - Night Surfing The Originals - Sleepless Hours
A few weeks have gone by with few shows that I absolutely HAD to go see, but this coming Saturday is loaded with options... and nobody wants that. ONE option is ideal.
The real problem here: All three Louisiana surf bands (that I know of), two shows, roughly the same time.
The Unnaturals, The Bills, Cemetery Surfers
Apparently this is a one year anniversary for both The Bills and Unnaturals with The Cemetery Surfers thrown in as well. Somehow I haven't heard The Unnaturals yet, but I caught The Bills at Banks St. Bar earlier this summer and they're very tight and managed to turn my friend on to surf.
I hadn't heard of the Cemetery Surfers until now, but their myspace lists half their dates on sci-fi and fantasy conventions, which is causing a lot of inner turmoil right here. Part of me goes FUCKING SWEET and part of me thinks, well, what normal people think. I guess it's like this: ask yourself "Death Race 2000 or Firefly?". The Rock & Roll Hoo-Ha What What is firmly in the Death Race camp. The camp camp.
Oh and if you check out their myspaces they have about three different posters for this show. That amount of effort probably dcould have been better used making one good one
VERSUS Spring Break Shark Attack and a bunch of other bands
The rest of the bands at this show are decidedly not Rock&Roll enough for this blog, but I saw SBSA with Sasquatch and the Sickabillies last year and was thrilled. Really great unique sound and they pull it off with tons of energy. I'd love to see how they pull it off with another year of practice, but I don't think they need it.
And since I weighed in on the other's shows fliers, I don't want to use the word outclassed but I guess this show "outdoes" them.
SURPRISE CONTENDER
If you've already seen all four of these bands (RRHHWW loves you), there's Clockwork Elvis at Kingpin Bar (what where?). I haven't seen them either but it's the 31st ELVIS DAY OF ELVIS WEEK. Whether you see it or not, live with throughts of the King.
While we're talking about fliers
Will you just look at this?
If you click on the picture you'll see that Lost Acapulco's got a lot of hot promo material, but I love this thing. I love them! I love Mexican surf! To any of the bands mentioned here or not mentioned, this stuff makes me want to go forth and make a concert poster. I've done this stuff before and I think they were pretty badass (not this badass). I volunteer if you want me.
I don't see the point in post-concert wrap-ups but I had no idea what I was going to see last night. I don't think they were even on the Hi-Ho's schedule and I didn't know the name of the band until I saw it on a poster before I entered.
Before Lovehog themselves played they backed up Jessica Griffith, apparently from Nashville, who had a great soulful Blues voice that had me impressed and made for a real great atmosphere. She's got a myspace here.
I'd probably write more about her if I hadn't been so surprised by Lovehog, who were local. While I'm not the hugest fan of their name it's a pretty good description of their sound: country/blues slide guitar influenced Mudhoney sludge along the lines of Bantam Rooster, 20 Miles or the Black Keys. I love those sort of bands and can honestly say that they are at least as good as any of them. Each member of the 3-piece stood out on their own musically and complimented each other well.
Unfortunately their Myspace isn't a great demonstration of how good they sounded live, but they're about to start recording their new album.
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