Fear and Loathing

Last night's show:

I waited around at Bottletree for an hour and a half and then someone told me that Hagerty got lost, which meant the local jam band got to play an even longer set.

Floored it over to AC Temple to see if the show there was not yet over.

THE EXTRAORDINAIRES (Philly) were still playing and everyone was bouncing up in down on their couch cushions. I found this band to be quite enjoyable. Lots of singer-songwriter narratives about subject matter I could really relate to: like cactus jams, horny politicians, and sea monkeys. When I first heard it I thught it reminded me a bit of this Raffi "Goodnight Irene" cover I used to like. Raffi-does-country is what I thought of THE EXTRAORDINAIRES. This is the first singer-songwriter band I have seen in a long time. Fun bass lines and banjos are always welcome. It also reminded me a lot of certain David Allen Coe songs, which makes total sense to me because Shel Silverstein actually wrote a lot of D.A.C. songs. THE EXTRAORDINAIRES make these pretty little illustrated poetry books that illustrate their lyrics. Weren't all the great children's book writers and show producers really just sex-crazed acid heads when you get right down to it?

SMALL FRAMED BOY (Atl) sounded a lot like a band I started in college in the basement of the art studio building. Kind of like if people who never took lessons on their instruments started a goth band, but they really didn't have enough pedals or synths to do it right. However, for some reason they do have a Kaos pad. Q: How do you make a Suicide song with a Kaos pad and no keyboard? A: Turn on the smoke machine.

And guess what record was in the "free" bin outside? Raffi.