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Can You Still Find A Gem In The LA Music Scene?

by RonPowers

At the Whisky a Go Go, Saturday, January 6, 2007, the opening
band was Vekstar (Can hear them on my space if you are
intereseted.) Some nice tunes on My Space, but the live
performance didn't quite cut it for the audience. The band stood
there looking rather bored and disinterested, and the audience
quickly followed suit. I like to look around at the effect the
performers make on the audience, tells me what other people
think. A band should communicate to their audience. One of the
basic principles of performance. Vekstar didn't.

Their performance: poor, boring; Musicianship: Decent; Vocals:
lacking energy live, (sound better on My Space); Creativity:
poor, after a while it sounded like one long song. Audience
rapport: none, people were talking to each other and not many
were watching the band as they played. Final analysis. Time to go
back to the drawing board. Regroup. Something is not working
here.

Second up: Dead Sara (Can hear them on my space if you are
interested.) What can I say. Dead Sara
Rocks! The lackluster bored audience became very intent and
heads began boppin' as soon as Dead Sara took the stage. Dead
Sara immediately got the audience's attention and kept it for
their whole set.  They opened up with a two song two member
(reminiscent of the White Stripes) set, and finished with three
more songs with a guest bassist and drummer (Their My Space page
says bassist and drummer needed).

Performance, great! Nothing too fancy but these girls (Emily and
Siouxsie) rock, are alive, and love music. It shows;
Musicianship, great. Siouxsie rocks on both guitar and drums.
Vocals: Excellent! Best vocals of the night. Great voice and man
can that Emily scream! Creativity: Tops! Good mixture of songs
and styles. Nothing boring, and they did different songs than
they have on My Space. (Except for Innuendo which they played
live). Audience rapport. Great! They were totally in sync with
the crowd and afterwards I heard good comments coming out of
everyone's mouths. Final Analysis: Keep your eyes on these girls.
They are going places.

Third up: BILLY BOY on POISON. (Sorry guys can't find My Space
profile on you). Interesting act. Probably a little on the
bizarre side (lead singer in underwear and fishnet stocking type
of bizarre), but interesting. Had a good size following there and
like Dead Sara had the audience with them throughout their set. A
good performance oriented act, with strong rockin' music, but a
little weak (well actually a lot weak) on the vocals.

Performance: Great! (if you like things a little bizarre) Just
plain bizarre if you don't like bizarre. Nonetheless, still a
well coordinated stage show. Musicianship: Great! A very tight
band, Rockin'music. Vocals: Terrible. Sorry but someone needs a
few vocal lessons. Creativity: Decent mixture of songs and
styles. Got a little boring after awhile (probably due to the
singing more than anything else.) Audience rapport. Great. Seemed
to have lots of fans there, and they liked them. Though, a lot of
the non fans didn't have very many kind things to say. Final
Analysis. Worth seeing to decide for yourself. If they are your
kind of band, you'll probably like them. If they are not, you
won't.

As for me, not exactly my kind of band. I like good vocals. So I
got a little bored and walked out before Billy Boy on Poison
finished. Didn't stay for the other bands.

Ron Powers is a musician that likes to express his opinion. <a
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