The Flesh Eaters; Porcupine @ Bowery Ballroom

The Flesh Eaters; Porcupine
@ Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY - March 17, 2019

With seemingly every gig these days fitting right in with the Dystopia in which we are living, none could fit more than one with the Flesh Eaters. Chris D's assembly of Los Angeles' finest playing as the Jazz-Country-Punk-Blues-Tex-Mex band from Heck could probably only be matched by Devo for prescience in mood if not content. Julie Christensen supplied the classical vocals needed to span the breadth of all sounds while Steve Berlin played the beautifully half-discordant sax in front of the driving repetitive (in a good way) percussives of DJ Bonebrake and Bill Bateman, the bass to end all bass from the one and only John Doe and the blinding guitar talent of Dave Alvin. Perhaps the most amazing sneak attack the band pulled off was that one didn't even feel the need to drink the blues away this night, the music did the job.

Porcupine are straight out of the 90's and straight out of Minneapolis and most importantly their bass player is Greg Norton who is straight out of Husker Du making for a night of regular folks who happen to be legends at the same time. Good opener.