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Announcements => Event Announcements => Topic started by: Wowcars on September 17, 2007 6:16 pm
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'TH LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS (Nashville psychobilly freak show)
THE .357 STRING BAND (Milwaukee bluegrass punk)
THE BONE RANGER (twice a year local rockabilly garage performance)
THE AQUARIUM (Dempsey's Upstairs)
$8 cover 9:30 Doors 10:30 Show 21+
Drink Special: $5 Old Style Pitchers and $2.75 Bacardi/Morgan
What I've been told by several is their favorite live show ever at the Aquarium, 'Th Legendary Shack Shakers return to the Aquarium tonight. The music is simple, raw garage blues rockabilly with Southern influence, perfect for a juke joint. But the live performance adds an intensity and force that makes as memorable show as you've seen. Its the type of band that should be playing with chicken wire in front of them to protect them AND you. They are ones that truly need to be seen to be fully experienced. Their songs come to life in concert and the whole room becomes a hootin', hollerin' hoe down. You never quite know what singer Colonel JD Wilkes might do next. But that adds a kind of uneasiness that makes you alternately squirm and smile at the same time. This is the way shows are supposed to be. This is not just your average Monday night touring act. So while you might be a little tired the next day or it may put a wrench in your plans to watch that Frasier marathon this week. Trust me when I say its worth it. Bands like this don't come around that often. If you are a fan of everything from Hank III, to Reverend Horton Heat to the Stray Cats or Gogol Bordello. Openers the .357 String Band made their FM debut a couple weeks ago at the Broken Axe, performing a high powered bluegrass attack. That may not make sense, but their sound actually does. The Bone Ranger comes out of hiatus, dusts off his guitar and saddles up to get you ready first.
"The maddest, baddest, most outrageous band in America...a rockabilly version of the Sex Pistols" (News of the World)
"This quartet create a gloriously exhilarating collision of full tilt blues, swamp voodoo and hillbilly rock
...intoxicating energy and intensity" (Q Magazine)
"The Shack*Shakers are the ultimate in demented cowpunk - a moonshine fuelled whirlwind of brutalized rockabilly and warped irreligious imagery. Johnny Cash would no doubt of approved. and so should you." (Kerrang)
Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers started their hell-for-leather, Penta-caustic roadshow just over four years ago, and in a short time have earned quite a name for themselves with their unique brand of American Gothic that is all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous, and fun. Led by their wildly charismatic rail thin frontman, the blues-harpist J.D. Wilkes, th’ Shack*Shakers are a four-man wrecking crew from the South whose explosive interpretations of the blues, punk, rock and country have made fans, critics and legions of potential converts into true believers.
For the uninitiated, the band’s debauched live show is the necessary counterpart to their hard-hitting recordings. Hillbilly royalty, Hank Williams III once said after touring with them that it was "like having SLAYER open up for you every night,†and called J.D. Wilkes, “the best damn front man and band in America." On stage, J.D. Wilkes is like a mad southern preacher with a bible in one hand and a glass of strychnine and a lit cigarette in the other. Meshing Pentecostal themes with pained lyrics and show-stopping moves that draw comparisons to Tom Waits and the grotesque facial and bodily contortions of Iggy Pop, the band has developed a live show like none other.
Nashville’s Legendary Shack*Shakers return to Fargo in support of their new album Swampblood, their third and final instalment in their "Tentshow Trilogy" for Yep Roc Records. In the words of Shack*Shakers’ frontman, the Col. JD Wilkes: “ Swampblood is th' Legendary Shack*Shakers' triumphant return to our rockin' hillbilly/blues roots…Lyrically speaking, Swampblood lures you into a whole new realm of southern gothic goings-on. It is a cruel place, populated by three-legged dogs, lynch mobs and fallen forests...lustful angels, bloodthirsty hill-folk, and the bloated bodies of beached bovines.â€
'The Legendary Shack Shakers return to the Aquarium tonight.
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see you there
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i'm steppin out the door rihjt now
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shit! i fell asleep. haha. that really sucks
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So i'm taking a study break at NDSU, checking the this site and what do ya know. It was time for a real study break, so I went to the aquarium for the first time. I only saw the shack shakers, but it was quite a show. I felt a little out of place with my green nike hoodie and white shoes, no tatoos or ray-bans. (other ryan: "ya, you fit in the least," but man, it was a blast. The shack shakers put on a hell of a show. Spitting on the crowd, on himself, beer cups flying, pulling confetti out of his pants, other stuff out of his pants, pulling the crowds hair (somehow he missed mine and a certain bald suede), etc. Never seen anything like it, thats for sure. It was quite unique.
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Damn, that would have been good to go to. Wish I would have known about it before today. Doh!