Deer Ticket

"Excuse me, excuuse me. I'm on the guest list. My son is playing tonight, John, John McCauley." Mrs. McCauley announced that as she walked up the stairs on April 2 at Jerky's in Providence. Doors creaked open at 8:00p.m. Narragansetts were only $2.50, which was a killer score. Unfortunately nothing happened until 10:00p.m. Fortunately for me, I linked up with my buddy Al, of El Scarehouse, and went over to his place just a few blocks away to have a few more Gansetts with some of his good friends.

Jerky's is a bar. Period end of sentence. No, but truly, what that means is shows do not start until after 10:00p.m., and end just before 2:00a.m. Considering Jerky's dive-esque resemblance, the show was a rowdy and the crowd a bunch of stiffs. Just like the obnoxious and fat, 30+ year old, sweaty bald guy at hardcore and Dinosaur Jr. shows. There was the physically different, equally intolerable Rivers Cuomo look alike with long, perfectly manicured long hair and five o'clock shadow, blocking any attempts at successful dancing/dosey doeing.

With the exception of Rivers shutting down the fun factor, Those Darlins opened up the night.  Take three parts chick, one part dude on drums, one part hairy pits, add a pinch of Tennessee and it equates to a solid, female fronted rock 'n' roll band. With a side of twang. Just for good measure.

Deer Tick played an incredible set. I tried to capture them on video. My camera is horrible. The audio and video isn't very stimulating, but it gets the point across.