Fastball @ Stickeys,
Dexter and his Sister Sara rock White Water
Okay, perhaps I have made the wrong choice. Perhaps I have gone with my head and not my heart. Perhaps I have given in to following the crowd, and perhaps the allure of a million selling song by 90's rockers Fastball filled my head with thoughts of fraternity parties and pretty girls. Perhaps I use the word perhaps too much - perhaps that's the problem. Make a decision and go with it.
Not that Fastball wasn't good - they were, and enjoyable. An interesting study in how young men proceed down the road of life, which reminds me -- hey, fellas, take a detour. Perhaps tonight was a promotion for the upcoming movie The Rocker, about one drummer's second-chance at stardom after being kicked out of his band 20 years earlier, which too reminds me -- wonder if sweet, sweet Connie was there tonight? But hey, the hooks were good, the Coronas were two dollars, and we still had time to make it to the White Water.
But just barely - the problem being that Dexter Romweber and his sister Sara (comprising the DR Duo) were about done, literally and figuratively. Let me add, though, that the five songs I did hear by this legendary psychobilly blew away the twenty or so I had heard earlier in the evening at the Chicken Shack -- by a long shot. With their revved up style and his roughed up voice, there was some real music going down here tonight. And like a scene straight from David Lynch's Blue Velvet, you could just feel the risk when you walked in the place. Romweber looked like he'd just as soon spit in your face as say hello, and his no-holds barred panache told me he didn't give a damn if you liked his music or not - and everyone seemed to sense it. Folks, two artists came to Little Rock tonight and I almost missed the whole thing.
- C
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