Death Rattle / Rozamov / Hope & The Husbands / Endless Decay
Jaymes Purtle’s 30th Birthday Party at the Midway Café, Jamaica Plain, MA 6/12
Dual Text Review by Andy Bang and Slimedog
Slimedog- This show was for Jaymes’ thirtieth birthday (drummer of Red Line Rebels and Hope & The Husbands). He’s a great guy and great drummer.
Andy Bang- Yes, when we arrived he was dressed rather nattily and readying his magic ukulele.
Slimedog- I like him but cannot condone his use of a ukulele in such an unsavory manner. The things he did with it were unspeakable! Also, I did not know he was from Cape Cod.
Andy- Me neither, I thought he was from France.
Slimedog- Yeah, he looked like a French mime, lots of them are ukulele molesters. And there are lots of Cape Cod metal bands tonight.
Andy- The Cape seems to be the crème de la crème of Massachusetts metal.
Slimedog- I know of Led To The Grave who are great and whose lead singer also sings in the first band up, Endless Decay.
Andy- Yeah, Endless Decay sounded awesome and had the crowd moshin’. Even the punkers were diggin’ them.
Slimedog- This punk certainly did. I have never been more impressed with seeing a metal band for the first time.
Andy- I know. I think Led To The Grave will have a hard time retrieving Crobar from his new sideline.
Slimedog- Chris Crobar is a great death metal singer. This band sounds like Black Sabbath transported to now as a death metal band.
Andy- I couldn’t agree more. I think the next band was Someone and the Somebodies?
Slimedog- Nope, you were having a flashback. It was Hope & The Husbands. I’ve reviewed them twice already so I’ll attempt to shut up; this was your first time seeing them.
Andy- Oh, yeah, damn those flashbacks. I really dug Hope & The Husbands. They rocked out. They reminded me of the really cool bands of the early eighties like Pylon, The Pretenders, X and The Dead Boys.
Slimedog- By far the best I’ve seen them and they get better all the time. How about Rozamov?
Andy- Rozamov gave up a heavy dose of doom and gloom put to an energetic fuzzed out vibe. I thought they were pretty cool.
Slimedog- They were very loud but it worked with their sludge metal style. How about Death Rattle?
Andy- Death Rattle was billed as a groove death band along the lines of Pantera. And they even played a Pantera cover. I thought they were good.
Slimedog- I thought they were very good but towards the end I was suffering from “jagermeister amnesia” where you forget who and what you are.
Andy- What did you think you were?
Slimedog- I thought I was a venetian blind named Harvey in Sarasota, Florida. Anything you’d like to add.
Andy- It was a great show and hats off to Jaymes and the Midway for putting it on.
Slimedog- And thank God I’m not in Florida!
