Tom wrote:
>this Iggy thing has me all worked up. I've been listening to "The
>Idiot" and "Lust for Life" since Sunday night...
One highlight from last night's V-Roys entertainment (pardon me but
I'm not going to know titles) - one song launched with a rousing
version of the rhythm line from Lust for Life, continued until tabels
of people in the audience were singing it, and then hit the first
verse of what turned out to be a very upbeat twangy pop tune and not
Lust for Life at all, which then segued into a (unfortunately not very
good) post-grunge Modern Southern Rock tune sung by the goateed
guitarist... It was a confusing family-tree exercise linking Iggy,
Buddy Holly, Black Oak Arkansas and Soundgarden, very clever.
Otherwise - several nice ballads, lots of good rave-ups, some clever
lyrics and between-song bits. ("I was going to call this next song
Jesse's Girl, but it was taken, so I called it, Goodnight You Goddamn
Fuckin' Loser.") A good ability to find wide variation within a strict
genre, without sounding too samey through the whole set. A little odd
how many of their songs are about the dilemma posed when some woman is
a faithless liar, though. Are there really that many faithless lying
ladies in Tennessee?
Carl W.
