Concert Review

So a bunch of us went to a show at the Stork Club in Oakland last Saturday night.

The opening band, Harold Ray Live, was pretty good. Six guys or so in suits playing James Brown-esque toons. They were very high energy and the organ player hit the keys so hard the entire organ bounced around the stage.

Up second was Bob Log III who was amazing. From the Kansas City Star ...

"He keeps time with two busy feet, kicking a cymbal and a bass drum and tow-tapping two drum machines. The first thing you'll notice about him, though, is the bubble-mask motorcycle helmet he wears, which is wired with a microphone - a masquerade that hides his face and warps his voice.

And as for the swizzle stick - the frank truth is he'd rather his drink be stirred by a bare female breast, and these days Bob Log is so popular (or persuasive) he's been getting his way. He is a one man band playing a bass drum with one foot, a snare drum with the other and slide guitar."

If you are familiar with his Fat Possum label mates The Black Keys, the sound is similar. Throw in a little Squidbillies, and some Howard Stern humor and you have Bob Log III. He definitely stole the show.

The closer was BlowFly, the self-proclaimed "original dirty rapper." And uh yeah ... he was quite dirty. Imagine a ~70 year old man, with an abnormally long, boney middle finger aggressively pointing to and fro while some of the funniest, dirties lines you have ever heard come out of his mouth. It was quite interesting indeed. I won't reprint any of his lyrics as this blog may be read by 12-year olds looking for leopard gecko pictures, but don't let your mom read them over your shoulder. Blowfly is a very charismatic, very entertaining man.

During one of the set changes herp student walks up to us and says "figures I would see a bunch of herpers at BlowFly." We were all wearing our EBV shirts, but yes BlowFly definitley fits in with the herping crowd.

The above photo is called "The freakish, funky finger of Blowfly points out a Hole Man in the crowd" and was taken at the April 12th, 2006 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 by Michael Pilmer © 2006