Show Journal 2004-08-13
I’ll try to keep it brief … Checkpoint Charlie was first and although they were good musicians they were musically a little out of place with the lineup. Streetlight Cardiacs were second and I thought they rocked. If only I could have played that well 10 years ago. We were third and nothing too spectacular to report from our set. White Hot Odyssey was last and is now one of my new favorite bands. During their first song I thought “what the hell is this?” and almost left. The second song I’m thinking “ok, this is kind of amusing” and ventured closer to the stage. By the third song my opinion was that “oh my god this rules”. What did they sound like? Imagine MC5, Turbo Negro and T-Rex being performed by a band in matching skin tight white shirts (with white sweatbands) being fronted by what was quite possibly the stereotype of the words greatest and simultaneously most androgynous front man ever. Tight pants, medallions, jewelry, puffy white shirt, powdered white makeup and a powedered white curly magistrate style wig. Crazy, crazy, stuff. The lyrics were straight out of the 80’s hair band genre with songs about sex, rock and roll and more sex. If you don’t appreciate music before 1980 you won’t get it. Fortunately 3/4 of our band is old and we were highly amused. Thanks to the WOW Hall for the hookup!
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