Rich's R'n'R Rants & Raves: Suburban Resistance, The Psyatics, The Devil's Duo at the Huntridge Tavern, Saturday Feb 11, 2023

I always enjoy the laid-back atmosphere (and cheap drinks!) at the Huntridge Tavern (and having Yukon Pizza open late right around the mall-corner from them is another plus!) and so I look forward to playing shows there. This evening I did a two-fer, with the Devil's Duo and the Psyatics.

The Devil's Duo opened, as we do, with our acoustic guitar/banjolele, drum machine set of old timey music (Bessie Smith/Oscar Brown/Tom Waits, etc.) mixed with like-minded newer tunes (2 Man Gentlemen Band/ Pine Hill Haints) and oddities from the likes of the Velvet Underground. While the crowd was somewhat sparse for our set, we got a good reaction from those who arrived early, despite some technical difficulties from Lou/Lucifer, our drum machine. We persevered, though, and managed to get some folks to singalong with some of the newer tunes. Looking forward to getting back here soon! (Of course, we couldn't take pix of ourselves, so nothing to show y'all of our beautiful countenances!)

Up next (so that there wasn't too much equipment changeover, although there was some general confusion, as there always seems to be) was the Psyatics, and we kept things reasonably on schedule as we ran through a set of Psyatic classics, covers and brand new tunes from our upcoming album that we were start recording in a couple of weeks. There was the usual garage/noize mayhem and terrorizing the length'n'breadth of the bar. (Thanks to John Armstrong for the pix!)

For the night's finale, Suburban Resistance brought their of singalong punk'n'roll, with plenty of hip guitar work, a powerhouse rhythm section, lots of "heys" and "whoa-ohs!" and singer Kevin stalking the floor of the bar. I dig these cats a lot as they do their best to deft simple categorizing and bring lots of influences to their musical table, with various speeds - not everything is punk rock fast'n'furious numbers although there is some of that - lots of melody and lots of 70's rock'n'roll-isms to satisfy an old fogey like myself! They have a ridiculous amount of records out for the short time they've been together (I picked up their latest, which I will get to as soon as I have some time to listen to a double vinyl release!), so get their music and check them out live, as they always bring it!