Nov
21
2009

Get Your Fire For Free

Joe Pena, Muddy Violets & Strange Young Things @ Yucca

PhotosSaturday, November 21, 2009 - 11:45:38 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
What a rockin' night at Yucca. We tend to see a lot of acoustic, or somewhat laid back stuff, so I loved seeing some balls to the wall rock tonight at The Tap.

Obviously Tucson's Joe Pena was both acoustic and somewhat laid back, but was still cool. It was certainly impressive to me that I don't think I've ever heard the same version of a Greyhound Soul song twice! Joe Pena compared to the whole band live compared to the whole band on record are aways so significantly different sounding.

Strange Young Things has a quite impressive merch booth set up behind us - with t-shirts cool! We needed to get one, and I think it took Corey a second to realize we were actually serious. [smile]

Photobox ImageMuddy Violets, who haven't played for at least 2 years as far as I understand were incredibly tight. Huge wall of sound and the set was essentially all songs I knew - Fragile Animal, Pretty, Mr. Jesus Man, Mabalene, Small Town, Big City and Ashamed as well as a few that seemed like new ones. Yucca was quite packed, no doubt with drummed up interested because the band hadn't played in so long, although it thinned out somewhat even before the Violets had finished playing.

Photobox ImageStrange Young Things were in fine form. And quite possibly looking to score some new fans taking advantage of selling merch and completely playing up to the crowd. I haven't seen them enough to know whether their performance was rare form or not, but Corey was certainly being impressively crazy, spending only about half the set on the stage. It was awesome. He was up on the bar, continually moving his mike to the floor, dancing with the crowd, playing guitar solos in the crowd, slithering all across the floor between people. Just totally insane! A lot of people didn't seem to know what to make of it and nearly everyone absolutely enjoyed it. It was really great to see them having worked up the remainder of the Muddy Violets crowd not very far into their set. And by the end of the night had everyone wearing one of the infamous stickers. These guys are just amazing. Not only do they have killer songs, but (particularly Glodie) every rock n' roll move known to man. I wish they played every night!

So yeah, an awesome rock n' roll night. Maybe our ears will stop ringing at some point! [wink]

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