Tonight Tonight in Music
posted by on February 22 at 10:55 AM
Real to Real opens at the Baltic Room:
REAL TO REAL
The official debut of Real to Real goes off with a bang tonight, featuring Foscil, Original Space Neighbors, Kamui, Introcut, Hideki, Bumble B, and Madman. Original Space Neighbors is actually Seattle’s closest thing to Kool Keith (the sci-fi-obsessed Keith, not the sex- ‘n’ scat-obsessed Keith). Consisting of producer S. Future and rapper Mic Mulligan (both personas are actually underground icon Specs One), OSN often sound like a Twilight Zone episode remixed by Madlib. The music on Original Space Neighbors’ self-titled debut is spacey, off-kilter funk, the rapping’s too-cool-for-old-school, and the whole thing’s pleasantly disorienting. Amid a plague of bellowing misogynists and blustering pseudo gangstas, it’s a relief to hear an MC intone intriguing lyrics as if he’s confiding to you from the next barstool. Specs collaborators Foscil are some of the funkiest white boys this region’s produced in a while. I keep waiting for Ninja Tune to flap open its checkbook for these guys. Baltic Room, 1207 E Pine St, 625-4444, 9 pm—2 am, free, 21+. DAVE SEGAL
Tall Birds play the Croc, Tiny Vipers plays the Rendezvous, Night Canopy are at the Comet Tavern, and A Gun That Shoots Knives attack the Funhouse.
Also, our new music editor recommends Bob Seger. Seriously.
BOB SEGER
(KeyArena) This is my straight face. And this is my sincere appreciation for Bob Seger. Many a hater have never been exposed to the raring blast of his early outfit the Bob Seger System and their late-’60s, Detroit-bred garage rock. The albums are long out of print and hard to find (unless you’re willing to shell out $125 on Amazon), almost as if the Seeg would prefer the big-belt-buckle set that’s his present constituency to forget he was ever a finger-giving radical. But radical he was, though these days he’s coasting on a legacy of middle-of-the-open-road anthems and innocuous blue-collar soul he established back during the oil crisis. It’ll probably be the Chevy-shilling Seger that’ll show up tonight, but we can always hope for a flashback. After all, rock ‘n’ roll never forgets. JONATHAN ZWICKEL
Back when, as a member of The Beach Bums, Seger, who is still a cretin, was one of those cretins that tried to cash in on the head-bashing, hardhat/peace-hater segment of society. It'd fit right in nowadays, so maybe he could resurrect it.
Ballad of the Yellow Beret
[To the tune of Ballad of the Green Berets]
Bob Seger and the Beach Bums
This is a protest against protesters:
Fearless cowards of the U.S.A.
Bravely here at home they stay
They watch their friends get shipped away
The draft dodgers of the Yellow Beret
Yellow streaks up and down their spines
Men who gladly stay behind
They won't fight for the U.S.A.
They fought hard for the yellow beret
Men who faint at the sight of blood
Their high heeled boots weren't meant for mud
The draft board will hear their sob stories today
Only the best the yellow beret
Back at home a young wife waits
Her yellow beret has met his fate
He's been drafted for marching in a protest
Leaving her his last request
Put a yellow streak down my sons back
Make sure that he never ever fights back
At his physical have him say he's gay
Have him win the yellow beret
The yellow beret
Yeah the yellow beret
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Maybe somebody could ask Bob to sing it for us. Support the troops and all that good stuff.
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