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.
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At any rate, when this topic came up last night, I found that this question is also referred to as “Death Bus”. I was shocked and horrified! I’ve been asking this question over the past 6 years — NEVER running into anyone who has ever heard of it. How could it be, someone other than me is asking that all important question? Ok, I’m just kidding (sort of) but truth be told, it did come to me by my friend Dan Blasko in Chicago… I first heard it while hanging out and drinking with Dan and some friends at the Red Lion Pub. Such a great bar in so many ways. Plus it’s haunted. I could digress here and tell you how my friend Amy and I (after drinking a few Boddingtons) would try to summon the ghost in the upstairs women’s bathroom. Never worked. Maybe we had to be sober and take it seriously??? Who knows, but back to the topic at hand, what I’m trying to get at is that I guess I can’t take credit for the “Death Bus” quesiton anymore -oh well, it was fun while it lasted. So after all that, are you curious to see who’s on my bus, well here ya go:
