To be completely honest, this year’s Green Apple Music & Arts Festival lineup in New York was, to borrow an expression from the Torah, lamer than FDR’s legs.
You know it’s a weak festival when the weather steals the show, a warm spring weekend providing the saving grace for the East Coast third of the tri-city Earth Day event. The musical highlight? For me, that was a total no-brainer, a real Schiavo: It was RAQ at Bowery Ballroom. These guys not only fucking smoked, they blew fire as well — check out this short clip I took of the band’s cover of KISS’ Shout It Out Loud, with a Prometheus-like associate joining them on stage:
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Well have more from this RAQ @ Bowery show coming up later, but I wanted to throw up a little teaser until I find some time to procrastinate from my real job…
- ‘Til then, here’s a sweet video from 2/05 in Vail of a song they ripped to shreds on Saturday night to close the first set, Quick and Painless
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So I was reading jambands.com and I think they found Mike Gordon, and it was at an RAQ show:
http://jambands.com/News.phtml?newsfile=redesign_news318.html#4-23-29
Im pissed I missed my boys RAQ in NYC but PANIC was calling me down in Raliegh…WSP tore that shit up Sat nite (setlist here:
Panic 4-21-07 setlist
anyway
Check out my RAQ clip teasers at
My Youtube RAQ clips small but MEAN!!!
Sick little “Clamslide” from moeDown 6
Best NYC Show in Years. RAQ 4.21.07 had every element of great show that I feel like I have been missing. The energey was through the roof. The playing was to perfection. Superb setlist with raging monsters and powerful ballads. There is no doubt they these 4 are headed BIG PLACES.
isn’t there more to this review??
There is…coming tomorrow or Wednesday. I had to transcribe the interview I did with them, which was a shitshow because of many interruptions and such. Stay tuned, Botz & Co.