Thursday, September 29, 2005

 

I got a pocket full of rubbers and the Gourds do, too.

The Gourds, a great band who apparently listen to sage advice from the Druz, played the Neurolux tonight. The Gourds came to Boise for the second time in two years. The band is the best kind of folk-country-rock out there, a roots band that drinks and swears and on Wednesday I talked them into playing the song that made them. The Gourds played a great set at the Neurolux, a set that had white people in Hawaiin shirts doing dangerously epileptic dances that threatened to injure the masses and embarrass white people everywhere. But the band kept refusing to play the band's signature cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice."

So I approached the fiddle player, and said, "Look, I've seen you guys plenty of times and I don't care if you play it, but my friends are begging me, so could you give a brother a break an play 'Gin and Juice.?' Please." He told me he would try but that it was up to the singer. So the band played an encore which was awesome but did not include the Snoop Dogg classic and I approached the bassist, again with the same plea. He told he would see what he could do. The band took the stage and immediately broke into Gin and Juice, listening to my advice and wowing the crowd.

After a bang-up two-hour set, they finally played the song most of the crowd was waiting for and put gangsta rap to shame with their superior folk rendition of the classic. There's nothing quite like a mandolin-wielding dude saying "I got a pocket full of rubbers and my homies do, too." Especially when I made it happen. Go Gourds and go Druz.

Comments:
Way to go on insta-blogging, Druz. I think I dropped you off at home about 7 minutes ago.

But where was the promised DK reference? I'm disappointed.
 
Drunk, very drunk. Forgive me for the ladk or DK reference. Donuts are delicious.
 
what I would have given to be in that crowd. That's the sort of genre-be-damned musical extravaganza that I truly enjoy.
Damn, Boise is cool.
 
Nice 3rd person reference, you d-bag. That said, I'd definitely be down for some folk renditions of "Gin and juice," but I'd settle for some drunken karaoke of AC/DC or that British fag.
 
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Hey, keep in mind I wrote this immediately after the show when I couldn't get to sleep because the room was spinning. Cut a brother some slack.
 
The Flash Express do an awesome version of The Message by Grand Master Flash.

http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TD6U6QW3CQZ12T4XW7J9ULSF9

Name this new genre?
 
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