TNV - ATL - 6/23/08
Times New Viking
The Earl
Monday June 23, 2008
Damn! I really wasnt expecting them to be that awesome last night. Short, sweet, and sweaty as fuck. Zieg came down from ATH and met Ellie and I for some tight mexican and odd convo topics over a few beers. Elliott bounced and Ice met up with us at the Earl. Missed the first two bands and walked into a near empty back room of the Earl. Kind of shocking to all, mainly b/c I just thought they had been through ATL enough and
had enough exposure to warrent a big crowd. It was cool though there were maybe 40 people there on a monday night. Maybe everyone was home jacking off to the Dawgs win?
Yeah, everyone was at home jacking off to the Dawgs win! They fucking blasted off and pretty much annihilated us. I had makeshift earplugs and was thinking throughout that this was one of the loudest fucking bands i had ever seen, even with only 3 people. Everything overblown, everything jamming as hard as it can, understood 1 lyric the entire time. Awesome. Dude talked b/w every song and the only thing I understood the whole time was "wamph wamph wamph Lets get the fuck out of here and get drunk wamph wamph wamph!" The girl who cuts my hair went to prom with the singer dude, which seemed weird because that dude was a mainaic. In a rad way of course. She once told me he was obsessed with pavement and GBV, which makes sense to me now.
I dont own any of their records, have maybe heard 4 or 5 songs by them but they really whipped my ass last night. Its like basement GBV with harmonied vocals, or Mates of State after drip drippin' some acid and drinking three 40ozs. Blistering jams, 30-40 minute set and they were done. Great shit!