the great white jenkins and their web of connections

....yeah, it's over a week ago. the great white jenkins played a show at gallery 5 last tuesday for these united states' cd release show. what is very cool about this particular band's tour is that they have commissioned a local band in every city that they're playing to learn a few songs from their new album. the result is a lot of musicians on one stage, but it's a pretty cool idea.

this time they played with marionette. known these guys for a little while now and they're pretty fucking rad. they let loose into noise jams and float around some pretty impressive compositions. they've recently added a female singer (and tambourine player....tambourinist?). while i have seen that this maneuver kills whatever the particular band has going on, i'm pretty into this extended lineup. the drummer also plays in tulsa drone and barstool heroes; the former played with the homemade knives at one of their performances, fyi. rip. the latter is basically the best music to see live in an oregon hill dive bar. never gets old. the bassist also plays for barstool heroes as well as mason dixon disaster, whom i'm trying to warmupto. THE HOTDAMNS played their asses off as another opener.

back to TGWJ: they played the same day that my review of their EP appeared in a local alternative publication. although they seemed less than enthused to meet me afterwards, they played a fantastic set playing many selections from the EP (mussel souls). three horn players from fight the big bull (i'm sick of linking!) played with them on a few songs. matt white from TGWJ plays in FTBB. since they played last, the band played for the few remaining tuesday night drunks and diehards.


i'm SUPER BUMMED to have missed out on getting willie nelson tickets! why, oh why, did i wait? hopefully i'll be able to find an extra somewhere.

speaking of willie....
screwed is on.