Vintage Trouble at the Nether Bar, Minneapolis – March 9, 2013
Vintage Trouble Set List
Leogun Set List
After a very successful opening stint for The Who, LA-based Soul/Rock band Vintage Trouble heads out on an upcoming headlining tour of their own.…
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Minneapolis, MN – March 9, 2013
A cold and rainy night outside was in stark contrast to the hot and crowded basement bar of Mill City Nights, where LA-based buzz band Vintage Trouble and openers Leogun, each shook the rafters inside the sold-out tiny club.
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LEOGUN
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Leogun, a UK power rock/blues three piece got the night started with a literal bang, plowing through seven songs in just over 30 minutes. The band name apparently refers to a half-man/half-lion beast and guitarist/vocalist Tommy Smith and bassist Matt Johnson certainly looked the part; shoulder-length curly hair flailing with each chord struck while drummer Mike Lloyd kept time in back. Clearly influenced by the past but with a sound their own, the band has appeal to fans of Humble Pie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age and anything in-between.
After a short break, the four well-dressed members of Vintage Trouble maneuvered through the crowd (as it’s too small at The Nether for any off-stage Green Room), entering to Big Mama Thornton’s version of ‘Hound Dog’, then blazing through an often incendiary set that was just short of two hours. While the band’s sound is anchored in old soul/rock (think Redding, Pickett, Ike Turner, Hendrix), it plays with an updated grit to to form an audio amalgam that is both retro and modern.
Beginning with the One/Two punch of ‘Hard Times (They are Coming)’ and ‘Blues Hand Me Down’, the crowd was immediately in a frenzy; asked all evening to call-and-respond, clap along, move front to back, and generally become a part of the show.
Vocalist/frontman Ty Taylor has come a long way from his Rockstar:INXS days, morphing into a mesmerizing and charismatic showman that spins, juts, and shakes in a way that would make James Brown proud. Drummer Richard Danielson and bassist Rick Barrio Dill more than ably held down the bottom end, while band ‘secret weapon’, guitarist Nalle Colt (looking like a dapper Viggo Mortenson) impressed with roaring riffs and stretched out solos.
As much as the songs detonate on ‘The Bomb Shelter Sessions” LP, live and in concert is truly the way to experience this band, who clearly encourages and feeds off the hot-house/hootenanny feel of a small, packed room. The downside of their buzz is that they likely won’t play this small a room in town again anytime soon, but do remain more than worthy of seeing live, no matter how large or small the venue.
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Vintage Trouble at the Nether Bar, Minneapolis (03/09/13) |