JOHN DOE
Saturday, January 29 – 8pm. $30
Stoltz Listening Room
Box Office: 410.822.7299
Infinitely cool, John Doe, the front man for LA bands, X and The Knitters, launched the west coast punk scene even while rejecting its dependence on power chords. Music fans, particularly of the punk rock variety, love Doe for this.
And they should. The man took a subset of a musical genre, and altered it to his liking. That's so punk!
And while we also admire the man's contributions to rock history, we also love the fact that he had a role in what was perhaps the best bad movie the planet has ever seen.
John Doe was in Road House.
The musician and actor performs in what should be a sold-out performance in the SLR on Saturday evening, January 29th at 8pm. Call the Box Office asap if you're intrigued. 410.822.7299 will get you there...or go online at avalontheatre.com and pay the obligatory ticketmaster handling fees.
Doe writes lyrics with a message that would make Woody Guthrie proud and songs with meaty melodies that would make Johnny Cash want to sing along. His solo work has pleased fans and critics alike, especially with his most recent album, A Year in the Wilderness - a resonate, more mature collection of songs with a biting broodiness that updates, but never dilutes, his legendary early work.
Doe writes lyrics with a message that would make Woody Guthrie proud and songs with meaty melodies that would make Johnny Cash want to sing along. His solo work has pleased fans and critics alike, especially with his most recent album, A Year in the Wilderness - a resonate, more mature collection of songs with a biting broodiness that updates, but never dilutes, his legendary early work.
Says Doe about Wilderness, “Sometimes it sounded like a Replacements', then a Velvet Underground record, then Blonde On Blonde...twelve-strings, six-strings, electrics, upright bass, big kick drums, pianos, organs, slides, floating & screaming voices. These may be the darkest moments recounted but you have to look inside to hear that, and in there is some of what happens during a year in the wilderness.”
Expect a little bit of wild in the Stoltz this Saturday evening, as fans of this co-founding father of west coast punk will surely be cheering and swaying in their seats to some both heated and cerebral acoustic sincerity.
And, if we're really lucky, Doe will try to skim the bar and make off with an extra $150. As big fans of the man, it would be an honor. Just as long as he doesn't bring Brad Wesley into the mix;)
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