Sunday, March 30, 2008
Muscular and American Rock 'n Roll with no Compromises
Bob Mould's music is powerful, straight forward and muscular rock and roll. There is a lot of agony and stuff of bad relationships in the lyrics and typically a good hook in most of his tunes. There certainly is a level of abandon to his guitar playing especially towards the end of his sets when the energy level has been notched up.
His is not music I tap into my typical regular rotations, but somehow I think Pam and I have seen more Mould live together than any other artist I can think of...I think we have caught five shows over the years in a variety of settings, either with his power trio, Sugar, solo, or even with a backliscreen projection with experimental visuals a few years back at the Aladdin in Portland. Pam liked that last one because we got home quite reasonably early.
We were able to watch Mould wrap up his current tour swing in support of the new album District Line. It was loud and passionate as we expected.
Here is a link to a solo concert streamrecently broadcast through NPR.
And here is a You Tube clip showing Bob's band at work.
posted by well-executed buffet at 9:45 PM
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