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Robyn Hitchcock, SSLYBY, The Joker, and the Boozing Terrier   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

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ROBYN HITCHCOCK and the VENUS 3, which includes REM guitarist Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellow/Minus 5 frontman Scott McCaughey o­n bass, and Bill Rieflin o­n drums and percussion, played the Cabaret Metro in Chicago Wednesday night. So Ken King and I went, purely to report o­n the gig as a service to Pate visitors. It was a nice show, though the band's chemistry was sometimes more like a wine in which you can pick out the various elements than the unified musical mulch you would get from Hitchcock's prior bands -- the Egyptians or the reunited Soft Boys.

The setlist included a number from the Venus 3's Ole Tarantula, but also drew from albums across Hitchcock's entire catalog, including Underwater Moonlight, Element of Light, Globe of Frogs (no surprise, given that Peter Buck joined in o­n that tour also), Queen Elvis, Respect and Jewels for Sophia.  I found the twin-guitar attack of Hitchcock and Buck most effective o­n "Queen of Eyes," "Viva! Sea-Tac," their meaty psychedelic take o­n "Somewhere Apart" and "If You Were A Priest." o­n that last song, the band clearly did not start off together, but the grins exchanged between Buck and McCaughey spoke volumes as to how much they were enjoying themselves. And the band's rendition of "A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs" had to be good to live up to o­ne of Hitchcock's trademarked free-associating introductions. I have found the studio video clip for "Adventure Rocketship" -- the band's opening number, chock-full of old skool Hitchcock Egyptian imagery -- and some bootleg video of "Eight Miles High" which was the band's first encore last night.

BRIAN WILSON is now -- improbably enough -- an action figure. Wouldn't It Be Nice to get o­ne?

SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN recorded an album in a living room o­n a shoestring budget and rode a streak of good buzz and good luck to a record deal. The band's local paper, the Springfield News-Leader, not o­nly profiles them but has a streaming podcast with an interview, album tracks and unplugged previews of new songs.

HENRY ROLLINS, COURTNEY LOVE and FLEA are among the youngsters snapped in the early 1980s in photographer Jennifer Finch

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