Yo La Tango With The Blacklips Sept. 25, 09

Outside Roseland looked like a ghost town early in the night but the room filled up around ten or ten thirty. Most people getting in after the Black Lips left the stage. To bad for them because it was one of the best parts of the night. Their 60's style short Garage band type songs are fun do dance to. No craziness on this night. None of their strange stage antics no nudity, fireworks or chickens. They had to get off the stage so fast almost running off, but for what? Well thirty minutes of nothing that sucked. Then a comedian that half of the people could not understand, and then more nothing. Wish the Black Lips could have played a longer set. So later, rather then sooner, Yo La Tango arrived on the stage with a kick ass light show that had trippy lights and effects over a slow moving liquid lights. Joshua White and Gary Panter are the magic makers that put on the lights. They have been known for putting on shows at the Film Archives in Second Avenue. Yo La Tango are a NJ feedback-driven art rock band. There was some low and high points of the set. Weird to bring out a string ensemble only once for a song off the new record. The encore being the best part of the night when a fan wanted a song most of the band hardly remembered. One of their sweet pop songs that sounded great. Yo La Tango means "I've got it" and this small band does have something.

Motorhead With Reverned Horton Heat 09/09/09

Sorry about the late review but I had a Birthday and a crazy belligerent weekend.

This night of the Show 09/09/09 an upside down 06/06/06, so we went in looking for trouble. Arriving just as the Reverend Horton Heat took the stage everyone was hyped up for a good time. This trio from Texas is hot with a larger then life stage presence. They have such a round and full sound for three players because of the stand up bass and a lick called ‘hurricane'. Playing lead and rhythm guitar simultaneously, The Rev. (aka Jim Heath) can make one instrument into two. With songs like "Nurture My Pig," "Drinkin' and Smokin' Cigarettes" and "Psychobilly Freakout" one can see why the have such a cult following. They joked, played around and the Rev. did his thing by jumping up on the bass mid song. Then the out comes Motorhead. This classic power-trio is loud and fast with a punk rock style of heavy metal. Never changing Ian Fraiser Kilmister, known as Lemmy came out in all his glory. Remember in the 70's they still had rock gods. Now over 60 Lemmy is still drinkin' and jokin' on stage with his thick English accent. Always in black cause he doesn't need to wash them so often, he will never change unless someone finds something "darker than black.' Motorhead is the lasted song Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind one of his first projects. They where a prog rock band with there signature song "Silver Machine" written by Lemmy in 72'. The 70's were long but the 80's even longer with Ace of Spades being Motorhead's first American album. In NYC when they ended with this Ace of Spades everyone was wanting more. All the people, all in black, poring out of Roseland went on into the night for more drinking and depravity.