Slowpoke & MoMax >> played their annual reunion show this past Saturday at Yucca Tap Room. Similarly concentric bands in Flying Scorpion and Snake Burner sharing members opened the night and shut it down, respectively. It was a great night of throwback jams with Derek and Alex in every band on the bill. Kudos to everyone in the lineup for a great show and a free one at that.
Flying Scorpion hit leadoff with Alex now on drums as of the last 3 months but he can still shred a mean guitar per what we saw in what followed. That was the first time I caught an entire Flying Scorpion show and I really dug it. Look for these guys to bubble this year.
Mourning Maxwell got after it next and played a healthy dose if not all of the tracks from both Our Collective Voice and their self-titled EP. Favorites like 'Truce', 'A Poet On Payday' and 'A Million Things At Once' stirred up a lot of awesome memories from the 04-05 timetable. It was really good to hear these guys back at it again.
The headlining Slowpoke followed and started with 'Closed For Winter Session', the opening track from Yesterday's Gone. Most of the setlist was comprised of tracks from said release including 'More Than I Can Have', 'Skullz', 'Crazy Bruise', etc. Friends-slash-fans of Slowpoke since their inception filled the joint and sang along to a lot of the nostalgic tunes, especially in those that welcomed it like 'Hopeless And Hungry' and 'FUCK YOU' of course.
During their set the fellas covered Sublime 'Bad Fish', OSL 'Beer Goggles' [so seldom played Derek forgot some of the words haha] and even NOFX 'Linoleum' with Bud on the mic and Alex drumming. Fittingly, they wrapped up in normal formation with 'Next Morning' and I woke up the next morning with the most epic hangover ever.
Snakeburner capped off the night with their expected amazingness but I was pretty far gone by the middle of their set. I'm sure they finished off in a fun way as always. Please enjoy the videos from the night below and of course on the zBORED YouTube channel. Happy 2013!
marc
