Sunday, August 07, 2005

Non-stop action, moviergoer and aviso

I am toast and it did not help that I hung for awhile after the show and drank and yapped it up with the guys: John A and big Al from Pulaski, mix maestro Shawn Overby and the Ort brothers. Shit, I was toast on Friday closing up some Agency work stuff for the weekend.

The show last night at the Brighton Bar was a great release. Jaco never changes his beard just gets longer and grey but the diehard punk in him lives. That guy can tell some stories from all sorts of angles. Hard to explain the performance high, something gets releases from the energy and swet. Eventhough it 'felt like was 1999' with all the familiar faces in one room. It did not feel retro. The music is still vital and I am glad I am enjoying it as much. We stuck mostly to goodnight sweetheart material and few from the more recent Our lady of the Highway, as we've vowed not to prematurely perform the newer tunes until they are ready to played live. On the bill were Moviegoer and they were awesome. The batteries for the toy instruments they would play thru their pick-ups have long since died but there is talk of bringing some semblance of sampler for their next and last reunion show. Thankfully there was some new music by Benny's new band Non-Stop Action. Walter got heckled by Ben when he requested that ben dance some more. Their tunes are gilting like Jehu and vocals and lyrics are clearly assembled like the asphalt craftmanship of Bill Gerwick. Hard to explain I suppose.