Showing posts with label Yawning Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yawning Man. Show all posts

Monday, February 04, 2019

In from the cold

Yawning Man came through town back in October 2017 for a cool set at Cafe DeKcuf. They were back to serve up a second helping of desert rock downstairs at Mavericks on a very chilly night in mid-January, along with Virginia Beach's Freedom Hawk, local combo The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol and St. Catherines' thrashers Pisser, who were already through a good chunk of their set when I showed up. Here's Bonez on the mic!

Pisser at Mavericks

Bass action with Shane!

Pisser at Mavericks

Christian was playing guitar on the dark side of the stage.

Pisser at Mavericks

Thrash action!

Pisser at Mavericks

And so on!

Pisser at Mavericks

More Shane!

Pisser at Mavericks

Even more Bonez!

Pisser at Mavericks

Things changed from thrash to kosmic-egg-cracking with The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, who by now need no introduction to frequent blog-visitors
Guitar action with Steve!

Pisser at Mavericks

More Bonez!

Pisser at Mavericks

Percussive action with Matt!

Pisser at Mavericks

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol played next, with some cosmic-egg crackery. Here's Bill and Nate!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

John hits!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Guitar action with Dave!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Extra Bill!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Trumpet action with Scott!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Grainy action with Jason!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Symbolic action!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

And so on!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Spotlit action!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Krautrocking action!

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol at Mavericks

Virginia rockers Freedom Hawk played a great set; here's mainman T.R. and bassist Mark!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

More Mark!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Hair-tossing action with Brendan!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Flying V action!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

And so on!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Guitar action!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Even more Mark!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

I hope Lenny knows how much we photographers appreciate drummers who light their kits ....

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Hawkish action!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

More guitar!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

The whole lot!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Back-to-back action!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Flared action!

Freedom Hawk at Mavericks

Lucky for Yawning Man fans, the whole group managed to make it over the border this time - here's bassist Mario Lalli, also of Fatso Jetson fame!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Guitar action with Gary!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Bill hits!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

More Gary!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Extra Bill!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

More Mario!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Even more Gary!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Shadowy action!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

Yawning action!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

And so on!

Yawning Man at Mavericks

A great set from the desert rock pioneers, and everyone else.

Monday, October 09, 2017

Sleepyheads

Wednesday night I made the trip downtown to check out some desert rock legends at Cafe DeKcuf. Yawning Man helped spark the generator party scene that gave birth to such legends as Kyuss, and they're regularly cited by such scene heavyweights as Brant Bjork as inspirations. They shared the bill with Opium Winter (who I missed because I'm a slowpoke), Texans We Are The Asteroid and locals Monobrow, who delivered their usual heavy goodness. Here's some rhythm section action with Bryan and Sam!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

Guitar action with Paul!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

More Sam!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

Bonus Brian!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

Bendy action!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

Even more Brian!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

Dimpled action!

Monobrow at Cafe DeKcuf

We Are The Asteroid played a fantastic set of burnout Texas psych. Here's bassist Nathan!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Drummer and BSA enthusiast Frank on drums!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Guitar action with Gary!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

More Nathan!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Extra Gary!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

More Frank!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Bendy action!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Gary sings a bit!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Singalong action!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

The whole lot!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

Back-to-back action!

We Are The Asteroid at Cafe DeKcuf

This tour by Yawning Man was to feature original bassist (and Fatso Jetson founder) Mario Lalli. Unfortunately Mario got stopped at the border, so guitarist Gary Arce and drummer Bill Stinson pulled in Nathan stepped on bass to  treat the crowd to some out of sight jams.

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

Yawning action!

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

Manly action!

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

The whole lot!

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

Bonus Bill!

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

Extra Gary!

Yawning Man at Cafe DeKcuf

A super evening.