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American
Nightmare
Valentine’s,
Friday
Had
a bad week? You and Suzy having a spat? Fido pee on your new
boots? Whatever the source of your malaise, it’s not healthy
to keep all those angry feelings pent up inside. But don’t
beat the dog—come vent in the company of Boston-based hardcore
band American Nightmare instead. With their well-received
recordings and vicious live shows, the young band have quickly
earned an established place among the elite of the Northeast
hardcore scene. They promise to be fast-paced and pissed off
when they headline a show tomorrow (Friday) at Valentine’s.
They’ll be joined by fellow Bostonians the Hope Conspiracy,
as well as Reach the Sky, Burning Bridges and Written in Stone.
(Oct. 11, 8 PM, $10, 432-6572)
Guy
Clark, Mary Gauthier
Club
Helsinki, Great Barrington, Mass., Saturday
It’s
all too infrequent that you get the opportunity to see a real
live legend in any setting other than an impersonal shed or
arena. On Saturday, however, country and folk fans will get
just that when Guy Clark drops by Great Barrington’s Club
Helsinki. Clark is regarded as one of the foremost storytellers
in American music, and country stars such as Johnny Cash,
David Allan Coe and Ricky Skaggs have all scored hits with
his compositions. Opening for Clark will be Mary Gauthier,
whose sophomore album, Filth and Fire, was proclaimed
“the best singer-songwriter album of the year thus far” by
No Depression magazine. (Oct. 12, 9 PM, $25, 413-528-3394)
 The
Mooney Suzuki, Sahara Hotnights
Valentine’s,
Sunday
On
the commercial airwaves, the influence of Alice in Chains
and Nine Inch Nails still reigns via the brooding strains
of the nu metal, but the darlings of the alternative press
these days are those bands who look a bit further back for
their influences—back into the gritty, greasy history of punky
garage rock. On Sunday at Valentine’s, you can sample a set
of critically lauded revisionists whose biographical and geographic
disparity will pretty well indicate the broad appeal and influence
of the legacy of bands like the MC5, the Zombies and the Stooges.
The Mooney Suzuki have a perfect pedigree for this kind of
thing as Manhattanite art-school dropouts; Sahara Hotnights,
on the other hand, come from out of left field as a group
of Swedish chicks just barely out of their teens—not that
there’s anything wrong with that, mind you. (Oct. 13, 8
PM, $10, 432-6572)
Ian
Anderson
Troy
Savings Bank Music Hall, Tuesday
Rubbing Elbows With Ian Anderson, as this evening is called,
promises to be one of the weirder shows of the year—and we
mean weird in a good way. Anderson, the longtime mastermind
behind Jethro Tull, is tooting his flute with strictly non-Tull
acoustic musicians this time. So, while Tull guitar hero Martin
Barre is MIA, Anderson will be sharing the stage with
the Wolf—as in Wakin’ Up with the Wolf’s Bob Wolf of WPYX-FM
(106.5). Wolf will be up there with the band, introducing
songs and special guests. (Kevin Thompson, formerly of Strange
Arrangement, is slated to be one of the local guests.) As
Anderson explains, the show is “two-thirds music, one-third
talk show.” So, along with acoustic versions of new songs
and Tull standards, there is supposed to be a kind of freewheeling
repartee between Anderson, Wolf, and selected audience members.
The uncertainty factor—will this unusual mix of music and
conversation work?—makes this show really intriguing. (Oct.
15, 8 PM, $29, 273-0038)
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Seth
Cluett
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There’s
gonna be a new place to hang in Troy soon—if you’re
into music and arts performances, lectures, and
the like—and the arts-space-in-the-making (found
at 51 Third St.) is holding a pre-unveiling event
tonight (Thursday) with a presentation by sculptor
John Reed, who will discuss and present
his work of experimental musical instruments.
You’ll get a chance to see the raw space before
it’s transformed, and if you’re really good, you
can play one of Reed’s homemade instruments, as
there will be a rehearsal/jam following the lecture
(the whole shebang will then relocate to Artie’s
Lansingburgh Station and contribute to that venue’s
open mike). Call 270-5119 for information on any
of the above. . . . Savannah’s will hold its third
annual Bad Ass Bass Player Show tonight, with
Jack Daley (bassist with Lenny Kravitz)
playing with his brother Joe (drummer for
Super 400) and Kenny Hohman (Super 400’s
axman); also on the bill, bassist James Scott
teams with Art Adams and Myron Thomas
(both of Stratosphere), and bassist Steve
Aldi performs with Alan Payette Band members
Alan Payette and Tommy Verrigni (10
PM, 426-9647). . . . Mary Prankster will
play their CD-release show at Valentine’s tonight
[see Club Box, page 48]. . . . Back to Troy, the
second in Music of the Spheres, a series of shows
at the Lally Planetarium (in the Junior Museum,
105 8th St., Troy), will take place tomorrow (Friday).
Seth Cluett, Troy-based video/experimental
music artist (among too many other things to list),
will perform “still motion sonic photography”
and “explore auditory ‘pictures’ of environments,
both natural and human-made in surround sound,
while taking a tour through our home galaxy and
beyond.” Show up stoned (7 PM, $5, 235-2120).
. . . Tribal Tech guitarist Scott Henderson
will play two shows at the Van Dyck on Friday
(7 and 9:30 PM, $20, 381-1111). . . . Jazz legend
David Brubeck brings his quartet to the
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall tomorrow (8 PM, $26,
$30, 273-0038).
. . . Joshua Redman’s Elastic Band, with
drummer Brian Blade and organist Sam
Yayhel, will play the Egg Friday (8 PM, $24,
473-1845). . . . The Egg’s American Roots &
Branches concert series continues with the
Jerry Douglas Band and the Sam Bush
Band performing Saturday, and New York
Banjo, featuring Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Richie
Stearns, Tony Trischka and others playing
on Sunday (Sat: 8 PM, $24, Sun: 7 PM, $26; 473-1845).
. . . China White will play Valentine’s
on Saturday [see Listen Here, page 26]. . . .
David Lindley & Wally Ingram play the
Van Dyck on Saturday and the Iron Horse on Wednesday
[see Night & Day, page 41]. . . . MotherJudge
is helming a coffeehouse-style musical offering
with monthly shows at St. John’s Lutheran Church
in Albany. The first takes place this Tuesday,
with Mitch Elrod and MotherJudge and
the Urban Holiness Society performing (7 PM,
free). . . . Troy again: Positively 4th Street,
renamed B.R. Finley’s, offers a cool weekly Tuesday-night
thing that lures a culture of creativity with
video and music from the RPI community and beyond.
(Our sincerest apologies, as this has been going
on for some time—we ramp up slowly). This Tuesday,
Andrew Neumann and Walter Wright will
provide the evening’s requisite enlightening sensual
stimulation. Now that we’ve come clean, we promise
to keep you posted on this ongoing phenomenon
(10 PM, free, 271-9190).
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