Wall of Sound Presents: A Night with the Spoils

Wall of Sound is probably the craziest record shop in the city.  Located on Capitol Hill it peddles shit that even freaks and music nerds must admit is quite rare.  Need that Baby Grandmothers’ (’60s Finnish psych band) live/outtakes comp.  That’s your place.  They put on shows highlighting bands they dig and this week/month/or whenever the occur, is SPOILS.

SPOILS are not some weird, fucked-up out there band.  (Well they are, or the dudes are.)  Spoils’ groove is to play the most freedom-rockin’, balls to the wall, grab-a-chick-for-the-night, drink some beers, get fried, get wired, dance around, smile, happy, good timin’ rock & roll band in this city.  The band consists of Milky Burgess (guitar/vox), Jim “Diamond Vincent” Davis (bass), and Don McGreevy (drums).  These dudes fill the same roles in the psyched-out ritual mindfuck that is the Master Musicians of Bukkake.  Milky has also been doing live shows with Morricone-scorched desert drone pioneers, Earth, and sings some nice songs himself ( myspace.com/milkyburgess ).  Don McGreevy is the bassist for the same uberband Earth, also plays bass in indie-rock group the Stares, and recently pulled double-duty for Kinski (sometimes on bass, sometimes on drums) during their arena opening tour for Tool.  Diamond Vincent, formerly of Gigantum, cuts some spooky, stoned out, candles in a dark room-alone music ( myspace.com/diamondvincent ).

Away from the fucked up insanity of Bukkake and their various other endeavors, Spoils bring the straight-up rock & roll which we should all love.  Milky’s guitar technique is one of the craziest you’ll ever see — Seattle’s own-private guitar god.  McGreevy & Diamond Vincent hold down the groovy groove with what they used to call “feel” back in the day.

They’re playing two sets.  Spoils, all night long.

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