Here I was eating my cereal this morning and I see this in the bottom right of the cover of the Florida Times Union -
Drive-By Truckers in town to party
The Drive-By Truckers, in town as part of the hoopla surrounding the Florida-Georgia game, are on a mission to put the Southern back in Southern Rock.
(Story Friday)
jahfin
Check Jacksonville.com tomorrow, I'm sure they will have a link to the full story tomorrow.
Drive By Truckers!!
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Drive-By Truckers? Never heard of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODJMJgSJWw
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depends on if they can get Purple Al Roker to show up for the "backstage par-taaaay"dean_siu wrote:Are they actually stopping in Jacksonville or just driving by????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODJMJgSJWw
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well.. then I guess..dean_siu wrote:Sorry....Purple Al will be in Vegas for the Buffett show!RinglingRingling wrote:depends on if they can get Purple Al Roker to show up for the "backstage par-taaaay"dean_siu wrote:Are they actually stopping in Jacksonville or just driving by????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODJMJgSJWw
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CONCERT REVIEW: Drive-By Truckers use old-school attack
By JEFF VRABEL, The Times-Union
Southern rock revivalists the Drive-By Truckers grow their devoted fan base the old-fashioned way, via a ludicrous work ethic, grassroots fan interaction and a touring schedule that's relentless and unrestricted.
It's an earnest and old-school plan of attack that may help explain what their headlining set Friday night something called the Georgia/Florida Experience at something called the Radisson Riverwalk, which is an awful lot of words to use in promoting a concert in a stranded-feeling parking lot. Chances are good this isn't an Experience that'll end up high on the band's list of things to remember about 2005.
For their part, the Athens, Ga.-based Truckers, disciples of the Skynyrd school, sure, but also that of Neil Young and Springsteen, put in a solid and workmanlike performance to compensate for the environment, which would have been more suited for a game of kickball, or anything, than a rock show. To make up for the chill coming off the river and strangely abbreviated set time - if there's a midnight curfew, why in the wide wide world of sports is the headliner going on at 10:30? - the Truckers kept to the meaty rock assault that actually owes well more to Young's thunder-across-the-plains guitar offensive than Skynyrd's twang.
Lead vocals are shared between Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell and Patterson Hood, but the dirt-road-voiced Hood's become the de facto frontman, powering the band through its most punishing material like the sonic bulldozer "Lookout Mountain" and Dixie-rock history lesson "Ronnie and Neil" -- three guesses who that's about. Cooley comes off like a harder-edged Jay Farrar on songs like "Where The Devil Don't Stay," and relatively new addition Isbell has already adapted nicely to the Truckers' liquor-and-meanness template with tracks like "Never Gonna Change."
Which is all great and everything, but unless say, a water ballet broke out during the set change it would have been nearly impossible to conceive of a less concert-like setting, particularly considering the even-more-ridiculous-in-hindsight $20 ticket price (and the weird ticketing procedure that skirted Ticketmaster). More chortle-inducing was a chance to have a photo taken in front of a large white piece of poster board emblazoned with some sort of Florida/Georgia logo for the low low price of $5.
Somewhere there was a party worthy of price-gouging, but not at this Experience, which felt like a low-budget footnote. The band kept its game face on, but deserved better.
By JEFF VRABEL, The Times-Union
Southern rock revivalists the Drive-By Truckers grow their devoted fan base the old-fashioned way, via a ludicrous work ethic, grassroots fan interaction and a touring schedule that's relentless and unrestricted.
It's an earnest and old-school plan of attack that may help explain what their headlining set Friday night something called the Georgia/Florida Experience at something called the Radisson Riverwalk, which is an awful lot of words to use in promoting a concert in a stranded-feeling parking lot. Chances are good this isn't an Experience that'll end up high on the band's list of things to remember about 2005.
For their part, the Athens, Ga.-based Truckers, disciples of the Skynyrd school, sure, but also that of Neil Young and Springsteen, put in a solid and workmanlike performance to compensate for the environment, which would have been more suited for a game of kickball, or anything, than a rock show. To make up for the chill coming off the river and strangely abbreviated set time - if there's a midnight curfew, why in the wide wide world of sports is the headliner going on at 10:30? - the Truckers kept to the meaty rock assault that actually owes well more to Young's thunder-across-the-plains guitar offensive than Skynyrd's twang.
Lead vocals are shared between Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell and Patterson Hood, but the dirt-road-voiced Hood's become the de facto frontman, powering the band through its most punishing material like the sonic bulldozer "Lookout Mountain" and Dixie-rock history lesson "Ronnie and Neil" -- three guesses who that's about. Cooley comes off like a harder-edged Jay Farrar on songs like "Where The Devil Don't Stay," and relatively new addition Isbell has already adapted nicely to the Truckers' liquor-and-meanness template with tracks like "Never Gonna Change."
Which is all great and everything, but unless say, a water ballet broke out during the set change it would have been nearly impossible to conceive of a less concert-like setting, particularly considering the even-more-ridiculous-in-hindsight $20 ticket price (and the weird ticketing procedure that skirted Ticketmaster). More chortle-inducing was a chance to have a photo taken in front of a large white piece of poster board emblazoned with some sort of Florida/Georgia logo for the low low price of $5.
Somewhere there was a party worthy of price-gouging, but not at this Experience, which felt like a low-budget footnote. The band kept its game face on, but deserved better.