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Dirty Duck, Modesto May 29, 2001 Review by Squid After work Tuesday we sped off on another road trip, this time to the infamous Dirty Duck in Modesto to check out a Benefit for A Girl Hurts Records, who will be putting out the first Built Like Alaska 7". We've followed Built Like Alaska for almost a year now, and it frankly fuckin' rocks to see how far they've come. We're sure it was partially playing to a familiar hometown crowd, but this was the loudest and tightest we've ever seen this Oakdale quartet play. There were scathing reenactments of songs we've grown to love like 'Healthy One' and 'Goodnight, Not Goodnight', but the clincher, the real kicker of the evening was their trashpunk take on that old Crowded House standard, 'Don't Dream It's Over'. Squid wasn't sure that most of the audience was even old enough to remember that song when it came out, but no matter, she still got a little misty. Oh, to be sixteen again. Make yerself useful and pick up BLA's "This Song Will Bury You" EP while you wait for their new 7"... We weren't the lone citykid outcasts, coz our pals Film School were up next. Half composed of members of Bay Area band Pinq, Film School are touring around behind their new album, "Brilliant Career". There was some playful heckling that branded them shoegazers, but they were actually all about beautiful, gritty post-rock introspection. We can offer no better proof of their talent then to describe the number of people who stopped chatting with their pals to listen attentively to the set of a band they'd never heard of before. If you share our taste in music at all, you've got to check Film School out. The Stabone and Demar Rock Group were a veritable cesspool of talent. Three quarters of this quartet, (ie. Zach, Sean and Dan) are/were in Fiver, and Oakdale resident Taylor Webster rounded things out nicely with his 'sunglasses indoors' brand of bass wielding. The last time we saw TS&DRG, it was at the Acoustic Jam, so the majority of what we focused on was their hysterically scatalogical lyrics. Think "Ween: The Next Generation". Take, for example, this sampling from their song, 'Drug Money' I need drugs for my anus It's really big and huge and heinous Maybe I'll go on TV and be famous But right now I need a rubber doughnut Indeed. You know, we here at Playing in Fog are unapologetic supporters of Central Valley music at this point. After all, beer is beer, no matter where you drink it. The chance to kick it with all the new drunks, sorry, friends we've met is worth the drive alone. We keep this up and the name of the site may have to change to Playing in Ceres. Oh, gawd... --- Go here for a good dose of The Stabone and Demar Rock Group MP3s. Read our Built Like Alaska review from their show at Café du Nord on March 20, 2001. |