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Bottom of the Hill March 28 & 29, 2003 Review by Jake Thomas Obviously, someone was smoking some weed in the crowd. Someone yells out 'What's that smell?', to which Sam Powers, bassist for Superdrag, replied 'It's a Lynyrd Skynyrd song'. I'm just going to jumble these two shows together and treat them as one. Not that they were the same: on the first night, Superdrag opened and played a much shorter set than on the second night when they headlined. They also played a lot of different songs each night, with about a third to a half being the same on both nights. It didn't bother me to hear the same songs again though, as I would have been happy even if both shows were exactly the same. They played a great mix of songs from all of their albums, not really focusing on any one too heavily. Out of my 10 favorite Drag songs, I think they played 7 of them over the 2 nights. On the first night, they even played 'Sucked Out', their one hit song from the mid-nineties, but I doubt that all the young kids there to see Ozma had even heard it before. Possibly the biggest highlight was that for their last song on the second night, Doug Gillard of Guided by Voices fame got up on the stage and played guitar. God knows how or why he was at the show, but it was rad. There appears to be some bond between GBV and Superdrag as Robert Pollard sang back up on the opening song of Superdrag's newest album. Bottom line: awesome show, awesome band. More people should give these guys a chance, they're way, way better than their 'one hit wonder' status that seems to have saddled them throughout their career. ©2003 playinginfog.com |