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Short review of Tea Lights and Johnny Lives:
I got a delicious Margarita from Kevin at the bar and was immediately fascinated by Johnny Lives singer's tie with t-shirt look, guitar, and rock star moves. Sitting down, I was somewhat transfixed. A born rock star. Like when you see picures of Springsteen at a club in 1972 and you think "even then he was a millionaire icon", though really he was unknown. And the guy knows how to write anthemic rock songs, that unfortunately, wouldn't be huge these days, right? The drummer sometimes went on a fill and didn't know quite when to get off (like getting off a moving skateboard half a second too late) but he made very endearing drum faces. Like Victor DeLorenzo of the Violent Femmes, like a comedic actor being a drummer. I liked the drumming. Johnny Lives, can they hold it together, can a guy like that age gracefully? At times very Strokes-ish. I bet that singer has a great record collection.
Tea Lights--Max I know how you must have felt when you saw the Maggies after you quit. You have to keep yourself from thinking, "aww.but I wrote the definitive bass (or drum) part to this song, what is he doing?" But then you have to pour bleach all over your memory to start with a blank slate and you see that really, "Issallgood, G! Damn...."
My fave T-lite's part; the bridge of "Downtown".
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