Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Gee, this site used to consist of more than incessant (and sub-par) concert photos."
You are not wrong. *Bitter Defeat* has been something of a one-trick pony over the past month. I have no compelling excuse (although I have several not-very-compelling excuses). I can only promise to try harder to focus on my own meandering fancies and the detritus of popular culture.
And now back to the middling photos and half-assed concert reviews...
Despite slightly muddy sound and the fucking travesty that is the "beer ticket," Brooklyn Masonic Temple is a very cool venue. It was like seeing a show in a high school gymnasium circa 1961, minus the taffeta and cats-eye glasses. The band played an energetic set (especially during the show's latter half), culminating in a fantastic (and totally unexpected) cover of Chicago's "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," sung by keyboardist Ryan Monroe. Monroe has upped BoH's "bar band" quotient by roughly three hundred percent, and a Doobie Brothers cover is always just around the corner. (He always makes me think of Jeff Healey, the Double Deuce's blind slide guitar player in Road House.)
It was a nice down-home Valentine's Day for the whole family, with more beards, flannel, and trucker hats than you could shake a stick at. In other words, it was a typical night in Brooklyn.
(Full image set at Flickr)
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