First up was The Bellflowers (MySpace Link), a good old fashioned country band from here in Lincoln. Their pedal steel player is one of my wine reps, and so that’s how I found out about these guys in the first place. You may remember them from a concert I went to a while ago, where they played with Loup River Band. From that came this video of them performing. I didn’t get any video of them this time, unfortunately. Bonus awesomeness for this band: They have an honest to god singing saw. You never see singing saw players any more!

 

 

 

Little Brown Jug from Joshua on Vimeo.
Second act was Little Brown Jug. The only video I shot last night with the D90. It was really dark and I was really drunk, so the cinematography is pretty bad, and I’m still getting used to the controls. But it’s a good song. Go to the Vimeo page to see HD. You can kinda hear Tyler and Matt yammering in the background, but it adds to the bar vibe. They have the cutest fiddle player ever in this band, by the way.

The final act was from up in Omaha, Black Squirrels (MySpace link). They were a little less old-timey with their sound but were very good. They had an accordion player, so it was a night for unusual instruments I guess. Definitely worth checking out.

Be sure to check the Flickr for the rest of the pictures from the evening, there were some good ones.

David Bowie’s Queen Bitch, a rollicking classic from The Life Aquatic soundtrack. If you poke around YouTube you can find an excellent duet with Lou Reed.

Roxy Music comes at you with Ladytron, and with some costuming so fruity, the BBC ordered that it could only be shown after ten pm. But still, it’s a good track, and it’s got a lot of vintage synth porn.

Maddness’s Night Boat to Cairo. A lot of the “punk” kids today don’t realize how much they owe to second wave ska. Bands like Blink 182 and that obnoxious goofy looking band who’s name escapes me at the moment draw more from this movement than the early ’80s punk movement.

Talking Heads performing Psycho Killer. Thirty years ago I totally would have had a crush on Tina Weymouth. Cute girls that play bass are pretty much the best thing ever.

XTC – Statue of Liberty. This one’s just plain good. And more old school synths.

Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army performing Are Friends Electric. I just picked up the “Replicas” album last week. There is definitely some very good very early electro right there. This is the album that really shows you how the electro movement evolved out of the 1970′s prog and hard rock scene.

Finally, Bill Withers singing Ain’t No Sunshine. I will argue with anyone, any day, preferably after I’ve been drinking so I get all shouty, that Bill Withers was the greatest male soul singer that ever lived. This performance is just amazing, and the band is, as always, so tight.

Good stuff there. Then Weezil Skweezins took the stage. They are definitely a fun show. And once you hear “Up the Butt”, it will get stuck in your head for two days. I should mention, there’s some NSFW language, but you probably figured that out from the title.

There are a few more videos up over at my Vimeo. It was a fun show, and I drank nasty bar scotch. Good times.

Oh, and I should mention, I followed DB‘s lead in incorporating video comments. (DB hat-tips me in that post, and now I’m hat-tipping directly back to him. It’s a blogging reacharound.) Iffin you have a webcam, and a Viddler account, you can record video comments directly in the browser window. It’s pretty keen. Thanks, Colin Devroe!

It’s my little sister, Samantha, torturing the dog.

I used Viddler this time to upload the video, because apparently DB wasn’t bitching about Vimeo for nothing, their processing time really does suck. There’s currently a three and a half hour wait just to start encoding video. That’s too long, even if it is high quality encoding.