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| The Blind Shake |
Appreciate the People
On Sunday night, Little Dickman Records and CoolDad Music held our "People Appreciation Party" at The Saint with Minnesota's The Blind Shake and locals gods and Psychiatric Metaphors. It also happened to be Amy Dickman's birthday. Everything just came together to make for an emotional and joyous evening.
Psychiatric Metaphors were playing their first show since the devastating loss of drummer Michael Nugent. The trio ripped through a set of spaced out psych rock that ended with Psychiatric Metaphors' mastermind, Sam Taylor, spent and lying on the stage. The guys have fought through some serious adversity in 2016 and are back with a vengeance. There really couldn't have been a better tribute to their friend.
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| Psychiatric Metaphors' Sam Taylor |
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| Psychiatric Metaphors |
gods were fresh off of winning several Asbury Music Awards, and they showed why they deserved the Top Live Performance award for 2016. The Saint had the smoke machine turned up to 11, and gods picked right up where they left off following Thursday night's blistering awards performance. "Wash," "Couch Ride,"
Endless Stunner's "Creatures" all cut through the haze that filled the room and had people moving.
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| gods |
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| gods' Paul Ritchie |
Amy got her cake while The Blind Shake were setting up behind the big, red curtain.
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| Happy birthday to you! |
When the Minneapolis trio did take the stage, they brought a relentless set of surf-infused garage punk. Guitarist Jim Blaha is all hyper energy, high-kicking and tossing his guitar over his head. Mike Blaha is ever-so-slightly more reserved, opting for the power stance as he pummels his baritone guitar. The room went pretty bananas along with the band, and I think Emily from Dentist may have given herself whiplash from tossing her head for the entire set.
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| The Blind Shake |
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| The Blind Shake |
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| The Blind Shake |
About 3/4ths of the way through their set, Mike took a moment to wish Amy a happy birthday and to praise us all as being a "multi-punch group of people" as opposed to those one-punch types the rest of the country sees on
Jersey Shore. I liked that. Multi-punch all the way!
Anyway, it was a really beautiful night and one of my favorite evenings of 2016. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and to all of you who have supported CoolDad Music and Little Dickman Records throughout the year.
I said this onstage to open the night, but I'll say it again. 2016 has been a tough year in lots of ways. We lost some people. We may be witnessing the end of our great democracy. But 2016 also had some wonderful moments that I'll cherish forever. And, for me, most of those moments happened with my family and with the people -- my extended family -- who were in that room on Sunday night. And it needs to be said that many of those great moments would never have happened without the hard work of Chris and Amy at Little Dickman Records who brought us so much great music and so many great shows in 2016.
Thanks again, and I hope the rest of your year is memorable for all the right reasons.
The rest of the pictures are in the
Flickr galleries.
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