Photo: David WaldmanFucked Up, Mustangs & Madras, Guns N Rosa Parks
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Larimer Lounge
Better than: The G.G. Allin documentary.
Right off the bat let's dispense with two things. One: Fucked Up is an
awful name for a band. Two: If you are going to name your band Fucked
Up, timidity is not going to be one of your strong points. Now that
that's out of the way, let's flash forward to the present where
Wednesday night, the Larimer Lounge hit a home run by pairing Canada'
​Adrian Belew has lead something of a charmed existence as a musician
for the last thirty years, from his first high-profile gig as a
guitarist for Frank Zappa in 1979 to his later work with Talking Heads,
Trent Reznor, David Bowie and King Crimson. Though possessed of
preternaturally able technical chops, Belew is one of a handful of
guitar wizards whose creativity was never hampered by his virtuosity.
In February of 2006, Belew formed the Adrian Belew Trio with Eric and
Julie Slick, siblings
Matt Miller​Although tagged by some as "this generation's Black Flag," Converge
vocalist Jacob Bannon is a long way off from becoming Henry Rollins --
off stage anyway. Onstage, Bannon is a whirling dervish of emotion,
complete with violent fist pumps and blood curdling screams. Offstage,
however, the singer is quiet, introspective and a gifted visual artist
responsible for most of Converge's haunting album covers. The groups'
most recent work, Axe to Fall, is the band's best album since 2001'
