A fantastic night of rock ‘n roll on a Monday night. Four bands from 4 different places, 2 different countries. We mainly were there for Thunderroads who came from Japan, but knew we were in for a great night of rock when we checked out the opening bands ahead of time. All were here supporting each other and helping one another out with equipment and everything else. In the front row for each of the bands, was everyone from all the other bands! Taking pictures, clapping along, and helping out with equipment (a dropped microphone, a snare drum falling over, etc…) I’ll be doing a review of each band for the next few days. Pictures and review of The Junkys are here.
Next up was Nico Bones from Long Beach. Great look, great moves, great songs. They were more sleazy NY Dolls type of punk rock. I was a little disappointed. Why? The set wasn’t long enough! From what I hear, Nico’s voice was shot (I didn’t notice), so they did as much as they could. Sounded great to me though. He’s got a fantastic album that came out late last year (though I don’t think they played any songs from it this night). Loud, sleazy rock ‘n roll. The way it should be. Check it out here.
Tower Bar has really high intensity red lighting which is horrible for taking pictures without a flash (I usually don’t use a flash because I don’t want to be too distracting; I take A LOT of pictures!), so I converted most of them to black & white so they weren’t all washed up in bright red. Hope this works.
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