Gomez closes for Rodrigo y Gabriela
So Gomez played at the Moore theatre last night, but enough about them, let me tell you about the entertainment of the evening.
Rodrigo y Gabriela – the name alone makes you kinda want to spend the first hour of the night exploiting the bar rather than heading into the show early to catch their opening act. On a whim (more due to my general feeling of being “pickled” after a long weekend of rock shows than my lust for culture, mind you) we headed into the Moore theatre to see if these bands opening for Gomez had any value. As the doors opened I hear what has to be an entire entourage of musicians on stage. There is an intense spanish/mexican rhythm being struck out with tons of bass and easily 3-4 guitar melodies. After finding a seat (not a big fan of the sit-down Moore shows overall) I found myself searching for the rest of the musicians. All I see are a man and woman on acoustic guitars hammering out all this music.
R y G come from Mexico City and what they play is NOT Flamenco. They were adamant about that. Rodrigo maintains all of the leads while Gabriella with-what have to be hands of steel-thumbs, thumps, and punches her guitar into submission. She does not play it as a guitar as much as she plays it as an entire drum kit with handy guitar attachment. Upon listening for a song or 2 I began to pick up on little snippets of other songs I recognized. The first-and most impressive-being Orion by Metallica, then One by the same, and eventually some White Stripes and Rage licks. No, this is certainly NOT flamenco.
It was easily the best performance of the night. Even the second band… who’s name was not even worth noting.. likened their upcoming set to that scene in Karate Kid where Ralph does his thang, and it’s their turn and they just know damn well they’re going to lose.
Gomez played too. Enough said.
You can check out Rodrigo y Gavriela here on their MySpace page. The Orion cover is the shit-though it pales in comparison to the live show. Keep an eye out for RyG to tour through Chop Suey in Dec.. Dates not yet decided.
Wow, what do you know? It’s another 2-musician band juggernaut that rocks! I’m so happy that I’ve gotten to use the word “juggernaut” twice in one week! B/t/w what happened at the end of your post? B/t/w what happened at the end of your post? B/t/w what happened at the end of your post? Wait, deja vu…
[...] There isn’t much left to say about Rodrigo y Gavriel that wasn’t already covered in my rave last month (See: Gomes Closes for Rodrigo y Gavriela). [...]