Twilight Singers Review
- posted by Mail Clerk @ 12:45 AM | Permanent Link

Our friend Mike recently posted his review of The Twilight Singers' show in D.C. Mike's a great writer, so the fun is in the reading of the review, not the newsbits themselves, but if you just want the meat:

You may not have heard of him but Greg Dulli is a legend among rock snobs. You know those internet lists about Chuck Norris? You could make a list like that about Dulli's rocknroll cred except everything would be true (or as close as such claims tend to be).

For example: Greg Dulli once drank so much while on stage that, after cryptically announcing, "The white boys won't let me be funky," he passed out in the middle of a set. Greg Dulli was once beaten within an inch of his life by a Texas bouncer named Tiny. Greg Dulli used his Afghan Whigs money to buy a seedy LA bar where a shy drinker came in every week who eventually introduced himself as Elliott Smith.

His voice has been in bad shape this tour. It sounded rougher than normal for the first song and a half but then sounded fine. I don't know if it was because he was saving his voice for singing, but there was less banter than usual from him. He didn't tell his usual DC-related Marvin Gaye stories and he didn't do his shtick about how the latest hit song is a rip-off of one of his songs.

Much more great stuff before and after that section though. Thanks, Mike!