I’ve called em indie pop and I’ve called em emo and folk, but essentially they are just a rock band with a lead singer who taps into a sense of a dream which has become a part of American youth at least since the 1990s, maybe since the late 1960s, of a dream, both personally and politically diminished
Like the entire evening, it was all a case of he who lives by the pop rocker that pops will die by the pop rocker that flops. Come back the Vandals all is forgiven.
Disco Biscuits play like a bi-polar Hamlet: they can’t quite make up their mind where they are going but when they decide they kill it. Who thinks of “Run Like Hell”? Right? I mean if all the Pink Floyd wannabes why this one? But it blasts them through a mental shell and lands them at the instigation to “blow it up”, They cap the set with an excellent “Hot Air Balloon” and the hour plus opening set is brilliant.
There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to describe the infinite sadness of watching a pudgy, huffing and puffing, somewhat hoarse, 57 year old man in full Pirate Captain regalia, including hat, topped off by eyeglasses, singing “That music’s lost its taste lets try another flavor…”
Scream Tour Presents presents their third traveling R&B and rap show for tween and teen black girls, and the teen and tweens greatly appreciate the unthreatening peers and dancers give it their all to backing tapes for three hours.
His set at Best Buy on Saturday night was the man we have seen for over 35 years; playing his solo material, more,than that, his 21st Century solo material, looking back atsome mid-90s solo career highs and throwing in an occasional Jam song for taste.
He can be my token beach boy 2011.
As good a reason as any to celebrate with this wonderful songwriter.
