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Café du Nord February 19, 2003 Review by Jake Thomas All that really needs to be said here is that I love Crooked Fingers. They are easily one of my very favorite bands performing currently, and I might even go so far as to say that Eric Bachman, who is Crooked Fingers, is one of my heroes. His previous band, the Archers of Loaf, would be placed at the top of the list of my 'favorite bands of all time' along with Fugazi. So going into this show, I knew it was going to be great, no question about it. I've never been disappointed by Bachman, and I wasn't on this date either. Much to my surprise, when I got there an old friend of mine named Barton was standing behind the merch counter. After chatting with him for a while, I came to find out that he was actually playing in the band! I knew that he knew Bachman and had been a roadie for the Archers before, but this was a joyous turn of events. As for the show itself, it was just as expected - awesome. This was by far the most rocking Crooked Fingers show I've seen, and accord to Barton, they've really been moving in this direction lately. One of my friends thinks that they're just going to turn into the Archers eventually, and while that might be pretty cool, I don't think they will ever actually move that far back towards the unique brand of punk rock that the Archers played. It does seem that Bachman is moving a little away from finger picking, or at least not relying on it as heavily; and the new album doesn't have anywhere near as many ballads as previous efforts. Either way, the show was great and I left Café du Nord with a huge smile on my face. I think I could go see these guys live every day and never get tired of it. ©2003 playinginfog.com |