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About me:I've highlighted all the shows I WANT to see, might not make it to all of them. See y'all out there.
Member Since:March 28, 2008
Last Login:About 2 days ago
Location:Saint Louis, MO
Birthday:November 30
Music means to me:music is that one sublime influence that cannot be withstood; it invades the ears, mind and soul of the listener; transforms thought and emotion.
Schools:BME '03, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
General Interests:good food, music tech, song-writing, seeing shows
Other Distractions:social-networking

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Papadosio * Pop's Blue Moon * STL * 11/19/09
Sun 11/22/2009 12:54AM
I've wanted to see these guys for more than a year now, having heard about them from a thread on JB, and I was blown away! They're more jam-tronica than I gathered from the "Light of the Stars" EP, but they pull it off with minimal pre-fab samples and lots of live jamming. SOLID. In a word, solid. Every member of the band was in integral part of the mix, and none off them faltered. All bass was live and it was funky. The drummer played too much in the pocket for my taste, but didn't miss a beat and technically sound. Guitarist played simples lines, sometimes repeating verbatim, much in the STS9 vein, but they were performed flawlessly, letting him lay in effects and samples using a keyboard and some sort of DJ rig. The 4th side of the quadrant was provided by a Jeremy McDonough of Jizzam laying in effects, samples and comping on an organ, 3 keyboards and a laptop. His energetic playing was matched by the wild hair, bright red bow tie and blinking christmas-light vest. WAY TOO GOOD a band to only fill a room with 30 people. They could have played 300. At least
Trampled by Turtles w/ Backyard Tire Fire * Blueberry Hill * STL * 11/14/09
Sun 11/15/2009 12:36AM
Trampled by Turtles may have sold some tickets due to an unusual name, but they packed the Duck Room Saturday night at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis with good ole' fashioned bluegrass pickin.' I would have liked to hear an upright bass, but an acoustic bass guitar was a new twist on a traditional design. Great fiddle and banjo solos, solid bass, guitar and mando were in the mix but not prevalent... Vocal harmonies were warm and in tune. It's astonishing that five guys sitting in folding chairs can get a room full of people to move like they did. Maybe not outright dance, but definitely move. Even though they stayed seated the entire time, they generated more energy than the electric Backyard Tire Fire did afterward. Overall, TBT covered the gamete, from beautiful ballads to frantic, trampling barn-burners. The room cleared when Backyard Tire Fire came out. Their brand of southern rock might have been the right match for another night, but following the raw energy of a bluegrass show was not what I was looking for. I stayed, and was glad I did, for many of the songs were memorable and the band had a great crunchy, distorted wall-of-sound (maybe a bit loud), reminiscent of the Wallflowers. In addition to catchy originals, Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" and a Traveling Wilburys cover gave the crowd something familiar to grab onto. Not what I was expecting, but still a tasty show
EOTO * Old Rock House * STL * 10/28/09
Sun 11/15/2009 12:36AM
Yeah!
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