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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Tonight in Music: The Bad Plus and Mike Huckabee? Really? Yes.

posted by on May 22 at 9:50 AM

The Score has a few picks for you tonight including the Bad Plus at the Tractor:

The Bad Plus - “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (Live)
The Bad Plus Any decent jazz musician can cover a pop song. Yet the Bad Plus do more than just pick interesting tunes such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Rush’s “Tom Sawyer,” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. Pianist David King and his cohort cover not only songs but the recording themselves, riffing on the tempos and textures ingrained in anyone who has heard the originals. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, 789-3599, 8:30 pm, $25/$27. CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI

mikehuckabee.bmpAP Photo/Tom Uhlman

Rockers, Suits & The Kids Jam: Mike Huckabee, Alan White, Bob Tomberg, Reek Havok, Shelly Tomberg, DJ Dave Airborne (Old Fire House) Old Fire House Teen Center, you are breaking my fucking heart! I can’t imagine what you hope to achieve for the kids you serve by hosting recent presidential candidate Mike “I don’t like gays, immigrants, non-Christians, reproductive rights, sex education, or evolution, but I do ROCK” Huckabee for a jam sesh, but if I were still a disaffected teenager living in Redmond, I would be out front protesting this lame, archconservative ass-hat—not rocking out with him inside. What’s next for the kids, a convenient military-recruitment station on-site? Evangelical prayer groups? In the endless, boring flatscape of suburbia, the OFH used to be a lone glimmer of punk cool, DIY ethics, and, well, hope. If it’s going to host shit like this, it might as well be another shopping mall. ERIC GRANDY

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Dave King is the drummer, not the piano player for the Bad Plus.

Posted by Jason Josephes | May 22, 2008 10:22 AM
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I guess I'm just a bitter gun and religion clinger who doesn't mind if Huckabee, who is not ashamed of his religious beliefs, wants to play bass and jam.

Posted by Wilson | May 22, 2008 3:12 PM
3

Good catch, Jason. I got it right when I previewed their excellent show last year, so I have no explanation for my blunder!

Posted by Christopher DeLaurenti | May 22, 2008 5:46 PM

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