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Ok! This was worth declaring my adoration to Ms. Merritt. For now. There's actually a fair amount of Dallas-area figures in the crowd of 125 or so: the new music editor at the Dallas Observer is here, for instance (and he's taking pictures, too). We're all being treated to some raw but toothsome 1970s-era ... arena gypsy rock? It's very free and unassuming, yet the guitarist, Yonatan Gat, has major rhythm chops, especially considering how much he's moving around ... And in the middle of the second song, both he and the singer, a curly-haired and handlebar-moustached spaz named Ami Shalev, hit the gravel. The singer uses a tarp for a cape and goes all James Brown amongst the crowd, body-slamming with anyone in range. Whoa ... that tarp was the mixing board cover! The board op just barged into the pit and grabbed it back. Oooh, the scowl on his face was priceless ... And now a stagehand helps bring the drum kit down to the rocks. How's that thing gonna work out on a non-flat surface? Pretty darn well, it turns out. Photographers are everywhere: word's obviously spread about this band's schtick. It's amazingly organic and participative. People are spontaneously body-surfing, and the crowd's completely enclosed the band as if egging on a high-school catfight in mid-scratch and claw. "We gonna play two more songs!," Mr. Shalev exclaimed. He then proceeded to pour a can of beer (a tallboy, too) over his drummer's kit, fetched a large plastic trash can, dumped its contents onto the drummer and capped the overturned can onto the drummer's head. And the guy didn't miss a beat. By the end of the set, audience members were banging on drums, pouring beer on the band, giving piggyback rides to Mr. Gat and proclaiming all sorts of warm and fuzzy (emphasis on fuzzy) wishes toward Monotonix. Israeli punk stoner metal. It RAWKS!!! |
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