I attended my first Fishbone concert at the Outhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, on November 1, 1986. During the influential band’s free show at Crossroads KC last night, I realized that I’d changed a lot more than Fishbone in the last 30 years. Older but not wiser, Fishbone remains gloriously raw. Partly because I had yet to absorb Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain, I felt as if I’d been transported to a different planet at the 1986 show. On Thursday, I couldn’t stop analyzing song structures. I recall ducking for cover as Angelo Moore swung from the wiring on the ceiling of the Outhouse. As the front man showed off with cartwheels and roundhouse kicks last night, I evaluated the troubling new ache in my right ankle.
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I reviewed a concert by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
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I wrote an extended preview of A$AP Ferg's return to the Midland.
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I write weekly music previews for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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Fishbone, Montgomery Gentry and KT Tunstall headlined free concerts in the Kansas City area last night. The perpetually beleaguered owners of live music venues have it rough.
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The Kansas City garage rock band Psychic Heat released a video for ”Elixir”.
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Steve Gunn’s Eyes On the Lines is RIYL Richard Thompson, indie-rock guitar heroes, Television. ”Ancient Jules” is pretty great.
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The Brad Mehldau Trio reminds listeners that it can play mainstream jazz with exquisite nuance on Blues and Ballads. RIYL: the Bill Evans Trio, beauty, Ahmad Jamal Trio. Here’s ”Little Person”.
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Peter Bjorn and John’s Breakin’ Point is RIYL Paul McCartney, unadulterated pop circa 1975, Paul Carrack.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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