The true caveat about live music is that you can never predict which shows are gonna rock and which shows are gonna spiral straight into the shitter.
I had been really excited to see the recently reformed and revamped Zero play at the Gramercy Theater as part of the Green Apple Music Festival on Friday night. Years have elapsed since I had last seen legendary guitar player Steve Kimock tear up a solo. Over the past few years I’ve listened to a bunch of Zero, and I really dug the band’s multi-layered compositions. So imagine how surprised I was to be so turned off by Zero’s disappointingly boring performance.
The Gramercy is a nice new venue that has a sloping floor for standees and seating in the back for the old fogies like me. I got to my seat and the lights went down at 8:25. Everyone around me was excited for the show to begin, but nothing happened. The lights were down, but the band didn’t go on until about 8:40. That’s professionalism at its finest: The night had certainly begun on the wrong foot. Read on for more on this unfortunately subpar show…