Bears Lair Pub, Berkeley, 5/9/08
(14/1000)
Wow. After getting on stage twenty minutes late, The James ... what the fuck was this guy's last name ... band's lead singer (I'm assuming this guy's name is James?) let out a screeching yelp and strummed a chord: let the rock begin.
Unfortunately this band sounded like a terrible Weezer cover band, a terrible B52s cover band, and a terrible Evanescence cover band all rolled into one ... well ... terrible band. Bad chord changes were on the loose, sloppy drums, and bad gimicky vocals (did you really think singing through a megaphone was going to make you sound better?).
The band also had additional support from a member of UC Berkeley acapella group Artists in Resonance (AiR). Besides acapella groups in general being lame as f, AiR has the special privelage on the Berkeley campus as being the lamest of the lame. Yet for whatever reason James (if that is his real name) decided that what his mediocre band clearly needed was more mediocrity, and decided to throw in some girl from AiR on backup vocals. She contributed nothing.
The silver lining in this show (besides getting a good laugh out of the whole thing and drinking a bunch of beer -- thanks Eunice) was that the bass player for the band (brought in just for this show) was impressively solid. Smooth clean lines, no overplaying, good taste level. If they had just cranked him up so loud that he drowned everyone else out, I would have felt like I was listening to an advanced bass instructional CD, which would have been a dramatic improvement over what I heard last night. Kudos to you, bass player, you are the saving grace of the otherwise atrocious James [Insert Last Name Here]'s band.
Sheeeeiiiiiit.
1 comment:
man, that bass player. i liked the cut of his jib.
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