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Written by SAM JEMIELITY / Photos by BARRY BRECHEISEN
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Tuesday, 16 May 2006 |
Apparently, except when he's singing, Twin Wrecks the Memory lead singer Dan Sullivan is a man of few words. After the band ripped through the opening song, "More Sex, More Money," in front of 300 fans at Chicago's Double Door, Sullivan took a moment to pimp the band's 2005 album, "Royal Drug Lodge." "Buy our record in the back," Sullivan told the crowd. "And that's about all I've got."
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Twin Wrecks the Memory
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Double Door
Chicago, Ill.
May 5, 2006
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Musically, though, Sullivan and his bandmates gave it all they had through eight energetic, punk-infused songs of their Double Door set. Along with Sullivan, who also plays guitar, TWTM is made up of Ryan Paveza (guitar), Marcellus Salerni (bass) and Rob Medinger (drums).Their Myspace page claims as influences bands like Sonic Youth, Nirvana, the Stooges, Guns n' Roses, MC5 and T.Rex.
Those roots were apparent when the band - keeping the booze theme going - launched into their second song of the night, the anthemic "Alcohol and Rock n Roll." The hammering, fuzzed out jam that also recalls Queens of the Stone Age's "Feel Good Hit of the Summer."
Swilling Busch beer, Sullivan stripped off his Telecaster for the song "Suffering Son." Paveza's feedback-heavy intro morphs into a driving, guitar assault, punctuated by the shout-along chorus, "Get ripped! Get fucked!" After the raucous, Stooges-style ride of "Riot Ready," with the clock moving toward midnight, TWTM bassist Salerni noticed that the crowd has thinned. "I'm unemployed," he says, "so I don't have to go to bed early. If you ever have a chance to be unemployed, I recommend it. The next song, "Push," picked up the stoner rock vibe of "Alcohol and Rock n Roll," as Sullivan screams stream-of-consciousness lyrics at a breakneck pace.
The show closed with the martial beat and wall-of-sound guitars of "End of the World,” chanting the chorus, "I'm afraid, and I'm awake!” After 40 minutes of pummeling punk rock, everyone at the Double Door is awake, too. Wide awake. Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
