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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Elefant
The Morning After Girls
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Clubhouse
Tempe, AZ
3/10/2006
By: Meagan Rockne
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Teases. The Morning After Girls are teases. Going beyond
the name and the fact that TMAG are four guys and one girl,
the band was only allotted 30 minutes to play. Thirty minutes
is foreplay and no one likes just
foreplay.
The Morning After Girls' psychedelic rock and dreamy vocals
require more than 30 minutes to get an accurate sense of
what they are all about. However fleeting their time on
stage, they were amazing. From the opening song to the
last, as each band member left the stage in a distortion-filled
haze, they had the audience eating out of their
hands.
Following TMAG was Elefant. With the lead singer hobbling on
crutches after breaking his heel, the band did their best to
play their brand of model rock. Model rock is like art rock,
but the music's sole purpose is to get pretty girls to dance.
Purpose accomplished.
This was my third time seeing Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
and I am forever in awe of their talent. Sure, you will never
see any of the band members prancing around on stage,
doing windmills, jumping off amps or wearing anything other
than black. Instead, they ooze a certain kind of coolness - a
kind of cool that could only be found on the corner of Haight
and Ashbury with the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Jack
Kerouac.
The B-side "Grind My Bones" opened the nearly hour long
set. This is one of my absolute favorite songs and it has now
been made more readily available by being released on the
Howl Sessions EP. From beginning to end, the
night was a wall of sound full of strong emotions of love,
relationships, spirituality and longing. They played new
songs and old songs seamlessly, with an easy
transition.
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