The set closed with my favorite of the album, “Elephants and Hummingbirds” and with its upbeat melody, heartfelt lyrics, and the band at full force, it was a great way to end the evening. I’ve always liked the fact that Joe has always been smart enough to have strong women musicians in the Mathletes and generous enough to not hog the spotlight.
Also, Mlee Marie’s contributions on vocals (the excellent “I’ll be your shoe”), keyboards, sax, and guitar couldn’t be ignored. Kudos to Joe’s newest female foil, Sheri Jennings, who’s keyboards and vocals really were a perfect compliment to Joe’s. Yet, I found myself driving home humming “Da DaDa DaDaDaDaDa Da Dee Da” so don’t take that as anything more than a minor quibble. Old songs like Pinnochiobot were a gas to hear and the band played it like they were on fire but I have to admit, I always think that song benefitted best from the crazy Mathletes “orchestra” days back when Joe had a full on horn section to really drive that riff home. Playing as a four piece for half and an expanded six-piece for the second half, the band tore through material from the new album as well as older material. The Mathletes closed out pretty damn well.
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It’s the kind of bad that leaves you like a deer int he headlights until you remember you have the free will to just walk away from it all and escape to the KTRU DJ’s upstairs.
If you could imagine Hell’s worst community theatre troupe, they would be entirely watchable in comparison to this. It’s the kind of bad that makes you count every second of your life being stolen. It was the kind of bad that is so bad that it hurts your feelings. At one point, though, I realized it wasn’t going to get any better - it was just going to be bad, and stay bad. It was one of those sets where you felt you were “on the clock” as a music writer. Wasting the Giant Princess/Babyshowers set with my camera and my phone issues was made even more lame because the next set was….well let’s just not name names and say that it was obviously something that was going for the “so bad, it’s great” aesthetic but just stayed in the bad and never changed course for the entire set. It would be awesome like that Venom 7″ they put out years ago with all the stage banter of “YOU GUYS ARE WILD! WIIIILD!!!” except it would be two sides of all “UGH!”, “STUPID CABLES!”, ”GAAAAAHHHH!’, and the like. I know this was just a small part of the entire set but all I am saying someone should collect these and release a compilation of Chris stage freaks out and contact Ecstatic Peace to release it. Some small little detail that nobody would else even care about and Chris just goes into his best early career Nicholas Cage freak out. It’s pretty bratty stuff that I find hilarious. Oh my god, is that Mic stand too loose? What will he do? Why is the world against him? Marvel as Mlee keeps a steady beat to try to get Chris back on track. Watch as Chris gets flustered with his cables. The set was pretty awesome ( I mean c’mon it’s a whole set of awesome White Stripes tunes) and Mlee’s drums sounded like John Bonham heavy (kudos to the sound lady on emphasizing the kick drum) but the show was dominated by Chris’s bratty stage persona. Hearts of Animals but it was more Chris Cascio vs. The Whit Strips (the Chris Cascio & Mlee Marie White Stripes cover band) was billed as a Chris Cascio Vs. OK it was more Chris vs his effects, vs his cables, vs the microphone.
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