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Dex Romweber Duo ~~~ Los Perdidos ~~~ Thee Knee Jerks
For a quarter century, Dex Romweber has trolled the dark corners and back shelves of the haunted thrift store of Americana ephemera and honed an extraordinarily idiomatic sound, a particular and readily identifiable DEXness for those in the know. It's a creepy doll collection of surf, proto-rockabilly, garage, dark and vengeful blues, and nobody, but nobody, plays it like Dex. First with the legendary Flat Duo Jets and now with his Duo, Dex distilled the punk ethos of less-is-more to the essential guitar/drums template. Left in the wake of his lecherous and slithery Silvertone were early acolytes like Jack White, Neko Case, and the Reigning Sound as well as a current crop of the indie pack like Ty Segall, No Age, Japandroids, and The Black Keys. All owe an unclaimed pawn ticket of debt to his sublime and spine-tingling sound. He is a live wire back to the murky, sometimes dangerous and always unpredictable headwaters of real rock and roll.
"Los Perdidos' surf-rock hews closer to early rock instrumentalists like Link Wray, Duane Eddy and The Shadows, leaning more on Morricone widescreen than rapid-fire Dick Dale tremolo picking, brief vignettes unfolding in cascading melodies predicated on casual insouciance rather than amphetamine-rush energy. There's plenty of reverb coming from Andy Collins' Fender amp, sure, but his hollowbody Gretsch -- a favorite instrument of Eddy's -- lends his tone a hefty, spaghetti-western twang, balancing Byron Chitty's active basslines and Adam Cox's busy, fluid drumming. Like The Shadows -- or Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet -- Los Perdidos' momentum is subtle but strong, and totally enveloping. It still evokes a ride on the Pacific Coast Highway, but it trades top-down summer fun for the ghostly chill of moonlight reflecting off the ocean."
- Patrick Wall, Free Times
Thee Knee Jerks is just four sore losers from Soda City, SC bashin' out garagepunk.
Saturday, May 10 2014
9pm (doors at 8:30pm)
$10 in advance / $12 at the door
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LocationConundrum Music Hall (View)
626 Meeting Street
West Columbia, SC 29169
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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