Don Miggs has his work cut out for him tonight.
It is around 7pm at on a cold and rainy Thursday evening, in a quiet Mercury Lounge, and the lead sing and guitariist of rock trio the Miggs, once us to help him up the energy through the roof, but this is new York and we ain’t doing squat till somebody gives us a good reason to.
Don doesn’t shrug, but he might as well have, he just shreds his guitar and turns to his bassist and tyurns back to us and nails song after song after song: this is by the nimber rock,sure. But they are all the right numbers. Straight ahead love songs of doubt and desire and a good looking, self-confident frontman.
The Miggs have been around for years and part of them have become the perennial pros not making it to the next step but the rest of them know how to work a crowd, even a thin crowd. That’s what you get opening for the likes of Duran Duran, Train and Maroon 5.
Three songs in the audience wakes up and Don, in skin tight tee and scarf, comes across like two types of cool rocker boy and bassist Mike Lombardos has the cool glare of an Entwhistle. And they feed of each other very well. A terrifc song “Sincerity” is followed by a terrific song “Melting” followed by…
Me heading out the door!! I’d been told the band would go on at 630p and had other plans (read about em elsewhere here).
More is the shame, Miggs were the better of the two.
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