Monday, March 16, 2009
The Spin The Spin: King Khan and the Shrines, Golden Triangle & The Deep Vibration at Exit/In 3/13/09
Posted by The Spin on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM
See slideshows for more photos: King Khan; Golden Triangles; The Deep Vibration.
Sopping sidewalks and chilly winds made this month's Friday the 13th feel that much more unpleasant to anyone who wasn't already experiencing some superstitious misfortune. We splashed our way over to the rock block and made it inside Exit/In in time to catch the latter half of local retro rockers, The Deep Vibration.
The room had all the cavernous ambiance that only an empty Exit/In can provide while the band cranked out out bluesy, mod-era garage rock that seemed to strive more for authenticity than originality. They had some slow numbers that would have felt right at home at a 1962 sock hop, and they alternated with more rollicking ditties that kept bringing to mind the "Johnny B. Goode" scene from Back to the Future.
The room was comfortably populated by the time Golden Triangle stepped onstage. We could tell by their flowing sleeves and echo-y, groovy intro that we were in for something trippy. Armed with two tambourine-tapping front women and equal parts men and women on the whole, Golden Triangle kicked out a continuous stream of fast-paced, short and sweet jams with overlapping boy-girl vocals and several layers of fuzzy, jangled guitars. The end result came out sounding like a less campy B-52's pitted against the punked-up freak-out of The Fugs.
By the time The Shrines started introducing their leader King Khan, the place had filled up proper and the band wasted no time kicking things into overdrive with some riotous, old school, shit-kicking R&B. Backed by a nine-piece band, Frontman Khan screeched, howled and crooned through a mix of sweaty, psychedelic soul and overdriven garage punk. For the encore, the band was joined onstage by tour mates Golden Triangle for a few more tunes, some of which sounded familiar enough to be covers, but the only one we could place was an interlude from Suicide's "Ghost Rider." Attempts at a second encore were made, but were unsuccessful as the house music told us all it was time to head back into the rain.
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Yeah, for a minute, I thought they were gonna actually play all of Ghost Rider. That probably would have been weird.
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That was one of the best shows I've been to in a while, even though I wasn't familiar with most of the songs they played that weren't on What Is?!.
I took lots of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/indierocklance/sets/72157615271343652/
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