If you have been missing Davey G...

Davey G and the Keyboard at the Sidebar!
Thursday, July 3

Recently I have been playing some of the best shows of my Davey G and the Keyboard career, with eight year’s worth of songs, two keyboards and countless bottles of lotion. I invite you to come out to see the next one and see what you’ve been missing!

With
The Aggromatics,
Media Darling
Rocky 3
Singleton.

(probably a 7 dollar cover for this wonderful line-up)

The Sidebar is located at 218 E. Lexington Street, at the corner of Lexington and Guilford. On-street parking is available in front of the club, on Guilford, or on Lexington by the courthouse.

Metro Gallery. 6-15

With Everthus the Deadbeats, Person Parcel, and Quartet Offensive.

There is certainly an advantage to having done a show a few days earlier--this is as close as I get to a “touring” mentality, where I might play consecutive days. This time, it was the Metro Gallery, my first time there.
Nice space--good size, comfortable seating, the sound is really kick-ass. When their bar is in place, I believe this will become the trifecta of performance spaces: comfort for the crowd, good sound with a nice sized stage for the musicians, and a bar for everyone.

To the show itself…it was truly an eclectic mix, starting with my low budget musical comedy, and ending with Jazz.
I opened, and largely played the same set as I did at the Sidebar. The one difference is a change I will probably effect into all my shows now, and that is the inclusion of a plastic tarp to catch the lotion from the “lotion” bit. It made the bit funnier, because it was putting a lot more production into this silly-ass bit that I’ve been doing for eight years. Good show for me.

Everthus the Deadbeats (from Indianapolis, Indiana) played a great show--versatile musicians who switched instruments, I thought of it as a weird cross between the Doors, Country Music from another planet, and the Cramps. But I’m really not sure if that covers it. Good stuff!

Person Parcel (My second time with them.) Gary B. and Ryn with an acoustic guitar and vocals, a folky, catchy, sing-along-foot stomping show. They are a fun duo.

I was packed up and on my way out during Quartet Offensive, which is in no way meant to diminish their music, but such is the reality of the Sunday night show.

I hope that some of you can make it out to my next show, which will be at the Sidebar on Thursday, July 3.

6-11, Sidebar

Tough night. It being Wednesday, in the summertime, with many people either needing to get up for work in the morning, or still at work or just unable to be up at midnight to see a Davey G show…turnout was light. I had to summon forth the words of (of all people) Henry Rollins, who wrote about this in Get in the Van--he was talking about playing a show where only 2 people came. He was pissed off about it, until someone changed his mind and told him that it shouldn’t matter: those 2 people came, they paid, and they deserved to see as good a show as he could do. Remembering that, I did the best show I could do. And as far as that went, it was great. The people there, the other bands, their friends were very energetic and happy to be there.

Some of my best stuff came out last night. As I played to this room, “Fantasy World,” with its’ message about how nothing I do will ever matter, really rang true (but believe me, if you know me personally, you know that I am optimistic to the point of obnoxiousness, and this “message” is only half-serious). And when I rebounded from that depressing song with my happy anthem of self-affirmation, “I am a Champion” I really put my heart into it. I put “Wash the Dish” at the end, with all my annoyance and “professional” frustration on display. While I would liked to have played for a packed house, sometimes it’s just better to have those few people who really enjoy what I’m doing.

Fourth Grade Security Risk could be like my musical cousin--he plays with keyboards and his songs are really funny. He also has a really good singing voice. I told him so.
http://www.fgsr.net/

Markitect was again, great--guitars with sequencers a la (here you go again with this comparison) Atom and His Package. The songs are catchy, fun, and funny. He talks a lot. That’s what he says when he’s on the stage. But I don’t mind.
www.myspace.com/mindblowingrock


Rare Candy, an offshoot of Entertainment System, are a video game music band. There is some amazing musical talent here, performed very tight--I really think the keyboardists are terrific. They make me feel inferior about my own keyboarding.
http://www.myspace.com/rarecandyband

Books I'm Reading.

(I'm going to go back to putting my book reviews on my blog...here's one now)

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is about that period of time after World War II and before the advent of TV and Rock ‘N Roll, when Comic books were seen as a scourge, a threat to the moral fiber of the country, meant to be stamped out at all costs. It’s pretty shocking to realize how little has changed, how every few years there is some new thing that reactionary types need to hold as responsible for society’s evils. There is never a sense of the “shit happens” or the ability to see a big picture. As a result, the comic industry, with all the talented artists and writers were destroyed, giving way to a new wave of comics with superheroes with pure morals and no ambiguity. Lost forever were the great books of the pre-comic code era, some of which I have in reprints from the ‘90s. Comics were forced to become squeaky-clean, and the wave of comic book hysteria described in this book is to blame.


View all my reviews.

shows

Hi Everyone,
Come out this Wednesday for my next show!

If you miss that, I’m also playing a show on Father’s Day at the Metro Gallery.
Sunday, June 15
Davey G and the Keyboard at the Metro Gallery! With Everthus the Deadbeats, Person Parcel and Quartet Offensive. 1700 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Doors at 8!

Hope to see you there!




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